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Right now, I’d call it a push with more upside.

Umm wow.

Nah, we’ll give you 10 yards of cushion, no pass rush and tackle you with a pillow, especially with the game on the line.

Makes sense to me

If he can’t land big money, he’ll probably wait till the end of camp to sign, no sense in doing all that extra work for WAY less than you were going to be paid. If he had been a FA all summer, he would have at least made what he was supposed to in AZ with more years and guarantees, they screwed him (and themselves) by not trading him or cutting him earlier. At this point he’s going to have to take less to play for a real team and perform to get paid or he’s going to have to waste another year with a pretender.

Obviously

Why not acknowledge the fact the cap situation is of their own creation? It’s not like Beane is dealing w dead cap from a former GM, this mess is his.

Ralph is Cheap.

Look below you will currently find 4 of the people you speak of.

I could actually be ok w that trade.

Your last line is my biggest concern, IF the line is better, then you have the extra split second to work with. We don’t know that it’s better, we can hope a rookie and a mid-level guard make it all better, but it’s no guarantee of anything. I don’t want to see a massive downgrade at a known point to hope for an upgrade with a couple of unknowns and we still have no clue how RT is going to play out. Diggs may be a Diva, but he’s a top 5 WR, they don’t grow on trees. I do think Allen will elevate whoever they put out there, but the whole team’s success can’t be pinned solely on Allen, again.

The only way would be for him to add years to his deal, void or not, to get back to a comparable number of what he’s counting against this years cap. The restructure was a really bad move if he gets traded. That said, if they got decent compensation for him, because it’s after June 1, the dead cap hit sucks some this year (ok a lot), BUT it could be squeezed in if you get creative. His cap his is insane next year anyway, so the 2nd half of it is t actually that prohibitive. If they got him to add 2 years of voidable time to his deal, they could thin it out to about a 10M loss (vs what he’s taking up now anyway). Then next year still sucks, but it hurts less now. The big thing is, you basically are throwing in the towel if you trade him, they don’t have enough on offense now, so they would have to bring a player back for him and work out a contract that makes their cap hit this year negligible. In order for all of that to happen they are going to have to take way less in talent to get any team to take it on. Although, his base salary is almost minimum, so a team could eat part of whatever they send back, by converting that salary to bonus and making the cap hit work for Buffalo. Lots to make happen and the only way I could see it happening is for a last year of a contract guy like Higgins who is going to cost more than a team wants to spend next season, but still, not going to be great to take on Steph’s base etc going forward. I can’t see it happening. Would be really bummed if that’s what it comes to.

Not on board w the Lion either. The Blue is sweet, the rest.. meh

I don’t understand Baltimore over Cinci, but whatever.

Knowing the NFL, they are going to do a fluff piece for the start of the season to show how much more “inclusive” they got and needed some extra promotions to talk about. If you see more of these it will be all to obvious.

This is the real truth to it, there’s no accountability, nor shame. Get ratings, get paid. Wait for the truth and you are fired because there are 37 others who already wrote their own version of the story and it doesn’t matter if it was right or wrong as long as it was first and got clicks.

That’s entirely too logical of an argument 😂 I couldn’t agree more. Everyone is chasing the Chiefs till they beat them, the Bills have their regular season number and it appeared like they could do it in the playoffs until the blunder of the decade. The Bengals dismantled the Bills in the playoffs, now there’s drama around the team, it all makes it easy to drop them off the radar / point out flaws. To be completely fair, the coaching has been suspect in big moments. Now we are banking on McDermott to not only be the head coach, which he seemed to lack control of the game in those big moments, but to call the defense too. That’s a lot. Not many guys pull it off, those that do are considered legends and that’s not where he’s ranked at the moment. The skepticism is warranted and fair at this point in time. To be brutally honest, the lack of draft success is what’s really pinning Beane in a corner. You can’t continue to fill the big roles with high dollar FAs and expect to have any money left. Right now, the only premium position on the roster the Bills aren’t paying too dollar to is left Tackle. You are paying to end of the market (at least when they signed) for QB, WR, DE, CB, and even Center. They have some reasonable, but fairly high priced guys at Saftey, LB, TE and DT w Oliver as well. They are officially painted into a corner at WR, they have to spend big or rely on a rookie for WR 2 (with the Diggs drama, maybe WR 1 as well) next year. There’s still a lot of question about the OL and the DL which is absurdly over paid, has underperformed in a proportional fashion. There’s a lot of reason to doubt and not much performance wise that says this team is on the right path. This is starting to take the shape of the Whaley roster, with Josh Allen at QB, not for nothing, that roster made the playoffs with Tyrod at the helm, so it’s not that it can’t be “good enough” but we all knew that team was never going to win it all. I think if you are honest with yourself, you can see we are not a lot different at this point than the year before Whaley got fired. There’s a lot of fat to trim and not a ton of top end talent, nor really much talent at all at the skill positions.

😂 but if we get one to sit and tell everyone the Bills are going places, everyone will jump on board with the “told you so!”. It’s all a bunch of blowhards looking to get paid for talking about nothing. Bills fans are horribly gullible, they will defend the team to death, even when it’s not deserved.

I mean, how do you justify the struggle to beat the Phins w a rookie third string QB with no heat? I’m not going to say ruining, but wasting may be a possibility.

I can’t say it was really embarrassing, but I thought Josh was going to be Trubiski 2.0 after his 2nd year, then he absolutely blew the league apart.

Oh congratulations you found ONE guy who was the focus of the offense, now go look at all the others. He’s not going to be option 1 on this team, he might MIGHT fight his way to option 2, but a guy with 5 years of football experience is not going to jump out on the NFL field and drop 1k on you as a secondary, likely 3rd or 4th target. He may get more looks in the red zone because he’s got size and creates matchup issues, so his TD number might be higher. That said, if he does that early in the year and teams slide coverage to him, it will open up other options and most likely a lot of opportunities for Knox. I’m happy we have the guy, I think he COULD be great, but he’s not likely to be a huge contributor early. He’s got a ton to learn. I know people are all hyped up, but remember this, if Utah’s starting TE doesn’t get hurt, he may never have seen the field. This whole conversation would be about some undrafted guy they brought to camp who has measurables but never got on the field. I expect a developmental year this season and you will see more from him in the future. He has the tools, he has great hands and should see some red zone targets. I think people are setting themselves up for the typical “bust” thoughts as he struggles to get meaningful reps. I tried to warn people to temper their enthusiasm on Cook last year too, he was never worth a crap as a blocker in college and that meant he wasn’t going to see the field until he figured it out. People pouted about his lack of use for half a season. Fans need to come to grips with the fact you aren’t getting top 10 players anymore, most late first round guys are drafted for physical potential, they are going to need some time. It gets worse the further into the draft you go. Elam has tools, as does Cook, but they both got limited reps because they had to put it all together to play in the NFL. Expect more of that this year as well. The only guy we reasonably should expect to seize a starting job out of camp is Torrence. He should be a day 1 starter, assuming the real reason he dropped was the feeling he’s a pure guard and nothing more, I’m a lot gun shy on falling linemen after the Ford situation.

He’s an TE, no matter how you try to twist it, he’s not a WR. He’s still going to line up as a TE and run routes. History says rookie TEs rarely contribute much of anything. A Slot WR is an even more nuanced position than TE, so whatever take you want to claim to have, it’s still not likely a guy as inexperienced as he is, is going to make a huge first year contribution.

Yep, I’ve said it before and will say it again, this team is at their ceiling with him at coach.

I’m going to side w history, 32 catches, 297 yards and 3tds. I’m hoping it’s more like 55 catches, 600 yards, 10 tds.

It’s not all bad, keep the rights to him, he gets paid and gets use of the facilities. If he can be something, you have a year of development under cover.