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Keenan was an acquisition for Caleb.

We started 3 DEs?

They tried. They brought in guys like Addison and Murphy to replace him and none of them were as good as Jerry. Teams generally don’t move on from their best pass rusher without having a plan to replace them.

Optimist is that the Bills don’t let good players out of the building. pessimist is the Bills don’t have enough good players to let out of the building. who are the last couple players to get a big FA contract out of Buffalo? Gabe Davis? Tremaine Edmunds 3 FAs ago? Was there any before that? I think the truth is somewhat in the middle. The Bills generally do very well paying the right guys, but are definitely not a team that has so many good players they just can’t pay them all.

Probably had something to do with his 88 passer rating when targeted

The fun thing about the James Cook saga is that when this whole thing is all smiles and old news by week 3, there will be a subset of fans who absolutely loathe him irredeemably

He’s also in a Shanny system

I have a question for you. do you think this phenomenon is why some players get wildly overpaid in FA and disappoint? Like the Jags throw $49M at Cook and realize that he was used out way in Buffalo for a reason and it becomes a bad contract?

Conner did make the ProBowl rushing for 973 yards. He had 1400 scrimmage yards. The year prior, Bell had almost 1300 rushing yards and 1900 scrimmage yards. Big Ben did lead the league in passing and interceptions. Did they decide to more of a passing offense because Bell had publicly said he wouldn’t play if they tagged him again? We’ll never know.

2018 Steelers went from a 13 win team to a 9 win team with Bell holding out. They went from 20th in rushing to 31st.

Bell isn’t even a good example. he played under the tag once. He got $12M GTD for the first time and passed on $14M GTD for each of those seasons. After holding out and missing a year, he got $27M guaranteed with the Jets. He basically got two more franchise tags worth of guarantees up front. He literally won.

Um Moore had 102 targets himself. Moore and Palmer had 167 targets combined. DK had 108. I don’t understand how you view these things. Do you think Moore and Palmer are gonna combine for 167 targets and 1300 yards in Buffalo?

I disagree with basically your entire post but this part is the most stark. You could call EVERY team in the league for WR1-25 and exactly zero point zero percent of them would trade that guy for Palmer+Ogunjobi+Moore. Moore couldn’t even find a job until April. Holes? DK would effectively replace the need for Palmer/Moore at all, and we are going 6 weeks without Larry already. That’s partly why we drafted 4 more DL players this year.

They paid Tolbert as well. Interesting 3 headed monster that was.

Tom Brady was the best in his prime. Because he’s the GOAT. GOAT stands for “Greatest Of All Time.”

There’s an argument to do none of those things, but to me, paying Cook trumps at least 80% of those other moves. I don’t mind saying paying RBs is risky business, but it would hardly be a bigger risk or waste than some of those other contracts.

Can you give some of the money you are going to give back up DL serving PED suspensions and give it to an RB instead

It was over in 2018, and 2020 put an exclamation point on it. Lebron and Jordan is far closer than Brady vs the field imo. Lebron has the longevity and Jordan has the peak. Brady has both. Its 100% a closed case.

There are a laundry list of head coaches who fail to put schemes around their players strengths it sounds comical, but it is a basic skill that roughly a third of NFL coaches can’t figure out. Miami was a playoff for two years in a row. Something the Bills couldn’t manage for 20 years straight. They can’t all be irredeemable garbage.

Melvin Gordon wishes he took the Chargers lowball offer.

Oliver would basically have no guarantees left and would almost certainly accept a restructured deal to increase his guarantees and lower his giant base salary. And he’s a plus player in the league. It’s not uncomplicated but for a team like Dallas that may want to sell “retooling” vs “rebuilding,” getting a good defensive player in return isn’t nothing.

There’s no stellar defensive FA to pay. If a team has 2 awesome EDGEs and trades one for picks and keeps the other at a high salary, I sort’ve understand. But the Chiefs could’ve gotten a TON of salary cap relief and picks if they traded Chris Jones in 2023. You know why they didn’t do that? Because having Chris Jones is better than 2 firsts and salary cap space, especially because there’s no one worth using that space on. The Bills have tried and failed to find defensive difference makers in FA. The guys that hit FA are either super old, like Von Miller, or super injury prone, like Joey Bosa. Superstar 26 year olds at super high paid positions like QB, WR, pass rush and OT generally don’t hit FA. They are either paid by the team that drafted them, or traded for and paid.

Honestly, once they are in that tagged role, not as much. DK holding out for his contract this offseason only went for a second. Traded a year earlier, he probably would have yielded a first. Now, a player of Parsons caliber may still get multiple firsts, but may have gotten 3 firsts and 2 seconds a year ago. Ultimately, if you look at the Khalil Mack trade, which was in September after a contract dispute, the price was 2 firsts, a third, a sixth. Those players ended up being Josh Jacobs, Damon Arnette, Bryan Edwards and the 6th was traded to the Jets. Are those players combined at their price point worth a Khalil Mack in his prime, even on a massive deal? Of course not. The Rams had this right. Draft picks don’t win games, players do. The goal is to get as many as you can

Palmer, Moore and Ogunjobi have the same cap hit as DK Metcalf. That’s not the “best they can do.” That’s what they decided to do INSTEAD of going after star talent. We aren’t forced to budget shop. We prefer it.