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I think finding a path for Coleman to find success is important. I really struggle to see any path to that happening on the outside, especially at X. Palmer got brought in to be our floor at X. Keon is going to compete with him for snaps there. So what about Y or Z? Better fits than X IMO, especially slot (Y). But I lump them together because he’ll be competing with Moore and Samuel at Z (and both can play Y too). Plus he’ll have competition from Shakir (slot) and Kincaid (big slot) at Y. So the bad news for Coleman is at his best shot at playing time is probably X, where he is the least well suited, and the slot position, where he is best suited, is the most crowded. The good news for the Bills is that the WR corps is deep everywhere except X and that won’t matter much if Palmer comes through. As for what Coleman needs to do developmentally, I’d recommend watching Steve Smith’s breakdown posted by @Starr Almighty

I guess it would’ve been just as easy for the Bills to have drafted McConkey and played him out of position on the outside as it was for them to draft Coleman to play him out of position on the outside. That’s where the “no slot WR” argument falls on its face. McConkey wasn’t a fit because he’s a slot WR. Okay. Fine. Reasonable argument there. But then taking a Big Slot in Coleman is not justifiable either. It fails the same test.

WRs with the profile of Coleman and Boldin almost never succeed in the NFL. But on the rare occasions that they do, they are among the best in the league. Boldin was such a player IMO. Personally, I always loved watching him play and think he should have already been elected to the Football HoF. I hope he makes it this year. As for comparisons, Boldin has some abilities that we haven’t seen from Coleman yet. Boldin’s hands were phenomenal, even in contested catch situations. We’ve seen glimpses from Coleman, but overall there hasn’t been much to get excited about. He certainly doesn’t attack the ball like Boldin did. It’s early, but toughness is another area when they don’t compare. Boldin was legendary for his toughness. If you think that’s hyperbole, here’s an example: September 2008, during a Week 4 game against the Jets. After hauling in a pass between defenders, Boldin took a helmet-to-helmet shot from safety Eric Smith that left him with a fractured sinus membrane and required surgery and seven plates and 40 screws in his head. Boldin missed the Cardinals’ next two games; in his first three back, he scored five touchdowns. LINK That’s a short article worth reading. Now compare that to what happened with Coleman last season. Boldin is a Gold Standard for WRs with that profile. It would be amazing to see Coleman get anywhere near that ballpark, but he has a very, very long way to go. For those who look at his RAS and wonder why he isn’t more dominant, remember RAS only uses supplied data to calculate the score. If a player doesn’t do a drill, it doesn’t get counted in any way. So you can all probably guess how many players do a drill they won’t score well at. Coleman skipped a bunch of them. Where he did score well is with size and explosion. That’s not nothing. Beane & Co were looking for a WR that could run short routes and break tackles for YAC. He can do that. They also wanted that player to be able to win downfield with at least some contested catch ability. Not great returns there yet, but I’m sure that was the thinking. Many of us saw him as a Big Slot WR (Boldin played almost exclusively on the outside, with only 16% of snaps from the slot) and he’s proven that to be correct, so far at least. The book isn’t written on the kid, but he has a very long way to go. And slot on the Bills is already crowded.

This and it’s become common practice for premium tickets for games, concerts, etc. to be put directly on secondary markets by the original sellers (teams, performers, etc.). This shields them from much of the criticism they would get from charging those prices directly because it looks like it’s the secondary market jacking up the prices. They can claim that the face value of their tickets is reasonable, but fans don’t actually have a chance at getting the tickets at those prices. It’s not a stretch to say that Josh Allen built the new stadium.

fargin sneaky bastages! - Roman Moroni Seriously though, it’s totally messed up if the Bills promised everyone a 2% increase but didn’t mention that it’s a 2% increase in addition to an as yet unannounced exorbitant increase this year. Is that really what’s happening?

The AI/Allen Iverson bit has been done enough already - and it was barely funny the first time. But I do like that Allen and Beane (and others) are good with poking fun at themselves. Also decent of Iverson to do the bit.

Lotta handwringing for a contract that has no details released. Only an agent’s PR release to go by. Henry is a stud RB, even at his age. After last season the Ravens needed to do right by him and they apparently did. What exactly that looks like we don’t know.

Bills do not have the space for Hendrickson, at least they don’t unless they move some real salary/cash spend off their books. The Bengals probably won’t trade him to anyone, but there’s almost zero chance it would be to the Bills if they did. They’re the Bengals. They’re going to make him play out his deal or retire. Mike Brown is about making money, not winning. That’s what everything he does is about. He has to spend up to the cap floor and do enough to keep the fans engaged, but he’s not going to do much more than that.

That sucks for your sister. Ouch. The CEO-in-waiting who lost that opportunity due to some bad decisions made with hookers, drugs and their opportunistic pimp was the stupidest one I heard. Bank and personal money was involved there. Big money went to the local newspaper to keep that buried. But the bank branch manager only getting fired was the most surprising to me from a not going to jail standpoint due to how much was taken.

Agree with all, except from what I’ve seen in certain industries employees usually do not go to jail for embezzlement, etc. An important caveat to that statement is that these people were all in a position high enough up to be noticed by investors and customers and in an industry where that mattered a great deal. Some teller walking out with $5k of atm cash or something like that is getting prosecuted. As for the bigger problems in this country, not letting congress and other politicians trade with insider information would be a great start.

Occasionally. But rarely do those crimes ever make it to the authorities. On the occasions they do, those criminals don’t get the kind of sentence a bank robber (even an unarmed one) would. Meanwhile, anyone who holds up a bank is nearly 100% certain to be caught and successfully prosecuted. It may literally be the dumbest crime anyone can commit. My wife spent her career in banking (C level) and has worked for several institutions. She was privy to a number stories of white collar financial crimes in different forms. From branch managers to C level execs. All got swept under the rug. Sometimes newspapers or other media had to be paid off to keep those stories out of the public eye. The institutions are most concerned with maintaining their image. They don’t want investors or customers spooked. Both could hurt their stock price way more than anything an embezzler could do. Their secondary concern is recouping as much of their lost money as possible. I know of one non banking incident where the embezzler had to sell all of her family’s possessions and property plus borrow from her extended family to pay back what she took (and it was a lot). The company agreed not to prosecute if they got back every dollar - and they did. The saddest part of that one was that she screwed over the extended family who lent her the money and kept her out of jail. When naming our daughter we eliminated all names staring with an E because we didn’t want her initials to be EZ. We both liked Emily for a name too, but alas……

This is AMERICA and in this country that man is a MEDIUM and we expect him to be treated as such.

Really drives home the point that white collar crime is the way to go. Rob a bank and you’re getting caught and going away for decades. Embezzle from the same bank and they’ll fire you, but otherwise sweep it under the rug to keep it out of the media. Can’t spook customers or, more importantly, investors.

Yeah, in the last CBA the players effectively gave up their ability to hold out. The only times you’ll see something like that now is when a player gets tagged and holds off on signing the contract. Maybe once in a blue moon a player will opt to retire to force a trade, like Carson Palmer had to do to get out of Cincy.

Spotrac has every Bills player listed twice so their cash and cap totals are currently doubled. I’m sure it will get cleaned up soon.

Dawkins first to be sure, but they’ll need more than that. IMO Jones only gets cut if he’s totally cooked. He is a vested vet so if he’s here through week one then his whole season’s salary is guaranteed. It’s a tough cut with the rookies and O-gun on a six week suspension. Not that O was really any better than Jones last season. I think they keep Jones this one last season and hope for the best. That’s certainly not optimal, but I don’t see much in the way of other options at this point either.

Doubling a team’s roster is a mistake that happens regularly on Spotrac. I would guess that it has to do with an automatic update. Guessing Dawkins and Knox restructures are what will happen. That’ll give them enough to get through the season. Also of important note this season the Bills are currently second in cash spending. They had been spending in the too 5 or 10 for a few seasons - certainly a good clip - but dropped way back to the mid 20s last season. Good to see that they ramped it back up.

They probably don’t have info on a restructured contract yet. Sometimes it takes a few days to get out to them. OTC is the most accurate source for cap info by the way. If there’s a discrepancy between them and Spotrac, go with OTC’s info and analysis.

I have always been kind of a numbers guy.

Not all of our draft picks are signed yet.

Reconciliation of bonuses would be included in cap adjustments and be reflected in the team’s adjusted cap number.

I feel like an incentive based contract with the Eagles is forthcoming.

I’m leaving out the RBs, but here are the TEs and WRs that matter listed alphabetically: Coleman Kincaid Knox Moore Palmer Samuel Shakir I’m honestly interested in what people think. I’d put Shakir first, but not by a wide margin. 2-7 could go in almost any order IMO.

Daboll isn’t here anymore so I’d wager his return depends on whether or not Josh goes to bat for him.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/47723/gabriel-davis 2025 Option bonus and salary, which is almost his entire compensation package for 2025, is guaranteed. The Jags paid/are paying $24M for 11 weeks of Gabe Davis. Wow. Wonder if the Jags insured him.