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Just like anything in life, you should let your son make their own choices and let them know you love them no matter what. I'd also let them know that they don't ever have to do something because they feel like they have to, just to keep you happy. And that he should never be afraid to talk to you about anything. Maybe he comes back to being a Bills fan, maybe he doesn't. But in no scenario should you pressure or guilt him into doing something he doesn't want to do. He's a kid. He's not invested like we are. In some ways, I envy being someone who is able to remove themselves from the constant torture. It's too late for us poor saps 😆

Everyone's assuming Hines is cut. And in a vacuum, it seems like a no brainer. However, Beane has said he wants him next season and Hines has said he'll be here next season. The fact that there was no dispute over his lost money, the two came to an agreement on a number, and he wasn't outright released with a settlement says to me they struck a deal. We saved a little cap last season. He didn't push the issue with the Union and he's back next year. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10098381-bills-nyheim-hines-reflects-on-jet-ski-accident-my-life-is-like-final-destination

From what I've been reading, knocks on him are: - Below-average flexibility. Tall, lanky frame makes it tough for him to drop his hips and work certain routes. - Inconsistent ability to win the ball in the air. Shows flashes thanks to good hands and long arms, but it comes and goes. - Below-average blocker due to skinny frame. But at where we're picking, you're not going to find a perfect prospect. Gotta take the good with the bad. And it looks like there's a lot of good.

Where have threats been made? If on here, they should be called out and banned for the indiscretion. There is no room for any sort of personal threats. Saying he shouldn't be the Bills Kicker anymore though - that's completely fair following how he performed this season.

If we had fallen apart down the stretch, there's a chance they would have moved on. But by all accounts, it wasn't going to happen even then: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sean-mcdermott-is-safe-as-bills-coach-beyond-2023-despite-recent-struggles-per-report/ If he were to be let go, I wouldn't be upset. But like it or not, it's just not going to happen this season.

For one, Higgins is almost certainly not going to hit the market - https://lastwordonsports.com/nfl/2024/01/08/tee-higgins-free-agency-franchise-tag/ https://stripehype.com/posts/pff-predicts-bengals-franchise-tag-tee-higgins-01hhjeh3pw8p Every year fanbases salivate over the list of FA's. Then Franchise Tags come down and most if not all of those top players come off the market. We actually have 9. But that's not really the point. We need a Starting DE plus 1, if not 2 more DE for depth. We need a starting DT plus at least 2, if not 3 more players for depth. We need at least 1, if not 2 starting Safeties, plus another for depth. We are currently 43.6 million over the cap. While we have a number of ways to get under, we're not going to be so far under that we can spend even 9 million in Year 1 on one single player at any one position. Given the amount of starters and depth players we have to get. It's going to be like last year where we wait and see who will take a discount to play with us and/or who is still available after the crazy spending has been done that has no choice but to take at least a little less than they were asking for. Contracts that have void years or are back loaded, with 3-5 tops up front. There are some quality WR's that we may have a shot at that I listed above. But Higgins is the #1 available player and we aren't going to be a Day 1 bidding war type of team in the situation we're in. Higgins is an absolute pipe dream any way you slice it. It'll be a Mid Tier FA plus a WR on Day 1 or Day 2 or a Double Dip in the Draft.

Mike Evans will turn 31 years old this year. Tee Higgins just turned 25, coming off his Rookie contract with a relatively clean bill of health. This is what's going to give him the edge with teams. And I doubt he even makes Free Agency. Most analysts have him destined to be Franchise Tagged. Spotrac's suggestions are just that. They're often way off base. Every fanbase in the league is hoping for Higgins. It's going to be a bidding war. We can't splash that big for just 1 player. And like I said, I doubt he isn't tagged anyways. With who's set to be available at the moment, WR's like Calvin Ridley, OBJ, Hollywood Brown, Curtis Samuel, Michael Thomas, and D.J. Chark represent the ceiling of what we could possibly do in FA. It'll be somebody like that and a Draft Pick on Day 1 or Day 2. Or a double dip in the Draft. But top tier bidding wars isn't going to happen.

Lol at Higgins. Not happening. We have 22 FA's that need to be replaced. This scenario ignores the Defense completely. Where we have just Rousseau, Miller, and Kingsley returning at DE from the 53. Literally ONLY Ed Oliver at DT. Poyer (who has an out in his contract and may need to be replaced as well) and Hamlin as our only Safeties. Here's hoping we are able to get a decent WR at a good price when musical chairs stops and/or move up in the 1st to get one. But Tee Higgins is going to be the most sought after WR in FA and his contract is going to be massive. We can't afford what it would cost just for him with all the holes we have. Side note: I'm pretty sure Hines is going to be here. Conventional wisdom says get rid of him and save money. But it appears to me that Beane and he struck some sort of deal to avoid a Players Union grievance over his money this year. Beane has said he'll be back and Hines has said he's been told he'll be back. It appears to me they made an arrangement to let him keep some signing money this year and also saved them some money this year in exchange for a promise that he'll be on the roster next year.

Tre is going to have to go. It's sad, but we can't be on the hook for what he's scheduled to cost on the cap for the next two seasons in the condition he's in. Deonte Harty, Connor McGovern, Ryan Bates, Tre'Davious White, Jordan Poyer, and Sam Martin all have outs in their contracts this offseason that can save cap space. A large number of them will be moved on from or take massive cuts in pay to stay. Restructures of Josh, Von, and others will make up for most of the rest to get us under. An extension for Douglas will also save us cap. But with 22 FA's, we're still going to have to go out and sign a lot of bodies - even with having 9 Draft Picks at our disposal. So it's going to have to be another year of smart shopping. Luckily, we have the core of our team under contract. Josh, Cook, Diggs, Shakir, Kincaid, the entire OL, Rousseau, Oliver, Milano, Bernard, Douglas, Benford, and Johnson are all safe. The big moves will be needing to find a #2 to replace Davis, a DE opposite Rousseau (hopefully there's another logjam where we can get Floyd back or a Floyd like player), a DT opposite Oliver (hopefully Daquan will work with us), and at least 1 Safety, if not both.

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I go the other way. It's easier for me to palate the Ravens winning. In that sense it's like "well, if we pulled out the Chiefs win - we probably would have lost to the Ravens". If the Chiefs go on to win it all, I won't be able to shake "if we just got over the hump in that game, we would have won it all". For some, that's a good feeling. To me, it makes the loss hurt that much more.

Trent is a Nickel CB playing the Nickel because of his size and short arms. Yes, he beat Taron for 1st Team All Pro. But there isn't much separating Trent as 1st Team AP and Taron as 2nd Team AP. We didn't need a Nickel on Draft Day because Taron has been solid for years. We needed an Outside CB. That's why we passed on him. Shame that Kaiir hasn't worked out, but Trent really can't play Outside. Humphrey on the other hand, yeah, that's a rough miss.

Weird how you ignored the last sentence of the third paragraph.

My guess is tomorrow during the Year End Press Conference - we're going to hear that Diggs was playing through something for most of the end of the year. You don't go from playing like he did in the first half of the year to playing like he did in the last half and being targeted that little for really any other reason. I'd bet the foot thing that has intermittently been popping up on the Injury Report was a broken bone in there that's been really hampering him. This caused him to be used less in the game plan to at least keep him on the field as a threat. They downplayed it bc they wanted teams to game plan for him, double him, and fear him. But the pain and infrequent usage caused him to mentally be off. This idea that he just hit a wall and went from a Top 5 WR in the league to "done" in a matter of weeks is crazy talk. If it isn't an injury, then I don't know what's going on mentally that has him off. But he's not done. You don't fall off a cliff that quickly.

Bass is 26/34 between the regular season and Post Season this year. That's 76% - basically one miss in every 4. He was an abysmal 2/5 in the Postseason, including a miss from 27 yards. One of two needed end of the game playoff clutch kicks that he choked on in back to back weeks (luckily we were bailed out by the Defense last week). This is not an overreaction. Kickers have lost their jobs for a lot less.

Yeah, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Beane's surely got a number of different things lined up to get us out from under our cap situation. Kicker is a relatively cheap position. Especially if we Draft a guy. You can't keep rolling out a Kicker as unreliable as he's been down the stretch just because of the money. It's not like other positions where you can say "well, we're stuck with him, but that doesn't mean we have to start him".

Your preferred headline isn't going to happen. McDermott and Beane aren't going anywhere.

Geesh - guilty conscience much? I wasn't specifically calling you out. You would have been far from the only one. And I don't recall saying Hopkins would be a waste of money. On the contrary, I said I'd be interested at his TEN contract. As for the Davis thing, I also never said he'd finish the year as a top #2. Just that at the time you and the others were calling him out, his numbers were among the top for all WR's.

It led to zero points scored by the Chiefs via a Turnover. Crisis averted. Weird thing to be hung up on.

Amen. We put 182 yards on the Ground. Outgained them in yards 368-361. 27 first downs to their 21. Controlled the time of possession 37 minutes to 23 - with a game plan to control the ball and not force things down field against a strong pass Defense. I refuse to sit here and let the takeaway of this game be the Offense wasn't enough. It was an already decimated Defense using reserves that weren't 100% themselves against a top QB and offense playing their best ball.

And to think, there were more posters on here than not that wanted him cut for Andy Isabella. Goes to show Pre-Season football means nothing.

I think Poyer will be back. Hyde may retire. He's not remotely the same player following the neck injuries and I think he knows it.

I agree. If by DeAndre Hopkins, you mean Matt Milano, Terrel Bernard, and Christian Benford. We possessed the ball 8 times. We scored on 4 and would have scored on 5 if Bass hadn't missed. Josh Allen played with his hair on fire. Guys like Shakir, Kincaid, and Cook were making plays when called upon. Diggs made some plays and had some drops. It wasn't lack of offense that did us in. Josh was an absolute monster. It was a decimated Defense. Many of the reserves clearly playing injured. Douglas couldn't follow guys downfield. The simplest move in the open field, even by Mahomes and he was lost. Dodson played hurt, went down again, and kept playing. Klein rolled his ankle and kept playing on it. The Special Teams was an albatross. Martin was clearly still hurt, giving them short fields when he did have to punt. And Bass? Well.... I don't want to talk about that. Even if he made that kick, it's clear that the Defense would have folded again as they were driving with no issue before the kneel down. Simply didn't have the Defensive personnel to stop Mahomes and company on the field. I don't think 1 player was going to put more than 10 more points on the board.

Oh, I don't blame Bass entirely for the loss. But he contributed to it. And it should be the final nail in his coffin.

I mean, it's going to happen regardless. Diggs, Shakir, Harty (who has an out in his contract after this year that we can exercise), and Shorter (who didn't even play this year) are the only WR's under contract.