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Some folks have been on this site long enough to have had kids who are now old enough to be Veterans on this site and start having their own kids. Now *that's* a Veteran.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Still, should be an interesting free agency next year with all of the 1-year contracts...

So many players signing one-year deals this year...the free agent market is going to be absolutely flooded next year, with a lot of quality players and with the cap likely soaring upward. Going to be a lot of insane contracts given out and a lot of players moving around again. Hopefully we can keep attracting players to stick around in Buffalo like we did this year.

Well, the forum mods merged threads and gave it their own title without the hyphen, so they can handle it.

Nice perspective here...

Dude basically paused in the middle of a punt return and was still able to re-accelerate and outrun the coverage team coming at him from behind.

Update...

...per this account, at least.

The path to success is never a straight line, as they say.

Thanks for sharing that, I didn’t know most of the story. Really sad story.

I think it was the first Miami game where I realized that Allen was throwing darts and all of the receivers were catching everything thrown at them. It was the first feeling where I was becoming confident that every time Allen threw the ball somebody was going to catch it, no matter how open or covered they were, and especially when it was 3rd and long. But by far, the play of the season was Taron's INT TD in the playoffs. Just pure elation and joy that couldn't be contained. EDIT: I also still love watching Allen stiff-arm his way through the Miami defense, leaving them in his wake.

I think this will turn out to be one of the real underrated signings this offseason. Really eager to see how the offense evolves with 3 really savvy vets and one up-and-coming young guy. I'm interested, though—with all of this talk about the previous strategy to stop Allen being to play man and blitz the hell out of him, what were defenses doing in the playoffs? Allen didn't play poorly against the Colts and Ravens, but they seemed to keep him from blowing things open. And against the Chiefs, Allen looked a lot more like he did in the Texans playoff game than he did most of the last regular season. I was under the impression it was some of that approach—play tough man coverage and blitz the heck out of him. Were those teams using a different approach?

Best game for him last year was against the Bills...

Sixty percent of the time, he makes it every time.

I think I agree. One of the things that makes Josh so successful in this offense is his ability to improvise while gunning the ball into tight windows. I haven’t seen that from Trubisky so far, but I guess we’ll see.

Just in time for that new Allen contract! 👍

It's really not that big of a deal. It's just a one-year thing that lowers his cap hit as much as possible for this year, while pushing the majority of it to next year. He'll have no contract after the 2021-22 season, one way or the other. NO will be taking an $8 million cap hit next year for the ability to make some cap room this year, Taysom gets all $12 million in his pocket right now. Works for both of them.

Just seems like a creative way to take a $12 million cap hit for next season and make it $4 million next season and $8 million the following season. That’s about all. If he sucks next season and they cut him, they get an $8 million dead cap hit the following year, but I’m sure they’re expecting him to stick around. They’ll just have to do another contract at that point.

...and when the Browns and Steelers are playing meaningful games against the Bills, it’s even better.

Pretty cool for your 10,000th post!

Interesting. I just find it difficult to believe they would sign Newton and then go after a vet like Garappolo, but admittedly I know nothing about how these things work. I just figured once signing Newton they would then look to a draft pick. I think Newton wouldn't want to be in NE if he wasn't going to be the starter, at least for the first part of the season. But I guess there's always the whole Flutie-Johnson thing to negate that. I do agree with you that NE is the division team I worry about the most next year. I think a full offseason for Newton, combined with all of the returning players from the COVID list, the cap space, and draft picks (as you point out), has me a little concerned—especially given how much trouble they gave us last year in the first game.

Wow, I can't say I saw any of this happening. Thought for sure Feliciano would stay and Milano and Williams would walk. I know nothing.

Right. Seems to me like they'll either draft a QB this year and Cam is the transition, or they stick with Cam and hope for a high draft pick next year.