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As you say Ford is young. He’s not costing the Bills too much in cap. He plays both RT and guard. Might be worth seeing what the new (old) OL coach can do with him before kicking him to the curb. i doubt Bietker is ready to start the year.

Bates played all OL positions except center at PSU. I’m thinking he plays RG equally well as LG. May not want to disrupt the “chemistry” between Bates and Dawkins.

I have no inside knowledge, but I’d heard Bears front loaded the contract to make it tough to match. So I was guessing a cap hit in 2022 of $6 million or so. Bills would need to restructure contracts to clear this much space. really glad Bills matched. Besides being a big PSU fan, I was really pleased with Bills OL play at end of year. So keeping 4/5 of the line intact seems like a strong move.

Isn’t cutting matakevich on the table? I thought that would free up close to $2 million

This evaluation is spot on. I think TCF can be a good NFL corner. I think the biggest strike against him is that he’s missed a ton of games over the past 2 years due to injury. also, fwiw, psu has a gunner that ran a 4.22 yesterday. Drew Hartlaub. Also played safety but didn’t see the field much. I don’t know why.

Not giving Bates a 2nd round tender was a gamble. If he ends up signing for >$4.0 million, Bills were wrong. In that situation, if they match, they pay him more than the $3.9 mil a 2nd round tender woudl have cost. If they dont match, they lose out on an extra 2nd round pick. If Bates offer is <$4.0 million, Bills made the right call. Given the way Bills OL played last 5 games of the season, I think you want to keep the OL as intact as possible (DW salary was far too high, so he had to go). Given that caveat, I think Bills should have used the 2nd round tender, which would have scared away all other teams. Now they need to sweat a bit.

Phillips Oliver Groot Lawson Miller Basham Epenesa Lotuleilei (who might get cut) thats crazy.

I think its been stated a billion times in this thread. But just in case you missed the first 24 pages. THERE IS NO WAY HE'S GETTING PAID $120 MILLION OVER 6 YEARS. NO CHANCE. NONE. ZERO. The contract could just as easily be for $500 million over 6 years, with the last three years being salary of $150 million/year. Hate to break it to you, but this isnt Beane's first rodeo. Its his job. Call me crazy, but I'm betting that this "overzealous and inexperienced GM" knows a bit more about NFL football an cap management than you.

OK, assuming this is correct, we can now guess at some cap hits. $32 million guaranteed. So lets guess $30 million in bonuses, $2 million salary first year. 30/6 = $5million per year bonus hit. So first year cap hit may be as little as $7 million. To hit $53 million first three years, salary in years 2 and 3 about $10 milliion. Then, to equal $120 million, salary in last 3 years would be about $22 million per year. That will never happen. If he's cut after 1 year its a $25 million cap hit, after 2 would be $20 milliion, after 3 (when he really needs to be cut or contract reworked), its $15 million. $15 million is a big dead cap hit for one player, but in 2025 cap will be $250 million or more, so not that bad. These are just my guesses; it will be interesting to see how its all structured. Clearly a cap gamble, but good move by Beane. He's trying to hit the open window.

I heard that he got out a microphone glass and looked at the fine print, then decided to stay in Washington.

Pretty sure I read on the PSU site that Jahan Dotson met with the Bills

In his podcast, Buscaglia said the numbers from one site were incorrect, and that the Bills had shuffled $2.5 million during a restructuring. And that Bills will only save $1.5 million off Stars cap # (around 8.3 million i think) by cutting him now or after June 1.

Per Joe Buscaglia those numbers are incorrect. Bills would only save 1.5 million by cutting Star.

Huge Nit fan here. would love to see Dotson with a good QB. Dude was outstanding with a pretty marginBal QB throwing to him.

I’m not sure that Araiza is the generational punter that it might seem. go to the football database. https://www.footballdb.com/college-football/stats/stats.html?mode=U&yr=2021&lg=FBS&sort=puntnet sort by NET punting. Araiza is 8th. Note also that his return yds are much worse than any of the top 10. Finally, note that 3 punters stand out for most punts inside the 20. Of these 3 punters, Stout has the highest percent of punts inside the 30.

Stout from PSU is also a very good punter. amd kickoff specialist as well. Over 90% of his kickoffs were touchbacks. He should be available in 6th round.

Agent is an effing moron. Choses. dude can’t even afford a copy of ms word with spellcheck.

Mustipher is not in the draft.

Couple of points here. 1) Dont know why Bozo is saying ARob has a "poor attitude". Thats crazy talk. He's not a speed guy. He's a guy who competes, and wins the ball. Has over 1000 yds every year he's healthy. Watch some film dude. 2) If that film is everything against Hunt....He's just a drunk dude acting out. If you kick all those guys off your team, you wont have a team. You want to see a criminal? Watch Mixon cold #### some woman. Thats a criminal.

No one is giving an early second for Edmonds.

Some of Yinz are asking about a “theory” that it’s a good idea to rotate DL and give them a blow it’s not a theory, it’s a fact. All NFL and high level CFB teams rotate DL. LB CB Safeties QB WR OL are not rotated like DL are. This is a fact, not a theory. For reasons that should be obvious DL is the single most tiring position to play in football thus the rotation. the real question is how much to rotate these guys. 50-50 is probably not a good answer. If you have outstanding players in top shape you might shoot for 80-20. As Oliver and Groot improves they might hit 30-70 next year.

Wait a second. What’s with the red glow? is that from the seats with the hot lights? if so, n big deal going shirtless with a 90 degree light on your back.