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His cap hit is 9 and his dead cap 7. He is definitely cuttable and likely will be cut or re-negotiated.

Besides starters Douglas and HamlIn? The big names under contract, as listed in the OP, are the problem - Milano, Oliver, Miller, Jones and AJE. We are paying big $ and getting replacement level play. Unlike the offense where the players are under contract and performing at a high level nearly across the board.

Except Cooper and Hollins, nearly the entire offense is under contract or control for next season, including both QBs, the top 2 RBs, the entire starting OL, top 2 TEs plus Samuel, Shakir and Coleman. Don’t expect big $ investments on offense other than re-signing Hollins and seeing if Cooper wants to comeback. OL depth beyond Grable and SVPG is a small need if Anderson and/or Van Denmark walk. Unlike the offense, there are big questions on each level of the defense. The entire DL is suspect. Milano is an expensive question mark at LB. Douglas, who is not having a good season, is going to be replaced but are Ingram or Elam really viable options. Hamlin is also probably gone at safety. Bishop likely slides into his slot, but there is little depth beyond Rapp and Bishop. I kind of started this thread because of how butt awful AJE was against the Rams. He needs to go.

Even without the D failures at LA and Baltimore, the defense was going to be the focal point of this coming off-season as DB starters Hamlin and Douglas are FAs and Groot is up for his 5th option. However, those two collapses have centered on the performance of the D line as it got gashed against Balt’s run offense and then failed to get any qb pressure vs the Rams. That raised questions about the viability of Epenesa, Miller, D Jones and even Oliver. I believe those performances will echo in Beane’s mind as he tries to find ways to improve the rushing defense and pass rush and some of the signed vet players will be replaced. Is there a chance no one returns except Groot and the two kids Carter and Solomon? I also wonder about Milano’s viability beyond this season. Is Williams ready to take over? The Bills have a ton of money invested in these defensive players. Miller’s 2025 cap is 23.874 (dead cap 15.415), Oliver’s is 20.75 (dead cap 26.475), Milano is 16.122 (DC 17.253), Jones is 9.048 (DC 7.632) and AJE is 6.287 (DC 4.148). Given the extra cap space gained, I can see Miller, Jones and AJE all getting cut. Even If cut how do the Bills afford the upgrades?

I live in the ATL and I'd like the Falcons to actually play well. I will never root for the Lions. Not now or ever. Is it a nice story that they finally have a good team? I honestly don't care. They are just another stepping stone for the Bills to overcome to win a Super Bowl and bring a modern championship back to the long suffering fans of WNY.

I agree. Good teams learn much much more from games like LAR than they ever learn from games like the 49ers. D line play was the Achilles Heal against the Rams. This film should give McD plenty of ammo to get the D-line to refocus.

As we celebrate our SEC Championship and 2nd seed in the playoff. 😜 As I said before, the SEC screwed GA and Bama with the schedule. They had every chance to make balanced schedules and force Texas to play someone beside GA. Still you have to win the games on your schedule and Bama lost to big to an Oklahoma team that Texas beat 34-3. FYI I'm actually a DeBoer fan from his time at my alma mater Indiana (my wife and kids are Bulldogs).

Considering he had nearly 1500 yards as a rookie last year and has over 700 yards this year in 7 games, I think your assessment of him as a player may need to be re-thought. We should be so lucky to have a receiver who has averaged over 100 years per game since the start of his career.

I don't think either D line got any pressure on either QB all game. If Allen and Stafford have time, they will destroy you and they did. This game was a D failure from the opening drive. They allowed 11/12 3rd down conversations. No one can win in the NFL that way.

The eye test showed me that Williams is simply faster to the ball.

Is it fair to ask if the Bills were better defensively with Williams over Milano?

McD’s failings on the last drive didn’t cost us the game. The defense failed the entire game to make a play when needed and we let a punt get blocked. Hopefully, this film will help the team, coaches and players, re-focus for next week.

Chiefs will lose tonight and it will be like nothing happened but Josh gave me some big fantasy numbers.

7 to go.

SMU - F Bama! If Bama and the SEC want to blame the CFP for IU and SMU making the playoff, then they only have to look internally. The SEC gave GA, BAMA, Old Miss brutal schedules. GA played Texas, Bama, Ole Miss on the road, played Tenn at home and also Clemson on a neutral site. Brutal. Those schedules made ESPN happy, but ultimately hurt the SEC's chances of getting 4 teams in. These 16 team and 18 team conferences need to do a better job of balancing schedules. Unfortunately, you don't know that teams like Fla St, Wash, and Mich are going to crap the bed after big years. To start the year in ESPN's preseason rankings Mich was 9th, Fla St 10th, Mizz 11th, Utah 12, Oklahoma 17th, OKST 18th. What happened to those teams? Ironically Michigan beat OSU and Oklahoma killed Bama, which is why Bama is home crying right now. GA came through their gauntlet to with only 2 losses on the road to highly ranked teams, while Bama lost 3 including a home loss to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Tough luck fellas. Good to see some new teams for a change.

The answer like all answers is it depends. Did we lose a major player to injury to secure homefield and will that player be back and ready to go with a bye week? Would a bye help other players would be be out week 1 of the playoffs get back? If the team is playing well, do we really want to take a week off? If we get a bye, how beat up will our opponent be? Etc... every scenario is different. Personally I'd go with being healthy. Last season with so many injuries done the stretch it was truly amazing how the team kept excelling until they defensively hit a wall in the last playoff game. I'm hoping we get better luck on the healthy department and go into the playoff all guns a blazing.

Not until Josh is 31

Another crazy UGA game. What a great comeback after being dominated in yards in the 1st half. Hard to beat the same team twice in the same season. An SEC championship for Georgia after having to go on the road to play Ole, Bama, and Texas. Best news is that my Hoosiers won't have to play the Dawgs in Athens in the first round of the CFP.

A former 1st rd pick out of Georgia who is a great athlete but learning to be a pro football player. Drafted as a safety and being developed by the Bills as a linebacker. I can see him with a special teams role against LA. Long-term, the kid could end up as good depth. Maybe they envision him as a hybrid S/LB to play behind Taron Johnson for running downs

This is Amari Cooper’s game to go deep.

Bills are 6-1 on West Coast games since the Bills became a playoff team. 13-4 in dome games since 2000. Earlier we pounded Sea in Sea 31-10. This was the same score we beat the Rams to open the 2022 season. We have also scored 30+ 6 in a row and 9 of our ten wins. We are the better team. 34 -14.

This has been a wonderful season so far, but this was not a reset. This was a clearing out of older players whose careers had run their course in here. On offense we returned our QB, our top 3 RBs, out 3 TEs, our FB, 5 our top 6 OL and our starting slot receiver. Yes we dumped 4 WRs, 2 who were awful, 1 who was oft injured and often ineffective and one diminishing star with a bad attitude. This included 8/11 starters. On defense we returned 4/5 our starting DBs with new 5th a former starter in Hamlin. At LB we returned on paper our two starting LBs in Milano and Bernard. Unfortunately, we needed 2nd year player Williams to step up with Milano got hurt in camp. Williams did grear and now Milano is bad giving up even better depth. Lastly we brought back 3 starters (Groot, Oliver, Jones), 1 former starter (Miller) and one key rotational player (AJE) on the line. That’s 9/11 starters on D. Teams bringing back 17 starters are not in a reset. What Beane ultimately did was rid the Bills of overpaid not productive players and filled up the depth with kids (10 Rookies) and/or multi-positional players like Smoot (DT/DE), Cam Lewis (CB/S), Mack Hollins (WR/ ST Ace) and even Codrington (KR/CB). This fixed the cap short and probably long-term, helped the Bills to become young again while maintaining the high standards for the starters. The real kicker here is that this transition began 2 years+ ago with Beane using premium picks on skill players and then hitting on some late round gems like Benford and Shakir.

Giving up 180 yards to KC in 2021 and then 169 (with Mixon getting 103) certainly didn't help in 2022.

Having Tua and negative cap space is a terrible spot to be in.

My sister and brother in law are going. Apparently its going to be a Bills love fest. Maybe 40% of the crowd.