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If I could be sure that I was getting Higgins and Smith, sure. But what if instead it was a choice between Diggs and Jalen Reagor + Laviska Shenault? Kadarius Toney was a can't-miss prospect as was Elijah Moore. People are talking as if there are 15 future hall of fame WRs in this draft. History tells us that is not possible, and drafting at 28 you are just as likely to get a bust as a star. So, I want them to take that chance but to keep the sure 1,000 yards of production so as to not waste a year. I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take.

That means that the money isn't good enough for the agent to leak it to Schefter.

Teams that are very active in FA usually have a lot of cap space and a lot of holes to fill. That usually means that they had a poor roster. And, by definition, they are signing guys that their previous team either didn't want anymore, didn't see as being worth their current contracts, or didn't see as being worth the price that their new teams paid. That being said, I think that the Houston Texans had the best FA this year. They added vets to a great young core. Their rebuild has been remarkable and will be a model of how to do it for other teams in the future. The worst FA has to be the Washington Commanders. The only criteria to get overpaid by them seems to be "guy that played for Dan Quinn." They threw a lot of money around but I'm not sure that they are any better than they were last month. Or Carolina, but they are a raging tire fire so they don't count.

No, the Browns just took on a massive contract for essentially nothing. The Cowboys traded for Cooper, overpaid him, and then no longer needed him at that price after drafting Lamb. There was no dead money because the Cowboys traded him before restructuring. Twice, the Brown used their massive cap space to absorb other teams mistakes but dead money was never in the equation.

If Russ struggles at all, the pressure from fans and the media to start Fields is going to be enormous.

Is he complaining about targets here?

Because I don’t want to go into the season with two slots and a rookie.

I know, but everyone is responding to a fake post above and it drives me nuts. A Google image search on the Twitter profile picture reveals that. OMG, he's just having fun.

THAT IS A FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNT!!!!!!

That's not even smoke. It's like the smoke machines at a Motley Crue concert.

THEY DID IT AGAIN!!! The picture on that twitter profile is a picture of another dude. This time it's Mark Kelly, a news anchor at Nashville's ABC affiliate. https://www.wkrn.com/author/mark-kelly/

This guy, who calls himself a "Dolphins Beat Reported," insinuates that Beane himself said that. I highly doubt that.

The problem is that if the Bills trade Diggs, they have to absolutely hit on an immediate #1 WR in the latter half of the first round. Not a guy that can be #1 in a few years as he develops. No, they need a guy who is the #1 WR from the first snap in camp. If they were looking at the possibility of Marv or Nabers, then sure. But they are not, and I believe that we (and everyone else) are falling into the trap of comparing draft prospects against each other instead of projecting themselves into the league and comparing them to guys already playing in the NFL. But I should probably take this discussion to the 2024 WR thread and leave this one to a bunch of grown men complaining about a WR acting like a diva on social media.

I'm just going to keep agreeing with you today. Sneed is good, but no CB is worth two first-rounders. Only a QB would be worth that. So, the acquiring team would have to negotiate a contract bigger than the tag value and work out a trade with KC. That's a tall order.

True, but sometimes it is just luck (good or bad). We want to think that it's always scouting so that we have someone to blame when things don't work out, but for every Amon-Ra St. Brown there is a Jalen Reagor. Speaking of Reagor, people here think Howie Roseman is a genius but that dude took Reagor one pick before Justin Jefferson. If Beane would have done that, those same posters calling Roseman a genius would bring it up as much as they bring up Wyatt Teller.

I think you mean 2023 in those last two paragraphs, but we agree on the main point. Remember the lead-up to the 2018 draft? Everyone was sure that Mayfield, Darnold, and Rosen were can't-miss prospects and that Allen and Jackson were projects that came with significant risk. There was major, nationwide consensus on this. And the consensus was entirely wrong. I fear the same for this draft at WR. There is never a draft where all the hyped prospects hit. NEVER. All that said, I still think that the Bills should take a swing.

For those saying "draft his replacement," here is a list of every WR drafted in 2021 between Jalen Waddle (#6) and Amon-Ra St. Brown (#112). DeVonta Smith Kadarius Toney Rashod Bateman Elijah Moore Rondale Moore D'Wayne Eskridge Tutu Atwell Terrace Marshall Jr. Josh Palmer Dyami Brown Amari Rodgers Nico Collins Anthony Schwartz Dez Fitzpatrick I know that this year's draft is strong at WR, but my point is that the draft is always a crap shoot outside of the top two guys at any position.

I think that Buffalo fans are used to NHL trades because player for player trades are common. The NFL is a different beast. Other teams cannot “pick up a chunk of dead cap.” It is money that has already been paid in signing bonuses to circumvent the cap. If you trade a player, you pay the price for the cap shenanigans. If the Bills trade or cut Diggs they will carry a massive amount of cap for a player that is playing for another team. There is no way around it. Someone will bring up Ostweiler as a response to this, but the texans traded a stupid contract, not dead money.

The Cards and the Bills. That isn't good for either team.

No, because he's already been paid the dead cap money.

Can we try getting someone on the other side of him that teams have to at least pay attention to before giving up on one of the best WRs in Buffalo Bills' history?

Schedule comes out on May 9th.

One of the craziest stats in the NFL is that the Chicago Bears have never had a 4,000 yard passer. NEVER. Their single-season leader is Eric Kramer in 1995 with 3,838. You know you're in trouble when Sid Luckman's 1947 season cracks your top 15 and the top ten is dominated by Jay Cutler. Will Caleb Williams and all these FA/trade weapons break that crazy streak? I kind of hope it doesn't. Another slightly related fact is that the J E T S Jets Jets Jets have never had a 4,000-yard passer in their NFL history. Joe Nameth had 4,007 in 1967, but those were AFL yards. If those count, then so does the Billa AFL Championship.

The fact that in a single off-season, the Bills have had a 7th rounder and an undrafted FA signed by other teams to be starters is a credit to the organization. Keep doing that.