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The hilarious thing about your manic posting mocking others is that NONE of us - not me, @GunnerBill, @FireChans, or anyone else who thought it was an odd exchange did anything but hypothesize that it's possible he won't be here. None of us took a stance of "Douglas is definitely gone". Re-read all of my posts. The only sure fire stance I took was that Douglas and White would not be here at the same time. The most I said was that I thought White would be gone but after the Combine, it could be Douglas.

Big difference between saying "I figured" and what you're doing my dude.

Exactly. Victory laps are cringe to begin with. But they can't be taken when your stance is only half correct.

But it would. We're not going to spend a 1st Round pick when our top WR's would be set in stone with Diggs and Sutton on the Outside with Shakir and Kincaid in the Slot. Another year where we didn't have to find a 2 DE's one a starter, 4 DT's one a starter, and both Starting Safeties - on top of a million important depth pieces and not a lot of money to do it maybe you spend your 1st elsewhere. But with all of that combined with what we'd have to give up in Draft compensation and money (both this year and years to come) for Sutton - best believe that 1st would go elsewhere before off the bench WR.

I'm saying that you're taking victory laps and a stance of superiority, mocking others, while all of your posts were about nobody going. So you were right in the sense that Douglas wasn't moved. But you were also wrong in saying on multiple occasions that you saw all 3 staying based on an article you kept quoting. I asked you if you would rather move on from Tre. This is because all of my posts all offseason were that one of them had to go. I was wrong in my interpretation of the Combine that it could be Douglas. It was White. If you want to call others out for misinterpreting the Combine comments - you have to own that your stance was not just that Douglas would stay, but that White would as well.

Really? So that wasn't you on the Ryan Bates thread telling me "read the Buscaglia article - there's a path for all 3 of them to be on the roster"? And not you here again saying:

Gotta love the people who come in late and think they're breaking news.

We were always going to be in play in FA. We were always going to get under the cap and make some moves. I still wouldn't expect anything big ticket at any position though.

In Year 1. And what will that do in future years? What about the 17.8 next season? You shouldn't want a big move like Sutton. With everything we had to do before today and the new holes we created today - a move for a guy like Sutton would remove us from Round 1 WR consideration. We wouldn't give up Draft picks for Sutton, take on his contract, and then Draft a guy in Round 1 who's ceiling in Year 1 would be WR4 off the bench.

Considering we brought him back for the Playoffs and then cut him again in favor of a 50% Martin, i'd say he's, at best, a Camp leg.

He's just interested in taking victory laps right now. Never mind the fact that his stance from the beginning was that Douglas would be here along with White.

Someone who isn't here yet. Most likely a Draft Pick.

Our core is still here. Do you really feel that Tre White, Jordan Poyer, Mitch Morse, Deonte Harty, Nyheim Hines, Ryan Bates, and Siran Neal are what made this team last year? All we did was get out from under guys who were declining, injured, or didn't make an impact. With their exits, improvement is far more likely than decline with their replacements.

My take all Offseason was one of them was going to go. I initially thought it was White. But in listening to him at the Combine talk about the two, it felt like he was leaning towards Douglas. I was far from the only one who thought this. Let's not take a stance of superiority and post victory laps on multiple threads. You've been non-stop arguing your stance based on a report that we can keep all 3 and that's what made the most sense to you.

So much for "everyone says we can keep all 3" too.

I figured as much when he was released.

It was either White or Douglas. I said it all offseason. It doesn't make any sense to have 3 quality starting CB's for 2 roles. Especially when 1 of them is performing very well under a Day 3 Rookie Contract that is developing, 2 of them are high priced veterans, 1 has an out in their contract, and we have a myriad of starting holes elsewhere and not a lot of money. I originally thought it would be White. But after listening to Beane at the Combine, I thought it was going to be Douglas. But the fact remained, something had to give at CB for the sake of the rest of the roster. Sad to see him go. But as I said earlier - when you remove emotion from the equation, it's kind of a no brainer.

What up @transplantbillsfan 😜

I'd doubt it. The moves have included announcing McGovern is the new Center and Edwards was re-signed to start at Guard. I don't see Morse coming back to be a depth piece after being replaced.

The hits just keep coming. What a wild day.

Wow! This is a shocking development! Definitely did not have Connor McGovern moving to Center and David Edwards being re-signed and replacing him at Guard. But here we are!

It's really not. An extension for Douglas this Offseason never really made much sense unless you were getting out of White's contract. If you're doing an extension for Douglas, you'd be committing to him as one of your starters long term. He's a Free Agent in a year and with his resume, his agent surely knows someone will pay him to be a Starter. So they wouldn't accept anything less from us to deny him testing his market in a year. In Benford, we have a very good Starter who is developing and still has room for growth on a Round 6 Rookie Contract. You don't want to mess with that. In White we have a perennial All Pro/Pro Bowler under a massive deal to Start. The injuries present concern as to whether he'll be able to be the same guy. But Beane probably doesn't want to close the door there without first seeing where he's at. Extending Douglas now would have entrenched him as a Starter long term at the cost of either White or Benford starting before confirming whether White is done or not.

They chose to restructure Douglas. Which, honestly, in the last year of his deal - I didn't know was an option. Hadn't heard it mentioned by anyone. I think the change in tone at the Presser was because the question was specifically about an extension and Beane knew it wasn't happening. Edit: There is is. White's gone. Keeping all 3 just never made sense.

Not an extension, as of yet.