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I like this signing the best of all the deals. He's been great for us, and it's very good value for a dynamic and versatile player.
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1 minute ago, Richard Noggin said:
Josh Sweat was the more appealing and therefore more expensive player, no doubt. His deal was more reasonable than I anticipated, for sure, which does leave more room for second guessing. But were the Bills in position to pay Sweat AND Rousseau? So replacing Rousseau with Sweat, is that what you preferred?
I wasn't making an argument for Sweat, but yes I'd take him over Rousseau all things being equal. However, I wouldn't have prioritized either of them as they are a similar tier of player, and spending that kind of coin on a B-tier player is a disaster. I would have signed Hoecht to take over that job, Takena gamble ona cheaper deal for a guy like Malcolm Koonce, and then used my remaining money to pursue an elite talent. We could have gone after a premier rusher or signed Hufanga with that money who I think would have had an enormously more positive impact paired with those other players than just keeping what we had.
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1 minute ago, Richard Noggin said:
They have starting QBs going into their 2nd years on rookie deals. I'm sure you get how much that affects the cap?
FA is simply not the best place to add top talent when you have an MVP, franchise QB going on his 3rd deal. That's what the draft is for. Player development. The best teams are usually loaded with elite talents they drafted.
Which is all the reason more why it's critical when you're burning cap on a high end QB to have other elite level players to pair him with and hit your drafts with elite players at expensive positions like DB, DE, WR, and pass rushing DT on cheap rookie deals.
You absolutely cannot fill up your roster full of B-tier players like they Bills have done and expect that is going to work. KC, Philly, TB, NE, PIT and all the other super bowl winners (and most of the losers) had multiple bonafide stars on their squad.
With Matt Milano unlikely to ever be who he was again, we don't have anyone on the roster that's a legitimate top 5 player their position, and I'm convinced we need 4-5 of them to have a real legitimate shot at winning a ring.-
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Coinflip between Ingram or a cheap vet until the rookie is ready to take over. I expect us to draft one in the top 2 picks. I don't like it, but I'm expecting it.
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2 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
The fence swinging is taking the chance on a guy who definitely has injury concerns. But if he can stay healthy, he's as productive of a guy at that position (which is one of need) that was available. Last year, even after all the wear and tear, he was as productive as Josh Sweat (the top available DE) has ever been.
I mean, anything can be true if we're just making stuff up. If we're talking about what actually happened though:
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2 minutes ago, BillsFanForever19 said:
A quote from Matthew Bové on 'Its Always Gameday in Buffalo' really summed it up nicely:
"Beane is swinging for the fence. One of two things can happen, he can hit a home run or he can strike out swinging. But I like that he's taking the swing."
Is that what they call it when you sign underachievers to lucrative deals?
IMO, swinging for the fence would involve bringing in at least one bonafide star. We could have had this conversation had they made a play for any number of great players at positions of need. More likely it would involve 2-3 stars.
Washington and Denver are swinging for the fences. We're bunting.-
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5 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
your cheaper than me, I was only willing to give him 10m
Derrick Henry is making $8M. I'm not paying him more than The King, regardless of age.
There are a lot of stupid contracts in the league right now, but there's a ton of value too. Kareem Hunt made 1.2M last year. So did Devon Achane, Bucky irving,Tracy and others who were dynamite. Give me 2 of those guys (easier said than done of course) for less than $3M.-
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6 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
Just to be clear, the Bills should sign Cook. He is the best non-QB weapon on this team since Diggs and he should be paid. But Bosa's deal has nothing to do with that because it's a 2025 cap hit and Cook's extension would be 2026+ cap hit.
James Cook is one of the clearest products of a system I've ever seen. He'll get a bag from Arizona or Oakland and that'll be the end of his career. 2024 was the first year he broke an arm-tackle.
He played his ass off last year, no doubt, but our offensive line deserves a lot of that credit. I'm not spending anything more than 6.5M on a player like him.3 minutes ago, Victory Formation said:The production between a RB and a WR is rather comparable in many ways. A top WR can get you a 1,000yds, a good RB will also get you close to that.. Same goes for TDs…
I would actually feel far better if we signed Cook to a 3yr $36M contract instead of Josh Palmer.. our window to win is now.
Except you start 3 WR and roster 6, so the dropoff in your entire pool is way steeper than it is if you have a less flashy RB1.
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2 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:
We were a ref screw job away from a SB birth last year with $31M in dead wasted cap space for Diggs.
We still have $27.6M in dead cap this year, and likely more to come.
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39 minutes ago, Victory Formation said:
If Josh Palmer is worth $12M/year, how in the world is James Cook at least not worth that much?
He's not either. Beane doing silly things shouldn't justify other silly things.
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44 minutes ago, Draconator said:
You're making it sound like he was often injured in the last 3 years. In 2024, he played in 14 games and had 9 starts. His snap count was lowered, and he benefited from that with 6 pressures and 1 sack in the Chargers playoff game last year.
He was injured a significant part of the year, even though he played.
https://www.draftsharks.com/fantasy/injury-history/joey-bosa/7500-
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1 hour ago, Breakout Squad said:
How is he a liability? Genuinely curious because besides the money he’s a legit pass rusher.
He's played 3 full seasons out of 9, and has started just 18 games over the last 3 years with significant injuries each of those 3 seasons. His body is in sharp physical decline. The guy is Von Miller slow. In the wild card game against the Texans he had multiple opportunities to make a play and was just too damn slow to get there. in fact, one time he was so slow he got in the way of a teammate making a sack.
If we assume we get a great season where he plays 14-16 games, I fully expect him to do the brunt of his damage against weak competition and then completely disappear when we need a closer - just like Miller did last year. He's not an answer to any problem we have and he'll take reps away form a player that could be.
If this was madden or 2019, I'd be stoked.-
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Just now, FireChans said:
I actually think Bosa makes it better.
I was honestly concerned for a minute that Beane was just gonna run it back.
I was too, but I don't see Bosa as changing that approach much. He was a liability last year for LAC.
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Bosa makes it far worse than it already was. Dude's been washed for a long time.
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Would have really liked him.
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2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:
Geno Smith too. Zach Wilson will pop out of nowhere in 2030. Rodgers tore his Achilles there and Favre tore a tendon in his biceps there. Only Chad Pennington can avoid the Jets QB curse.
The Chad Pennington that won CPOY twice becuase he needed science to build him a new shoulder?
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This is hilariously bad. if you're going to sign Justin Fields, you might as well just take the cheapest guy you can find and spend the rest of the money building up your trenches and then draft 5 QBs.
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27 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:
What stopped you?
Life gets in the way of my TBD posts sometimes. It's on my list of things to remedy.
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Oh man, I was going to post this is who the Bills would target yesterday! I would have looked like a fortune teller 😅
Except that I figured they'd target him because he would be a cheap option. I thought an offer would be 3 years for $12M total. Right now this looks like a crazy overpay unless they know something he hasn't put up ont he stat sheet. -
1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
It's a lot simpler just to rip the contract up and do another one. The fact that he's making less about four million per year than Dak makes this a home town discount. He could've said $65m/year with $300m guaranteed or I'm requesting a trade. Mahomes basically did the same thing but they had to make it more complicated because that organization does everything in the most nauseating way possible. He's basically on year 2 of a fully guaranteed $210.6m per year contract at $52.7m per year. Even more team friendly considering he's the best in the NFL.
The Mahomes contract actually makes a ton of sense to me. They signed a 10 year deal and locked him up the rest of his career at the QB money from 4 years ago and the restructuring is going to give them a 2020 cap hit in 2028. If they did that with Allen, I'd be all for it. I just want to see moves that give the team advantages to get better
It seems like we're still over the cap, and with our current roster, we haven't talented enough to win. I don't love that combo. Of course they'll get under, but it seems like we passed on the marque additions at WR and DE. That makes me think they disagree with the notion that they need an infusion of talent, and instead they believe their lack of postseason success is a fixable problem with the talent currently on the roster. To me that's very, very concerning.-
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Just now, Doc Brown said:
There isn't but it's naive to think a new contract wasn't getting done given the explosion in both the QB contracts and salary cap. Chiefs had to do the same thing with Mahomes.
Cool, glad it's finally being acknowledged after nearly 10 pages of people claiming otherwise.
Agreed. I want Allen to be our QB for the rest of his career, I just would have expected a proper extension. Isn't the whole point of a long term contract that ideally you start to reap the rewards of inflation on the back half of as money gets cheaper? If you're not getting that benefit what's the point? Would have made more sense to me to give him a 4-6 year extension at something life $65m/yr that takes him near the end of his career. Now we're paying him more this year and we have to do it all over again in 4-5 years.-
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1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:
His annual average salary is the same as Trevor Lawrence's. That's a hometown discount.
Yesterday his average annual contract through 2028 was $43M. Today that same contract now costs $55M.
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34 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:
That is an unbelievable discount given to the Bills by Allen.
If Allen were actually available and all you had to do was sign him to a contract and he was your QB at least 2/3 of the teams in the NFL would have offered him a 6 year deal at 70 million per year fully guaranteed.
And you can throw in every dead beat cousin twice removed.
What discount? They paid him $100M a year for his 2 year extension.
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1 hour ago, Turbo44 said:
Original deal torn up for the new 6 year one. In the NFL contracts can always be terminated
Right, I just don't understand effectively giving him $100M a year for 2 years when he had 4 years left at a much cheaper rate. Seems like the team didn't really benefit from this deal and it was just a flat out raise.
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Joey Bosa signs with Buffalo. 1 year, $12.6 million
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That's definitely a useful data point. The availability is not a small cocern though, and neither is the ability to do something after you win the pass rush.
How much did you watch him last year? Watch this clip of the highlights from the wild card game and pay attention to his speed once he breaks through the line. The guy just doesn't have a gear to make a play back there. Maybe If we had Trey Hendrickson on the other side, his job could be to push pressure into him, but we don't. Rousseau isn't that guy, and neither is Oliver.
https://www.houstontexans.com/video/chargers-vs-texans-highlights-wild-card-weekend