I have a lot of faith in McD when it comes the backfield. I thought signing Hyde and Poyer was taking someone else back ups and being done on the cheap. Got that wrong. He knows what he's doing. If Rapp is his guy, I'm good with it.
Well, as I write this we are still $17 mil over cap after today's red wedding, and we still have to restock two safties, 3 DTs and a at least another DE. Not seeing an additions on the level of Sutton coming here.
He's 29 with two years left on his contract with a $17+ million cap hit this year. You hate to extend him and have another 30+year old receiver. We have to see how the heck we're going to get under the cap as it is. I say draft a WR and follow the KC path on defense.
Lost a bit of my enthusiasm when Beane signalled we're keep an older costly average center in Morse. Likely he'll be extended which is just a miss in my book. All these extensions may put us in dead cap Hell again. Follow KC's lead and move on from older or expensive players. Draft well and play them, not observe them for a few years like McClappy is inclined to do.
I don't relish watchig that movie again. It's time to move away from expensive vets who haven't gotten you to the promised land. I don't expect they'll improve. I've seen enough of Morse moonwalked by a bull rush.
Our "best in a while" Oline couldn't protect Josh when it mattered against KC. I don't care about the regular season. Morse cannot get us a yard when we need it. And I am not betting we dodge the injury bullet again on the OL.
Just watched too many Bills Oline fails in the past 50+ years.
They rebuilt most of their Oline and D in just 2 years. Plus maitaining all that cap space despite paying big QB money. Smart drafting and trades. They will get better next year. We can only hope we don't watch reruns of the last 3 seasons but it's feeling that way, at least right now.
Doesn't change much. We need to get younger, faster and cheaper. We still need to move on from a lot of players. It does give us chance to not extend so many contracts. The $13 mil extra is almost exactly what our dead cap money is this year.