thebandit27

After factoring in draft picks, they're about $20M under. Once in-season extensions/signings are accounted, you can probably figure that they'll roll $10M over into 2020. If the cap goes up by $10M from '19 to '20, then you're looking at around $80M in cap space once rollover money and new contracts from 2019 are factored into the equation. Knock off $10M each for 2020 draft picks and 2020 in-season contract work, and the team will have about $60M to spend on free agent contracts. Plenty of room to get a premium WR, premium EDGE rusher, and a CB2 while leaving room to fill secondary needs.

That's why it's extremely important to have a plan ahead of time. A good GM will be able to identify the guys that won't be retained or will likely be released for reasons other than performance, and have a good idea of how to get those guys under contract without over-committing. Just take a look at the deals signed by Mitch Morse, John Brown, and Cole Beasley. Morse's contract effectively ties him to the Bills for no more than 2 seasons, and in none of them does his cap hit consume more than 7% of the salary cap. Brown's deal is even more flexible from that perspective. If you're Buffalo, you need to be monitoring the status of guys like Boyd, who had a breakout season in 2018. If he comes close to duplicating that, then he's a guy you go after hard. The Bengals probably aren't going to pay both he and AJ Green WR1 money, which means he hits the market. You also want to watch Michael Thomas very carefully. New Orleans doesn't have a ton of cap room, and he's going to want record-setting WR money. Now, he'll probably get tagged, but those are the kinds of situations you want to pay attention to.

Buffalo might have a better shot than we think. McCoy had 2 of his best seasons rushing the passer in 2014-15, when Leslie Frazier was his DC. That said, I think Carolina might make a lot of sense.

Yeah, the EDGE position is loaded in the 2020 free agent market. Just off the top of my head, there's Clowney, Dupree, Ngakoue, Ingram, Ansah, Fowler, Griffen, Addison, and Beasley who are currently slated to become UFAs. Then you get to the guys with enormous cap numbers like Von Miller, Chandler Jones, and Calais Campbell that may not be retained. The Bills can definitely afford to go hard after any of the above guys, plus keep both Hughes and Murphy if they want to do so. Kind of the same as the receiver position, where you'll see names like Green, Boyd, Edelman, Anderson, Cooper, Sanders, Thomas, and Hill all with expiring contracts. It makes for a great situation to go HUGE after the guy you like (say, Boyd), given that they (to borrow your phrasing) raised the floor of the position by adding Brown and Beasley.

Important re-up from a numbers perspective. The team really needs to overhaul the EDGE rushing group next offseason, but with only Murphy under contract, that will prove difficult. Hughes is, in the very least, a serviceable pass rusher that can force the issue, even if he does struggle to finish plays at this point in his career. The money on this isn't bad at all. It sets the team up to be able to go after a complementary rusher, and the 2020 FA class is flooded with them.

Probably an experience thing; he's got 3 years of experience playing LG and all of his NFL experience on the left side. It's probably an easier transition to LG than it would be to RT at this point in his career.

I guess I view the payoff differently than you do. The payoff is that only Jon could've dispatched Dany. Only a Targaryen could've gotten past Drogon. Only someone the Queen loved could've gotten close to her without her suspecting something was afoot. Only Ned Stark's son (true or otherwise) would've been honest enough to confess. Only the King in the North would've evoked such loyalty as to force his own release from prison. Only the man that let the wildlings south of the wall would've been welcomed back through the gates at Castle Black. The payoff was subtle as opposed to spectacular, but IMO it was there.

He knew that other people knew; the chance that somehow Dany would find out in the future meant that he had to say something. Better for her to find out from him. Plus, he probably didn't want to continue sleeping with his aunt; gotta say something other than "yeah, I'm just not feelin' it". Wait, so Jon uniting the wildlings and Night's Watch, taking back Winterfell, uniting Dany's armies with the North to fight the Night King, and being literally the only person alive that Drogon would've allowed close to Dany for the killing stroke mean nothing? I'm not saying this was master-level story-telling, but come on.

Explain how that's different from anything you see here: https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/charts/player/patrick-mahomes/MAH401939/season

I don't know that it's got much to do with that...I just think that the more pass-happy the league has gotten, the more opportunities there are for smaller, faster LBs that don't have the size/strength to play against the run to contribute significantly.

I think Joseph can play snaps in sub-packages as a rookie. I don't, however, expect him to be another Milano--Milano was a former CB with excellent instincts. Joseph is an athletic 'backer who lacks great instincts. I do think he could be a valuable sub-package guy though.

Did Turner shoot your dog or something? You have a very odd grudge against him.

Meh, it's probably a coping mechanism for people that can't handle the disappointment that the series is ending. Maybe if they trash the show and stomp their feet enough they'll convince themselves that they never really liked it to begin with, and then they won't feel as bad when it ends. I don't know, there's maybe 2-3k unsullied in that photo. She started with 8k, plus the ones that hadn't completed training, so maybe 10k. Doesn't seem all that crazy.

He's in the show...for about 5 minutes... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4283028/characters/nm0269923

Jeremiah would be an excellent GM. He's been in the front office before, serving alongside Ozzie Newsome, and he's as good as they get when it comes to player evaluation. He's also a world-class good-guy. I'd be surprised if he went for it though; he's passed on previous opportunities to focus his attention on family and faith.

I don't think Tyrion is a Targ. Aside from the fact that Tywin called him his son multiple times, and the fact that Dinklage himself shot it down in an interview last year (https://www.elitedaily.com/p/the-tyrion-targaryen-game-of-thrones-theory-was-officially-shut-down-by-peter-dinklage-11996512) there's the whole "Martin speak" thing that lent much credence to the idea that Jon wasn't Ned's son. https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1202/ 5. Since all of their mothers died, who gave Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and Tyrion Lannister their names? Mothers can name a child before birth, or during, or after, even while they are dying. Dany was most like named by her mother, Tyrion by his father, Jon by Ned. The above quote from Martin was often referenced amongst readers as evidence that Jon wasn't Ned's son. I mean, he drew the line pretty clearly there; Dany's mother, Tyrion's father, and Ned (not "Jon's father"). Clearly he chose his words carefully.

The only real advantage in playing Lee Smith over, for example, Waddle, is that he wouldn't have to report as eligible.

I've never been a fan of signing the Jason-Dunn-blocking-only-TE; I'd much rather play an extra tackle if I'm going to play a guy that I know is only a blocker.

Maybe it's just my selective memory, but I seem to recall his holding penalties wiping out way too many a great run in his days here.

The human holding penalty returns!

Board period. As in that's who they liked at 9 once they got past 6. Williams being Jonah.

I believe that their board was Oliver-Williams-Wilkins

I love posts like this that contain zero context and simply tell people that they are wrong. They are so compelling.

Agreed regarding the value. It's a tough situation for a kid like Ford, who I think is a very good football player. I think he's the kind of guy that has very high value for a RT, because he's going to end up a solid starter somewhere on your line. Might be RT, might be LG, who knows? You're right, however, that he's probably not the guy you prioritize picking on day 1 or early on day 2. Kind of unfortunate for him, because like I said: very good player IMO. I do find it interesting, however, that a team like Oakland would go pay $16M AAV to Trent Brown in FA just to move him back to RT. That seems really crazy to me. If other teams follow suit in future years, then the idea of drafting RTs early might change, but we shall see.

I agree that none of the teams you mentioned had dominating defenses either.