[Greg Cosell - “I don’t think they have a number 1 WR”]

I’d sign a guy like Mike Williams to a 1 year deal and draft a WR in the early rounds.  

[Playoff defense not just bad, next level awful]

We need a more violent downhill defense.  Those are the defenses that perform in the playoffs.  Players are banged up and the film is out there after 18 or 19 games.  Undersized defenses that rely on confusing guys like Mahomes or even Burrow don’t hold up.  

[Ravens/Chiefs Game Thread (Keep the Bills stuff out of here, please)]

McDuffie is a fantastic Corner.  Chiefs leap-frogging us and then Bills ending up with Elam really unfortunate.  At least McBeane knocked it out of the park with the remaining picks.  

[How do you explain Diggs invisibility act]

Occam’s Razor.  Everybody’s trying to win.  Diggs putting up big numbers at beginning of season wasn’t accomplishing that.  We won more games spreading it around and running it more.  Im sure Diggs wasn’t thrilled being less of a focal point but the Bills were winning and salvaging the season.  Diggs isn’t as good when he’s not used as much and 30 year old WR’s do tend to drop off.  

[Ryan O'Halloran - Bills should go Defense Heavy in draft]

1 minute ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Only disagreement is on that early WR pick. I think most on this board understand, and are even in favor, of a very heavy defensive draft given our needs on that side of the ball.

 

I also agree with going Safety->DT->DE. Heck, I'd say Safety->DT->DE->Safety->DB->DT

Yep. Draft a WR in the 1st round, then go defense the next 3 picks.  

[How do you explain Diggs invisibility act]

Just now, SectionC3 said:

Depression. 

I actually think this could be true and will not make light of it.  He displays a lot of behavior that points to that. 

[Bills Cap Breakdown by Greg Tompsett]

I’m not restructuring Diggs.  I’m fine with him staying but if there’s a peep from him or any of his people this off-season or if he misses any voluntary workouts for anything other than a birth of a child or family emergency, I want him gone.

 

I’m bringing Poyer back.  He’s not that expensive and showed he’s got something left. 

 

Knox takes a pay cut or is gone.  That contract was horrible the minute he signed it and has gotten worse.  He’d be lucky to get $5m per year right now if released and with Kincaid he’s probably worth less than $5m per year to the Bills. 

 

No way I’m releasing Morse or Bates. Keep the O Line intact.

 

And I’m not restructuring Milano.  He’s 30 years old coming off a 2nd major injury.  

 

And I’m not paying Von a penny more than his guarantees that have already kicked in.  If he doesn’t take a $6m paycut on the money that becomes guaranteed this March, I cut him and split the dead cap over next 2 years.  

[Partial Safety solution]

With Taron at 190lbs on the field for almost 100% of the defensive snaps next to 2 linebackers who are on the smaller side, we need more size at safety to replace Micah.  I’d bring Rapp back who was greatly improved by end of season and I’d also sign a guy like Jeremy Chinn who’s a bigger safety.  Then I’d bring in an upper tier 1 tech like DJ Reader.  Joseph was good for a couple weeks but had no tread left on the tires.  I’m also tired of light in the ass Defensive Ends.  They wear down by the end of the year.  

[O’Cyrus Torrence makes NFL All Rookie Team]

Beane’s last 2 draft classes were phenomenal, even with Elam 

[Your Dream Offseason?]

Mike Evans someway somehow 

 

QB Josh, whoever Josh wants;

RB Cook, Ty Johnson, 7th rounder, cheap vet;

FB cheap vet;

TE Kincaid, Knox, Morris

WR Evans, Shakir, 1st round WR, Shorter, cheap vet

OL everybody back plus late draft pick 

 

DL Rousseau, Oliver, Reader, Von, Gross Matos, 2nd rounder, 4th rounder, vet depth, vet depth;

LB Bernard, Milano, Williams, Spector, Dodson if he’s cheap;

CB Douglass, Benford, Elam, 6th rounder;

nickel Taron, Chinn;

Safety Poyer, Chinn, 3rd rounder, Rapp if he’s cheap 

 

kicker Bass and 6th rounder

punter 5th rounder 

[Gabe plans to test free agency]

I hope he gets paid in free agency.  He deserves it.  Just hope it’s not here.  He’s not an electric athlete for a WR and has suspect hands.  Small catch radius for a guy who doesn’t separate isn’t a good combo.  

[Whats the actual plan.... on Defense]

we need to get bigger and more aggressive on D.  Mcdermott’s defenses get consistently get bullied in the playoffs.  Brady brought that change to the offense.  Now we need it on the defense.  I absolutely loved the physicality Dorian Williams played with on Sunday but he was one of the only ones.  Milano and Taron are great players.  Poyer and Hyde were great too, but all of them are undersized.  We have too many light in the ass players on the defensive side of the ball and it catches up to us in january.  

[Stefon Diggs Trade Proposal (Hypothetical)]

1 minute ago, SCBills said:

 

The "this close" hand gesture to Allen on that bomb was such a clown move.

 

That's a "pat your chest , my bad" gesture.  

Yep.  Josh is a bigger man than me.  He should’ve showed Diggs up like Diggs did to Josh in Cincy game.  

[Stefon Diggs Trade Proposal (Hypothetical)]

Nobody is trading for diggs at that contract and Bills would have to take the full $31m dead cap this year.  Only choices are keeping him or cut him and spread his dead money over 2024 and 2025. 

[McDermott - Excuses, Valid but concerning]

Mcdermott saved his job the last 2 months. Ask Sirianni how his switch in coordinators went?  I wanted Mcdermott gone after the denver game but he showed me a lot since then.  This season was by far his best coaching job and deserves another year.  

[What are we talking about here?]

7 hours ago, Dr.Sack said:

 

 

The Bills don’t have to do all of these moves. 

 

Restructure (savings)

Allen - $23.1m 

Diggs - $13.1m 

Knox - $6.0m 
Oliver - $3.5m 

McGovern - $3.2m 

Milano - $2.4m 

Total - $51.3m

 

Release 

White - $6.2m saved 
Poyer - $5.5m saved 

Morse - $5.4m saved 
Hines - $5.0m saved 

Harty - $4.1m saved

Neal - $2.9m saved

Bates - $1.4m saved 

Martin - $1.25m saved 

Total $31.75m

 

 

Extension / Restructure

Dawkins - 2 year - $7.1m 

Douglas - 2 year - $5.9m 

T. Johnson - 3 year - $4.8m 

Total - $17.8m

 

Total savings: $100.85m

All of those are easy decisions except a couple. I’m not tying myself to Diggs longer than his current contract.  I’d bring poyer back at reduced role and money.  Knox will take a paycut to stay here. I’m not making any cuts to the O Line. So $70m of that $100m is easy decisions.  Diggs and Miller potentially free up cap space in 2024 if you push dead money to 2025.  We are in drastically better shape heading into the off-season than it looked like 2 months ago.  

[The offseason]

Not sure why this off-season will be tough. We went 6-1 down the stretch with a group where only Hyde, epenesa, floyd, and jones are free agents.  Young players stepped up all over the roster.  We are probably in better shape than every other contender who doesn’t have a QB on a rookie deal.   

[What are we talking about here?]

Knox will take a pay cut.  No other team is paying knox more than $5m per year and he loves it here.  

[What are we talking about here?]

I feel way better going into this off-season than last season. Lots of young players stepped up.  Will be much easier moving on from the older players.  

[It may not be fair to Brady but we need to expand our search for offensive coordinator]

we scored 24 points against one of the top defenses, controlled the clock, and our WR’s dropped 3 passes that wouldve have all went for at least 40 yards.  And our kicker missed a 44 yarder to tie it. And we went 6-0 to finish the season with a mash unit on defense before yesterdays loss.  If we don’t offer brady the OC position immediately, mcbeane needs their heads examined. 

[As we start Bills offseason- two things will bring me happiness these dark days]

Round 1 WR, Round 2 DE, Round 3 safety.  Sign Jeremy Chinn, DJ Reader and mid level Defensive end in free agency.  If Diggs or any of his people open their mouths this off-season, cut him and bring in Hopkins to replace him.  I think Miller has a Floyd 2023 season left in him.  rousseau, miller, oliver, reader, mid priced DE, round 2 draft pick DE, round 5 one tech on D line.  Linebacker is set.  CB is set.  Hyde, Chinn and round 3 draft pick at safety.  O Line is set. TE set.  RB set, QB set, Diggs/Shakir/Round 1 WR.  

[Gabe Davis was missed]

21 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

A number two caliber wide receiver was missed

A number one too

[Tyler Bass Contract]

$9m split over 2 years isn’t un-cuttable.  That’s like 1.5% of the cap.  McBeane will bring in competition and he’ll be cut if he continues to inspire zero confidence.  

[[per Simon] Should we sign Winfield, jr to make our team better.]

He a great player, but there’s plenty of good free agent safeties that would be upgrade over Hyde that won’t cost what Winfield will cost.  I’d bring back Poyer.  Sign a decent free agent like jeremy Chinn and draft a safety in round 3.  

[Anyone else more low-key about this loss than you thought you'd be?]

I think it’s different because we actually played and coached well and lost to a better team.  Plus we completely turned the season around 2 months ago and have a lot to build on going into off-season when it looked like everything was gonna have to be blown up at 6-6.