No_Matter_What

I love draft picks and I hate giving them up. But more I think about this the more it makes sense. Just as you said. Giants want to trade down. There is a connection between GMs. Beane has clearly decided to go more "all-in" than last year (already evidenced by Von Miller signing). If, from any reason Beane believes that some player available at 7 gets us over the top (Gardner?), I can see him pullting the trigger. And I probably wouldn't be fully against it. Problem I see is that even our 1st rounder next year isn't probably enough - Giants know that most likely it will again be 25th pick at best, probably much worse. Therefore, adding an established vet who might have some value to Giants makes sense. I have no idea who that might be. I seriously doubt we are trading away Edmunds if we don't have his replacement. It also requires additional $2.3M or so cap space this year (for higher drafted rookie), which means even more mortgaging of the future. However, if they think this way, deal can happen on draft night only. They are not moving up like this without being certain that their guy is there.

Huh? Milano WAS restructured this offseason and it saved us about §5.2M in cap space.

He is trying to find a way how to draft McCaffrey.

Rumors and Beane should not be in same sentence.

I feel exactly the opposite. I'd say there's a 90%+ chance we will take WR in first 3 rounds.

Deal is already on Sportrac, seems to be $1.145M, with $125k dead cap (which I guess we eat, since he won't make 53 and will be cut/signed to PS?) https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/matt-barkley-12379/ What I don't understand is his cap hit listed as $920k. Shouldn't it be $1.145M as well? @DrDawkinstein

I like how this went for the Bills - in reality I hope for Penning/Booth/Olave/Williams/Burks and I think there is a chance that one of them will be here. But here in TSW mock I wanted to see this exact scenario just to see what people think we should do if all of the above are gone. I am really surprised that Gordon, Elam and Zion Johnson weren't included, instead of e.g. McBride, Faalele or Walker, who could possibly be in conversation, but one round later. But in the end it would probably didn't matter, given how clearly McDuffie won. After reading a lot about him I am still confused. I am not sure if I was able to get excited about the pick. But for example Jeremiah is very high on him (14th on his overall list), so if Bills think the same, I will be on board.

Nope. We need to select Breece Hall in TSW poll first and Virgil usually lets that run for some time

No but he could sign "nobody wants me for big bucks so if it has to be cheap at least be it with a contender deal". I still doubt he would come back here though.

How is the bolded possible?

Cmon Hap, that's really simple It comes from Bates, he was previously in the books for 2.4M and now he is not. Replace him with 0.9M guy and there you go - we have 3.8M (had 2.3M) before. I think it should be enough for Bates, even if his cap hit is 4.5M we only need 3.6M of "new" cap space. What bothers me more is Star, since they still have him at 5.2M and it doesn't makes sense. It is the number for post 1 June cut, but if he is designated as post 1 June cut, then he should be still in the books right now, no?

Cmon, you are picking for Texans, not Patriots

Call me crazy but I think Lions will in reality take QB. And whether its a good move really depends on comparison of Willis/Pickett vs top guys expected to enter next draft, which I have no clue about. I think they will be picking top5 next year too so they can go either way.

Where did you take the bolded? They don't have most cap money next year, they are actually 16th, they only have $32M (most money have Bears, over $128M), and all whilst have only 22 players under contract. They have actually one of the worst situations from all teams. It doesn't mean they are doomed, I am just saying that what you wrote is way off. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2023/

Oops sry meant 29. Tankathon is the best they are up to date.

@Virgil You have small mistake at @27. It's Chiefs now.

Part of me agrees, but on the other hand we need our young DEs to grow and they need snaps to do so. Right now we have Miller, Rousseau, Basham, Epenesa and Lawson. So unless Lawson is just a camp body or unless they give up on Epenesa and trade him I don't see Hughes coming back. Interesting.

So if I understand if correctly, none of these former Bills players has a new contract so far: Jerry Hughes Mario Addison Daryl Williams Cole Beasley Star Lotulelei A.J. Klein Emmanuel Sanders I wonder how many of them won't play a snap in NFL anymore.

FYP.

Ohoho here it is! I won't sign up since I don't watch college but I love these TBD mocks. 3 rounds are amazing. Thanks Virgil.

Sportrac is still not 100% clear on Phillips but they added a void yead for him in 2023 for $1,25M. That is consistent with what overthecap has quite a long time already. It seems that his actual contract is really $5M/1year. That is quite a lot (esp. compared to his buddy Shaq Lawson). Let's hope he produces.

They just restructured Morse in a way which among other things increased his dead cap in 2023 to $5M. I seriously doubt that he is not in 2023 plan.

This is really a weird logic. It's not like Beane haven't signed Williams and Feliciano at the first place. This is not a knock on Beane. Just saying that if he is a wizard now for this he is less of a wizard for what he had done in 2021. I'll eat my socks if I used correct English tenses in previous sentences btw

Sounds good. Still need complete numbers. However, it is clear that they must believe in him a lot, since this sounds like there isn't a good out after first year. I still think we should draft OL in rounds 2-4. The higher the better.

Not possible. I heard from a reliable poster here that he is a Bear! Really curious about the terms. If it is 4 years this will be a recurring thread theme one way or another. Welcome Ryan "Rick" Bates, new Bills legend!