Lothar

I think many of you are being too harsh on the coaches for that specific game. When you lose (arguably) your best defensive player of an already statistically tepid defense, there's only so much you can do. I thought the D, given their state, did a good enough job in allowing the Bills offense to go win the game. They tried playing more man, caused a couple critical takeaways but simply didn't have the horses. It wasn't ideal but in these playoff matchups of best on best, I'd 100% be happy with giving Josh and the offense the ball to go tie or win the game. Every time.

I don't see how we can take a legit RB prospect this year unless we plan to trade Cook. We are not carrying Cook, Davis, Johnson, draft pick and Gilliam on a 53 man roster.

I'd say it's primarily his injuries. It's like McDermott says, "the best ability is availability". Especially if Babich and McD planned to change the scheme to utilize Bosa and Heucht as movable chess pieces. We could have had Rousseau and Sweat for under 40 mil per - 2 players in their prime for 3 or 4 years feels like a better swing than this. But I will gladly accept being wrong on this take.

I hope I'm proven wrong - and I'm usually pretty optimistic with Beane's signings - but I'm not convinced he's a fit for this team.

Up to 15.6 million? 12 million guaranteed? Yikes!

I don't think so. Unless we trade Cook during the draft, and we are not carrying 4 RBs on the roster. Maybe a UDFA to get some looks in preseason.

That's perfect for us. Field stretcher, with great analytics. This fits the Bills offense.

Twitter is kind of a hellhole anyway. So maybe not?

You can always roll savings into next year. That's not an issue - if anything, it gives us more options if potential trades open up.

I think people need to use percentage of cap as they look at these numbers. It's completely reasonable that deals signed for comparable ascending players just 3 years ago are now around 33% higher (cap went from 208M to 279M).

Thank you! He would have been a horrible signing for us.

Kirk traded to Texans apparently.

For his supposed speed, he does not get wide open at all. I watched every catch he made this year - he's good, and got better as the year went on, but not what you want in a separator.

Look at percentage of cap when deals are signed. Don't get caught up in the actual numbers because everyone looks overpaid compared to those who signed earlier.

There are a lot of podcasts that discuss how you can open up about 70 million in cap space (Cover 1, Joe Marino, etc. ) - not that we will but it's available with restructures and extensions. I don't think we will do all of it but we could do pretty much anything we need to this free agency if the right players came available. That said, I want to keep Rousseau and Benford. Those are prime positions, these are ascending players about to enter their prime. You don't become a better team casting those players aside.