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I think it will be an open competition for every guard and tackle position this year. Bobby Jackson is a new coach and has no prejudices or loyalty to anyone on the roster. I expect Nsekhe will end up winning the left tackle spot and Dawkins will end up at right tackle this season.

Pure speculation on my part here... Remember that video that came out of Odell in bed with that girl and the white powdery substance last off season? It might be that Odell has not been doing well in his personal life and the Giants see trouble ahead and would rather get something for him instead of nothing if he goes off the rails. You would think they'd have the inside track on what Odell has been up to this off season. No one can deny his ability, but he really doesn't seem to be a very stable individual. They traded a generational talent less than a year after signing him to a huge contract with a $20 million signing bonus, plus his $1.5 million salary, and now they will have to eat another $16 million in dead cap space this season which basically means the Giants paid Odell $37.5 million for one year of service. It's crazy! What did they get in return for the trade? A 1st, a 3rd, and a safety. It makes no sense at all from a football or financial point of view. I think the easy answer is to say that Gettleman is just an idiot, but the owner also needed to sign off on this move. Is John Mara an idiot too? I just don't know. They had to know they were going to get nuked by the Giant's fanbase and New York media for this move. Where is the upside? There just isn't any. I just wonder if there are some other issues at play that we don't know about. Are the Giants afraid that Odell is going to self destruct?

It's just too soon to know. I think it is fair to say both teams have gotten more competitive.

I was bummed to see Bell sign with the Jets last night, but after thinking about it a little bit, I think on the whole a competitive Jets team is good for us. This has been the Patriot's division for 17 years and a large part of their success has been playing the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins twice a season, every season. Playing in this milquetoast division filled with three dysfunctional franchises has been one of the main factors in their dynasty. The last season the Patriots had less than double digit regular season wins was in 2002. Since then they have only had two seasons with less than 11 wins. Not only do they waltz into the playoffs every year, but with their fat regular season record from dominating the AFC East, they usually have home field advantage too. For the Bills to finally be contenders, the Patriots can no longer dominate the division. The Patriots need to start losing division games and winning the AFC East needs to become competitive again, not just a foregone conclusion. That's why it's good for the Jets to get better too, not just the Bills. Instead of the Patriots going 6-0 in division games, or having that one fluke loss and going 5-1 in the division, the Patriots need to start going 3-3 in the division playing tough Bills and Jets squads and suddenly the division is up for grabs again. Being able to have playoff games in Orchard Park would be huge. For way too long the road to the playoffs has gone through Foxborough The Patriots dynasty can't end soon enough and a competitive Jets team is an important part of that. We need to have the AFC East become a normal football division again, with multiple competitive teams and the title up for grabs at every season opener, not this dysfunctional division of the Patriots and the Three Dwarves. It goes without saying that the Bills need to finally take that next step and become competitive, but the Jets need to become competitive too. In the big picture, I think the Jets getting better is more of a plus than a minus for our division and the Bills.

The GM and coach are on the same page, which is not always the case, and is so important for an organization's success. Without eating all of that dead money last year, this free agency doesn't happen. They have a plan and they are executing it. They got their QB. They have a solid defense in place. Now they are putting an offense together on reasonable, team friendly deals. He has acquired all these free agents and is still sitting on 10 draft picks, including a top 10 pick. Lastly, they are projected to have the most cap space in the league next year so we won't have to watch all of our own great players walk (which has been a back breaker for this franchise for years) and we should be able to continue to add talent to the roster. I'm a fan.

Dee Ford just got traded for a 2nd round pick..... in 2020. I don't think Beane gives up a 1st rounder. Just my guess.

Fair point McDamit I think McBeane knows we need to score more points on offense and our defense in already in good shape. All of these moves means nothing if Allen doesn't continue to grow. Adding an elite pass catching, hard blocking TE is a need on this team and will be big for Allen. A great TE can be the focus of a successful offense in today's NFL. Drafting Hoskenson would address a true position of need and wouldn't be a reach at #9.

We have a couple slot receivers and a few burners on the outside now, but only one tall, throw it up and go after it red zone target... Duke Williams. I would bet one of the slot guys or one of outside burners will go before Duke does. If you are not going to have a true #1 receiver you need to have a bunch of solid role players. No one else on the roster can do what Duke can do.

If the Bills grab either Ansah or Clowney in free agency you can go ahead and pre-order your Hockenson Bills jersey now.

It has already been clearly established that there is only one reason why I could possibly support a border wall.... because I’m a terrible human being. Seriously, I wish people were allowed to have a real conversation about this subject, but I’m afraid it’s not really possible anymore. It’s sad.

Yes.

Your hard earned tax dollars at work....

If we can land one more solid offensive guard or tackle that allows us to go best player available at 9. It would put Hockenson, Metcalf, or a D-tackle in play at 9. If we can't grab another O-lineman in free agency, I think we should go O-line at 9. We need to put an solid O-line in front of Allen. I hope we can grab another free agent O-lineman and have more flexibility at 9

LOL! Putin you got me... I went back and edited my post and took that line out. You were too fast! I think Tyrod is great clip board holding material, but I think he is actually a good fit in Miami this year, no QB, low expectations, clear place holder for a single season. He can win you some games. I'm still a fan for the way he handles his business. Contrast him with AB this week. It's not hard to root for Tyrod.

I hope Tyrod gets another chance to be a starter. He wasn't our long term answer but he's a stand up guy. I hope it works out for him, except for those two games each year when he plays the Bills.

The national sports media simply doesn’t pay attention to Buffalo and usually don’t know what they’re talking about. I was listening to Fox Sports Radio on the way home from work early this morning and the two hosts were talking about this. One of them said AB will regret not going to Buffalo, that the Bills are a lot closer to contending than the Raiders are. The other guy scoffed and said the Raiders were closer and then said a bunch of stuff about Josh Allen and the Bills that was simply not accurate. He was woefully uninformed about the Bills but that didn’t slow him down. He’s supposed to be a professional sports commentator and know his stuff. Instead, he sounded like any other half drunk loud mouth spouting off about the Bills at the bar of an Applebee’s in an airport concourse waiting for his flight.

The value of a sack and those who produce them can't be overstated in today's NFL. The following is from settingedge.com on June 14, 2017; "939 out of 1,118 sacks (83.99%) last year resulted in a drive being killed. Conversely, just 179 out of 1,118 sacks (16.01%) resulted in the offense being able to bounce back and sustain their drive, even if just for one more set of downs. The difference is staggering. Defenses are almost 70% more likely to kill a drive after getting a sack than they are to surrender another set of downs. At first glance, the old adage that sacks kill drives holds true." http://settingedge.com/sackskilldrives If we can get Clark who has had 32 sacks in his last three seasons including 13 last year, we need to grab him. He's only 25 years old. We have a lot of cap space. It would be a coup to grab him from Seattle who it looks like simply can't afford to keep him.

@RiotAct It's a reference from the books and tv show, Game of Thrones. THE NIGHT'S WATCH

I have watched the city of Buffalo and our football team be pilloried over the last 18 hours by the entire sports media complex. AB was being sent to "Siberia", he was being sent "North of the Wall, to the Night's Watch." "The Steelers are trading him to Buffalo to punish him." The Bills are a terrible team. Josh Allen is trash. Buffalo is trash. Nobody wants to play in Buffalo... I hope every member of the Bills is listening to this crap. I hope it pisses them off. I hope we as fans embrace this and run with it. I hope our new offensive line is full of pissed off bad asses and their nickname becomes the Night's Watch. I hope fans show up to games next year dressed as the Night's Watch. They want to make it an insult, I hope the Bills wear it as a badge of honor. Winter is Coming? You're damn right it is....

If I were a rich, young, single guy I wouldn't mind living and playing in Las Vegas. They have no state income tax in Nevada either.

Rappaport says AB refused to come to Buffalo and that scuttled the deal.

Rappaport now says Bills officially out of the AB running on NFL network

Beane has never had the capital to make big acquisitions before now, so how he would act with some money in his pocket has really been an unknown. The Bills needed a #1 WR and they may have just filled that whole in the roster before the draft with one of the top three WR's in the league. Hard to complain about that. Now if we can just grab a couple of O-Line free agents...

http://www.nfl.com/videos/buffalo-bills/0ap3000001021490/Rapoport-Bills-flew-under-the-radar-in-Antonio-Brown-sweepstakes Ian Rappaport video on the trade...

We play the Steelers in Pittsburgh this season...