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True. So be both the contender and the team that pays the money. But when you're constantly focusing on retaining *SO* many of your decent to pretty good players (on top of having a big time QB contract) - you heavily cut into the cap in future years, making it difficult to spend the kind of crazy money it requires to get truly great players.

To do what? Take the guy we just signed to a 53m contract off the field? Even if we moved on from Samuel (he's a 12m Dead Cap hit this season) and Dalton Kincaid - that's still not enough slot reps to make a Kupp level investment for. Unless, again, you want to cut into Shakir's reps - in which case, why did we just make the investment we did?

Kupp is a Slot WR. We don't need another Slot WR. We've got Keon Coleman, Khalil Shakir (Slot), and Curtis Samuel (50% Slot). Then we have Dalton Kincaid, who's also half or more out of the Slot We need to find replacements for or re-sign Amari Cooper and Mack Hollins.

At this point? A LOT of the excitement is gone with Tee Higgins being tagged, Garrett staying put, and not landing DK Metcalf. Trey Hendrickson would be a big land, but I'd doubt Cincinnati would deal him to us. I'd love to see Josh Sweat or Khalil Mack at DE. D.J. Reed, Charvarius Ward, or Carlton Davis at CB. And with Metcalf, Higgins, and Adams out - i'm open to Amari Cooper returning. Though I don't know that he will, I do believe his lack of use was due to a wrist that needed surgery. Fully healthy, who knows what he'd have done last year. He represents the best available WR at this point.

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That's funny. I was taking crap for saying this yesterday. Low and behold - here we are. Once again, putting a lot of assets into a large number of pretty good players at the cost of great ones.

Between the Von release and this we should have saved 20.2m today.

Yeah, that's another thing I don't agree with Joe on. Last year, he was on a 1 yr, 2.6m contract. He's going to get more than a 400k raise. If anyone offers him 5m or more, i'm out on him. I like him, but I don't like him that much. 4.5m is my ceiling.

I guess that's one warm weather team with a solid QB that won't be in on DK Metcalf now. Adams with Nacua is a scary thought though.

If they had an offseason that was less than this mock projection - this place is going to be unbearable.

It was a mock involving trades.

Creating Space: Josh Allen Extension: 11.8m Saved (Done) Greg Rousseau Extension: 9.8m Saved (Done) Connor McGovern Extension: 4.2m Saved Von Miller Cut: 8.4m Saved (Done) Ed Oliver Restructure: 8.7m Saved Dion Dawkins Restructure: 9.8m Saved Dawson Knox Restructure: 6.3m Saved Approximately 49.3m Under the Cap Re-Sign: RB Ty Johnson: 2 yrs, 6m FB Reggie Gilliam: 2 yrs, 5.5m WR Mack Hollins: 1 yr, 3m TE Quintin Morris: 1 yr, 2.5m LS Reid Ferguson, 2 yrs, 3m (Done) Free Agents Signed: DE Josh Sweat: 3 yrs, 60m CB Charvarius Ward: 2 yrs, 30m WR Josh Palmer: 2 yrs, 10m (Done at 3 yrs, 36m) DT Bobby Brown: 2 yrs, 7m DE Deatrich Wise: 1 yr, 3.5m NFL Draft (with trades): Round 1: DT Darius Alexander (Toledo) Round 2: DE Jared Ivey (Ole Miss) Round 2: WR Jaylin Noel (Iowa State) Round 3: S Kevin Winston (Penn State) Round 4: CB Dorian Strong (Virginia Tech) Round 5: RB Jarquez Hunter (Auburn) Round 6: TE CJ Dippre (Alabama) Thoughts: - Joe is usually much more conservative than this. When I put on the video, I wasn't expecting he'd have Josh Sweat and Charvarius Ward on his list. Both players I would be really happy with. Though I'd bet Sweat will cost more than 20m after the deals to Garrett and Crosby. - I'd like to see something a little more at WR then Mack returning, a 2nd Round speedster, and Josh Palmer. But he makes a good argument for why Palmer would fit this offense well. - I wouldn't re-sign Morris and I'd probably pass on paying Gilliam that much. - I agree that with the roster as it would be after his moves in Free Agency, we wouldn't have room for 10 Draft Picks. So he probably would move around a bit using those picks. All in all, a fun video by Joe and an offseason i'd be relatively happy with. I really like what I've seen from Josh Sweat and how he could fit in with this Defense, opposite Groot. And a Christian Benford, Charvarius Ward starting duo would be a big step up from last season.

Here's the thing - there isn't 32 quality starters in the NFL. Let alone quality backups. And when it comes to the Top Backups, they choose to go to the following situations: - A team that has nothing at QB where they might at least be able to compete for a starting job. - A team that has a Top Pick and will select a Rookie that may not be ready Day 1 and they can be a bridge. - A team with an often injured QB - A team that has an underperforming young starter that could be pulled. - A team that has a weak veteran starter that could be pulled. We check literally none of those boxes. Josh is the MVP and thus far (knock on wood) doesn't miss time. A quality backup looks at this situation and says "I have no chance to see the field". Because of that, we're always going to have to settle for the Mitch Trubisky's, Kyle Allen's, and Case Keenum's of the world.

Garrett and Diggs want/wanted out and either made that known or went nuclear publicly to make that happen. Cook wants the Bills to pay him. There is no comparison there.

You're putting words in my mouth. That's not what I said. What I said is it is slightly concerning or eyebrow raising to see him tie up such a slice of the pie in future years on bringing back so many of these players. Especially given that his MO that he has been raked over the coals for years over is re-signing good to pretty good players at the cost of bringing in great players. It's starting to feel like more of the same. And I'm far from the only one worried that he's falling into the same patterns. We'll see what happens. Hoping for the best. But add a Benford and/or Cook in there and we're taking up a large portion of the pie in the later years where we'd be pushing the big numbers for bigger pieces via Trade this year.

Gotta be honest - I'm a little concerned when it comes to the Cap. Extensions in a vacuum provide more this year. But if we're getting someone big, we're going to have to push the big numbers into years that follow. And Bernard and Rousseau are guys I wouldn't have put on the books for bigger numbers in 2026, 2027, and so on. If we extend Benford (as we should) and/or Cook - then we're really cutting into things in future years. To me, one of the things that we'd need to do to get one (or more) of the bigger ticket items this offseason was probably not re-signing most of these guys. And he seems to want to bring them all back.

He's not Saquon and he's not going to be paid like Saquon. He knows that. But when Saquon's getting 21m - his asking for 15m that fans were tearing him to shreds over and Beane wouldn't do, becomes a fair market value. It justified him. I'd be excited too.

Nothing wrong with not wanting a RB to eat up a whole bunch of cap. I am of the mind we shouldn't either (even though I love Cook as a player). But the insults and acting personally offended bc he's making it known he's not happy about how negotiations are going, which is based in his wanting to be here (or else why would he be upset with it?), by fans is ridiculous and unnecessary.

I wonder if that isn't part of the hold up. He was concussed twice in the span of a week. The last one looked scary. On top of Cornerback being a trickier market than say Slot WR and Middle Linebacker is - there may be some concern over his long term health.

Do you think he started complaining without knowing what Beane was willing to pay him? Do you think Shakir, Rousseau, and Bernard came together in the same day? Each of them were signed to fairly team friendly deals. Especially Rousseau, who signed for less than what his expected market value was. Pretty clear that Beane had a number in mind and Cook and his people had a number in mind. And unlike the other 3, they "weren't on the same page", as Beane put it. The number he had in mind ended up being about what his market value actually is, after the Barkley trade. If Beane wanted to pay it, we wouldn't have heard anything. The guy wants to get paid top dollar and I don't fault him for that. This idea that's floating around that "if he would have kept his mouth shut, he'd have been paid like the other three" is ridiculous. If he wanted to take a team friendly deal like they did, sure. But that's not what he's looking for.

I'd expect he'll still get hit with a 4 game suspension like Von did. No charges were filed against Von either. Suspension still came for conduct unbecoming.

Here's the thing: if he owns the place or his name is on the lease - then why hasn't he called the Cops and said "this is my place, I don't want this person here and she won't leave"? It's either his place, in which case he can call the police and have that person removed. Or it's a place they share - in which case, get up and leave yourself. He's a millionaire, just get another place. How about just not putting yourself in that situation? Or removing yourself from the situation? I don't think you sound as cool as you think you do saying you'll hit a woman back. No excuse to strike or choke a woman. I don't care what's happening. She's getting physical, you get outta there. F-ck outta here with this "F around and Find out" bullsh-t. Two wrongs don't make a right and I don't care who starts it - a man doesn't put his hands on a woman like that and you're scum of the earth if you do.

Patriots, Chiefs, and many other teams saying "drats!" right now. Top target for many teams this offseason stays put.

Yeah, when you have one WR who went down for the year and has yet to get his suspension for their off the field incident last year and then another WR get arrested for felony domestic assault of their girlfriend - you pretty much don't have a choice. 11m for him (even on paper) is a pretty big number. But he had some crazy leverage, thanks to Worthy being an awful human being.