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Seems Antonio Brown's sources have moved on to another very realistic trade 😀😆😂

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That's not his position. He's a get off the line and get open quick - short and intermediate routes guy. Perfectly suited for the Slot. In 2022 and 2023 - he was lined up in the slot 74.6% of the time (according to Pro Football Focus). I don't know where this 50/50 number has been coming from. Can he slide Outside at times? Yes. But you don't take players who have years vested in the league as successful as Samuel and then say "now be something else". This board is always trying to move people away from the things that make them successful into different roles (CB to Safety, OLB to MLB, Nickel to Boundary, Slot to X, OG to OT, etc.). It's not that simple. You only do that in very specific situations. The Slot is his natural position. That's where you want him taking the majority of his snaps.

So you want to take an All Pro Nickel CB and move him to Safety so that we can have a 3rd LB in Dorian Williams on the field and subtract a DB? Besides the madness of moving an All Pro to a different position, I think I still prefer having at least 5 DB's on the field at all times instead of 4. This idea that's floated around the board all offseason that any CB can switch to Safety and that it a.) Happens all the time and b.) CB's are cool switching positions is out of hand. Need a CB? You draft or sign a CB. Need a Safety? You draft or sign a Safety. You don't take a top performing young player from their natural position and switch them to another.

It's embarrassing. You go on a post of his and see 75% of the replies from delusional fans of other teams BEGGING for him to come play for them, 20% from Bills fans saying they can have him and calling him a cancer (amongst other names), and maybe 5% Bills fans not acting like crazy people. If you're a Bills fan and you don't like him - just don't follow him and ignore him. It's really simple. The visceral hatred and attacks directly to him are really unnecessary.

Everybody keeps talking about Starting Center. As far as what the media's been told - that's already covered. Connor McGovern is switching to Center. Part of our problem last year is Morse and McGovern didn't play well off each other in the rushing department. Both were good at holding their ground, but neither was great at moving people. So Morse goes out and we put McGovern at Center - where holding your ground is more paramount. David Edwards was a solid starter for years in LA (and under Kromer) before he came here as a backup. Kromer loves him. We re-signed him to bigger money to start in between McGovern and Dawkins. That plan was told to the media who conveyed it to us when Edwards re-signed. Is it possible that plan could change? Sure. But as it stands right now, they seem quite comfortable moving McGovern to Center and returning Edwards to a starting role. I imagine we Draft a Center in the mid rounds for development and insurance. Or maybe sign a lower tier FA for that. But I don't think we're looking for a Starter.

I don't think we are allowed to go over the cap for a little while and pay for things with Tre's money before we have it. We don't have Tre's money until well after the Draft. We'll have our Draft Picks on the books and will have to address Safety (and probably a rotational DT) well before then. We can probably do that where we're at right now. But we have to wait until after 6/1 to play with Tre's savings. So closer to 11.6 or 11.7 then.

That's assuming that he was released because he wouldn't take a pay cut. I don't think that's what happened here. I think we looked at the situation we were in and he was the odd man out - in a time where there was an "out" in his contract and we needed the money. If we felt he was going to Start here over Douglas or Benford and/or wanted to take the chance he'd be back in a big role for us - we would have found a way to make it work. Yes, you can cut someone at any point and designate them a Post-June 1 cut - allowing them to sign with any team at any time. You just don't get the money until June 1st. But that's only with releases. You can't trade someone with a Post-June 1st designation and get the kind of financial ramifications that come with moving on then. For something to qualify as a Post June-1 financial savings via trade, the trade has to literally occur after June 1st.

I don't see that. We've moved on with Benford and Douglas as our Starters on the Boundary, Taron in the Nickel, and Elam as the 1st Boundary off the bench. I don't see him coming back and accepting a role lesser than he had here as a depth piece. It's like when people hoped we'd bring back Jerry Hughes. As a career move, it doesn't make sense for him to take a step back in the same place. He's going to, at the very least, get the same opportunity he'd have here somewhere else. And almost definitely way more of an opportunity towards getting on the field and ressurrecting his career in another place. He deserves way more of a chance than he'd get here. That's a small part of the reason he's gone in the first place, in my opinion. As it was with Jerry Hughes before him, he was released because we've moved on.

There's really no knowing who until after the Draft. Those kind of late in FA signings come after the first couple waves of FA and the Draft concludes and he looks at spots he still feels needs some addressing after both.

Center train car in Round 1 be like

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-steelers-traded-kenny-pickett-022955589.html If this is true, wow. Some balls on this kid. Imagine performing as he had and then telling Mike Tomlin in Week 17 "no, I'm not going to dress if you're making me 3rd string" and then approaching them after signing Russ and saying "I don't want to be a backup to him". Great kid. You got your wish. You won't be backing up Russell Wilson. You'll be backing up someone where you have even less of a chance to see the field.

Agreed. We had Gabe Davis, Deonte Harty, and Trent Sherfield going out. Curtis Samuel and Mack Hollins replace Harty and Sherfield. We'll find Davis' Boundary replacement in the Draft and then we're done there. Free Agency from here on out needs to be focused on Safety opposite Taylor Rapp and DT behind Ed Oliver and Daquan Jones. Then it's on to the Draft. What we can't cover in the Draft as a result of how the board falls will be revisited in Free Agency post Draft.

If Blackmon happens, Simmons probably won't and vice versa. After what we gave Rapp, I don't see us putting that much money into Safety as to sign Simmons, Blackmon, and Rapp. I don't see us paying Rapp what we did this offseason as opposed to what we paid him last season for the same role. It'll probably be one veteran signing and then a Day 2 or Day 3 developmental player. Your best hope for Simmons is that bringing in Blackmon for a look is a negotiation tactic made to make Simmons think we're moving on. Although it's probably more likely we are moving on or were never in on him seriously to begin with and the Blackmon visit is legit.

Curtis Samuel contract is officially in. 3.98 in Year 1. Brings us to 7.98 without accounting for Ty Johnson. Ty probably takes us down to around 6.9. Now we wait to see how much Taron saves. Early projections have it being around 4.1. Guessing that brings us to around 11.6m under, give or take.

Yeah, really. Easy money at this point. At -230 and things being the way they are, you probably have to bet a lot of money to make a couple bucks.

Major difference between a DB coming off a torn ACL and then an Achilles and a player 2 years removed from an Achilles and coming off a Shoulder. And even with the latter scenario, we're still having an extensive medical work up done that may or may not result in a signing.

If he checks out medically and can be signed on a relatively good deal, that would take care of the last starting hole on the team other than Boundary WR. I'm confused though - I thought you said he was out because of the medical?

They vaguely tweeted about his medical. Not that we're in on him and he'll be coming in for a visit. But I'm sure they're now claiming that's what it was.

My God man. Seriously - have you bet your life savings on him being moved? You're so desperate to cling to absolutely *anything* that can keep hopes alive for you that he'll be moved. You keep saying you don't think he wants to be here. He's said that he does. You think he might be a problem. Beane's words and actions say otherwise. We just handed him 18.5. It's dead.

Yeah - so he could draft him in Round 4. Franklin's not falling that far.

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Humbled how? Like owning it and taking accountability for it?