Ethan in Cleveland

100% agree. I'd rather trade out of the bottom of the first round and get an extra day 2 pick. I dont care about the 5th year option now. Allen's best years will be gone in 5 years. Need cheap talent infusion now.

I'd be ok with edge in round 1. WR is deep. They can find an impact WR in round 2.

Evolution is a good thing

Why release him? Makes no sense. You can trade him and get the same cap savings if you really want the cap room over the player.

I will take a few Lombardi's and the players hating Pegula

I was an econ major in college. The answer is either it goes up, goes down, or in most cases it depends. In this case it depends. If he gets to the SuperBowl and his defense collapses again, there is a 13 second repeat, or he botches the game management then I would fire him and hire Belichick the next day. If they just lose and it is not coaching related, then he comes back for 2025. The Tony Dungy parallels with this guy are just so disheartening. It will take Allen willing this team to a playoff run and SuperBowl championship to overcome McDermott. Then McDermott can thank his God like Dungy did even though we all know this team is all about our savior Josh Allen!

No thanks. Draft two WRs this year. Get young and cheap.

It is an interesting proposal and I would like to see the NFL try it in a couple seasons of preseason games before actually implementing it. It seems like it would be safer. I am generally not a fan of more special teams impact on games. I want less. KC probably doesn't win the SuperBowl if some scrub gunner doesn't let the ball hit his foot on a punt. Do I really want to see Josh Allen score a TD only for the bottom feeders on the roster to give up a kickoff TD return on the very next play? I'd be fine if they just did away with the kickoff and did something like the 4th and 25 as an option instead of an onside kick.

100% agree. He has been awful for a few years now Lol..Berman has been a caricature of himself for almost a decade now.

Perfect analysis! I would only add one thing to your last paragraph. The two parties may agree to a lower salary but also build in performance bonuses so the player can earn back the total of his previous deal. This is exactly what White and Beane should do. If they cut White, his value in free agency may be very little. So he would be wise to lower his salary this year, take it in a lump sum and then add some performance escalators. Otherwise he gets cut, Bills take the dead cap hit but save overall cap space, and White probably has to wait until next season to sign a practice squad deal coming off two major injuries.

It's called dead money for a reason. Once you pay the signing bonus you have to account for it. That is done over the length of the remaining years on the contract. A restructure can be done anytime but it doesn't impact the dead money that needs to be accounted for at some time. A guy can agree to a pay cut instead of getting cut. Morse did this a couple years ago. They may do the same with White instead of just cutting him. That can lower his cap figure for this year because it is salary money.

I read that article and I was shocked to read that Don Banks died at age 57. I guess I just did not realize he was gone. His Banks Shots column was a frequent read for me back in the day. I assumed he had retired. I liked King. He was a bit of a Patriot homer but he was fair. He liked Buffalo especially the training camp atmosphere that has somehow transcended owners, coaches, GMs and Presidents of football operations.

Allen, Mahomes, Reid, McDermott One of those four is not like the other three End of thread

Ferguson isn't worth mentioning with the exception of his ankle injury in 1980 playoffs. If he is healthy, that defense and Cribbs wins a SuperBowl over a weak Eagles team.

Kelly isn't even in the top 20 of NFL QBs For his era he was outside of the top 5, behind Montana, Elway, Aikman, Young, and Marino. Kelly was perfect for Buffalo and perfect for the Kgun. He was gutsy and could play in the cold playoff weather. Allen is better in every possible way. We are lucky to have two HOF QBs and Kemp was great for the city of Buffalo as well.

So in the Superman movie his clothes get burned off on the oil rig fire. But somehow his cape and suit are unharmed just as he is. Do they ever explain in the comics how it is that his suits are also impervious to bullets, fire, nuclear bombs, and such??? So in the Superman movie his clothes get burned off on the oil rig fire. But somehow his cape and suit are unharmed just as he is. Do they ever explain in the comics how it is that his suits are also impervious to bullets, fire, nuclear bombs, and such???

You can and I do enjoy watching him play. Part of the entertainment of the NFL is we can all be Monday morning GMs and HCs. We know enough and watch enough to have good entertaining discussions about the team personnel and the game strategy not just the performance. That isn't the same for MLB, NHL, or NBA. I hope people can enjoy this teams talent and level of success while also yearning for more. Honestly what hurts me more is not the playoff losses, but the season killing injuries to some of our best and favorite players. That has been far harder for me at least than the eventual playoff loss with McDermott.

Still too reckless with the ball but he makes up for it with his legs. He is the best QB in franchise history. He can still get better. I just hope he stays healthy enough to outlast McDermott's hold over Pegula.

For what it is worth I don't hate the Chiefs or their fans. I am jealous of them having a great coach. If we had Reid, Allen would have at least two rings, maybe more. You have a great coach. We have a great person who is a terrible coach who has robbed the Bills fanbase of at least two trips to the SuperBowl. Even with the Chiefs better roster, I beleive a more competent HC(I wanted Harbaugh and said so two years ago) doesn't allow 13 seconds to happen and doesn't get his defense abused repeatedly by Mahommes.

He's never going to be a top edge rusher. He would have shown that by now. But on the off chance he will then you can tag him. He has two years at a reasonable price to prove he is anything more than an average DE. The comp pick is just added bonus for not taking on another bloated contract for an average player. I assume you are happy they got an extra third round pick by letting Edmunds walk.

He is a good player. He is just not a good enough pass rusher. Davis is good too. But neither have shown enough to warrant long term investment. They can replace with cheaper talent two years from now. And if he explodes over the next 2 years then tag him.

He's worth picking up the 5th year option. He's not worth an extension Best case is probably a 4th round comp pick after that

Well we agree on one thing. SB victories is all that matter!

Hill was in the final year of his contract with only $1.45M in dead cap money. Clark had two years left so there was a significant dead cap hit there around $7M. However in both cases they got considerable draft picks back in return. At the time Mahommes cap hit was $35M. Allen's is going to be $47M. Diggs and Miler's dead cap hits for 2024 are $32M and $31M. Are you really saying you would take on over $60M in dead cap in one year by getting rid of these two players? Can you find another example where a team in a Championship window took on over $60 M in dead cap space? How did that retoolling workout for Favre and Rodgers? Best player of recent note was Davante Adams and they traded him on the tag. Again draft pcik compensation and no dead cap hit. You are talking about cutting multiple players with millions in dead cap with zero return. It's just not going to happen.

Except I really don't think you do. If you cut all those people you mentioned you are looking at tens of millions of dead cap money in one year. You still need to put together a 53 person roster and their are minimum spending numbers per season of real money. You think Allen would stay if they tanked an entire season? Would McDermott stay? Do you think the fans would put up with a purposeful nonplayoff season? What you are suggesting is absolute lunacy. When teams shed contacts it is because they are already terrible like Beane did in year 2 of this regime. No team in NFL history has ever tanked a season with a franchise QB. You can't be taken seriously posting stuff like this. Cutting even one of these guys with massive dead cap hits is untenable. We were two or three plays away from a Lombardi. We have ten draft picks. Even with McDermott they will compete for a SuperBowl with just a few roster tweaks. Now next year they can make some of the moves you suggest. The only decent player on his rookie contract that would be up for an extension would be Rousseau. And they can let him walk after his fifth year. He is nothing special. They will be able to walk away from Poyer, Diggs, Knox, Dawkins, and Miller after this upcoming season if they want to with or without some post June 1 designations. I'm not saying I agree with that but they become realistic options.