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I'd be willing to offer something like 3/30 or 4/40, but anything beyond that and I think we should probably let him play out this season, recoup another 3rd RD comp pick and draft a WR early next year. So far, he's shown to be a high end WR3 or low end WR2, in a pass heavy offense, with upper tier deep threat capability. Maybe there's more there as he continues to develop, and with healthy ankles... but he's had ankle issues on and off for a minute now.

I agree. Im fine with Lawson on the PS, if he’s willing to fill that role, but I’d rather keep Epenesa and Boogie. Not that I’m super high on either, but AJ has at least shown flashes of above average pass rush ability. Boogie has shown nothing, but has two years left on a rookie deal. Id rather bank on the potential of AJ & Boogie behind Von, Rousseau and Floyd, now that we have (when healthy) three legit EDGE players. We know what Shaq is. AJ has flashed more and Basham has another cheap rookie year on his contract on a team that doesn’t have many DL players under contract after this year.

With how tough our schedule is, not gonna lie.. I feel MUCH better about facing off against the Jets, Dolphins and Jaguars early season (without Von) now that we have Floyd coming off the edge. Those are three, potentially, very good/elite passing offenses and - even without Von - we have a decent amount of firepower in Floyd, Rousseau, Oliver, Poona, Phillips and Jones.

That Terry Pegula speech... Beautiful. Nothing much to add, except I am so thankful for the Pegula's.

I mean... We've never seen a Bills DL in the Playoffs with Von Miller, Leonard Floyd and Poona Ford, under McDermott as DC.

Tough decision, imo. Epenesa only has one year left on his deal, but has shown flashes. Boogie has two years left, but has shown next to nothing. We only have Von, Rousseau and Oliver under contract for '24 if we move Boogie.

Agreed. So far, Beane has been true to his commitment. A little tight against the cap for the foreseeable future, but with quite a few core players locked up, along with preserving (and adding) draft picks.

Im “ok” with the WR situation. Think it has a lot of potential, but also a lot of question marks. That said .. I echo that poster’s sentiment. It’s truly impressive to me that we were able to, thus far, come away with.. Key Losses: Edmunds, Singletary & McKenzie Key Additions: Rapp, Harris, Murray, McGovern, Shell, Harty, Sherfield, Ford & Floyd Not counting the draft picks, the roster churn this off-season (on paper) has been a massive upgrade.

Love this move. Gives us a proven pass rusher to hold it down until Von gets back.. and also allows us to potentially use Rousseau more as an inside rusher, with Von and Floyd off the edge.

I have zero patience for Pride at this point. I grew up going to the parades and events. Now I want nothing to do with these LGBTQ missionaries. It’s a state sanctioned religion.

Why? His mom said Buffalo is perfect for Gabe. From everything anyone in the know has said, he wants to be in Buffalo long term. He can go to Florida in the off-season, and then focuses on football, with some hunting/fishing etc during the season.

I cringe whenever people use the Rams as an example. I get the sentiment, but they are such an outlier and not, at all, emblematic of our FO approach. For one, they built around an aging QB who seems to, potentially, be breaking down physically. And two, not only did they hand out big contracts against the cap, they also traded away picks to do so. Therefore, they didn’t have the ability to backfill with cheap rookie contracts. The Jets are taking the Rams QB approach, but they have a ton of talented rookie contract talent so that they aren’t destroyed by his contract. It gets tricky for them, but manageable - especially given this is a 2 year run with Rodgers and then likely a cheaper QB or rookie again. The Dolphins are taking the picks for big contract talent approach .. but aren’t paying a QB yet, so, again it’s manageable. We’re up against the cap, but haven’t been trading away picks and - most importantly - have a QB just entering his prime.

Yea, this is where I’m at too. We may have a small set amount for whichever pass rusher is eventually willing to take it, but I think the cap space freed up by this move may just be to give us the operating $$$ we want for the upcoming season.

He’s now making 15M+ for the next 5 years. When you’re making money like that, the conversation needs to go beyond “is he a good player?”. I hope it works out. So far, I haven’t seen anything making me think this extension was justified. Big gamble on the potential ceiling with a floor of overpaying for a good/not great undersized DT.

Im not a big Oliver fan but… DT >>> LB

I’m guessing that the FO feels what we’ve seen from him is his floor and that 17M will be manageable to absorb if that’s the worst case scenario. Clearly banking on locking him in and him breaking out. I’ve seen nothing from him to make me think he will become a focal dominant piece to build around on the DL, but the staff must believe it’s there… because you don’t drop this kind of money on a guy you can’t count on to make plays independent of the talent level around him. It’s not top of the line, and Quinnen/Jones will blow his payday away, but it’s still a lot of money on a team that’s paying a franchise QB. Legitimately shocked to see this extension before the season starts.

I am dead inside.

My biggest concern with Davis is that I haven’t seen him show the skill set of a WR2 in a pass heavy offense. He’s a big body deep threat who is excellent at working back to the QB when he’s out of the pocket. Also an elite blocker as a WR. A legit WR2 needs to be able to have a much more fuller, effective, route tree than that. People will point to the ankle injury, and there may be validity to that, but Gabe has dealt with ankle injuries on and off since his time at UCF. Im open to a healthy Gabe showing he can be a top tier WR2, but it’s a lot of hope for a guy who’s shown to be more of a WR3 capable of big games here and there.

Is there more context to this?.. or did this really just happen?

No idea what happened behind closed doors, but Elon redeems himself once again. Clearly there was an internal struggle and certain high level employees went rogue, directly going against Elon/Twitter’s directives. Now we see two high level employees have resigned and Elon, not only shared the movie “What is a Woman”, but personally boosted it as a promoted tweet. Well done.

I'm back to being tired of this story and I'm also of the mind that he's going to go to some Browns/Patriots/Lions type team where he can justify the money because they convince him he makes them a contender... That said, these tweets from reporters are all nothing.. they keep saying nothing. What is this? We're listening, watching and have had conversations? Ok... Who is "all in", anyone? If so, who? If not, why would we be all in when everyone else is pulling the same recruiting/negotiation tactics?

There’s a story like this every other day now..

A lot easier to do when you have an elite QB. His point is valid. Would McDermott still be HC if we didn't have Allen? Maybe, he did make the playoffs with Tyrod. Would we think he's a great coach? What would McDermott look like with Washington's QB and talent level? Are we ok with what he's done so far with 5 years of Josh Allen? I also think it's becoming tougher and tougher to gauge Defensive HC's. I'll admit that clouds my judgment a bit.