BuffaloRebound

Evans had a lot of drops last year. He might be motivated to have a redemption year, but I think I’d rather roll the dice on OBJ 18 months removed from ACL surgery and keep Davis.

McBeane don’t play the comp pick game. Every year we sign a big helping of veteran JAG’s instead of playing draft picks and we never have a net loss in free agency.

I wonder what the Bills offered him. And if his market is that strong, I wonder if we can now tag him and get something in return

What about moving Benford to the slot to get bigger and cheaper there and trading Taron? Clearly the Bengals saw a weakness that we are too small in our base nickel and pounded us with their big skill position players like Mixon and Hearst.

No way I’d trade any of them, especially with Hyde and Tre’s injury/recovery situations, and Poyer’s free agency status.

I hear ya. One things for sure, McBeane will finally have to start making difficult roster decisions on the defensive side. Extending every good/decent player on that side of the ball isn’t gonna get you to a Super Bowl. My 1 caveat would be to not just keep who you already locked up and let edmunds/poyer walk if you think those 2 guys are more valuable than guys like Taron, Oliver, Settle, Tre, Hyde.

Not sure. You can’t have 9 or 10 core players on the defensive side of the ball, but Poyer is probably in the 3-4 inner core for me so it’s a hard decision. 1. Milano 2. Poyer 3. Hyde 4. Edmunds? White would be in there pre-ACL. Obviously Miller given his contract. Taron has a big contract for a slot CB. Oliver has $10m guaranteed. Dequan Jones? The defense has become a bloated mess.

This is what happens when you never make any hard decisions and constantly bring everybody back on the defensive side of the ball. Plus rookies and young players never get developed. Are Poyer and Edmunds the right guys to draw the line on? I think I’d rather bring those 2 back than keep Oliver, Tre White, or Taron Johnson. Settle too.

Not as cringe as this thread. How is this still going? Time to move this to a different forum.

Jets gonna run back what the Colts have done the last 5 years.

I keep hearing the argument that “it had been allowed all game”. Is there any actual evidence of that? And the grab might not have effected the WR that much but it definitely allowed Bradberry to be stickier in his coverage. I didn’t love the call but if your complaint is ‘yeah, it’s a penalty but they could’ve called it the entire game’ then show everybody where else in the game a DB grabbed a guy’s jersey and it wasn’t called.

The officiating was terrible back then. Testaverde scored a TD for the Jets that was a yard and a half short that resulted in teams not making the playoffs. Now people cry conspiracy when a flag is thrown and the player admits he committed the penalty. NFL officiating problem now is how do you create consistency among the entire crew doing a game when 7 guys can throw a flag, but otherwise NFL officiating is 1000% better than it used to be.

Philosophically, you gotta try to peak at the end of the year. Develop your young guys early in the year even if it means losing an extra game or 2. Personnel-wise 1000% O-Line.

nice throw Hurts.

Clark is killing the Chiefs

Mahomes had a lot of time against that philly pass rush.

It’s hard not to like Diggs, but his thirst for attention is disturbing. Please get Josh another high end WR this off-season for a lot of reasons not the least of which is so Josh and the team don’t become hostage to this guy’s emotional outbursts.

Houston isn’t getting anybody as good as Oliver for 1 year $10m in free agency. They’ll have to over-pay over multiple years to get anybody decent. He has value to a rebuilding team like Houston with picks and cap space. He’s still young and would be their best D Lineman.

Houston would make most sense. Lots of cap room, he’s a hometown boy, and tough to attract free agents during a rebuild. Might even be able to get a 3rd rounder for him

Yeah. For awhile his mouth has been writing checks his body can’t cash. Seems like he’s more cut out for professional wrestling or a podcast these days.

He was definitely better this year. Didn’t see QB’s manipulating him as much. There’s no denying his size and speed, and at worst there will be no drop-off in his 25-28 year old seasons. The problem is the Bills have backed themselves into a corner in regards to the defense and cap/financial resources. Everybody has gotten extended or in Oliver’s case the can has been expensively kicked down the road another year. Edmunds might be the wrong guy to put your foot down on, but they can’t keep handing out extensions to non-elite guys on that side of the ball. I’d much rather have Edmunds at $15m per year than Oliver at $10m+ next year.

Milano gets home more often than not when he blitzes. Edmunds rarely does. When he’s unblocked, Edmunds is a heat seeking 6’5” 250lb missile. When blocked, he doesn’t have the bend/flexibility to shed or get around blockers. He also plays too upright and loses at the game of leverage. If he had any ball-skills, he’d be a heck of a safety or big nickel. He’s really a tough case. For a team that’s undersized and not particularly fast in its back 7, you don’t wanna lose a 6’5” 250 lb 4.4 guy. But can you really afford to pay him $15m+ per year when it’s Milano and the safeties who are making all the plays?

This. His center of gravity is too high. He’s easily routed away from the QB.

I’ve been a critic of Edmunds but I can live with re-signing him. He’s 6’5”, 250 with elite speed, durable and only 24 years old. He had his best season and still might have some upside. The D -Line is the bigger problem.

If it’s really 3 years $45m, with all the non-guaranteed nonsense added to the last 3 years, I can live with that.