Thurman#1

We don't have the money. They will save the $4 mill they have left for any replacements they need to make for injuries. Equally there are very few offenses that will run through most defenses well enough to win close games regularly. You need both to be good and hopefully one to be excellent.

I hear they called him and set up a meeting at KFC. When Marcel still hadn't shown up an hour and a half after the appointment, they took off. Then he texted them he'd missed the bus. If you could put a new brain in that body, maybe, but short of that, can't see it.

Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes. I mean, I don't think even they are that crazy, but who knows.

I think you're on to something there. :- ) And Hap, I didn't realize that the third guy there was Aaron Donald. How did Josh get away with straight-arming him without drawing back a bloody stump? Holy Cow.

I didn't say that he (or Brady) never thinks about it. I said that it isn't that important to him, that other things are more important. And I think the same thing is true of Brady. You didn't see Allen trying to force things to Jalen's guy. It isn't that important to him. If the guy is open, great, throw it. But it very clearly wasn't a priority for Allen.

Good point. Also, Josh Allen is #17. Also, hamburgers are actually not made of ham.

Not entirely. It happens sometime, and if the offense has a terrific year, Daboll will be in the driver's seat and might not find an opening that looks good enough. He might find that waiting a year or two to find the right chance could be the best strategy for him. I mean, even if they offer it to you, is it a good idea to take the Jets job right now? Do you believe in the GM? A lot of times the teams looking for coaches are toxic environments. Now if you're a borderline candidate, you might take the job no matter what. But if your alternative is staying on a team for another year with Josh Allen as your QB, an excellent defense and head coach, and Josh Allen as your QB, you don't have to take every chance that comes along. Funny that now that we've got a bunch of players on the offense who execute, he's a genius for the same fanbase that wanted to blame him for problems rather than say anything bad about Allen the past few years.

Who cares? Plenty of smart and open-minded media out there to read.

Is he playing against them? Or the Rams? Not buying the revenge thing in the slightest. A make-em-eat-their-words tour, maybe? Nah, I don't like that either. I just don't get the sense that it matters that much to Josh. They say he does hear it, but it doesn't seem to rent space in his head. He uses it for motivation, it seems like, but proving people wrong seems like a maybe a fifth priority for him, well after winning and playing for his teammates, IMO. The prove people wrong thing seems like it's much more important to fans than to Josh. Look at how he handled the Jalen Ramsay thing last time when he led them to a win against Jax.

Yes, his record against teams with winning records isn't good. That will happen during a rebuild. It's par for the course, and much more so for a team in the same division as the Patriots with Brady. If it continues this year, it will be worth noting.

I don't think strength is a problem with Epanesa, not at all. More like the game is still too fast for him this early in his career.

Yeah. Or not. The only sure thing is that it's way way way too early to spend brain time on something that is a guess that we wouldn't know about for another several years.

Yeah, probably right, but the 5th year won't be all that cheap. Assuming we pick up his 5th year option before we give him the extension, his fifth year would still cost us around $24.8 mill. Or at least that's the transition tag for QBs this year, and the top few QB salaries, which raise those tags, are going up up up this year. The top ten QBs all get $30 mill or up according to Spotrac, in average salary, though the way Spotrac calculates those - basing some of the numbers on deceptive averages of extensions rather than total the player will receive - makes it an impenetrable thicket at this point. It'll be interesting to watch.

They won't. Or they will. Did you have Lamar Jackson, the 32nd pick, down as a league MVP his second year? Did the Bills trade up for Allen after a season when they had 9 wins?

IMO that's awfully hopeful, something only a Bills fan would suggest. Not that it's impossible, but it's sure very optimistic. We'll see, I guess. I sure wouldn't mind if it happened that way.

Please. It's not like Tre's playing for minimum wage here. And he got guaranteed money when the Bills had him under contract (with no protection for injury) for two more years. Ramsey only had one more year under contract and thus more leverage and less time for potential injuries to derail his future.

Yeah, around 25 or so, right now anyway. Which happens to be almost the same as the Bills. The Bills will have - at a quick count, feel free to check me - two more guys under contract than the Colts will. The Colts will have sensational amounts of freedom with that money. Same as we did the past couple of years to build our roster very widely with good solid mid-priced FAs. Our OL and DL are much the better for it. It's a major advantage for the Colts. And there will absolutely be major salary inflation that year as demand will exceed supply next year but in that year, 2022, things will switch and supply will greatly exceed demand. Again, we'll be below average, with $95 mill. Crazy to think about. We'll have people on these boards again howling for that year's Jadaveon Clowney, despite this FO's announced tendencies to prioritize re-signing our own FAs.

Does Milano have a supermodel wife who makes tens of millions per year, as Brady does? Does Josh? Just sayin'.

Keep in mind that in 2022, having $94 mill available means we are 19th ranked in the league in available cap. Expect salary inflation. The frickin' Colts have $224 mill estimated available cap space. And though they're #1, there are two other teams above $200 mill. If there's any way to get it done early (using guaranteed roster bonuses in 2022, for example, instead of a signing bonus) they should try. There may not be any way. Josh would have to be very accommodating in method of payment, even if not in actual $$$.

Yeah, someone like Josh Norman.

He's the Buffalo Bills QB. That makes him mine. Tyrod was mine too, even though I never bought into him after New England figured him out in his seventh game.

I look forward to that. Sully is a fine writer. Who is this new smart but cranky young king of posters?

Yeah, if that were to fall due in 2022, maybe. Next year, impossible. If they re-sign him, it will be with a tiny first-year salary and a very significant signing bonus w/ a good guarantee on the second year money to make it worthwhile for Milano to sign it.

Way. It's far from definite. It will be difficult. It might not happen. But it's certainly possible. They need him or someone very much like him. As of now Dodson isn't that guy, and I'm not sure he's got the physical ability. If he does, it'd be good for the Bills.

Let me remind you of your headline: "Who hates offense now?" See the problem? Nobody. Every. You're far off the track. If people said that 300 yards wasn't needed, they were correct. And if people said that 17-13 games were what they were happy to see, I think you were missing their main point, which was that with that lineup, it was a good way to win, and that we weren't built that year to score a lot of points, that as long as were were winning, running more than most was just fine, particularly with the personnel we had and a young and inconsistent QB who was still developing. And again, that is correct that 300 yard games are not a good thing. A 300 yard game in a loss is a very very bad thing indeed. You're off-base. Nobody was against getting better on offense. They were against people blowing hot air on and on about how a team couldn't be good until it was getting 300 yard games regularly. Because teams can be good with nearly any strategy on offense. As long as they win using it.