Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I think if they can trade Zay, yes can see him gone. If not he's on a cheap contract, so can see him sticking as a back up unless someone comes along unexpectedly and beats him out. Also doubt based on events of last 24 hours we draft a WR unless very low. But once contract is up, won't be resigned.

Nothing on Jared cook??

Or maybe he's a guy who wants to visit with team before committing to anything and can't do that till later today?

From the comments made, doubt it would be Beasley.

Yeah so that's why he signing all the FA this season as he has the money and needs short term solutions to needs as you mentioned draft takes a few years. Assuming things are successful and Beane is still around in another 3 years, likely see much less FA and more relying on the draft. An interesting comparison would be NE who constantly signs new players every year and Pitt who more relies on the draft, what their percentages are.

I don't agree with much of this at all! I think their strategy was and still is build thru the draft. But does take 2 to 3 years of drafts to re-build the roster, then add 1 to 2 years for the players to develop. What do you do in the mean time, sign FA to SHORT contracts to hold you over until you draft their eventual replacements. Maybe a few work out better than expected and become keepers in not can cut most in two seasons with low cap hit. Also think the Bills will either stay at 9 or trade down , not up.

Or are they going to announce today they have a trade in place for McCoy? Probably not, but you never know!

The other amazing thing is the Lions signed Amendola and Flowers. Imagine that an ex assistant coach signed some of his former players that he was familiar with. From everything I read here, I was certain the only team that did that was Buffalo!

This is crazy, the team hasn't posted it here so everyone will know exactly what's going on. I'm certain every other team in the league does that!

Hard to keep track of all the ex Bills QB's floating around!

Thought I recall seeing a thread here a few weeks back stating he was going to KC to be reunited with Sammy? Was that just false?

So why do you want Morse over the guy from Denver, Praddis or something like that?

OK, forgot he was already released! Duh!!

So how can Allen have 4 visits set up this week when teams aren't allowed to talk to perspective FA until the 11th?

While I agree counting on converting a WR to TE and then hoping he'll become your #1 TE is not good. But having a guy like Croom as your #2 or #3 TE is a nice thing to have as it can create match up issues.

Great, now we're hiring injury prone coaches!

That's a valid point, but as the expression goes, "an apples doesn't fall far from the tree" What if these others while great smart people in the business also had some skeletons in the closet too and thta's why they were let go. Maybe not anything as bad a Russ, but not completely squeaky clean either. Maybe in Kim's inexperience, felt they could easily be replaced where as someone else would have put up with some small issues at least until thinks were going smooth.

I'll give them somewhat of a pass as who knows what Russ Brandon had done with things over there. Now Kim has taken over and may have found things that just didn't look/feel/sound good to her

Recall a comment made by Mare Levy a long time ago in the early years of free agency. Think it's still true most of the time! He said: Free agency usually hurts the team the player leaves more than it helps the team the player goes to!

Crabtree releases?? I assumed this thread was about how fast his release off the LOS is. Or in the woods someplace a crabtree fell over? But know one heard it fall!

But you also need what I call a landing spot for the BPA otherwise it's a wasted pick. For example the Jets are drafting near the top, should they take another QB if he's the BPA to sit behind Darnold as opposed to say they take a WR or lineman to help Darnold. Or even make the defensive player to make that side stronger. The best approach is probably somewhere in the middle and realistically you'll never know as whomever any team in the league were to draft, they will tell you he was their BPA on their board. Granted you don't want to take a projected 4th rounder in the 1st round like many argue was the case with EJ, but you also don't want to be tied to one player either. BPA is fine as long as you have about 5 or 6 that fit that spot. Were the Pats really smart to wait to round 6 to draft Brady or just lucky. IMO lucky

Likely scenario is closer closer to Elijah, land one of the top two centers, also go after a good but not top level guard or RT, then use a high draft choice on one lineman who will start as a rookie. That leave you two FA signed lineman, Dawkins, a rookie and one undecided. That fifth spot and reserves could be a combination of Teller, or Sirius (SP) McDermott or there was another guy who was activated for a number of the late season games, plus maybe also a 4th round pick, and/or a mid to lower level FA signing. Other than the top level center, I'd try and limit the other FA OL contracts to less than 3 years as would use a high 2020 pick as his eventual replacement by like 2021 or so. Likely Beane is looking for one solid more long term answer, and a couple of stop gap players to hold down the fort until he can either draft or sign another long term FA in 2020 and 2021.

You could look at it as the Bills did get compensatory picks through trades. Not in any way complaining about this as felt it was the right move but when McD and Beane took over, they traded away most players that did have any value, thus getting picks that was. For example they could have kept Sammy one more season, (or would it have been 2?) then he walks via FA. They could of hung onto Darius and got picks. Likely that would have netted them a high pick. Instead they got picks via the trade. When a team constantly changes coaches every 3 to 4 years and is losing, it's hard to keep players around long enough to generate much value even when they leave.

Got to give him credit, at 79 to be able to go see a hooker! Likely anyone under 60 won't understand this!

The one thing I take out of it is, you can pretty easily sign a new young up and coming coach to come here, but to get an experienced vet wit ha winning reputation, it takes more to get them to come here. I'm sure Buffalo is not completely unique there either as other factors also come into play besides just location; ownership, willing to spend $$, neither of which were high marks with RW either.