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You are excluding Colts because they are in division? What about Bears, Patriots, Giants?

It is hard for me to judge this situation since we miss a ton of info, but still - what a vast difference between Watson and Watt handling similar situations. I'd love to hear what J.J. thinks about this.

This seems correct, and it also seems that they now know it. Last year they realized we need WR1, and we got Diggs. This offseason I fully expect them to redo Dline and do their best to get a gamechanger. Problem is that there are so few of them.

Thanks for the link, I didn't find this one. There is at least some answer to my question: "Time will tell what the league chooses to do. Although a projected cap typically is shared with all owners in December, the final decision isn’t made until late February or early March, through negotiations with the NFL Players Association. By then, the league will know more about whether the vaccine is being distributed and working properly, setting the stage for coffers being restored via ticket revenue in 2021." If they really decide on cap in early March, I am curious if FA starts as usual. Last year it was 18 March. That gives GMs much less time to calculate things. Will be fun offseason.

Anyway, when will we find out what the salary cap for next season is? I googled and still have no idea. I find it weird that it is end of January, FA starts in month and half or so and we still have no idea what the cap will be.

@Zerovoltz Aren't you missing Flank Clark in your first post? He is also under contract. Anyway, whoever thinks that Chiefs will have cap space problem in coming years are just fooling themselves. As said by Zero and Gunner above they have some top paid players and will fill other spots by rookies, cheap veterans and JAGs. Surely, once Mahomes big money really kicks in (which happens in 2023) they might start to be tight, but there is always a way. Maybe eventually it will catch them like it happened to Saints this year, but by that time they can have quite a lot rings in their pockets. We need to find a way to beat them on the field

I just hope we never draft RB in round 1. No matter how good he may be, value is never there.

Fully agree on bolded. But would love to hear your thoughts who do you consider premier pass rusher these days. How many of them you can count? Can you name them? Thing is that these guys are hard to get

So many legends on that list.

@MAJBobby Taron Johnson, Cam Lewis and Josh Thomas (who?) need to be bolded and separated. I also liked how you colored rookies in other thread so it is clear they are new. So I read all your defense primers, and you basically suggest getting rid of old guys at DL, getting two DL top players, drafting a rookie here and there and keeping everything else intact (if Milano stays for reasonable price). I like it. But like a said, I expect something big to happen at our LB corps.

@MAJBobby Andre Smith is not bolded in OP and misses a space between him and Phillips. As for Milano, I said it in the past and I still think the same - he strikes me as a guy who doesn't care about money at all and will stay here for 8M AAV if that's what Bills offer. This will be most interesting group in the offseason for sure. I expect something big to happen. I am not an expert, but one of the reasons we lost to Chiefs because we couldn't cover Kelce and in my understanding it has something to do with our LBs. So the only thing I don't think will happen that we will keep Milano and play the same scheme as last year. Either we don't keep Milano, or we trade for a MLB and move Edmunds outside, or we start playing 3LB sets, or we draft some LB stud in 1st round, or something. Not sure what will happen but there will be major changes. @Dont Stop Billeiving @Solomon Grundy Apparently you guys are not only ones wanting this guy. Tankathon has him currently going as high as 18 to Dolphins.

@MAJBobby Just want to say that I truly appreciate these threads. Its a great read. I really like your projected DLine. But as you said later, I doubt they will go to next season with one new top DE and everybody else being so young, so I guess we keep Hughes even in your scenario. Ideally he could take pay cut since we is not worth 9,5M cap hit. In reality I also doubt they get rid of all other old DL, i.e. Butler, Addison and Jefferson. I guess somebody will stay - probably Addison, who has biggest dead cap. And if Addison stays, we will not have money on the other guys you mention (or anybody else of same quality).

Oh, my day is so spoiled now.

I haven't read the whole thread and I definitely do not feel capable of evaluating players myself, so I will not comment on both players. My perception is that Edmunds is really inconsistent and maybe playing out of position and Oliver is too soon to judge, even though so far he is definitely not a game wrecker we were hoping him to be. What I am really sure of is that if anybody Beane and McDermott are 100% aware of issues with our defense, specifically front 7. There were changes compared to last year at DL, and most of them don't seem to pan out. They are aware of this and I am pretty sure they will try to fix it. There will be lot of changes in the DL. As for Edmunds, it seems that most of you would move him to OLB. If all of you are right, I am sure that McD sees it too. He will not hesitate to make a change - see Ford, Cody as an example. Once they came to conclusion that he might be more efficient at G, they moved him there, even thought they clearly drafted him as RT. It took much longer time with Edmunds, but it will happen if thats the solution. So my guess that linebackers issue will be addressed this offseason. We will draft somebody pretty high this year, or do something at FA. It is pretty clear that everything they do will be made to make sure that we have better chance to beat the Chiefs, and its clear that one of these things is stopping Kelce. They see its not working with Milano/Edmunds and they will do whatever they can to fix it.

Not good but I like how he held on to the ball.

Now we really need to win. I'd hate Bucs - Chiefs SB with nobody to root for.

Funny I think GB has made a lot of mistakes in this game but kicking that FG was not one of them. They can only blame themselves. However, what bothered me most was how they had no urgency whatsoever. Lack of time cost them the game. Rodgers always takes so much time to snap the ball with no reason at all. Even during last drive everything took them eternity even though it was pretty clear they needed to score ASAP to have a chance to score again.

Now that was Jameis Winston level pick.

Cmon Gunner, this is such a flawed argument and you know it (I am not arguing with you about Love fwiw)

Where is Shaq Lawson when you need him.

If somehow Chiefs start with TD drive GTD will be flooded with "defense sucks" comments. Hot takes as usual.

This is the first time I've ever seen Buck not to introduce Aikman as "Hall of Famer".

You got many "Haha" emojis and I guess you weren't kidding.

Jets fans are pretty excited that Watson could become a Jet based on this video I will try to insert here. https://twitter.com/jetstothewest/status/1351784369753530370?s=20

Hey @GunnerBill, you never told us that you are Philip Rivers' son!