JoshAllenHasBigHands

Fire Take

1. I did say not he was our best player. I said he was one of our best players, which he is. 2. I gave you an out and you still took what I consider to possibly be one of the dumbest takes I have ever seen on this or any other message board. In what world do you think introducing a guy that is absolutely hated (you would literally be a fool to think he is not hated) by one of your team leaders would not negatively, and in a major way, affect the team chemistry?

What exactly are you getting at here?

All true. But I will bet you anything Poyer would care about AB being in the locker room. I'm not sure where you are going with this. Are you saying Poyer wouldn't care? Or that it wouldn't affect the locker room? This is a wild take.

This should be the start of its own thread.

The guy slept with one of our best player's wives. I cannot even fathom how AB to the Bills could possibly be on the table for anyone on this message board.

Yeah, I'm not going to watch an entire game again to understand your point. What happened?

This is your analysis of a special teams player? God I love this board.

I love how frugal this board gets when ever we sign someone in Free Agency. Never mind the numerous articles about how hard it is to get FA to the Bills and the need to offer extra money.

His job is to cover the NFL generally. I suspect that no one outside of the Bills' fanbase cares about our overachieving un-drafted rookie corner. He is catering to the NFL audience as a whole. He did that just fine here, with or without a few severely minor missing pieces.

I don't get too worked up over this stuff. Its hard to track every player in the league, much less a below 500 team's undrafted rookies, even if they provided significant contributions.

Technically, but they also just hired a dude who is known to hit women. That says something.

The NFL investigated three incidents. Technically it his fourth chance. And I don't say that to be snarky at you, but really to say that I wish the NFL was better than to accept this sort of behavior and let guys continue to be stars in their league. Its the way it is, but I wish it was better.

But that is already a rate so reckless we will be back in salary cap hell after offseason 2 Most of that response tells me you either aren’t really following what I’m saying or don’t understand the impact of multi year deals on salary cap planning. I’d be surprised if they didn’t hit the floor. They have to. “The cap rises every year” is a breathtakingly uninformed statement. Like, sure, the cap inflates, but so do player salaries.

I think the idea is to have the flexibility to re-sign your guys (for sure), but also to add one or two free agents every year. Using all that money this year takes away your flexibility moving forward. GMs don't look at the cap year by year. They evaluate over time. I think you probably understand that. But I think you aren't appreciating the need to sing free agents next year, and the year after, and the year after (and at some point re-sign our own guys)

Is there some reason to believe we are going to spend so much of that money that we need to find an additional 6 million to make it work? People who are expecting a wild off season are going to be sorely disappointed. They aren't going to go through what they went through to waste the entire cap this year. To do so would require numerous multiple year contracts, which would drain the salary pool for years to come.

I think this is spot on. There really is no downside to "overpaying" when you are talking about such low cap hits. He won't get more than two years, I think, anywhere else. For those numbers, its worth seeing if he turns into a real contributor.

I wasn't talking about Breers breakdown

Like, the running game was so bad it was non-existent? Is that what you are getting at?

Well, first, he only analyzed the Rams passing offense. He didn't even touch the running game, which, if you follow the Rams, is the starting point of their entire offense. Then he only really discussed 11 v 22 sets and the percentage success against different defenses. It was just so shallow and cliche. It completely missed the mark. Like most analytic approaches to scouting.

Want to know why Warren Sharp and the analytics school of thought is so terrible? Compare his and this breakdown.

You know what, its the off-season. I can't do this for a full year. I have to put this board away. This is just insane.

But thats the standard you have created for yourself. I mean, you are dissatisfied with the Pats being held to FOUR field goal attempts and a touchdown. That is a stellar outing for any defense in the modern NFL.

No defense is history gets 3 and outs on every drive. They literally did get off the field. I think he expects that every drive should end in a 3 and out or the defense is getting pushed around.

That is still not evidence the defense played bad. That is what good defenses do...especially in the "era of offense"