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But you can read the tea leaves and learn that he's going to Pittsburgh:

You know this board will melt down when Elam gets an INT in Dallas.

The gift that keeps on giving

Fifth for Elam and a 6th.

I think they're doing something bigger than that, like trading for Aiyuk.

Good shout. I'm surprised that Cole Beasley never played for the Pats. But in all seriousness, Kupp could play the role that Beasley played in Josh's development for Maye.

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.