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Norwell has a $12M base salary this season. I assume the acquiring team would take on the prorated portion of that figure. If that's the case, his salary is high enough that waiting a week or two would save considerable cap room for a strapped team like Buffalo.

You've just shattered Yolo's world. All this time he's not been getting information first to the people on bizarro TBD. How can you be named "you only live online" and not know about billsfans.com? Apparently, it happens. That's where all the banished go. Kicked out, embarrassed themselves too much to feel comfortable here anymore and even fired mods.

Yeah it's the blocking. The backs are ordinary, but fine. As @ngbills mentioned above.........a guy like Andrew Norwell would be a big upgrade. Lotta' money to fit under the cap but that LG position might be the biggest weakness on the team right now. Maybe put a stud next to Morse and that will keep him serviceable for the rest of the season if not give the team the chance to give Feliciano(he is a much better center) or Bates some run at center. I hate using early picks on interior OL, plucking established players in UFA is a sweet spot for that and this would sorta be like doing that. McBeane know Norwell. Former All Pro with Panthers.

Feliciano is most concerning to me. If I am game planning the Bills that's the man I want my best pass rusher on. Maybe Beane can pull a rabbit out of his hat and trade for former Panther and current Jaguar Andrew Norwell this week to plug the hole at guard. It would cost them something and he has $9M or so of salary left due this season but they are in SB contention and that's what you do when you are thisclose.

I think the objective should be to disincentivize the punt option.........giving the team the average net punt result would appeal very much to the Dick Jauron's of the world who endeavor to take the excitement out of the game. I'm also not sure if punts from deep in your end tend to average 40 yards net. Hence my thoughts about a less appealing 35 yard flip from within the 50. Definitely make playing aggressive in your own end more important.....a lousy team can't lean on having the better undrafted free agent punter to help them flip the field back in their favor. Also gets punters out of the game in general. Who could possibly miss punters?

Sadly, the reality is that the penalties add drama and nothing bonds fans to their team quite like the injustice of being penalized..........so there isn't any motivation for the league to work to reduce penalties in front of packed, energized venues. They are at least taking steps to streamline the penalizing process though with the sky judge stuff. That actually also serves to create more drama because then fans can't blame a specific official which makes them feel even more wronged.

I am all for taking kickoffs and punts out of the game entirely. Mostly a waste of time. Just give the team the ball at the 25 after a score and instead of punts allow the team to flip the field 35 yards from inside their own 40 and half the distance from thereafter. Get to midfield, the best a "punt choice" gets you is giving the opponent the ball at their 25. As for the holding........the NFL is obviously on a mission to reverse the narrative that they didn't throw any holding penalties last year. The game was better last year with less holding calls.

1) Correct........you have no sense of humor about the worst team in pro sports for the last decade. 2) If you are such a big fan.........where are your Sabres season tickets located during these lean attendance times when it is so desperately needed? As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, your soul to super fandom springs! Tangible proof of your fan greatness or it's probably a lie. Hokey stories about listening to games on transistor radios doesn't help make payroll.

I think they are very invested in keeping the young players, and rookies in particular, fresh for late in the season. If this is a SB run......it's less than 1/3 of the way into the season. They aren't used to playing a full NFL season so perhaps that's the reasoning. Guys like Addison and Hughes are used to playing long seasons.

yeah they've had a stretch in each season where it seemed like they were weary of the process..........but they rebounded to finish well. I think the defense just got worn down last night. They were playing well early but they haven't played a lot of snaps in general this season so all that run blocking seemed to wear them down faster than you'd hope. The Titans defense is physical.......but they are lousy.........it was really on the Bills offense to bury the Titans defense with a barrage of points early while the Bills D was still fresh. But the Titans D held up in the red zone and that gave their offense an opportunity to wear on the Bills D. Settling for too many field goals in the red zone is a common denominator in their last 3 losses.

They should have played better and won.........the Bills are the better team........but that wasn't a bad loss...........it was one of just 3 road games on the entire schedule that looked like it would require an "A" effort to win. The Pittsburgh game was a BAD loss........they had no business winning in Buffalo.

When your first name ends in "oris" you really NEED a nickname.

My opinion of these kind of plays is if you could barely get the minimum 10 yards to accomplish a first down then you didn't do your job well........certainly not well enough to complain about some other person(s) making a judgement call on the spot of the football.

Is this frantic post the denial stage of grief? It was a tough loss.........but the AFC really hasn't started taking shape yet even........hopefully 14 more games left to play so worrying about finishing the season is looking too far down the road, IMO.

I agree that drive was crucial and Allen taking that sack was a very critical mistake at a terrible time by him. But when one play or even one drive is the difference........then you didn't play well enough to deserve to win. They played themselves into a slug fest with bad red zone play and settling for field goals. When you play the Titans you gotta' decapitate their defense and then tee off on Tannehill..........they accomplished neither and were fortunate to still have a chance at the end.

With House I know there was a board emphasis on less use of meme/gif material and that was what most of his posts were. He was very good at it and is missed.

Bill O'Brien? Lane Kiffin?

There is no greater Bills-drought-era refrain than "but were literally a few plays from being 10-6".

That's a standard losers lament. We were even hearing that here on TSW as recently as a few weeks ago with regard to the Bills passing on Patrick Mahomes.

5-11 was an amazing job? 10-6 in year 2 was good.........this year has been very bad. What the Dolphins are is proof that piling up draft picks doesn't necessarily equate to making your team better in the future. If they pick Justin Herbert instead of Tuna then Flores looks a lot better right now, IMO..........fortunately, they did not.

I don't expect Beasley will change teams this season but if the Bills are looking to make a move with him in-season........with the bye, this coming week would be the most ideal time. How about sending Beasley back home to Texas for Brandin Cooks? Cooks would seem like the more valuable commodity at the moment.........and his remaining base salary is less than Beasley's for this season so he's going to be a desirable trade prospect.........but Cooks has a high cap figure next year so Houston might not want to have him back or extend his deal. After the Bills would have eaten Beasley's unamortized money he'd be a very cheap cap fit for Houston in 2022.........so Houston would get a 2 year player for a one year player in Cooks. Would keep both players out of other teams hands as well............I just have a feeling that some contender will trade for Cooks and if the Bills/Beas situation came to release he would end up with a contender as well.

No, you do not need to separate the two. If a player isn't producing for you......regardless of why.......and if they are expensive and you need the cap space(they will).........those are reasons to trade or release a player. Doesn't matter if that player is theoretically capable of still playing well........it's cost/benefit analysis.

Actually, 7800 is a pretty impressive showing of fans for indisputably the worst performing and arguably the least entertaining team in pro sports over the last decade.

I can see #1.......the Josh leap with hand down in KC could fit nicely on a Buffalo riding logo.........but you lost me after that. As for #3, #4 and #5.........I know it's Nashville week so the perception is that Bills Mafia are all country western folk.........but the last thing we need is a bunch of no-cattle jag offs at the games wearing 10 gallon hats. And you know that Bill Cody is directly associated with native american killing and exploitation and so that idea is DOA in a culture.