WhitewalkerInPhilly

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.

Pretty much. I mean, I think there is a decent chance that the Bills get a crack at a guy. The Bears, Patriots, Commanders, Giants, Titans, Falcons, Broncos, Raiders, Seahawks and potentially Vikings all have uncertainty about QB and I expect a bunch of them will try to draft one within the first few rounds. There are almost certainly 2-3 OTs taken in the top 15. I imagine that Harrison, Nabers, Oduze and Thomas will all be gone by the time the Bills. If one of them makes it, you spring to the podium and thank your lucky stars. I would like Franklin, would probably be a good fit, but if at 28 and there is Franklin, Coleman, Adonai Mitchell, Keon Coleman, Xavier Worthy, McConkey, Devontez Walker, Polk, Pearsall and Wilson, and Bills aren't struck dead in awe with any of them I'd rather see us move back into the second round for them, or take a massively dropped DE or S and then spend some of those 5ths to get into the middle of the 2nd.

One scenario I've been noodling on is this: In this scenario Beane has a list tier prospects that he considers "top end, would be the #1 on most teams almost immediately, will likely replace Diggs as a #1 sooner than later" and another tier that is "can start at #2, is going to need 2-3 years of seasoning before I think he's going to surpass Diggs" If Tier 1 is empty by the low 20s, and there are 5-6 guys on Tier 2 I would not be upset if he trades back to top end of the 1st round (Carolina or another desperate teams wants a shot at a QB, someone like the Commanders or Titans has fallen in love with a prospect Beane is meh on) to rack up more picks and work on the D-line and S with multiple picks in the 2nd and 3rd.

I mean it better be an appreciable pay cut

Again, I feel what is worth noting that whatever cap space is freed for 2024 via a June 1 cut comes due in 2025. It's like getting a payday loan to bid on storage units, only the money gets released late and everyone already has had first pick. Maybe you get lucky, but no matter what that loan is due. Where is the betting on that? I'm about to fleece some hot take readers.

A few: McDermott is better than most you'll get around the league. Josh shouldn't have even tried for the touchdown to Shakir, instead burn the clock. Stefon Diggs is going to play out the next two years here. Depending on circumstance, Von might be worth keeping around for 2025

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I don't think anything will beat my hatred for the Brady era Patriots. Just that is was so one sided, and omni-present. That we were guaranteed to try for the wild card every year Brady was there. 10/10 Right now, my hatred of the Jets and Dolphins comes before the Chiefs, not so much for my hatred of the teams themselves, but that the sports media landscape repeatedly sprints to crown them as the new kings of the division. The Dolphins put up 70 on a bad team, despite a history of December collapses and their offense having only full throttle or implosion, they should be division favorites. The Jets get Aaron Rodgers and they were awarded the division before playing four snaps. Kansas is a 6-7/10. I do not like them, but they are legitimately good but beatable.

Only we could have a problem with hiring LSU's Passing Game Coordinator and the local Division I team's offensive coordinator as a lower level staff hire. Quality Control in a football staff is the kind of position you take where you want to build you resume and round yourself out as a hire. You see defensive and offensive specialists flip flop at that level, and it's part of the process of getting yourself in the pipeline and paying dues before you get a shot. Absolutely no one should be upset that we are backfilling this after promoting staff.

I'll say that he made the mistakes that a sizable portion of this board says means that McDermott will never win a Championship. Maybe we are a bit hard on them, eh?

It's hard to argue when they've been to the AFC championship game 5 years in a row. Are they unbeatably better? No. Do I think that the Bills win the divisional round if the defense isn't battered to hell? Yes. The Chiefs have a length on us. They have a big salary cap lead over us. I don't see anything to do other than try to keep hitting on draft picks until 2026 and hope we get lucky.

He was epically mismanaged, battered behind a bad O line, replaced by an aging Rodgers and then hung out to dry for the disappointment of a season

That does bother me. With the run game so successful and Kincaid available to attack seam routes I really thought we'd see more of it. I can't even say it was a Dorsey thing, Dorsey did plenty of play action

If you want to ask the question "Is Diggs play equal relative to his play when compared to other WRs?" I'd have to say at the moment, no (at this moment 6th among WRs) so I get the frustration. However, over the next year or two the WR market is going to explode. This offseason has Mike Evans, OBJ, Boyd and Tee Higgins hitting the market. Ja'Marr Chase, Keenan Allen and Amari Cooper next year. These guys are going to get paid, and they are going to get paid shattering amounts of money. I very much like a receiving corps of Diggs, a high pick rookie, Shakir, Kincaid with Cook out of the backfield.

I pretty much agree with you. These trade proposals are so outlandish that I really can't believe there is any real chance of coming to pass. I mean, a player for player trade not only means that the Bills take a major bath on cap space they don't have, then they have to pay the other guy. I mean, I can see that it's possible that Beane is looking down the road and sees stuff that we don't, and that in 2025 the team gets what they can for him. But Diggs is entering year three of a six year contact. Even his worst year as a Bill he was still 13th in the league in receiving yards. With the cap situation as it is, I find it far and away more likely that Beane restructures the contract and starts grooming a successor with a plan to move Diggs inside like the Cardinals did with Fitzgerald. Diggs' skillset has never been elite speed or size, it's that he has above average and is a great route runner which in my mind would make him dominant if we have someone else to stick on the boundary.

I mean if his answer to the oncoming flames is to douse himself in gasoline...

Well, I have heard that Brandon Beane includes language in his contracts that means that a base salary conversion can happen without player say so. He makes this part of his standard free agent contracts. I far more see Diggs' comments being about how he has zero choice in how that goes, because he can get restructred without his permission and stay in Buffalo or he knows that if he isn't restructured then 2024 is a make it or break it year and if things don't go well he's probably on a different team in 2025. This sounds much more likely that "Secret trade deal that wrecks the Bills cap"

I am willing to bet -5000 odds that Diggs in on the roster come the season opening. I give it better than even money that he gets his contract reworked to shift guaranteed money further down his contract. You want to talk 25, 26? Maybe. I'd expect those comments are more for then.

I think that's people putting their wishes into reading his comments. Diggs statement is among the most bland statement I can imagine.

I mean, I hope he gets rid of Joe Douglas. The man has been drafting extremely well and his biggest free agent miscues have been getting Rodgers (a desperate dice roll) and getting ex-Packers to make Rodgers happy