DapperCam

If he wants $15m I just give him a thousand carries this season and then let him walk. If he wants to sit out, just give him Leveon Bell’s number and ask him how his career went after that. We have other more pressing needs for our limited cap space.

So it’s really $18m per year guaranteed

Metcalf would be the best WR on the roster. I’d move a player and our 1st for him. I could be talked into the player being Coleman, but I’d rather not.

No, but not because it's KC. It's because their 2nd rounder is basically a 3rd rounder. That's bad value IMO and I'd rather just let him hold out.

Feel like Williams was pretty bad in coverage this year. I remember him getting completely fooled by the slightest misdirection and losing his assignment. Thumper in the run game though.

Schobel and Williams were both great. Flip a coin IMO.

I don’t think usage is the most relevant thing. How important a player to an offense is a factor, but the most important factor is supply of similar players. If a player can provide 85% of what you can at $4m and you are asking for $15m then you are going to be out of luck.

I think this is a good deal for both sides. It will likely be an underpay, but Shakir locks in generational wealth. He’ll have another kick at the can in his 20s for another good deal.

It’s about the market for their labor. Supply and demand dictates the price.

I think this is just a coaching strategy, and this is the sort of messaging that they think Coleman will respond to. They want him to take the off-season seriously. I wouldn’t read too far into it…

I'll give the Bills management the 2023 season playoffs, because I don't think any coaching can overcome the ridiculous number of injuries we had on defense that postseason. The other years were a normal amount of injuries, they have no excuses there.

I wouldn’t really blame any player that wanted to switch teams as long as they didn’t screw us on the way out (tank their trade value, sit out, air grievances to the press, kill us with a huge dead cap hit, etc). It’s his life, and he can pretty much do as he pleases within the confines of his contract IMO. I do think if the Bills were in the NFC we’d have been in 1 or 2 SBs in the past 6 seasons.

They have high profile athletes host sometimes, so it’s plausible. His episode would have crazy ratings, so it would be smart from the perspective of SNL.

Wait, what was the lie? There was hard evidence that was shared with the Dolphins. Martin is just trying to reframe things all these years later because it made him look like a wuss.

Oh sure, you participate in one shooting with Aaron Hernandez and all of a sudden you aren’t considered high character anymore! Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone I say.

The title of this thread seems wrong. All the events that were considered bullying all still happened. Nothing about the facts changed. Martin is just trying to be a scam artist crypto bro, which requires you to have an “alpha male” persona. So he’s doing what he can to distance himself from the bullying event because it makes him look weak to that audience. If Incognito told me he was going to kill me I might believe him, dude has more than one screw loose.

I’d be interested in those statistics, because I remember a few specific instances this season of Benford getting burned in man on third down. The most recent memory is vs the Broncos at the end of the first half he took a defensive holding and then gave up a 20 yard completion in the same drive. Pretty sure those were man, but I’m too lazy to check.

Am I the only one hesitant to throw big money at Benford? He had a good year, but it’s a small sample size of top play. He’s not a ball hawk. He’s been very injury prone (even not considering the concussions). And it seems he plays best in zone and gets burned sometimes in man. It actually reminds me a lot of Josh Norman who was elite in McDermott’s system in Carolina, signed a huge deal and busted for the Redskins. He could only play zone. Especially if the Bills want to start playing more aggressive and sprinkling in man coverage more often I would not throw a top-5 CB contract at Benford.

Seems like his contract is structured such that we’re stuck with him. Just have to hope he returns to 80% of old Milano.

Edmunds was probably worth his drafted spot (or at least he's paid like it). Rousseau is probably worth his drafted spot. Ed Oliver hasn't been a bust, but hasn't been worth a top-10 pick. Bills just haven't had a pick that isn't at the end of the draft since 2019. That will be 6 drafts ago after this April. Maybe we should have been more aggressive trading up, but usually the bottom of the first round isn't going to have elite talent. It will be either high risk raw prospect, or a lower ceiling "sure thing" guys. Just to compare to a team in a similar circumstance, here are the KC 1st round picks since Mahomes: - Clyde Edwards-Helaire - Trent McDuffie - George Karlaftis - Felix Anudike-Uzomah - Xavier Worthy CEH and Anudike-Uzomah are busts. McDuffie was a hit. Karlaftis is fine (probably equivalent to Rousseau). Worthy was fine, but more of a complementary piece. They've drafted a tick better than us, but not dramatically better IMO.

Didn’t Buddy Nix basically force that pick anyway?

Rousseau is a FA the same offseason, so you can add him to the pile. I don’t think there is any way Shakir gets that much. Benford and Bernard suffer from the same issue, they are always injured. Benford has missed our playoff elimination game 2 years in a row. Cook seems to have a much higher number than given in OP.

$15m is an outrageous number for the current RB market unless he thinks he will be the one to reset it. Only McCaffery and Jonathan Taylor have contracts like that and Cook isn’t on their level (and arguably those teams got burned by those contracts because of injuries).

Wrist curls are no match for a Rapp teammate-seeking missile.

I don’t think he’s a whipping boy. 99% of critical comments here just don’t want to allocate that much cap to him (or any RB for that matter).