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The one team that took a chance on him, you want him to do them like that? He’s, at best, the 4th QB in the AFC and I can bet more GM’s than not would rather have Herbert or Lawrence, which drops him to 6th in a fight with 40 year old Rodgers. He has zero self awareness and now comes off like a complete sideshow.

I’m gonna go ahead and assume you misheard/misinterpreted Tasker. He and Chris Brown were 100% talking about the possibility and mentioned how nobody has told them anything and it’s been extremely quiet… followed by “and then usually when stuff happens”. Also, why would Tasker be more connected than anyone else? Because he’s a former player, Beane is giving him text messages updates?

Weird .. because when I had OBL on, they were certainly entertaining the apparently made up online stuff.

My best guess (if any of what we hear is true) is that the new AZ GM is potentially a bit over his head in asking for too much and will either come down or risk creating an environment where Hopkins has to force his way out. Re: Tasker today .. They also said it’s been ultra-quiet and that’s usually when stuff happens.

“or anyone else in the NFL”….. ?

So.. all that Hopkins wants to win and is willing to work on the contract piece… not so much?

If what is being semi-reported is true… and Arizona doesn’t want to eat any cap, that new GM is going to have to lower his expectations and take a later pick or deal with a disgruntled star on his hands all season. Not sure how many teams, that Hopkins will work with, he sees out there with bucketloads of cap space.

Yea, I’m sure he desperately wants to be the KD of the NFL rather than be a legend on one of the few teams that can dethrone them. And, fwiw, Kelce is “the guy”.

Oh, yea, that was definitely under the assumption we trade for Hopkins. I could still see WR at 27 depending how it falls, and depending on how the FO views Davis long term.

Or what if Zay Flowers is there at 27. Gaine was at his pro day today. Could Buffalo take Zay Flowers and then look to move Gabe on Day 2 for someone who maybe didn’t get what they were hoping for in the draft?

Ravens, in an attempt to further make their fanbase lose their minds …

It’s a pointless leak, but it also means the Cardinals have to take what they can get. Not too many teams Hopkins is willing to play ball with on a contract negotiation are able to clear the cap space needed without getting wild with the cap. Bills happen to be a team that’s either A) willing to get wild or B) have a conveniently movable player who’s cap hit frees up 10M.

In recent memory … I guess id say the Bills were pretty well linked with the EDGE sweepstakes last off-season. We just ended up with the guy we never saw coming.

I guess… RB is a spot you can plug and play. Not sure why we need a guy to learn for a year behind Cook, Harris and Hines.

Another team is involved. We’ve never heard anything really about recent signings (maybe some watch for this guy stuff), but that is between Buffalo and the player... Not Buffalo, Arizona, and the player.

If AZ isn’t eating any cap, I can’t imagine much is going back to them in return. Maybe a Day 3 pick this year and late Day 3 next year? If we’re looking at the Cooks/Dallas trade. Have to imagine Oliver is being moved or Beane was never that worried about kicking cap down the road. Not many other options out there for us to make it work unless they surprise move off Morse.

True, and I probably agree, but the longer these negotiations drag on, who knows what unexpected turns come about. It’s why I’m impressed/confused by how chill the Jets seem to be as if nobody will randomly decide, hey.. maybe we should take a run at Rodgers.

Pre-workout starting to hit right as I read this post…. Cool. Cool. About to rage at the gym now. Beane, please just get this done …

I don’t necessarily disagree with you on the OL piece. KC has invested heavily in their OL… both $$$ and the draft. Seems the Bills truly do believe Spencer Brown can become a Lane Johnson type freak.. and that seems to be guiding their OL moves as RT is the clear remaining question mark on that line after signing McGovern and bringing Edwards in as depth/competition. Im sure if he figures it out, it will happen not this year, but next year, just in time for us to gain nothing from his rookie contract but have to pay him.

Yea, let’s see .. and then let’s see how good they are without a highly invested in OL for Burrow, without the best WR trio in the league. KC made a great move with Hill. They also have quite a few high paid players (Kelce, Thuney, Taylor, Jones) and just restructured Mahomes two weeks ago. KC is the gold standard right now… no argument from me there, but they are still operating as if the cap is going up with the option to hit up the bank of Mahomes when needed.

Are you privy to negotiations for Hopkins that we aren’t aware of? You seem to be operating under the assumption that we stand pat, no corresponding moves, and take Hopkins full cap hit.

1) Nope. We traded for Von to address that. It is what it is. Have to hope it works out. 2) No idea what to take from that game. Absolute dumpster fire, with crazy circumstances, I don’t know … I don’t want to make excuses for them… but it’s really difficult to dissect that game, especially hearing from players after it. Can we try to get a 1 seed for once? Does Hopkins help with that? Are the Bills physically/mentally dead going into a Divisional Round CIN game after playing Miami in the WC if we have the 1 seed? Nope… we’d have a bye to heal up and then we’d be playing Jax, not Cin. Who knows how that plays out if we get past Jax and face KC, at home, with Hyde and Jones healthy and back on the field. We matched up much better with KC than CIN.

The cap going up (a lot) and the Bills being able to restructure Allen multiple times are not assumptions.. It will, and they will. If one, or both, don’t happen … it means the league is in trouble (not just us) and something really unexpected happened with Allen. KC is operating based on the cap going up and Mahomes contract being used as a bank. CIN is operating based on the cap going up and will soon have the highest paid QB in the league, along with one or two of the highest paid WR’s. Jets are adding 20M dead cap hits on void years in ‘25 and ‘26 to get, hopefully, two contending years from Rodgers … at which point they will have to figure out QB and pay a lot of good players. Miami is leveraging themselves like there is no tomorrow and then they have to pay Tua or reset at QB. Not just us playing this game … it’s all of our peer contenders.