WhitewalkerInPhilly

I am honestly feeling bad for the Browns. With us, you see some measured hope before things come plummeting back to Earth. Let's go at their last two years: The have two picks in the first round, in one of the most heavy and deep QB classes of recent memory. They have a new, defensive minded coach They trade back with the Bills to pick at 9 and get a 1st round pick next year. The Bills take Sammy Watkins. The Browns take Justin Gilbert and Johnny Manziel. Gilbert busts out horribly, Manziel becomes the stuff TMZ is made of. Josh Gordon gets suspended and is still not back in the league. They start Brian Hoyer. Hoyer leaves. Hoyer goes to the Texans. The Texans go to the playoffs. I've heard the term "factory of sadness" used. I don't know if it's wrong.

I'd give Boldin a sniff.

I'll say this: the NFC East was a close competitor with the AFC South for Worst Division in Football. They got to pad their schedule again against the NFC South which, outside of Carolina, was pretty bad. Cousins had a good year. I won't deny that. But he did it against teams worse than ours, and with more starting experience than Tyrod had, where they had a full offseason to build around his strengths and weaknesses.

I was reading a BR article (yes, I know) and a scout went on record about how this year is looking like the worst overall offensive draft in four or five years. I was hard on the Sammy pick, but Whaley (apart from the O line) has looked pretty smart on his drafts.

I think all guarantees were hit this season and I think we are free and clear.

I don't think this year. There's already a big hole with Mario leaving. I'd rather see them draft a replacement in the mid rounds this year (Whaley seems to think it's a deep draft there) and give him a year. Agreed. We are in far better shape than Miami.

Nice rundown. I'd even be ok with a little more for Incognito. I think Spotrac is looking at something like $5 million a year, and I'd rather see the Bills front load any guarantees.

You know, now that the contract details are out, I can't fault the Eagles FO too much. It's a lot of money, but most of the cap hit is next year, and he has very little guaranteed after this year. The word from Whaley is that none if the QBs look like day 1 starters, and that they need at least a year on the bench. If the Eagles see a guy they like but needs a year, they don't need to worry about throwing him into the fire like we did EJ.

That's like saying "I leased a classic cadillac, and it ran ****ty for 6 months, and then I had to leave it in the shop for a month, but it's run fine these last two weeks. I better make this a rent to own, because how often do you see one of these on the open market?". Bradford might run ok for a while, but his statistical best season, honestly his best season ever, in terms of yards, completion percentage and yards per attempt was last year. He was pretty close to his touchdown total. And this was in the "Chip Kelly, QB friendly, let's have eyepopping QB stats" system. He was 7-7, threw for 19 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. I hate to see what happens when he breaks down.

Amen

They're already looking at shelling out $18 million for Sam Bradford. So who knows.

Yeah, that's by my estimate. It's the difference between "we don't have a ton of money to sign players" and "we have to immediately renegotiate or we'll be in a hole to sign our rookies"

Wait, wait, wait a minute. $9 million for rookies? Our top 3 picks shouldn't be much more than $3 million combined. After that, it's the league minimum. How do you get to 9?

Ok. I want RI back. But if he's looking for a multi year deal at more than $5/yr, he's out of his mind. I would rather see the Bills sign Mathis or Evans if that winds up being the case.

I think he was referring to McKelvin, Graham and Gilmore. So now pay Incognito!!!

Decent enough guy and player, but that's a lot of cap space for a backup guard.

F5 is currently ground up and in the freezer. Not shocked, but it's a little sad to see him go.

I mean, it's fine for me if they do it, but it puts them $3.5M over the cap. They can make cuts to fit, and pay their rookies, but they weren't terribly deep anywhere last year.

Ok, so is there any actual new information or news, or are we just still spinning our wheels waiting?

Honestly? Yeah. I love me some Aaron Williams, but A) He's better when he can fly around the field rather than be a box safety, B) Williams might not make it the entire season with his injuries and... C) Rex liked to play the Big Nickel with the Jets, where he swapped a LB for a S. He really couldn't do that last year with our safety group so dinged. Is there anyone I'm our safety group besides Williams and Graham who particularly inspire confidence?

Quinn has written for three different websites I know of: Queen City sports section, Billsmafia/Fambase and now Building the herd. He keeps being the best writer wherever he goes.

I said it before, I'll say it again: look at what happened to Manning. Starting at where Brady is now age wise, a Hall of Fame QB went from being a powerhouse to being borderline unwatchable within Superbowl 48 and Superbowl 50.

That's what I get for listening to Vic I guess...

I'm still waiting for Gleason to say anything mature.

Yes, it's getting booed that motivates him to win it all. Not the fame, or the millions of dollars, or the record books, but if you boo him, watch out. For serious though, his window is closing. Remember, he's only a year and a half younger than Manning. Two years ago Manning was coming off one of his most prolific seasons. The next year, he fell off a cliff in the postseason. This year, he was painful to watch. It really happened that fast.