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That's great if you can find Christian Benford with every 6th Round Pick. But for every Christian Benford there's a Marquez Stevenson, Luke Tenuta, Rachad Wildgoose, Jaquan Johnson, or Tanner Vallejo.

Personally, I think using a 6th or 7th IS using less assets than signing multiple vet minimum guys, in the cap situation we're in. Our money should be going towards more important things.

When you made a post that was based in reality, I commended you. It was the first offseason post you made and I thought things would be different this year. Alas, here we are again. Every day littering the board with extreme ideas that have little to no chance of happening and arguing how it's realistic or even "likely". Chris Jones, Derrick Henry, Michael Pittman Jr., Trading Stefon Diggs, Mike Evans, Trading for Cortland Sutton, DK Metcalf, Drafting not 1 but 2 WR's in Round 1, etc. etc. For every post of yours that I reply to, you make 3-4 more of the same insane ideas over and over. So if my replying in reality is making you money, hey, maybe I should do it more 😎 As I said in the Cover 1 review, I don't believe that we cannot afford ANYONE. There are members of this board that argue we cannot even afford mid tier FA's. That's incorrect. We will be able to get out from where we are and grab some quality players. But that doesn't include the absolute best, most expensive players at every given position. Your head is in the clouds all the time. Every post is extremes that are, at best, VERY unlikely to happen. Hell, even when we made a somewhat bold move to sign Floyd - your next post was "that's cool - now sign Melvin Ingram AND Justin Houston too!" You post about the Offseason more than maybe anyone on this board. And I love to have meaningful discussion about things we'll do. But with you, it's 24/7 off the wall ideas that don't fall in line with how Beane operates or more importantly, reality.

Here's something people aren't taking into account with this list (that I briefly touched on in my Henry rant) - This many quality RB's on the market means that many teams are in the market to replace them. Henry's leaving the Titans? Well than Tennessee needs to find a replacement. Saquon's leaving the Giants? Then the Giants have to replace him. Some of them will look to the Draft. But for a lot of them, it will just be a game of musical chairs. The market works both ways. A lot of them available doesn't automatically equate to them all coming cheaper. Especially when there's a lot of teams that now have holes.

I feel like there's a new thread on this Documentary every couple weeks.

I'm not saying pick a guy on Day 1 or Day 2. Or even early on Day 3. But we have to fill a couple holes at the position and grabbing a guy in the 6th or 7th Round is already about the least you can possibly do. Save for grabbing a couple Undrafted and hoping you find a gem there.

The cap space clearing has begun. $3.74m saved. Should bring us to about 37.5m over now - if Spotrac's number of 41.24m over is accurate There was a release from the NFLPA that said we were about 36.7m over. Idk if that already factored in the McGovern restructure or not. So we're either at 33m over in the best case now or 37.5m at the worst. EDIT: Spotrac has updated our Cap Figure factoring in the McGovern deal and does now put us at 37.5m Over.

Yeah, I knew when this got posted it would just be a bunch of snarky McDermott posts. Personally, I like it. He's always so close to the vest and careful. "One step at a time, one game at a time". "Playoff Caliber" during the season and "Championship Caliber" only after we make the postseason. To hear him say something like "it's not a matter of if we win the Super Bowl, but WHEN" - that's an uncharacteristic, galvanizing statement to make to the team.

For the millionth time, Derrick Henry is not coming to the Buffalo Bills. You can fantasize what it would be like all you want. Would it be good? Yeah, it'd be good. But I don't see the point in fantasy. We're not spending that kind of Money on RB2. Even if he is cheaper bc of his age and the market, it still won't be cheap enough to justify it. And Derrick Henry is not going to choose to go somewhere that he isn't the unquestioned starter. Take a look at any article that prognosticates Henry's next team. You never see Buffalo on there. It doesn't make sense any way you slice it besides fantasy of what it would be like. He's going to Baltimore. A contender that will play him in the same role he played in Tennessee. He's going to get at the very least 4.5-5m a year from them. In the slim event he didn't go there, he'll go somewhere else where he's the lead Back. You know what all those big names RB's on the market also means? It means there's a LOT of teams that have openings for Starter. And if you think Derrick Henry isn't high on the lists of all of the teams that need a RB1 - you're kidding yourself. Money is tight. We can get under the cap. But that money will need to be used on WR, DE, DT, and S. Not to mention the million and one depth holes we have. We're not putting 5m (on the low end btw) into a 2nd RB when we already have a Pro Bowl RB who was 4th in the league in Rushing last season, when we have a million more important, harder to fill holes than the dime a dozen RB position, and we don't have much money to begin with.

Or..... We have Cook. We get Johnson back cheaper. We Draft a guy late on Day 3. Done.

*A* single, independent Packers reporter asking a question to himself two years ago is your "can't even make this up" smoking gun? Here's the difference - Micah Hyde wasn't the best CB on his team and just randomly got switched to Safety, years later, while still performing very well at CB. He played BOTH CB and Safety in College and was drafted as a guy who could be either or. After his Rookie season, they realized he was better served at Safety than he was at CB. https://hawkeyesports.com/roster/micah-hyde/

Yeah, I see the confusion. I accidentally wrote Benford instead of Douglas on that one post. I meant Douglas. The result is the same though. He may be turning 30. But he doesn't have the usage and wear and tear of a standard 30 year old CB. He was a late bloomer who's stepped into his own as a high performing CB in just the last few seasons. He's playing his best Football now. As a Starting CB. He's our best CB right now. We wouldn't move our #1 CB come Week 1 to Safety, a lesser position that pays less, to move our #4 Outside CB last season to Starting CB. And I can't disagree with you more that he couldn't do better than what we'd offer him as a Safety elsewhere next season. You don't move CB's who are performing at a high level to Safety. No agent would accept Safety money for a CB who can make good CB money elsewhere in a year. That's Agent malpractice. This scenario would have him at the very least, testing the market next season rather signing an extension this season.

Benford absolutely isn't moving either. But I see no possible way he's going to sign an extension as a Safety when he's set to either be paid more than he's being paid now as a Starting CB here or a Starting CB elsewhere. His agent would laugh in our faces if we offered him Safety money and say "come back to us with Starting CB money or we'll get it elsewhere next year".

I highly doubt it. As someone who frequently watches One Bills Live - Tasker does more talking out of his butt than he does making sense. I spend way more time thinking "what the hell is he talking about?" than I do thinking "this guy's cooking". He's also CONSTANLY mixing up players names. And Brandon Beane isn't talking trade secrets with him. It makes no sense that Douglas would choose to take Safety money this close to his next Contract, when he's set to cash in on Starting CB money. Nor are we paying a Safety Starting CB money to play Safety. It makes even less sense to take our best healthy CB and move him to a lesser position and then take a guy who couldn't even beat out Dane Jackson last season for Outside CB #3 and start him at the more important position. Literally nothing about this makes sense and like I said, Tasker is a complete buffoon on the air.

And in turn you're halting his development as an ascending Starter by replacing him. That would be the tossing aside you're saying you didn't say.

Yeah, it's pretty clear that if you read between the lines of what McDermott said in Pressers at the end of the year that both Hyde and Poyer are gone. He demands a lot from the Safety position. Unfortunately, between Hyde not being REMOTELY the same player he was returning from the neck injury and then Poyer, who had shown some decline the year before, falling off a cliff last year - he got little to nothing from that side of the ball all season. Hyde's a Free Agent. Even if he doesn't retire, which seems likely, we won't be bringing him back. And releasing Poyer can save us cap space. My guess is we re-sign Taylor Rapp, who I felt was addition by subtraction when one of them was out of the lineup last season, and Cam Lewis. Then we'll Draft a guy, quite possibly 2 (as it wouldn't surprise me to see us move on from Hamlin too) between Round 2 and the end of the Draft. We probably won't have the Safety core of Hyde and Poyer at their prime - but we can't do a lot worse than what they provided us last season.

Then what did you mean when you said...

Definition of 'stalwart' is reliable. Benford played well, at times extremely well. I think you should go back and watch some of the film on him bc he was often shut down on his side. At 23 years old and on a pennies on the dollar 6th Round Rookie Contract, he's been on a solid ascension with room to get even better. You don't mess with that development. I don't think you're going to find many people who agree with you that we need an Upgrade from him and that we should toss him aside.

We are not moving high performing Starting CB's to Safety. You simply do NOT do that. The only time you move a CB to Safety is with aging Elite CB's (ala Rod Woodson, Charles Woodson, Troy Vincent, Patrick Peterson) who have the skills to transition and extend their career. Or guys that were Drafted out of College that played both CB and Safety (like Micah Hyde in GB). A high functioning CB - you KEEP at CB. Safety is a much easier and much cheaper to replace than a CB. And CB's don't WANT to switch to Safety. It's a tougher position on the body that pays FAR less. You know what would happen if we approached Douglas to play Safety? He'd laugh in our face when approached for an extension. He wouldn't re-sign here and be paid to be a Starting CB at Starting CB money on another team after this season. My favorite post i've ever seen on this subject was someone who hypothesized we could move him to Safety and save money by paying him as a Sadety. In what world would Douglas choose to do that?! And why on earth would we move one of our 2 best CB's to Safety to move a lesser player in Elam to start at a more important position? Like... what? Douglas and Benford are unquestioned starters at CB. It's not happening. And guys like White and Elam do not have the ability to do it well. White isn't a good tackler. And Elam, though a better tackler, would need to be even better at Zones than he is already failing at the CB position. The switching any of our CB's to Safety is a completely short sighted, nonsense discussion.

Edit: I read this wrong at first. I thought it was saying Douglas and Benford would be starting which isn't crazy at all. But yeah.... this is absolutely crazy talk. I think Tasker might have got names mixed up again. Something he's notorious for doing every time I tune in. He's also notorious for saying things that make me go "wtf?" and are way off base. This isn't going to happen and doesn't make sense for a LARGE number of reasons.

The funny thing about this is that you read the doom and gloom of that article and the fact is: 2024 New Orleans Saints - 36m Over the Cap 2024 Buffalo Bills - 41m Over the Cap But the big difference is we have the core pieces of a Contender in place. They have a terrible team to begin with and have to tear it down even more. Plus side, it's not like they're going to get much worse.

Was really digging the first 2 Picks. But there's absolutely no way we're spending a Day 2 pick on RB.

I don't think it's completely impossible. But I think Reader is going to be too expensive compared to Jones. I don't see a scenario where we cannot pay Jones what he's asking for or commands and then will pay more for Reader. Spotrac's value (though never entirely accurate) has Daquan Jones as a 6.9m annual average. They list DJ Reader at a 14.9m annual average. I think that's a pretty high prediction for him and I don't think he'll cost that much. But he's still going to cost much more than Jones.