Bleeding Bills Blue

End of the day - you beat good QBs with guys like bernard making a play here and there. Edmunds closing throwing lanes is valuable, but its less valuable when you're playing a good QB who can either still find the window, or buy enough time to create one.

They definitely need some starters on rookie deals. Right now they have - Offense: Shakir, Torrence, Brown, Kincaid, and Cook Defense: Rousseau, Bernard, Benford So they definitely need to add some players on the defensive side of the ball - especially on the defensive line. Offensively I think they need to add a younger pass catcher, and i think it'd be nice to add a mid-round lineman.

Yep - then they snagged carr to try and extend the window with this team. I don't think he's really good enough to do it, but the winston saints were not going anywhere. 1-5 against playoff teams last year on a pretty soft schedule (5-0 against Carolina, NE, NYG, Chicago) tells you all you need to know though.

We're probably a year away from medicine. Von, and Knox are fairly obvious candidates for next year. You could also potentially make several moves this year, but then it probably shifts your draft strategy. If you trade douglas, and cut white - you save a bunch, but now depth is absolutely barren - so you likely have to sign one and draft another 1 or 2. We need at least 1 safety for sure, cutting poyer just opens up another spot for a safety. Same for Morse, you may feel comfortable plugging in bates, but you're actively downgrading at that point. To me its more of being very careful and methodical on extensions, term of extensions, age of players, etc. Avoid tacking on tons of void years this year to any free agent contracts, and realistically look for players you want on the roster for multiple seasons. And this is a draft that needs to have some day 1 contributors at potentially WR, S, and DT/DE.

And they have a ton of space already tied up in considerably large restructures. Buffalo has 20M in restructure bonuses, while NO has 63M. Their 5th highest cap hit is taysom hill. NO only have 2.8M in dead cap, but it doesn't include Peat who has 13.6M in a structured void hit. Buffalo has 8.8M in dead cap including void years for Floyd, Jones, and Settle with another 3.8 to Hyde. They're also in a tough spot as the only way to get out of some of this is extensions - and they don't really have anyone you'd want to add years to. Lattimore is 28 and has missed a full seasons worth of games over the last 2. Kamara is 29 and misses time every year. Jordan and Davis are both 35. Thomas has a long injury history and isn't worth the contract he's on at this point. They have just been kicking some of these contract cans down the road for like 9 years now and you hit a point where you have a very old team (who isn't even particularly good), and you're kind of forced to take your medicine. Buffalo is not in a similar scenario yet, nor do I expect them to be. The key is to find contributors on rookie deals - and they have added quite a few in the last couple drafts. The next key is to not necessarily overpay players on their 2nd deals (some will walk), identify the players you want to make long-term commitments to, and to continue to re-stock and replace as you go.

And like Moss, a lot of times its just fit.

Higgins is more of a contested catch guy than a separation guy though. Seems to make sense to me.

Chase young was supposed to be. Kinlaw hargrave and armstead are all solid disruptors too. Honestly the greenlaw injury was brutal. Everything was going underneath and after that injury they were able to attack with kelce more. Held them under 20 in regulation fwiw.

Happy to see him all over my TV though... i don't think he's going to demand to be the highest paid QB with all of that ad money coming in.

I'd say 1st round is your best chance, but sometimes football players don't test particularly well and we need to find them!

He's a solid cleanup guy too with the length. More of a Phil Hansen type. Honestly, the home runs for a team like Buffalo probably don't come from the 1st round. I do like Kincaid a lot. But they usually end up from someone later. A benford, bernard, or shakir perhaps.

White cannot play under the contract he has right now - so he's either cut or taking a pretty substantial paycut and loosening guarantees. I wouldn't cut douglas as he was one of our best players down the stretch, and the base salary number is reasonable. He'd also have a pretty solid trade value still. Morse, if we drafted someone at C in the last couple of years maybe. I know bates is prepared to step in, but I'm not sure how i feel on depth. Poyer's cap hit is 7.7 and you get 5.7 in savings. Seems like a lot, but then you have to replace him and its basically the same. Depends how FA pans out here, but it probably eases the transition to keep one of Poyer/Hyde. Most especially since the defensive line is in such a massive state of flux. Correct - they kept a flawed core together to try and win as much with brees. But for whatever reason they've continued doing all of that without the winning formula. Most of the players who have them are solid players. But they have guys with high cap hits who are either old or injured or both, and they have no way of getting any cap savings by releasing them. Rams did it and went to one and won another. So its not necessarily a bad strategy, just have to be careful who you extend or you'll end up having to dump good players when you cant afford to extend them.

Void years. you can lessen the cap blow by basically spreading base salary as void years into the future. They all trigger the next season though. Yep - they had a tremendous draft that year - but they had been stashing a lot of talent over the last few drafts. Even whiffing on CEH in 2020 - they still nailed gay, snead, danna. Assume Chenal replaces gay. They also drafted an end at 31 in 2023 who can potentially replace danna. This would allow them to pay sneed and Jones.

Achane misses half his rookie season with injuries - green. His yards per carry was wildly high but he couldn't make it through a season without getting hurt twice (shoulder and then knee). He also fell off a cliff after the injury. Bernard replaces a pro bowler at a premium position and has a fantastic year - pink... need to see more.

Looking at the jets and im like... Breece Hall is blue chip and James cook is not? And what is the taron johnson concern? He was all-pro this year.

I don't see a scenario where trading diggs makes sense and doesn't just open up a massive hole. No compensation offered will do anything to move the needle. The offers will be things like 4th and 5th round picks. I don't want that. Improving WR2 should help a lot. Need more speed, and ideally someone with more route running chops. Brady never really got it working with Diggs oddly enough, but I'm willing to bet he has a plan since they hired him. WR1 - Diggs WR2 - ??? - Ideally a rookie with some wheels and hands WR3 - Shakir WR4 - ??? - Vet who can play inside and out WR5 - Harty i guess - totally open to moving him but maybe they just lower the cap hit and keep him as a returner WR6 - Shorter or a rookie who outplays him

Just take kicks out of it. No fg's no extra points. 6 or 8. They requested the change first though didn't they? After they lost to New England? I bet they even voted to approve it.

Don't dish it out if you can't take it? People (carter) say mean stuff to try and get in your head, and his (feliciano) retort was equally mean. If carter was that offended he couldve pushed him, hit him low later in the game or something, or just generally gone after him. You're a lineman, you literally get to hit him on like every play if you want. I don't. He was fine the one year, then the next year he lost a ton of weight from an illness and just had a huge gut and tiny arms. I think he ended up on the bench because he still had the pass protection issues, and was no longer bringing it in the run game.

Beane wasn't here during the tre white draft. That was whaley's scouting with mcd probably getting final say so. 4 of the 6 picks were senior bowl players he likely met and interacted with in person.

I believe a certain deep ball was on that drive, no? +4 is a lot different than +3 with less than 2 left. The chiefs had been running it quite well in the 2nd half, which they probably still could a little bit but maybe 1 or 2 plays. With less than 2 left, you can take klein off the field for practically the entire drive.

I'd prefer college with some tweaks. Start from the 30. No field goals, no extra points. Coin toss just picks who goes first and what end zone - both go in the same direction. It's still football, you can still get 1st downs. If you don't score, the other team still needs to go into the end zone to win. Plus with 2 point conversions you get an additional layer of drama. FG's and XP's are just... ways to string it out imo.

Complete inability to run the ball against them always throws the offense off. Defense needs to do a better job muddying up Burrow's reads, disguising coverage, and creating pressure.

I see what you're saying - but at the same time, i want to avoid overtime at all costs. A TD at least puts a next level amount of pressure on the chiefs, while overtime they can operate at whatever pace they want. Buffalo had maintained a solid TOP advantage in this game so they would've been rested, and 1:45 takes out their running game (which had been very effective in the game).

Clearly we are fairly evenly matched with KC, the games literally all come down to the wire. Doesn't mean how we match up with SF, or a healthy burrow-led cincy squad, or whomever. Football is matchups, its game calling, its the players making a play at a given moment, etc. I don't fear KC, and I think we will knock them off in the next year or two, but it doesn't matter if you can't win the ones after that.

I know Greenlaw was nursing some tightness in his Achilles, but he literally tore it running onto the field (which honestly potentially cost them the game). There is definitely some degree of luck involved.