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Scuttlebutt was we offered something heavy in incentives. Which isn't surprising. He tore his ACL before he was Drafted. He tore his Achilles a couple years ago. And now he's coming off a Shoulder injury late in the season. Unlike White, both the ACL and Achilles happened early in his career and he's had years removed from both to show where he's at. But the fact remains, he's gone down a lot for such a short career. Regardless of what posters want you to believe, Blackmon and Edwards are close as far as prospective options in the market went. When we brought in Blackmon and then a day later brought in Edwards and signed him after that - that said to me Blackmon wasn't interested and we moved on. I don't think odds were great he was going to come back to our offer to begin with. Now that we've signed Edwards after re-signing Rapp, I see the odds of him coming back to our offer even less. He'll get a better deal elsewhere or the same deal with a team that has less of a competitive aspect. TL;DR It'd be cool if we landed him too - but I think the Bills and Blackmon have moved on. I don't see this as something you should be expecting or waiting for anymore.

They aren't that close. Blackmon given his injury history is probably a 3.5-4m base with incentives. Simmons will probably be around 10m.

I'm confused by Tier 1 being WR, Tier 3 being RB, and Tier 2 being "General Offensive Weapon". The only other "offensive weapon" besides WR is RB (which you list in Tier 3) and TE (which we absolutely do not need). Are you saying Tier 1 is an Outside WR and Tier 2 is an Inside or Inside/Outside WR? I mean, even that is probably something we don't need as Samuel is an Inside/Outside tweener and Kincaid and Shakir are Inside guys.

This thread should go well....

First two tweets on my recommended feed back to back. Yikes!

Talk about being ratio'd 10 yay 101 nay

So like, what are we doing with this thread then? Sounds like you have your answer. He feels it's better for his body to do it this way. And it's not like we've seen a dropoff in his game because of it. I don't care what Josh does in the Offseason so long as he keeps playing like Josh.

Oh, here you are There's nothing left to say You're not supposed to be that way Did they push you out Did they throw you away? Touch me now and I don't care When you take me I'm not there Almost human, but I'll never be the same Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down I don't want to live in here alone Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own

He's among the least talked about because he's going Top 10. Possibly as high as 7. We're not sniffing anywhere near him. We'd be lucky to be able to get to Brian Thomas Jr. As I've said before - we interviewed every Top WR Prospect at the Combine. We didn't even bother to do so with Marvin Harrison Jr., Malik Nabers, or Rome Odunze. And for good reason.

With everything Miami's lost this offseason, I'd be surprised if they took a 3rd WR in Round 1 to go with Hill and Waddle. As for KC, they'll take a WR just as we will. It's "I hope KC doesn't get McConkey", "I hope KC doesn't get Mitchell", "I hope KC doesn't get Worthy". They're going to get somebody. Better to just accept it and hope ours turns out better.

Damn. Running Back well is drying up. Foreman was one of the top guys I liked for RB2. Really not much left. I think Zeke is a fit for RB2. Not the same guy he was, but he still looked to have some juice when he had to step in for Stevenson. He still has something to offer as part of a committee. Kareem Hunt isn't a fit from a character standpoint. Other than that? Idk. CEH, Dobbins, or Akers? I think RB2 may come in the Draft as it's a sneaky need. Maybe a pick higher than expected (though certainly not in Round 1 or Round 2). Here's the full list of what's left:

They are the leaders of the dynasty's. But I think even you would admit that this last one wouldn't have happened without the stellar play of guys like Chris Jones and Trent McDuffie on Defense in that game.

Ever since the KC loss - I've seen threads tearing down everyone from Sean McDermott, Brandon Beane, Ed Oliver, Stefon Diggs, Tyler Bass, Von Miller, James Cook, Greg Rousseau, and others. I remember saying on either the Oliver or Cook thread something among the lines of, "I know the season ending as it did was hard - but are we really going to tear down everyone on the team not named Josh Allen?" Here it is and here we are - we now have a thread ragging on Josh Allen.

Part of me was kind of surprised. In Haack, I thought they had vet insurance and would look towards the Draft and the market afterwards, depending on how it fell, for a competition. But locking in his salary and cap hit makes that unlikely now IMO. Though I suppose it's not entirely out of realm of possibility that they land Tory Taylor and just eat the 2m if they do. Would just seem to be questionable cap management at that point to pay 2m to cut him after the Draft instead of saving 1.25 by cutting him before.

A better GIF for him would be one where the fisherman is in the process of putting the worm on the hook and the fish eagerly LEAPS out of the water before they're even done hooking it and diving down on the rod itself with a happy smile on his face.

What continues? Him having confidence in himself as a player and him once again clapping back on someone, this time a respected veteran, who says he's "not that good"?

Updated with recent signings and exits.

Beane met with all 4 of those guys at the Combine and watched them on field there. Probably sent our positional coaches to check out the Texas Pro Day. Beane will get their thoughts, check the tape, and i'd bet a number of them are brought in for Pre-Draft visits.

Agreed. I think Blackmon wanted to play the field some more and we felt we couldn't wait on him. I think it's on to the Draft now for Safety. Though I do find it more likely that he could come around and accept the incentive laden deal that we offered him than it is the Justin Simmons pie in the sky dream he's still holding on to.

We also can't upgrade because there's nothing left. A grand total of 2 Punters left on the market according to Spotrac: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/punter/ I suspect they looked at the market and decided that Martin was the best option available to them. Outside of Cameron Johnston and Tommy Townsend - which were 3.25-4m in guarantees (do we really want to give upwards of 4m to the Punting position?), I don't know that there really was an upgrade available.

Blackmon and Edwards? I tend to agree. I think it's a possibility, but unlikely.

As I said in the Edwards thread, last thing floating around about Blackmon was that given his injury history - our offer was based on Incentive "performance based variable pay". Then Edwards was brought in. I'm guessing he wasn't ready to sign up for that and wanted to continue to play the field. We couldn't wait around though and signed Edwards. Maybe he comes back around and we get him later. But with Edwards and Rapp in house now, I'm guessing he gets a better opportunity both financially and in a situation where there's less of a competitive aspect. Though I'd love to have Blackmon, Edwards, and Rapp together.