WhitewalkerInPhilly

Remember Doug, don't confuse effort with results

Ok. It's not "impossible". Just "cause for termination" level stupid for some GM. Do you think the Vikings will trade us Justin Jefferson to get Diggs back? Seriously how hard is it to wait one year to actually see a return or some gain? We are almost certainly not seeing Diggs level production out of a rookie

...I mean, yes but then what's the point? You free up $19 million at the start of summer that the team isn't going to spend to make up for the cap difference you'd have got my just waiting a year and keeping Diggs on the roster and cutting him then. The only way it makes sense is if a god tier WR somehow makes it to June 1st without being signed Nope. Dead cap is money already paid

OK, gonna blow by blow this 1) Yes. It is. However, and I need to make this a point: THE BILLS CANNOT USE THAT CAP SPACE UNTIL JUNE 1ST So, let's say the Bills pull the plug on their #1 receiver, getting back absolutely nothing for him. When free agency opens, the Bills must conduct their contract negotiations as if Diggs was still on the books for the full $27.8 million. The vast majority of free agents sign within the first month. They still must make roster cuts and restructures as if Diggs is getting the full amount. So great, the Bills now have $19 M to get street free agents. Whoopie, who gives a s*** Then they have to swallow the $19 million in 2025, effectively negating any savings from cutting Von or Knox. 2) This is a manufactured drumbeat. We are in silly season. Show me one direct quote where he says he wants out. 3) Sure. Not gonna fight that. Get a #2 who can take over for Diggs a year or two down the road. Stash a 4th rounder for a year. I could buy the idea that Beane is looking at his current roster, the Diggs contract (along with the Miller and Knox ones) and deciding that 2024 is a wash so they should swallow their medicine to cut or deal in 2025. I can maybe see an outside chance that maybe the Bills wait until training camp or midseason and fleece a team for picks. I doubt it, because that means a year of wasting prime Josh Allen, but I can see a logic to it. Cutting Diggs at the start of 2024 makes no sense. End of story. Not going to happen. Not..really? I mean I am not a capologist, and there are people who do this full time but whatever would have been freed for a June 1st release would get rolled over to 2025, so we'd have even *less* cap space to deal with Von, Know and Tre. That is true, like how Rasul Douglas looks like a steal for us. The problem is that the Bills would be taking a massive bath on 2024 cap space if done before the draft and a pretty terrible one in 2025. Are you getting multiple 1st round picks for Diggs? Do you believe he could command that?

So, were you made fun of by the cool kids at college parties or something?

Statistically, Dorsey's offense did everything right. It was a Swiss timepiece. The problem is that when a single gear stopped working, the whole thing shut down. I do not hate the system that Dorsey implemented (though it seems like most Daboll's scheme), but I screamed at shotgun draws on 2nd and 3rd and long, whole quarters where the offense just didn't show up. Do we forget the first Jets game? People want to slam Brady for the short passes, WR screens, but Dorsey had Josh throwing the ball behind the line and the Jets were just smacking our players at the line vs Brady who was actually moving the ball vs the Chiefs. Are you forgetting when the Bills didn't score until the 4th quarter against the Giants? Three points in the first half against the Patriots, one of the worst teams in the league? When things didn't go right for Brady (and they went wrong) he would stop trying anything fancy and pound it to see what it got and most of the time it worked. The Bills are a Chris Jones hitting Josh as he throws, and Tyler Bass making a chip shot away from the Bills putting 27 or 31 points on one the best defenses this year. (take the crosser to Diggs Josh) Because he exploited the Chief's run defense, and when they overcompensated to adjust he drew up beautiful blitz beaters. We NEVER saw that from Dorsey this year. When things went wrong, it was a wrench in a GM Assembly plant.

A June 1st designation is not a magic wand that gets rid of dead cap. What it does is carry over the dead cap into 2025. So yay, the Bills STILL need to make the same cuts and restructures to get under the cap, and get the money after the top tier (and medium tier) free agents are gone. So, to recap, a Diggs cut: 1) will absolutely not get us under the cap 2) Removes a 1000 yard receiver from the roster 3) If it happens is a back breaker for bidding on new talent in 2025. Some people are going to need to wake up and smell the coffee. The numbers all but guarantee that Diggs will be on the team in 2024. Odds are, he's probably going to be here in 2025 as well. Make your peace with it.

I mean, I think it makes sense. Note that the report that Roman is not necessarily being given the OC job. But I WILL say that he's been one of the more interesting run game designers I've seen over the last decade. With him, Shady had some career highlights. It's just that the current NFL is so pass focused that even in a run heavy Ravens team a run focus isn't enough. It needs to be a complement, it can't be the main show anymore.

Great? Nah Look, we rag on Tua here. He's a rival team QB. He's not a one read QB. But I don't think there's any denying that he's come up small in December and January the last two years even with a HOF WR, a #2 who could arguably be #1 on most teams in the league and an offensive coach who tailored the offense to maximize Tua's strengths and hide his weaknesses. If I have to build a team from scratch I am taking Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Lamar and Stroud over Tua in a heartbeat. Above average QBs get paid and very recently have been paid stupid money. With the Dolphins in as much or worse cap hell as the Bills I won't knock anyone cheering the Dolphins to lock their budget for the next 8 years. Josh's contact looks ridiculously good right now

Right before? That blows

The Daniel Jones experiment only goes as far as a compare and contrast. Both were project QBs thrust into rookie roles where they struggled early with completion percentage. The Bills went out and got Daboll early and built a supporting cast. The Giants... didn't. With Daboll in 2022 Jones had his best year ever. But Isaiah Hodgins was a contributor. That's the talent drop off. Josh all day any day

I am excited to see the Patriots have 15 more years of looking for a franchise QB Same. There were multiple times where I thought he deserved more of a shot and never got it. I was hoping he'd join us again but I'm not suddenly terrified

I just thinking of the Bills vs Cowboys. The Bills smashed them in the mouth and didn't stop and Dan Quinn couldn't stop it.

I would not necessarily plan our 2023 starters on rookies, but our depth took a beating and other than a year left of Poyer we have nothing at safety. My philosophy for the modern NFL defense is that you build to baseline with journeyman and hope your draft picks become splash players

I suspect we end the season vs the Jets. We've been rotating and the NFL loves doing division matchups on Week 18

Anything that makes investing in a WR in the first round less sound for 27 others teams is good news for me!

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The more I see, the more confident I am that there is an immediate WR2 and potential WR1 to be had at the back end of the 1st round. Especially with an expected run on QB expected

Of course Filthy Beast is repping the Dolphins. Phins are as deep into the cap as the Bills are, only they don't have a built in restructure on their QB like the Bills have. Please let them put big guaranteed money on Tua.

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Nate Hackett is the one piece of evidence I see that makes me think that the Rooney Rule has a point. There is nepotism in the league. There's no secret. Shedeur Sanders doesn't get this much buzz if his dad isn't a Hall of Famer. There are plenty of coaches for whom it's a family profession, with coaches bringing their kids on. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/11/22/nfl-coaches-nepotism-filled-dozens-positions/10702777002/ I don't think it's malicious. I think coaches want to share the love of the game with their kids. Aaron Kromer started with his dad. I am sure that no one in San Fran is going right now "I don't know, I think that being Mike Shanahan's son might have helped Kyle, are we sure he's really got it?" But when coaches staff teams with their kids as coaches, and then they make friends with people their age who have similar life experiences and worldviews and you get coaches where you ask "how the hell are they still in the league?" and it's because they have a connection like this. Hackett is just the most glaring example of someone who has failed upwards to the highest levels

I know there are jokes made, but yes. The Chief's gameplan was to take away the middle of the field and force Lamar to throw at the boundary. While I think the smart thing would have been to run the ball straight at them (rainy day, the Bills had their way with the Chiefs in the run game, you have the quickest running QB in the league, you handed the ball to your RB once?!?) when the game was on the line, Lamar just couldn't do it against a decent Chief's defense.

I think Rodgers could make a run effectively playing like Stafford: statue in the pocket, but distributing the ball. Of course, that depends heavily on getting an O-line together. I think Rodgers is still dangerous, and certainly feels like he has something to prove, but I think this is his last year because the money starts getting stupid real fast.

I made a pithy comment a while back about only trusting Rodgers in his taste in drugs. Look, I am not expecting football players to be MENSA members (though there certainly are some extremely intelligent players in the league) but Rodgers has gone completely 'round the bend. From being a vaccine denier, to claiming alien sightings are being used to hide Epstein updates, to explicitly stating that a (arguably not very funny) comedian who mocked him will be revealed to be a child molester. He has become a liability

Curses, what if they get the Ty Dunne treatment!?! But on a serious note, it does confirm what I know a lot of people on here and in some sports talk were saying: that Hackett was there because Rodgers wanted an OC that he could control to tailor the offense as he liked it. That's why you had so many ex-Packers vets brought on past their prime. The Jets in 2024 will go as far as Rodgers will take them. He's coming off an Achilles, but you don't have to be fast to sling the ball. I can see them legitimately making a bid for the division, because otherwise Joe Douglas has constructed a sound roster. In 2025? Rodgers costs $51 million against the cap with 94% of that guaranteed. That's going to be an interesting discussion.