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Insane decision for him. His ego overran his common sense. He could have taken a ***** on the Dean's car at Michigan and they would have built him a statue all while cutting him a $125M check. Instead, he take a super high turnover job where his image as infallible will be questioned week to week by national reporters. That said, it's an incredibly strong roster, so maybe he skates to a Super Bowl and retires as the greatest football coach ever.

Has to be a draft pick. Douglas is in his prime as a near-elite CB. White is likely done. Jackson is a free agent. Elam doesn't have the skills. Benford is a great corner - no reason for him to change positions.

That's a great strategy as long as your goal is to have a Super Bowl-ready roster 2-4 years from now while that talent you cheaped out on develops or doesn't.

In the NFL, that's the same thing. The cap is an illusion.

I don't think the market will be big for him at all based on two down years. I would think you could get him on a short term prove it deal. He made $3m this year and underperformed a lot of other WRs making similar money. Chark had a much better year at $5M, so I'd say $5-6M 1-2 years.

Hollywood brown would give us a burner we lack and is coming off a down two years in AZ Calvin Ridley - might be too expensive Rasheed Shaheed broke out this year in a poor saints offense - could be a risk DJ Chark - Perfect candidate for a placeholder if we draft a player and want them to earn the role over the course of the year in typical McD fashion.

Playing safety would exacerbate just about every weakness Elam has besides ballhawking. He's a man press corner who can't tackle.

I think he gets one by the end if one of three things happen: 1. He takes a big step up in his mental game and passing technique that turns open players into automatic plays like a Brady or Mahomes (least likely) 2. He gets an easy/flukey path to a championship where the top teams like KC/SF whoever else is strong in a given year get upset before they get to us or suffer QB injuries. (most likely) 3. We build a monster team around him that asks him to only make a couple big plays instead of all the plays - similar to what Denver did with Both Elway and Manning (very possible, but not any time soon). He's gotta stay healthy, and if he wants the best possible shot, he needs to play smarter than he does. I don't see the latter as being likely at all as he's a gunslinger at his core. I don't see him becoming a Peyton Manning film-rat or a Tom Brady football lifestyle guy. I think he's gonna try to win on his arms and legs on Sunday and as long as there are other elite teams in the league, it'll be a sad ending for us in the playoffs unless we can get really lucky. I do think we get lucky at least once though, and if we are able to do something silly like draft multiple all-pros on rookie deals, maybe we get a couple.

Top 8-13 Yards, touchdowns, receptions, first downs - everything that matters.

I would love to get Belichick, but it's not happening. Henry is completely washed. I would have traded a late round pick for him to take Murray's role, but his day as a feared #1 are over. Go all-in and get Tee Higgins and Josh Jacobs. Use your draft picks to bolster secondary, LB and WR depth. ------------- However, what they will do is keep everyone under contract (including McDermott), resign Ty Johnson to an overpaid deal, draft a CB/DE in round one, get the 10th best WR of the draft in round 2-4, and run it back. You'll have Diggs-Shakir-Harty as your top 3 with Shorter and some rookies competing for 4+.

Awesome. nothing beats a great primetime matchup.

I want McDermott gone as much as the next guy, but this take is lame. You have to have an "excuse" why you don't win, or else you would have won. 31 teams have an "excuse" every single year. Some of us call it a "reason", but I'm guessing that distinction doesn't matter much.

I posted this in another thread, but you guys know he was still near the top of the league in everything this year, despite having a poor year by his standards, right? He could easily have 2-3 more Top 5-7 years in him with the right gameplan

exactly. This version of the Bills was probably the worst one we've put out there since 2019. There was no chance they were beating the best teams in the league. They just didn't have the horses this year and the offense never looked strong.

This.

Huh? Dude had a massive year despite routinely getting benched for Von Miller and is likely about to make stupid money.

CB or DE - bank on it.

Why do you think the Bills should have won? The strategy seemed pretty sound given our injuries and the opponent to make the game as short as possible. We went into the half with the lead and with less than two minutes on the clock we had a chance to go up 4 and the players didn't execute. I never wanted McDermott hired int he first place and will be glad to see him canned, but what exactly did you want him to do that he didn't do yesterday? Our team was outclassed in every phase and still had a chance to win. I give him credit for that.

lmao

Pretty sure the Pats were on the hook for Aaron Hernandez's cap. Don't see it happening.

hes a disappointment, but far from a bust. unless he takes a step, hes probably a backup quality player during his next contract imo

I do. Expecting a Super Bowl after the way we played this year was lunacy. We struggled against everyone after October and very few players stood out as having a great year.

umm, you know Von has a massive dead cap hit right? We can't get rid of him until after next year.

impossible to keep AJ Epenesa and unlikely to return Floyd.

Mahomes doesn't tyically struggle against merely good defenses. He has too many ways to deal with them and no small part of that is having Travis Kelce. You would need to throw things at him he's never seen and overwhelm his targets in a way no one has ever done to stop him. Maybe the ravens or 49ers can do it, but I wouldn't bet money on it. I acknowledge that our defense was pretty bad today. Douglas really shouldn't have been starting as it was obvious his injury was holding him back despite being in pretty decent position most of the day, and being stuck with Klein at LB #1 was a liability. Most disappointing however was our completely healthy and exorbitantly expensive D-line that was invisible all game. We certainly got bit hard by injuries, but that group was who we needed to show up and they didn't.