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Yep. The most obviously disconnect last year between FO and coaching was paying Knox that money and then letting him play 4th or 5th banana as a receiver.

Because our OL sucked all year. Knox was asked to stay in and help block a ton. And Dorsey didn't really get him more involved until the second half of the year. Knox had 5 or more targets only 3 times in his first 8 games. He had 5 or more targets in 6 games the rest of the year. I never said you said that. You're stuffing words in my mouth lmao.

Knox doesn’t get to pick where he gets lined up.

Heaven forbid the Bills lose week 1. we will be talking about trading Josh and Von for a “king’s ransom” to start the 9 year rebuild and achieve the most important thing of all, cap space.

Huh? what is a bad narrative? Who said they weren’t the same size?

Add in that just about every team “improves” in the off-season lol. Our HC and QB have won the AFCE what, 3 years in a row? But of course, we are due for 8-9 says the battered Bills fans.

Knox doesn’t line up in the slot as much as a Kelce does nor is he really used that way which I think was GB’s point, not that he’s not the same size.

Are you replacing Yolo for now?

Also a young "great" player is the exact kind of guy that MOST GM's will kick the can down the road for. The reason why Von's backloaded contract matters is because we won't want to extend him 2-3 years from now to reduce his cap hit. But for young guys, like Josh, Knox, White etc, you absolutely can, should and like everyone else in the NFL WOULD. Milano is obviously paid less, but he had proven to be a great player in Buffalo and was young enough that Beane was confident when his cap hit creeped up, they would feel comfortable extending him to bring it back down. Now Tremaine is even younger than Milano, which theoretically makes it even EASIER to do the above. You give Edmunds a 5-6 year deal, and in year 4 when it starts ballooning, you tack on another 3-4 years and bring it right back down. Beane didn't want to do that. He easily could have. He CHOSE not to. The Venn Diagram of people who were historically high on Tremaine Edmunds and also believe Beane absolutely loved him but just couldn't keep him is a circle. And that's the real rub here tbh.

Nooo the word is nonsense lol If Beane truly thinks we couldn’t “afford” Edmunds with our cap situation, then he’s wrong too lol.

Better? Probably. Playoff team? Maybe.

Lmao I’ll believe the Jets are a playoff team when they make it and not a second before.

Modern dictators need to do a case study on the drought era Bills and how propping up a fear of a mythical entity (the salary cap) got people to accept and spend money on a crap product for almost 2 decades.

I don’t think anyone wants Levi as the #2 unless he flat out beats Elam/Benford in camp. And if that’s the case, then I’d be glad to have him.

I mean I guess you could call old legs Josh Norman a "replacement" attempt, but a 1 year deal for a known quantity in the McD defense is just as much a depth signing.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2022/defense_advanced.htm

citation needed. Drafting DBs in the 7th isn't "trying to replace your starter" level investment.

That was 36th in the NFL lmao. What do you expect out of a number 2 CB? Btw, Elam allowed 96.3 passer rating (162nd in the NFL), and Benford 84.1 (99th in the NFL) last season. Do we just say things to say them now?

I wouldn't even go that far. You just have to look at the starting groups he mostly worked with. Prime Tre White (All-Proish) Prime Hyde (All-Proish) Prime Poyer (All-Proish) Taron Johnson Levi Wallace I know who I would be targeting as an OC and trying to get action on. Being the relative "worst" defender among some elite defenders means you're going to see a heck of a lot of passes from the offense. To Levi's credit, when Tre went down and the targets spread more evenly to him and Dane, those "struggles" disappeared for the rest of the year until the playoffs.

Remember when folks were annihilating his parents! Pepperidge Farms remembers.

This is like the “every parents worst nightmare” from about 2 dozen angles. Whole situation sucks.

Minor quibble is that they DID pick up his option. But obviously, that was because they didn't think Tremaine had earned his extension at what he was looking for from a contract perspective. Similar to what Oliver is going to do next year. Roquan Smith, who signed a bigger deal than Edmunds, only has a cap hit of $9M this year. And folks like @Thurman#1 really think we desperately wanted him and just "couldn't afford him" lmao.

This topic title sounds like a message to his ex girlfriend.

This is is going to hurt for you to find out. But GM’s don’t trash players that leave in FA lol. They could’ve afforded him. Obviously they didn’t want to do that with their salary cap situation. So they let him go, because he wasn’t worth it to them lol

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