RunTheBall

You people are high if you think we are taking him at 25. Come on, we are in win now mode. It’s WR or CB, not a busted EDGE when we just signed Miller. Achilles injury is worse than an ACL. It’s a tendon it connects a muscle to a bone, the ACL just keeps 2 bones stable. You never know how these guys are going to recover it’s just not easy to predict like an ACL.

Maybe it’s because we form such an emotional bond with our team that I can’t understand, and don’t believe, that true fans can just cut off their fandom and pick another team to root for and Cleveland has great fans. I think most are just venting. If this were Buffalo and I was that much against signing Watson, I’d just stop watching the Bills and wouldn’t support them with my cash. When they got rid of him, I’d probably be back (but not happy they could make such a stupid move to begin with). There’s no way I could pick another team and say “This is my team now” and feel 1% the passion towards that team. It’s in the blood.

Hahaha Browns gonna Brown. What a clown show. Their hands were forced because of the Mayfield debacle. $230 million GURANTEED?? That is nuts! Who knows if he can even still play at a high level? I thought he was a good QB but come on, he’s probably at the bottom of the Top 10.

PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER! I’m fine with Phillips/Shaq coming back on near league minimum deals. Bet they play their hearts out now that they got paid by some other teams. Please, oh god please BRING BACK FITZ

Only thing better than the ascension of the Bills is watching the destruction of the Pats* and the bewilderment of the biggest bandwagon fans in sports history (most, but not all of NE fans). Welcome to the rest of the NFL, especially to those fans under 30 or the older fans who didn’t jump on the wagon until Brady started winning. BB is on his way out, he’s obviously still a HOF coach but he’s a crap GM and that is catching up to them. Hartford Patriots again in 10 years

Just comes down to the owner. Haslam is an absolute clown, Cleveland fans deserve better. He’s in competition with the Jets Woody Johnson as worst current NFL owner.

Take your 4 posts and GTFO. Seriously, this is a clown post. Just because you can’t recognize this move for what it is doesn’t mean you need to pollute the board with your ignorance. I’m not going to waste any time explaining it except to say Super Bowl.

If the same clowns who have been pissing all day about Beane not making a move are now going to complain about a splash contract signing, the details of which we don’t know yet, just delete your accounts

17.5 million a year for first 4 years. Backloaded according to Rapaport

Boom! Wait for the details. Probably a 2-3 year deal with an out after that and some void years

Isn't Mayfield guaranteed 18.9 mil from having his 5th year option picked up? So wtf are the Browns gonna do? Every team knows they want to offload him, so no one is going to pony up high draft picks for him. Those clowns are going to get near zero return on the #1 overall pick just because they couldn't be a little discreet with their interest in Watson. I feel sorry for Cleveland fans that owner is a disaster.

DOOMED!!

Eh. Next.

The Factory of Sadness just keeps producing. Never been a Mayfield fan but that crap franchise (and I want Cleveland to be good) didn't do him any favors. Mayfield was over hyped and under developed by the coaching staffs. Idk if he can rebound.

Some of you guys are hilarious. Bellyaching over a guy who was average at best in a corner friendly scheme while getting coverage help constantly from the best safety tandem in the league. Take a breath, McBeane didn’t want him anymore and are looking to upgrade the position since Levi was the weak link in the secondary. We will pick up a guy in FA who’s probably better than Levi, and draft a corner fairly high. The last position group I’m concerned about with this front office and coaching staff is the secondary. They excel there.

Only reason I'm mildly surprised is because of the dead cap hit. It will be interesting to see what Beane has in mind for the O-line

I could see Bease back with a pay cut. This front office treats their players very honestly and straight forward. I think Beane made it be known to Cole’s agent that they weren’t bringing him back at the current salary. Beane is very astute at player values, so just like Milano who he allowed to test FA before signing an extension, he’s letting Bease see if anyone out there wants to pay him 7 million. He knows there isn’t. So when Bease comes back I think Beane will offer him a reasonable competitive contract and Cole can either get cut and see if he can do better or take the offer.

Are you serious with this? There are about a thousand receivers better than Foster. He had a few good games being thrown to by the emerging Josh Allen. That’s it. He wouldn’t make our practice squad

The whole point of promoting Dorsey was continuity for Josh so to think there is going to be some drastic change in our offense is silly. No one knows what wrinkles Dorsey will throw in, I’m sure his understanding of NFL offenses has evolved from his college days. I think we will see a little more emphasis on the running game and I agree with McD that a more balanced attack is the best attack. At any time we like we can put 4-5 WR on the field and go balls out pass happy but that doesn’t need to be the base offense. All you guys who think we are going to see a lot less JA runs are going to be sorely disappointed. One of the reasons he’s so good is his threat of running and that will be an integral part of his game. I think everyone is just worried he’s gonna get hurt. Look at Roger’s, he ran a lot more when he was younger, runs a lot less now but it’s still part of his game other teams need to account for. I’d like to see more YAC, we were really bad at that. IDK if it was the routes, the receivers or what but we need to give our WRs more opportunity to run after the catch.

Just for accuracy’s sake he didn’t use the word “awesome” but that was the vibe I was getting. Felt a little bit like “the average fan doesn’t understand the fine points of LB play that can’t be evaluated by conventional stats”. I get what he was saying but sounded like the “Sammy Watkins is a great decoy, he opens everything up for everyone else” argument

I listened to it, I wasn’t too impressed with Bruce’s analysis. Now keep in mind I’m just a regular dude who has watched every Bills game for 40 years so my credentials aren’t nearly as impressive as the twitter analysts out there. I liked the Edmunds pick at the time. I’ve been disappointed he hasn’t reached the potential I thought he had. I believe McBeane love him and he’s likely to get extended. Bruce is a little disingenuous in his analysis. He first compares him to Spencer Brown and says Spencer wasn’t very good but because he’s a third round pick the fans were fine with him. I think that’s a little ridiculous because Tremaine isn’t a rookie, he’s got 4 years in the system, and he’s still just maybe a bit above average. He does acknowledge he’d like more from Edmunds but says he’s “fine” with him. What he doesn’t get into is the fact that Tremaine is going to want to be paid like a first round LB who actually makes impact plays, which Tremaine doesn’t. That’s the crux of the whole issue - how much do we pay Tremaine to be average. Bruce did get into this whole idea that we can’t really evaluate linebackers because we don’t know what their actual responsibilities are and we can’t measure the plays where Tremaine causes QB’s to go someplace else because he’s just so awesome doing invisible things that we don’t see but effect the QB. I think that’s BS and can be applied to all those other LB’s who are playing better than Tremaine too. I do think Tremaine has some impact in that regard, but I’d rather a LB who makes impact plays once in a while than a guy that eats space. So bottom line is that analysis didn’t add anything that we haven’t discussed before ad nauseum on this board in a million threads.

It’s gonna be FitzMagic You know it. I know it. The Fitz curse will be broken, we win the SB, all will be right in the world.

I’m 51, I’ve seen every Bills game since I can remember and that’s a LOT of bad football. I’m well into the IDGAF phase of my life, except for the Bills. With the Bills, I still get completely irrationally emotional both high and low over a stupid game and I Iove it. Because I’ve suffered so much, the highs - like absolutely OBLITERATING the Pats* are so much higher. Also, when we had 13 seconds left before we moved onto the AFC Championship I knew the game wasn’t over but even then I had a hard time believing they screwed that up so bad.

We need more play designs with routes that allow for YAC. I think we were last in the league in that, with all of our air yards being Josh’s arm. Obviously we want to keep the bread and butter but a screen game along with some quick slant type routes will allow our receivers to catch and run instead of catch and fall down or go out of bounds.

Has the Pats* fumbles reverted back the the league average since Deflategate? That would add some strong evidence to their cheating, not that we need anymore. Most corrupt franchise in history.