Virgil

Top 10-15 quarterbacks available in FA are like unicorns. And an overpayment today is tomorrow’s bargain. You give us Cousins and let us keep our picks, we are in the playoffs the next 5 years.

I think this puts the over/under for a Cousins deal at 28 mil

That’s what some thought the chiefs would do. I think there will be a market for Tyrod. It may only be a 3rd or a 4th, but he’s better than what else is out there and he’s cheap. I think the odd man out in Minnesota will get more than 18 mil. Problem is, if I’m the Bills, do I really want to risk not getting my QB in the draft, losing TT, and having no one besides Peterman and some 10 mil guy?

Couldn’t we agree to a trade before that? The Chiefs just did

Yeah, I want nothing to do with Smith for that kind of money.

I’m kinda happy this happened. Smith is just accepting more of the same. Let’s go big or go home. Trade up or Cousins

Is there confirmation a 2nd was traded for him?

This should be really interesting for a bunch of reasons. I think most would agree that Cousins is better than Smith, but Smith is still a good QB. With that, Smith’s deal should set the floor for the Cousins deal. Also, I’m curious to know what went on behind the scenes to make the Skins think they had to jump on this. They had a decent draft spot and Smith was rumored to be cut for cap reasons. End of the day, it shows what we all know.

He has Jackson graded higher than Mayfield. Am I missing something here? I haven't seen that anywhere else

You're nothing if not consistent. I'm glad to see you can think outside the box. Well done in living up to your reputation

I feel like we are missing a lot of information here. I’m glad to know he wasn’t playing through something diagnosed early in the season that was more threatening and ignored. I thought I read that he planned to retire regardless of this development, but haven’t seen it referenced since. Overall, I there is a mistake and he can play next year. If not, I hope this is the day he wanted and it wasn’t adjusted because of cap reasons. He deserves a good send off

If there were one QB that I wish turned out to be the answer for us, it’s Fitz. He had a great nickname, beard was amazing, embraced the city, and overall opitimozed what it means to be a Buffalo Bill. Also, he went to Harvard if you hadn’t heard. Seeing him at Wood’s press conference today just made me reminisce about the guy and still holds one of the best memories for me when we beat the Pats in Week 3 a few years back. That’s a game we normally lose while Fitz and Freddy stole the show.

Is “spark” a better word? Smith wasn’t doing anything to slam dunk keep the job and Kaep had a few deep balls end electrifying runs.

If we don’t go get a QB, I would be all about trading back from one of our 1sts. Ideally, I’d trade for another first in next years draft. With teams getting their WB this year, we’d have less competition to trade up in next years draft. If not, we will need more picks this draft to build around our lack of QB

Smith wasn’t much in SanFran. Kaep showed as a huge improvement at the time. I do think Smith gets cut due to cap reasons, not traded. However it’s hard for me to see the Chiefs handing over the reigns to a 2nd year rookie after winning the division. On the other hand, we are talking about jettisoning the qb who ended the drought

I’m also curious to see how the AJ McCarron sage unfolds. I think he’s another guy who could be targeted as a starter for someone. I’d be too nervous to pay him what he’d want though with so little film. I really don’t know anything about them. I’ll do my normal YouTube highlights research after FA and look at footwork, hitting guys in stride, the usual. But White did look good yesterday.

I could get behind that draft.

I don’t think Smith is an option either. They aren’t paying Mahomes much, so they can afford both. Would you really use a 2nd round pick on a maybe QB when there are higher probability success choices at other need positions? If I can get a guy who is confident can be a starting DT with my second round pick, I’m taking him over a hopeful QB. I really don’t have an answer besides taking the BPA and seeing what happens. I’m overall hoping the QB’s don’t go 1-5 like that and one of them drops to 5-10 and we can trade up using only 2 picks. I will I’ll say that White kid from the Senior Bowl did look good. Although he had a strange way of stepping up into his throws

With a GM who may not want to give up the farm to trade up and a salary cap space that's needed with a huge amount of UFA's, what's the plan for if we aren't able to snag someone in FA or the draft who can compete for the starting job. Let's just assume that the Bills want in on ALL top QB's available. Cousins could easily go for a price tag outside of where we are willing to go. Two of the three Qb's in Minnesota are likely to be retained, but it's very well possible that we don't land the leftover. If they keep Keenum and Bridgewater, we may not even want Bradford. Then, let's say the Rosen, Mayfield, and Darnold all go in the top 3-5 picks and we couldn't get a deal done to move up. I don't think any of those scenario's are unrealistic at all. So what then? Do we actually keep Tyrod and get someone in the later rounds we hope develops and wait until next year when there is less QB competition? Basically, what would plan C need to include to make you optimistic about our offense next year if we can't land the top 3 guys at QB or FA QB's?

Am I alone in not being a fan of Schobel? Didn’t he basically give up on us? He retired early, but it was more to get away from the Bills as he was open to playing elsewhere. I wouldn’t want him enshrined. Fred and Mooreman are no brainers. I’d nominate JP since he was supposed to be the guy to get us there. No one else really jumps out at me.

No matter what, you have to give SP credit for putting this out here and being right. Has to make you think his other posts could be correct