Inigo Montoya

Good teams build through the draft. Great teams maintain through it. Hopefully Beane will continue to draft well.

Good signing for the Jets. I would have been happy to have him on the Bills with a reasonable contract.

Jerry Jeudy Amari Cooper Elijiah Moore David Bell David Njoku Nyheim Hines Jerome Ford Not a bad stable of pass catchers. Behind what should be a solid o-line, and having had a year to knock the rust off, this is a put up or shut up season for Deshaun Watson.

The Bills are going to be great next year! (This is a recording...)

There was a wonderful book published in 1923 called "The Prophet" . It was written by a Lebanese gentleman named Khalil Gibran. At one point he talks about Joy and Sorrow, and there's a passage I think about often being a long suffering Bills' fan; "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." I believe these tough times will make that eventual Lombardi trophy all the sweeter.

So true. Allen played like garbage in the 13 Seconds game and the Bills would have won handily if it wasn't for Allen stinking up the place. Great point as usual Airseven!

I'll stand for Zerovoltz here. He has been a good undocumented alien at TBD for years and he often has the inside scoop on the Chiefs. I don't think Allen faked a slide, and I honestly don't know how he came to that conclusion looking at the replay, but otherwise, I have enjoyed his reasoned opinion as a Chiefs fan.

Zerovoltz disappeared like DB Cooper. Wait a minute! Maybe Zerovolt is DB Cooper..... 😁

If Josh gets on a burner the offense can score more points than anyone mitigating our MASH unit defensive woes. Playing Mahomes seems to bring out the best in Josh. I'm hopeful.

I don't understand what makes a person go to another team's message board just to be a jerk. It's really kinda sad when you think about it. Go hug your kids, go for a walk, or read a good book. Life is too short.

Shakir keeps making plays. Making a case for the #2.

I'm not a fan of playing Taylor Swift's boyfriend, which would be a boon to the NFL, were Taylor Swift's boyfriend to make it to the Super Bowl.

I hope they sit Von again and activate Linval Joseph. I don't see Von getting much push or speed on a slick field. Better another wide body to clog the line of scrimmage and stuff the run.

It's a variety of Australian pinot noir with a touch more tannins.

It will be the end of an era if Belichick leaves. Belichick and Brady were deadly together and it was a good day when Brady walked out of Foxborough. The BIlls should be able to run the division with JA17 for another decade.

Here we are at the end of Week 18 and it looks like Bill's seat is on fire.

I don't think the league is fixed but I do think the refs are told to put their thumb on the scale at times to create a more competitive and entertaining contest. If one team is losing by a bunch I think the refs are more likely to "help" out the trailing team to make the game closer by throwing a few flags or not throwing them. People have always gambled on NFL football, but with the league now formally embracing it, and the amount of money being wagered skyrocketing, it's only a matter of time before someone gets bribed or blackmailed to throw a game. A ref, a player, a coach. It's inevitable. It will be a sad day for all of us, not if, but when that happens.

Beane signing Von was as close as Beane has ever come to "going all in", and unfortunately with the ACL injury, the gamble didn't pay off. Unless Von returns to form next season the Bills organizations will suffer for "going all in" and busting. We all knew it was a gamble when the signing was announced, and sometimes you lose when you gamble.

There's a thread simmering on Fins Heaven entitled "Do not resign Tua". It seems about evenly split on the proposition (link below). Tua is currently playing on the fourth year of his rookie contract at $9 million this year. They exercised his 5th year option and next year he will be on the books for $23 million fully guaranteed (link below). The question is what to do afterwards? I don't think there's a good answer for the Dolphins, either overpay a QB who probably isn't good enough to get you to a Super Bowl, or head back to wandering in the QB desert hoping to get lucky. With the escalation in QB contracts the Dolphins will be looking at $50 million a year to keep Tua. Look at the last several QB contracts yearly average (link below). Where do you slot Tua in when it's his turn? Burrow; $55 million Herbert; $52.5 million Lamar; $52 million Hurts; $51 million Wilson; $49 million Murray; $46.1 million There's a quote in the thread which pretty closely mirrors my opinion on the situation with Tua; "We're in the Daniel Jones no-man's land where we're gonna have to sign him since there's no one else and we're not going to be able to do it on the cheap so we're gonna be investing a lot of money in one guy who we're not even really sure is the guy since he has yet to actually ball out in a big game" https://finheaven.com/threads/do-not-resign-tua.381887/ https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/tua-tagovailoa-47598/ https://overthecap.com/position/quarterback

The original estimate for the build was $1.4 billion and any money over that estimate comes out of the Pegulas' pockets. The current cost estimate is now $1.7 billion and that is probably going to be significantly low. That means the Pegulas are already on the hook for $300 million. https://apnews.com/article/bills-new-stadium-cost-overruns-9846e00bd063cf2e8b12406af66c6ef9 Inflation continues to rise monthly. If you see reports that inflation is going down, what is actually happening is that the RATE of inflation is coming down. In layman's terms, what they're saying is that prices (inflation) went up again last month, but the amount that prices (inflation) rose last month was less than it rose the month before. A bit off semantics to put a positive spin on the fact that the cost of everything continues to go up. Before it's all said and done I wouldn't be surprised if the overage is in the $600-700 million range. I know Terry and Kim are flush, but they're not Bezos flush. That is a massive amount of money to come up with, particularly when a lot of the Pegulas' wealth isn't cash sitting in a bank vault somewhere. I don't see a construction contractor accepting a LNG lease in Pennsylvania in trade for building the stadium. If the Pegulas need to start cutting corners the promised "virtual tours" are a fine place start. I'd rather they skimp on stuff like that than the actual stadium.

Leonard Floyd is here on a team friendly one year contract and we would all love to see him extended. Epenesa has seemingly turned a corner and his rookie contract is up this year. Can the Bills afford to resign him? Rousseau has one more season under contract and will be a free agent in 2025. He looks like the real deal and it would be great to lock him up long term as a staple of the D-line going forward. DaQuan Jones is a free agent at the end of this season, just like Floyd and Epenesa are, and I suspect DaQuan will be a hot commodity on the free agent market. Can we afford to bring him back? The dark cloud hovering over all of these personnel decisions for Beane is the massive contract he gave Von to come to Buffalo. I linked to Von's contract below. That contract runs through the 2027 season and there are no cheap outs. Beane has also locked up Ed Oliver long term. His contract is below too. The combined cap hit for just Von and Ed next season is a whopping $44.5 mm. How much more can Beane invest on the D-Line? Who should he let walk? I won't even bring up other pending free agents like Rasul Douglas who has to be a priority to resign. Beane is going to have some tough choices to make and the salary cap isn't going to go up enough next year to save him. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/von-miller-7717/contracts/ https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/ed-oliver-29044/contracts/

Hey BillsFanForever, I thought the same thing and then I looked up his measurements and compared them to Diggs; Diggs; 6'0" 194 lbs Shakir; 6'0" 190 lbs I thought Shakir was smaller too. His size alone shouldn't disqualify him from being a boundary receiver. The question is does he have the ability to produce there? 🍻

Diggs contract is hefty and runs through the next three seasons. The Bills would take a big cap hit if he is gone before the 2027 season. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/

Cincinnati showed the advantage of having 3 legit receiving options. There just aren't enough great DBs on one defense to cover them all. It definitely provides a strategic advantage. We seem to have found an O-line this year, we already have the QB, the receiving RB in Cooks, and Kincaid who looks like he can be a top 5 TE. If we can juice the WR position next season the Bills could field a juggernaut of an offense in 2024.

Shakir has come on over the second half of the season as Allen has seemingly grown more comfortable throwing him the ball. He has made some drive saving, and by extension, game saving receptions. He seems to get the ball in his hands and head straight up the field for YAC instead of dancing around. He runs crisp routes. He seems to have worked through his yips/drops issue and has been sure handed. He only had 8 receptions and 105 receiving yards through Week 7 of this season. At the end of Week 17, with the bye week in there, he is now sitting at 33 receptions on 39 targets and 506 receiving yards. He is averaging a gaudy 15.3 yards per reception. If he is made a bigger part of the passing offense and gets more targets, can he continue this upwards trajectory? If Gabe is too pricey to come back as the #2 next year, or if Beane and Brady simply want to move on from Gabe or open up competition for the role, does Shakir have the ability to leave the slot and move into that WR2 position? The prevailing wisdom is that Beane will draft a solid WR prospect and sign a veteran free agent WR to come in and compete for the #2 spot. I would have no problem with that plan and then have a camp battle between the new guys, possibly Gabe, and Shakir for the WR2 role. The question is what are the odds this is a situation like the recent MLB transition (Edmunds/Bernard) where Gabe's replacement is already on the roster in Shakir?