DrDawkinstein

For real, this is just week 3 of the offseason. Wait until June...

So sign Edmunds and go OL/WR/OL or WR/OL/OL in the draft

Ehh, well that's fine then. For the record, I wasnt trying to be overly argumentative with you. I was genuinely curious if there was a part of the Cap stuff I wasnt understanding correctly since it's all smoke and mirrors and rainbows and magic. I was a huge Edmunds detractor through last offseason, but if we could get him back on a long term deal structured like Smith's, then I'm all for it. Beane needs to flip his usual script (Draft Defense/FA Offense), and re-sign Edmunds and spend the draft on OL and WR. Go Bills!

That's Pegula's Cash that only matters to Terry. Not the Cap Hit number that affects what Beane can spend. I don't care about Pegula's cash. The Cap Hit and Dead Cap numbers are the only ones that matter.

Did you look at the detail of the Roquan deal I provided? I wouldnt say starting at $9M and $13M, and then ramping up to $27.5M at the back end is "even". Nor am I understanding what you mean by "the 3 year out will be $60M"? It would be $60M total paid over 4 years for an average of $15M/yr hit, and that last $15M hitting in year 4.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean there, considering we arent in the old Cash to Cap days. His first year is a Cap Hit of $9M. That is all that needs to be accounted for on the cap. Numbers laid out below.

He definitely has the whole Modern Journalism thing down. Post a rumor on Twitter, News picks it up and reports on the Tweet, Use that News Story on your Tweet to confirm your rumor. Profit. I'd be totally fine with matching the Roquan deal. Cheap first 2 years, reasonable 3rd year, and then you can get out. The $20M average is just the market we're going to have to get used to as fans.

There are definitely FACTS presented. But I'm not sure it's a valid logical conclusion to say "The teams the Bills lose to have poor Offensive performances the next week, so therefore <conclusion>" Seems a bit correlation = causation at face value, but I'm still digesting that big first post.

See above

Guess what, Jones comes out and the whole d scheme falls apart when it comes to winning a Super Bowl. Not even worth the cost of the call just to be laughed at and hung up on. What about the Roquan Smith deal that has him at $9M and $13M the first two years to give us some cover while the cap increases? That deal is an $11M average over the first 2 years, with an out after year 3.

The Bills under McD have never won a playoff game? I must've hallucinated those games against the Colts, Ravens, Pats, and Dolphins. No one has won a Super Bowl with a Tampa-2? Dont tell Tampa that. Look, I'm not much of a fan of the Cover2/Tampa2 (since at least the Jauron days), but let's not act like it's impossible to win a Champ with it. The key to winning a SB, no matter what D scheme you are running, is being able to pressure the QB with just 4 rushers. That is how the wild card Giants beat the undefeated Patriots, that's how Tampa beat the Chiefs, that's how Denver beat Carolina, etc. And that is how we were winning games the first half of the season before Von went down. Blitzing and rushing more than 4 will get you killed by any QB good enough to make a Super Bowl.

Aholes - 33 Dbags - 28 I'll let you decide which is which.

That said, 14-3 and the Bills win the Super Bowl. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO I think Tua's dad will ride him until he gets a 2nd contract, even if he's completely incapacitated. That's the kind of parent he is.

I like your overall philosophy, and I like Diggs there when we need 3-5 yards and if Dorsey would actually call a quick slant (to be determined). But not sure how much Diggs should be there regularly.

Polian also drafted in the days when they had 12 rounds, and sometimes 14+ picks! In that case, a 5th rounder was a Day 1 pick!

Ehh, Davis had over twice as many targets this year as Foster in the year you cite. I attribute that to the Josh/Dorsey philosophy of having never seen a bomb they dont like. Way too many times this year the Bills would get the ball back and go bomb-bomb-sack-punt. I dont think they were ALL misses by Josh, but I think a good portion of them were bad decisions - throwing deep, low percentage balls into tight coverage (and sometimes into double and triple coverage). Throw another 50 bombs at Foster, against Defenses that are knowingly baiting Josh to throw it deep, and see how it goes. Davis definitely had a disappointing season on his own and has a lot to improve upon, I am not arguing against that. But so do Dorsey and Josh from this year.

I'd rather have Bernard. 🤣

It's McD's scheme. So even if we replace Frazier, expect a DC who runs something like what we already have. Maybe with different playcalling or strategy, but the base D will likely be the same or very similar. That sucks for fans who want a change, but is good news for if we re-sign Edmunds.

12-5, win the AFCE. We'll see from there.

Good news then, we wouldnt be paying Edmunds that much for a couple more years. We dont have much money to spend on anyone, let alone high-$$ positions like WR and OL. Those are likely going to come via the draft.

See the post below. The easiest way to get him under $10M is to re-sign him. At least for the first year or two, and hope the cap goes up enough to absorb the contract as it grows. I'd bring him back on the Smith deal. $9M next year, $13M year 2. That is plenty of runway for the cap to grow.

I dont disagree, I lean towards your side that it's still an impressive stat. But I'd still like to see how it compares in order to give it some real context. I've said the same thing about Doug Whaley, when he had so many former Bills still playing in the league who had been cut from the Bills in our numerous coaching and D-scheme changes.

At that point, I start questioning coaching and our approach to slowly developing rookies. Hard to make a difference when you dont get played. Hard to make a difference when you cant find your rhythm. And then we wonder why the guys are still slow out of the gate their second year as well. They have no momentum, and they have no urgency. I'd at least like to know how it compares to other teams/GMs.

I can definitely seeing us trading out of the 1st and into the 2nd, and picking up a mid/late round pick in the process. Move from 27 to somewhere around 35.