ndirish1978

There were really only 2 players moved yesterday that will make a big difference on the teams they were traded to and they both were traded away by the Jets, who were never going to trade with us anyway. Nonetheless, I think there is valid frustration seeing us overpay mid-level talent in FA who don't perform (which puts us in a bad cap situation), whiffing on higher rd draft picks and seemingly never making any significant trades to try and push our chips in to the middle of the table and go all in for any given season. Why is Curtis Samuel our 7th highest paid player? Why has Landon Jackson so crappy he has not been able to even make the active roster? The results are exactly what you would expect year after year, 2nd or 3rd rd exits and no SB appearances. At some point in time you have to do something different to try and win and we are not doing that.

I didn't particularly care about signing a WR, but I am surprised we did not do something on the DL. We have like 2 healthy DTs. That's pretty disappointing.

Comp is a 4th and a 5th

I like BTJ but he hasn't been great this year, would be learning our system on the fly and would not be cheap. I don't get the logic where he's good enough to trade for hoping he can adapt quickly, but bad enough that the Jags would trade him. I feel like I'm missing something here? They are 5-3 and trying to improve by trading for WRs while Hunter is out, I just don't get how a trade helps them?

I am confused. I thought we kept subpar punters on the team because we didn't want to disrupt the kicking operation for several years. Now it doesn't matter?

He did pretty well for a 6th rd rookie. If he had gotten cooked like Elam last year you would have remembered hearing his name often. I found his play encouraging, not amazing but that's a pretty difficult situation for your first start.

Not endorsing these sites, but this is an incredibly naive argument and there is not even a remote correlation between a physical object produced and sold vs an event you're paying to watch. Target items are fungible and limited in stock, comparing a streaming package price to bottles of Gold Bond in storage. To make this comparison even remotely applicable you would need to restrict the amount of streaming bundles you are selling. Do you think they would charge less if they had more subscribers? Netflix had ALL the subscribers and keeps raising their price and you are now paying a monthly fee on lower tier plans for the privilege of watching ads. If the NFL could charge you $1,000 to watch their product and get away with it they would and they would still make you watch all their advertising to boot. If you disagree, please show me a PPV sporting event that lowers what they charge based on the numbers sold. You're never going to hear "hey this event is $60, but for every 100,000 buys over a million we will reduce the cost by 5%" I pay for all of my content, but don't make me or yourself out to be victims of people who pick up a stream, that's ridiculous.

Would I do this trade? Yes. Per Greg Tompsett we would have to trade Curtis Samuel and AJ Epenesa plus restructure Dion Dawkins and Dawson Knox, then we would have to pay him around 42M a year. I just don't know that Beane would be willing to put us in that position financially. I would like to make this trade but we're not flush with the cap space to do it.

Probably true, but you should take into account that the organization is pure chaos and at the mercy of its insane owner. I suspect to someone whose favorite hobby is chess, he is uncomfortable with the lack of actual predictable structure.

Dan Mitchell has zero inside knowledge and not particularly high ball knowledge, he just desperately wants to get famous as a Bills "insider." Unfortunately for him and fortunately for us we have Cover One and Joe Marino, who do have a ton of ball knowledge. I could care less about the insider thing. I watched 2 Dan Mitchell things on youtube and promptly hit "do not recommend this channel."

The producer is a Bills fan. The series doesn't appear to be any good but I don't think any shade was meant.

Last week the conversation was "if Bosa has a monster year we're not going to be able to re-sign him cause he's going to get a monster contract so I'm glad we drafted Landon Jackson too" and now it's "yeah pretty sure his career is over." Gotta respect the immediate woe.

Joey Bosa is made of Papier-mâché. I dunno why this guy can't stay healthy but it's probably a good thing that we only gave him a 1 year contract. On the positive side, drafting Landon Jackson and signing Hoecht helps me not feel too bad about this. Landon can spend the first 6 weeks developing as much as possible and we get Hoecht back after week 6 so hopefully Bosa is able to contribute for us when we need him to, but this tempers my expectation for him a bit.

I have a feeling he's considering retirement. Have seen several podcasts where people have kind of eluded to "knowing something from sources" but obviously don't feel it's appropriate to put that out there. I could of course be reading into that too much, but the context of the statements indicated he seemed like he was leaning towards not playing anymore.