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We still have significant needs. It is unlikely that our draft picks will fill all remaining holes as starters, part-time players or back-ups. Would have to think that additional bargain basement free agents will be signed, but they will not be upgrades compared to what we had last season.

I can believe that Pegula has placed cash restrictions on spending this offseason. He has a lot of financial obligations with the new stadium and with the renovations to the KeyBank Center. Could explain why Josh's contract was not fully restructured. If true, really bad time for this given our need for restructures to have cap space to be competitive this season.

Still a lot of holes and very little money available to spend because of the cap. Particularly concerned about the d-line, but a long way to go until the first game is played and many more moves will happen before then.

A lot of DTs reached agreement with teams during the day yesterday, and with our limited cap space, it may be that Jones was one of the best options remaining in our price range.

Have to believe that there are more restructurings and/or extensions coming so that we have enough cap space to fill out the roster. Hope there are not more releases.

At this point, to field a competitive team, the Bills will need to restructure Allen and probably others. It is weird that the Allen restructure has not happened yet. Is it possible that they are working on an extension of his current contract?

The listed weight for Chop Robinson is wrong. It is 254 and not 354. Still has strong measurables.

Even with a restructuring of Josh's contract, will we even have enough cap space to sign bargain basement free agents? Seems that we have a lot of roster spots to fill, particularly on defense, after releases and expiring contracts. Our draft will supply some of the needed players, but we will need significantly more.

I think it just will be some fillers and a couple drafted. We will need a new starting DE and DT (and a bunch of reserves since we are losing at least six defensive linemen due to expiring contracts). Miller will share in the snaps with the starting DE opposite Rousseau. Weird that almost all of our d-line from last season will be gone for this season.

I would have thought that the Bills would try to re-sign Jones, but another poster stated that there has been no reach out by the Bills.

I probably just overreacted on the Rapp signing.

Don't like this at all. With all of the options available at safety in free agency, one would think we could have done better.

I know we will need our picks this year to fill holes, but I would trade up to get Thomas in the first round. Think Rice would be a good pick as a physical WR for the Bills, but in the later rounds. Also like Pearsall a lot.

Love that Worthy ran a second time to get the record. Awesome run.

Why did Mitchell transfer to Texas from Georgia? Thomas looked really smooth running the 40. I wish we could draft that guy.

I am impatient as well, but I think the best we can hope for would be the re-signing of Jones before free agency and maybe a couple of extensions (Dawkins and Johnson).

If the Bills start shopping him, teams might assume that he will released if there is not a trade partner and wait for that to happen.

I thought our defense was noticeably improved after Douglas was acquired. Even if Elam can develop, seems to make sense to me extend Douglas to reduce his cap hit for next season. I think releasing or trading him would be a mistake until it is clear that Elam (or another CB on our roster) can be a starting caliber CB opposite Benford.

Unlike Bernard, there have been a couple of negative things that have been evident about the play of Elam in his first two years. First, Elam seems to have a tendency to hold receivers and take penalties for it. We even heard about it in training camp updates and summaries. Second, he is not a sure tackler, which I thought was particularly important in McD's defense (and any defense). I hope I am wrong, and Elam does seem to have an ability to make big plays (i.e., interceptions).

Between Beane's presser and Tasker's views on the secondary, I have a feeling that Douglas will be released for cap savings. I think it will be a mistake, particularly if the Bills think Elam can be a starter at CB.

There may have been issues between Elam and Butler, and Elam did have an injury last season, but I don't see him suddenly making the jump to a quality starting CB for this season. He had issues with holding/interference when he does play and he seems to be a poor tackler, which is not ideal in McD's (or any) defense. At this point, Elam being a first round pick should have no bearing on whether he starts, plays or sits.

Tasker's comments are a surprise to me. I don't think he is plugged into what McD and Beane are thinking, but it is a bit weird for him to be expressing these views in a video on the Bills' website. Wonder if Douglas will be traded or released because of the cap savings (almost $10 million)? I don't think that Elam is a fit for the Bills, and I had thought he was a trade candidate this offseason.

Surprised that Sportrac is estimating Reader at a $14.9 million annual average given the nature of his injury, but he is only 29, which is younger than I thought.

Wonder if the Bills would pursue DJ Reader (DT) if they are unable to sign Jones (assuming they are interested in re-signing Jones). Reader is coming off of a significant injury and may need to sign a one-year prove it deal. I think the Bills were interested in him a few years ago when he was a free agent.

I don't really understand the focus on the Knox contract. Not a good contract, but Knox was coming off a solid season and Kincaid had not been drafted (plus Knox seems to be pals with Allen, for whatever additional value that provided). Sure, it would be great if we could be using some of the cap dollars that represent an over pay by the Bills for the Knox contract, but shouldn't there be a lot more discussion regarding the awful contract with Miller given the magnitude of the wasted dollars involved compared to the Knox contract?