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Allen can’t go anywhere, he’s under contract, same for McClappy. It’s not a tank, it’s a rebuild, with addition by subtraction. The Chiefs did it just 2 years ago, unloading Hill, Frank Clark, etc, all “key” players and wound up winning the SB. The Packers retooled several times during Favre/Rodgers time. What you are saying is “I’m scared to watch a team cut the fat”. Poyer’s contract was set up to let him go this year btw, so pretending you have any idea what you are talking about is amusing. Yes, it will hurt, yes, you will have to part ways/not resign others because of taking the garbage out and yea some may have to be post June 1 designations to make it all spread out and hurt less, but it’s all doable and a lot of it needs to happen.

Whichever talking head said “Purdy could walk on water and you all would say “it’s because he doesn’t know how to swim”” had it right. The kid had an MVP season and everyone goes out of their way to find fault. If he had just been a higher draft pick, none of this non-sense would be out there. He played a really good game in the SB, lead a late game go ahead drive and scored in OT, but it was all his fault. Nonsense. He didn’t collapse, his OL sure did, but he played good enough to win. He outplayed our own JA in the playoffs, oddly enough, it was Chris Jones who wrecked both clear TD passes for the Bills and the 9ers by being on the QB before they could throw. Allen had a little time before it happened, Purdy had nothing. Credit the team around him all you want, that’s a weak ass excuse. He was making his money with the 3rd WR. So say what you want, I’m not buying. They won’t tag Baker, it’s takes away all their leverage. He’s good, not elite, should be able to get him back at ~30M, no need to go insane.

I’m saying, eat it this year. Eat the dead cap, cut the fat and rely on rookies/coaches to make a difference. Diggs and Miller CAN both go, it’s going to hurt. I’d take it for one year vs another year of nothing and no advancement towards a title.

This is where I disagree, stop hoping JA can carry you to a title. He’s proven he needs help. I’m not sure how many more years he can play like a mad man, trying to hide the flaws, but it’s time to take a year and say, “ if you can go full Mahomes and win in a rebuild year, good for you, but no expectations”. Continuing to add condiments to a turd sandwich won’t make you a 5 star meal, you need to throw it out and start with fresh ingredients.

I understand the cap and the rules very well, White is already gone in my mind. You don’t understand, I am saying, blow it up, eat ***** this year, and deal with it. Then you go into next year with a large amount of salary cap to work with. This team as it is, with the cap that’s left after kicking the can down the road again, is t good enough to win a Superbowl and to me, there’s no point in another year of an early playoff exit. I don’t want to be good, I want to be great. Greatness takes sacrifice and admitting you have a problem. Remember year one of Beane? He trimmed the fat off roster. The problem is, he turned around and added a lot of fat because they continued to miss in the draft. To make up for bad drafting, they had to pay veterans. Now you have one of the oldest rosters in the NFL and no way out without suffering. So clean it up, deal with it for a year and move on. The defense is a disaster after spending years trying to be a great defense. They have one good player on the entire DL that they drafted. The best hope is to sign a 33 yr old DT and pray he stays healthy to keep the run game in check. There is not one impact DE on the roster, the LB core is ok when Milano is back, the S position is a gapping hole, CB is weak and expensive. What are you trying to save? Dump White, Miller, Floyd’s gone, AJE will be priced out, Jones is 83 by NFL standards, you have the least athletic CBs of any contending team. The only saving grace is LB and that’s assuming they can stay healthy. This is the year to eat it and start over. The offense needs a talent infusion as well, but at least Kincaid looks good, Knox is over paid for his production, Diggs has fallen flat the back half of the last two years, I’m not excited about paying that guy so much either, so move him for whatever you can get, and you are really no worse off in the short term, and have room to breath long term.

If it were me, I’d blow it up now and start fresh, but it’s not my toy. Miller, Diggs, Knox, Morse, Bass, etc would all be taking massive past cuts or be hitting the streets.

Pretty much it, the contract was set up to allow them an extra player they couldn’t afford last year, now you eat it. It’s a pretty common practice, just kicks the can down the road. The Bills have to hit re-set here soon and eat ***** for a year or continue to be just good enough to disappoint.

Data is obviously trash, everyone that goes to Nashville gets hammered and they are all from somewhere else, coming to watch their team, the Titans don’t have any fans.

Re-structures just kick the can down the road, in order to get better, you have to re-set at some point or you end up in the same place.

To play Devils Advocate, would you rather have Justin Jefferson or Diggs? Jefferson has been remarkably cheaper and better. That was the trade to get the “sure thing”. There’s risk in everything, but to get another good, not great, WR you have to pay top of the market money to is not smart. This is not Tyreek Hill, this is not a guy who you can say translates well, no matter what system he’s in, this is not a guy that’s been an unquestioned #1. This guy is a huge risk too.

I get the appeal, but again, you have to pay him AND Diggs big. The Bills have to get a rookie deal to balance the cap. 40+M/yr on two WRs and a 40M QB doesn’t work.

Or maybe it DID!? 😬

I think the most obvious solution is to flip JA and Von along with their massive contracts to the Bears for #1, #7, and Sweat, draft your QB and WR and have money to spare for 5 years. I kid of course.

You got me, wasn’t aware of the 45 yr old movie.

You are going to have a top 5 team, playing in the newest stadium, why do you feel prices should not reflect that? The team can either keep prices low and the secondary scalpers can make the money or the team can, what would you do as the owner?

Where do you come up with this non-sense? He is 26. Yeah he has injury issues, but he’s a stud when he’s out there.

Seriously though, Blake Bortles. He’s basically just the 2nd year version of Josh, perfect back up.

I would argue no, Idgaf about the All-pro award, whats does he actually do that’s special? I can’t find it.

Josh Allen = lesser Cam Newton, Cam has an MVP.

The difference is this; the Bills defense is an opportunistic bunch and that’s great, WHEN teams screw up, but they don’t FORCE screw ups because they have missed in virtually every single effort to make the DL anything beyond ordinary. Ed Oliver is good, but there’s 3 other guys drafted the same year that are elite and one of them keeps wrecking our *****. That’s the only guy on the DL worth mentioning. McClappy wants to rotate 8 mediocre guys to keep them fresh, which would be fine if any of them were above average when they are fresh, but they aren’t. They have to rely on people messing up, works over the course of the season, usually over the course of the game, but in crunch time, the greats come through and we go home.

For a guy who has Thurman as a handle, I’d think you would have a better idea on RBs, oh well.

How good was Cook with garbage blocking? Hall is an absolute stud behind a trash line and zero fear for the defense to being beat by the pass. Cook has a good line and Josh Freaking Allen to take attention off him, gee whiz I wonder who has it easier.

One should expect that. The other guy is not starting, especially at QB in todays world, if he were that good, he would be traded for a haul and starting elsewhere. I personally look at MVP as an award where I say, “if that guy wasn’t there and an average starter replaced him, how much difference is there?” To me, that means the award this year is Stroud’s, then Mahomes, then Allen, then Hill as much as I don’t like it. Basically, Lamar got the award because his team’s record was good, but I don’t think he’s the real difference maker there. Plug in Kirk Cousins and the team still wins. That can’t be said with the guys above.

If you wouldn’t trade him for a Breece Hall, your entire view is clouded by your fandom.

This is why you can’t take stats at face value. You don’t have the whole picture. Schemes, average yards per touch etc, people in Pittsburg still think Najee Harris is great bc he’s had 1000 yard seasons… and yet he’s doing it 3.8 yards at a time. I like Cook in a Kamara Role, when the saints still had a true bell cow back. You need a gu who can get tough yards on his own, that’s not Cook. I’m going to get somebody telling me how great his yards after contact are next and again, doesn’t tell the whole story. The guy is good, but just like Gibbs, you need a Montgomery in some situations. If you bring in Henry to add to the fold… now you have a super threat. That would be good ole fashion fun.