Thurman#1

We don't have a problem at WR, especially now. We have a chance to raise production if we can somehow bring in another #1. But we don't have a problem, not with Allen throwing to Diggs, a second-year Kincaid and the two new additions. We were 4th in passing yards and 7th in passing TDs. That's not a problem. Certainly there's room for improvement, no question, and in fact most of us do think they're likely to go WR very early in the draft. Our pass catchers were as good as KC's last year. Did they have "a problem"? We don't either. Gabe's loss has probably been just about made up for with the new FAs, IMO. The Bills teams with Beasley and Sanders and Brown, the guys you're referring to as "support type WRs", had terrific passing attacks. If we win the coin flip in the 13 seconds game, we'd've won it. They weren't stopping us. Samuel's a good signing, not a decent one. He had Beasley / Sanders / Brown type production with crap QBs throwing to him, playing across from McLaurin and Jahan Dotson. Gotta admit, I hadn't realized he'd run a 4.31 40. The guy can fly. Very much agreed we fans don't change things. We'll see what actually happens down the road. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

How many of the guys who've come through here have managed 600+ and four TDs? Barring the ones who we all feel were successful for at least a season or two, John Brown, Cole Beasley and Emmanuel Sanders, I can't think of any. IMO we've now seen our big FA receivers for this year. But I still expect a WR in the first or second round. Maaaaaaaaaybe a third, but probably first two. That's my guess.

Nah. Grounds for dismissal would be focusing on only one position in round one.

Yeah, a good guy to have on the team. Always did a bit better than I thought he would.

Yeah, people who get worked up about that are hard to understand. Considering the thread's title, I think he was being sarcastic. I could be wrong.

Cost is likely to make the other necessary sacrifices too prohibitive. You never know how much a guy that age will get, but it's just not likely.

Cousins is absolutely special. Not elite. But probably top ten. He's special. They could come out of this looking just awful. But they made their bed by giving him that awful contract they originally made with him. So having the best receiver in football means you'll be alright? It really doesn't. Let me tell you a story about a guy named Calvin Johnson ...

We didn't trade away Jefferson. We traded away a draft pick. If we'd been at that draft slot the draft could easily have gone differently. Someone could have traded ahead of us for Jefferson. There's no way to know. There was never anything to feel bad about. Wistful, maybe. Both sides won.

Good luck to him except when he plays Buffalo.

You attempting to get into telepathy?

They'll bring back a bunch more, as they should. They'll need them. Spotrac has them with 54 guys on the roster right now, including such stalwarts as: Tommy Doyle, Damar, Tre McKitty, Darrynton Evans, KJ Hamler, Shane Buechele, Kyron Brown, Andy Isabella, Kameron Cline, Ryan Van Demark, Alec Anderson, Ja'Marcus Ingram, Justin Shorter, Zach Davidson, Richard Gouraige, Kevin Jarvis, Tyrell Shavers, Bryan Thompson, and Kendall Williamson. And they haven't even removed Tre White from the roster yet. And that also includes two punters. Even with draft picks and a few more outside FAs, we'll need some returnees, even with the fresh young faces.

Ah, good stuff!!! Welcome back!

I think Taron is up there right now. Otherwise this is pretty on-target. My guess is we'll see Diggs up there again next year. The Bills have put together a really good roster across the board. No weaknesses till the defensive injuries started happening. You can win SBs that way if one of your elite guys is your QB. Add from outside? Possible. You never know. But guys like Oliver, Torrence and Kincaid could very possibly move up to that tier. And Diggs could get back to closer to his usual level and do the same.

9th by AAV among QBs. That's reasonable for Cousins. Not that bad for the Falcons, IMO. The contract details are always important, but I don't think Atlanta got fleeced for Cousins the way the Vikes did with their original all-guaranteed contract for him.

It's nothing new. He's asked guys for paycuts, and gotten many to do it, in previous years.

Yes, Wood was injured trying to block a bigger guy in his 2016 break, but his ankle was rolled up on from the side, and collapsed. That was the main factor. In his 2009 injury he was downfield moving, not anchoring, and the knee was hit from the side. 2016: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2016/11/7/13559966/eric-wood-leaves-game-with-ankle-injury-on-bills-td (scroll down a bit, you'll find the video). 2009: just go to youtube and search wood broken leg. You'll find it many times. As for wanting a bigger guy, I don't see McDermott as significantly tougher or better at anchoring. He's an athletic type like Morse. They could bring someone else in, but my guess is they will end up with the same type.

Dunno what he thinks about the Jags, but yeah, he thinks we got worse. We know that because right now we're planning on McDermott at C and Edwards at LG. We had those guys on the team last year. Yet we started Morse at C, McDermott at LG and Edwards as 6th man on 148 plays. So yeah, he thinks we got at least a bit worse. We'll have to see how it all works out.

$7M guaranteed for what could well end up being a one-year contract. And they are signing him at 32 while we signed him at 30. They'd have loved to have kept him but didn't want to deal with the cap problems it would have entailed. Anyway, good for Mitch. A great guy. We're not as good on the field without him.

I don't know about "much" better. I still have to see how it works out. But there's a chance it works out that way, I think. My bet would be something more on the order of significantly better and probably won't seriously compete for a title but maybe will win a playoff game or maybe even two if things go well.

So ....? Why are you replying to me? This doesn't have any direct logical link to what I said in my post. I think it's all reasonably on target as far as teams and needs. A few are arguable, but overall OK. But how does this all relate to what I said? Most of those teams need a QB. Doesn't mean they'd want Wilson. Yes, a lot of teams might have been in the Wilson market. After the draft and FA most of them would have committed to someone. Certainly no guarantee that a better opportunity than Pittsburgh would be out there. Probably most, maybe all would at least have looked at him. Plenty of them might have decided not to take him for the reasons I suggested. You said every team. And that's wrong. I'm not at all sure how many would have been willing to commit. And the team would have made many to most of their offseason personnel moves without knowing Wilson would be on the roster and therefore might easily have made moves that would hurt them in terms of having greatly reduced cap room and no draft picks left to make after knowing Wilson will be on board. Pittsburgh can make all their moves now knowing he's their QB and do a much better job of fitting a team around him.

There are plenty of teams that wouldn't give him that contract. Some because they don't want competition for the young guy they are grooming. Others just don't need the possible publicity problems. Nearly any team would think $1.5M is good value for Wilson but plenty might think Wilson isn't a good fit with their offense. We might think Wilson wouldn't be wholly committed in a backup role. Might not want him in the locker room. More, Wilson doesn't want a situation where he's slotted in as a backup. After the draft and FA, more teams will have committed to another guy as starter. Even more, Pittsburgh isn't going to spend any other significant resources on QB now. Because they have Wilson. The fact that they don't spend more resources on QB gives them a chance to be better this year if he works out. If Wilson had not signed there, Pittsburgh would very possibly have committed more resources to QB, perhaps even a first round QB, possibly even a trade-up. At that point even if they later signed Wilson the team would have less resources to put around him this year. And less inclination to bring Wilson in. You could definitely be right that after the draft there'll be a team that at that time looks like it will need Wilson. No reason to think it would definitely be a better fit than the Steelers though. It might be better or it might be worse. There's a very decent chance this will turn out to have been his best move, even in hindsight. It's also possible it will look bad. IMO this was a reasonable move for him. He also gets some certainty early and more time to learn the playbook and get to know what he's getting into.

Yeah. Don't like the guy, but he was handled immensely poorly. ... is on this issue quite reasonable and correct.

Yup. Morse would be 32 and a half on opening day with a history of concussions, Dion 30 and a half and has been really healthy.

That's my guess.

It would be great. Not going to happen, for obvious reasons.