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I believe that's right.............but anyone who doesn't know the difference between trading for and "signing" a player isn't somebody who is deeply "in the know".

Bills twitter needs to start talking Mitchell up..........."Don't accept anything less than $20M from Indy this year Mitch!........they were going to pay Carson $30M!"

"According to the Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy, athletes who return to sport prior to nine months following an ACL injury are at a seven-fold greater risk to suffer a future ACL tear." If Williams is there at 25.........he is very likely the most potentially impactful player left on the board based on what the players have actually put on tape.........IMO he was the best player on the field in the Alabama v Georgia games.........which speaks volumes. But if they take him we should be prepared for the possibility that he doesn't play in 2022. Because even when he is ready to play he is a raw talent at the WR position and without 100% of his speed back yet he may not be better than the more refined options they may have at the position.

Yep and @Thurman#1 or the equivalent would be on here defending the Bills and talking about how well worth the picks Wentz was and that the $30M cap hit was irrelevant.

A single first rounder *might*.........but agree that it's not nearly as likely as many fans believe.........it's about a 50/50 proposition that a 1st rounder even plays well enough that the team picks up their 5th year option. And this draft is particularly full of boom or bust or slow developing types in round 1, IMO. Daniel Jeremiah said it best IMO...........the strength of this draft will be the ability to get 2nd round talents in the 4th round. It's the depth of athletes. But a strength is not likely to be getting players who tear it up statistically as rookies. People are freaking out about the numbers that the 3 Georgia DL put up at the combine..........but the 3 of them only combined for 10 sacks in 2021. Expectations for first rounders are always too high but probably going to be even more unreleastic with this class.

No Christian Watson either.

Houston should take them for MORE.........Denver absolutely FLEECED Seattle for Watson. And the fact that all the teams that seem to be listed as destinations for Watson are in the NFC should only drive up the price.

It's tough to not be intrigued by the potential of Watson coming off a combine workout where he looked fast, agile and smooth and even had huge hands, which I think is a plus in Buffalo and with a big armed QB. Just have images in my mind of plenty of linear, very fast types who never evolved into anything but 1 trick ponies or less. On the hoof..........Marquez Valdes-Scantling is almost exactly the same as Christian Watson..........and MVS is nothing but an inconsistent deep threat.

Yeah it's not out of the question that he could have a bounce back season and get his career as an early down base DE back on track to the point where he is worth modest pay days again..........it happens........in 2021 former flop CB Rasul Douglas went from veteran extended PS to having a tremendous year for Green Bay that will get him paid. But he should have no value right now..........and maybe he thinks that he can only get his head right by getting back in the Buffalo environment/culture. When he was drafted I said his floor was Courtney Upshaw and his ceiling was Melvin Ingram........an underwhelming range for a first rounder........and he's played much closer to his floor, which is in part due to being a slow twitch athlete but more due to just being hard to motivate and keep focused, IMO. He wants to get back to Buffalo but two hours after every home game he was in the airport with a big bag of Popeye's catching a flight to Charlotte so he could go play Wooderson on campus at Clemson.

Shaq is an extended practice squad player at this point...........they'd be foolish to bring him in with any guarantees or for more than the league minimum.

No........there isn't any need to run thru the ball carrier there.......the pass is late and behind the RB........an instinctive defender knows they can make a play on the ball there. I know you are one of Edmunds' biggest apologists but he gets so many passes thrown in front of him where the RB is hung out to dry and never has the presence of mind to even punch the ball out while he's tackling a ball carrier who has had all of his momentum stopped by a late throw.......he's just a slow processor in a league where quick minds make the plays on the football in traffic.

Yeah but the $39M cap hit for Ryan Tannehill this year.........

That clip is the perfect example of what Tremaine lacks..........he would just run straight at Marshawn Lynch on that play as the ball falls to the turf behind him.

As I've said..........I would love that Edmunds for Sweat trade......... but Washington loses that cap exchange by over $10M as Sweat is just in year 4 of his deal...........and though Sweat has underwhelmed he is still a high ceiling pass rusher so he's probably worth more than a 2 time Pro Bowl LB who isn't nearly as good on tape as that sounds. Edmunds to Houston for Brandin Cooks is probably more realistic........two expiring contracts, approx same value. But maybe someone out there really values Edmunds' upside more than I think the tape indicates they should.

Reminder..........Gabe Davis has put an average of 574 yards in his first two seasons..........Metcalf has averaged over 1,000 yards per year in his 3. Actually producing in volume matters. I'm not predicting that Gabe is going to fail..........but to put it in perspective...........he hasn't actually had a more impressive regular season than 2018 Robert Foster yet. Foster put up 541 yards at a clip of 20 yards per reception and a catch rate over 60%............and he has practically vanished since. Sometimes small sample sizes don't translate..........and that's all we've gotten from Gabe so far.........reportedly in part because of nagging ankle and foot injuries in 2020-2021.

Imagine an instinctive LB in the middle of this defense

The obvious answer is Diggs goes to the slot. That doesn't mean it's a solution that Diggs would find satisfactory..........but he'd instantly be the league's best slot receiver.

Yeah the 0 pressures on 76 blitzes in 2020 was definitely less than impressive blitz work.

Get in line

You "trust" the process...........which last year included trying to sign Gronk...........but you are adamant that they should not sign Gronk?

Why do you think? He has a $16.5M cap hit. He's at an age where a defensive player is taking a fraction of the value their statistics would indicate they deserve if they were 26.

I hope so...........the Bills are STILL paying for that brutal 2018 free agent group he grossly overpaid............worst free agent class in Bills history. They could use the 70M+ in cap space they wasted on those clowns.

The Bills selected in the non-playoff team portion of round 1 for 16 straight seasons before the chance to select Patrick Mahomes fell in their lap in round 1..........and when they finally made the playoffs in 2017 exactly ZERO of the drought era first round picks were on the active roster in Jacksonville for that game. Basically the Doncos got a franchise QB for about 2 years worth of early picks while the Bills spent 16 years in the ***** desert. It's unconscionable that Seattle would trade a 34 year old elite franchise QB for that little return.

This thread looks like something someone would start in November when they have no idea who the players involved might be..........we are a week from FA and the combine is over..........wtf

If they hadn't picked up Edmunds' 5th year option Beane would be saying Tremaine earned the right to go into free agency.........and likely glad he dodged that bullet..........and Klein would just be getting a pay cut.