billsfan89

Even if you have to shell out 25 million for Dareus and Hughes its worth it. Mario and Kyle are older players their big contracts will either be restructured or off the books in the next year or two. Keep the young guys there and use the dead money to cover you on the cap to cover the costs and in order to upgrade other positions of need (Guard, Tightend, WR, and corner) find the money with cuts to other guys on the roster and draft choices (Mike Williams would be a good place to start).

Mike Williams has zero guaranteed money due to him next year. So in the likely even Williams gets cut (Only way he stays on the team is if he takes a restructured deal which I don't think he will do and I don't think the team wants him anyway) the team will clear his full salary with no cap penalty. Not sure about Stevie but I thought that his bonus was tied up in this year.

I think Dareus is just a notch below. Probably get on the low end 9 million a year and on the high end 12 million a year. Also get a good chunk guaranteed. Hughes will likely get 6-8 million a year too. The front office should use the dead money that Fitz and Mark Anderson are taking up this year to take care of those guys. Maybe Mario restructures his deal (Probably won't take less money but maybe he just makes his deal more cap friendly) to give the Bills some more cap room

Spikes might not get resigned, although if he was willing to be a running down specialist I could see him coming back for a modest amount. So Brown and Brandham stay in their roles while Kiko takes the other OLB spot. As hard as it would be to let Spikes go I would think getting Dareus a long term extension along with resigning Hughes would be cap money better spent. Kiko if he can stay healthy would be a big addition to the defense next year.

No need to, got another year under contract. Don't need to make another Fitz mistake.

Its inherently subjective is the reason they give for it not being able to use a challenge on a penalty.

Hopefully he can provide some competent guard play at LG. Pears is very mediocre but at least he seems to be an on field coach for Henderson. Hopefully Cyrus can try and take on RG later in the year as he gets some more time practicing at guard. Even if Urbik could just be what he was a couple of years ago that would be a huge upgrade.

Wounder how much better this defense would be if Kiko was out there? But then again injuries do happen and this team has been fairly healthy over the course of the year. So a major injury to a starter is always likely to happen.

CJ hasn't produced on the field but he seems to have always been a true professional in his tenure here. The guy just goes out there and does his job, doesn't seem to have too much of an ego.

The game was on Thursday that kid of puts enough of a question mark on the game to discount it as a referendum on either team.

Brown and Dixon should be interesting to see. Freddie out 4 weeks and Spiller out those guys should be hungry to get the opportunity. Probably going to try and put in a claim on Brown in fantasy.

If you could get the guy for a 6th or 7th I would take it. For a 5th maybe but not higher than that. Spiller is likely gone next year, Freddie is old and toss on an injury now. Brown and Stacy could make a really good backfield next year and beyond.

The moment that Henderson established himself at RT they should have tried to move Cujo to guard. Its probably going to take some time to get him to get use to playing there and the playbook. But the team needs much better guard play and he has the phsyical size to maybe be at least decent there. From week 1 it was pretty obvious the team was weak at guard. So when you have a guy who is a phsyical specimin who has gotten benched at RT you need to try and get that guy at guard.

Resign, Dareus and Hughes. Both guys should be able to fortify the D-line for the foreseeable future. I would resign Spikes if his price was reasonable too. With no number one pick the team should be very aggressive in free agency. With the cap going up a bit, turnover cap space, and Fitz money coming off the cap the team should be able to go out there and address needs at corner and guard while resigning Dareus and Hughes long term.

IF EJ is a bust and the only really good pieces that come out of that draft are Kiko and Woods it will be looked at as a mediocre draft. But Duke Williams, Gragg, and Goodwin could all turn their fortunes around too.

The jury is still out on Davis. He has been much better than he should be given where he was drafted and how he bounced around in the league. But I think he could just be another average to below average QB. He has struggled at times but being young that's to be expected. Overall I think that Davis has shown promise but the sample size is way too small. Let him play out the season and see how he does before he even gets the starting job.

People always forget that the defense was one of the best in the league during the years Flutie was here. Also Flutie is 5 foot 10 not really that short compared to a regular person.

Its too big a part of his story for them not to spend significant time on it. Flutie's best NFL years came leading the Bills to two playoff seasons. Alos his departure from Buffalo in favor of the prototypical QB Rob Johnson is too good of a story. Overall if you don't talk about Flutie's Buffalo years than you aren't doing the doc right.

The defense is much more disciplined than Pettin's. Its less aggressive and leans more on the defensive line than last years defense. The defense this year has been much more consistent than last year.

The fumble, INT, and that one play where he got sacked straight up the middle were all on Orton (He should have thrown the ball away instead of taking a sack). The rest of the errors were misthrows that I think happens in the midst of the game.

They need to find a way to get Urbik out there at guard. You have limited potential upgrades on your roster right now. And Urbik is one of the upgrades you possibly could get. I would also deactivate Spiller and use Bryce Brown. Brown and Urbik over Pears and Spiller could be two moves that help the offense. Defensively getting the team coached up better and Aaron Williams back from injury could help the secondary bounce back. But offensively you need to look at Urbik at guard and get Spiller out of there in favor of Brown.

The Offense put the team behind the 8 ball in the first half with all the turnovers (The defense was playing so well, had the offense showed up in the first half the team could have been up at half time). The defense fell apart late in the game in particular down 8 with 7 minutes left letting up the clinching insurance TD for the Pats*. The offense did play much better in the second half. Had it not been for that horrible Woods call they probably would have put together 3 scoring drives. It was a total team loss. You can't have half your team show up one half and then not the other half. To beat an experienced team you are going to need to play a great game 60 minutes on all 3 facets of the ball.

No ref is ever going to be perfect week in and week out. And no matter what you are always going to find some bad calls in games. The issue I have with the NFL is the overall lack of quality control. It seems like the refs don't have any real quality control when it comes to bad calls. Even the NBA has started to release their Referee point of emphasis memos and responded quickly and clearly to bad calls the day after (Something I think that would have not happened under David Stern). The NFL needs to be more transparent about their referee operations. Call out bad calls and make sure that institutions are in place to insure the best possible officiating of games.

Run D held up, Hogan and Woods looked real nice, Orton gave you the production that you expected out of him. and Chandler came alive. Hughes looked real good too. Also this team hung in there. Defense held the team together in the 1st half and the offense kept the team in there during the second half. Keep in mind it was a 8 point game with 7 minutes left and there was a 3rd and 16 early in that drive. Despite a negative 3 turnover margin it was a 6 point game at the half. Had they gotten the ball back at that moment they would have had most likely decent field position with 5ish minutes left on the clock down 8 (And I think we had all of our timeouts too). The defense just gave out in the second half and in particular on that last drive the Pats* scored on. The game was much more competitive that it really should have been. 1 score game with 7 minutes left? Its should have been well out of reach by then.

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