RoscoeParrish

We spent an entire offseason trying to figure out how to stop people. 90% of our picks and free agency dollars. not sure a mid tier trade in the middle of the season is the missing piece.

It would’ve been nice to let Brady try to get them installed over the offseason instead of jury rigging something mid season

It shouldn’t get you. The Diggs trade is easily the second best personnel decision Beane ever made. the biggest problem is he may not feel that way based on his other decisions. And he’s wrong to feel that way.

You can give Brady plenty of credit, but the Bucs defense destroyed the Chiefs that year.

Im not convinced that’s meaningfully that much different that targeting him outside tbh

FWIW, I understand your argument completely. I am objecting to the omission of KC from your list for any reason. There is simply no world that a $40M swing in cap space affects a team with a $35M QB LESS than a team with a $16M QB. My argument is pretty simple. If COVID cap contraction affected the Bills at Josh’s super low cap number, relatively speaking, it was felt much more with teams with huge QB cap numbers. Dallas would be another one paying a huge bill for Dak at the time. And then, relatively speaking, it wasn’t much of a disadvantage at all to the rest of the league. Because everyone was in the same boat. I don’t believe we were disadvantaged more than the Chiefs or Cowboys were. I think we were disadvantaged LESS because we had a cheaper QB. Unlucky for the timeline? Sure. A bigger disadvantage than 28 other teams felt over that span? Not a chance.

He already had a meltdown on local radio. Combined the Bills media strategy stranglehold of basically denying access to anyone saying negative things about the org, the odds he cares about what people say about him is approaching 100% Schopp and the Bulldog putting the top 2 winningest GM in Bills history into a blender is objectively hysterical though.

Here are the facts. From 2019-2022, Josh’s cap hits were $4M $5.8M $10M $16M From 2019-2022, Patrick Mahomes’ cap hits were $4M $5.3M $7.4M $35M One of these teams is complaining they didn’t have enough money to go all in during COVID lol.

Testicular torsion perhaps

Yeah, I guess I fail to see how that doesn’t apply to the Chiefs, who drafted their QB exactly one season earlier and also paid him massively and were also in their peak “QB still with a super low cap hit” window, are curiously missing from your list of teams that were somehow hurt disproportionately from COVID cap contraction. Of course, they managed to just keep going to conference championships and win Super Bowls despite their own $40M swing, no? This timeline of where we had this COVID deficit gets pretty fuzzy too. We signed a massive FA in Von Miller after 2021. Sounds like kind of a crock to be frank.

On a purely human level, do we think Beane is at all worried about the optics of trading for a WR? I have to imagine Terry knows about the WGR appearance and Beane’s crash out over WRs. He may not be the most plugged in owner, but that was a big offseason story. Does Beane care about admitting to egg on his face to the owner? At a turning point of the season? Trading for a WR is a tacit admission he was wrong this offseason and is a bit embarrassing personally. Does Beane worry that may affect his job status? It wouldn’t be the first team in the NFL GM’s do some short-sighted things to make themselves look good for their bosses.

The Ravens have played KC once in the postseason since 2019.

This take makes no sense to me. we had next to zero massive cap hits in 2020 or 2021. Josh’s hit didn’t fully materialize until 2024. Diggs was on a bargain deal with his accelerated guarantees from Minnesota. the problem with the Bills in 2020 was not COVID. It was that of our 5 highest cap hits, 2/5 were stiffs like Mario Addison and Trent Murphy. Just like today where stiffs like Knox are costing us major on our books today. So despite the argument we couldn’t “kick the can,” what can would we have kicked? Adding a few more void years to terrible players like Murphy and Star Loutelelelie? I fail to see how that harmed our chances. It probably helped maximize us by not letting Beane damage the team further.

Jettisoning a super old backup QB when you know he isn’t the future for any kind of asset when you can get it should not be considered a bad thing. it should be a good thing. If someone called us and offered a fifth for Trubisky tomorrow, I’d accept it in about 2 seconds

For comparison sake, we ATTACKED CB2 in the offseason. Drafted a 1st round rookie Brought back a mid size contract vet who knows the system in Tre brought back another vet who basically only had his career success as CB2 two years prior. That’s for the CB2 spot! The spot that you realistically expect is going to be at most the second best DB out on the field all game. It’s gotten crazy.