Thurman#1

They do follow the rules. The problem is that a small group of fans doesn't like the way it's accomplished. I don't see a problem. As for the horn, no thanks. I'm betting that would become annoying very quickly. Better way to do it than the horn. But I just don't see a problem big enough to fix.

Why would the owners want that? And why would we? The salary cap levels the playing field. Let the most important player be signed without limit and you'd get the higher income teams outbidding everyone and winning every year.

Yeah, this is the way it seemed to me. The Bills just had an absolutely awful game. Bengals are a very good team and I'm not less worried, but if we're playing well, I think we have a very good shot at beating them. I also think that with Von and DaQuan we'd have looked a lot better last week.

Dude, the odds are good that they're re-signing Tremaine. And that it will be for considerably less than $20M. It may be possible for him to get $20M, and if he does insist on that, he's likely gone. But he likes it here. Those are likely. What is a sure thing is that if it did happen, it would absolutely not divide the locker room. And that it's not an either/or between Tremaine and the OL in the first place.

This seems to me like a great fit. Hope they do this with someone in the first two days, maybe even the first two rounds.

Only theoretically. The Bills could theoretically try to go after part of his signing bonus. But they have shown zero interest in doing that to guys who have genuinely given their all. They might have done it with Vontae Davis, after his halftime retirement, but Vontae came voluntarily and returned it. With the concussion concerns, I greatly doubt the Bills would try that move. It would look absolutely vicious and would not play well in the locker room.

They don't save $6M by doing it. He has $6M remaining in dead money. Compare that with $8.25M in cash due (overthecap.com). If he is cut he'd be cut before the first day of the league year to avoid some money guaranteeing and such, so a lot of that dead money could be pushed to the 2024 cap, but it would HAVE to be paid that year. We don't save much overall by cutting him.

His salary isn't $11M. It's $6.6M salary in 2023 and a $1.42M roster bonus (Or 1.8M on Overthecap). His cap hit is around $11.3M, but he's already received $3M of that in his signing bonus Also, that's not called a re-structure. It's a salary cut or decrease. Re-structure generally means the same money paid along a different schedule. But forced salary decreases work a lot better when you've got the leverage. With Beasley they knew they'd be happy to let him go and thought they'd find someone to replace him at the same level easily. Unfortunately, Crowder was injured the whole season. With Morse I'm not sure they feel they have the leverage. They'Ve got Bates on the roster but would have to replace him at guard if they put him at center. And while Bates has played OK at center I'm not sure they feel all that confident he'd play at the same level. We may see, I guess.

Day 2, please. The Bills really value center, as they should.

You're really under-rating Hodgins. A starter in the sixth? That's a D in absolutely no way. Probably A- / A. Davis too. A 4th rounder who tied for 15th in TDs and ended up 33rd in yards? That's a B+ / A-. Fromm an F? Huh? He's a 5th rounder and he's still in the league. Nobody should pretend it was a good pick, but not an F either. The rest seem pretty reasonable. There certainly is a three year rule. That you don't appear to like it is far beside the point.

You know how many teams would love to have "struggled" to a 3-loss season, right?

I know. So many other GMs put together 3 loss seasons against the league's toughest schedule. It's so easy.

Worn out his welcome with you, maybe. A few others as well, I'm sure.

The 38 and 42 point games came when we didn't have Von Miller. The 20 came when we did. Unfortunately, his injury turned us back into the team without Von Miller.

Elam played 65% of snaps. He played well. His missing 35% wasn't the difference. As he's figured it out recently, he's been out there more and more. And while I think an awful lot of it was simply the team having an awful day, I totally agree with you about Von. Him not being out there was a huge blow.

Probably already been said, but ... If it's coaching, how come Reid couldn't break though in Philly? Same coach. Coaches have a part, sure, but it's everything together, but more rosters, injuries and matchups, IMO.

One day isn't regression. It's having a bad day. The whole team did, certainly including Allen.

I know this is crazy, but ... Do you think it's possible they thought they could develop him, use him as a backup who would play in case of injury and eventually, depending on how things went with the starters, possibly slide in as one? Nuts, I know.

Again, it was a 14-3 season. Sorry, dude, this is just not smart. If this: "1 year in the playoffs its a fluke 2 years in the playoffs just bad luck 3 years (Houston we have a problem)" ... were true, then Andy Reid would have been out of football more than a decade ago and if the Chiefs don't win the SB this year then they'd be getting rid of him because they have a problem, not having won an SB in three years. Just not smart. It's NEVER that easy in systems anywhere near as complicated as this one. It just isn't. And people who think it is are just not getting it. You have to look much more carefully at it than this. Context counts, and those who don't take it into account will be wrong much more often than they are right.

Yup. Multiple boring times. In the playoffs they were very good the first game despite their massive amount of injuries. In the playoffs they allowed the Bengals their average, again despite their massive amount of injuries, while the offense scored 10 points less than the Bengals defense usually allows. Both sides of the line had a bad game. A very good season in extremely difficult circumstances and then a bad game.

Heh heh.

Dude, cornerbacks aren't declining at 28, they just aren't, that's nonsense. Not from age, anyway. 30, 31, 32, yes. 28, no. 28 is the prime of the career.

Nah, we don't have a Tre White problem. There's a possibility one will develop in the next year or so. Way too early to say right now. Occasionally people recover from this injury really quickly and get back to their own selves in less than a year. Those people are outliers. It generally takes significantly more time than has passed. There are indeed some who never recover. Again, way too early to say whether he'll be one of those.

This too. And yeah, Saffold said it and he wasn't the only one. Allen said it too, as did others.

This. Thank you.