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Every year we have our Bills pre-season all stars. Many dont end up contributing much during the season or event making the roster. Predict your stars and if they will be contributors. My predictions: WR Isaiah Hodgins - Roster bubble; limited contribution RB Antonio Williams - Roster bubble; limited contribution LB Tyrell Adams - Rotational player CB Olaijah Griffin - Cut / PS

I dont expect it either. But am not as confident as you that it is NOT going to happen. I give it maybe a 10% chance. Yes, he had a good year. But he is also 32 years old, coming off an injury and a potential distraction. The team has some young WR's and could make the business decision to let him go or look to trade him. I would not do it, just think guys actually making the decisions could.

Some threats of suicide are illegitimate and manipulative used for attention. Wife is leaving him so he goes to "I will kill myself". To me this seems like a personal issue since he was driving to his in-laws house. Who knows what the deal is - marital issues blamed on in-laws? Wife said she is not going with him to Buffalo (haha) because her parents want her to stay close? Or something completely different - was drugged or used something he normally wouldn't; Was completely wasted like a 21yr old on their bday; Mental illness...

Wheeler got out after three days following his court appearance. Sherman will be out after his court appearance as well.

So many unknowns here. Was it his wife? Was it a girlfriend? Was an actual assault involved or did he not even make it in the house? More will come out. But there are plenty of good guys, smart guys, etc that get emotional when relationships or family get involved. So could be a number of situations in which he did something terrible or that he did nothing and was in a fight with his wife and she locked him out of the house. Much more to come...

Door #3 is very likely. We see this time and time again when a guy is frustrated. We do not know what is going on is Beasley's head. He clearly feels strong enough to voice his opinion despite the "company line" to keep options to yourself and focus on football. So he could very well feel like the team does not have his back and decide to be "injured" quite often next year.

Would not be completely shocked to see them cut Beasley. A bit more shocking than the McCoy move a few years ago but similar. Bills would save $5M this years and $6/7M next year. If they think McK/Sanders/M Stevenson can > Beasley they will do it. I would prefer to keep him for this year unless cutting him means adding some pieces. But not just to save $ and give other guys a shot. Save that for next year.

Ertz update - google search came up with this. wish this were true. https://fingerlakes1.com/2021/07/07/buffalo-bills-reportedly-close-to-signing-te-zach-ertz-and-cb-steve-nelson/

Allen is not “wired” to throw to WR’s. He is “wired” to be a QB. He will throw the ball to any target that gets open or can make plays. Your selling Allen short if you say he would not know how to utilize a TE.

Sometimes I try to think and nothing happens

He was a good player. Seems like he may be hurt beyond repair. Likely retiring.

WR is tough to pick. Your assumes Marquez Stevenson, Duke Williams, Kumerow lose out to Hodgins, McK. OL - Douglas, Lamp, Hart all cut. Another battle here and possible trade of one of them or someone on your list. DL - Zimmer cut and Johnson cut. Will be interesting. DB - Still think they bring in another CB and then someone on that list has to go.

Personally I see better ways to spend the money. But at the same time - covering Diggs and a healthy Jones? With Beasley, Davis and Sanders...

In no order: Ertz (trade not FA) Julio Jones (trade not FA) Sheldon Richardson Steven Nelson Brian Poole Melvin Ingram Richard Sherman Justin Houston KJ Wright Olivier Vernon Le'Veon Bell Malik Hooker Darqueze Dennard Tre Boston Kawann Short Jurrell Casey Geno Atkins Todd Gurley Kwon Alexander

People always get confused with this. They think the money is lost forever and seem to forget about filing taxes at the end of the year when it is all evened out. I would expect all NFL paychecks are taxed at the highest tax rate on every paycheck. So they dont even have to worry about more being taken out of this check or that one.

Its all taxed at the highest rate. We are talking about millions of dollars not a normal persons salary.

I heard Star was out at Applebees and only tipped 5%...

The Bills per Sportrac are at $8M right now at that includes $23M to JA. If he signs a LT deal it is easy to bring his 2022 number way down. Then you have guys like Morse, Star, Klein, Feliciano, Matakevich, etc that will be release candidates that easily put the Bills in the +$30M cap space range to make some moves.

Mahomes is still the better QB. If Allen has two more years similar to last year then he will be in the same category. But I do think Allen is the right QB for how this team is designed. Allen at times plays the role of RB1 and I just dont see Mahomes being suited for that. If we did some roster maneuvers you could make a supporting cast better suited for Mahomes and that ceiling could be higher. But with this team, right now, Allen is the best for the job.

I would agree with this. And it can be viewed as being negative or being positive. On one you can say they did not do enough to get better NOW. But on the other is that we are already in position to sustain what started last year and this offseason helps that be 3+ years out as well.

I agree. Not a lot of technique or variety of moves to beat guys one on one. At this point, besides the rip, its trying to go around you and not giving up on the play.

Haha. Ward is basically Wallace?

Its kind of funny. I had this debate back in the day when the Bills were bad to average. Bills would have like 5 starters from a draft and folks on the message board would use that to say how great of shape the team was, the good job the GM was doing etc. My argument then which is the same now - just because your starting a guy does not mean he is good and future star. Sometimes its a sign that your team is bad and he is bad, just not as bad. Just like now, drafts picks may not start but does not mean they were bad picks. Just a higher level of player ahead of them.

This thread has pointed out a few of the rules for posting on these boards: We are the experts above and beyond anyone else. Well, as long as it is positive towards the Bills and negative towards other teams. Thus positive takes on the Bills are genius and anything otherwise including positive on other teams is clueless. Even further, no negative views allowed on the Bills. This includes any criticism of players, coaches, decisions. On the flipside no positive take on another team because that is considered to be negative on the Bills. Everything the Bills do is earned and well deserved. Everything other teams do is lucky or not legit in some way. The Bills always could have done this or that if they wanted to. The moves the team makes are always good; The ones they don't either were dumb or have some obvious explainable reason why they did not. Players on the Bills, even the marginable ones are always the best. Once they leave the Bills they were obviously awful the team they went to is overpaying. We are always either building/following the process and not one player away, already have the best roster so dont need anything, or impacted by bad luck that will be different next year.

They are likely on phone looking for a taker for Addison. Not sure there will be a taker though.