Utah John
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The first time some excellent college player decides to remain in college to reap his NIL money, and is injured while playing an unnecessary year in college and loses his career, this nonsense will stop. The players all want the NIL money of course but they grew up dreaming of playing in the NFL. A player who never makes it to the pros in the first place, is quickly forgotten.
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I think the Jets destroyed Zach Wilson with their ridiculously bad O line and their non-genius OC, can't hackett. Or maybe they just damaged him and he remains fixable. I think he has talent but is shell-shocked. A season as a backup here or elsewhere, with professional coaches and a good O line, might be what he needs to resurrect his career. I wouldn't give up a thing to trade for him, nor would I accept him with his current salary. But if he's cut and becomes a FA, and is willing to play for what a backup QB gets (around $1M), I think he'd be an upgrade over our current backup, who gets the same salary but is nowhere near as good.
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56 minutes ago, Punching Bag said:
I doubt the JESTS will find fairy dust.
What they have is a very strong defense, a top-tier RB, and one of the best WRs in the game. It's really their O line that's held them back. Also the QB although I still don't know if Zach Wilson could be a legitimate starter since he's been completely mis-handled his entire career.
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Salary cap games are like a drug addiction. You get hooked and you can't get off the cycle.
The only way for the Saints to meet the NFL's required numbers before the middle of March -- just two or three weeks away -- is to buy more drugs. They have to restructure some of their contracts to have them count less now, but they're not going to get clean. They can't even quit cold turkey because the existing obligations won't go away even if the player is cut. In fact cold turkey makes the immediate problem worse.
The Bills are skirting this desperate situation, largely due to Beane breaking his own financial prudence rules and signing Von Miller to that silly contract. The Biils were prime drug candidates after the 13 second debacle, feeling depressed, and more to the point, letting McDermott blame the lack of a pass rush for the huge team and coaching failure. So Beane tried going all-in to fix it by popping a few cap pills. And now the Bills are on the edge of a total addiction collapse in the near future, Josh Allen or no Josh Allen. The Dawson Knox contract will also be a burden soon, with no good solution in sight.
Joe Buscaglia had a good article in the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago about how the Bills could get by for the coming season. Part of the cure involved buying more drugs. But it would let the team attempt to continue its success by retaining just enough good players, hoping the draft yields 5 or more starters, or good reserves now who become starters when current players age out, and praying for no more significant injuries.
If there's any good news, it's that Miami is in about the same situation, but debating whether to pay Tua with cap drugs, or try to replace him with a cheap rookie. Tough choice since Tua has never shown he's a championship QB, just a system guy who can beat up on weak teams. So the Bills and Dolphins are both vulnerable. You know who's not? The Jets. Watch out. If they get a QB (and can avoid cap death for the Rodgers contract) and can fix their O line, they could win the division.
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Not drafting Mahomes when we (and nine other teams) had the chance to, was a logical choice. No one knew how good he'd be, except the Chiefs, and then they handled him absolutely perfectly. Kudos to them. And the Bills did well with their draft picks, getting White, Allen, and Edmunds.
Where the Bills really dropped the ball was not hiring McDermott's former boss, Reid, when he was unemployed. McD is just not in Reid's league. He's a good coach but not good enough.
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22 hours ago, Virgil said:
That's a crazy 2025 dead cap hit. Wouldn't it make more sense to restructure or extend him?
His decline is underway and is getting steeper the longer he's around. No shame in that. He's been an excellent player for several years, but everyone slows down as time passes. But restructuring means keeping a fading star on the roster, and who knows what kind of negative impact that would bring.
13 hours ago, GunnerBill said:The Dolphins will not win the AFC East unless Josh Allen misses significant time. They are not that good and they fold like a pack of cards when the going gets tough. They are more likely to finish under .500 in 2024 than to win the division IMO.
It's the Jets that have me most concerned, possibly not in 2024 while the sort out the QB situation and rebuild their O line, but after that, they'll be really tough.
I think the Bills tore the hearts out of the Dolphins in 2023. The fish had so much confidence in their "juggernaut" as the creamed weaker teams, but they realized as time went on they weren't competitive with the good teams. Predicting the AFCE in 2024: Bills, Jets, Dolphins, ......... , Patriots
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Both teams won. The Chiefs and Bills both got better, and if the Chiefs didn't have Andy Reid the Bills would have been to the SB at least once so far.
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3 hours ago, Low Positive said:
They cannot and do not manipulate the cap because Mike Brown doesn't have the cash on hand to do that. They are a cash-to-the-cap team that has their own internal salary cap which remains the same as the NFL's cap keeps going up. My prediction is that they will play this year with over 20 million in available cap space. The Bengals are, from a financial standpoint, the drought-era BIlls who happened to hit on a QB and WR combo in the draft.
Wow. That is NO way to manage a team in today's NFL. My kudos to the Bengals for succeeding under such a tremendous limitation, but it can't last forever. One or two bad drafts, an injury or two, and they'll be back to scraping by.
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From Wikipedia:
QuoteOn May 1, 2017, Wright signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills.[14] He played in 12 games with five starts, recording 44 tackles with five passes defensed and one interception.
But I don't remember him either. 2017 was the first McBeane year, and the year they finally made the playoffs. Despite this meagre (but so welcome) success, the roster got overhauled, and I guess Wright wasn't part of their plans going forward. He had a 4.43 time in the 40 which is marginally acceptable but not really good enough for a top team.
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Looks like the Bengals are going to go all-in in 2024. They can manipulate the cap to allow more FAs to fill the holes in their roster, and hope everyone stays healthy all year.
They're in a tough division with 2.5 good teams (the Steelers showed they can beat anyone, just not very often, but the Ravens and Browns are both top-notch). I don't blame the Bengals for being aggressive but with that competition, it's going to be a tough year to get a high playoff seed.
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15 hours ago, colin said:
i don't know what should work out price wise, but if he was the qb for sf, they beat kc in the bowl.
People are in love with Purdy but he choked enormously in the second half of the SB. Can't really blame him, a young guy with the pressure piling up. Mayfield would have handled it better.
15 hours ago, The Jokeman said:Pairing up Baker and Marvin Harrison Jr could move them past the Jets for 3rd best team in the division.
Don't sleep on the Jets. They have a very strong defense, although CJ Mosely is a FA and a lot rides on what happens there. What they MUST do is fix their terrible O line. If they don't do that, Rodgers won't last the first game of next season, either.
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Oh my goodness it's the offseason. Now it's official.
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If there's a really good safety available when they pick in R1, that's the guy. There are enough good WRs in this draft to meet the Bills needs in other rounds. The Bills are playing with fire, not getting Hyde/Poyer replacements in place and familiar with the system already.
If the Bills really want another D lineman, I'm guessing Boogie Basham will be available. Oh, you say that's a bad idea? Well how about throwing another high draft pick D lineman out there and expecting something more than Boogie brought. That's what Beane would be doing.
7 minutes ago, BananaB said:McD/Beanes history of drafting Dlineman is all I care about
And that's a pretty lousy history. He'll be better off getting a FA or two.
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The Bills organization has always been higher on Brown, and on Davis, than the fans were. I think them Bills saw Brown's potential and let him play through growing pains (and actual pains with his back) and now he's the player they were expecting to see. He's retainable if Beane jumps on the situation now.
Most fans aren't sad about the prospect of Davis getting paid by somewhere else, but based on what the professional football team in town thinks, his loss will hurt.
36 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:He’s under contract for next year. He played ok. Make him play on final year of contract. Then let him walk for a comp pick. He’s never going to be a LT. They can find someone else to play RT in 2025 much cheaper.
I think that's a bad move. There aren't a lot of really good RTs out there, and now that the Bills have developed one it makes better sense to put the ball in Brown's court about an extension. Brown knows as well as we all do that he's got an injury history which will make him less marketable next year. Beane should put a good solid offer on the table for a 4-5 year extension at a reasonable price, and let Brown try to decide whether to take the money and stay here long term, or to play out his rookie deal and hope for a bigger contract, risking not getting much at all if his back goes out or some other injury happens next year. The offer Beane will put down will make Brown a very rich man, and he might decide to take the bird in the hand, sign the offer, and put this position on solid ground for years.
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The Chiefs do do some things that help them win, particularly in close, tense games. But yelling at each other is not part of the winning formula.
What IS in the formula is applying pressure in key points at key locations, to get a critical edge when it matters. Against the Bills AND the 49ers, Chris Jones was freed up to attack Allen and Purdy at a critical point near the end of the game. Both times he prevented the QB from hitting an open receiver and probably winning the game. The Chiefs also put pressure on defenses through their attacking style, and that paralyzes the defenses from being able to attack the Chiefs' offense.
It always turns into a lions vs gazelles situation, where the Chiefs' opponents always feel like they're going to get eaten, any moment now, and then it happens. The way to beat the Chiefs is to avoid getting into a tight game where a key play here or there makes the difference. The Bills and the 49ers both had chances to take big leads in the first half, but the Chiefs play an elastic game where even when their offense isn't doing much early in the game, and the other team is dominating, you look up at the scoreboard at the end of the half and you're only up by a few points. At that point, the lions are coming out, and all the gazelles know it.
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If you want to know what kind of Jets this team is, I looked it up. It's a Boeing 737-9 Max. And we all know where the loose bolts are, Woody. Your Jets are grounded UFN.
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The Bills were on national TV all season long, and fans got to see Josh play many times. Unfortunately while he did play very well WB (with Brady), it's the stinkers he had DD (during Dorsey) that people will remember. Josh really played below his standards against the Jets in the opener, against the Jags in London, against the Pats in that inexcusable loss, and against the Broncos in the 12-men game. The only time the Bills lost when he played well was the OT game against the Eagles. The four losses were not completely attributable to Josh's poor play, but it's natural to point to those four games. Almost a quarter of the season. I don't think Josh's great play in the other 13 games makes up for those four.
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On 2/3/2024 at 6:37 PM, FireChans said:
I’m slowly getting more and more convinced this is the kind of old good player that Beane will go after. Especially with Brady’s emphasis on the run and McD being a defensive guy. A pound the rock for 3 YPC guy just feels right.
So what do we think?
For the vet minimum, sure. Let's see what he's got left. But some team will offer him millions and the Bills won't compete for him.
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3 hours ago, Coach Tuesday said:
You’d like it to be harder?It's kinda short...
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18 hours ago, Don Otreply said:
For New England…
Well, if New England had been able to use all those extra picks, they'd be unbeatable. Fortunately they had a fairly incompetent GM.
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12 hours ago, Buffalo Super Fan said:
For me as a Buffalo Bills fan was the Bills Toronto Series and the reaction by our local politicians, business community sucking up to the Bills Ralph Wilson. Once that happened I realized it is never going to happen for Western New York economically. Some leaders willingly offering half the Bills schedule to Toronto. I knew then this Western New York areas leaders are clueless. You never give up what you already have that is a position of weakness which is what our leadership is in my opinion. Go Bills! Let’s Go Buffalo
One fan's reaction was that this was like consenting to your wife sleeping around as a condition of staying married.
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5 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
9 turnovers is insane; how is that even possible?
I haven’t seen that game since it aired (for obvious reasons), but now am curious to go back and watch it.
(I do remember one of the SB’s against Dallas, we were up at halftime!).
The one where the Bills were up at halftime was the next year, the fourth SB loss. The Bills were positioned to win but a crucial fumble early in the second half was returned by Dallas for a TD, and the Bills never got over that punch to the gut. Interesting that the OP thought the Bills should have fired Levy after the third SB, when it was Levy who got them back to the game and in position to win.
If there was a worse outcome for the Bills, it was the first SB they lost, when it was clear the players were hung over, unable to tackle. And when the Giants DC, Bill Belichick, had his defense positioned to stop the pass, leaving Thurman Thomas ready to destroy them. But Jim Kelly wanted to be the hero so instead of feeding Thurman, he kept trying to pass. The Bills couldn't keep the ball on offense, and the hungover defenders couldn't stop the Giants. THAT was embarrassing and disappointing. THAT was the first year the Bills should have won the SB but the players did not respect their opportunity. The second year the Bills really should have won the SB was just a couple of years ago, when a game lasted 13 seconds long enough for McDermott to get completely outcoached by his former boss.
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52 minutes ago, Eastport bills said:
The thing Polian did correctly,was replace a mentally devastated kicker immediately. Hopefully Beane and Co realize Bass, as great a kid as he is, may be shot. You cannot allow a kicker to compromise a good team’s accomplishments. It’s demoralizing.
Norwood kicked for the Bills the next year after the wide right miss.
NIL deals keeping more players in college now and diluting the draft talent pool?
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Well, the fact is that for decades there's only been a very weak pretense that most college players are students at all. Some rare exceptions are out there, guys who really do want an education and work hard to get it while still meeting the demanding schedule that players accept. Most coast through, assisted illegally but acceptably, by the institution that wants to make money from letting them play.
Look at the schedule for fall semesters. When are the players even going to be in class to take final exams? Players who opt for the portal change schools before final exams, and no one thinks that's a problem. These men are semi-pro athletes, given room and board and now some NIL cash, and most will never play in the NFL. The NIL money they get won't last long once they're out of school and unprepared for a job.