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Depends, did he sign a small black leather glove?

Private membership in a club is kind of similar but also kind of different because you pay the initiation and then monthlies plus whatever else you do. Some clubs also have minimum spends per month. I think PSLs are more comparable to timeshares, where you pay a large upfront fee (either lump sum or financed over time) for the right to then pay annually fees and maintenance on a property you never own, and in perpetuity you're stuck paying whatever they say. You can use that property for a set amount of time based on what you paid, but in the end you're locked in and to use th timeshare you "bought", you must then also pay whatever they say. PSLs are that upfront fee for the right to then buy season tickets which the Bills can jack the price of whenever they want, and as a PSL owner, you're stuck paying it. There technically is a market to sell your PSL and get out of the cycle, but much like timeshares it's not as easy and straightforward as it may sound.

It was about as fever pitched as the Sam Aiken preseason push for a larger role.

It's kinda fun being the team that guys like this leave to go get over paid elsewhere, rather than being the bottom feeder overpaying for run of the mill system players because we don't build our own pipeline. We lived that life for 20 years, signing the Drayton Florence's of the world because we couldn't draft worth a *****. Now we have guys who develop pipelines... Jackson, Lewis, Wallace, Johnson, Benford, and Neal if you count guys they brought from Carolina on the cheap. They leave to be paid, we cycle in Ingram, Brown, and likely will draft at least 1 probably 2 secondary guys with our 9 picks in rounds 4-7... They've done amazing things developing DBs, and I expect that to continue.

Not a fan of the tex mex, but I am a sucker for Rachel's Mediterranean Grill... It is so overpriced but it is so amazing.

This is like saying "Chick-fil-A is an upgrade to McDonald's".... While it may be true, maybe we'd rather not scarf down ***** fast food of any brand.

I mean it should be, the formula is based on signings vs lost though, so we're going to need to wait and see who we sign to offset. But yes this will count, but who knows if it's more than a 7th now a days lol

I'm more curious about where guys like Floyd and Epenesa go and for how much to see what we can get comp pick wise... Looks like Davis to the Jags on a 3 year deal but we don't know the $$$ yet.

No, none for him or for Gabe Davis to the Jags yet

I don't see a trade that's worth moving him, cutting him is still $11M dead cap for just $5M in savings... This has to be an extension which drives his 2024 cap number down and locks him up for his foreseeable career. My guess is 4 year extension taking him to 2029 (his 1 year left + 4 more), with "outs" IE: Cap Savings starting in 2026.

Hamlin sucks. He was mediocre at best in 2022, and in 2023 was worse. He was a guy they simply had to keep, and who was a great story. It's an abomination he didn't win comeback player of the year, as DUDE WAS DEAD! But he shouldn't be in the future plans even as a depth guy unless there's no other option.

It's something into am cheering for, and honeslty I'd even attend if the games were closer. Something fun to do with the kids. But that means it needs to be cheap, which means no revenue... How do you attract good players if you can't pay them? NCAA is the NFL farm system, has been for decades, and now, as was mentioned by ControllerofPlanetX, with NIL deals in place, most of these guys won't be incentivized to play in any league but the NFL. Obviously unless there's no other choice. As was mentioned, the only way for it to be viable is a true connection to the NFL either with allocation of players, or some revenue deal to bolster it's ability to draw in better players. I mean if you really want to think about how inferior the QB play is, Nate Peterman is statistically one of the worst QBs in NFL history, and he's on a roster... The dudes in the XFL and USFL were considered downgrades to that lol. I mean I want it to do well, hell I wish Buffalo still had an Arena team, that too would be fun and different, but I'm not sure how it's gonna happen. And frankly I'm not invested enough to pay money for it via streaming or something so I don't see where their revenue is gonna come from.... But if the Bills allocated 10-15 dudes to play there I would absolutely watch, and probably pay a nominal fee. But at the end of the day where's the benefit to the NFL? They can develop these guys at their own pace in their own training camps safely without worrying that they're going to get blown up in the off-season and that players done. It's a double edge sword... They're also are NFLPA concerns and salary cap discussions to be had with a partnership.

I understand you need things to be simplified so I'll just put it this way, neither of those two guys is going to be playing here next year on those contracts. They will either be renegotiated or cut. If they are cut, and you signed Henry, you're looking at Henry's contract plus the dead cap so it's actually even more. Because I'm not sure if you're aware of this you can't just cut people for nothing. Based on your posting you seem to think there are no consequences to cutting players and signing new ones. Renegotiating both of those guys will open up cap space, while adding minimal issues down the road, and you get two players instead of just one. If you renegotiate them to more team friendly deals, you still have the ability to go out and sign other free agents, however it is unlikely you would be able to sign Henry as, again, you'd be carrying their salaries and then also have to add his.

Zeke got 1 year $3M to "prove it" in NE, and he had gone over 1,000 yards in 3 of his previous 5 seasons prior to that deal. He was healthy every game and lost his starting spot despite a huge contract. Henry has been over 1,000 yards 4 times in 5 years with over 1500 in 3 of those 4, and 2000 in 2020. 2021 was his only sub-1000 yard year in those 5, and he had 937, but did so in just 8 games. Henry will want starter money, and if Zeke's deal is the baseline for a vet RB looking to hang on, Henry will get at min that, my guess is closer to $7M with $4.5-ish guaranteed. For the Bills this is an absurd luxury. Hard pass

Trades for impactful players are rare, it's more likely we sign 2nd and third tier FAs, and then use our extra draft assets to move up here and there in the draft to target guys who for our scheme and are at positions of need rather than trading for NFL players. I'd love to see some action, but Beane's history doesn't support that kind of action.

How do you figure he's a "much better impact"? The guy has seen serious decline year over year over year in his yards per carry totals. Here in Buffalo he would not be a bell cow, he'd be a change of pace back but for more money than is warranted for that... Additionally Cook is just coming into his own, do you really want to take him off the field? He's more dynamic, more explosive, has better hands, and at this point in his career is just the better running back. Sure between the tacklers he's not the best of the two, but overall I would rather him be on the field as many snaps as possible. Which means if you're spending our limited free agent money on a guy who's going to want to be on the field at least 50% of the time, it's a bad expenditure.

It's comments like this that I don't understand, yes of course we need more than one guy, but why act like advocating for this specific guy is a bad thing? Your post is dismissive, but it's not like you saying this is the only thing they should do. I think we are all on board with the bills drafting a wide receiver in the first and or second round. Getting somebody like Born as but it's not like you saying this is the only thing they should do. I think we are all on board with the bills drafting a wide receiver in the first and or second round. Getting somebody like Bourne as well wouldbe adding 2+ guys in this scenario. The oversimplification by saying "we need more than 1"... Well, I guess we shouldn't discuss any why does he have a free agents because we need more than one therefore we are incapable of discussing any individual player... It's just stupid...k

I think this looks right, but the bigger problem here is if you trade digs post June first, what do you replace him with? You can't designate a player as a post June first trade, you have to actually trade him after June 1st. Unlike if you're cutting somebody you can designate them. This means you're trading away your number one receiver after the draft and all of the worthwhile free agents have signed. If this is the course the bills choose to take, you're freeing up some cap space this year you're taking a huge chunk of cap space away next year, and you're losing stuff on digs. The assets you will get back are all in 2025 and beyond. You have to already have a solution for number one wide receiver, number two wide receiver, and depth across that position group on the roster before you make that move. Honestly it's a very tricky proposition with the salary cap situation you're finding yourself in already. Unless they draft wide receivers in like the first second and fourth rounds, I just don't see how you could possibly get on number one and a number two WR added to the roster and make digs expendable.

They're $51M over as of now. Lots of moves to work on that but as of now they're 2nd worst in cap space in th NFL, actually virtually tied with Miami. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

Depends what Detroit's home schedule looks like, but the Super Bowl matchup everybody wanted this year was the bills and the Lions. That's a storyline I could see them wanting to talk about. How both teams had a shot at it, neither has won a Super Bowl, the NFL is all about storylines even if they're a stretch. You could be right, but the bills are still pretty solid ticket especially with Josh Allen tearing it up on Thanksgiving more than once. I mean what would fans rather watch, Detroit and the Bears yet again, or Detroit vs Bills and the explosive potential of that kind of a game?

The opponents are set, the schedule comes out in May Who else thinks the Bills will be playing on Thanksgiving in Detroit next year??

The saints offense was sneakily better than I expected in 2023... 14th overall in yards with 337 (Bills were 4th with 34/74.5) 11th overall in passing yards with 234.7 (Bills were 8th with 244.4 which dropped to an ugly 187.5 in the playoffs) Saints also had 28 passing TDs, the Bills had 29 Saints were 9th in total offensive TDs with 44 (Bills were 6th with 54) The stats are better than I expected from watching the games I watched. I agree with the people who keep saying some of this matter is less because he's not the one calling plays. But I think it does speak to his overall football knowledge and abilities that they're offense was better than you would anticipate from their record. QB coaches install the offense and work with the QB more hands on to break down film, read what the D is giving, and decide what to do in those looks. Carr ain't Josh, and they had a pretty competent offense with Curry's hands helping steer.

This is an interesting hire and definitely brings a different perspective to the QB room and offense. Honeslty I'm not impressed with the passing game or even QB play in NO under him, but I'm willing to go on faith that this could be good for Josh's development by putting someone with a very different perspective in there. It's not like he hasn't been a QB coach, and he has played in and coached in several different Offensive schems, so I think he'll bring some great knowledge and hopefully some wrinkles for Joe Brady to incorporate. QB coach, especially on teams like Buffalo, LAR, KC, etc. Are the waiting spot for OC, and he got calls for that in 2021. He was offered to be retained in NO but take a demotion to WR coach, so I get him taking this move instead. For Buffalo, it's a diversification move of the staffing by way of skill set and knowledge base. While his title is QB coach, I think this is going to be a role where he will work with Brady to develop a unique passing attack to maximize our assets (whatever they happen to be post FA and Draft.) Anyone who isn't happy needs to remember that estsblished QB coaches are already OCs in waiting and lateral moves are hard, so plucking a guy from a "lower position" or who is not under contract is the only move. I'm sure there are "I wanted x,y,z" people out there, but I'm not sure if there is a sure fire better option out there. All in all, it's intriguing... Could go well, may be ineffective and we're looking for a QB coach in 2025.

Honestly for the "smaller" companies like Disney (who owns ESPN & 20th Century Fox's Portfolio and has had a long standing partnership with them), and Warner Bros. Discovery, both are small fish in the pond, but all of them are competing for the same viewers, so combining is smart. They make it sound like this is groundbreaking, but this is literally what Disney orchestrated 15 years ago when they combined with then NBC, CBS, and Fox to create Hulu. It was a conglomerate content service to battle Netflix. It ended up getting ruined by everybody creating their own version of a streaming platform rather than strength in numbers and sharing the revenue. With sports however, the content is exorbitantly expensive because of the contracts with the league, and on top of that you have all of the on-air personalities and the battling for ratings. Housing everything streaming wise under one banner allows you to eventually cut your costs and increase revenue numbers with something that is inherently difficult to make money on. ESPN for a very long time was the only part of Disney's umbrella that wasn't making money. Disney Plus and they're streaming has been a disaster making both of them not profitable. But at the end of the day ESPN because of all of the on-air personalities, contracts with so many various leagues, college sports, semi-pro sports, all of that content that they need to pay for has made it a cost center rather than a revenue generator. ESPN has been unofficially and officially for sale for a very long time but nobody wants it because it doesn't make money. This is a very "Bob Iger" solution... He did it before and Hulu was great back then, this is a great natural partnership for these companies.

Yes, as long as Josh is a Buffalo Bill, our window is open. It's no different than GB with Rodgers, Indy with Manning, etc... Will there be down years? Absolutely! Will we make the playoffs every year? Hopefully but things happen. Will we win the division every year? No, probably not.... But is the window open? YES! Lots of things contributed to us not getting to the big game this year, and in years past, just like 30 other teams... But when you have a supremely talented top 3 NFL QB, you're always in the conversation. The bigger question is can they retool the roster this year without breaking out back in future years, while still putting players around Josh to remain atop the division? I'd say I Doubt it, but Miami is in Cap hell too and their foundation isn't as solid as ours... The Jests, I mean how good are they really with Rodgers? We don't know... NE...well... NVM about NE. In 2024, no matter what we should be a WC contention team, and If Miami steps back like we will, were still the team to beat inth East.... The goal is to make it to the tournament, after that all beats are off! But to recap, our "core": Josh, Diggs, Cook, Kincaid, Shakir, the Online, Milano, Oliver Bernard, Douglas, Johnson... Those are a solid foundation and make us top 7 in the AFC discussion regardless. The question for 24 is how good can we be based on the build around these guys and not screw us in years to come. Can we get lucky where our new pieces out perform their salaries/draft statuses and help Josh carry this team? We'll see... But with Josh you ALWAYS have a shot...