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jahnyc

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  1. Since 2019 and excluding our most recent draft, we certainly have not been getting the expected or needed production from our early round draft picks.  Elam, Bernard, Basham, Espensa, and Brown are not busts, but none are playing at a quality starter level.  Groot and Knox seem to be the exceptions and I am not sure what to make of Oliver.  Cody Ford was a bust, and Singletary and Moss are playing for other teams as back-ups.

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  2. I have no idea if this report is true, but I would not find it shocking.  Diggs clearly has issues about something relating to the Bills.  His reporting to mandatory sessions with the team did not go smoothly, and I am sure McD was not pleased with the overall look for the team or needing to backtrack from his original comments about the situation.  This has been a long simmering issue (since the playoff loss to the Bengals) and it bears watching. 

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  3. Albright is not a hack reporter and I don't think he is making stuff up.  Not sure this is something that could happen given the cap constraints and I doubt any team would offer significant value for Diggs given what has happened with him in Minnesota and Buffalo. Seems really unlikely to me, so we should all prepare for more drama in the future.

  4. Clearly there are issues that none of us know the nature of and that have lingered for a long period of time.  We don't even know if the issues are between Diggs and the coaching staff, Diggs and Allen, or Diggs and Beane (or all of the them).  Not trying to be pessimistic, but given the amount of time that this has festered, I would be surprised if everything is now settled and relationships and attitudes will revert to how they previously appeared to be.  I hope I am wrong.

  5. Not suggesting we do it and unless I am reading Overthecap incorrectly, it looks like if we trade Diggs we would have $13 million plus in dead cap and approximately $1.67 million in cap savings this season (with additional future dead cap hits over the next four years).  This would not be a good result for our Super Bowl aspirations, but if this is correct, it can be done.

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  6. Crummy, but there is enough time to get things fixed before the start of the season if things can be resolved and the situation does not involve some type of unforeseen circumstance.  Hopefully, it will not be one of those situations where Diggs does not report back to minicamp and goes silent, so no one knows what is going on and we are all subject to the wild speculation that will explode with this type of situation.

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  7. I was surprised about this as well, but the Bills likely could not afford the franchise tag amount next season for Oliver because of their salary cap situation.  Given that, the choice was to sign him now or likely be faced with the reality of Oliver receiving offers in the open market for more than the Bills could pay and losing him.  There are other pieces that we have no insight into, including the Bills' thoughts on the quality/depth of DT prospects in next year's draft, potentially available DT free agents, and their assessment of the market for Oliver (both as a free agent and to trade him now).

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  8.  A majority of our d-line will be free agents after this season, so our d-line will look different next season, particularly at DT.  I think it will be difficult to re-sign Gabe to a reasonable contract, so we could have a new #2 WR next season.  Safety will be interesting.  One has to think that Rapp signed with us because he believes he will be a starting safety in the near term, either with us or for another team.  I think Hyde might get a new contract (short in term) if he can show that he is all the way back and healthy after last season's surgery.

  9. I think Beane did a good job in free agency with very significant salary cap constraints.  Losing Edmunds will hurt with no obvious long-term replacement.  While I do understand that our interior o-line play last season was a weakness, I do find it odd that we devoted significant (and, again, limited) resources to the guard position in free agency and then in the draft.  Unless one of Bates, Edwards or McGovern is traded, there is potential for two of these three to be back-ups at guard this season, which is a luxury I am not sure was the best use of our limited resources.

     

    Overall, I think we are about in the same spot as last year in terms of our roster with some upgrades and some losses.  The real questions will be whether the Jets make a jump because of Rogers and whether the Dolphins free agent acquisitions and hiring of Vic Fangio as defensive coordinator will propel them to the division title over the Bills this season.

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