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100% agree. I don't think the Bills pick Bolton for exactly that reason. He is a good player. If we were looking for a MIKE I'd be totally on board at #30. Maybe even hoping he gets there. But we aren't. McDermott and Beane have their MIKE. I know fans would move Edmunds outside but I don't believe for a second the men that matter will. I have asked a couple of folks whose opinion I trust whether Bolton could play outside. One said no, the other said he thought the Bills could get away with it because they are a two linebacker scheme but that is would be an awkward fit in any base 4-3 sets. The latter is sort of my view too.

If you take Bolton do you move Edmunds to OLB? MLB is Bolton’s best fit imo. Have to wonder if McBeane will be ready to do that or not. Just curious.

Question: Why do you see Dodson as a possible Milano replacement? The games where Dodson got significant snaps last season were Week 2 (Miami) and Week 5 (Tenn). Pretty sure vs. Miami he was playing for Edmunds at MLB, next to AJ Klein for Milano and it wasn't pretty vs. Tenn he was definitely playing for Milano next to Edmunds and it was FUGLY, but our whole D sucked that day so it's hard to pin it on him.... Anyway, I wouldn't want to pin the FUGLY on him, but I didn't see anything that made me think "damn, he could be good" FWIW (given it's off season), Matakevich has replaced Dodson as the backup to Edmunds on the Bills depth chart

I think the tape showed how important he was. He's an elite LB. Probably could have gotten 12-13 per on a rebuilding team. This team seems to truly love it here n love their teammates Him and Edmunds are a top 3 coverage LB duo. If Edmund's takes another jump, that's a scary sight

I bet they do 5 th year option nex year on edmunds and evaluate during that if he really is essential at MLB. We can easily keep him if we choose to with bargaining power on our side until his rookie deal expires. Having said that, unless he has a really much more impressive year than last year and learns how to use all that size to hit more impressively, or make more impact plays, I would be ok looking elsewhere. This guy needs to substantially make more impact plays. Either make more TFL, get more picks or show he can cover a tight end ( if he isn’t bailed out by the cb intercepting that pass in the end zone against Baltimore as the TE had broken away from him and had clearly beaten edmunds ), then all the hype around him is just that, Hype without substance and I am sure we could do better.

He isn’t solely responsible but him and Edmunds are primarily tasked to take that stuff away and they didn’t did tremaine add to this, of course but it wasn’t like Milano was creating negative plays or stopping them either

i felt like they used milano more as a pass rusher. edmunds didnt do anything in zone defending pass d

Yeah, I'm riding Edmunds out as long as I can to see what he can grow into. We'll see where he is at in 2023.

I agree. But it's tough to predict. I thought they would go cheap at LB. Maybe they decided not to pick up Edmunds option. At some point someone was getting paid at LB.

I'd still trigger the 5th year option on Edmunds. It's only $12M in 2022 when the cap will be higher. He has a lot to prove, imo, but I'm not ready to give up on the dude. He is the same age as Epenesa. I know it's cliche at this point, but I do want to see if he can take another step still.

Bye Edmunds.

Will we pay two linebackers? I wonder if this means anything later down the road with Edmunds.

I guess I'm ok with this. Mid-season I posted it would be better to keep Milano than Edmunds so I won't back track too much. It's an ok move but does nothing to solve the pass rush issues. It eats up a little cap space but is one less hole to fill in the draft. I'd still want Williams back over Milano but the dollar figure for Milano is not too bad. Just difficult to get too excited knowing that they need to get better not stay status quo on defense. But I also know they have FA and the draft to get better so I am willing to take a wait and see approach. Beane at least did the right thing with Butler and Jefferson. Now I say cut Addison, sign Thuney and draft OT and 4 front 7 defenders.

If this means there is no room for two big money LB, and the end is near for Edmunds(last year, don't pick up 5th year option), then I am happy with the signing.

Cool. Trade Edmunds for a DE.

The first bit of Bills inside info I’ve ever received turned out to be a sham. My buddy has a relative who works on the Bills Strength and Conditioning team. He told me that the players, coaches and FO views Milanos body being as a ticking bomb, apparently not. love the Italian Stallion, kid just needs to stay healthy. It’s basically a 2 year deal (if we choose). Maybe they want to keep Milano and Edmunds together through Edmunds’ 5th year option, then decide which one to keep.

I like him more than Edmunds. Puts the pressure on Edmunds this year for sure. I still think we draft a LB, need Edmunds replacement. That, or Bean knows cap will go up and he can keep them both. One less hole for the immediate season.

He seems to make more impact plays than Edmunds for sure, just hoping he can stay on the field.

Hoping it is one/all of Edmunds, Ford, or Oliver. Need to see way more from those guys. Especially Edmunds.

I hope they find a true MLB stud and put Edmunds where he belongs. But they're dead-set on making him a Brian Urlacher.

Dawkins and Glenn turned out to be solid, top half of league left tackles..........but indeed, they could have been All Pro level guards.........so let's not lump that in with the Duke Williams to TE talk. As for Edmunds.......he was an OLB at VA Tech and that's where he should have stayed. See the difference between Haason Reddick this past season as an edge versus him playing off the ball more. He went from cut candidate to franchise tag candidate. I agree on Butler though. And IMO they basically held auditions for the 1T position during the season and Butler was the only one who did what was asked of him.........which was mostly about "want-to" because even an undersized 3T could give you some quality snaps at DT1T with the heavy rotation they were using. Butler took one for the team.......he had to know a Lotulelei-esque stat-line wasn't going to be good for his financial bottom line.

That's ridiculous. Singletary was fifth in the NFL last year at YPA. To say that he's a backup is showing far more about how little you get it than it is about our RBs. You've heard Beane say that they weren't the problem. He's infinitely more likely to be right than you are. Now, are they top 5 or 10 RBs? No, they sure haven't shown that. But most of the problem was the line and the fact that they didn't work on running enough this year. As for Ford, there's no such thing as "a bust to this point." A guy is a bust or he's not. If he hasn't done well yet but turns into a good player, he was never a bust, the dolts who said he was were not clever enough to know they were popping off far too early. It's indeed too early to know on Ford, though he doesn't look good enough at tackle. But in his first year at guard, having no real offseason to work on it, and then being switched side-to-side, which is an extremely tough switch, and having five games to work on all of that, he didn't have any real chance to show what he had. He still has a very good chance to be a player there. And yeah, you have said enough on Edmunds. You disagree with the Bills there too, and of the two of you, it ain't likely them that doesn't get it.

Great kid and a great family but I’d like to see a MLB write history, not children’s books. I really think that we could do better at that position, maybe a position change for Edmunds and replace him with someone who can play that position with more intensity.

good points. I’m still not sold on Edmunds long term as a big money guy. Seems slightly above replacement level that some team overpays for

I mean that statement @DCofNCmade is straight up rooted in opinion and not fact. Sucked compared to what? The rest of the NFL over the last 4 years... try again... Again, you’re on this difference maker train and you can’t even tell me how many difference makers other teams have acquired via the draft... you can’t just throw words around without defining and giving examples. @GunnerBill broke it down beautifully in the thread where we discussed this... the Bills have found more difference makers in the draft in the last 4 years than just about any other team outside BAL, NO, WSH and SF... You’re even including Ed Oliver and Tremaine Edmunds as “close” which would put them over the top as the best team at finding different makers... I don’t know what else y’all want... outside of drafting an All-Pro in every round... which says a lot in itself... EDIT: Added 4th team Gunner highlighted