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Pretty sure you’re not allowed to stop late game drives like that.

That’s the DeSantis that won Florida by 20 points. He won on substance and came across more animated and far less robotic. Also, Im pretty sure Newsom is going to endorse Trump.

Wtf haha… ok, this thread has it all now

“This is blown out proportion. It’s actually crazy. No one assaulted anyone” Ok then… And the “no drop” rule does make sense, however … assuming it got heated/maybe blown out of proportion and she truly wants to drop the case … this now could cost him, and by association her.. tens of millions of dollars.

This seems crazy. What if a QB did this? What if multiple players on a team all violate personal conduct together. Team just has to fold up shop for years?

Araiza Tops Shooting/Bills Response Hamlin Von Miller Teams go decades never making national news. 4x in two years.

If he was, and NE had to take dead cap hits, you’d think teams would protect themselves from that in the future, no?

Sam Martin has been terrible. Cut him this off-season, bring back Araiza and we get out of Von’s deal if he did what he’s accused of and the league takes action. All the wrongs will be righted.

What a jarring headline to read. Wow.

Comes across as an owner who just doesn’t feel like dealing with it. Which is his prerogative. He writes blank checks to whatever Beane asks of him, so I can’t criticize him too much.

Seems, for the first time, most of us actually are on the same page … that being, if what is reported is true, he should be gone. Don’t do this though.. It’s obnoxious. Bills have to let this play out, especially given they were public-pressured into cutting a guy off allegations last year.

He came in as Josh Allen was winning a Super Bowl for the Arizona Cardinals and I said no, let the boy watch. He needs to learn, the way I learned, from my father..

I don’t know that it’s sustainable, aside from Beane absolutely crushing this draft, but every year we worry and every year we’re more talented on paper. And that’s why this year is so, so maddening … because this team is so much better than last years team. Josh Allen is likely the league MVP front runner if McDermott doesn’t spaz in the Eagles game and/or a FG kicker doesn’t smash a 59 yards in the rain. Our OL is a Top 5 unit. THE best pass blocking line in the league and top 5 in run blocking. Our DL, even with the Jones injury, is a Top 5 pass rush DL. Diggs is having another great year. Shakir has emerged as a legit slot option. Davis is the same guy. Kincaid is a future superstar. Yet, here we are at 6-6. But what part of 6-6 do you put on Beane? It seems to be entirely coaching, with Dorsey putting Allen & the Offense into a fog and McDermott being Captain anti-clutch.

Yea… this isn’t random second string LB on the Arizona Cardinals. This is a household name on a team with one of the league’s biggest stars. I highly doubt, if this is as bad as it sounds, the NFL wants the Bills to have any financial reason to be worried about cutting a guy who would otherwise be featured on every broadcast as people tune in to watch Josh Allen.

No, it’s not. If you want to make an argument to fire Beane, it’s that we signed Von … then restructured him… and signed him because of a miss on Basham and the high ceiling/long development strategy of Rousseau. However, given his recent drafting record, he should be safe, imo. Also, we don’t know what McDermott advocates for to Beane & Pegula. If McDermott wanted Hopkins over Floyd & Poyer, would Beane have gotten D-Hop? I don’t think Beane is the defense first guy.

Welp.. if the contract language being reported on X and police report allegations are true.. we may be out of cap hell far sooner than we expected…

Yet another reason I’d tell Beane he’s safe, regardless of what they do with McDermott. I don’t want any short sighted decision making. And Beane has made some blunders, but he’s also looked MUCH better in his drafting recently .. and that’s going to have to be our lifeblood moving forward. The only change he probably does need to make is that he likely needs to draft more for immediate impact than high ceiling development.

I think the Bills can get something done with Jones and Epenesa. Jones coming off an injury probably wont break the bank. Can backload a 2 year deal with the idea that maybe we move Knox in ‘25. Epenesa is young so we can have flexibility with a 3-4 year deal. Floyd is the big one … and I’d try to backload a 2 year deal with him as well, probably with more void years.. again, with the knowledge that we can move off Knox’s contract to help offset the DL investment. I trust us to get young and draft some solid guys in the secondary (where they have a strong track record on Day 3) but not so much impact players on the DL … especially when our RD1 pick not being a WR would be managerial malpractice in this Draft.

We also have contracts, like Knox, we can move off from/trade after next year. These next two years are tricky, but a lot of us were worried because we will most assuredly lose guys like Hyde & Poyer .. well, love them to death, but they aren’t that good anymore. Even Taron Johnson, still very good, should be a conversation due to some aspects of his game being exposed this year. The fact is we have a Top 5 OL all under contract next year (if we keep Morse) plus the depth (Bates, Anderson, Van Demark). Milano comes back next year. Beane hitting on rookie contracts like Kincaid, Benford, Bernard, Torrence, now a guy like Shakir too … massive. He’ll need to do it again this year. At some point, we have to eat an Allen big cap hit year. Chiefs did it when they went young on defense and won the Super Bowl. Im hesitant to keep tinkering with his contract. Id rather load him up with 1 or 2 WR’s in the Draft next year and just try to outscore people when added to the already talented offense coming back. Then prioritize the DL and let them pass rush with Milano/Bernard protecting a young secondary outside Douglas.

Knox and Von aren’t being traded, and the Bills will NEVER punt on a prime Josh Allen year .. so that’s not happening. The Bills could position themselves to have the most talented offense in the league if they do what’s right by Allen in this elite WR draft. They already have the QB, the OL, the RB, the WR and the TE, plus guys like Knox and Shakir. The defense is likely where we see massive changes, but will there be a drop off? From what? A defense that doesn’t show up against good teams or in big moments? Next year should be a Josh Allen MVP year on a loaded offense from top to bottom, with a defense that is strong up front and at LB but can be leaky on the back end.

If we need to cut Morse, im perfectly fine with Bates taking over. I’d love to keep him, but sometimes tough decisions have to be made. We will also likely have some restructures/extensions … likely Dawkins based on his play this year and Douglas, for the same reason .. along with his future potential at Safety.

This is where I’m at. Our cap situation isn’t great, but neither is the cap/financial situation for the Dolphins, Jets or Bengals. Chiefs got it right, but have a looming Chris Jones contract negotiation and Travis Kelce potential retirement down the line. For a dominant 3 man run, that’s 2 of them. Bills can bring back a Top 5 OL, Top 2 QB plus Diggs, Shakir, Cook, Kincaid & Knox. Do the right thing and draft Allen a RD1 WR in a Draft with 6-7 WR1 potential guys in it. Then start to rebuild the defensive secondary and defensive depth with the rest of the draft. Focus every financial effort this off-season to keeping this DL together and along with Milano coming back to pair with Bernard.. there’s the nucleus, along with Rasul Douglas outside, to carry that side of the ball.

First, we need to figure out what the actual projected over the cap number is… 13M is a big difference At 29M over, we can cut Poyer, White, Johnson, Harty and Morse and be pretty much under the cap without factoring any trades, extensions or restructures.

In retrospect yea, but at time it made sense. What was the Rams offer? 2 yrs / 40M? Ours was essentially one more year at 3 / 60 plus some fluff that we restructured to make it a 4 year commitment. The restructure and reasons we went after Von are blemishes for Beane, but the contract itself .. I don’t know. I was good with it at the time.