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It was AWESOME. they could have flipped it and made the entire Game the Halftime show and put the game at halftime and the ratings still would have been huge. not sure why 50 decided to hang himself upside down though lol. snoops crip walk still on point. I despise country music. So yeah seems the half the country Hates rap statement but like country is well wrong.

Yes I am going to compare the proper uses of Asset management when you have a 1/4B Franchise QB. Without looking it up Name Chiefs Backup and Cap hit to that BU.

Who were Bradys Backups? If Fitz is willing to hold a clipboard for League Minimum OK. Anything more not thanks. just go get a rookie

I also think Bieniemy Rap Sheet as a player also hurts him as well.

People know that Leslie is Calling and Coaching McD defense. Leslie is a Cover-2 coach, and we are a Cover-3 McD Defense. So interviews likely show to that again that his defense that he pitches is back into the Cover-2 mindset.

That would be awesome to look at honestly, because it is a feeling I cannot shake that we do spend alot compared to other teams on ST, While a very important part of the game, it really isnt as much anymore with the rules and such. But would help quantify the feeling that we pay a good amount for players that are mostly special teams players compared to rest of the league. That could be very well that our ST contributors are of the older variety too and not many rookies mixed in because our starters are on the younger side as well, so end of the day could be a nuanced year to year thing.

Hot name with an innovative mind. will be interesting to see the staff he can put together.

And to be honest I want Fitz know where near this team as a BU. everywhere he goes as a BU he starts an injury or stunted growth in your young QB happens. great guy but not brining him back in a Jersey. A coach sure when that time comes.

Happens often if there is flashes shown from a younger QB. The team just has to be willing to do it. my point is you have Josh a Proven Veteran QB. You don’t need to drop big money into the BU positions. Anything more than 2M in the BU and we are not managing assets correctly.

I stand corrected. I must have mis read. Will change that portion. Apologies

Good Hire. A solid OL coach and better than the names floated for this position coach over the weekend. So I am on board with the Beach Chair.

Man they are following the Bills model. 1. Hire a first time HC that can be shortened to McD 2. Hire a Former disgraced HC as your DC to provide experience to lean on for your new McD.

the both say that if he is cut before the first day of the league year it is a total savings. Of the option value. mend of the day he will not be cut and will likely be extended.

Not according to Both sites that track this. Can move on from him for the savings off the option according to SPOTRAC and OTC. According to both sites that track the cap it would be a full savings if cut.

I can understand that, but also he is in the last year of his deal. And IMO has not earned another, that can production can be replaced with a Rookie Contract actually, specially if you are not going to move one of your 10M AAV safeties. I could see them maybe restructuring one of those safeties to free up space. Same with Tre. But I do have to admit this is a little harder to write than I have in previous years when you are able to point to at last half the roster that should not be employed. LMAO

I am getting to them a little early to try and get everyone ready for UFA and such. I will edit them and add more detail as the season ends. I am sure that these will get more detailed. Reason I am talking cutting is there is a savings albiet a smaller one. There are bigger fish to fry for the savings. For example a way to lower the Cap in the Secondary group is to Convert Tres 9.95 base into signing bonus. However I must say kicking the can down the road on an injured player isnt particularly something I would advocate the Bills to do. Issue with the Secondary is they are good and specially at Safety still good but older. there really isn't much we can do here, example trading out a Poyer or Hyde for a UFA does save cap, though you might get younger. The issue still remains three highly paid Starters in terms of Cap. Only place I really see movement in this group and LBers is Drafting a CB2. Though I do think Dane Jackson gets first crack. You will see more scenarios soon enough in DL. As I have done more work on the DL in terms of both UFA and Draft. Stick with me they will get better as I get into the position groups I expect movements in.

Started with Secondary, and the links to the past writeups are included on the bottom of the posts that preceded it. Eventually at the end each post I will try to include the links to all the others as well. Now sticking with Defense, I will move next in the line and that is LBer. This one I am going to admit is hard a bit. I am probably higher on Edmunds than most, however I do feel scheme is a bit of an issue against the Run Game, when we run nickel majority of the time, we can get exposed running. They are better against the run in a true 4-3. So at the end of the day, I think I will trade off performance in the Run Defense game to have better in the pass. I am sure this thread will be mostly about Edmunds or it will turn into that as those start commenting, and I understand that, so without future rambling let’s get to it. The standard disclaimer. I use SPOTRAC for my salary information, I know more like OTC, so numbers might be a little different I just prefer SPOTRAC more. I also use profootball reference for the stats. So here we go… Bills CAP Space: Top 51 = -1.374M Yep Still negative. Linebacker – 6 players on contact taking up 16.01% of CAP, 9th highest in the NFL. Overall, compared to % of the cap and projected spending to be in the top 10 of the leagues they are underperforming. Now I would be not genuine here if I didn’t also say in 2021 they spent in the position at the 11th highest rate of the NFL. So again, I don’t think I am calling the Bills unit a top 11 unit in the league. If it isn’t missed tackles, over pursuits of confusing in Zones, they are solid in pass coverage, however in the Run defense game the missed tackles and over pursuits led to Teams able to gash us regularly. Free Agents EFRA Tyrel Dodson – 24 years old – Yes technically a Free Agent but if the bills want to keep him, they will and there is nothing Dodson can really do about it but sign his tender. So, he will be in Buffalo this coming season (at least though camp). Did not log many snaps on defense this year, with week 13 being the most logged 53% of the defensive snaps. But he was a ST snap eater at every game being over 60% of the ST snaps except for week 13 when he played more defense. He logged 15 tackles (10 Solo and 5 ast) this year. But with the EFRA tender at about 600K he will be back in he Bills uniform. On Contract Tremaine Edmunds, age 24, 6.04 % of cap, 12.716M cap hit (No savings) – So probably will be the most polarizing player in this offseason primer for a couple reasons, one being that option sitting there where it would be a cool 12M in savings moving on from him. I look at another way, that is an area of savings once the extension gets done. But before I get into some of the things he still needs to improve on. He logged 108 tackles (70 solo and 38 ast, 7 TFL, 1 QB hit) and I pick with 4 PD. What is a little concerning is his numbers have across the board got lower each year from his rookie year, but they are not big fluctuations, maybe with more responsibilities hit individual performance slips a bit. But we are either seeing his floor or ceiling (whichever way you want to look at it) which is good enough in the NFL for a starting MLB, but that will also affect what Price I would get to in an extension to be honest. He is the most reliable tackler with a 8.5% missed tackle rate this year. What is interesting is he allowed 78% against when targeted (highest was rookie year 78.5%) and a 106.1 rating when targeted(59 times) (best year was 2019 at 76.3, worst last year at 114.3). His issue that I still see in year 4, is he gets lost in coverage a lot, and over pursues a lot as well. I just do not get it through because by this point there should be less and less of those mistakes. But Teams worry about him, just look at what Salah has said about him, that is evident that teams probably value him higher than the fans. And without knowing full what the responsibilities are for him on a certain play it is hard to say if he was right or not. But having played the position a couple things I notice, he Reads the Back first, instead of the OG-OG-C to the back, so that is why misdirection can get him wrong at times. There are no false steps though I would like to see him be confident in his reads and attack, instead of catch, when he attacks his reads, he looks like the best or one of the best LBers in the game. But he scrapes ad catches a lot more than you would think from a Mike and I must wonder if that is scheme. Now that being said I think a nice 5-year extension is coming this year to lower that cap number. Matt Milano, age 27, 4.79% of cap, 10.095M cap hit (No Savings) – His new contract is interesting with a nice out at the end of this year with Big savings. But there is nothing savings wise for a cut only a restructure. There was not a lot if any drop off from Milano after being paid, One thing to be really happy about was his health this year, missing just one. His numbers are 5PD, 86 tackles (57 Solo, 29 ast, 15 TFL, 6 QB hits). Missed tackles where better this year with a career best of 11.3%. I wish I could put his instincts to attack the line in Edmunds but that can still be taught to Edmunds. Issues with Milano remain he has a hard time at times getting through the wash, he does get washed out a lot. Also it really seems his missed tackles show up at the wrong times and are magnified a bit because they come in what seems like big moments. But that being said I am fine with Milanos play this year, as everything number wise has improved (except his pass defense splash plays, but that is fine). He allowed a career best of 55.2% completion when targeted, and a 71.9 rating when targeted (58 times). Those numbers tell me better in pass coverage than Edmunds, which I think we all knew that from him anyway. A.J Klein, age 31, 2.65% against cap, 5.57M cap hit (5.1M savings) – This one really bothers me a bit, because when he is on the field in that traditional 4-3 SLB our run defense is better, but he gets exposed in the passing game. Now the issue becomes that exact problem with the Nickel Base, he is a luxury at that cap number based on the % snaps played. However here are his numbers, 1 Pick, 5 PD, 1 Fr, 5 tackles (29 solo, 6 ast, 4 TFL). When targeted (25 times) he let up a 64.0% complete and a rating of 63.1. There is my issue with Klein, not so much his play but the lack of playing time. Are the numbers lower because of the lack of playing time (hiding him) or should he be playing more. At the cap number when you are starting to get tight against the cap those are things to look at. I personally think his role can be filled by Dodson or a rookie at this point and save the 5M and spend it elsewhere and that is really nothing against Klein (he probably has trade value) and more against the scheme and how we use him. Tyler Matakevich, age 30, 1.54% against cap, 3.25M in cap hit (2.5M in savings) – Special Teams snap eater. Which is what you want from your depth LBers and I think I am ok with him in that role, but I am not sure I am ok at his cap number. When we start looking at though that ONLY contribute on ST, I think you would see a high number of cap allocated to that unit compared to the rest of the league however my tools do not do that, maybe I will make a tool that does down the line. But you add him, Jones, Neal Smith could go on there are a lot of ST only players still, that would be fine if they were in cheap contracts. Andre Smith, age 25, 0.59% against cap, 1.251M in cap hit, (1.126M in savings) – See Tyler and you have about the same writeup here, just younger and cheaper. Joe Giles-Harris, age 25, 0.39% against cap, 825k in cap hit (825K in savings) – PS player signed to a futures contract. Notable top UFAs De’Vondre Campbell, GB Don’ta Hightower, NE Foyesade Oluokun, ATL Leighton Vander Esch, DAL Anthony Barr, MIN Initial Draft Look with Initial Grades (no particular order and nowhere ready to really discuss draft) Round 1 Devin Lloyd, LB, 6’3’, 232 Utah To be honest here, I still have not even started to look at LBers yet in the draft, It is either because I like our LBers (most likely or the LBer class just didnt wow me to take early impressions. Past Writeups Secondary

I think a 1.75M would be fine for Neal. That I think is right around where the Vet Min would be for him. it will be interesting to watch Beane navigate the Cap now that we have a QB paid elite money. And how the Bills handle recruiting for those players near the end of their careers willing to give discounts for a run that happens with Elite QBs

Why can Stevenson not be that player.

Ahhh the offseason of the NFL when players Social Media accounts Activity become huge news. Missed this time of year.

Only name on the list I would entertain is Toney but will never happen so no reason to even entertain that. If he is not Hurt yet again maybe.

Haven’t watched anything with this thing called the Pro Bowl in over a Decade. A complete waste of my time. olympic curling on Sunday was more entertaining for me to watch.

Draft another mid to late round QB and there is your QB2. That you can then flip in 3 years for assets. time to get in the QB flipping business. Allen is the “Vet” QB on this roster. Nothing more than Rollie Contracts for that BU.

I get the concept with Poyer and Hyde. The practice of extending older players to lessen cap I never liked. Eventually that piper will always come to collect. but in concept this Secondary needs youth and speed I do think the easy answer is your starting 4 look like this (with no adjustments in Contracts) CB1 White CB2 Dane Jackson/ Rookie S Poyer S Hyde add a rookie in the mix if you want to hedge against Johnson or Hamlin. but when doing this just for Secondary (LBers next) I get a feeling a lot of fan favs are going to be moving on in the near future. Hopefully Vets are going to be willing to play with Allen for the shot at a championship like they have historically with top end QBs. That will help some of the cap tightness Beane and Co are going to have to navigate.

I agree. I dont think Bills will move on from Poyer, and I dont think I would fully support it, but I know he is another year older, issues with angles and speed and tackling cropped up again that was gone the previous two years, but were prevalent in year one here, and in CLE. But there is nothing behind him or Hyde really at this point. But we have to start thinking about it, and there are safeties in the draft I would love to get in the mix, because we are going to get to a point where 2 10M plus safeties is un doable financially in the future IMO.