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Out of curiosity, why would you all say that you are worrying about a specific number when they could dig up another $50M or more of immediate space if they REALLY needed to and could sign the most expensive free agent left on the market for $5M or less cap hit in 2024? Is that not understood? I suspect it is related to the phenomenon of fans believing that ownership/management that they are satisfied with are of the same mind as them so knowing this very malleable number gives you a clear idea of exactly what they will do with it. Which is a futile exercise for a number of reasons. But are McBeane still in enough of a honeymoon phase with fans that this is still the case? It seems like they've had to have made enough unexpected turns that didn't pan out at this point that after 7 years you'd understand that you aren't of one mind with them.
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Rasul Douglas contract restructure... saves $2.5 mill
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Yeah Rasul is at the point now where age alone will likely lower his market value. No real advantage to extending him now. Draft another traits guy on day 3 and see if Benford and Elam elevate their games and then decide on Rasul next offseason. -
Glad that Cole doesn't have a UCL tear. If platelet rich plasm injections are so good it makes you wonder why pitchers doesn't just get them periodically during the portion of the offseason when they aren't throwing at least. I guess we will see if he makes it back to form this season. On the positive front Luis Gil had a second straight strong outing today against Toronto. This 8K outing was from last week against most of the Phillies "A" lineup. Looks like he could be a very important bullpen arm for them at least. Maybe fill that Michael King role from prior to his switch back to the rotation. Curry and Lorentz were talking about Jonathon Loaisiga being a multi-inning option this year on the broadcast today. GTFOH. Lasagna is lucky to face 3 batters before his arm gets sore. I've been waiting for a month to see this game. Most of the Yankees top prospects from their 6 US minor league teams going against the Blue Jays top prospects. Spencer Jones hit 2 monster HR. I am tempering my enthusiasm for him because I know these big players can struggle to put it together but it's hard not to be impressed. After striking out 30% of the time in the minors last year he went 120 pitches into spring games before he even swung and missed. Seems to have made huge progress. Yankees lefty pitchers Brock Selvidge and Henry Lalane looked great. Jorbit Vivas looks like a legit potential Gleyber Torres or DJ LeMahieur replacement in 2025. Fun to watch, big swing but rarely misses. 2023 first rounder George Lombard looks like he belongs playing with these guys even though he's only 18. Probably the 3B for Yanks at some point in 2026. Caleb Durbin is promising as well and might help the Yanks this season even. The two most "ready" pitching prospects, RHP's Will Warren and Chase Hampton, will pitch tomorrow against the Red Sox.
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The Bills averaged 26.5 points per game on the season and missed a chip shot field goal at the end to finish the Chiefs loss with 24. The Chiefs really didn't stop the Bills offense from getting all it was capable of. The Bills just couldn't generate big air yard completions so they had to nibble the Chiefs to death. They stupidly attempted to complete the longest air yard pass tiny target Khalil Shakir would have had on the season on 2nd and 9 after the 2 minute warning instead of just matriculating to the end zone against a tired Chiefs D over 5 to 6 more plays and finishing off a physical domination of the Chiefs defense with what would have been about 40 minutes of possession and 400 yards.
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I would have done A LOT of things before I brought Trubisky back. He is certified useless at this point.
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Good move for the Steelers. Young, athletic backup with upside. I am sure they think they will be drafting in the 20's next year and not be in line for a top ranked draft eligible QB so they get a chance to see if Fields is a fit and perhaps have an edge in his free agency next offseason. No way he gets that $25M option picked up.
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Man, the Bears front office is so reminiscent of the Bills drought braintrust. @PromoTheRobot would be like a pig in sh!t shouting down rightfully angry fans and defending that clown show. 😂
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Yeah the whole "he's the 7th best WR so getting the 4th best DE is better" concept is definitely not something that someone who actually follows college football places any stock in. It's something that someone who gets upset about there being a draft thread in November says in March when they suddenly begin to care. The 7th ranked WR in a given draft might be more impactful than the top ranked QB.......let alone a non-premium position.
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It's not that simple. John Brown in prime Cole Beasley in prime DK Metcalf going into year 2 That's a NICE looking WR corps in 2020. Beane just backed himself into a corner by passing on DK/Brown. 2020 was a great WR draft. They could have easily moved up for Jeudy or CeeDee Lamb.......which would have been my preference..........probably even with a comparable package to what they sent to Minnesota for Diggs. I was a big fan of Jefferson(though not as much as Jeudy/Lamb for sure) even though @GunnerBill thought he was a big slot only and he would have been my pick there if they couldn't move up for Jeudy or Lamb the way the board fell. I wasn't high on Aiyuk or Reagor but Tee Higgins was also there and I wouldn't have passed on him if Jefferson were gone. Beane might have passed on WR altogether. I said at the time that the big downside of Diggs was that he would eat up 8 figures of cap space immediately and that they would soon feel pressure to extend him. I'm not saying it's worked out badly by any means but there was always the understanding that that draft was full of WR1 types who would be cost controlled and allow the Bills more financial flexibility than paying a vet. It's also notable that Diggs game was elevated in Buffalo.........he was very good but not the All Pro version he became when the Bills got him. And let's say that Jeudy/Lamb/Jefferson/Higgins failed to perform great in Buffalo.........then maybe the Bills are in play for a veteran like Davante Adams when he gets dealt. Diggs has been an excellent player but it wasn't an acquisition without drawbacks.
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Yeah the ability to turn a short pass into a HR is the single thing that the Bills lost most when John Brown fell off and wasn't retained. This trick paid huge dividends in home games versus the Ravens, Seahawks and Rams and the start point of this clip which is a TD against the Jets. Shakir is a tremendous RAC guy but he does it a bit more like a RB where he uses the defenders aggression/leverage against them........he doesn't have the juice to just go from 0 to 60 like this. Defense's often give the Bills this play........that's why it hurts when it's to Diggs for no yards or a drop.
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PSA If you don't follow the draft or college football in general like @st pete gogolak don't try to drop zingers about the draft years later. The issue wasn't whether Beane could get to Justin Jefferson in round 1. It wasn't a surprise that he was available at the Bills draft position. The unanticipated was that Jefferson would turn into a true WR1. Let alone the best WR in the NFL. So rather than drop a cringey fail-zinger just take the layup. The issue that forced Beane to pick the low hanging fruit of Diggs in that WR-rich draft was his insistence on reaching up for need at a non-premium position with Cody Ford in the draft prior instead of taking a chance on the high ceiling WR prospects like DK Metcalf and AJ Brown.
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Yeah I am guessing @Royale with Cheese is trying out a new technique. Like when Dice put out "The Day The Laughter Died" and refused to tell the nursery rhymes to the crowd. An artist has to explore. Personally, I am going to dabble back into "sub-illumination" the rest of the offseason. Which is understating an overwhelming strength in your argument to disorient your adversary. They badly want to tell you that you are wrong but to do so they have to actually address a fact that damns their side of the argument to do it. Like "what do you mean, Allen had 38 total TD's last year, he was awesome"
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If Terry Pegula knew just a *little* bit more about football this could have been our fate as Bills fans. The fact that he didn't and started to get a taste of the embarrassment with the Rex debacle inclined him to turn ops over to McDermott and Beane. Fortunately Pegula's sporting confidence was in his hockey opinions otherwise establishing an all-time NHL record for consecutive seasons of missing the playoffs may have equally manifested itself on the football field as well. These super-rich new owners like Tepper all in some from seem to think that they can use their business acumen to get over on all these other owners even though they've rigged it to prevent their business tactics from impacting the standings. It's like a right of passage for them to gently advise and then watch the new guy run around in circles and tire himself out if he wants to.
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Every one of those players you mentioned cost A LOT to acquire/sign. Whaley was a good pro personnel man. He didn't have full control of football OPS and the checkbook like McBeane were given by Pegula so he ended up operating with a smaller budget. So in addition to getting credit for signing future All Pro's Hyde and Poyer to great deals here are some of Whaley's other pro personnel gems: Tyrod.........$2M deal turned in a Pro Bowl season Lorenzo Alexander........ $885K turned into 12.5 sacks 76 tackles 22 QB hits and an All Pro second team Zach Brown........$1.25M lead NFL in tackles and also All Pro second team Try as he might Beane hasn't had even one value signing pan out anywhere close to those 5. Beane is the much better GM and more specifically a tremendous executive/confidence man...........but there isn't any comparison with regard to pro personnel(which was Whaley's specialty).
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Yeah what the diminishing returns at WR have done is reduce Allen's effectiveness as a passer and put a lot of hard miles on his body. Allen broke out in 2020 but that wasn't supposed to be the pinnacle of his career............that's just what it's turned out to be. He hasn't even come very close to matching that year as a passer in any regard.........passer rating, completion %, TD% or INT% you name it he has been significantly worse. His passing yardage per game in 2023 was over 30 yards less than 2020...........at some point the fact that the good things are trending down and the bad things are trending up matters. The common denominator in the decline has been the consistent decline in the quality of receiving targets.