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He also had 6 sacks while missing 4 games and playing a fraction of the snaps. Only 2 less than our sack leader (who also went against bad OLs). You’re too harsh on Von, if the Bills can work out the pay cut I’m all for bringing him back.

He had 30 something pressures and 6 sacks, all while missing multiple games and having limited time on the field. I think he was absolutely productive enough in that role. The fact he disappeared in the playoffs has to do with how little he was on the field. Whether that’s Von’s fault or the coaching staff thought they could get more out of other players, Von wasn’t given the opportunities. But as was mentioned above, Myles Garrett wouldn’t have made a huge impact against KC given how fast Mahomes got the ball out. Scheme and secondary were to blame.

Mike Gesicki was a UFA the year Beane traded up to draft Kincaid. Could’ve just signed him for cheap and used that 1st rounder on another position. Didn’t like trading up for Kincaid then and I still don’t like it now.

I know where you’re going with this, but I’m not paying a DE2 $23-$25M. Less than $20M AAV would be my max for that role.

If I was Henry, there’s no way I play this year at $8M after what I gave the Ravens offense last year. He should absolutely be at least $15M/yr, even at his age. He was an MVP candidate after all and showed no signs of slowing down throughout the season.

Once defenses started building to stop the pass and starting quality WRs became plentiful in the draft, I knew the value of RBs was due to increase. In NO WORLD was Justin Jefferson worth $35M/yr versus Saquon Barkley at $13M/yr, that was just ridiculous. And even more a slap in the face contractually considering Barkley just won OPOTY and was in the mix for NFL MVP. It’s a passing league, so I get that a WR will have slightly more value to an offense (say if Barkley and Jefferson were on the same team), but the contracts for the two positions had long been out of whack. Cook was the second best player on our offense this year, more valuable than Shakir, but we all (rightly) thought that Shakir at $15M/yr was great value while Cook at the same amount was absurd. Thinking that way was absurd, but it was made absurd due to the low money given to RBs. Next up the WR contracts should come back down to earth a bit. If I was a GM, I’m not paying the position more than $30M/yr, I don’t care who it is. They’re still well overvalued considering how defenses now play the pass and the number of good to great WRs that exist in the league.

I didn’t believe that was Matt when I saw Bills social media post it. Had to go back and look up his run myself. Looks quite different.

I proposed a 64 yarder earlier but it wouldn’t be fair to the kickers who don’t have the leg. I actually love the punting idea I proposed, where a punter stands alone at the 50, only him on the field. He has to kick the ball inside the 5 yard line either out of bounds or it has to come to a stop there. Inside the 5, the offense gets the ball again. Extremely difficult scenario with an element of fun, although if the punters get good at it and conversions start happening at a 15% clip, I could see the opposition being pissed that they weren’t on the field to have a say in it.

All while conceding his starting spot to Milano. Who knows how many tackles he would’ve ended up with if he had remained in the lineup.

I wonder if Josh had flipped the ball to the ref that gave the first, if he still would’ve conceded his spot to the other one. Just a frustrating series of downs, should’ve had the first twice.

If you could guarantee me we’d be getting a DL who’s as good at his position as James Cook is at his, I’d entertain the trade. Without that guarantee, the 2nd round rookie has higher odds to bust or be nothing more than average than he does to become a pro bowl contributor.

One of the best duos of all time. Hall & Oates!

Would have had the first down with this tech

Some could say Sweat is also still improving. He wasn’t a starter his first 3 years and he’s put in work the last 4. And of course he also has a double digit sack season on his resume. It’s just my beliefs though, if I’m re-signing Rousseau to be DE2 on my DL (which he is), I’m not going above $20M/yr for him, or any other DE2.

There’s a 93+% recovery rate by the hands team. When kickers were hitting extra points from the 2 yard line, they moved it back to the 16 to make it more difficult. The success rate for extra points is still high, but at least it’s not the 99% of years ago. We need a little more variance in the 6-7% recovery rate for onside kicks.

Wonder if they can take the refs out of it somehow, but keep a kicking component, something extremely difficult. I’d say a 64 yard made FG for the right to possess the ball again, but that wouldn’t be fair because all the kickers don’t have the leg for it. What else could we entertain that’s low percentage? Perhaps some sort of coffin corner punt? Downed or out of bounds inside the 5 yard line (kicking from the 50?) I don’t know, but there has to be a fair alternative to the current onside kick.

I wouldn’t say “considerably” worse. Rousseau had had the better career, but it’s close. If Rousseau is considered Robin and we still need to find Batman, I’d rather Robin be at Sweat’s price point than Groot’s - just under $20M/yr. The Batman equivalent, if we can trade for him, will command over $30M/yr. Not sure how PFF has Greg at 9 regular season sacks, Pro Football Reference has him at 8. Slight variances with other stats too.

Lots of talk this offseason about players moving around. Seems like more than other years.

A sneak onside kick is no longer possible and those were recovered at a much higher rate than regular, expected onside kicks. I think the recovery percentage last year was somewhere around 7%. I’m cool with a 4th down snap from the 30 replacing the onside kick, but keep it at 15 yards. I do worry about officiating influencing the play, especially a ticky tack call.

Josh Sweat looked like a man amongst boys in that SB, he whipped Joe Thuney over and over. Rousseau and Sweat mirror one another in production, except that Sweat is forecast as $19M/yr and there are talks of the Eagles letting him walk and going with Jalyx Hunt as his replacement. Rousseau would look better with a stronger supporting cast, of course, but I’ve never seen him look as dominant as Sweat did in that SB. Well, with the exception of the opening game against Kyler Murray, but that was against Murray in game 1 of the year, not Mahomes in the playoffs.

Could easily be trading James Cook for the next Boogie Basham or AJ Epenesa.

Let them draft the unproven guy, no guarantee he works out as well as Cook. Also of course no guarantee we hit on the 2nd rounder we get in exchange. We know what Cook is, we don’t know what these rookies are or will be.

No way, Cook would run all over the Bills. With the lack of foot speed in the secondary a few of those plays would be big plays, making Mahomes’s job that much easier.

Can’t speak for others, but I don’t solely stat watch. If Rousseau was a constant disruption, always playing like his hair was on fire, but just wasn’t getting the sacks, I’d put it on others around him to step their game up. Like I said there’s far too many times where he’s completely invisible and ineffective. When Beane selected him and Basham back to back, he said his goal going into the draft was to “disrupt the QB.” Rousseau is a high end run stopping DE, not the monster pass rusher that Beane wanted and that’s not worth going north of $20M/yr.

Aside from the first game of the year where he piled up 3 sacks against Murray, Rousseau had a total of 5 sacks in the other 15 games (he sat out the finale). He’s above average against the run but an average pass rusher. I’m just not comfortable giving him the higher end of his contract projection. Too many games I forget he’s even out there. I’ve said the same about Oliver in the past, but they got Oliver at what I thought was a fair deal. I was happy with that signing even though others weren’t. I think he and Rousseau are similar impact players with Oliver maybe being a tick higher.