Nephilim17

So the Tre White savings are NOT included in the updates. Correct?

31 years old. I'll pass.

I had a thought today — total conjecture — about Von's new deal: Could it be that Beane knows that Von's off-field situation could potentially still be pursued and lead to bad optics for Von's future GM aspirations, and Beane said, give us relief and we will not pursue that... Any chance what was some of the carrot for Von to give up 8 or 9 million? Not saying it was, just speculating why Von would do this...

If we get an FA rather than go with a rookie, I hope the FA is no more than about 26 years old and can play a good 5 years in the system. And hopefully not cost top dollar. Possible? If so, who?

The cap may be "just accounting" but accounting can still be a a bit** if you don't pay your bills or account for what you want to buy next year. It buys some flexibility, as someone said, but it doesn't make bills go away.

Thanks, @Shaw66, for giving Beane The Witch some bulletin board material.

2 things: 1. "Up to" means best-case scenario. Maybe he only earns 10 million and he's a 3.4 million player. I can live with that. And if he hits incentives and makes 4.5 million a year, bully for him. 2. McD knows his secondary. He ain't perfect as a coach, far from it, but he knows his defensive backs. I'll trust his judgment here, especially after turning Poyer and Hyde into a top safety unit after they were JAGs, over other opinions here.

I'll miss these players but I'm not sad. My allegiance is first and foremost to the Bills and this will help the team overall going forward. And may still bring one or two guys back at reduced rates.

As the Bills official site has already released a statement on the cuts, metjhinks that's all (!) for today... https://www.buffalobills.com/news/buffalo-bills-release-five-players-including-jordan-poyer-mitch-morse-and-siran-neal The Buffalo Bills announced the release of the following players Wednesday: safety Jordan Poyer, center Mitch Morse, defensive back Siran Neal, wide receiver Deonte Harty and running back Nyheim Hines.

Not certain if all these moves are the right ones — though I'm leaning most if not all are necessary — but the wholesale cutting spree is oddly satisfying and cathartic. Most logical people though we couldn't "run it back" and expect better results with an aging roster.

Spotrac on White's post-June 1 cut: 2024 Dead Cap: $6,234,918 2025 Dead Cap: $4,134,918 2024 Cap Savings: $10,208,819

Indeed. My pic was after Poyer but before Morse and Harty... And I think the spree will keep going...

Wegman's needs to rebrand their butcher section with a grinning Brandon Beane.

Some say, in a former life Brandon The Ripper was a surgeon. Others speculate he's even royalty... Will his spree ever end?

Beane is now..

Holy $***! Did not expect this. Beane is not being sentimental or emotional, but cold and calculating. If we want to win this attitude is required. I'm not necessarily agreeing with this specific move (and not arguing against it either) but the approach in general

It's hard on a human level but if we want to be a Super Bowl team, moves like this need to be made. You can't hang onto an aging player for sentimental reasons. At least not when you're in a poor cap situation.

Yeah, I totally get this. I haven't studied his tape and I don't know if the "lazy" tag is accurate or not. If so, it's a big red flag. I read in a combine interview that he likes to "vary" the speed of his routes: "I never run routes full speed," said Mitchell during Friday's press conference. "That's just a part of my game that allows me to run routes for the whole drive and mostly just feel like I'm in control. I'd like to know if the root of this, no pun intended, is laziness or something else.

These Cover 1 kids give me way more insight than any Bills beat reporter. Interesting that they like Mitchell and Legette a lot. They acknowledge Mitchell's apparently lazy route running as "vibing" on routes. His interview with the Bills should be interesting. But why do I feel like they are addicted to Dungeons and Dragons? Never saw this new guy before but he looks it too.

I'd take the DE or WR who has a better chance of being blue-chip. We have very few of those players and need more. But if Beane decides the DE has a brighter future and can be elite, not just 8-10 sacks, but elite, take him. But make damn sure you get a good receiver soon after.

I hear you. But I think many smart people think Mitchell will be a number 1 guy and he should be available close to where we pick. We'll see soon enough. If we got this DE, I wouldn't hate it — if we get a speed merchant later who's a bona fide number 2.

Don't mind some of his wokr (OUATIH was great) but never saw Deathproof... It looks like a Quentin kind of word.

Spotrac says the Bears pick up his 4 million per year deal for 2 years.

Thanks, guys. So Marquise Brown is 2 inches shorter and the same weight and Jordan Addison is the same height and 8 lb heavier. Not a huge history of precedents at this size... And I would argue that 8 lb makes a difference. If it doesn't subtract it from 165 and see if that doesn't scare the hell out of you. I think this kid could make a lot of big plays but I'd be willing to bet a couple good hits from some NFL safeties might take him out for a while...