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More startling is that McCoy and Clay take up a combined 9% of our cap in 2019. For now. Also, AJ McCarron takes up 1%, FWIW.

Yeah, someone must've told him they were looking at moving him to guard and he knew what that meant for his next contract.

We knew about Wood before the 2017 playoffs. Richie told the NFLPA he was done with football on 4/10, and we placed him on the retired list on 4/12. If you want to know who I wanted you can look at my post history. I always have offseason plans and ideas, and generally they have substance and numbers behind them. Star was fine. I wouldn't say vital, but he was fine. Murphy coming off his injury was a waste of money, Vontae was a complete waste of money, and the plan at QB was risky at best and more realistically asinine. 3 QBs with a combined 5 starts, one of which had the worst half in NFL history. Bodine was a player that Bengals fans were thrilled was leaving the team and Newhouse was a complete non-factor. The Corey Coleman move was understandable, but ultimately a waste of money. Murphy, Davis, McCarron, Coleman, Bodine, and Newhouse cost us $14.76M in 2018 Cap. If you don't think the could have been spent better on someone like an Andrew Norwell or Mike Pouncey or Austin Howard, that's fine. Similarly, they could have spent on Vinny Curry or Adrian Clayborn. From the WR front, I was very high on Taylor Gabriel (who went for quite a bit), Markus Wheaton, or Kendall Wright. It was beyond obvious that the team needed speed, which the FO finally figured out around week 10 or so. I have very little faith in this FO's ability to assess offensive talent.

The draft was fine. I heavily disagreed with the last few picks, but late rounders are long shots anyway. But free agency was mediocre at best and trending more towards poor. He knew well in advance about Wood, still traded away Cordy, and knew pretty early on about Richie. Still, the OL moves were abysmal. Everyone knew our WR corps was lacking, and I understand that when your QB situation is tenuous it can be tough to lure them, but I just can't comprehend the lack of moves in general in FA. The moves that were made do not add up with the statements of 'trying to win now and in the future'. They do line up with an evaluation year and the results are what they are. As I said though, this is his chance to rectify that. We have more cash and there is plenty of room for improvement on the roster.

Watch some Tyre Brady tape. It'll make you feel good.

Could be our version of Greg Hardy without the off-field

They were 8-8 in Harbaugh's last year. Tomsula went 5-11, Chip Kelly went 2-14, Kyle Shanahan went 6-10. That was 4 consecutive years.

I didn't say any of that. Just pointed out that someone else got fired after 1 year with a better record and an arguably worse roster. Recently. Wilkes was completely out of his depth, and thus he was fired. Marvin Lewis won 0 playoff games in 16 years.

Jim Tomsula got fired after 1 year and he went 5-11.

It's never too soon, but I can guarantee that if in 3 years Rosen is playing in a Super Bowl and Allen is a backup on John Gruden's team that Yolo will find it and bump it.

Anyone from UVA because reasons.

He was the 9th overall pick in the MLB draft. There was talk that he may be the first player to be drafted in the first round in both leagues.

65% on McD, 25% on Beane. Beane's confidence rating has plenty of room to shift now that we're heading into the offseason though. It's his time to shine or stink.

Catch Radius, Hands, and Route Running

Right now I've got a bottle of Woodford Double Oaked, Bowman Brothers, and Hibiki. Really enjoying the Hibiki.

Manning - Giants Flacco - Broncos Tannehill - Dolphins Tyrod - Jaguars Bridgewater - Jaguars Carr - Redskins Raiders - Haskins/Jones w/ Bradford as insurance.

I think he'll be a late riser after the combine and some of the other offseason activities. He's not on a lot of lists, but I really like him.

Nice work! Pretty different than my current rankings, but I always enjoy the differing perspectives on draft prospects!

To be clear, I'm skeptical of both statements in this post

Fair 'nuff. Carry on! Only in certain light.

You've ended up with a good discussion going here, so I suppose I misread the situation. What I saw initially was a poster who has been very favorable towards a division rival and their dominance creating a topic about info that was already being discussed in a topic created an hour earlier, but with a former player that many posters disliked mentioned in the title (as opposed to in the OP like @Virgil did) in an effort to create a more inflammatory response. Maybe I was wrong. Either way, I'm bowing out here as I truly do not care about the Pats* media accolades.

And again, I'm for discussing his play against us and matchups with Foster/Zay/whoever we pick up in the next 4 months. I'm unsure why you want to recognize a player for our main division rival's media accolade. Are you making this thread if it's Preston Brown with the award? Or Sammy? Or Tyrod?

I'm interested in other teams' players when there is a chance that they are Bills at some point in the future. When they are recently allowed to walk and talk crap on their way out, I don't much care about their media accolades. Want to talk about his play against the Bills? Cool, I'm in. Want to discuss his All-Pro selection? Why?

I care about this message board and its overall quality. Individual players that are no longer Bills though? Nah. Happily moved on to the current team.

I can post where I please. Why is only positive feedback allowed? Rather than ignoring every thread that is irrelevant in my opinion, I try to point out when one is unnecessary.