Logic

The reason I like the Bills free agency this year is that they managed to add multiple quality pieces (10 players on offense!) without breaking the bank or handing out ridiculous contracts. They in no way hamstrung themselves for the future. As the article points out, they still have the 7th most cap space in the league. Also, they are on track to be top 5 in cap space available again NEXT offseason. They improved the offensive line, WR corps, and got cornerback and running back depth. They did it with affordable, young (except for Gore and Nsekhe) players who fit the culture of the team. And they did it in a way that will allow them to continue to build going forward and will leave money to start extending the young core that Beane and McDermott have built. In the sense that they can continue to build through the draft and retain their own but ALSO didn't just sit on their hands, and DID manage to improve the team through free agency without abandoning their team building principles, this free agency period appears to be a home run for the Bills. Time will tell the final tale, but I'm encouraged.

Proud. I wear it anywhere and everywhere. It's a great conversation starter.

Many Bills fans seem to have only two categories for players: 1 - He's great. Quality starter 2- What a bum. Total loser. We should cut him Apparently, there's no such thing as depth or rotation. If a guy isn't a consistent all-pro, he should hit the unemployment line. I agree Murphy needs to get healthy and stay healthy. But anyone saying he stinks or should be cut is silly to me. Why cut the second best defensive end on our roster? Doesn't make any sense.

Fair enough. I got caught in a Yogi Berra-ism here.

Of all the teams in the NFL, the fan bases I feel worst for are Cincinnati and Washington. Both have terrible, clueless ownership with no idea how to successfully run a team. When that's the situation you're in, it would take lightning striking in order to win a championship. Lightning doesn't strike often.

Methinks the lack of interest begins and ends with the fact that they plan to draft a tight end (or two) fairly high. Draftee/Kroft/Croom/Draftee (or UDFA)

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This is a time honored dance that all GMs do. All offseason: "We draft BPA, not for need!" Draft: Top three team needs all get filled by round 5. Just smile and nod and play along, would ya?!

Great post! I expect Morse to be a clear upgrade and Nsekhe to be a moderate upgrade (not hard) over Mills. Beyond that, it wouldn't SHOCK me if Spencer Long winds up being an upgrade over John Miller at guard, but it also wouldn't shock me if he winds up being a versatile backup. I still see Teller and a drafted player winning the guard spots as the most likely outcome.

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Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I always saw the glass as half empty. Seems like a drag.

I just don't buy the one sideline incident with his coach as evidence that he's a head case. There are zero other incidents or evidence pointing to that conclusion. That being said, I'm not even necessarily advocating for Oliver specifically. My comment was more a response to #34fan, who stated that selecting Oliver would make McBeane "boneheads". My point is that the Bills, as it stands right now, have no starting 3T. As such, selecting one in the draft would certainly not be a boneheaded move.

Yes.

Right, because we have....um....WHO taking Kyle Williams' place at starting 3T again?

Not only have they spent on staff thus far, they're also spending big on training facilities and stadium upgrades. They seem to be sparing no expense. Beane says "This is what we need", and Beane gets it. How can you not like owners like that?

I think AFLGuy was talking about Lamar Jackson, not John Brown, when he made the comment about "one read and run".

Easy big fella.

The great thing, as others have said, is that the Bills don't have a lot of true NEEDS. They have a lot of "would be nice to have"s. I count TE, 3T, and OT as NEEDS. We don't have a definite starter at any of those three spots. Just about everything else would be nice to have, but isn't a huge need. Largely, this is a credit to Beane's successful free agency.

Was gonna come in here and respond, but you pretty much nailed it. Just copy and paste your response for my response.

This dude/dudette is quickly becoming one of my favorite posters around here.

This is the first offseason in a long time where I've been looking at what some other teams are doing with confusion and pity. I see mega contracts being handed out for mediocre players, I see teams letting 25-year-old All Pros walk away without even tagging them, I see teams getting themselves into cap trouble with poor decisions, teams in quarterback purgatory....in short, I see teams that do not seem to have a plan in place at all. For years and years, I still saw the same thing, but I didn't notice it because my OWN favorite team was so dysfunctional, so lost, so without a plan of their own. I was so consumed with the ineptitude of the Bills that it was all I could see. Now that I see what it's like to watch a team with a plan, with financial discipline, a team who is meticulously prepared for every possibility...I look out at some of the nonsense that other teams are pulling and just shake my head. I know what their fan bases are feeling because I've felt it my entire life as a Bills fan. Feels good to look at the Buffalo Bills from afar and see that they have a logical plan, and one that makes sense, and they're enacting it. What a weird feeling.

I think people underrate Zay Jones. He was Buffalo's leading receiver last year. Despite catching passes from Derek Anderson, Matt Barkley, Nathan Peterman, and rookie Josh Allen in 2018, he put up 652 yards and 7 TDs in his second year. As the season was coming to an end, he really began to come on. His last two games featured 5 catches for 67 yards and a TD against the Pats and 6 catches for 93 yards and 2 TDs against the Dolphins. I'm not saying he's a world beater, but he's young, talented, cheap labor. And if you tell me "he'll never get better", I say B.S.! Eric Moulds had less than 300 yards in seasons 1 and 2 of his career. How did Robert Woods do in Buffalo, yardage wise ? I'm sick of sticking talented WRs in bad passing offenses, watching them struggle to produce, and then letting them walk away to another team who knows how to use them. Let me see Zay Jones get one full season with Josh Allen and the improved o-line, and then we can make a determination on shipping him off.

Indeed. And it's why, in my mind, a penetrating defensive tackle is the most likely pick at 9 for the Bills. No part of me believes they want to count on Jordan Phillips to be "the guy" at that position.

Perhpas so. It's why INTERIOR rushers are starting to be just as important. Aaron Donald is arguably worth more in terms of what he brings to a team than any edge rusher would be.