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The fact the Bills didn’t deem him worthy of their practice squad or further development after signing him to a 3 year deal was wild.

It’s the twitchiness that leaves athletes, the “quicks,” not so much straight line speed. Speed and strength carry well into the 30s if injuries haven’t broken the body down.

He sacrificed a 4th round pick to move up for Knox, sacrificed a 4th for Elam, and a 4th for Kincaid. Think he sacrificed a 4th for Cody Ford too, either that or a 5th. Tried to sacrifice a 3rd for Bishop last year too but teams weren’t taking his call. My complaint has been that Beane trades up too much. Of course I wouldn’t be saying that if he had hit on at least one other blue chip player. As such, I’d rather sit pat or trade down and accumulate more ammo.

A) Would Christian Benford fetch a 1st round draft pick? B) If a team offered a first rounder, would you want the Bills to take it?

I’m in the further minority because I’m not giving any one WR $40M/yr. I don’t care who it is. I’d rather trade Chase for a bounty and fortify both lines of scrimmage.

I got the feeling the two sides aren’t all that close. I expect an infusion of youth and speed in the secondary during the draft, let’s hope the newcomers can play.

Q: Who wins in a footrace between Hamlin, Douglas, Rapp, and Coleman? A: The turtle

I wanted to move on from both Hamlin and Douglas so we wouldn’t have any more 4.6 DBs in the secondary. That unit needs an infusion of youth and SPEED.

I didn’t realize the number one DT in run stop win rate, Tedarrell Slaton, signed with the Bengals on a 2 year $15M deal. I thought he was still unsigned. A 6’4 330lb run stopping behemoth is exactly what this DL needed.

A veteran, WR John Brown, said the same when he came back after his injury. He had to find the confidence he had before he was injured because the offense was moving well without him. He had to find where he fit in again. I will echo that Keon’s hunger seemed A LOT less post injury. Almost like he was going through the motions versus actively trying to make a name for himself. You can’t teach effort or heart, so while he was upset that he was no longer as big a part of the offense as he was, he still had to make the most of the opportunities that did come his way and he didn’t do that.

Bills probably wanted him back on something close to a vet minimum deal.

Trent Murphy-like signing? Just a rotational piece, nothing more. Him and Epenesa are tied for DE3. EDIT: sounds more like an athletic Lorenzo Alexander type. Went from a 310 DT to a full time outside LB. Most likely still DE3 in the Bills scheme.

At least the Chiefs are losing better players than they’re gaining.

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/13544468/aaron-rodgers-new-york-jets-locker-room-split/

I remember the game he embarrassed Tre White (pre injury White). First time I ever thought White looked like a boy trying to defend a man.

To not want Parsons because he isn’t the best run defender is crazy to me. If you don’t want him because of his personality, or what we’d have to give up, or the contract he’ll get, cool, I understand that… but to not want the second best pass rusher in football because he isn’t a standout run defender? C’mon. There’s primarily one rushing attack that scares us (Baltimore), but how did we fare against them in the playoffs? We’re not losing AFC divisional and championship games every year because we can’t stop the run. We’re losing because we can’t affect the QB. Parsons does that better than anyone not named Garrett. To get him on the Bills would be a godsend to this defense.

If he’s a dud in the cold due to health reasons then this thread should go ahead and close now, at least from our perspective of wanting him.

Von would retire before being on anyone’s practice squad, as would any other potential first ballot HoFers.

I think, as a player in the midst of a trade, it’s kinda weird to come out and make it known that you want to play for a warm weather team. Why say this publicly? Hundreds of guys play in cold weather across the league, especially from the middle of the season until the end, I’d think the locker room dynamics would/should matter much more than playing weather.

You think some other team is going to give him anything other than a steep discount? I don’t. It’s either play for pennies (for a contender, he’s not going to the Browns) or hang em up.

He’ll come back if the Bills truly want him at a discount and no other contender gives him what he’s looking for.

Good question. Beane has to find him in the draft. I feel like he’s due to hit on an edge rusher with all the swings and misses he’s already taken. Edit: still could knock on Jerry’s door for Parsons to see what that would take.

Sweat’s production the last 4 years is almost identical to Rousseau, except he has a double digit sack season in there. Joe Marino says he’d sign Sweat as a “big ticket pass rusher,” and be done with the position, but Sweat is just another Robin. He did play monumentally better against KC than Rousseau ever has, I’ll grant you that, but we need Batman to elevate everyone on the DL.

Cut candidate in Chicago. Still can’t believe they got suckered in to paying him all that money. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-underperforming-tremaine-edmunds-tabbed-cut-candidate/7b66305a764d65f90e3209ce

My maximum for DE2 was $19M/yr, but I can’t hate this at $20M. I was absolutely against the Spotrac projections.