Buffalo Bills The offseason begins

[Jim Bob]

 

[FIRE DRURY]

Nice deal! Was expecting 4/100.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Perfect deal at the low end of what everyone was guessing.

Benford next ?

 

[FIRE DRURY]

Perfect deal at the low end of what everyone was guessing.

Benford next ?

100%.

I love how 3 of our guys that didn't whine on social media all got extensions. Maybe Cook should take note.

 

[Ace]

I was sure he would get 100 given the position and being our #1

So this is a nice surprise

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Timing of the Rousseau deal is important as it will probably provide some nice cap relief for this year too.

 

[Fezzy126]

 

[Fezzy126]

DJ Jones is at the top of everyone's FA wish list

 

[Fezzy126]

I wanted to say "And the hits keep coming..." but I think we're above that here.

Speak for yourself

 

[Fezzy126]

There was a tweet about an Elam trade that got pulled back (to Panthers), wonder if something is brewing

 

[Ace]

Reid Ferguson for a four year extension too.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Next up isn't Benford or Cook. Or even McGovern.

It's Reid Ferguson.

Buffalo Bills re-sign Reid Ferguson to a four-year contract

 

[TehDoak]

Interesting to see Beane buttoning up his own guys before free agency starts. I'm assuming some restructures and releases are coming before 3/12.

 

[Husko]

Shocked they got Groot locked up on that deal. Below market value for sure

 

[SundherDome]

Interesting to see Beane buttoning up his own guys before free agency starts. I'm assuming some restructures and releases are coming before 3/12.

Believe he is doing it to free up money for this year.

 

[Ace]

Rousseau was asked why he signed now and not wait to see what deals were there in the future and he basically just said because I don’t want to be anywhere else.

It’s so weird to have that be 100% believable in one building and feel like fan service in the other one.

I mean…I wouldn’t want to leave either. I am sure he could have gotten more if he waited….i think he could have gotten more NOW. But if you want to give me life changing money to stay on a team competing for a ring every year…yeah I’ll listen to that. Grass isn’t always greener…even if the money is

 

[TehDoak]

Believe he is doing it to free up money for this year.

The players are all on their rookie deals still. There is SOME savings there, but not a ton

It's likely about setting up signing some big deals and knowing what years they can shift cap space into without causing too many problems long term.

 

[SundherDome]

The players are all on their rookie deals still. There is SOME savings there, but not a ton

It's likely about setting up signing some big deals and knowing what years they can shift cap space into without causing too many problems long term.

Rousseau was going to count for his 5th year so there has to be some good savings there.

 

[FIRE DRURY]

Rousseau was going to count for his 5th year so there has to be some good savings there.

Heard his cap hit should drop from 14M~ to around 8M. Not sure how accurate that is but I’ll take it. BB has a few more options too - JA ext, DD restructure. McGovern. Brown. Knox. I remember listening to Joe Marino’s podcast a week or so ago where he explained how BB can clear up to around 75M if he wanted to. Not advocating we do that, but Beane has options if he plans on bring in a big name at Edge.

 

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Next up isn't Benford or Cook. Or even McGovern.

It's Reid Ferguson.

Buffalo Bills re-sign Reid Ferguson to a four-year contract

OK, we have a insider here! @NotABadPeriod Sal is that you ?

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Will Grant be there even at 26 ?

Bills 7-round mock draft: 2 big trades land game-wrecker & Ed Oliver tag team partner

Bills GM aggressively makes a pair of trades to land massive upgrades on d-line in mock.

www.newyorkupstate.com

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Hollywood back to KC

 

[Krieger Bot]

This is nonsense.

Bernard is very good in coverage. They didn't gift him that contract. Terrel earned every penny of it. My concerns with him are injury related. He made numerous significant splash plays the previous year being 1 of 3 players since 1982 to finish the season with 6+ sacks 3+ INT's and 3+ Fumble recoveries. It's not even that big of a contract. 4 year/50M with 25M guaranteed. For comparison, Tremaine signed a 4 year/72AM contract with 50M guaranteed. I'll take Bernard over Tremaine any day of the week.

I simply disagree. We don't seem to be in disagreement regarding Bernard's run defense. Or his blitzing skills. They are, at best, meh.

So his coverage skills seem to be where we part ways. Which, in fairness, coverage is particularly hard to assess, as relevant metrics are hard to come by. But I can't say I've ever watched Bernard and thought to myself "well, we can probably play a bunch of man against the Raiders next week if we want to, because I'm fine letting Bernard take Bowers." I just don't see him as that level of player. And to be honest, I don't really know of anyone who does. Frankly, it's pretty telling to me that no one in here seems to be talking about Bernard as some elite coverage guy to justify this deal. He's not Fred Warner or prime Bobby Wagner or something. He's fine. But nothing special there either.

 

[Krieger Bot]

On a brighter note, Rousseau at 4 years, $80 mil is sweet. Much like the Shakir deal, it's a good $10 million less than I was expecting. Great contract.