Adam727

If Chicago also added their 1st and 2nd round pics every year from now through 2031 I'd have to think about it.

I like the idea of a trade down to the early 2nd round and grabbing two WRs. I don't think trading for one of the top 3 WRs is realistic. Or at least not a good idea. If the Bills give up 28, 60, 2025 1, 2 how do they fix the rest of the team? Our DEs are Rousseau and Von. Next year we pay $13mil for Rousseau if we want to keep him. After that he probably costs $20mil/year and gets a Tremaine Edmunds type contract for someone I think is a good player who is going to get paid like an all pro. We are going to need at least 1 probably 2 starting DEs. Our safeties are Rapp & Edwards. We have no O-line or CB depth. We have $5mil in cap space next year with only 38 players on the roster, 2024/2025 rookies not accounted for, and Rasul Douglas & Spencer Brown as free agents we might want to re-sign. If we trade up to the top of the draft for a WR and have no 1st or 2nd round picks and no cap space how do we even start fixing the defense until 2026/2027?

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5 years $160mil is my guess.

I would fix any holes in the O-line, get one top notch receiver, a RB, draft a QB at 3 and save the rest of the money for next year. Keep drafting QBs high if needed, wait until you have a franchise QB then go on a massive spending spree.

I'd sign him for vet minimum. If he can get more than that somewhere else I think that's more than we can afford at that position right now.

I'd want him back at 3 yr / $21 mil but think he'll probably get a 5 yr $60-70mil contract somewhere else.

I don't agree with everything McDermott does. I'll never forget that he tried to start Nathan Peterman TWICE the year Tyrod got us into the playoffs. But how many coaches in the last 40 years have the Bills had better than McDermott? His clock management skills are bad. His player evaluation is not always the best. But he's still one of the top 2 or 3 coaches we've had in decades. The grass isn't always greener..

I think the Bills already have the talent to win it all. Last year they had to overcome a lot of adversity just to get to Cincinnati and for whatever reason they came out flat. The year before they either deserved to beat KC or at the very least played just as good as KC did and lost (in addition to 13 seconds) because of a coin toss. The Bills just need to keep the window of opportunity open as long as possible to get the maximum number of chances and sooner than later they'll win one with this team. You can argue who's better between KC, Cincinnati, Bills, Eagles, but IMO they are all pretty close and no one of those teams is going to beat the other more than 6 out of 10 times. So the Bills just needs to keep putting themselves in a position to win and one of these years they are going to.

Is this a list of single best years or is this cumulative year to year? Weird to see Byrd over Allen, but Byrd did have one year for the Bills where I remember he played out of his mind. Something like an interception a game for 8 or 9 games or something insane.

I didn't want to read through all 52 pages to see if it had been said before, but basically this. I didn't like the numbers when I first saw them, after seeing the contract details, IMO great deal for both sides, especially the Bills.

I don't usually like to start threads but I can't find a good answer to this question, and it's the off-season... According to Spotrac, the Bills are currently $35 million over the projected salary cap next year. Micah Hyde, Gabe Davis, Daquan Jones, Ed Oliver, Jordan Phillips, Shaq Lawson, Poona Ford, Dane Jackson are all free agents along with a number of other less expensive role players. The Bills have already spent about $20mil/year from future years cap space for the next several years in void years / restructures, so even though they can choose to keep pushing some money into future years at some point doing this too much will probably catch up with them and would mean we'd be dealing with some rebuilding year or years right as Josh is in the middle of his prime as a QB, and Beane has said numerous times he's always trying to balance building for now and building for the future. I see $8million in relatively easy cuts in Hines/Neal. The Bills can probably save some money next near by extending Taron Johnson. After that it starts becoming much more difficult to see where the Bills save money. Has anyone else looked at 2024 yet and what does this roster look like next year? Who can the Bills afford to bring back and who might be on the chopping block for cap reasons?

All good points. The reason I would be willing to downgrade the Dline this year is that according to Spotrac, the Bills are really far over the cap next year already and they have several high priced free agents to worry about. In my opinion, a DT rotation of Ford/Jones/Phillips/Settle/5th guy signed for Vet min is solid. Ford essentially takes Oliver's roster spot. With the state of the Bills cap next year, the high likelihood Oliver won't be able to be re-signed next year, his salary, and the % of snaps he is likely to play with the Bills' heavy emphasis on D-line rotation, his contract seems like a poor value to me even though I really like him as a player and I would rather see that money rolled forward into next year. I don't think it's likely to happen, that's just what I would do. I do agree our situation at MLB makes DT even more important and understand why Oliver will probably be on the team one more year. Which isn't the worst thing given that he is probably our second best player on the D-line.

Brown/Doyle/Bates isn't ideal but I can live with it for this season. You can't upgrade every position in one season and whoever plays RT will hopefully benefit from improved interior OL play. I wouldn't mind a veteran if Beane can find someone for vet minimum but wouldn't want to pay $5mil for someone like Wynn.

$11mil in free cap space that we can hopefully use to re-sign Micah Hyde next year. And probably a day 3 draft pick. I like Oliver I just don't think the Bills can afford him right now.