The general consensus in the NFL is for a team to use FA as the guide for their draft. You pursue aggressively and smartly in FA, don't overspend, and fill your remaining holes with the draft. For the Bills, the process has been used masterfully by Tom Donahoe over the last two years, as the Bills have avoided expensive gambles in FA, and defaulted to the draft to provide filler for their needs. Using this formula it is fairly predictable how TD will operate this off-season.
Price, will be resigned IF TD can get him for less than 4mil per season.
JR will be gone unless he resigns for less money (2mil per season).
Centers will be cut unless he takes the vet min.
Spikes et al will only be in Buffalo if their cap number stays under 4.5mil per LB.
Donahoe will not spend more than 3.5mil per season on a free agent DT, unless he's measurably better than Big Pat.
Every FA he can't get for this blueprint will become a draft need in April, dictating the positions that the Bills draft.
Put those piece together and you'll see a Bills 'team' blueprint which will make all your off-season predictions come true.
Feel free to agree, disagree, whatever with this, since I’m currently “half in the bag,” and probably wish I can retract half of this come tomorrow morning.
Price, will be resigned IF TD can get him for less than 4mil per season.
JR will be gone unless he resigns for less money (2mil per season).
Centers will be cut unless he takes the vet min.
Spikes et al will only be in Buffalo if their cap number stays under 4.5mil per LB.
Donahoe will not spend more than 3.5mil per season on a free agent DT, unless he's measurably better than Big Pat.
Every FA he can't get for this blueprint will become a draft need in April, dictating the positions that the Bills draft.
Put those piece together and you'll see a Bills 'team' blueprint which will make all your off-season predictions come true.
Feel free to agree, disagree, whatever with this, since I’m currently “half in the bag,” and probably wish I can retract half of this come tomorrow morning.
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