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Chase gets the ball because if you double up and clamp down on Chase, there's Higgins and Boyd. When they hurt you enough, Chase gets his shot. Hill gets the ball because if you double up and clamp down on Hill, there's Waddle There's been discussion on this, but Kelce gets the ball because if teams take him away (and it's hard to take away a fast, nimble route runner who is 6'5" and 256 lbs), then the Chiefs have a dangerous run game with Pacheco and Smith-Schuster has been a quite respectable #2 with close to 1000 yds (933) and a 77.2% catch %. Jefferson is more of a situation towards Diggs - he's overwhelmingly the best receiver on the team, and it's a tall order because he's young and fast and able to pull in those contested balls, but if another team succeeds in taking him away one of two things happen: either Osborn and Thielen step up and take over the game, OR the Vikes lose Diggs really needs to sit down with someone - his WR coach, Josh, Beasley, someone - and look at the plays and understand that when he thinks he's open, maybe he's really not open at the time when Josh needs to throw. Or maybe he could look at plays and figure out how he should be running his route differently to get open at the right time, or give input in play design that he thinks would get him open better. But Twitter is NOT the way.

Yeah, we're pretty much aligned. Though, as soon as a player starts yelling into air on the sideline rather than talking to a teammate or coach, I think that's pretty much the Universal Signal for "Team Has Already Lost, No Comeback Possible", so there's that. But I can understand venting frustration on the sideline, throwing a helmet or yelling - it's not constructive, but it's going to happen. But the rest - yeah.

I may agree, I may not agree, but say more No, I'd rather he not accept losing and go ahead and be mad about it, but don't act like a toddler "Imma take my Ball and Go Home". He's part of a team. He's a captain on the team. He's supposed to be a leader. Lead.

That's pretty much where I am. We don't want him to be OK with losing, or OK with play that's not up to their standard. But he's a Captain, and wants to present himself as a leader on the team. He can be not-OK with losing and not-OK with play that's not up to their standard while being there in the locker room and there for his teammates, and dealing with any of his issues in house.

I think you want to have a line that can taking the field (even if you want to improve it) before hitting FA then the draft. IMHO Boettger coming off an injury should be pretty cheap, though with him being inactive I don't know how they see him. I don't remember Lee Smith being a "whipping boy" here?

You know I watch Kittle for SF, Kelce for KC, and even Goeddert for Philly and it's increasingly difficult for me to roll that way. Yeah, if we can't get an OL that can protect better at least get a Lee Smith type TE2 who is a mauler in pass pro and Free Knox

You know, it all depends. Time was when this was said about Houston. We'll see. A lot of their secondary are FA, including both safeties Jessie Bates and Von Bell; CB Tre Flowers, and Eli Apple (heh). Their MLB Germaine Pratt. TE Hayden Hurst. Then they need to start working on a long-term contract for Joe Burrow. DJ Reader and their LT Jonah Williams are FA in 2024; Trey Hendrickson and Joe Mixon in 2025. If the Bengals put on a good showing in the AFCCG, smart teams will be trying to hire Lou Anarumo as their HC. Brian Callahan (their OC) is already interviewing for the Colts HC position. QB coach Dan Pitcher has been mentioned as a strong candidate for the Chargers open OC position. Yes, they look like they're in a good situation right now, and probably for next year, but a lot of things can happen.

Sal Capaccio put up this useful color coded chart Thoughts on who you'd like back? The big decisions are Tremaine Edmunds and Jordan Poyer IMO. If we possibly can resign them, I want to. Work your magic, Beane The RFAs are all slam-dunks I think. Tyrel Dodson, Dane Jackson, and Cam Lewis all worth a qualifying offer as RFA. Bunch of guys where "it depends" on what they want. Guys I'd like to see back if their contracts are affordable include Tyler Matekavich (ST captain, especially if we move on from Taiwan Jones), Sam Martin (did well as punter), Case Keenum, and AJ Klein. Jordan Philips played well when healthy, but he appeared to impair his own health stupidly trying to extend the plays. He was overpaid for his overall contributions IMO. Shaq Lawson, I thought, played about his best football and would be worth trying to bring back - it'd depend upon what he wants. Rather than bring Saffold back, I would rather see Ike Boettger re-signed to a minimum deal if possible and look for an upgrade on OL in the draft and FA It's also time to look for a change, or at least strong competition, at RT. I think it's time to move on from Taiwan Jones, Jake Kumerow, Tommy Sweeney, most of the OL guys, Jaquan Johnson, and Dean Marlowe. Need upgrades there.

I'm sorry, I can not find such a thread. There's this thread - and there's a quote from McKenzie in it - but it doesn't cover all that.

Poor analogy. No fan is charged with influence and leadership in the locker room or on the Bills team. So if we do an immature thing like break our TV, it affects only us and our family/roommates. If we yell and sulk and storm out of the house, thus upsetting said family and maybe not being there for family members or things we ought to be there for, yeah I would say that's immature and self-centered.

No, a trade normally increases dead cap by accelerating unamortized signing bonus into the trade season. Quick primer: a player's yearly cap hit consists of salary and bonuses (workout bonus, per game roster bonus, achievement bonuses), and signing bonus/option bonuses which are paid up front, but for cap purposes, amortized (divided into equal chunks assigned to each year of a contract). When a player is traded, his SALARY and BONUSES (money yet to be paid) go with the trade, but the un-amortized portion of the signing and option bonuses get amortized together and charged to the trade year's cap. Take a look at Stefon's contract https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/ https://overthecap.com/player/stefon-diggs/3994 (both sites have pluses and minuses) Diggs is due a "moderate" $7.9M salary this year, and counts against the cap for $20.25M due to this year's share of his various amortized bonuses. But, if he's cut, that cap hit becomes $45M due to all the amortized chunks of bonus accelerating into this year. If he's traded, the trade partner picks up his $8M salary, but we keep all the bonuses that are already payed, so cap hit of $37M. Because at the point where Allen had to decide (quickly) Diggs was not open and had a safety over him. Sure he got open - but if Allen had held the ball that long, he would have been sacked. Where did you get the details about what he was mad about? Is there an interview with McKenzie up somewhere?

Once again: He's not going to get traded with the dead cap hit we'd take. Doesn't matter who we get, no way we can lose our best offensive skill player next to Allen AND absorb a $33M+ cap hit. His choices are maximize his value on this team and when he becomes tradeable OR Sulk, and damage his value both for commercial endorsements and as an NFL WR

Oh, so this isn't about the team, this is about you. Why don't you save time and just get divorced from the team now?

I might be in the minority, but I personally wondered if that backfired.

You're correct that during the regular season, more like 75% - 80% of the snaps but what the ratio is between plays where he's not part of the personnel or plays where he takes himself out, can't tell you. Spotrac and Overthecap are fantastic resources for fans. I wish I could persuade people to consult them before they "play around" with ideas like this. Please? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/

If that's where he's at, in all honesty, he needs to Seek Professional Help. It's great to love what you do, take your profession seriously, and strive to be the best, but perspective and self-awareness are necessary for mental health.

FWIW, Diggs played 57 out of 63 snaps yesterday. 90%. Allen said: I'm sure someone might ask him, but he'd have to stay long enough after the game or show up and make himself available today for that to occur. Allen says "at the end of the day we have to be there for each other", which sounds like any outbursts of Diggs are water off his broad back and excused/forgiven, but at the end of the day, the point remains that when times are grim, those kind of outbursts don't seem like a constructive way of Diggs being there for Allen.

Someone tried to get Josh to comment on GM-type stuff is he satisfied with the draft and FA commitment on the offensive side of the ball. Josh refused to "take the cheese" saying without hesitation "I love our guys, they battle their tails off" and that he just has to be the best QB he can be and trust the 10 guys on the field with him.

Josh Allen media availability Asked about his elbow and what the path forward for that will be. Said "no, we don't think an operation will be necessary at this time. Obviously, rest and recovery is going to be really good for it." Said there was a period right after it happened where it was pretty bothersome, overall didn't affect him all that much. Said maybe he was trying to throw it a little differently, had to change a few things, got away a little bit from ..(paused) how I'm used to throwing the ball. That's just kind of a byproduct of that (meaning coping with the injury) but "overall it didn't affect me too much" Says in response to a later question that about 2 weeks ago he got back to his throwing motion being what he likes, that being a rotational thrower it's very "elbow prevalent" and he may have changed to "a more linear type deal" because he couldn't use all that much force (I wondered, though if it got dinged again in the Miami game) I see those two statements as fundamentally contradictory - if the elbow injury changed the mechanics he developed that led to improved accuracy, how could that not but affect him as a QB? Maybe the resolution is that actually, it did affect Allen's ability to throw the ball but he's determined to not say anything that can be interpreted as using his elbow as an excuse.

I blame this thread. Take your bad karma points and atone somehow.

Dawson Knox: Von Miller Josh Allen I find it a bit telling that 2 of the 4 players chosen/who chose to meet with the media so far are on IR - Von Miller and Micah Hyde.

On the one hand, statistically we've had one of the best defenses in football for the last 3 years - 2nd, 3rd, 2nd in points given up On the other hand, it's inarguable that the defense hasn't been able to "close the deal" in the big game at the end of the year I don't think there can really be an argument that the FA and draft investment on DL have not resulted in an adequate ROI during McDermott's entire tenure here. As far as offense, I feel that we've been overachieving with underwhelming players. I think the success we had with Beasley may be a problem, in that it depended upon his high level of skill at both reading the D and being on the same page as the QB in what he'd do in those circs. I'm also told that a lot of the Bills plays allow the WR freedom to chose the route they run looking at the defense. If so, too often this season it's resulted in two WR being too close to each other on the routes they choose, and bringing extra defenders into each others vicinity. It also has the problem that when the D is playing the O in a way they may not expect, they may not be able to be on the same page with in-game adjustments. Maybe we need a different offense that is more defined and depends more on scheme and play design to get guys open, than on individual football wisdom and vision to choose the correct routes based on what they see.

Frankly, I wondered at the time if the team weren't kind of flogging it too much to hand out #3 pendants and bring Hamlin into the locker room. It obviously was a lift to the team's spirits to know that Hamlin was mentally OK, but he's physically weak as hell right now. Showing him to the Bills team right before they faced a rematch with the team that (however fluky) put him in that debilitated condition, may not have been the best inspirational move.