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I imagine they are going to do a bunch of restructures on the offensive side of the ball, which will bring that figure down Regardless, I don't see how the fact that we spend more on defense and less on offense is in question here...especially among teams who are considered contenders/have a franchise type QB contract on the books. Since 2020 we've spent the 6th most, 2nd most, 2nd most, and 2nd most on defense in the league respectively. There's no other team who comes close to the kind of consistent investment in defensive spending the Bills commit to over the last 3+seasons.

lol thinking there is a 'lack of championship character' in KC is one the most ridiculously privileged of takes in football

My thinking on this has been basically...of the first group (the high spenders on defense), only the Vikings have anything that could be considered a QB in the midterm of a big deal (Herbert's hasn't kicked in yet), the rest are all still on rookie deals. I think that's pretty relevant to consider. You can afford to spend big on defense while you figure out your QB situation, but once you've got the QB and his deal you want to start putting the resources toward supporting that investment. At least, that's what the numbers say to me. Obviously the Bills have taken a different approach.

And that's not even what was said 😂😂 The question posed to Allen was 'are you a big film guy?' and he answered yes Unsurprisingly that has come to mean he is not a big film guy lol

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These are the figures I'm talking about, Bills spend at roughly league average on offense and a ton more on defense https://overthecap.com/positional-spending

How is the actual figure, relative to the rest of the league, on what we spend on defense meaningless in the context of a discussion about whether defense is prioritized? We spend more, in draft capital and actual salary/cap dollars, on defense not just compared to offense but compared the league averages as well And I think your cap figures for Allen/diggs are wrong too, their combined hit this year is about $32M

Well w Miller we do a little😂😂

Does the fact that we spent the 2nd most in the NFL on defense this season sway your opinion at all

I'm just saying 4 defense first rounders to 2 on offense is not going to add up

for 2023 we spend the second most in the NFL on defense https://overthecap.com/positional-spending offense spending 13th In 2022 we spent 6th most in the league on defense and 24th most on offense I imagine if we break down draft picks by point value it would show a similar story but if someone wants to do that work I'd be happy to be proven wrong

Come on even you don't believe that Do you want me to break it down by cap%

Jones, Settle, Miller ...and Phillips...and Lawson...and another first rounder on defense...

It will not affect us in the slightest

You took all the time to type this up and it still reads defensive heavy lol

QB push RB push oline chiefs wrs bills te chiefs dline chiefs lbs push secondary probably chiefs st chiefs

Chiefs are third in the AFC rn Dolphins are first

I still don't understand why Hopkins isn't a Bill right now It was such an obvious move I thought

Hopkins has 775 yards and 5 TDs catching balls from Will Levis

I'm leery of doing the whole 'who we could have had otherwise' exercise myself, just thinking on balance we could likely profit more spending top picks on offense at much higher frequency than we have

Oliver was 9th overall iirc

Unsurprisingly considering the expenditures tho I mean they've gotten above average returns on 4th round Davis 5th round Shakir and 3rd round megaproject Knox Now imagine if a few of Elam/Basham/Rousseau/Epensesa/Oliver had been offensive picks

yes I realize it was sarcasm, i will refer to an earlier comment i left

I think a realistic evaluation of their draft strategy should factor in opportunity cost lost by going w so many day1/2 prospects on defense esp if we consider those guys w NFL traits on the offensive side of the ball are likely to be higher impact overall