Matt_In_NH

This chart looks like it was made by Butch from the East Side if people remember him from the old BBMB

Trade for Mike Evans?!

Perhaps this should be merged with the other thread on the homepage.

The thing with this is it is important to be methodical and only pull the triggers when they need to be pulled. I dont expect them to do a bunch of stuff to get to 35M under the cap and then use it in FA/draft/replacement guys/practice squad. Rather, I expect a minimum required moves to get cap compliant with some space heading into FA and then additional moves as guys are signed to stay compliant.

There have been a lot of WR's picked later in the first and second that are true #1's to justify the price to get get someone that could bust anyway. I say be patient, let the board play out and move a little when/if that makes sense. All the pre-draft stuff is noise that people make huge assumptions on. Any draft pick is risky so if its not a QB, I am not trading next years one and more day two picks for a better lottery ticket.

Cap just went up 20M...inflation. Allen will be out of the top ten for AAV soon.

I cannot see him coming back but I once thought that about Milano though so you never know.

Dodson is limited and what do you call emergence of Williams and Spector? I don’t get it. Emergence of Bernard I understand.

I think "should be back for training camp" is for 1 of 32 teams who sign him, not likely the Bills

Russell Wilson had more rushing yards the year the Seahawks won the SB than Allen had last year. Besides with the evolution of the position there will be future winners who run it more. However I agree with your point that they should try to take more off of Allen's rushing but some of that is on Allen's growth as a passer and not just "more and better weapons".

I can understand your first two lines but putting OL and DL as the afterthoughts after a bunch of offense is not really how good teams get built. The teams that wn the SB focus heavlily on OL and DL.

Yeah we will disagree, I like data and facts vs biased intuition. I say biased because most fans are much more in tune wiht their team, consume media for their team, know their teams warts better than the rest of the league. That is why actually looking at data is a better approach. The simple stats I raised are just that simple, if you dive deeper into efficiency, 3rd down conversion rates, red zone production and other key indicators you will see the Bills are among the top in all of those also. Your assertion that because the Bills have not made a couple plays here and there on defense, on specal teams and offense in a couple playoff games against the Chiefs the answer is more fire power is not founded in anything other than opinion and a "Madden" style answer to the problem. Can you list the offenses that don't sputter and struggle for long stretches at times? Your assertion that teams don't fear the Bills offense is just you opinion, they are in fact respected at a level right up there with the Chiefs offense. You are just biased as described above. If you read some of my other posts on this forum you will see I fully support drafting a WR with the first or second round pick and finding the next #1.

How is Josh Allen woefully under armed? Are there a few teams deeper at WR? Sure. If the offense is so under armed how are they ranked high the last four years? The bills are second in yards and points the last 4 years. Are you going to argue that is all Josh Allen with woeful weapons? I am sure you will point to a few teams with two #1 receivers. Look at what the Chiefs have done, they have next to nothing for offensive weapons outside of Kelce, pretty much nil at receiver and a seventh round RB. They have invested the vast majority of their draft capital on defense and traded away the best WR in the NFL and then won the last two SB's. Offensive weapons is not the Bills problem. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/nfl-team-offense-leaders-last-4-years https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/highest-scoring-teams-in-the-nfl-last-4-years

Right, which is why creating cap space today by converting salary to bonus is risky. It helps today but can cause a bigger problem later. Sometimes you should take your medicine earlier.

No that is not correct.

Well that guy just got himself a bunch of loot

SOP

They have the best cap situation in the league.....question is will they be able to take advantage of it? I say no...they will sign some FA's and win 6-8 games.

Agree, I think he will also have a plan for how to attack what in FA and the draft but that can change depending on what dominos fall and how things get filled in. In general I would think trying to find a premium WR in the draft would be ideal because of the cost advantage at that expensive position.

I think they will sign some of their own back for the right price, 1 maybe 2 moderate signings and maybe 2 comp picks next year. They will likely not go deep into the initial FA and I like that but can bargain shop later.

I used to listen to him on GR a long time ago, I remember one particular call when a Sabres fan took him to task because he knew nothing about hockey, he truly did not but he had to cover it with his job. In some ways he was very unqualified but he was fun to listen to. Anyway, the caller was asking him to name the sabres or talk about hockey strategy and all he could muster was they need to focus on defense cause that is what wins championships. LOL, its not like he had data at his fingertips like the guys do today. RIP

ok, I had him crossed off the list, now I just ripped up the paper.

what would his AAV be?

Agree there are differences with Beasley's skill set compared to Shakir but I think Shakir is or can better than a role player, maybe I am wrong but his production the last 10 games showed it. He is dependable and good with RAC.

There are only so many targets to go around and I guess that is the reason for my first paragraph, I see and hear so much about the dramatic "need" for WR's. The future boundary guy will only be able to eat so much unless he gets into Diggs targets IMO. Some of the throws to Beasley (now Shakir or Kincaid) are easy or progression type throws when the target was not there to the primary (Diggs or future #2).