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The Dolphins are trying to go all in on a championship before knowing if they have a franchise QB. It's like when we traded up for Sammy Watkins or traded for LeSean McCoy. Fun splash moves but they lead to the same result. I don't really care about this move one way or the other as it relates to the Bills. If we fail to win the division this year it won't be because Miami traded for Jalen Ramsey. It will be because our front office and/or coaching staff failed.

The Bills will be all in every year from now until the end of Allen's career. As they should be. The common thinking that teams occasionally need to have 1-2 year rebuild periods was killed when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl this year. All in teams can still make radical changes to their roster and scheme on a year to year basis.

This is an intriguing idea. I hadn't considered Milano as a MLB. If other changes are made to compensate for his size, I could see this working.

This makes me think with even more certainty that Edmunds is gone. Those two years at the end are where Edmunds' biggest cap hits would have gone if we extended him. No way we are going to be paying over $30 million per year total for our off the ball LBs in 2025.

It should probably be brought up more that the Pegulas are the main reason the Bills went from laughingstock to contender. Moves like this can only happen because they give Beane essentially a blank check to use up front cash to push cap spending into the future. For this reason we will never be in serious cap trouble until the day Josh Allen retires at which point we'll take a couple years getting things under control and then be right back in it. Having cash-rich owners is a cheat code.

Well... that's definitely not going to happen. Maybe once he realizes a one year prove it deal with a contender is his best avenue for a future long term contract, we'll be back in the conversation.

I like him as a complement to Cook. The one thing I'll say is he played behind a really good OL so it's hard to tell if he's responsible for the short yardage TDs, or the OL is. But he runs downhill and can play three downs.

Anything. Show me the money doesn't always literally mean "show me the money." He could be talking about a girl he's trying to hook up with. Young people post random crap on social media everyday. I don't even know what about his contract he could be upset about? It's a 5th year option, it can't be touched.

Edge rusher is always a need for every team. It's the 2nd most important position behind QB. You could get a $20 million or more AAV player cost controlled for 5 years. Despite Bills fans only wanting offense in the 1st round, an edge rusher is always a good pick IF they turn into a very good player. And it is very much a possibility for us this year. The mock drafters who "don't do their homework" are the ones who exclusively mock the most obvious needs to every team in the 1st round. That isn't how GMs operate. Beane has taken high upside players with elite physical traits at premium positions every single 1st round he's been in charge. That's likely to continue this year. He isn't going to reach for a WR just because the fans think that's the most immediate need.

What year is it?

I don't know what you consider to be a sleeper, but I've seem very little discussion of RB Jamaal Williams from Detroit. He's a downhill TD machine. Perfect complement to James Cook. His projected market value is around $4m AAV. I would take that deal and cut Hines.

The alternative is get someone like Hopkins or Mike Evans (if available). 3 WR sets with Davis and Hopkins/Evans on the outside, Diggs in the slot. Or Diggs on the outside, Shakir in the slot. I don't need whatever upgraded WR we add this year to have slot versatility. Just be better than Davis and figure it out from there. Adding someone at the level of Hopkins or Evans is the only thing needed to get the passing offense back to 2020 levels IMO, as long as there is at least a capable replacement for Saffold.

My guess is his post had nothing to do with his contract at all and he only deleted it because his agent told him how it looks. Athletes have a life outside of football.

Could be Jalin Hyatt, Zay Flowers, Tyler Scott?

If they like a LT prospect at #27, Dawkins isn't a reason to pass on him. You get the best starting 5 on the field, if that means Dawkins is the LG so be it.

We can't enter the draft without a starting 3T on the roster. Settle is barely a 2nd string 3T. The draft is a crapshoot even in a good year. So if we trade Oliver we have to pay someone else as a stopgap at the very least. One example: Taven Bryan, who graded out lower than Ed Oliver in any metric or grading system I can find, has a projected market value of $6.6 million per year on Spotrac. He is probably the cheapest starting caliber 3T you could find. Maybe you sign him to a 2 year deal where the year one cap hit is lower and you end up saving $5 million on the cap compared to what Oliver would get. But now you've added to the cap issue in 2024. Is all of that worth it for a lesser player with less upside? For me it is not. If we trade Oliver and pay Hargrave instead, sure that would make sense to improve the team, but I thought the point of this hypothetical move would be to reallocate resources from defense to offense. Now we're actually allocating more cap space to defense. Count me out on that idea, especially when we've already overinvested in the DL. Trading Oliver for a draft pick just doesn't make any sense no matter how you slice it.

But then we'd have to pay a starting 3T which would cost us $5 million at the low end. I know Oliver has been disappointing relative to his draft pick but he has shown enough flashes to let him play out the 5th year. He is still a starting caliber 3T with upside. His play is worth a lot more to us than whatever small cap savings we'd get by replacing him.

Don't assume every social media post has to do with football.

$2.5 million isn't nothing. Especially with our cap problems. If they think Benford can man that spot next year there's no need to spend anything on a safety.

I think we're rolling with Benford at SS next year. I don't think we'll spend any cap space on the position. Probably will add a draft pick too.

The last game of the '21/'22 season featured an offense that exploded and a pass rush that couldn't affect Mahomes. The common thought at the time was that an elite pass rusher was the missing element to push us over the hump. Even knowing what I know now I would still take Von Miller over Christian Kirk. We have options to upgrade on Davis this offseason. Elite pass rushers, even older ones, are very hard to come by.

I won't be surprised if we sign someone like Thielen or Woods for a low salary to give us a baseline option in the slot, in case Shakir doesn't develop. I'm fine with that I guess. As long as they also add an upgrade on Davis for the #2 WR spot.

I like this. I'm against trading Oliver for a draft pick because it's a bad draft class and it would just create another hole that we'd have to pay to fill. Maybe it saves us $5 million at the end? Not worth it to cast away a high upside player. But if you use the trade to fill a hole on the OL, that is sensible, especially since it seems to me that the chances of extending Oliver beyond this season are very low.