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I didn’t realize the number one DT in run stop win rate, Tedarrell Slaton, signed with the Bengals on a 2 year $15M deal. I thought he was still unsigned. A 6’4 330lb run stopping behemoth is exactly what this DL needed.

A veteran, WR John Brown, said the same when he came back after his injury. He had to find the confidence he had before he was injured because the offense was moving well without him. He had to find where he fit in again. I will echo that Keon’s hunger seemed A LOT less post injury. Almost like he was going through the motions versus actively trying to make a name for himself. You can’t teach effort or heart, so while he was upset that he was no longer as big a part of the offense as he was, he still had to make the most of the opportunities that did come his way and he didn’t do that.

Bills probably wanted him back on something close to a vet minimum deal.

Trent Murphy-like signing? Just a rotational piece, nothing more. Him and Epenesa are tied for DE3. EDIT: sounds more like an athletic Lorenzo Alexander type. Went from a 310 DT to a full time outside LB. Most likely still DE3 in the Bills scheme.

At least the Chiefs are losing better players than they’re gaining.

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I remember the game he embarrassed Tre White (pre injury White). First time I ever thought White looked like a boy trying to defend a man.

To not want Parsons because he isn’t the best run defender is crazy to me. If you don’t want him because of his personality, or what we’d have to give up, or the contract he’ll get, cool, I understand that… but to not want the second best pass rusher in football because he isn’t a standout run defender? C’mon. There’s primarily one rushing attack that scares us (Baltimore), but how did we fare against them in the playoffs? We’re not losing AFC divisional and championship games every year because we can’t stop the run. We’re losing because we can’t affect the QB. Parsons does that better than anyone not named Garrett. To get him on the Bills would be a godsend to this defense.

If he’s a dud in the cold due to health reasons then this thread should go ahead and close now, at least from our perspective of wanting him.

Von would retire before being on anyone’s practice squad, as would any other potential first ballot HoFers.

I think, as a player in the midst of a trade, it’s kinda weird to come out and make it known that you want to play for a warm weather team. Why say this publicly? Hundreds of guys play in cold weather across the league, especially from the middle of the season until the end, I’d think the locker room dynamics would/should matter much more than playing weather.

You think some other team is going to give him anything other than a steep discount? I don’t. It’s either play for pennies (for a contender, he’s not going to the Browns) or hang em up.

He’ll come back if the Bills truly want him at a discount and no other contender gives him what he’s looking for.

Good question. Beane has to find him in the draft. I feel like he’s due to hit on an edge rusher with all the swings and misses he’s already taken. Edit: still could knock on Jerry’s door for Parsons to see what that would take.

Sweat’s production the last 4 years is almost identical to Rousseau, except he has a double digit sack season in there. Joe Marino says he’d sign Sweat as a “big ticket pass rusher,” and be done with the position, but Sweat is just another Robin. He did play monumentally better against KC than Rousseau ever has, I’ll grant you that, but we need Batman to elevate everyone on the DL.

Cut candidate in Chicago. Still can’t believe they got suckered in to paying him all that money. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-underperforming-tremaine-edmunds-tabbed-cut-candidate/7b66305a764d65f90e3209ce

My maximum for DE2 was $19M/yr, but I can’t hate this at $20M. I was absolutely against the Spotrac projections.

He also had 6 sacks while missing 4 games and playing a fraction of the snaps. Only 2 less than our sack leader (who also went against bad OLs). You’re too harsh on Von, if the Bills can work out the pay cut I’m all for bringing him back.

He had 30 something pressures and 6 sacks, all while missing multiple games and having limited time on the field. I think he was absolutely productive enough in that role. The fact he disappeared in the playoffs has to do with how little he was on the field. Whether that’s Von’s fault or the coaching staff thought they could get more out of other players, Von wasn’t given the opportunities. But as was mentioned above, Myles Garrett wouldn’t have made a huge impact against KC given how fast Mahomes got the ball out. Scheme and secondary were to blame.

Mike Gesicki was a UFA the year Beane traded up to draft Kincaid. Could’ve just signed him for cheap and used that 1st rounder on another position. Didn’t like trading up for Kincaid then and I still don’t like it now.

I know where you’re going with this, but I’m not paying a DE2 $23-$25M. Less than $20M AAV would be my max for that role.

If I was Henry, there’s no way I play this year at $8M after what I gave the Ravens offense last year. He should absolutely be at least $15M/yr, even at his age. He was an MVP candidate after all and showed no signs of slowing down throughout the season.

Once defenses started building to stop the pass and starting quality WRs became plentiful in the draft, I knew the value of RBs was due to increase. In NO WORLD was Justin Jefferson worth $35M/yr versus Saquon Barkley at $13M/yr, that was just ridiculous. And even more a slap in the face contractually considering Barkley just won OPOTY and was in the mix for NFL MVP. It’s a passing league, so I get that a WR will have slightly more value to an offense (say if Barkley and Jefferson were on the same team), but the contracts for the two positions had long been out of whack. Cook was the second best player on our offense this year, more valuable than Shakir, but we all (rightly) thought that Shakir at $15M/yr was great value while Cook at the same amount was absurd. Thinking that way was absurd, but it was made absurd due to the low money given to RBs. Next up the WR contracts should come back down to earth a bit. If I was a GM, I’m not paying the position more than $30M/yr, I don’t care who it is. They’re still well overvalued considering how defenses now play the pass and the number of good to great WRs that exist in the league.

I didn’t believe that was Matt when I saw Bills social media post it. Had to go back and look up his run myself. Looks quite different.

I proposed a 64 yarder earlier but it wouldn’t be fair to the kickers who don’t have the leg. I actually love the punting idea I proposed, where a punter stands alone at the 50, only him on the field. He has to kick the ball inside the 5 yard line either out of bounds or it has to come to a stop there. Inside the 5, the offense gets the ball again. Extremely difficult scenario with an element of fun, although if the punters get good at it and conversions start happening at a 15% clip, I could see the opposition being pissed that they weren’t on the field to have a say in it.