Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

The player and handcuffed to the offense kind of go together. That's who Jackson is and what he can and can't do. He likely will be seeking and getting a contract worth more than $30 mil a year, is he worth it? At that price he will handcuff the team and be surprised if he's good enough to overcome and win with him.

So if you were the GM of Baltimore, would you trade Jackson for the #1 overall pick? That would be an interesting decision, trade the MVP from 2 years ago and won was it 10 games this year, the QB who most of the media drools over to be able to pickup Lawrence. Jackson would be the type of player as good as he is/was to still make the trade!

And the Bears got Tribitsky for much more. Never know, helped in 2018 that there were a number of top rated QB's so kept the price down. Allen had questions too, likely had the most potential, but also could just as easily been a bust.

Just read the Bills have 67 players under contract, assuming they keep all 7 draft picks, that likely means they will sign close to 17 more players before training camp starts to get to the league max of 90. Likely the signings with maybe a couple of exceptions will be below the top 51 salaries, so won't affect cap $$'s at all, just lighten Terry's wallet a small bit.

I'm sure Brandon Powell's mother would disagree with you! She likely has all the press clippings!

I agree with many of the posts in that picking at 30, way too many variables to have "their guy" Even with the Josh Allen pick, likely they had maybe 3 "guys" picked out, Mayfield, Allen, Darnold, maybe even Rosen and felt confident that if they could trade up to the top 5 or 6, one of those would be available as the were really only 2 or 3 teams in the top 8 that really wanted/needed a QB; Cleveland, Giants, and Jets. And the Giants weren't taking a QB. Barring a bunch of trades, the odds were in their favor and not many teams had the draft capital the Bills had that year to as easily move up. In hindsight, the one wild card there was Indy, they didn't need a QB, they were all set with Andrew Luck for years to come. Little did they know one year later he'd be done. I'm sure if they had known, the 2018 draft would have been much different.

Well they may be looking to sign another half dozen "Brandon Powell" types. But may lose out on the bidding war for the Sean Davis's of the world!

1. If I were a player, would completely agree about no concern over safety. But I'm not, I'm a fan and as some have stated, it's an extra week of football 2. In 1977 people would have stated the same thing, except that time it would only have made 18 years of statistics meaningless as in 1960 they went from 12 to 14 games. I read between 1926 and 1946 they played from eleven to fourteen games so at some point also an odd number. 3. Not true, there 's at least three posts on this thread in favor so to say no evidence just isn't true. Actually you may have been the only person on this thread that is actually against it. You said some polls showed fans were against, I'd take that to mean some polls showed fans were in favor?? 4. Can you give some examples of what the league could do to increase revenue to the level adding an extra week of games could do? The only thing I could think of would be to add an extra bye week so they play 16 games over 18 weeks, but when the league tried to add an extra bye week, they players only would agree if they were paid for the bye week. So how much are the players really against it? 5. Eventually they will go to 18 games so that will solve this concern. As stated above apparently at some point the league played 11 games. I do agree playing different number of home and road games is kind of strange, but guess every other year will balance out. I can recall for a few years in the late 1960's the AFL had a league of nine teams. Actually also happened more recently in the NFL from 1999 to 2002. To me an odd number of teams is even worse. 6. Because to many people an extra week of football is improving the league. OK you don't like the idea, but many will and view this as an improvement adding an extra week of games. I'm sure many people thought going from 12 t o14 and 14 to 16 games was also no good. Safety is a valid concern, but not sure how much adding one extra week changes things. I don't recall seeing a huge spike in injuries per team the during the first week of the playoffs which would be the equivalent of a 17th game

Was listening to NFL radio the other day and they tended to agree with you, though think the Bills will offer 5 years at $40 mil, but Allan will only want 4 years.

Appears to me he's way overplayed his value to teams. Not only have the Bills let him go, but no other teams appear to be knocking down the doors after him. Sounded a little bit like the Bills wanted him to sign a longer term contract, but maybe he only wanted one year in hopes of cashing in big next year when cap goes up? Do wonder if part of the reason the Bills weren't completely sold on him was the issues with holding and how many times laces were in wrong direction.

They didn't get that schedule. That schedule was predetermined a long time ago. Whomever finished in 2nd place in the NFL South got that schedule which just happened to be Tampa. Having an 11-5 record makes it easier for their SOS to be at the top as most teams they are playing have a worse record. Even the division winner Saints only had one more win than they did. And they get to play the NFC East which also helps and by finishing in 2nd avoid playing Green Bay. Instead they get to play the Bears who had one of the worse 2nd place records in all the divisions, only one worse was Giants who BTW they also get to play.

Actually 4 out of 6. Would be hard for it to be 5 since only 4 teams in AFC East!! LOL Not all that shocked to see all the AFC teams at the top as we all are playing pretty much the same schedule. NFC South, No without Brees shouldn't be that hard along with Atlanta and Carolina, only tough one is Tampa. Similar with AFC South, Houston and Jax are a mess, Tenn and Indy both looking good, though Indy a big question mark with Wentz. Kind of lucked out too in playing Pitt who won AFC north as feel both Cleveland and Baltimore are the better teams. SOS does always make me chuckle some as teams with good records are always going to be near the top and those with bad records near the bottom. For that reason does surprise me some to see Atlanta near the top, but see NFC South does get to play NFC East plus our division, plus two 4th place finishers.

Any team can pluck him away from the Bills at roster cutdown day. Just once he's placed on practice squad, he belongs to Bills for the year. Last two seasons, no other teams grabbed him, and they will have a 3rd shot at him come early September. It's also possible the Bills will feel the same way as you do and just cut him, that will help his career alot! Man did you walk into this one!! LOL Even the guy we signed still spent one or two years on PS. Likely yes you're right 95% won't make it, but without program teams likely wouldn't save a normal PS place for them either. So it does benefit a small few and is good marketing too.

Yeah Dean is the only guy left of Bills FA that either hasn't signed back with Buffalo or gone elsewhere. Bringing this guy in may be a move to tell Dean this is our offer, take or we're moving on.

I just made a similar post in another thread. There's still very little idea how many people will be in the stands this year, will they get revenue from pre-season game so can't see a huge predicted hike. Like this year, may be higher than projected, but not crazy high either.

I wonder if they tried to take an extra $1 mil off the base and add to signing bonus. Would have added an extra half mil in 2022 to dead cap, but may have been worth it for this year. Could be teams have been told still too much uncertainty where things will end up for the 2022 cap number as no idea if there will be fans in stands all season and how many and will there be pre-season games too

The other guy who I wouldn't completely rule out as a return guy is Wade, kind of a wild card. Don't know if there's some equivalent experience in Rugby that Wade is used to seeing 11 guys charging down on him while he tries to catch an oblong shaped rotating object? If so that could be his role. Maybe the past two seasons, that's all he's been doing during practice, fielding kicks? Now admittedly I just blew up my entire argument about having an extra roster slot for Breida as now using a slot up for Wade.

IMO the Bills are in a different situation this year than prior years in that the team is trying to win now in 2021, so need to not do anything to weaken 2021 roster. The Bills have 8 D-lineman that contributed to the 2020 teams success, plus now add Star back in plus the new guy Obada. Drafting Addision's replacement now adds 11, no way they carry 11 D-lineman on their 53 so that means cutting someone to make room for the rookie, the likely names would be Johnson or Zimmer who also BTW are still on cheap contracts too. I have a hard time seeing a rookie and maybe a lower drafted rookie at that coming in and being better than guys with 2 + years NFL experience and already experienced in this defense in 2021. Would the rookie potentially help the team more in around 2023, sure, but they are in a win now mode. As far as Addison's replacement, they may have just signed him in Obada if he is as good as many here think. Just like Daryl Williams this year, they could sign him to an extension prior to next year start of free agency. And likely if he doesn't pan out, then they look to sign the top FA edge rusher next year as likely have money then. Maybe they even do both. If you want to pick a D-lineman with a late pick, 5th round or lower could chance placing him on the PS, but not if drafted any higher. To me you want to slot your draft picks in positions where they can add to improvement of the roster in 2021 without immediate weakening the roster by cutting someone, to me that would be: #2 CB, depth at CB, O-line(Backups only play due to injury, and maybe LB. So agree with OP in that can't see all 7 picks making the roster, but would also like to keep three picks in first three rounds. I'd more go for something like trade 1st and 2nd round picks to move up to around 21st in 1st round, but also get around a 21st pick in 3rd round so we'd now have a higher 1st and 2 later round 3rds. Then would try and take my two 5th, plus one of 3rds to move up higher in 3rd round to around 20th. Draft point chart validates I'm not in the weeds with value of picks. Overall then picking 21st in round one and 20th and 21st in round three, plus still have 6th and 7th rounder. Those are safe picks to dump to PS with little worry. If I were Beane I'd try and make a couple moves for that.

Think one of the issues is roster slots on game day. If McKenzie is going to be the return guy, that potentially frees up an extra roster spot that they could keep three RB's active on Sundays. Similar this new TE they signed, sounds like he provides everything Gilliam, Smith, and Kroft gave the Bills, so that also could free up one more slot on Sundays. Again was about roster slots on Sundays, wasn't an easy way to may three slots for RB's available without McD feeling they were short changing another position.

When I look at the list of Bills FA on March 17th plus those who were released, he only name left that I hope still signs here is Dean Marlowe. The rest have either been replaced or the person gone was nothing that can't easily be replaced based on 2020 level of play. i.e. Josh Norman types. That is pretty impressive on Beane's part!

OK so there is a connection! Forgot about him. LOL

Read an article last year about who was the other team that changed names fairly recently, but article talked about how it took them close to two years to decide on new name. There was much to study and then things like gear being lined up both for players and sale, etc.

So if he's only been in league 4 years, was he even in Carolina yet when McD and Beane left? Not that facts would changes the jokes and comments about it here.

Yeah so as long as Pegula has $6 mil in his pocket, he can sign everyone (and if he doesn't he'll just drill another well), but from a cap standpoint, will only impact the cap by less than $2mil.

I read a week or so ago, with the Bills drafting lower and no 4th round pick, likely will only need about $1.5 mil to sign draft picks as likely anyone drafted after the 3rd round won't count against the top 51.