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I predict Dallas.

MVS to the Seahawks Gainwell to Pittsburgh (Both per ESPN's free agent tracker)

I think in this case and with Ogunjobi, Beane and the coaching staff found guys that were underperforming due to poor scheme fits and used that to get good value.

When the heck did all this get so complicated? Back in the 80's, you had Nose Tackles, Defensive Ends and Linebackers. Now you got 1Ts and 3Ts and guys that are LBs but are actually more like DEs.

If you squint hard enough, you can see Ronnie Lott.

It might be a bit more than you anticipate because when I googled him I found a bunch of reports that had him practically already in a Dolphins jersey. We might have swooped in and outbid them twice in one night.

That was a fun and instructive read. Remember back in 2023 when this place was convinced that our biggest weaknesses were RT and MLB? Sometimes OBD knows more about players than TBD. I know, hard to believe.

It's every comic who once did a week-long residency at Grosinger's or Kutscher's in the Borscht Belt racing across the country in a madcap adventure. What's not to like? And oh yeah. I like the Johnson signing, but he is the type of player that if we had signed from another team would get a lot of sarcastic "SuperBowl" and "who?" posts here.

By all accounts they were over the cap before they did that.

It just seemed like a dumb discussion to me and I should have responded to them and not you. In my defense, I have been erasing ad-hominem attacks from my responses all day and this probably got lost in that process. The amount of posters who don't grasp the basics of the salary cap drives me bonkers. Just to be clear, the Bills should sign Cook. He is the best non-QB weapon on this team since Diggs and he should be paid. But Bosa's deal has nothing to do with that because it's a 2025 cap hit and Cook's extension would be 2026+ cap hit.

I shouldn't have included Elam. I have been arguing for years that Beane has been more unlucky in the the draft than bad. he takes guys about where they are projected. The only reach was Boogie Basham. Even Cody Ford was picked about where he was supposed to be picked. Elam wasn't a reach, he's just an unlucky bust. He should get that. But I don't care about Pegula cash. I only care about cap hits.

You can structure the deal so that he can brag about 13 million but the cap hits are actually 10 million. That's what will happen.

They probably will. Give it a week.

It's always BPA within a frame. What you don't want is a glaring need that results in a panic reach. That's how you get EJ Manuel and Kair Elam.

How does this have anything to do with Cook at all? Anything signed with him would be an extension that wouldn't take effect until the 2026 cap. Bosa's hit will be gone by then.

Quietly staying the same.

Cook is under contract for next year already, and I think that Beane will extend him after FA is done. An extension doesn't affect the cap until the rookie deal is over, so you can do this so his cap hits don't occur until after Bosa is gone from the books. This has no impact on that.

Just to be clear, I can be a fan of this deal and not think that it solves the problem all on its own. For one, I think that the DL was going to be better anyway because Soloman and Carter will be better in their second years. I know we can't count on that, but players usually take a step in their second year. As for Bosa, it's a risk for 2025 so I get the trepidation, but it is no risk long-term. The only thing that this could cost us is 12.6 million dollars of Pegula's cash. He loses that between breakfast and lunch due to fluctuations in the stock market. I'm sorry, but I don't worry about the bank balance of guys who pay for yachts with cash. With no dead cap into future years, there is literally no long term risk and thus worth the swing. I would be right there with @BullBuchanan if there was a second year on this deal.

Von was an animal before the injury. This is my favorite play (click through, it's worth it):

It could work, but it will most likely be like OBJ in Baltimore. There will be a few splashy highlights that will make Bills' fans angry, but overall he will get little production. He'll get a flashy 350 yards. But what will chap our collective 🍑 the most is any production that Amari Cooper has wherever he ends up. Well that and anything Diggs does.

We probably offered Sweat the same money as Arizona, but he chose to take their offer. There are any number of reasons he made that choice. He already has his rings, so he wants to play in warm weather for a coach he knows. You can't make players take offers or make other GMs make trades, but fans here act like Beane just isn't trying hard enough.

You know, the process probably went something like this. Beane identified pass rusher as a premium need Called about Garrett and Crosby and got shot down. Tried to make a play for Sweat, but Josh chose to play for his old DC in Arizona for similar money. Called about Hendrickson, but Duke Tobin demanded 2 firsts and Hendrickson wanted Garrett money Tried to get Floyd back, but Floyd chose to go home to GA. Threw an extra 2 million guaranteed for one year at Bosa as a low risk, high reward solution. It was option F, but that's how FA works. Guys get to go where they want and you can't force them even with money to take your deal.

You have to think that we really had to sweeten the deal to outbid Miami. He's from Ft. Lauderdale.

He signed in Atlanta 5 minutes after being released.

And his cousin is Jake Kumerow if that means anything to anybody.