CheshireCT
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I would say a 2nd rounder is good compensation at this point in his career. The bad part of the trade is all the dead cap space. Who knows, maybe Beane is about to swing for the fences and trade up for a receiver in the draft.
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There are more factors to signing a player than just what you see on tape. Beane has friends inside the Panthers he trusts, which is why the Bills sign players from the Panthers. Just because the Panthers are a bad team, doesn't mean every player coming from them is worthless.
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3 minutes ago, Sweats said:
.....lame
now that I've seen the video above, I have to agree....... Lame. LOL
I guess this goes in the category of, "better than nothing." Personally, I miss the original kickoff, especially when you had a return man who could always bust one, but that's life.
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cool, interested to watch this, whatever it will look like, lol
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I can understand the decision to retire from any player who goes through an injury like that. If you really think about it, coming back and playing after being carted off the field in an ambulance is nothing short of amazing. Not only from the logical standpoint of risking your health, but also just playing with that PTSD every week.
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2 hours ago, uninja said:
He's probably defensive because he hears the 'do or die' music playing real loud right now. The window on Josh's rookie deal is closed, he's been provided good rosters the last couple of years and has had all the tools he needs to get it done and the team keeps coming up short.
Him launching into that unprompted is very likely an effect of this conversation being had with him by the Bills org behind closed doors.
Is he a good coach? Absolutely, he's a tremendous leader of men and a great 'get the culture right' guy.
Is he a Super Bowl winning coach? That one is looking increasingly more dubious.
I would argue that the "good rosters" are largely a product of the coaching staff's ability to develop players and help them play to their highest level. That's actually the largest indication of good coaching. Fans think coaching is only play calling and clock management. Those things are important too, but the real work the coaches do is in practice.
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Glad to hear he's getting another shot! Hoping the best for his recovery and career.
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5 hours ago, finn said:
I hear you, but then I look at what the Chiefs did two years ago facing a similar situation (Mahomes' contract). They traded one of their best players (Tyreek) for picks that turned into McDuffie, Skye Moore, Rashee Rice, two other players, and a fifth-rounder this year, they took the full hit of Mahomes' salary ($36 million, 17% of the cap that year), and THEY WON THE SUPER BOWL, while setting themselves up for years to come.
Meanwhile, the Bills went all-in, signing Von Miller to that 6-year, $114 million contract that is now an albatross around their necks, even with the restructuring. I'm not trashing Beane. I think Miller was a reasonable gamble. I would have preferred signing a younger DE, but whatever.
The point is, the Bills might be able to absorb the full hit of Allen's contract and be competitive this year, even win it all. They have to stay healthy, and they need four starters not yet on the roster, at least at the moment: DT, DE, WR, and safety.
I'm thinking sign Jones at DT (shouldn't be too expensive), trade up for an impact WR, sign a decent safety at a moderate contract (given the market), and, well, cross your fingers at DE. Maybe Miller can earn his pay. In the draft, add depth at DT, DE, safety, and corner. Voila, a competitive, relatively inexpensive team, with a healthy cap going forward.
My one radical idea: Trade Milano (30 in July) for multiple picks. Start Williams and Bernard, draft a backup. Get younger and cheaper.
God I was agreeing with everything, until your last sentence! hahahaha . Honestly I don't think any LB is turning into multiple picks, doesn't seem to be a coveted position anymore like it used to be. Maybe he would get a 4th? I'd rather keep him.
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LOL, love it. A huge F U over to Denver, and Pittsburgh gets to just grab him for free basically. No risk and huge upside for both Pittsburgh and Russel Wilson.
Also, how many years can Russell Wilson carry this on? He has multiple years with guaranteed money doesn't he?
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25 minutes ago, Whkfc said:
Jags got better we got worse with thus move
depends on how you look at it. It's a great signing for them at that price IMHO. I'm surprised he didn't get more.
Directly, did we get worse? I would say probably since he has always been a great and steady player for us at C. Indirectly? we needed that cap space, which we need for now and the future. And the unknown part is how Conner McGovern will perform at C. When we lost Tremaine Edmunds we thought we'd have a significant drop off, and then enter Terrel Bernard who surprised us all.
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Seems to be this year is all about getting younger. I'm not sure we see many aging veterans pulled in, even if they're former probowlers and cheap. Better to stick a young guy in there and let him take his lumps.
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Bills let most of their one year rentals walk. If they gave him a new deal, I’m going to trust what they saw.
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Hasn't anyone listened to Beane? We can't even shop at K-Mart, we're shopping at Walmart.
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8 minutes ago, BananaB said:
Hopefully this isn’t top priority. A guy you hope never sees the field unless he’s taking a knee.
The backup QB job in this day and age doesn't seem to actually be about playing. When you have a QB like JA17, you're not going to find anyone who can step in and do anything remotely close to what he does. That means if he gets hurt, you're basically screwed anyway. The backup QB is essentially part of the support system for the starter, which means a vet that gets along with Josh and can manage those duties is the right choice.
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12 minutes ago, rajinka said:
Eh he made millions of dollars playing a kids game.
The Bills are making the right move, so no complaints about that.
Sure he's got money and had success, the point is that he was a highly gifted, hard-working athlete with a great spirit whose career was cut short. That's disappointing, for him, the team, and the fans.
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It's sad, such a great player with a great spirit who gets double bad luck on the injury front....life is truly not fair sometimes.
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A lot of beloved players on this list, but the moves seem like the right ones to me. All of these players have high salaries and are either on the way down age wise, or have had major injuries and their future performance is highly questionable. This could be a slight down year, but with the stability of this franchise + Josh Allen, I think we'll still be competitive. Look at the Chiefs, they didn't look "the same" this year, but they won it all.
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Very honestly, I'm surprised that Morse has played as long as he has. Every time he got another concussion, I was just waiting for him to hang it up.
Of course the team is better with him on it, but put this in the category of the Belichick method....better to get rid of a player a year too soon than a year too late. We need to clear cap space, and older veterans with large salaries are always your best candidates.
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3 hours ago, Utah John said:
The Moss for Hines trade was a good one for both players and both teams. Moss is a good RB who never fit into Buffalo's schemes. The Colts use him in line with his skill set. So the trade isn't what was bad, it was drafting him in the first place without evaluating accurately whether he'd fit.
Hines looked great as a kick returner and showed flashes of quickness and power as an RB. I don't think the Bills need him very badly as a backup but if Cook goes down, Hines' speed could be very important until Cook returns.
agree about the trade, was good for both teams. No matter what players you have, there will always be some injuries or freak off-the-field things that happen. It’s a game of percentages.my view is, any player who can be cut for savings on the Bills roster with little or no cap hit is a cut candidate. It’s unfortunate for those players…. Bills can’t afford to keep Hines, especially given his injury. He just caught a bad break and I hope he can get his career going again.
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Just now, Shaw66 said:
I agree completely. To give credit where credit is due, however, what others say is, in fact, a legitimate question: Are Beane and McDermott the right people to get the team there? It is certainly possible that they just aren't good enough.
I'm not in that camp. I think they're committed to winning big, and they're committed to change in order to get there. Not everyone agrees.
I think they are, and the consistency in winning they've shown is the best proof you can have. I think of it like a game of odds, if we're in the mix every year we're going to crack through eventually. Then as far as my personal feeling goes, I can see that they are both people who are constantly working on improving themselves. Those are the kinds of people you put faith in.
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13 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Exactly, again. I wouldn't say what @LeGOATski said - I don't have a lot of personal goals, and winning a Super Bowl isn't really goal, it's a hope or a wish. But other than health and success of my family, there isn't much on my wish list ahead of a Lombardi. So, my "wish" is exactly the same as the team's goal.
But your points are correct, about how hard it is to win a Super Bowl and about how much fun it is to be the fan of a team that truly is in the hunt to win it all year after year.
During the drought, which team did I envy? Well, in terms of excellence, of course it was the Patriots. What they did was phenomenal, but it's sort of unreasonable to expect any team to do that again. I mean, the NFL might not see another dynasty like that for 50 years. So, no, I didn't envy the Patriots. What I hoped for was to be like the Steelers: a team with a shot every season, a team that had a hard-nosed QB who was one of the best in league, a team with stable ownership and a commitment to quality through continuity, a team that kept going about the work of being a success in the NFL year after year.
Amazingly, I got what I hoped for. The Bills have become the kind of franchise I wanted to be a fan of.
Will the Bills win a Super Bowl before I die? I don't know, but that's much more up to me and my longevity than is the Bills, because I expect they will win one before Allen retires, I'd guess more than one.
I think we get one too in the next decade, maybe more than one as you said. The players around Allen and the coordinators are going to change on a regular basis. It's a matter of us having the right combination of things in the right year.
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14 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:
My patience is unlimited. I'm not a child anymore. I'm here to be entertained. The team's accomplishments are not a reflection of me. My personal goals are separate from their goals.
exactly this!
Plus, demanding a Super Bowl victory??? There are so many combined factors that contribute to this, one of which is LUCK. There isn't a singular change you can make to any team that will make a Super Bowl victory come true.
Right now we're in dreamland as far as sports fans are concerned. We get to watch a team that is entertaining, wins most of the time, and has a chance at a championship every year. Can't ask for more than that.
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21 hours ago, boyst said:
the activities that fly for jobs like most of us have do not work.
if they treated these nfl players like most people in the office they'd be underwhelming like most people in average office spaces.
if anything, the nfl guys are more like stock brokers or real estate.
the jobs are not fun, high pressure, highly competitive, and fueled by more than just money.
What you’re saying is 100% true. However there’s more nuance than that.
You can still hold people accountable, help them to hold themselves accountable, and work intensely and focused in a positive environment. When you’re working with highly competitive people, they’re already criticizing themselves to an extreme and don’t need additional people around them making them feel awful about themselves.
We know more about psychology now than we did 20 years ago even, which is why things stopped working in New England. We know that poor mental health and fear tactics are not necessary for high performance. There are better ways to do it, and no one is going along with the “Patriot way” anymore. -
45% of this board wants to fire the coach? y'all nuts??? is 45% of this board under the age of 6???? because it's the only logical explanation.
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[POLL] Should The Bills Trade Up For A WR?
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Would not be surprised at all if we trade up. If there’s a game breaking WR talent in reach, why not?