Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

So the Bills resigned Jones, AJE, and Lewis. Of the remaining Bills FA,the ones I'd still like the team to resign are Neal, Jackson, and Johnson. I'd add a maybe to Lawson.

In the case of someone like Allen, if his contract is paying him $56 mil next season, likely higher in 2026, would it be a bargain or at worst a wash for the Bills to just keep tagging him at least for a couple years.

Not really. First off you're leaving out Kincaid, he had 73 receptions this year. If he does that again in 2024, he'd be viewed as one of the top 5 or so TE's in the league. This past season he was ranked 7th. That's like having another WR out here. Knox as the #2 TE is also better than most teams can roll out and cook isn't bad either. I read an article a couple weeks back was talking about Shakir and what he could do next season. While it wasn't implying he was as good as Beasley, the article made the point that just like about 4 years ago, the top two Bills WR were Brown and Beasley out of the slot. Point being the 2nd best WR on the team could be the slot guy. Bill's used to have a guy Andre something that was pretty good out of the slot! There wasn't a great TE on the team either 4 years ago when Beasley was at his best. There's only one ball to go around. Say the Bills signed T Higgins who's averaged around 70 receptions a full season. He may have 70 catches for the Bills too, but doesn't mean as as team they'll be 70 more reception. Most likely means the reception totals for others will go down. Maybe it's not a coincidence that Diggs numbers dropped around the same time that Kincaid and Shakir came on strong. Draft a WR high and bring in a mid tier guy and there's enough guys to go around to catch all the passes Allen throws.

I doubt you'll hear much about the ones who were asked to take a cut, but rejected it.

T Johnson Unless I missed it

I'll also go with safety, but who knows which one?

Joe B in the Athletic did one the other day too. Had the Bills extending and resigning some of same players specifically Jones and Lewis. Had a fairly long list of FA signings too, though not sure of much overlap. A couple names I do recall, instead of resigning D Jackson, had them bringing back Levi Wallace at CB and for RB had them signing AJ Dillon, safety had them signing Geno Stone and Maurice Hurst for DT to name a few of his highlights.

If this happened in Buffalo fans would just chop it off during halftime and be back in their seats in time for 3rd quarter KO. Recall as recently as the 90's they used to start the season Labor Day weekend, so they could start earlier too if they wanted.

OK read that wrong, thought 2024 was his last year.

You hear/read posts all the time and comments themselves from the Bills, the team needs to draft and develop players to stay out of salary cap problems. But yet you're ready to give up on Shorter who was just drafted last year in 5th round. Signing, drafting, and spending money on players that don't have a clear spot to make the roster is a waste and will keep you in cap trouble all the time. If Shorter is not on the team this year, that would be a big failure by the Bills in that they totally wasted a draft pick without ever giving him a chance to see what he can and can't do. But I have faith in the team that they are smart enough to not do something that stupid and he will be on the roster this year. Likely the Bills have room for 2 WR unless they want to waste more money. Just glad you're not the GM, or maybe you're actually Russ Brandon posting with a new name as this sounds like something he'd have done!

Love to hear how you came up with these numbers other than wishful thinking? TE none, yet they carried 3 all season and now only have two plus one ERFA At WR they have 4 signed, Shakir, Diggs, Shorter, and Sherfield 5 if you count Isabella and all they ever carried was 5. But yet you state they need 3 to 4 more!! 2 at RB is about right, will give you that one. In college yes, but need to look at how that will translate to NFL where everyone he faces compares to the maybe handful of players he'd face every week that were that good.

.....but you resigned yourself not to??

When do you plan to change the title to: Anyone like me wanting Beane to hurry up slow down?

So couldn't the Bills wait till June 1st to sign all the rookies and that would allow them to use the $10mil saving from White to pay them with?

Wentz?? Lost me on that one. And even the others are debatable to some level. Maybe Minshew I'd agree with, but how much did he want? Many of these guys are only interested in going to openings where they have a chance to be the starter. Giants was a great place for TT as their starting QB often got hurt and was debatable if he even should be a stater. So good chance at some point over 17 games, Jones would get benched at some point if not hurt. In Buffalo you know Allen is the starter as long as healthy, end of debate. On top of that as big as he is, he's not likely to get hurt as much as say a guy like Lamar or Tua

How many backup QB's is that not true of?

Well guess we were both right. They didn't kic the can down, but didn't pay the $11 mil either.

Stop trying to milk this!

Wasn't he the interim QB coach once Brady became OC? Have they named a new QB coach?

so if not paying for these things it in turn lowers the amount over the cap?

I'm sure he wanted nothing more than to come back to Buffalo, the team that cut him even though he was innocent. Good point!!

If they had cut him now would the cap hit have been the full $10 mil this year? But they do get to take the full $10M saving this year?

I'll be surprised if that happens considering the overall cap position they are in. My bet is an extension with void years. Initially I thought they may cut Morse and give the job to Bates, but that's not happening now. We shall see!

OK so we're not getting a 3rd because we lost a 1st rounder in Edmunds, it's completely because of the contract he signed with Bears?

So you're going to pay him $11 mil this year? When exactly did he have his last concussion? Believe he's been 2 seasons without one.