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Henry wasn't a legit MVP candidate.........he was barely getting 4 yards per carry...........his play had dropped off considerably they were just feeding him the ball at a record clip and their WR corps was together early in the season so they were more dynamic. Career scrub Foreman more than replicated what Henry brought to the table and the stark difference in what Henry is now versus Foreman was evident in the playoff game where Foreman made it look easy against the Bengals D. Feeding Henry when he was clearly the less dynamic back stopped their offense in the playoffs, not the Bengals defense. The imaginary, incalculable impact of an elite RB is so great that their teams somehow never win SB's. Henry himself has strung together 3 straight bad performances in the playoffs. Remember when the Saints had Brees, all those receiving threats AND the amazing Alvin Kamara? Then remember when they got beaten at home again and again in the playoffs? If you need convincing then that's on you. The facts are right there for you. BTW that Jonathan Taylor guy...........he missed the playoffs entirely despite playing behind the highest draft pedigreed OL in NFL history........a #1 overall a #6 overall, another mid-first rounder and a mid-second rounder. Bottom line is.........giving the ball to a RB in the NFL is a necessary evil.........you can't replicate the impact of a well passed football by running the football........great production from a RB is a lot less than average production from the pass game.......when each touch gets more important in the playoffs that disparity is often magnified. Sorry to say but it's not some kind of f*cking cheat code when you have what is considered an "elite" RB.

True on Roman. He's great at run game design. But it certainly wasn't about having a certain RB in his prime. The backup RB's actually produced quite a bit more with the ball in their hands..........one lead the league in ypc and 3rd down conversions and they combined for 18 TD's versus McCoy's 16. They were simply a machine running the football........as have been the Ravens since Roman took over as OC.

You know I watch a ton of NFL football. I know who that miscreant Joe Mixon is and I know that he is NOT "three times the player" that Singletary is. That is ridiculous hyperbole thrown out there to try to pad an argument that really has little merit. The same arguments were made last year for Leonard Fournette. Like I said, those two jokers are peas in a pod as players. Are they marginally more talented than Singletary........probably.........but who cares. They are running backs. Block it up. There is always another one waiting in the wings. As superman Derrick Henry found out when he was out performed by practice squader D'Onta Foreman in his absence this season.

Oh you're very wrong. HC and GM's don't value RB play.........that is evidenced by the pay scale and where they are drafted. Those facts are not irrelevant, though it would be convenient for your argument to say so. What teams value is utilizing the run to enhance the success of their passing game. You can do that with a good OL and adequate RB play. It's been proven over and over for a couple decades now.

Like I said..........Khalil Mack was under contract for a lower cap hit than that.........so yeah, that little bit of cap space can help you acquire a great player. And not just at pass rusher.........that can help you ink a stud CB or WR........positions that actually change games in the NFL. And remember...........Addison was coming off of a 10 sack season in Carolina when Beane gave him that contract.............Barkley was dogsh*t last year..........they couldn't be coming from more different positions of performance. Pass rushers........and most other positions........are more impactful than RB's.............it's a passing league. The proof is in the contracts. People get confused when they see all the yards RB's accumulate and all of the touches they can get............they think that means they are dominating the action. In reality an average of 4 yards every time you hand the ball off to a RB is a BIG sacrifice when you have a QB who can average 7-8 yards every time they THROW the ball. And even an elite receiving RB only averages around 8-9 yards per reception compared to an average starting WR getting 11-12 yards. That's why those RB yards/touches aren't really game changers in the NFL.

Super pumped!

I would love to see Dr. Dre and Barack Obama form a super-minority group and buy the Donkeys.

I'm not sure they could have gotten a second for him last offseason. Drafting a MLB in round 2 is a lot like drafting a RB that early though. I want my all star personnel department to find that guy for less.

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Yeah..........don't look at Joe Mixon's highly unimpressive 4.1 yards per carry in 2021.........which also happens to be his career ypc. In fact, don't look at Cinci's rushing stats at all..........bottom 3rd of the NFL in yards per carry and rushing yards total. We clearly have a different idea of what "a STUD" player is.........IMO that's a players whose impact is very hard to replace at the very least......Cinci could play action to a WHOLE LOTTA RB's and still be elite passing the ball and bottom 3rd of the league running it. Mixon doesn't change my point anymore than Leonard Fournette did last year. They are very much interchangeable players.

His cap savings are only $1.5M but he is due $4.2M in otherwise unguaranteed money between base and bonuses if he is kept this season. Doing it now makes A LOT of sense because that's $4.2M in cap room they won't have in 2023 if they pay him to play this year..............and that's space they can use NOW to sign a pass rusher to a backloaded deal, for example. It's not just fictional, down the road money. There is a very broad misunderstanding of how the salary cap works on TSW.............people need to understand that any money actually paid out has to be accounted for eventually.

I kinda' doubt the Bills REALLY believe in Edmunds any longer...........they just don't have a lot of choice. Prior to this season I think a lot of the league thought he was a special talent.............and part of that was that there weren't many really good ILB's in the league. But this year rando's.........like Logan Wilson and Nick Bolton on the Bills AFC rivals among others..........really started to lap him in terms of impact on a game to game basis. Using all that draft capital on Edmunds.......only to put him in a position he isn't instinctive enough to play........... looks like a waste in hindsight.

Skipping 2020. Ghosting the team the next offseason and not showing up until MANDATORY OTA's when he hadn't played in almost 18 months at that point. Refusing the vax after all of that and then predictably getting quite ill and missing time with Covid after already missing time with multiple injuries that may or may not have been related to almost two years without football activity. I should add that there is also $3.5M in real money the franchise can save if they dump him in the next month............and they may deem that important with signings and re-structures necessary........which is another non-football matter.

I think Khalil Mack played on a $2M base salary last season. If you are willing to backload a deal you can easily get a Von Miller in with $7M in cap room..........that is how valuable that much cap room is. I know there are runnin' back truthers on TSW but once again the lead RB's in the SB are bit players...........if they have a big game it will be because of their OL or their passing game opening up the LOS or their defense controlling the game. RB's are bit players HEAVILY reliant on a number of other players excelling at their job. Pass rushers on the other hand........those are individual difference makers in the NFL. The one-on-one battles are your best chance to make game changing plays in the NFL and with rare exception(like Aaron Donald) those big play opportunities come from edge and island positions so that's the difference between giving an arrow down trajectory Saquon Barkley the same cap space as Mario Addison who was coming off a 10 sack season with Carolina.

Star has played 314 snaps since he was last the true starting DT1T for the Bills in 2019...........and will be 33 years old next season. If the Bills cut him though it will be very clear that it is for the off-field issues..................because as noted his savings is barely above veteran minimum.

Schwartz is even more of a 1 trick pony scheme-wise than McD and Frazier............and that has been the Bills issue in the playoffs the past 3 seasons.........despite a TON of experience playing together they aren't a defense that can make broad changes to specifically address the better opposing offenses they face.

He's got the elusiveness of Hill at the catch point but not the elite jets. He's closer to Peter Warrick 2.0 than Tyreek Hill........which is a big difference, IMO. If there isn't a character issue I think Toney probably has early 3rd round trade value in what is yet another very good WR 2022 draft. Epenesa is probably more like a late 5th or 6th round value in a good edge draft at this point. He's not produced as a pass rusher and has been pretty bad against the run and only has 2 years of team control left. Worth more to the Bills than anyone at this point, IMO. But if someone might over-value him it could be a former Bills personnel man with insight on him maybe being close to a breakout season or something.

"some posters here said I was crazy"?? No they SAY you are crazy or senseless for thinking that the Bills can trade for him and just simply re-work his contract to lower his cap hit. It makes absolutely zero sense for the player to do so unless the contract extension is close to what he could expect if he repeated his 2018 stats in 2022.........plus, of course, the $7.2M he is otherwise guaranteed in full for 2022. The only way Barkley gets traded is an NBA style salary cap dump........the Giants are so up against the salary cap they aren't even in position to just do a bad contract swap.

Bengals will have $60M in cap room going into this offseason so they would be set up to give him another 1 year $10M deal like he got in Tampa.............the Bills would not find that as easy. Not that Mike Brown can be counted on to spend to the cap...........Mike Brown has the built in excuse that he has to give Joe Burrow one of those $50M aav deals after next season.

You really need to learn how to use the edit feature if you are going to post something like this while your current post is still up. You painted a picture using race(Tongan), citizenship status(son of immigrant) and religion(Mormon) to explain why you knew that Star Lotulelei had wisely handled his money. None of those 3 aspects of he or his family's identity assures any kind of inherent financial acuity.

You should have just stopped at his dad is a CPA so you'd hope his money is well taken care of instead of adding all the racist stereotyping weirdness.

Why don't YOU go back and DETAIL how it was that they needed to overpay Star Lotulelei? The answer is you don't f*cking remember........if you ever even knew. For what reason were they at a point in their re-tool that it was necessary to grossly overpay a 1 tech only who produced like a bad 0 tech? Beane had so badly botched the OL and WR situations that there was no way that team was going to repeat their modest success of 2017 with Nate Peterman or a rookie Josh Allen...........regardless of whether they were middling or poor against the run. They were a bad football team and a middling run defender getting paid $50M over 5 wasn't going to change that. The Bills picked Harrison Phillips in that 2018 draft. He was instantly much better than Lotulelei and a more natural 1 tech(a position that invites actual tackling). It was a draft that was deep in big bodied run stuffers. Tim Settle and Folorunso Fatukasi both went late if you were afraid to roll the dice with cheap free agents again.....as they had in 2017 when they dumped Dareus in the middle of a playoff race with no backup plan whatsoever. Truth is they should have addressed the DT depth better in the 2017 offseason because their plan all along was to cut bait from Dareus regardless of how well he was playing. While Lotulelei was a fairly easy "connect the dots" economy pairing because of his experience with McDermott........the contract was astonishingly bad. He was an afterthought on the market. The only interior run D specialist on a contract like that was Damon Harrison..........who was by far the best NT in football and not only much larger and incredibly more impactful at the LOS but also regularly put up 70+ tackle seasons. This contract was the equivalent of giving Chis Kelsey a $100M deal. Utter stupidity.

It was the worst and most unjustifiable free agent signing in Bills history, IMO. Some point to Derrick Dockery but he played every snap and every game and was actually a solid, overpaid guard........his crime was getting paid more than Jason Peters, which ultimately lead to Peters being disgruntled and the Bills losing a HOF LT. Star was a sub 50% of snaps early down DT who some thought might be stuck with a 1 year $4M deal............and Beane gave him $50M with $25M guaranteed over 5. A flabbergasting over pay.

Why is it "likely" that Star Lotulelei has handled his money well? That is an extremely random, unsubstantiated take. You go on rants against far more "likely" opinions than that. And just because you have made millions of dollars in your career doesn't mean that adding another 9%-10% more to your career earnings wouldn't be a huge incentive to you when you are about to retire in your mid-30's and aren't likely to find even remotely that kind of employment anywhere else. For as much time as you dedicate to this hobby..........you really should be smarter than to think that a guy like Snacks Harrison can be forced to be on practice squads in 2020 and a guy with Star Lotulelei's recent track record is going to find someone to give him $3.5M-$4M per season in 2022. And yes, the minimum salary of a vet like Star is over $1M. But what are you forgetting? That said vet has to be on the active roster in week 1 to guarantee that pay check. I'm saying Star will not be on someone's active roster week 1 if it's not in Buffalo. At this point he's a spare part that would be tying up a roster spot, which is valuable when teams are poaching young talent around final cut-down day. His guarantees remaining in Buffalo have no bearing on that........he gets that whether he plays or not in 2022 so long as he doesn't voluntarily retire.......that was money he mentally banked 2 years ago. Could he be picked up on a week to week pay basis or be on a practice squad? Sure. But we both know that will likely not suit him when he's accustomed to so much more money and security. At this point the only real question about Star Lotulelei is 'terrible free agent signing" or "worst Bills free agent signing ever".

Braxton Berrios would give them a much better returner and a guy with a younger Beasley's ceiling, IMO. But he reportedly thinks he is getting $9M per year and I'm not sure the Bills would/could go there for a slot guy. Nor do I know if he and his beach-friendly girlfriend would want to come to Buffalo.