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Somewhat different situation here as he was signed off from someone else’s practice squad rather than cut. Meaning the Bucs didn’t necessarily want him gone. Be interesting to see what Shannahan can do with him. He’s a really good coach who maximized what could be done with Jimmy GQ and Mullens. Rosen has arm talent and he’s highly intelligent. I question if he really loves football and is willing to put in the extra work like you see from Josh Allen. Was basically the word coming out of UCLA. His worldview is a lot bigger than football and he’s got a lot of public/social interests from going to a school like UCLA. That’s sort of what you like to see from a college kid, but as an NFL QB, you probably want to see him be more passion about being great at football than being passionate about world matters. That really might be what keeps him from making it in the league, on top of having no lower body athleticism. Not meant as a criticism either

Arguably the 4th best QB in football this year

Some of us have Fantasy Ships to win over here! (obviously not a legitimate reason for McD to rest starters)

5th grade was Wide Right. Will I cry? I don't know. But I think i'll be really happy for myself, but I think I'll be just as happy for Scott Norwood , Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas and others.

Regarding Allen.... you extend him this offseason He’s trending towards 2nd highest paid player in the league behind Mahomes. He’s 24, shown an incredible work ethic, shown incredible talent, shown he can be hugely effective as a pure pocket passer, shown that he doesn’t need an elite OLine or even a running game to be effective, and finally he’s hugely charismatic and a leader that his teammates love. Mahomes is at $45M per year. Watson is at $39M per year, I think Josh is between those two guys at $42M. 8 years, 336M extension, starting in 2022 35M signing bonus. 4.5M cap hit Pay him about 20M each in year 1 and 2 of the extension. Then about 45M per year for the final 6 when the Cap is past pandemic impact. Would mean that Allen’s cap hit wouldnt go higher than 25M until 2025

It'll be 100% open. If people refuse to get vaccinated that's on them. They're not a risk for those who ARE vaccinated, but only to themselves. Can't see the NFL not letting fans because a chunk of the population has philosophical differences with vaccines.

I mean, this is even true of our other QB, Jake Fromm. What he said was terrible, inherently racist - but at the same time he's 22 and has lived a basically gilded life in the South, where he hasn't really experienced real life. I wish people would use empathy when they look at someone like him, because empathy is the ONLY way to cure racism. That's what Foxworth doesn't get. Maybe he did find some racist tweets of these people with these avatars...but how is just saying I hate them and root against Josh Allen supposed to be constructive? This isn't a rant against cancel culture either (I have problems with it), but basically a rant against people who who intentionally say the most emotional thing they can think, of rather than trying to use empathy to understand and correct. You have a problem with the things some of Allen's followers say? Speak to your personal pain, reach out to Josh, and ask if they can work together to help some of his followers update their ways of thinking by sending them some empathy for how they came to those hurtful opinions. Just tired of this hot take BS from everyone

This has nothing to do with political views, and everything to do with his approach and style and intentions. Listen, I have 3 political heroes in my adult life, and two of them are Republicans and the other a Democrat. There's 3 guys who I would symbolize as everything that's wrong with politcs in America, and 1 of them is a Democrat the other 2 Republicans. The first 3 are all human beings first, who empathized and saw others as human firsts. The "bad" 3 are guys who saw people as political weapons, emotions as something to be taken advantage of for your own power and ways to influece. Clay Travis and apparenty Foxworth absolutely fall into that latter category. This has NOTHING to do with politics and everything to do with "Hot Take to incite people" culture

If you have a problem with something Allen tweeted at 15, then freakin get over yourself. Racism is a terrible thing, but at 15, it's entirely a function of what you observe. Not your home, but society & culture through TV and your school. If you're mad at that, then consider empathy for Josh, for what he witnessed in his young life at that point that led him to post that. He was also FIFTEEN. We forgive children in this country, because we know they're a long ways from their final product. I don't care who Allen voted for, or what party who supports. All I know is that he's a tremendous human being, who's community and team loves him - of al races, gender and creed. If I know nothing else about him, that is enough to know that Josh Allen is an admirable young man, worth telling kids that this is a role model for how to act

Because he's the other side of the same coin as what Foxworth is doing here. He happened to shed light on something I agree with this time, but in in general, I have zero respect for arsonists. His entire being is based on getting people angry - either to incite them into support through anger and fear, or incite hatred in people who's politics they disagree with.

However, this shouldn't be an excuse for quoting Clay Travis.

I respect and enjoy all of you as my fellow Bills fan, which is why I don’t bring my politics into all this. Not that I’d like anyone less or more, but its just not relevant and I respect your own interests. but I’ll say this - I voted Obama twice, and Biden once, and in general broadly support racial justice movements and am generally sympathetic towards most civil rights movements. I am telling you this, because it gives you a sense of extent of passion, when i say what Foxworth says here might be the most ridiculous take I’ve ever heard in my entire life. First of all, you’re judging an entire effing fan base by Twitter avatars?!!! That’s 100% absurd. I don’t care if those people are spouting KKK slogans, that does NOT mean they represent a fan base. Second, did you ACTUALLY research what those people tweet, or did you randomly look at 2 people for 4 seconds each? and then you’re not rooting for Josh Allen because of people on Twitter?! good lord the ridiculousness is beyond mind boggling. again i supper to the racial justice movement. This is not that. This is asinine

I hate this start time. I'm a Penn State Alum/huge College fan Clemson - ND - 4pm Bills - Broncos - 430pm Penn State - Illinois - 530pm Wish the NFL didn't do Saturday flex, knowing that college is still playing

DJ Reader, one of the best 1T 's in the NFL. Want to unleash the entirety of this defense and backers, get him and you'll see this D take the next level. For the drought Bills, 4th year Stehpon Gilmore

Think you're right about the DLine in 21, cutting Addison nets you 6M, cutting Butler (who's actually been playing a lot better) nets you 6.8M. Cutting Jefferson saves you 5M but 'd strongly consider keeping him, due to his versatility. He's a good pass rusher, and can also play a big DE for run D. Jerry Hughes, I think is a candidate for restructure + extend. He looks like he still has a few years in the tank, even at 32. The Bills have an out year after 220, and can save 7.5M by cutting him....but I'd rather them restructure and extend him to 2024. Give him a nice 5M signing bonus and a 2M salary on top of that and it keeps his cap hit under 4M, and you get to keep a pretty productive DE. At 32, I'm not sure he'd get a better deal than that in the open market.

Allen is getting to the point where he’s good enough to paper over holes on the offensive side. I wouldn’t invest in plus players at 4/5 players on the OLine. Allen is good enough where they might not need anything but an average running game to win football games. Feliciano, to me, is a luxury player. He’s an average pass pro but plus Run blocker. I wouldn’t resign him, but rather let Ford and Ryan Bates - both of whom played tackle at college so came into the league as pass protection lineman - have a shot at unseating Winters and Boetger at those guard spots and maybe signing a vet minimum, while also investing a mid round pick . So I’m the Bills, put money at LT/RT/C, but underpay at guard and RB. Defensively, that’s tough. You can get away with average DEs if you have elite athletes at linebacker, or with Klein, a quality blitzer. Hughes is going to be a huge question mark. There’s almost no way Addison comes back with his 10M cap hit, that’s gonna be Epenesa. Because of that I think Milano is integral to the success of the defense - if you’re going or underinvest at DE, then your backers need to make up for it with pressure and coverage

1 year deals makes the problems worse because of higher cap hits. Personally, I think you see longer deals with high signing bonuses. for example you can resign both Milano and Williams. say about 40M total for Milano, and another 40M for Williams. For Milano, you give him a 6 year contract, and a $25M signing bonus, that’s. 4.16M cap hit for the bonus, and if you pay yearly salary evenly it’s 2.5M a year. If 50% of yearly salary is gtd money, then you start with a dead cap number of 32M, going down about 5M a year. That’s a decent amount of risk to the organization, but a $6M cap hit is a bit of a steal for Williams, he’s 28, so I imagine that’s closer to a 4 year contract and that’s going to be a lot more expensive in terms of cap hit, no matter how much you concert to a signing bonus. But possible I guess. Teams are going to have to risk long term deals. Short term deals are just too cap heavy

It was interesting to not that the Bills did hit on a single one of Allen’s deep balls last night. Allen is having to play at an elite level because teams don’t have to respect the Bills deep game right now. This offense badly misses Smoke, and with him the Bills probably put that game away in the first half. This isn’t to say you keep him at the expense of a good looking RT, but rather just be careful, if you’re the bills, about cashing in on the cap savings from cutting Brown

Don't believe the Bills can pay him market value. Over 6 years he got paid 12M, so he's not going to give the Bills a discount ,he'll have earned his first big contract. You're looking at 4 years, 8M+ a year + 9M bonus ~14M

So am I, doesn't make me fit to defend them though.

One thought about Levi Wallace is that the Steelers WR provide a hugely different challenge than the Niners WRs. You can't get much quicker than Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk. They're basically super charged smurfs. JuJu, Claypool and Diontae Johnson are all bigger and stronger WRs, but they're also not nearly as quick. That's probably better for Levi who seems to do better with physical WRs. There's also going to be some interesting choice being made in coverage. This current offense for the Steelers is no longer the power vertical offense you're used to seeing from Mike Tomlin, it's almost an Air Raid offense where the ball comes out absurdly quick and everything is horizontal. There's a few ways you can handle that. You can zone & tackle them, and basically trade yardage for FGs. That's a good strategy if you're confident in your own offense turning possessions into TDs, because you won't see as much of the ball. Or you can get into their faces and try to disrupt short routes, and hope your pressure gets to them. Something you might try if you're not certain of your offense, and you want to maximize the number of possessions in the game. The other factor is that the Steelers are getting a lot of schtick from the media for not running the football. James Connor has been activated from reserve, and I'm wondering if Mike Tomlin wants to go back to his roots, and tries to pound and go vertical off the run game? That's something I'm probably more comfortable with, as I think the Niners are a better running team than the Steelers.

He's wide open running in his own 3rd of the field. You expect a middle schooler to catch that.

First of all, you can't ask people who don't exist (Pitt fans who goto games) Second, I never claimed rationality!

First you need to convince Josh that Davis wasn't open enough to not make that throw. And considering his arm talent, not sure that's an argument you're gonna win.

"throw to Lee Smith" likely wasn't a large part of the playbook, so it's easy to forgive Josh for not looking his way, when options #1, & #2 and the check down are on the left. My guess us that Smith was nothing more than having someone around to throw the ball away without getting intentional grounding. That's a coverage bust, but not neccesarily something you expect Josh to pick up