juno999

The trades seemed to be rather pricey this year. Plus the Bills didn’t have any extra picks to work with this year. 21 free agents is a good number of players to replace. I’m not terribly concerned because most of these players are backups and are older players. Beane extended Rousseau, Benford, Cook, Shakir, and Bernard this past offseason. So that’s a factor of why we’re low in cap space. I’d imagine re-signing Bosa will be the priority.

We’ve been through this before with Beane and he put it together. $50 M plus a likely increase in the salary cap, plus 7 picks plus UDFAs. The trend is to sign backups to 1 year deals in order to have flexibility but the trade off is higher number of FAs each off season. I believe Beane has a good handle on it and it’ll work out. I’m certainly not worried of losing Hamlin, Poyer and Franklin. What’s the plan with Oline? McGovern is likely gone. Can SVPG be the starter? Do they extend Torrence? Do they re-sign Edwards or do they go with Anderson or Grable at LG? They’ll probably try to bring Gilliam and Lewis back. Bosa and Epenesa are going to cost some cash.

Allen has a base salary $16.5 M Dawkins is about $15.5M and Knox is about $9.5M. Beane most likely will convert one of these if not more to a signing bonus to create cap space. Also the salary cap will most likely increase. Bills will be getting younger. About half of their FAs I don’t believe Bills will have much interest in bringing back.

Cook and D line

I’d keep Thompson in there. He actually tackles guys.

So, if he drops 3 - 4 balls at practice, he’ll be in mid season form.

It’s now a $75 tour. Inflation is a B word.

If the Bills play like they did against the Pats and Falcons, it could be a tough game.

Will the Bills be ready for Andy Dalton is the real question. I’m bracing myself for an all pro performance by him.

Bills have serious issues. I don’t bet and I certainly wouldn’t bet on the Bills now.

I hope the kid is alright. Many people dealing with all sorts of things these days.

He missed all of training camp. Perhaps this is why Anderson is the back up now.

All very true and hope is not a strategy. Both coordinators look mediocre at best and the players are undisciplined and playing bad ball.

As the saying goes, you can’t fire the players, so I believe Babich is done.

I hope you’re right about 12 wins. I can’t look that far ahead but the Panthers and Chiefs look way better than the Bills right now. I believe the Bills are staring at 4 - 4. This defense is terrible and our receivers aren’t much better.