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So where are they going, they went firm 3 to 12 then back to 6, basically giving up all the justification to move back and now they want to go back again? To what? 7-11? Unless they get lucky and Lance is sitting there and a desperate team comes calling, and gives them more than they gave up to go from 12 to 6, they are idiots. They SHOULD have stayed at 12 and got the benefit of moving down, but instead they realized they wanted a player they needed to be up the board fir and gave back virtually everything they got to go back up.

I agree, the OL isn’t great either though and the money committed at this point is concerning. Look at the contracts and you expect to see Dallas 3 years ago, not the unable to run the ball and pretty good at pass blocking that we watched last year. They again are looking for the square peg to fill the RG position IMO. Ford needs to come back and be a road grader at G to get the run game going or we are watching the same ***** over again. This Bills will end up being Green Bay East, always in contention because of the QB, but always just short because they can’t put a whole team together. It’s a better purgatory, but not the one you want.

They do this square peg round hole thing a LOT and it irritates me. Edmunds, OLB, not MLB. Ed Oliver, 3tech, not 1 tech. Epenesa, power rusher, make him lose all the weight and try to make him a speed guy. TE’s in general, holy hell it’s like they have no clue. The whole regime would be getting fired if it weren’t for hitting on Allen/Diggs. Literally , those moves saved the franchise.

No, it’s an easy decision, he’s not getting that.

To me this is the year you package your lower round picks to move up as high as possible and don’t pick anything beyond the 3rd round. My reasoning? At what position will a 4th round or later guy, in a weak class, have any real chance to make the roster? The ONLY possible ones are LB and TE and I don’t really even see that. You are going to be getting special teams guys at best. This roster, though far from perfect is going to be tough to crack. Even positions I don’t feel great about, there’s a ton of talent that’s hard to displace. DE, you have Addison, Hughes, Epenessa, Obada, Johnson that are all talented and hard to get rid of, then there are guys like Cox Jr and Love that are decent players in their own right. I’m not saying you can’t upgrade, but you’re probably not getting a guy in the 4th who’s going to win a job and at best he’s looking at inactive on game day. So where do you go? Who is going to get on the field? Not happening at any premium position. Depth is there in the secondary, there’s actually decent depth, albeit lack luster starters (my opinion) at LB, you have holes at 1Tech, DE can be upgraded as could TE, but you aren’t getting anybody better than what’s there after the 3rd. Sell the farm, go get 3 players and go to camp with more talent, less non sense.

Any QB I would draft in the second, I would draft in the first to secure the 5th year option. That said, I don’t see Jones as an elite talent either, he may be good in the NFL, many of the best athletes fail and guys who aren’t perfect go on to be stars. To me the 49ers are insane to send all that capital to get the 3rd best guy and you don’t even know who that is yet. That means you basically have to be saying “Wilson, Fields, Jones, Lance are all good enough for me to give up 3 1st round picks for”. That’s insanity. The only guarantee is Lawrence won’t be there at 3, the rest is a guess.

We just signed the same guy with a little NFL success to a barely over minimum contract. Athletes are great, football players it does not make.

Yeah.. didn’t go digging for the Allen video, but counted 8 of 19 that were really drops from Maholmes. I think we all forget, half the reason guys play DB is they can’t catch. Pass break ups, hitting a D lineman etc, bull crap stat.

If that’s all true, 1) I can’t believe this guy hasn’t gotten more of a shot to play, though he has been behind guys the organizations he was with couldn’t let him jump. 2) You have to root for him. 3) I’d love to see him more in preseason and see if he has the talent to get on the field, he sure looked good in college. 4)I hope the Bills make it a point to keep him. 5) Groom that man as our next assistant OC!

All fair points.

We have that guy in Knox, it’s getting the passes caught that are the issue.

Players do get paid for OTAs, they get the work out bonuses. They don’t show up to work out, no money. It’s optional in that you get paid to get there. I do agree that this is a joke. The players want obscene money and don’t want to work, sorry, but no. This whole Covid thing is a joke too, but let’s not go down that path. If you opt out, ok. If you want to get paid, show up and do your job.

I’m no evaluator, nor did I watch him much this year, but he looks fluid, especially for his size and appears to have a pretty good ability to diagnose what’s happening and react quickly. Physically, he’s awesome, so that’s no problem. He really looks like he could be an exceptional free safety. The one thing I do see a lot is he is playing way off the line, which will be used against you in the NFL, not sure if he needs the time/space to see what’s happening or it was a scheme thing. I could definitely see taking a shot on him, he has elite traits, what that translates to is the big question. I will say, if McClappy sees something in him, I’d trust it.

I agree, too many guys on the market in a limited cap year and we didn’t strike to get the biggest need on the team filled, I am with you, very disappointed. I would have let Milano walk and got a real impact player with that money.

I’d be happy to have him.

The crack game has obviously stepped up in Buffalo since I left Ny.

Yeah, a real X factor is a need. We have several playmakers, but not on a Tyreek Hill/ Kelce type of level. Nobody is really a “fear factor” for the other team. Diggs caught a lot of balls, but didn’t really make you fear him IMO, McKenzie looks like maybe he could be a Hill type, but didn’t get any looks after shredding Miami, RBs are a joke, TE is too, though Knox could be that guy if he would just catch the ball first. Josh is a problem on the move for sure, but you don’t really want your franchise trying to do it all, that’s how you end up with injuries you can’t afford.

All of that, plus Reed on the inside of the DL.. that’s pretty damn good for the best team in football all year long. The pirates stole the game because they were playing a horrible OL and had Brady.. Kc is still the team to beat and arguably they are better than last year.

I for one don’t believe returning the same team that got smoked by a team that got better is the key to winning a SB. Then, I got thinking, Ford will be back, this is a big bad mofo, who is known for road grading. Does his experiment at RT being over, allow him to move inside and do what he does best? Just straight up maul people and open holes for the running game. Could he be the key to the run game getting on track and adding the dimension the O really needed last year? The passing game SHOULD be better, Sanders is at least a reasonable replacement for Brown, even if only from an availability standpoint. One would hope the TE does more this year. I expect a little more from Davis this year, Hodgins had a good camp and obviously, getting healthy for everyone would help. I’m looking for some additions in the draft as well. Also, Josh should take a few steps forward, so one would expect the passing game to be better. If the run game can come on, this team could be a LOT to handle. I’m hoping Ford might actually be that missing link.

The Ford at RT experiment is over, he can be the G everyone said he was, hopefully do it well and start creating some holes for the RBs that supposedly didn’t have any.

I don’t think it’s a bad plan, honestly, you are nothing without one, why screw around? Go draft them all till you find one.

Hodgins length could work for him, if he can get off the line. whst drives me CRAZY watching Davis, he will jump for balls he doesn’t need to, it’s a terrible habit. Once you are off the ground you can’t do anything to stop a defender from just running you right off the field. It would be one thing if he were high pointing, he absolutely is not, he is jumping too early and giving up leverage, he has to fix it. He’s got some talent, enough so that I believe he could be the actual #2 of the team, but those little things are what separates the cuts from the good players and good from the greats.

I still feel we need size and physicality more than Sanders, but he’s a good player. For me, this team should have no issue moving the ball between the 20’s the question is what happens when you are deep in your own end or hit the RZ? Guys that can physically whoop your @$$ are invaluable at that point, and there are none on this team outside of MAYBE Moss and JA, but I don’t want my QB as my hammer. IF Knox can become the JuggerKnox again on a consistent basis, a big portion of the issue goes away. Also, Davis needs to get WAY better at exploding to the ball, not jumping into catches and leaving himself open to being shoved around. If those two come on strong, oh boy do we have something, if not, it’s too easy to jam up the small WR core and slow this team down.

The obvious case is, he was a top 10 player at his position at one point, but also obvious is the lack of time he has spent playing football lately. I don’t know what to make of him, but I’d say he’s worth a camp spot. If he forces you to keep him, awesome, if not, oh well.

What would be cool is if he took a first of its kind deal where he gets a portion of the salary cap. I wrote out a possible scenario once, but something to the effect of a 10 year deal, he gets a 40M signing bonus, guaranteed money the first 3 years, he is locked to getting 16% of the salary cap for the team each year of the deal as his base pay, with incentives around, MVP, Playoff appearances, SB appearances, etc. He gets PAID, 40M to start, plus 29.12M based on this years cap, and presumably a base around 32 for next year, 34 the year after, and guessing but 35ish after that, all guaranteed so that gives him over $160M guaranteed in the first 3 years, plus he’s got an escalating contract by default with the cap, so he will never be playing for way too little. For the Bills, they get to know exactly what they can work with vs the cap, its always 4M (signing bonus be the cap), plus the percentage they agree to. If the cap explodes, he gets a better and better deal where it could easily exceed Maholmes, if it stays around where it is, the team has a little more to work with to keep competitive. If for whatever reason, he flips after the deal, it’s an easy out for the Bills the longer the deal carries out. Obviously, the numbers aren’t perfect, but something close to that could really work well for everyone.