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Yeah any other outcome would be surprising at this point.

Was he at Baker Mayfield or Josh Rosen's pro day? I haven't seen any reports of him attending it, but I may have just missed it.

The thing is, the manufacturers (usually in china) of these synthetic chemicals are constantly changing the chemical formulations from batch to batch. What happens is the US will ban a chemical substance found in the synthetic drugs, so these manufacturers will tweak the chemical formulation just enough so it isn't considered illegal anymore and they can legally ship it to the USA. Then the US bans the new formulation, the manufacturer tweaks it again, the US bans it again and this process just continues to happen over and over and over... So I don't know if there is a way to make a drug test for these types of synthetic chemicals since they are constantly changing on a batch to batch basis.

The NFL needs to just quietly stop testing for MJ and let the players smoke. I'd MUCH rather them be able to use some MJ as opposed to all these crazy ass chemicals cocktails in the synthetic drugs that guys use to not fail a drug test. Its a hell of a lot safer than the damn pain pills they pump these guys full of (and mj can actually help curtail the need for pain pills). Just like recreational drinking is perfectly acceptable (in moderation), occasional mj use should be too. It's actually MUCH safer than recreational drinking anyway.

Good for Richie. Lots of respect for him wanting to stay here, especially considering what he was like earlier in his career (when he used Buffalo for 1 year and moved on asap). I just hope it doesn't mean this is definitely his last year in Buffalo...

Looks like he turned down a long term deal from Cincy... https://www.cincyjungle.com/2018/3/20/17141958/russell-bodine-turned-down-long-term-contract-offer-bengals

The wide receiver contracts that've been handed out this free agency are pricey. - Sammy got $16M per year - Allen Robinson got $14M a year coming off a missed season to an ACL tear, and with only 1 real good season in his career (2015)). - Paul Richardson got 5yr $40M (and he has 1300 total yards in his 4 year career) - Albert Wilson got $8M a year (and his best season is just over 500yds) - Ryan Grant got 4yr $29M from Baltimore before he failed his medical (he has 84 receptions for 980 yards in his entire 4yr career). I dont think the Bills are looking to hand out silly money to a WR in free agency, especially when they don't really even have their QB on the roster yet. They also don't have any real stability at the QB position right now. Nobody knows who the QB will be this season, let alone next. If these free agency WR's have teams interested with clearer situations at QB, those teams may be much more appealing right now. Bills might be at a disadvantage in the WR market at the moment.

Thoughts and prayers are with you Zay. Keep your head up bud. Whatever happened, It's just a bump in the road. Hope you feel better soon.

Wow. Between this and believing the earth is flat...

Brian Daboll runs a diverse power run scheme so Milller could very well fit much better in this new system on offense. At least that's my hope!

Wow. I really hope the kid is ok. He was very clearly not in his right mind. In a way I almost hope it's drugs rather than some type of psychotic break or mental illness setting in. Mental illness can sometimes turn on like a light switch in kids around his age. I hate to speculate. But if I had to take a guess it would be one of those new synthetic chemicals from china the kids take to get high so it don't show up in drug tests (synthetic weed/spice, bath salts etc). It could be PCP too. There's a reason they call it "Butt Naked"... You never know, but I'd be pretty surprised if Zay was the type to be smoking straight PCP. Unless he smoked some weed that he didn't know had been dipped in PCP or something. Or it was some type of reaction between prescription drugs and something else. Whatever it wasn't I just hope he's alright. I could care less about his football career and all that BS right now. His Health comes in front of all that other stuff.

Question for the OP - were you, or are you, in your high school's drama club? If not, you'd have fit right in! lol the over-dramatization on this board is getting crazy!

They have to do their due dilligence whether they draft him or not. And it won't hurt their asking price on a trade down, either... lol I could definitely see the Giants drafting him though.

I honestly don't know why everyone assumes either Dawkins or Glenn could play RT. Neither have ever shown any ability in their careers to play RT. They tried Dawkins there last season and Mills easily outplayed him there. And Rex tried Glenn at RT during training camp (in 2015 I believe) and he really struggled there as well. I believe Marrone at have possibly tried him there too IIRC (but I'm not sure on that. Its hard to switch from from one side of the line to the other. These guys spend years building up their muscle memory on one side of the line and it's totally different on the other side. You almost have to re-learn the position in some ways. It can be done I'm sure, butnitd take time and probably be much easier to just take a RT in the mid/late rounds of the draft (and you have to factor in Glenn's salary too. You're not paying him all that money just to have him struggle for a season or more learning RT). Look what pro bowl G Josh Sitton had to say in this subject - https://twitter.com/ArmandoSalguero/status/974682257150676993?s=20 (I didn't want to embed the tweet because it has a swear word in it and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here)

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000922045/article/top-10-qb-prospects-of-past-3-nfl-draft-classes-darnold-no-1 Daniel Jeremiah says 4 of the 6 QB prospects with the highest draft grades in the past 3 years are all in this draft. That's very rare that there are so many highly graded QBs in the same class. It hasn't happened in quite a while as far as I know. Darnold 1 (graded at 7 - last QB with a 7 or above was Andrew Luck for reference) Wentz 2 Rosen 3 Goff 4 Mayfleid 5 Allen 6 Watson 7 Seems like a very good year to take a shot at a QB prospect, especially with next year's class looking thin. I'm not pounding the table demanding that they sell the farm and move up but I will be more than good with it if that's what they do. I'll be good with a smaller trade up or a QB at 12 too. I'd rather land one of those top 4 if possible though.

Lmao I'm hoping it ends up more like Groy/Miller/draft pick lol But if not, hopefully they're just cheap depth until that $40 some million in dead cap falls of next season. I'll give them a chsnce though. Any player can look better in a system more tailored to their strengths. Look at the difference in our O line from Roman/Kromer's scheme to Dennison's... (I'm not counting on it though).

This is what I had always heard, which is why I was excited about Castillo being hired. Maybe his reputation took a hit with some of that stuff in Baltimore, but I had always read/heard that he was one of the most well respected o line coaches in the NFL.

Seems a little early to be calling ANY free agent signing the best or worst. It will all depend on how each guy plays next season and what type of impact they have on their team. If the Bills go from the bottom 5 in the NFL in run defense and sacks, to the top 5-10 and Star + Murphy both play a huge role in that, will Rosenthal be saying they were bad signings then? But Greg Rosenthal has a quota to meet, so he has to write an article about something... Somehting else - While they may both play the role of stuffing runs and eating double teams, they are polar opposites, personality wise. Star is very well known for being a totally selfless, 100% team first guy. His teammates have raved about him (like Luke Keuchley, Kawann Short etc). Choosing to pay Star sends a MUCH different message than choosing to continue paying Dareus. Paying star sends the message that we value selfless team first guys, and guys who aren't going to be out at the club drinking and doing drugs, being chronically late to meetings etc. And Dareus still has a higher cap hit than Star even though that cap hit is being split between the Bills and Jags. Had he stayed in Buffalo, Dareus IIRC would count $16M against the cap this year (or something around there).

I don't think the QBs last year were as highly rated as the QBs this year. Not sure how you feel about Daniel Jeremiah (IMO he is a pretty well respected draft analyst, although obviously all this draft stuff has to be taken with a grain of salt). But he has 4 QBs this year on his "top 10 QB prospects for the last 3 years" list, and 2 in the top 3. He has Darnold 1 and Rosen 3. Mayfield is 5, Allen 6. Pat Mahomes doesn't even make the top 10. Watson is 7. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000922045/article/top-10-qb-prospects-of-past-3-nfl-draft-classes-darnold-no-1 Another thing to consider, there definitely didn't seem to be much of any discussion last year of numerous QBs going off the board in the top 3-5 like this year, or any discussion at all of 5 or 6 possible 1st round QBs. Or talks of teams competing with each other to trade up to the top of the draft.

To everyone saying "if the Bills don't trade up for a QB.... (fill in the blank)" Hey guess what, I have a nice surprise for you! They ALREADY traded up to #12, so if they take a QB there it's technically a trade up for a QB, so you can be happy!

If people really want the Bills to use all those draft picks for a trade up, these are pretty much the type of cheaper depth signings they will have to make to fill holes and at least give them a chance to help open up those picks for trade. Especially when you take their cap space this season into consideration.

Anxious to see what they signed for. That should give us a better idea to whether they see these guys as starters or more as depth.

Are you talking about when the Texans signed Osweiller? If so he was a free agent. What value chart are you referring to? I guess I am not seeing how a team signing a free agent has anything to do with a trade up in the draft and the Jimmy Johnson draft pick value chart I was referring to. All I was doing was looking at the trade up that just happened and adding up the draft points given up (based on the Jimmy Johnson draft value chart that assigns points to each draft pick). I was saying the Jets paid too much and IF the Giants now think that trade set the market value for a trade up this year, it'll be tough to match. I have no idea if that is the case or not though. Hopefully the Giants would be willing to accept something a bit more reasonable.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here? Maybe it's just going over my head. I was talking about my own math in adding up the draft value points of the draft picks given up in that trade up (according to what each draft pick is worth on the draft value chart). There were a lot of decimal points and I did it quickly so I wasn't sure if all my math was exact.