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4 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
That's why I say take the cap hits this year, draft well amd do nothing FA wise until after June 1st. At some point we have to do this, I say get it over with now.
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.
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14 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
The way I understand but (and freely admit I may be wrong) is they had until today to work out a new deal where if they had they 4.3M would have rolled over to his new contract. Being that they didn't it's the same as cutting him due to the contract being voided this the dead cap hit for this season.
All in all on that list including Hyde, Settle and others it appears the Bills will be hit with around $12M total dead cap hits today. Very ouch.
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.
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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.
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2 minutes ago, Special K said:
From what I read, after contract restructures from Allen and others, plus contract extensions for Dawkins, Douglas and Taron, the Bills will be 20-30 million under the cap....we shall see.
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.
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4 minutes ago, Special K said:
I’m sure Beane could use his cap wizardry to structure an Aiyuk extension to have a lower cap hit until Diggs contract comes off the books.....it is entirely possible that Diggs may be here for only one more season.
I would think drafting a WR in the first round instead is the smart move cap-wise, but there is no guarantee that pick would pan out.(Remind me.....has late first round pick Kair Elam become a lockdown CB yet??) A guy like Aiyuk has already established himself as the real deal, IMO.
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. -
23 minutes ago, Special K said:
NFL Wire has jumped on the Aiyuk to Buffalo bandwagon:
Brandon Aiyuk to the Buffalo Bills
(Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports)
Buffalo Bills receive: WR Brandon Aiyuk
San Francisco 49ers receive: 2024 first-round pick, 2025 fifth-round pick
The Bills should sprint to the phone and see what it would take to acquire the star receiver from the 49ers. Gabe Davis is a free agent, and if we’re being honest, one the Bills should not pay. His run blocking was his biggest asset, and he had seven games where he caught one or zero passes.
The Bills need a real weapon at receiver, and Aiyuk would step in and be the top guy in their offense. Stefon Diggs showed signs that he was losing a step down the stretch, as he went through his own slump. After having five 100 yard games in the first six weeks of the season, Diggs didn’t have another such performance for the rest of the year, and had six games with four or fewer catches and seven games of fewer than 50 yards receiving.
Acquiring Aiyuk to be the top target in the offense, while Diggs still gets respectable looks as the No. 2 guy would be great for the Bills. They’d still have work to do, but this would be a big feather in their cap.
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.
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21 hours ago, nucci said:
didn't seem to enhance his performance
Or maybe it DID!? 😬
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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.
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5 hours ago, Peter said:
Shoot. You beat me to it.
"There will be growth in the Spring"
Brilliant movie with the brilliant Peter Sellers.
I am guessing that you may not be old enough to remember the movie "Being There" with Peter Sellers that came out in 1979. I presume that the poster was referring to the Chauncey Gardner character in that movie. The photo is from that movie.
You got me, wasn’t aware of the 45 yr old movie.
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3 hours ago, Virgil said:
I expect 10% every season until the new stadium. Then we will see PSL's and an even higher jump.
By the time is all said and done, we are going to be in the top 25% of NFL ticket prices, which I think is ridiculous
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?
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3 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:
He's a little older than Poyer, but...
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.
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Seriously though, Blake Bortles. He’s basically just the 2nd year version of Josh, perfect back up.
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2 hours ago, Mark Vader said:
Sounds like Aiyuk values himself more than he's really worth. Is he that good?
I would argue no, Idgaf about the All-pro award, whats does he actually do that’s special? I can’t find it.
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Josh Allen = lesser Cam Newton, Cam has an MVP.
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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.
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14 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
Hall has it tougher. That doesn't mean he's better.
He's faster but I'd take Cook through the middle for hard yards and Cook's got better moves as well. Hall is a very good player, but I take Cook, personally.
For a guy who has Thurman as a handle, I’d think you would have a better idea on RBs, oh well.
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3 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Breece Hall had a bad year. All he does well is run very fast in a straight line. That's a nice skillset to have a few times a season, but to justify his high pick he will need to be much better at navigating tight spaces and working through muck at the LoS. It can't be 2 yards or 50 yards and nothing in between.
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.
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1 minute ago, DCOrange said:
I’m not sure going from scoring 25 points a game to 12 is really a sound argument against Lamar’s value. The drop off from Lamar to Huntley has been huge over the years.
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.
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13 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
So Kenneth Walker, yep. Agree. Beast.
Breece Hall, meh. I wouldn't swap them, but nor would I if I were a Jets fan. They are 6 and two 3s.
Montgomery - no. His success was scheme. Gibbs, sure. He is very talented.
Kamara, I have loved, he is one of the few guys I'd have paid a second contract - but as a rusher he has declined big style. Less than 4 ypc over the last 3 years and off field issues. I'd pass at this point.
Josh Jacobs - mainly a volume guy. Again his ypc is not great.
Pacheco - good back but I wouldn't swap.
Barkley - yea when he is healthy and his line gives him at least some blocking he is a stud.
If you wouldn’t trade him for a Breece Hall, your entire view is clouded by your fandom.
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On 2/7/2024 at 8:31 PM, Beast said:
Cook was 3rd in yards from scrimmage for all running backs. What else needs to be said?
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.
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6 hours ago, Mark Vader said:
Except quarterback.
Depends on who you talk to lol, there are so many people out there that think JA sucks. Then there’s the real world, where he could be slightly better, but 30 other teams would take him.
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On 2/6/2024 at 9:51 PM, GASabresIUFan said:
Not exactly. We have 10/11 starters on offense returning and 9/11 on defense if Miller is healthy. That’s not exactly needing everything.
I get that, the article makes it seem otherwise.
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So they need everything but a QB and Guard? Cool.
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1 hour ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
Brandon Beane and the Bills?
Along with all the idiots here convinced he was the next great WR in the league.
Salary cap question, Leonard Floyd’s dead cap
in The Stadium Wall
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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.