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McGovern's man got the strip sack on Allen. I mostly blame Allen on the play though as he had forever to get rid of the ball and was irresponsible with it. McGovern did look out of place a few other times,but I generally thought he was ok.

Glad he was cut and even more glad he isn't here now. I'm more concerned about our 6th receiver than I am about some punter.

I think the point that matters is that investment is a major opportunity cost. Let's say that happens and he's the very best RT in the league. If Coleman and Shakir both break out and you have to let one go so you can pay Spencer Brown, was it worth it? The amount of money you can spend is fixed. You have to choose what players you give veteran contracts to, and which you replace with rookies. Personally, I'm saving most of my money for good to elite players at critical positions, spending most of the rest on quality players on the defensive front 7 and oline and then I'm rotating in a bunch of younger cheaper guys as depth every year. While offensive line play as a whole is very important, I don't see RT as a critically important part of that. Dion Dawkins is the 6th highest paid LT in the league. If we had Laremy Tunsil, who is #2 or Ronnie Stanley, who is #15 does that have a meaningful impact of our Super Bowl chances? I argue no. Clearly it's important to have competent play, but do I want to pay the extra for top dollar? No way - and LT is far more important than RT.

You're not getting it. The money doesn't matter if the percentage of the cap is the same. If you extend a guy this year, next year someone else will make more. If you sign him next year, he costs more, but you also have more money to spend. The year after that, someone else will make more as well, making his deal look cheaper. Signing a player you aren't sure about to a big money deal just because "it's cheaper now than later" is the completely wrong way to look at it. It's like people who bought houses in cash when interest rates were at 3%. Tomorrow's dollars are always cheaper than today's due to inflation and in the case of the NFL, the ever increasing salary cap. It's better to commit to only your best players, of which he has a long way to go, than to saddle yourself with Knox-esque contracts.

That's true of just about every player. It's not a reason to extend people to big money.

How many championships have they won since then?

Why would they look smart? According to the report, they're paying him top RT money. If you're just going to hand out a massive contract, you could do it on a proven commodity instead of betting on hope. If they gave him a long term deal with middling numbers, I could argue that being a move where they could look smart. With a top money deal, you can only be wrong, because the numbers make the assumption you're right.

I don't think either one of those things are true. They both got top money at the time. Every year contracts go up so previous ones move down in total value. Oliver was most definitely an overpay as he's just now starting to be valued appropriately compared to his peers imo. There aren't a lot of players making more than him that he's clearly better than. Allen was made the second highest paid player of all time with the most amount of guarantees of all-time. Time passing doesn't make it a better deal, as the same thing will happen to guys that sign bigger deals this year.

"shows Buffalo values him as one of the top right tackles in the NFL" yikes.

Of course he's going to the Hall of Fame. He's a two time MVP. If he retired today he'd be in. He was the best player on the field today. Does he have limitations as a passer? Absolutely. That doesn't make him a poor QB - he just plays the position differently, much like Vick and Cunningham before him. That said, I wouldn't choose him over Allen, Burrow, and probably 5 other guys, but he's absolutely an elite talent.

eat all that dead cap for the 6th round pick you'd likely get? No thanks. Let him stay and be our #2. Just a terrible contract.

They traded for a replacement a few hours ago. Not surprising after that.

Is "processing" a thing you want to work on in the NFL when it's this raw? Send him to Canada. The NFL has a graveyard of players that could sling a ball 50 yards but couldn't handle the mental part of the game. Give me the guy with the football IQ who's a lesser athlete ever time.

I don't think it's strictly a scenario where they put two hands on the ball and gift it to a defender for the top end of the WR roster (kincaid, Shakir, Knox, Samuels). I will be shocked if there isn't a healthy amount of WR mistakes where they take unexpected angles, run the wrong routes, try to catch balls that are intended for other players and despite not being in optimal positions to catch the ball still make contact and pop it up. There will also be bang-bang plays where balls pop up in the air after contact. I'm also expecting the kinds of plays that make QBs look horrible where they throw it right into a defender's hands because the receiver ran the wrong route. I hope I'm wrong of course, but I have very little faith in this receiving group.

With this group of WRs? He's going to have at least 5 bounce off of hands, and a few pick sixes as a result. I wouldn't be shocked if he sets a career worst.

Most WRs don't peak until the end of their first deal, and you have to gamble $15m/year on a guy that is more likely than not going to be bust that never does anything, so not sure it's going to make much difference. I'd argue it'll be a battle between teams going for a high end #1 and a bunch of scrubs vs teams that build a comittee style approach, until the roster meta changes and some new position is the in-demand one. I've never been super impressed by Lamb. He had a massive year at the perfect time, but I don't see him as the type of X factor that will win you games by himself the way I'd want a guy making over 13% of the cap to be.

No it isn't. Mahomes' regular season accolades put him on top of everyone except Rodgers, but he's clearly a shadow of himself. If you want to talk just regular season though, Josh probably gets bumped down below Jackson based just on accolades. I personally wouldn't take Jackson over him, but it's hard to discount when Josh's best accomplishment is one 2nd-team all-pro node and 2 pro bowls in 6 years.

I agree that Mahomes is alone is Tier 1. The proof is in the pudding. I say this as a guy who argued Manning and Brady were both in tier 1, until it became ridiculous to argue anyone was in Brady's tier. Allen and Burrow I'd put in Tier 2 and as of right now, they're the only ones there. I could easily see Stroud joining them this year if he builds even a little on what he did last year. To me, the "6-8 guys" are a tier below those guys. Talking guys like Herbert, Jackson, possibly Rodgers, Love, Goff, Purdy, Stafford,Hurts, etc.

I honestly thought he retired years ago. Good for him.

I use IPTV for $10/mo instead.

and they would love that. they've been pumping him up non-stop despite his consistent Zach Wilson-esque play

He's so small. That's a massive disadvantage in any fight. He absolutely would have a massive skill advantage against me but he would be giving up a lot of reach (~75"), height (maybe 6"?) and weight( Lol probably 60?), not to mention age. If I let him get close he's got the edge, but size definitely matters. If it's a sanctioned match, I probably still lose due to skill, but a streetfight? I'll take that bet.

cook at 9th overall?

We've downgraded at both Center and left Guard as of now, if camp reports about McGovern's struggles are to be believed. I wasn't at all opposed from moving on from Morse, but the lack of planning there was ridiculous. As for WR, We lost our top 2 receivers from last year and replaced them with our #3 and a rookie. Those 2 WRs + Shahkir accounted for 2500 yards and 17 touchdowns. Shakir's best year so far is 600 yards and 2 TDs nad Samuel is 850 and 5 TDs. Let's say Shakir hits 1000 yards and Samuel bests his career. You're still looking for a 10 TD improvement. That is massive. To date JA has not only been an elite QB for us, but he's been our best skill position player with 15 rushing touchdowns last year alone. He doesn't have much room to increase that number (which is far above his average), so if that comes down at all, those scores will have to be absorbed somewhere else. Who is going to do that? The rookie? Mack Hollins? Maybe Dalton Kincaid adds 4 - you're still down 6. This is of course forgetting that last years team wasn't anywhere near the top 4 teams. We don't just need to hit last year's level, we need to surpass it. I love what I've seen out of Shakir so far, but if you want to act like he's going to combine with Samuel for 2000 yards and 20TDs, you might as well just write these posts in crayon. my prediction: Shakir 850/6 Samuel 650/5 Kincaid 950/5 Allen returns to the mean with 9 rushing TDs Bills win 10-11 games thanks largely to divisional dominance and my prediction for a soft NFC west outside of the 49ers. They falter again in January and don't make it past the divisional round as they look outclassed against the Texans or Chiefs.

You have like 20 of these copium threads every year and your "predictions" never come to fruition. Probably because they aren't based in reality. Both Kincaid and Shakir should take a step forward this year, but even with a very significant one, we'll still have far, far less talent on offense than we did last season.