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3.5M AAV for a 3rd down back who is 29 when the season starts. "And there was much rejoicing..." Fantasy football has ruined how people assess value wrt RB's.

They should not need to pay average dollars to a SAM to replace Klein who'll play less than 50% of the snaps. The base defense is practically a 4-2-5 anyway.

That defense failed when it mattered most. The massive investment in personnel and scheme needs an overhaul because no one's content being the best unit in the regular season. It literally means nothing.

Time to hang it up for the night Hondo.

Yeah, I heard he's repping for a temp hire agency now. I'll bet that endorsement earns good money.

None of your previous posts were worthy of a response.

Kansas City, LA Rams...those teams have done it better because (and I'm not sure if you know this) they won SB's. Made big acquisitions to give them an edge either before or during the off-season. When the NFL starts awarding the Lombardi to the best regular season roster, please let me know. I'll change my criteria on success in the NFL. I really can't take you seriously with the third paragraph. Stop falling back on hyperbolic arguments and whining about the pandemic. It's an indication you're whining.

The bad UFA contracts have far outweighed the good ones. Star's is at the top, and 2 good ones at market value don't overcome that level of stupid. As long as McCoach has the dominant voice in personnel, they'll always shade toward defense, spend good money to do it and all at the expense of Josh. They're SB contenders sure, but going from perennial playoff team to winning a SB is a bigger leap than people understand. And right now, Buffalo is taking the pedestrian and safe approach consistent with a risk averse HC.

I'm really leaning toward blaming the cap issues on Russia...everyone's doing it now and people believe it so...why not? BADOL is at the top of the quality posters here. He gives it to you real, not with milk and cookies like most homers want. Ergo, he hurts people's feelings when things go wrong and people start making excuses. Like blaming cap issues on something that affected every team.

No one remembers or cares about perennial contenders. As for the luck argument...you build your own luck by being smarter than your opponents. Buffalo didn't win last year because they did 2020 v2.0 and thought it'd be enough. For all the praise that front office gets, they didn't get much right last off-season...that is if you expect excellence and not average personnel effort. I follow the NFL pretty closely and I have no idea who that guy is. Looks like a blogger and podcaster.

Cite your "consensus" sources because I'm tired of the straw man arguments. Sounds like some MSM reporter who talks about "people we've talked to said X." Prioritizing 2 DT's who'll get no more than 50% of the defensive snaps because McCoach needs his 8-9 man rotation is just same old same old. Been there, done that...they've spent big on the DL (2nd highest paid unit in the NFL last season) and it gets them nothing when it matters. McKenzie is on a minor contract and who really cares? He had 1 decent game last year and didn't play until it became obvious the Bills needed more speed...which speaking of that...I guess they're still working there. The problem now is that people keep being satisfied with making the playoffs and winning a game. Buffalo needs their front office and coaching staff to be elite...and they keep coming up as underwhelming.

The cap situation is a self-made issue. As others have said, notably @BADOLBILZ they've inked some guys who were vastly overpaid and now that's impacting the cap. OBD has no one to blame but themselves. My point remains: prioritizing their first contracts on guys who'll play less than 50% of the snaps is bizarre...provided those contracts are not classic Beane/McCoach overpaying at positions of less importance (DT, LB).

To quote Dennis Green, "if you want to crown them, then crown their a**!" Don't care about your opinion re: the front office. No one's giving trophies out to franchises for best front office of the past 25 years. You get trophies for winning, which means signing the right players to fit a scheme that out-does opponents.

I can see the argument that'll be offered...that Buffalo lacked the cap space to maneuver this off-season. Of course, a closer inspection would reveal that poor UFA decisions in previous off-seasons inhibited their ability for this one. For all the plaudits Beane and company receive, they really just tread water like you note.

Put forth a counter-argument.

Interesting to see the first moves in the new league year were to re-sign a gadget WR, a new guard, and 2 DT's. Not arguing with the Saffold signing, but the other 3 signings are just...Billsy. Or, should I say...McCoach-esque. Would imagine more moves will be made, but interior OL/DL and gadget WR's are not the reason this team lost 2 years running to KC. If they're still following the McCoach team-building approach it'll fail even with a franchise QB.

How long will it be before Sal joins the Bills media group and stops being the resident Bills homer for WGR? Sal knows his audience eats this inane stuff up.

Buffalo got the best QB in the 2018 draft. Credit to Beane and McCoach. Now they just gotta start getting UFA right and not over-drafting players who fit McCoach's antiquated and inflexible scheme.

When Edmunds puts up a season like what Campbell did last year, then he can talk to the Bills about a contract extension. Until then, Buffalo should be finding a lower priced vet and develop a younger cheaper MLB. Can't keep paying all these defensive guys big contracts on defense at the expense of the offense.

Wow. When you put it that way, yeah, Buffalo should sit tight and sign average "process" types because the cap or something. Heck, I remember signing Mario Williams...no SB's there. Same with Bryce Paup in '95. Ipso facto...never try to improve your team with high performing veteran talent. It's never worked and never will.

Nah, they'd already signed too much dead-weight in '17-'20 to make this move. Look at it this way, Beane is effectively COO, McD is the CEO on the football side of the house. The latter sets the menu, and the former buys the ingredients. At a point, being safe, with Beane signing high-motor McDermott types who don't challenge the status quo, and paying them well to do that isn't gonna work anymore. It's how you get to be a good regular season team that falters in the post-season. People forget that eventually you gotta take calculated risks and save up your capital for the big move. It's why the Rams traded for Von Miller and Matt Stafford. AZ with Hopkins, and now Mack to the Bolts.

The SB coach isn't...unless McD and his staff begin playing for keeps and not to keep their collective head above water in 2022. As to the strategy changing: if McD is not willing to adjust his scheme and by relation how he think a roster should look then this past season will recur more often than not and SB's will elude the franchise. Josh upped his game from 2018-19 to 2020-21. Now it's the HC's turn.

I see this as the off-season where philosophical differences are going to come to the surface at OBD. Beane's admitted they need better protection and weapons for Josh. My concern is that McD will continue pushing for a balance between offense and defense because that's the style of play he prefers. Going with a dominant offense, even one that wins more games at the cost of stocking McD's defense is a bridge too far for me. He's not that dynamic of a HC to understand that it's time to put your defense into a secondary position. It's as if his pride does not allow him to adjust how he coaches football.

Grievance or a perceived one is a powerful motivator.

When does the next Sammy Watkins puff piece drop? LOL Coaches not leaving doesn't mean there aren't issues. If players are under contract and frustrated with the HC, that'd have nothing to do with what's going on. The NFL coaching fraternity talks among themselves and it's plausible that current and former coaches have made it known there's friction. How much is another question.