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Oh hey, Tom Eillis! He was quite fun in Lucifer https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839683/ Awake One of the more interesting police procedurals I found, where after a car accident a cop wakes up in one timeline when his wife survived and another when it was his son, and he sees the ripple effect of either. Seems the concept was too heavy, I only found it on Netflix when it was cancelled. Another one was New Amsterdam (no, not the medical drame) with a pre-Game of Thrones Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) as a man granted immortality in the earliest days of what is now NYC

I need to take a full listen as I could only hear what they were streaming live at the gym last night, but some of the prevailing headwinds are to stand pat with Diggs contract. That will make some on here happy

He cost the Lions $4 M on their cap last year, which is why I mentioned it. The question isn't the money so much as his injury history

If you told me that the Bills cut Poyer and signed these two at the amounts listed to fill both positions for a cap increase of $3.5 M I would try to cartwheel. And fail, but it's the thought that counts.

At this point, I do not see such a thing as "too many quality budget FA replacements" While I am always going to give some love to Poyer, and think of him a standard bearer of the turnaround we saw in the early McDermott years, he looked slllloooowwww. I cannot imagine bringing him back in 2025, and that chunk of cap space is looking appealing right now.

I think we can honestly say that the situation is "budget free agents or no free agents"

I hadn't seen it, but I appreciate the legwork. That's pretty much exactly what I was hoping for: that if 2-4 of those guys are free on Day 2 and 3, I think a cap friendly solution can be had. I would not hate a 3-4 year deal that puts the payoff around 2026, as that's when we are to work through our dead money and the expected big cap bump from all the streaming contracts and gambling should finally bear fruit.

Admittedly, not great. But if the plan is to have play above bottom feeder level at a budget I think the Bills can very much do worse.

I ran across this on a BR article of "Free Agents the Bills should Avoid" so take this with a grain of salt. He's coming off injury, but it was a pectoral muscle tear. He has some injury history, but he's played well when he's healthy. Last year the best he got was a one year deal for a $4 M cap hit for the Lions. In my mind that's the perfect short term pickup as we are phasing Poyer out and grooming a rookie. What say you all?

Pretty much where I am. 19 points? Against the Chiefs, the way they were playing us and the Ravens (two teams that were not supposed to be defensive pushovers)? Hey, how did vaunted genius Kyle Shanahan do in terms of points vs the defense that Brady and Allen put up 24 on? This is Shanahan covering his ass and picking a fall guy as everyone has to point out that he got blanked in the endzone repeatedly and got shut out of the 3rd quarter.

Official now. Though seriously, he did a darn good job holding KC to what they had considering how the offense pooped the bed in the second half. I mean, you joke, but I would absolutely take him on staff if McDermott roped him in for a year as Assistant Head Coach.

It was when I watched it. Of course The Last Dance is in a class of its own.

Josh really can help Tiger with that nowadays

Curses, I was hoping the title meant he was hanging out with Joe Exotic along with Beane so they can discuss salary cap implications of cutting all of our starters

Yep. Watched it when it first went on Netflix. It was well made, and agonizing to watch at times. I am going to say, right now Netflix is doing some of the best sports documentaries of the era. The Untold series has some keepers, such as Malice at the Palace (I had never heard the backstory), Crimes and Penalties (mob boss buys minor league hockey team) and Operation Flagrant Foul (NBA official rigging scandal) were all very solid. The Johnny Manziel one made me pity him even less.

I think the top four being considered top 15 picks has been fairly standard across all mocks and big boards I have seen. The flux I am seeing is the appraisals of Coleman, and Franklin down,and it's a pretty big swath. If that keeps going, I would seriously consider looking in the 2nd round for a WR, either because the Bills trade back or stand pat and pick up a gem of a safety/DE

I don't want to be the turd in the punchbowl, but these were effectively set the moment the regular season ended. I mean, I would not rule it out. If the viewer numbers have showed me anything it's that Buffalo consistently punches way over its weight class for primetime viewership and a disproportionate amount of our market watches. I mean that's why they got slotted there three years in a row, and a Detroit/Bills game would absolutely get views.

Indeed. It's less that I am opposed to the idea. I think it's possible that Beane manages a band-aid at 3/5 tech DT, a rotational DE (to supplement a theoretically rejuvenated Von, Rouss and Kingley Jonathan) and Safety with reasonably priced journeymen so there are no other positions that require a rookie as a Week 1 starter, and therefore we could splurge on WR2. The question is, who is willing to take the deal, especially if they can claim an elite WR for themselves. It's really going to come down to draft night to see who slides.

A Jet's pyric victory? It would suck to lose to the Jets. I would take a dark knot of schadenfreude at them being utterly f****d by losing their last Rodgers "Discount Doublecheck" year and then needing to pay him (at minimum) $ 49 million of cap space

I mean, don't we all? The problem is that the Bills don't have a ton of trade value at this point to move up in the first round. I know that the Draft Pick Point Chart isn't exactly a stable and reliable guide but the only way I see the Bills getting into even the late teens to early 20s is giving up their second rounder, and we have a lot of depth to fill.

Maybe roll them out week 1 against the Bills and hope for the same result?

Absolutely for Thomas, as that would be a massive drop from where I've seen him projected. I wouldn't hate a trade up of a few of our 5ths and/or a 2025 pick to get him if he sneaks into the low 20s. Troy Franklin looks like the perfect fit of position, talent and draft slot. Personally I would say pull the trigger. My list from before is more a thought exercise. If, through the next two months, the Bills look at all of these receiver prospects and sees the tier of "we think will be elite" ends with Thomas and "instantly productive, isn't going to unseat Diggs anytime soon" starts with Franklin, and there are nine other guys they put in that tier, they might try to trade back or wait for round 2.

I know it's a little thing, but yeah, it stands for " Graphics Interchange Format", so until we start pronouncing the first part Jraphics...

Ouch, the OP better cut back on the drinking. The decision on what to do with Tre White is not an easy one and depends heavily on something we the fans are not going to have the same level of insight on as the team: how is his recovery going. Most data I have says that standard recovery is 9-10 months. You have Rodgers saying that he'd be fully recovered after three months of ayahuasca vision quests, but that seems to be the average with an understanding that the affected usually doesn't come back to full. So what the Bills might get out of Tre is a gamble. The trade off is that getting rid of him isn't a great spin on the prize wheel either. Not only does it leave your boundary CB options with only Douglas, Benford and Elam, but the Bills cannot straight cut Tre. Because he took a football injury, the Bills would have to give him an injury settlement, meaning his base salary is getting pro-rated based on how many games the two sides agree he'd miss recovering. On top of that, any gains by not paying out roster bonus, per game bonus, workout bonus and a fraction of base salary will have the lingering paid money from his signing bonus immediately subtracted. So let's get down to hard numbers. The Bills and Tre agree to a 4 week injury settlement. Tre gets $2M in cash. You have now lost a former All Pro player and made a giant roster role that can't be filled in free agency for $4M in cap space in 2024. Maybe that's the best we are going to get. Maybe it's just cutting our losses and socking away money for 2025. But the limited gains we get by moving on tells me that the Bills are going to try to get something for their money. That's why you listen to your brain, not your "guts"

Personally I am with you. I have seen him mocked to us a few times, and he sounds like the Peerless Price equivalent to take the top off the defense. That's what Gabe was supposed to be, and while he had a great game once a month that inconsistency hurt. I've said elsewhere that Diggs has above average but not elite size and speed, and that his talents have been lain in combining that with excellent route running. But with bracket coverage you've had the offense need to scheme him open on short throws rather than letting him work the intermediate like he'd been doing. The best antidote to teams sitting on short and intermediate routes is to burn them on deep throws. And as we saw in the KC game, but just Didn't. Have. That.