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The problem with the 5th year option is that you now have to pick it up, fully guaranteed, after year 3. That's taken A LOT of the value out of it for teams. Pretty common to see teams stuck with bad players on huge 5th year cap hits they can't escape.

Yep. A lot of people think they want that precision technology..........but the NFL knows the value of that human element. NOTHING bonds fans to their team like the perception of unfair officiating.

He was given a ton of opportunity, yes........but his production was 3.9 yards per carry and 6 yards per reception. Those figures are WAY below league average. The Steelers just keep feeding the guy and he keeps on being lousy. Fantasy football keeps alive the notion of the importance of star RB's.

Yeah it's much more constrained than it appears on TV. But I find the live experience in the NFL is closer to what you see on TV than MLB and the NBA. The baseball is practically invisible it's moving so fast and there is basically ZERO room to operate on an NBA floor with all those giants on the court and you wouldn't know that from television broadcasts.

That's not a bad comp........Najee is more hyped because he can hurdle a defender from time to time and he is a better receiver than Anthony Thomas.........but the thing they have in common is that they would be given the ball a lot and do nothing with it and get far too much hype. Najee made the pro bowl last year with over 380 touches for a horrific 4.4 yards per touch. His yards per reception was around 6. Dreadful. His yards per rush this season is 3.2. Brutal numbers.

Najee is the new "if you need 3 yards he will get you 3 and if you need 4 yards he will get you 3" guy of the NFL.

It will come in time. As will unitards instead of two piece uni's. It's gonna' be gross. In the meantime try to look at it like you ONLY have to get 10 yards..........so if you are ruled a half a yard short you should have gotten between 1 and 89 more yards so you weren't leaving it to a bunch of part time officials. Same the other way around........you had 10 yards to stop them if you couldn't clearly do the minimum then you are leaving the result to fortune to some extent. Same with plays on the boundary.........if you live on the margins when the field is 360' x 160' then you expose yourself to greater chance of human error/subjectivity.

No but we are talking about trades that could impact individual seasons. That trade effectively sunk any chance of winning a game or two in the playoffs. I don't expect Barkley to be with the Giants in 6 years if they don't trade him this season either. He's more likely to be on IR again next season than still a feature RB in 2027.

The Dareus move was more about "culture". The unguaranteed money remaining on his deal that they could actually walk away from was pretty modest. Dareus was playing outstanding football for the Bills and carried that over to Jacksonville where his arrival flipped them from the worst rush defense in the NFL to the best overnight. Bills defense went the other direction......including the worst 3 game stretch in team history. They've since spent a fortune on 1T position since and just this season are finally again getting actual good play from one in Daquan Jones, who has been excellent and probably even better and more impactful than they expected.

I believe you're thinking of Dick Jauron. EDIT: I checked, you were right. It was Kelly Clarkson I was thinking of:

Let's hope so with Quintin Morris, but unfortunately the highlighted is not even close to always being the case. The Bills haven't had much juice at TE for the past 60 years or so.......and not had ANY luck with later picks and UDFA's at that position in decades.........but it's fairly common for young TE's to show some skills in other organizations and then disappear. Due to injury or otherwise. We are more familiar with the Robert Foster WR types who could only improve the more he played until he played and got worse. Morris will have to prove he's consistent at getting open and catching the ball.........he's flashed a little in preseason and in the last game but 6'2" TE's don't usually make much of an impact.

The Bills are so deep at receiver that they brought up a 3rd year guy from the practice squad and he caught a pass!

Yep. Like Vince Lombardi once said.......winning isn't everything.

If Skylar plays well and wins do they give Tua another game or two off and create a controversy? Will Chris Berman cheez-out the audience by calling him "Buick" Skylar Thompson?

Do I get credit for last week predicting that we'd have a trade Tre White thread this week? And that nobody would do the obvious and immediately mention that $20M+ dead cap hit if they did it this offseason?

It would hurt them some on offense but send a bad message more than anything. Different than when the Bills traded Dareus midseason..........that structurally weakened the entire defense........but could have the same kind of result. We look back on 2017 as a success but that trade really unraveled them as any kind of playoff worthy team. They were a staggering -70 point differential after that trade despite a pretty feeble schedule. For a 5th rounder it wasn't worth the squeeze.

The offense wasn't so kickass when Gabe was nursing his boo-boo foot for the two weeks prior to Sunday with the team scoring just 17 and 23 offensive points in Miami and Baltimore. They lack depth at receiver. The Bills had both of their outside WR's healthy enough to play well this last game and Pittsburgh secondary was a mess playing their 5th and 6th corners at times, down one starting safety and with Fitzpatrick playing hurt. The Bills are extremely deep on defense. Pittburgh is not.

IMO the Bills OL talent is much more suited for running the ball than pass blocking. The data really causes confusion. The problem with the run game is the scheme. From running out of shotgun to once again trying to be a zone blocking team and now more RPO's........none of these things gets the OL downhill and in position to be their best at blocking for success in the run game. But that's what suits Allen best right now. He wants to be in shotgun with lots of time to look at the defense. The zone blocking makes for quick and easy line calls. This is the nature of the Bills offense right now. Maybe later in the season they make changes........as they did last season.

The highlighted is THE THING. It's working and Josh likes it. I'd love it if he could get under center and run traditional play action because he would have receivers open in the intermediate and deep all game. But Josh likes to face the defense all the time and he more than makes up for the lack of a reliable traditional running game by making spectacular throws and gashing teams with big runs. I think eventually he'd benefit greatly by stepping out of his comfort zone and getting under center a lot more......this offense moves the chains and puts up points but the Pittsburgh game was unusual with all the big plays.......there are too many small plays with this style of offense and that puts a lot of mileage on him and the receivers in particular. The Miami game was an extreme example, but it underscores the issue with this style. That's why he averaged just 6.8 ypa last season.......a number far too low for his talents. But this season they need to be all in on winning every possible game and getting homefield so Josh being comfortable is job #1. Next season the roster will not be as strong but if they have rings to show for this season they might not need to be as desperate for home field. What's weird to ME.........when the Bills were leading the NFL in rushing AND big plays and were a high scoring offense with very little money invested in it under Tyrod Taylor..........people focused on the passing inefficiencies and there was a surprising lack of love for what they were doing on the ground. When you have a QB like that who averages 6.5 ypa and your RB's average a relatively absurd 5.5.........you have a compelling argument to keep running the football. You can't throw a TD pass when you've already run it in from 20 yards out. When your QB averages 8.0+ yards per attempt......as Allen is now and should ALWAYS be......... I don't care if you have Jim Brown in his prime you are better off being very imbalanced in favor of the pass.

The single biggest reason the Bills don't run the ball more effectively is because Josh Allen prefers to play out of the shotgun. So the people who are constantly complaining about the running game should blame Josh and demand he changes or shut up. I wouldn't mind them doing more of that..........I am not a big fan of spread offense football........but that's not what Allen is right now.........he's not as comfortable under center and turning his back to the defense for traditional play action. Nobody just pushes another team off the ball all game, there has to be legitimate uncertainty in the mind of the defense and enough time between the snap and the handoff/fake to get them to commit. You don't get that out of the gun. For a while RPO's gave teams that but they aren't as effective any longer.

How many decades of proof do people need to actually learn that the quality of your RB matters little to your win-loss results. Breece Hall has the game of his life and gets 197 total yards on 20 touches...........Gabe Davis almost produced that much on just 3. And how does Devin Singletary average 4.7 yards per carry for his career and knuckleheads are still trying to tell us how much better that backs with much lower production per play than him are........like Josh Jacobs(4.3) for example.

How do Bills fans forget that Miami lost their first round pick and therefore there are only 31 in 2023?

First of all, Carolina is probably already going to have the 32nd pick. Them or the Lions. Here is my offer........CMC and a 7th.......for a Bills 6th. People thinking a rental running back will bring back anything close to a first round pick is just absurd. Beane overdrafts RB's but he isn't that out of touch with the cost of doing business.

We are about 1 more week of solid CB play away from the "Trade Tre White for......." thread. Which will have about 2 pages of equally stupid replies until someone with some common sense joins to point out that his dead cap makes him untradeable.