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15 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:
Diggs, Shakir, Hollins, Samuel, Shorter…even Kincaid (WR/TE). Nice WR room.
Face it…we need an interior O lineman or a safety.
Deal with it.
Still need an X. Also DE is a huge need unless you think Epenesa is a quality starter. I sure don’t. Guessing those are our first two picks, in either order.
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42 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Shakir more X then slot or the rookie we draft?
Thinking we are drafting an X. We can work in the new X in this season as he earns it. Next season Samuel can take over Diggs’ spot. In the near term Shakir, Samuel and Diggs can be on the field together.
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10 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I'm happy with that move. But it further underlines to me that the need in the draft is for a vertical threat, downfield receiver.
Agree. Still need an X. If anything Samuel seems redundant with Diggs. Not that they can’t be in the field together, but they’re a lot alike.
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1 minute ago, Bills!Win! said:
I don’t know much about the Panthers or Commanders. Is this possibly just another Deonte Harty signing?
Better than that. Consistently a 600+ yard WR. 27 years old and a known commodity whereas Harty was an upside play.
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Solid acquisition. Good player at a position of need. Can flex to RB a la Debo. And a Buckeye. Happy to see this.
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1 hour ago, boyst said:
i could see pennix there at 28 and seattle calling us to trade for 28. give us this years second, third, and next years 1st and a conditional.... i'd bite in a heartbeat.
doe anyone realize how under the cap we are for 2025?!
I can’t. Beyond it being a massive overpay on Seattle’s part they don’t even have a second round pick this season.
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32 minutes ago, ngbills said:
Agree with both. Hopefully Poyer is taking the move to Miami as a lifestyle move and checks out most of the season.
Players have been known to sign with the Dolphins to semi-retire in Miami.
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1 hour ago, ngbills said:
Agree moving on. But at that price I bring him back as an insurance policy and let Lewis walk.
At that price he simply just might’ve wanted to go to Miami. Still, we paid more for a worse player and that’s not good.
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41 minutes ago, Back2Buff said:
The last two years Wallace has been significantly better than Elam.
Yeah. This is why a vet min (or close) deal makes sense here. Douglas and Benford starting on the outside. Tauron at slot. Cam is pretty much a slot backup. That leaves just Elam backing up the outside. Wallace would help there.
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10 hours ago, QCity said:
You can only restructure once per season, and Josh will certainly get restructured again next year. It shouldn't have to be explained that restructuring every player on the roster for the maximum amount isn't financially prudent, and can quickly create problems in the future. Just because Beane chose a measured response does not indicate that "Pegula is cheap."
There is no rule against restructuring a contract more than once a season. Nor would players or teams want there to be one. That said, I’ve never seen it done. It would point to incompetence on the part of the team - or perhaps an extreme circumstance.
The Bills chose to restructure Allen’s contract to the extent they did for a reason. It is where they want it and I would be shocked if they did it again this season.
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11 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
He doesn't need to get the okay to re-structure Diggs. There's a rework of his deal that can be done that doesn't require his permission. It just seems to be something we don't want to do.
As for a Miller type thing, fat chance. Especially after seeing Ridley's contract today.
Contracts including restructure options at the team’s discretion are much more common these days, but not all contracts have them and some of the ones that do have restrictions. Diggs’ contract probably does, but there’s no way to tell for sure without seeing it.
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Armstead would be a great get for Buffalo, but he seems a luxury for this team at this time. And the pantry is still lacking some staples.
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Excellent movie, but not one I’d watch too many times.
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53 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
They've actually done a lot. We had a LOT of things to take care of. So we couldn't spend too much in one place. There's just not much on the external front. Going into Free Agency - the plan in my mind was to take care of major holes that could leave us to address WR in the Draft. To that end we've filled:
Starting Safety 1 - Re-Signed Taylor Rapp
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Starting 1T DT - Re-Signed Daquan Jones
Starting OG Replacing McGovern switching to Center - Re-Signed David Edwards
DE3/Possible DE2 in the event Miller is done - Re-Signed AJ Epenesa
And we addressed some other depth things with inexpensive options like QB2 (Trubisky), LB3 replacing Dodson (Morrow), WR5/Special Teams Gunner (Hollins), Safety 3 (Lewis). There's still things like the other Starting Safety spot, rotational DT's behind Oliver and Jones, RB2/3, and a couple backup OL.
But the idea that we haven't "maximized" what we could do, based on the amount of money we had and the major things we needed to get done isn't true in my mind. We covered a lot of the major holes. Even with the "backing off a lot more" as you put it, we're effectively at zero when it comes to space we have.
There’s been some activity and hole plugging - especially depth - but there’s yet to be a single move that improves the team from last season. The Dawkins extension and Jones re-signing are helpful, but those are just keeping status quo.
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7 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
In "spending cash", you're still writing contracts that include cap space in the form of other years or void years beyond this season. That cuts into later caps and then before you know it, we're in the same spot we are this year and the year before. You do that every year and every year is like the last two.
Like I said, if there's an effort to limit spending this year - it's with creating the ability to be bigger players in the following years in mind.
Sure. But again, there could be a middle ground of taking our medicine for past spending and competing now. I expected the Bills to be limited in free agency, but this is more severe than I was expecting. I thought they’d maximize what they could reasonably do, but it looks like they’re backing off a lot more than that. That all said, free agency only officially opened 3 hours ago so the book isn’t closed. Besides, there’s nothing to do now but see how it all plays out.
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15 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
If there is a push to limit spending this season, I doubt it's an edict from Pegula. I'd imagine it's more a scenario of taking medicine this season so that in the coming years, we're not in the situation we were in last year and this year and can operate more freely.
You can take your medicine and still spend some cash. I’m not saying we should be wasting cash and cap space at the start of FA. I’m not a proponent of that. It is just that this is a severe decrease. We went from one of the top cash spenders to 17th currently. To me that looks ownership driven. No GM wants to throw on the brakes like that if they don’t have to. They get paid to win and it’s tough to do that without spending.
The other possibility is that Beane is paying back/saving up against his spending constraints. He has a budget from Pegula. It is possible that he’s saving toward another spending ramp up. I guess in either case I’m just disappointed because it will be difficult to really compete in the near term if spending is substantially cut.
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1 minute ago, Draconator said:
Dion Dawkins likes your bulge
That’s always nice to hear
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42 minutes ago, ngbills said:
That’s how it looks from the outside. And it’s the most likely explanation for not fully restructuring Allen’s contract.
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50 minutes ago, Roundybout said:
HOLY OVERPAYTitans must be desperate.
FIFY
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On 3/12/2024 at 12:20 PM, ngbills said:
So Bates 4/$64M beats out Edmunds 4/$72M? Edmunds is paid higher at his position than Bates in relation to other guys signed. Very odd how NFL is making these decisions.
Bates was 2nd team All Pro in 2023. That’s why he moved up.
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28 minutes ago, DJB said:
I love Diggs he’s been fantastic for us. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bitter about how we essentially traded the best WR in the NFL who is considerably younger than Diggs as well.
The thought of Josh with an elite young WR is so tantalizing.
But I’m no longer bitter . Why? Because Jefferson wants more than $30 million per year . That’s insane money and he’s not 10+ million dollars worth more than Stef.
He might just want off a team going nowhere without a QB. You know, like Diggs. If that’s it, then I don’t think it would have been a problem here.
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There are some teams that can take a chance on a 30 year old (this season) vet coming off an ACL injury, but I don’t think the Bills are one of them. He’s not likely to come here cheaply enough to take the chance.
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54 minutes ago, Steptide said:
Is it possible the bills are waiting for the new league year to start before signing free agents so they're "cap compliment"?
No team can sign a player with an expiring contract from another team before 4 pm today. They can only agree to terms.
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4 hours ago, gonzo1105 said:
Imo the Bills aren’t going to sign a top level FA WR. I expect them to draft two by the mid rounds
The problem is that there really aren’t any top level FA WRs. I’d rather the Bills sit this one out than pay Gabe Davis $13M a season.
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Yeah. This one hurts.