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Calais Campbell has a $15M base salary and would only account for $2.5M dead money. They've got ways to make cap room that could still benefit Buffalo.

I felt strongly that the Bills should sign Mario Williams and had the audacity to say that they could and that they would try. (That was generally perceived as astonishing unrealistic.......I think it was @Kevin who nearly lost his mind tryna shout that take down). But I get the joke..........I wish they had some kind of organizational memory so they could stop repeating mistakes. I've liked the 4 players they've drafted in round 1 the past 3 years..........which is a first in itself. As for that organizational memory.........I look back at the Donahoe period where he cleared the roster and he then had a great draft and looked smart and efficient in free agency initially..........and in hindsight the good personnel moves were as much a function of having needs everywhere as anything..........which feels A LOT like the good things that McBeane have done. It went to Donahoe's head.........and once he felt he only had a few needs left he lost his mind and started making impulsive, unsound decisions. McBeane need to keep filling needs in FA.......address premium positions early in the draft and let the talent come to them in rounds 3-6.

WR is the one position group on the team where they realistically have ZERO players with a likely long term(3 year or more) future with the team. Drafting 2 should be a given.........its virtually inevitable that even doing the right thing and taking BPA that they will run into at least two instances where BPA is a WR...........and I wouldn't be surprised if they took a third or if their top UDFA was a WR.

Even if they sign a WR1 in UFA they need to take advantage of the deep WR class anyway...........Beasley(31) and Brown(30) are aging, undersized targets going into 2020.......late in modestly productive careers...........if they get one more good year out of them they should consider themselves fortunate. You gotta' take the talent the draft presents you whether it feels like a great need or not. If that's WR you address it while the iron is hot.

For me my memory and the fact that I've seen all those 1992 Bills games many times is where I derive my intel about Lofton dropping open passes. The numbers strongly support it also...........you want context but at the same time you said his ypr was in decline when he was still 18th in the NFL in ypr in 1992.........but 141st of 161 in catch rate. But if you don't like the Lofton reference keep in mind that TO lead the NFL in drops his last year in Dallas and in his final 3 years he was basically a 50% catch rate when his career catch % rate was 59% before that. His ypr was still good though. Same with Jerry Rice in his last two years. Big drop in catch% but still pretty good in ypr. The reason a lot of these guys think they can still play is because the can still put up the speed/quickness numbers that are easy to quantify............catching the football in an NFL game while doing it is a different story. The hands certainly don't ALWAYS go first either..........Eric Moulds lost all of his speed and quickness by the time he left Buffalo but could still catch the ball fairly well...........but the perception that all WR's lose the ability to run first is not at all accurate.

I mean, mid 40%'s was awful then and it's awful now. James Lofton was 161st out of 165 qualifying receivers in catch % in 1993. Dude just couldn't catch the football anymore. But like TO he could still get open.

I don't know........I think Darrell Green was still the fastest man in the NFL at age 39. It just appears that for many the hand eye coordination is harder to maintain. When top QB's fall off the cliff they usually just start missing throws they used to make.

You joke but TO had the legs and physicality to play for at least a couple more years than he did.............but his hand/eye coordination failed him. He got down around 49%-50% catch rate and that's just too low to tolerate for long. For reference Dawson Knox.......who seemed to drop every other pass last year.......was at least at 56%. Same thing happened with James Lofton. He could still get over the top.........I'm sure he still could have run a 4.4 40 at least........and he was still getting open and averaged over 15 ypc in his last year in Buffalo.........but his catch rate was pathetic.......only in the mid 40%.

Donahoe got caught up chasing "playmakers"..........used a first on McGahee who was considered a much bigger HR threat than Travis Henry..........and went with Parrish because they wanted a different type of WR than they had. Basically screwed up 2 drafts........which came back to haunt them in a couple years. Swift would be a McGahee-esque pick. Yeah McGahee sat out a season and Swift would play as a rookie.........but relatively speaking that draft had a lot less playmaking talent available than this one. And I worry about getting more small targets for Allen............who almost instinctively started throwing the ball to big target Duke Williams when he was activated. You mentioned KJ Hamler in another thread..........exciting player..........but does Allen have the ball placement and confidence to take full advantage of small targets like Hamler or even the host of 5'11 types like Ruggs and Reagor etc.. This is a fun WR draft but after Jeudy and Lamb you start making traditional "choices" between smaller, quick/fast talents and bigger and less "quick-starting" talents. They gotta' choose right. Hopefully the combine and private workouts help identify the right fits.

He's not the same physical, explosive player he was coming out of Clemson. Yeah that darn HOF.........nothing but LT's. It wasn't the significance of it that you were denying...........you were denying it was going to happen............which was just a totally out-of-touch take.

Remember in 2018 when you were mocking the idea that Peters will be elected into the HOF? ? He was still easily one of the top 10 LT's in the NFL last year.

Yeah but you don't want to fall in love with the ankle breaking potential of a Roscoe Parrish and pass on a Vincent Jackson.

This guy didn't play hard. This guy was "me first". This guy "didn't want to be in Buffalo". Just a series of vague excuses. I was not pleased at all that they let those 5 early picks go.......it was dumb.......but even I am stunned by how efficiently that group of "bad apples" has crushed the narrative that they were limiting factors in team success. It just is what it is..........McBeane(or McDermott for those who refuse to accept that Beane was the pre-ordained GM) were totally clueless wrt pro personnel and gutless with their QB decision and it's at-best set the timetable back.

Dareus' orginal contract was bad but the guarantees were money out the door.......and his base salaries were in the $9.5M range for 2017 & 2018 and the Jags then re-negotiated his deal for 2019 to lower that figure. He had zero contract leverage left by 2017. He was playing well for McD and his departure hurt and he had a huge positive impact on arrival in Jacksonville. Their run defense went from 30th prior to his arrival to 1st after it.........and he played extremely well in the playoffs and the Jags nearly made it 5 for 5 in "Whaley trash" reaching the SB in McD's first 3 years. To this day he's still better at the job than who the Bills got to replace him. And speaking of THAT guy.... The Bills have paid Star Lotulelei $25M for two years of never once better than pedestrian play at DT1T.......compare that math..........they've paid MORE for Star than they would have had to for Dareus....and frankly if they can't find a better DT1T to rotate in behind Harrison Phillips this year they should be ashamed of their scouting.

There are typically gems at RB later in the draft who can really make teams significantly better too. A guy like Antonio Gibson from Memphis might have as much untapped upside and be a mid-to-late round pick. I hope they get two in this draft but none before round 3.

Yeah I've been intrigued with Fant since seeing him in that game against the Bills in 2016...........dude practically walked off the basketball court onto the field and was able to play some tackle in the NFL. If the "standard", college-trained-for-3-4 years NFL OL is pretty much useless until year 3 then maybe a guy with no experience has the light come on in year 5 or 6? Yeah but do they want to pay him $8M-$9M after getting him on the cheap last year? And I do realize the irony.........but this time you tell him ahead of time you are keeping him at his LT pay level.

Or maybe "me first" is just hyperbole used as an excuse. Remember when Stephon Gilmore was making "business decisions" in Buffalo so good riddance to him and now he has a ring, 2 SB appearances and an NFL Defensive Player of the Year award and is 6-0 in games against Buffalo? In hindsight NONE of those 5 losses of first and second round picks(Gilmore, Woods, Watkins, Darby, Dareus) of Whaley/Nix in 2017 were "good" moves unless you use the vague rationale that they were bad guys...........which is entirely subjective and didn't prevent 4 of them from starting in SB's and 3 of them getting rings on separate teams in 3 years. You can't get any more efficient than 3 rings in 3 years. Dareus is the only debatable one and that's because they had to eat his dead money either way.......his base salaries weren't that bad in 2018 and 2019......... and his departure collapsed the Bills run defense in 2017 and that lead to the awful Star Lotulelei contract double down at DT. What it all proves is.........as Belichick says...........you gotta' be making dumb moves constantly to not be competitive. McBeane have made some good moves as well and that's why they are 50-50 in their first 100 games in Buffalo.

He's a free agent. I guess it's just assumed he won't change teams but he played for cheap on a 1 year deal last year.

They took Marshon Lattimore in round 1 of that draft............who I assume they will extend and try to make into a franchise cornerstone going forward. That's what will ultimately define that draft for them long after Kamara is traded or leaves in UFA. Coming up with reasons during the draft process to select a RB in round 1 is a long time organizational weakness...........you gotta' have a system in place where you have protections against taking that cheese.

He was a luxury to Reid. It actually appeared that KC had relegated Watkins in the second half of the season........perhaps preparing for life after they cut him. As far as bringing back former Bills that Andy Reid had success with I'd prefer Jason Peters..........who Reid once called "The Peyton Manning of offensive lineman" after he pilfered him from the incompetence that was Russ Brandon(who had the torches and pitchforks on his side back in those days). Put Peters at RT on a one year deal and let he and Nsekhe manage the spot in rotation to keep them fresh and if Dawkins misses time you have Peters to fill that spot coming off another top 10 performance at LT.

As you know the Saints got Kamara in round 3. The positionless/playmaker line of thinking was the rationale behind the drafting of CJ Spiller a decade ago............it's fine when you get that talent in the bonus rounds but you need franchise building blocks in those first and second rounds. It just rarely ever works out like that with RB's.......and despite his success the last I heard the Saints were very open to trading Kamara..........because in the end he's just a RB and teams don't like to pay those guys. And I guess this is a good time to remind the thread that the two lead RB's in the SB were undrafted.

Agreed.........I think Dallas looks like the best option..........they have the money to fit a guy in at $8M-$10M on a 1 year deal if Cooper leaves and Dak throws the ball deep and to the sidelines so there are plays to be made there. They were interested the last time he was a UFA as I recall. As for the pay cut allowance I assume it's still part of the CBA but back when half the league was in cap disarray every year it was a regularly discussed component. Like I said I think it's around 20% of base salary and after that they have to be cut and re-signed. That's a possibility but if you are KC and looking at this WR draft class.........why not just draft a couple?

Yeah it's a highly unusual situation. Hill is the most dangerous player in the NFL with the ball in his hands. I suspect Sammy's #1 hope will be that Amari Cooper leaves Dallas and then try to get a prove it deal there as Dak's #1. Baltimore has been mentioned too and Sammy played some of his best football in year one of Rex with Roman as OC.

He was on NFL network right after the game and literally said he was just messing with the media and that he was "too young" to take a season off. I think what it comes down to is that he always intended to be dictating the terms of his employment at this point in his career and now he is essentially a free agent because he knows that a CBA permitted "pay cut"........which I believe is a max of 20%..........is not close to enough for him to be back in KC next year. He's getting cut. So yeah he's got 4-6 weeks for he and his agent to figure out what's next. And coming off two disappointing regular seasons he needs to go somewhere that he will be fed the ball to re-build his stock...........which means taking a big pay cut AND limiting the options of places to play.

Yeah unfortunately I have to turn it off when she is on. The combination of the faint voice AND heavy nasal makes it work to listen. When she's on with Tasker who is constantly breathing into the mic and shifting the spit in his mouth it's just really bad. A lot of people hate Schopp for his takes but the guy is really good as a broadcaster.