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Originally Posted by Kneel B4 Zod
I think the Pats like Lewis - he got a decent sized workload after returning from injury last year. he did get hurt in the SB, and an injury ended his season last year, and he's a small guy, so just reading the tea leaves they probably have durability concerns.
neither Lewis not White are really downhill runners though. Gillislee and Burkhead are the Blount replacements, Gillislee moreso I think.
I'm not sure this makes the offense really *better* but it will make them more consistent.
Bills can still match of course.
Of course they
like Lewis, he's just somewhat redundant with White & Burkhead if Gillislee isn't matched & Burkhead isn't expected to fill the Blount role. If they could regain a decent pick, I could see them moving on to recoup a pick & relying on the rest of their depth at the position.
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Originally Posted by Dominic
I don't know...it'd be #1M more to do so and if the 5th round tender was such a blunder, why did it take almost two months for Gillislee to receive an offer at the 5th round tender? Could be the Bills are willing to do the same thing they did with Ryan Groy...
Match the offer or not, I doubt Mike Gillislee is going to be the determining factor whether or not the Bills break their 17 year old playoff-free streak...
Pick up Samaje Perine in the 3rd maybe?
Offering Gillislee the 2nd round tender is pretty much exactly equivalent to signing him to a 1 year $2.746m deal as no one is going to sign him to an offer sheet at that level of tender & you super snap take the 2nd if anyone is stupid enough to. I think that's a good deal for a guy who rushed for 5.7 ypc 2 years in a row.
RFAs always take a while to sign due to the nature of the market & teams not having any urgency to do so, but the agents always thinking the players have more leverage than they do.
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Originally Posted by Dominic
From a Pats writer that's shown a solid bunch of sources.
@DMooreNFL
I'm being told #Bills are unlikely to match #Patriots offer sheet to RFA Mike Gillislee. Couple of reasons, from what I'm hearing. (1/3)
#Bills were not necessarily comfortable giving Gillislee more than one year deal. Also, were comfortable w/ J. Williams progress. (2/3)
Lastly, the #Bills would have little cap room to work with if they matched offer sheet. Would prefer 5th rd pick at that point. (3/3)
JWill put up 27/94/3.5/1 & 1 catch for 0 yards last year...I'm not particularly inspired.
& if they wanted to give Gillislee a 1 year deal, I just pointed out the easiest way to do it.
But at this point, yeah, I think letting him go is best.