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And no free agency or salary cap.

My theory, similar to Heath Farwell not getting the word to Bass to squibb the kick, is Salgado is the coach who didn't beat it into the heads of his backfield to knock the ball down on 4th and forever in the Vikings game. It's legitimately a firable offense and could be argued that it cost the Bills the #1 seed and a week off.

Hmmm.... Anybody else get a suspicious voicemail asking if they were available for an all expenses paid trip to NV on Feb 5?

I suppose... I mean, if you somehow got Tommy Lee's hepatitis in the process.

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Cynical me FIFY.

Take him out like have him whacked? I mean, I'm all for it, but it seems a bit extreme. On the serious side, Brady was not setting the market for QB contracts for a significant portion of that run in NE***. It's highly likely, IMO, that he had something worked out with Kraft to offset it (which I'm sure was within the letter and the spirit of the rules of player compensation ). It also didn't hurt that his sugar momma make significantly more than he did.

Are we able to resign Saffold... fresh off his Pro Bowl appearance to recognize his worst in the league status... and then try to re-sign Edmunds and OL help?

So in addition to the red zone interceptions that reared their ugly head this season, you'd also like Allen to start throwing soul crushing INTs with 2 minutes left, a full complement of time outs, the Bills ahead of the chains and the game still winnable?

I guess Shane Falco was busy that weekend.

Reading TBD, so have half the Bills fans here. I was pretty downtrodden immediately afterwards, but I've come around to the idea that it's closer than the BIlls poor effort in the divisional round suggested. They weren't playing well down the stretch, but I didn't expect them to look that awful. With a normal effort from them, and better tackling, I would have expected a game like the KC/Cinci championship game. I'd argue that a 1b WR, a competent OL, a change in defensive philosophy (not SCHEME, but philosophy), all things that can be accomplished in an offseason even with their cap constraints, and better injury luck that doesn't completely decimate a position group the way it did to both the DL and the secondary by the end of that game and the Bills are right back to where they were at the beginning of this season. Figuring in AZ stealing half of Cinci's defensive coaching staff if Anarumo gets a HC gig, and I think they take a step back next year.

Is this an admission that the Pro Bowl has become the equivalent of a "participation trophy"?

I also think this was the plan, possibly with an eye towards more physical coverage on TEs like Kelce. The main pre-draft knock on him was size, but as someone pointed out he’s basically the same size as Milano coming out of college.

As opposed to the inherent lifetime value in watching men run around chasing another man with a ball?

Maybe we should post the illegal forward pass, the Brett Hull foot in the crease, the John LeClaire goal that went through a hole in the side of the net, and 13s just to make the misery complete... though I'm sure I'm forgetting numerous other karmic crotch kickings that have been delivered to the Buffalo sports fandom.

I can assure you that THIS Bills team will not win the division in 2023. Now, as for the team they actually field, 🤷‍♂️… guess we’ll have to wait to see what they look like first.

It's been done already... by the Bills. He was on Wrex's staff, supposedly to help teach them the touted Ryan defensive philosophy. He was pissed that Wrex basically used him as a figurehead IIRC.

Living in NOLA I've had to endure people slobbering over Burrow, so in the name of poor sportsmanship I will forever refer to this as the "#### Joe Burrow" game.

Good topic and one that I've wondered about myself. At least it seems like gone are the days of outsmarting the league by reaching for guys like Maybin, McCargo, lil' Hitner, Troup, Manuel, etc. and then praying for the staff's ability to make chicken salad out of Mike Jasper to make up for the giant swing and misses.

I'm no Wrex fan, but that's in part because his brainless twin, who had waaaaaay to much input into our defense, was canned with him. Rob Ryan has been a nightmare of a defensive liability basically everywhere he's been.

I think Beasley was the last person Allen trusted for the underneath stuff. How many times earlier this season when he tried to take the easy completion did Singletary or McKenzie or Cook or even Shakir screw it up. As several posters have mentioned upthread, Beane re-signing a broken down Brown and a broken down Beasley was an admission that they misjudged their roster in replacing the production of Beasley and Brown/Sanders. Some of that was Crowder getting injured, but his history would tell you that's inevitable. Davis is not a possession receiver. He's consistently proven he can't catch a contested ball that hits him in the hands. They may have been low probability plays, but how many of those deep 50/50 balls to Davis SHOULD have been completed. With a true #2 receiver, no matter how bad they looked, they win the Jets game with the ball Allen uncorked after spraining his elbow. There were at least another 5-10 examples of balls just like that that Gabe dropped. Davis was fine last season as a number 3 when he had a less talented corner covering him, but he can't catch the ball in tight coverage. I wanted to punch Romo in the face when he was repeatedly going on about "Big Game Gabe" on Sunday. Watch some film from this season, asshat.

In Von's case, we just proved we don't need him in the regular season, we need him in the playoffs. IMO, let him rehab the whole first 3/4 of the season, and then round him into shape for the playoff stretch run. Less chance of getting him injured again and he'll be fresh when we need him most. It will give a new DC (hopefully) time to iron out the kinks in the defense without him just in time to add a pass rushing weapon when we need it most.

I talk to McD about defensive philosophy, balance on offense, and playing young highly drafted players early in the season. I then convince him to not retain Frazier. I find some middle of the road guards in FA. I put a plan together to move up in the draft to get the last of the difference making WRs for a cost controlled option at WR2 for 5 years, and use the rest of the high picks on OL, including a RT and a guard that will ultimately slide to center when Morse is gone. I look in FA for the next Poyer/Hyde… a safety with the characteristics that I want who has yet to get his shot to prove himself that I can sign for reasonable money. I bring in a bunch of large, fast undrafted FA RBs hoping to find 1 that sticks for minimal investment as a change of pace to Cook and ?Hines. I probably resign Edmunds. And I cut Cam Lewis… twice… because it would make me feel just a little less miserable for a second.

# whatever - Frazier’s contract is up and so far there’s no word of an extension