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The way this works is Schefter breaks the signing with a huge number. This is because his sources are almost all agents Rapaport then reports the signing with a much lower number. This is because his sources are almost all front office personnel We get actual contract numbers and find additional outs and void years to lower cap hits. I don't care how much these guys get paid. It's not my money. What I do care about is cap hits. We don't get those for a few days, so I don't respond to signings until then.

Because he's GenZ and they post everything on social media? Also, keeping those discussion behind closed doors gives the team all the leverage. Why would he do that? RBs have been arguing for higher pay on social media for a few seasons now. Remember Josh Jacobs and Saquon Barkley threatening to hold out two offseasons ago? They are, as a group, advocating for higher pay for all of them. All because GMs, as a group, decided about 5-6 years ago to not pay RBs because Jerry just had to overpay Ezekiel Elliott.

Of course. I always like to see how many of a player's stats came in garbage time when they shouldn't have been playing. Trey got a strip sack of Ridder in the 4th when the Bengals were winning 38-17. The Bills starters wouldn't have been on the field. There are a lot of examples of that type of thing that skew stats. I'm sure that people who do this for a living keep track of that. Or they know that they can't pay him, Chase, and Tee Higgins. And the organization's primary task for the past two years has been to keep Joe Burrow happy to avoid a Carson Palmer situation, so Hendrickson has to go while they can get something. FWIW, Hendrickson played all 17 games this past season.

In 2024 7.5 of those sacks came against Desmond Ridder and Russell Wilson, both of whom hold the ball FOREVER.

This is good to get out in front of the cap. Actual money doesn't matter to me because it's not my money. What matters is the percentage of the cap. The cap keeps going up and contracts go up with it. So any extension at the current cap will be good value by this time in two years. And the fact that this is a good deal at the current cap means it will be of tremendous value in 2 years.

We traded a draft prospect that we didn’t value, not a proven NFL player.

You're discounting how good James Cook was this year because you want to make a point about not paying RBs. He made something out of nothing many times, and has the burst to turn 10-yard gains into long TDs. That TD against SF that I linked above is about a 5 yard gain with Singletary. He was the Bills' best offensive skill player outside of Josh Allen. I don't know that he's worth 15 million, but he's not easily replaceable.

That's absolutely what they are doing. Diggs made an NBA move last by not only forcing a trade but also forcing a destination. It's now the norm.

The Bills did give a #1 for Diggs who was only one year younger than DK is now.

It’s his prerogative. He’s going to do what he wants to do.

Chargers or Texans. Both teams have a need, cap space, and a lot of assets to trade.

Florio got a "tip" from Bosa's agent.

Maybe, just maybe, the Seahawks don't want to trade him. So they set the price too high and then go back to him and tell him they tried.

People saw him play in Pittsburgh and he was terrible.

I go back and forth on this all the time. We did win a lot this year and Josh played great. But I've been watching Ja'marr Chase highlights today. All Burrow has to do is throw it in his general direction and good things happen. It's just so much easier to play when you have guys besides the QB that can make plays.Chase takes 10 yard completions and turns them into 50 -yard TDs because he runs away from people. We lack that.

Miles Garrett or Trey Hendrickson is going to Washington. They have a lot of cap space and I'm not sure which one, but one of them is. The Chargers are also a playoff team with over 90 million in cap space. Both teams have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in this years draft too.

Right now, outside of Shakir, we're looking up at Mediocre.

A lot of fans feel like what the Bills did this year on offense is not sustainable. It's hard to predict that a team could win 14 games (they would have won 14 if they needed to) without a single 1,000 receiver and a QB who had fewer than 4,000 yards passing. Seems unlikely to a lot of people that this could happen again. They also want something more fun to watch. You get jealous when you watch Cincinnati and Minnesota with WRs who are always open and making huge plays down the field. The Bills did win a lot, but it was all dink and dunk with a lot of running plays. I know Cincinnati missed the playoffs and the Vikings flamed out early, but they were supremely fun to watch.

Too busy steeling donation checks to study a playbook: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40457877/former-no-1-pick-jamarcus-russell-fired-coach-faces-lawsuit

Jags undoing the high-priced mistakes of Baalke all at once. Will they cut or move Gabe?

What team with a top QB has quality depth at that position?

This feels like Diggs last year. He's angling his way to the Texans. NFL players are starting to act like NBA players and force trades to certain destinations and Houston is the most popular landing spot. Think about it: Young QB who everything thinks is good Warm weather. There are no outside cold weather teams in the division. One of the strip club capitals of the United States. Party-like atmosphere on the team with a players coach. The Dolphins and Texans players have a much better time all season than the Bills and Chiefs players and it has nothing to do with facilities or winning.

It was reported by Schefter that they were "planning to release him," not that they released him.

Sorry, I didn't read the tweet. That is really shocking. He's the only difference maker that they have on defense. They are really willing to just let Joe Burrow run the team.