Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

OK, Monday is the first day of spring. I'll be waiting for an email!! Is the delay actually You Tube or just due to internet streaming lag within each users one home? Wonder if this will be like when HD TV first came out. Think it was on DTV, was an extra monthly $10 cost, but eventually once it became mainstream, the extra fee was dropped. The biggest reason I have You Tube over any type of cable package is I own two houses, so allows me to pay for one service and use it in two locations.

More insight into Miller's time at the combine. For those questioning the motives it was originally suggested by Beane he come to the combine. Article also touches on him doing this and issues with tampering, though think it would more be a case of anyone from other teams talking to Miller would be the teams in trouble, not the Bills. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/von-miller-brandon-beane-general-manager/article_48c931bc-c4dd-11ed-a6fe-83ca5e31b5f5.html?utm_source=buffalonews.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Flocal%2Fbills&utm_medium=PostUp&lctg=4092700&tn_email_eh1=f2f6da65fd0a372cbbfa3da63dae5ef3bd72e8f6

You won't get a good return on any trade with him, but wouldn't say no one would be interested. A team with a lot of money to spare may take a gamble on him. Yes he's a FA next season, but whomever he plays for in 2023 does have the inside track on signing him to a new contact as a last resort could tag him. Also that team can sign him prior to next March. Will he get traded not likely, but if the Bills were desperate to offload the salary, I'm sure they could find a taker at a low return on value.

Likely the only teams that would be interested in Oliver would be a team in a rebuild mode and has the money to take a chance on him. If he has a good year he could be the centerpiece of the D line and sign him to a new contract. If he doesn't work out and plays better, they let him go. BUT likely going to get a poor return for him as teams are taking on over paid contract. Or maybe a contending team that has a big hole at DT. Could have a better chance on getting a better return by waiting till August and maybe a contender loses their DT for season to injury. Kind of like how we signed Star 5 years ago. He was a FA so didn't give up anything, but took a chance on him being the seasoned vet to build around. It didn't work out too well as good mediocre return, though do think he provided more value than stat sheet showed.

So does this mean he signed the tender or the team worked out a more long term deal?

And why would you when you also have a top 5 QB. Tenn and Indy run a lot because they can't pass well. Even the Giants this past year which helped make Jones look better at QB. We're the opposite, our QB can make a RB look better.

Yes it was a joke, but I suppose in todays day and age, it very likely could be true. On a serious question, does Poyer have to wait until 4:00 today to sign with Bills or since he was with team last season, can he sign prior? Or is this also just another "legal tampering" deal?

I drive a Subaru, why you insulting me like this!

There's a go fund me page being started for this!

You don't think he would sign say a 3 year year maybe around a $10 mil contract, this year $1 mil salary and $3 mil bonus, 2024 $2.5 mil, 2025 $3.5 mil, $5 mil total guaranteed? Bills would still have easy out in 2025 for $1mil

Tender is only for year, can they turn around and now offer him a 2 or 3 year deal at lower number for 2023? Or are you not allowed to do that with tendered players?

don't worry, they'll resign him. They are just waiting for the right time.

The people actually working for NFL teams seem to disagree. The one player on the Bills I'd agree on is in keeping Taiwan Jones. He is the one player I'd agree is a waste of roster spot. Rest of them have no problem with including Kumarow.

Agree could be not doing it till needed, but also makes you wonder if they are concerned with pushing money down the road. You won't do that unless certain player will be here. Likely nothing going on, but does make you wonder a little

Actually the Bengals spent more money and 49er's almost as much as the Bills. So actually it's more a case of those teams making bad player or coaching choices as the money hasn't helped them. KC certainly has spent very little, but now down to only two outliers so have to question if more to the story with them. There's also many teams with bad records AND bad ST rankings so that would just as easily say it's a good investment; NO, Indy, Tenn, Denver,

Interesting stats. I do think ST is more important than many think and this also show the Bills are devoting around the same amount of resources as other teams. Everyone keeps bringing up keeping Kumerow over Hodgins, but also stated many times Hodgins didn't play ST so even if he were kept, likely he'd have not been activated on Sunday anyway. While Kumerow played a big role on ST, he also on rare occasions was used as a WR when called upon. From that standpoint, the one guy on the Bills I'd like to see them not bring back as T Jones as he's never used for anything but ST

Kind of interesting that no Diggs restructure and this tweet about un-following Bills?? Is there something going on here??

Will be interesting to see how he's replaced. Two things he provided that not many others had were size and speed and those are two things that can't be taught. But he never quite lived up to expectations either. Is interesting that many in the media appreciated him and talked him up much more than people here do. Either they are much smarter than the arm chair GM's here or were all blowing smoke and will quickly find out the Bears way over paid. Should be somewhat easier to replace him than when he arrived as overall more experience around the MLB position, but can they overcome the size as do think he shut down passing lanes more than realized. It always makes me nervous too whenever a player in the last year of his contract has a career year. He certainly isn't the first to do that, recall Shaq Lawson "saving the best for last", couple years later he's back, but walking with a limp from having such a fat wallet.

One of the articles I read also listed him as a strong possibility to come here

Ask and ye shall receive... Sometimes

Could include some not likely to achieve incentives??

Interesting article in the Athletic on value of free agents. They looked at teams over the past 3 years, how much they spent and the return on value of those players. They admitted there wasn't a super scientific way to measure value so they graded them using a Pro Football Reference called Approximate Value (AV). The differences in amount of money spent across all teams varies wildly. Basically the Jet's Fish, and Jax were all in the top six on $$ spent, but in the bottom 4 in value returned. Bills were kind of in the middle of the pack in $$ spent and value returned. I know Green Bay hasn't spent much on free agents, but their total is crazy low compared to rest of league. Because their total spent was so low, it actually gave them the best return on value, but may be a bit skewed due to spending such a low amount of money. Two teams that didn't spent too much, but got a good return and have been fairly good teams were Cowboys and 49ers https://theathletic.com/4299883/2023/03/13/nfl-free-agency-value-rankings/

But they have to report it to avoid losing draft picks

Recall reading that one of the issues they had was right after they traded for Hines, Allan got hurt, then the blizzard. So left few if any practices for Allen to work with Hines to get on same page. Seem to recall reading that by later Nov or so the two of them had only 3 or 4 practices together so was hard to be on same page.

Yeah nothing posted on this that Settle restructured his deal. Think your comment went over the heads of most here, but was subtle . Can't recall where I read it that deal was re-done, probably was on BN??