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And here is the cap space with releasing the 4 starters you want: If we cut Dawkins, White, Johnson, Morse, Poyer, Harty, and Hines we can get down to almost $0 cap space. If you think McD is going to go from not letting Elam even sniff a backup position on gameday, to suddenly being CB3, I have oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you. Then we are back to spending more draft capital on defense, in a league that is dominated by the offense. You also assume rookie players will be ready to start and play well. Are you willing to have another non-playoff season?

Yeah, bad decisions is part of the organizational issues that were mentioned. We are currently $42M over the cap going into 2024. Cutting White saves us $6M. Cutting Morse saves us $8.5M. Cutting Harty saves us $3.9M. Cutting Poyer saves us $5.5M. Cutting Johnson saves us $7.7M. Cutting these players brings us down to $10M over the cap. We then have to replace those 4 starters too: Average starting CB: $6M ($5,388,889) Average starting S: $4M ($4,107,221) Average starting Center: $6.7M Average starting Nickel: $4.3M ($4,328,667) That's $21M in replacements for average players. There is no easy way out of this. This would be a terrible mistake IMO. The center is a pivotal part of the offensive line, both from calling out protections, to his relationship with the QB.

To be honest, many fans of other teams raised an eyebrow at that contract a the time. I tried to be positive about it, because we just got a stud pass rusher! But to be honest, they were always right. JJ Watt retired at the same age that we gave Von Miller a $114M contract.

No you don't. The players are gone on the bye week. They go on vacation. Kelce was in Buenos Aires on the Chiefs bye week, for example. Some players may choose to stay, but they dont have.

Not sure why you are being downvoted. This organization IS a mess right now. We have McD telling Diggs to go home from camp in the offseason, one of the worst cap situations in the league, one of the oldest rosters in the league, a secondary receiving option that is primarily a blocker, and out of 44 draft picks we have only garnered 1 great player. That's a mess. Oh and we have a top 3 NFL QB. That alone should be a ticket to perennial playoffs. Somehow we have screwed that up. .

Statistically flawed in sample, but I really like the conclusion, so amen!! Love Josh Allen.

No you love me.

The Philly game was Diggs highest snap count of the year. Not as a %, but as a total. The odd part was the timing of when he came out. Third downs.

Id be fine with cheating. Playing fair hasn’t been working 😂

The Vikings had nearly 500 yards of offense. That loss was far more than 1 fumble. McD has actually lost to Zach multiple times. Last year the Jets controlled TOP and had 21 first downs against us with Zach Wilson starting.

Other teams fans routinely talk about how rough it is to watch a game at Rich. We just don't realize it because it's our fans.

Wow. I agree that it’s probably time to move on, but do you have zero respect for what we has done here? I don’t think he is championship caliber, but he has coaching chops. And he made this city respectable again (football wise). I will always have a fondness for McD, even though I will also admit he didn’t bring the hardware home. To be honest what bugs me most about him at the moment is that he took so long to let Dorsey go. How many more games would we have won with the offense we have seen the last 2 games?

Accountability.

Only thing is after that TB loss, we played 4 terrible teams to close out the season. All were fighting for a top 10 draft slot. This year we have to face the SB championships, a top NFC team, the highest scoring team in the NFL, etc. Tougher uphill road this time.

He was not top 3 last year. He wasn't even top 10. But i'm certainly not advocating to cut him. I just checked and he has never been top 3. He has squeaked into the top 15 the past two years but thats as close as he has gotten.

No Sean. Many of us call out your mistakes in real time, before they hurt us, live in the game thread.

97.5%

There are only 2 starting kickers with a worse % than Bass right now. He is statistically bottom 3 in the NFL at the moment.

The INT gave the Eagles a 75% probability of winning. Allen scoring on the next drive gave the Bills an 80% probability to win that increased to 95% before the end of regulation. In short, Allen eradicated that INT quickly. Yes, the Bills had a 95% probability of winning with less than a minute to go.

He has been trying to leave Michigan for years now lol

Not really. In 2019 we were starting Star Lotuleli, Trent Murphy and Jerry hughes on the D-Line. 2020 had 3 new starters and by 2022 we had an entirely new D-line and two new starting CB's.

How far back do you want to go in order to stay relevant to our current player group? Or do you simply want to go back as far as you can to justify crapping on Frazier? a 9 point loss is not a blowout.

Not sure why you think that. In the last 3 years under Frazier, we had 2 regular season games we were blown out in. Titans in 2020. Colts in 2021. That's it. That's the entire list. Most losses were by 4 or less.

We lost the Titans game on offense (failed 4th down). Unless you mean the other Titans game where we were blown out - that wasn't a game winning drive scenario.

Frazier was frustrating in that he played so conservatively. But I don't recall ever giving up so many game winning drives with him. Or maybe I just have amnesia.