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DanInUticaTampa

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    The Bills cap has been mismanaged for a long time. While I think this organization has been great in some areas this area has been pretty awful.

     

    Good teams identify key positions to invest their cap dollars. There are exceptions to this if you have a top 5 player at a lesser position, perhaps you pay him.

     

    Certainly up for debate but I'll take a stab at identifying which positions should be paid for and which shouldn't (1 pay, possibly pay, 3 dont pay):

     

    1. QB/LT/WR1

    2. RT/C/G/WR2/TE

    3. HB/FB/WR3

     

    1. Pass rushers/CB/DL

    2. none

    3. S/LB

     

    Some pretty questionable signings in the last few years under Whaley at positions where you need to find cheap alternatives:

    Graham - $6 mil for below average.

    AWill - $6 mil per for 1 good year. They lose Byrd (correct move letting him walk) and then overpay an unproven guy on a long term deal.

    McCoy - why did they give him a new deal? because he whined he wouldn't play? Retire then dude, you don't have a lot of options. We traded for a 2 year deal with no dead cap component. The new deal creates the potential for a bunch of dead cap. He's 29, the cliff isn't far off.
    The Pats paid the most to a RB in many years for Burkehead at a measily $3.15 mil. We've dumped countless 1st rounders and large contracts into the RB position. Mike G looked pretty good last year, maybe it's more about the line than the RB.
    Clay - $9 mil, top 8 salary at TE for a guy who had some potential but hadn't done much. Rex was so driven to screw the Dolphins he screwed the Bills instead.

    Felton - $3 mil for a fullback? The position is dying, lots of them out there. Grab one on the cheap.

    Easley - you can't pay a 6th WR special team player who's not a returner anything but the minimum.

     

    Glenn and Dareus deserve big contracts, but the cap numbers are crazy and growing by the year. 14 and 16 mil per. Dareus' off-field issues should have resulted in a significant discount.

    Gilmore's gone as a result of some of these bad signings. It seems there's a disconnect between the personnel dept. and the cap/finance dept.

    It's not fair to only point out the bad.

     

    Getting Tyrod to renogotiate when there was little reason to was a big win. But why did they set the contract up that way in the first place?

    Past deals to Hughes and Incognito both seem pretty reasonable

     

    The LoRax, Hyde, Groy, Holmes deals all seem pretty solid.

     

    But who's Poyer and what's he done to earn $2.5 mil?

    I'm interested to hear what others think the prime positions are and what are the best and worst signings the Bills have made.

     

     

    The only one of those that seems bad or a bust contract is the Clay one. All the other contracts have at least an argument as to why it was worth it. I don't think Gilmore was worth the contract the pats gave him. and Mccoy is special, and he is our star on offense. Patriots don't need to invest in the RB position because they have probably the best QB in history playing for them. I see nothing wrong with the contract we gave mccoy, he carries our offense and he has been worth every penny.

     

    Whaley's failures have been not getting a franchise QB and making a questionable trade up for sammy watkins. Overall I consider him an average GM. but he made some mistakes early on and it looks like this will be his last season barring a miracle of us getting into the playoffs

  2. Mara can F off. And so can the Bills if they come begging for public money for a stadium. I'll cough up my seasons and walk away. Enough already. This region is dying, despite what your local politicians tell you. We've waste $750M on a solar panel factory that promised more jobs when the money hung in the balance than it will actually deliver. We're one of the few regions losing tech jobs, the key to the economy. We have tooooooo many local governments duplicating services. Poverty is up, wages are stagnant for the vast majority, and yet we want to cough up millions to an owner and a league that prints money? Sorry Terry, sell the yacht and ADK retreat, and the extra houses. It's not my role to undertake debt to secure your profit.

    Love this post

  3. I don't get why so many guys are down about the lb corp starters. hopefully ragland turns out to be a stud but with him, p.brown, z. brown and lorax we have a solid core.

     

    we have a very good front 7 and even if we start seymour across from darby with hyde and poyer we can ...and i believe will, climb several spots on defense.

     

    i think mcdermott and the 4-3 is not gonna be a huge change in scheme and i believ he will get the best out of everybody. i think we can easily be in the 10 to12 range.

     

     

    people are questioning ragland and lorax skill set as a match to this new system. It might not be a big deal since they are talented, but can't help but be a bit skeptical until we see the finished product

  4. o-line choices are not inspiring. Smith is a no for me as would have been Vlad. I get not overpaying but I don't like dumpster diving for olinemen

    There really aren't any options for oline in free agency or the draft. We are pretty much out of luck really upgrading. Best thing is we really have only one position on that really needs upgrading the starter

  5. Good candidate, but if they blocked him once, they may block him again.

     

     

    might depend on the team/division. i wouldnt be surprised if they blocked him from going to a division rival, but wouldnt mind him going to another conference to a team they only see in preseason

  6. Mcdermott filled out an application to be the new Billy Buffalo. The bills brought him in for an interview and when Mcdermott got there they informed him they just filled the position. As Mcdermott started to walk away in despair, out comes Terry Pegula, frantically exclaiming "He put me on the spot! I had to fire him! now what will I do next season?!" And terry looked over to Mcdermott and asked "you there, do you prefer the 4-3 or the 3-4?" and the rest is history.

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    We disagree and I am not blind.

     

    I posted the other day a comparison of how Rex's defense did against common opponents of the Eagles whose defensive coordinator (according to some here) invented defense. I also mentioned that PFF rates the Eagles' starting defenders as slightly superior to the Bills defenders.

     

    I did this not to diss Schwartz but to provide context and blunt this narrative that others have had. It is hard to get a defense to perform up to its capabilities when key guys are injured or suspended etc.

     

    Just my two cents.

     

     

    Injuries aside, there was just so much going wrong with the defense that was clearly a coaching issue. If your defense fields only 10 guys multiple times, something is wrong with coaching. that mistake shouldn't happen at all, and if it happens more than once, that is definitely coaching. Those mistakes shouldn't be happening with you are closing out the 2nd season in this system

  8. I like Watkins a lot and it is a shame he cant stay healthy.

     

    With that said, he isn't a bust, but I think at this point he would have to be seen as a reach. 2 first rounders given up for him, (QB issues aside) and evans and OBJ (and arguably others) picked after him have been more productive.

     

    Not saying he is a bust, but I don't think he was worth what we gave up, which I guess is a reach.

     

    If he can somehow stay healthy, he will help this team get on the right track. huge if at this point

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