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41 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Why on earth would Minn trade Rudolph for a 5th?
Vikings GM Spielman had this to say:
“You guys are really great at stirring a lot of stuff up out there,” Spielman said this week during a SiriusXM interview. “You make my press conferences interesting.”
The Vikings general manager was asked how Rudolph and Smith Jr. can complement each other on the field.
“Thank you, yeah, they’re two different types of players,” Spielman told SiriusXM radio. “With [Gary] Kubiak and [Kevin] Stefanski’s offense, one thing we felt is we didn’t have a player like an Irv Smith Jr. — a lot smaller from the standard that Kyle is. Kyle is an on-the-line Y [tight end]. Irv, you see him play H-back, you see him play fullback, you see him split out in the slot. And how can you create mismatches with defenses now?
He has a big contract, but he has openly said he is open to restructuring if it will keep his family in Minn.
Zimmer is going into, what, his 6th year as HC? and has had intermittent success, but the fans want to see him close the deal, not take a step back as last year.
Spielman is going into his 8th year as titular GM, and just bet the rent on Cousins as a QB. Expect him to try to weight the deck for Cousins increased success.
They both have to be feeling some pressure to win or GTFO.
Reading those tea leaves, what would a 5th for their star TE give them that would help them either 1) win now or 2) make the Cousins signing look good (or both)?
I think this is bang on. If Minnesota can get a 3rd or better maybe they consider moving him. Not for a 5th. So what team is going to give a 3rd for a 30 year-old TE in the final year of his contract? The Pats would appear to be a desperate as any team for TE help but they don't like parting with their picks.
Having 2 TEs with different skill sets is a good problem to have for Minny. The tight end position has one of largest learning curves. Expecting Irv to be ready to be starter out of the gates isn't realistic.
This is sort of like the Shady trade rumours. No one's giving up a premium pick for a 30 year old RB making 9 mil. So the Bills are just better off keeping him.
I think Rudolph stays put and probably re-works his deal.
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I love the bills draft for the most part. The 1st 2 picks were a dream scenario. I'm struggling a bit with the two 3rd rounders.
I think we're in an era where combine numbers dominant discussion. Singletary's #s are lackluster but what don't they don't capture is his elite vision. Shady and Faulk had rare vision where they saw the entire field and used to maximize their yards. Obviously much debate in this 28 page thread about this.
So say we went another route with our 1st 3rd rounder and didn't move up for Knox. What ifs don't really matter except for discussion purposes on a message board.
What if our picks shook out like so:
3.11: Winovich - EDGE
4.10: Bryce Love - RB
4.35: Moreau - TE
Would the masses prefer this outcome to Singletary/Knox?
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18 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:
Why? Ford is 6'3 so he will play inside
I think he has a better chance of being a Pro Bowl Guard. But a slightly lessor chance to be a pro bowl RT. I'll take option B. We've had pooh at RT forever.
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1 minute ago, noacls said:
It's not easy for an O lineman to switch sides. IMHO if Dawkins is moved will be to LG
Conundrum as Spain is better on the left. I think those are our best 5. Perhaps you sacrifice best 5 talent-wise for best 5 because of natural position. There's debate as to whether they see Dawkins as the future LT.
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1 hour ago, MTLBills said:
My guess, to start
LT: Dawkins
LG: Spain
C : Morse
RG: Long
RT: Ford
Swing: Nsekhe
Backups: Feliciano, Waddle
Looks about right. Maybe this:
My guess, to start
LT: Nsekhe
LG: Spain
C : Morse
RG: Dawkins
RT: Ford
Swing: Waddle
Backups: Feliciano, Long
And Beaner trades Bodine for a 2020 5th
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In my opinion spending significant draft capital on a linebacker is ill-advised. We have 2 great linebackers in Edmunds and Milano. Perhaps Edmunds still needs some refining but I believe greatness is right around the corner.
The concept of the Bills running a base 4-3 isn't really accurate despite it being thrown around by the media and posters on this board. In the current era our base defense is a 4-2.
The base offense in the NFL is 3 WRs. And by base I mean the configuration that is on the field more than any other configuration.
If an offense puts 3 WRs on the field, the defense puts 3 corners on the field. Hence a base 4-2.
So it makes little sense to me to draft White which will mean one of Milano, Edmunds or White are riding the pine for portions of the game.
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Bills signed QB A.J. McCarron, formerly of the Bengals, to a two-year, $10 million contract.
He can earn another $6 million in incentives. McCarron was linked to Cleveland, but that ship sailed as soon as the Browns traded for Tyrod Taylor. Ironically, McCarron is now headed to Orchard Park as Taylor's replacement. McCarron's $5 million annual salary puts him in the Chase Daniel ballpark, suggesting the Bills view him as a backup. Even if McCarron does open the year as Buffalo's starter, he'll just be keeping the seat warm for whatever quarterback the Bills end up drafting in April.Great contract!We've seen what Kirk Cousins, Case Keenum and Sam Bradford can do, and Teddy Bridgewater's knee might prevent him from becoming the quarterback many expected. With that in mind, AJ McCarron just might have had the highest potential ceiling among all of the signal-callers on this year's free-agent market.
The Bills landed McCarron—healthy, 27 years old and with nearly all the tread on his tires—for only a two-year, $10 million commitment.
Yes, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reports that number could increase to $16.5 million if McCarron hits a slew of incentives, but that would actually be a good thing for Buffalo. It would probably mean the McCarron experiment has been a success. And don't be surprised if that happens, because the former Alabama star has been one of the best backups in football the last four years, and he put up impressive numbers in relief of Andy Dalton in Cincinnati.
Worst case, he's a relatively cheap stopgap.
This was a low-risk, high reward move for a Bills team that might soon look real smart for sitting back while the Vikings, Broncos, Cardinals and Jets played a frantic and expensive game of musical chairs.
Grade: A+
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Love this signing.Very strange year indeed. So many QBs available. Cousins, Keenum, Bradford, Teddy, McCown, McCarron. 4 Potential top 10 rookies and a couple more rooks with potential.
I think Beane played it perfectly. Only 32 teams. Let each of the QB needy teams overpay and wait a bit. McCarron is faced with signing as a back-up or going to a spot where he can start. Beane then has the negotiating power. If it's under $10 mil he did well.
McCarron's unproven but certainly had some suitors when with the Bengals. There's some potential there.Certainly they need to go up and get a QB. For the first time in a long time this front office is going all in on finding a QB. Drafting one of the top 4 rookies is in the Bills plans.
Even top 5 drafted QBs are no guarantee. You put 2 QBs with potential on your roster, take 2 shots instead of one. Let them compete. If they're both good, they ship McCarron out for a 2nd rounder.
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Good riddance to Overdorf. Whether officially or by losing control of contract negotiations.
Seems this front office needs a director of personnel to be complete. A guy with an eye for talent. Is McCloughan a realistic candidate? Is he off the sauce?
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So Beane cut him... which interesting. McD did bring him in for a workout though and apparently the Bills did offer.
If they wanted him they would have offered more money and the chance to compete for a starter spot. All we have at safety is a unproven/unknown in Poyer and a guy better suited as a nickel corner.
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Kind of weird that some fans think a panther is cut and he's a shoe-in to be signed by McD. Seems the presumption is that McD worked with him and must like him. But maybe he worked with him and realized there wasn't any potential there. I trust that if the front office believed he was worth signing they would make it happen. The fact they did not probably indicates he's a JAG.
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I think we need a new right tackle but I don't think it's coming this off-season. Perhaps a late round pick to compete.
Too many larger needs. We need starters at WR, WILL, CB and safety. Depth is a huge issue in the back 7 as well.
While Mills isn't very good, I think he'll have to do for now. Maybe CuJo can make progress this off-season to playing on the right. Last tackle roster spot's probably a competition from a late pick or UDFA and cheap UFAs. I would think Henderson gets cut.
Not ideal but could be worse.
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The Bills cap has been mismanaged for a long time. While I think this organization has been great in some areas this area has been pretty awful.
Good teams identify key positions to invest their cap dollars. There are exceptions to this if you have a top 5 player at a lesser position, perhaps you pay him.
Certainly up for debate but I'll take a stab at identifying which positions should be paid for and which shouldn't (1 pay, possibly pay, 3 dont pay):
1. QB/LT/WR1
2. RT/C/G/WR2/TE
3. HB/FB/WR3
1. Pass rushers/CB/DL2. none3. S/LB
Some pretty questionable signings in the last few years under Whaley at positions where you need to find cheap alternatives:Graham - $6 mil for below average.AWill - $6 mil per for 1 good year. They lose Byrd (correct move letting him walk) and then overpay an unproven guy on a long term deal.McCoy - why did they give him a new deal? because he whined he wouldn't play? Retire then dude, you don't have a lot of options. We traded for a 2 year deal with no dead cap component. The new deal creates the potential for a bunch of dead cap. He's 29, the cliff isn't far off.The Pats paid the most to a RB in many years for Burkehead at a measily $3.15 mil. We've dumped countless 1st rounders and large contracts into the RB position. Mike G looked pretty good last year, maybe it's more about the line than the RB.Clay - $9 mil, top 8 salary at TE for a guy who had some potential but hadn't done much. Rex was so driven to screw the Dolphins he screwed the Bills instead.Felton - $3 mil for a fullback? The position is dying, lots of them out there. Grab one on the cheap.Easley - you can't pay a 6th WR special team player who's not a returner anything but the minimum.
Glenn and Dareus deserve big contracts, but the cap numbers are crazy and growing by the year. 14 and 16 mil per. Dareus' off-field issues should have resulted in a significant discount.Gilmore's gone as a result of some of these bad signings. It seems there's a disconnect between the personnel dept. and the cap/finance dept.It's not fair to only point out the bad.
Getting Tyrod to renogotiate when there was little reason to was a big win. But why did they set the contract up that way in the first place?Past deals to Hughes and Incognito both seem pretty reasonable
The LoRax, Hyde, Groy, Holmes deals all seem pretty solid.
But who's Poyer and what's he done to earn $2.5 mil?I'm interested to hear what others think the prime positions are and what are the best and worst signings the Bills have made. -
This dude has the lowest wonderlic score of all-time. He's a man corner and will be asked to play zone. His ability to learn should be questioned. He doesn't seem like a very good fit imo.
- Chris Leak — QB — Wonderlic Score: 8. ...
- Vince Young — QB — Wonderlic Score: 6. ...
- Oscar Davenport — QB — Wonderlic Score: 6. ...
- Frank Gore — RB — Wonderlic Score: 6. ...
- Edward 'Pig' Prather — S — Wonderlic Score: 5. ...
- Darren Davis — RB — Wonderlic Score: 4. ...
- Morris Claiborne — CB — Wonderlic Score: 4.
is Brown REALLY much better then Jones?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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While Brown or Zay may be our #1 WRs this year I don't believe either is a true #1WR. McDer-Beane have set in motion a long term plan to build this team from the ground up. They gutted the roster and their building through the draft. The 2020 draft is stacked with top end WRs, I think our future #1 comes from next year's class.
Some would argue you don't need a true #1 and a bunch of solid WRs can get it done in todays NFL. Maybe true. But I think having a true #1 will make the other WRs better because the attention that WR1 will take.
I think we've got a bunch of pretty good WRs and that could help lead to a playoff berth this season. I think our true #1 isn't on the roster yet.