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Bills’ Dion Dawkins explains how much Walter Payton Man of the Year Award means to him (video)

#Bills’ Dion Dawkins explains how much Walter Payton Man of the Year Award means to him (video):

Dion Dawkins is once again the Buffalo Bills’ nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. Each team has one and Dawkins has been exactly that for the Bills the last two years.

A highly-sought award, the honor recognizes a NFL player for outstanding community service activities off the field, as well as excellence on the field. Nominees from each team all receive up to $55,000 toward a charity of their choice and the league-wide winner receives a $250,000 donation.

Last season, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott won the final award. Each year, the eventual winner is announced during the NFL Honors show just prior to the Super Bowl.

Dawkins recognized the importance of the award in a recent interview.

“This is a big one,” Dawkins said.

Dawkins’ full thought can be found in the NFL Network clip below:

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LOOK: Bills’ Stefon Diggs, Dion Dawkins, James Cook at 2024 Pro Bowl

The #Bills at the Pro Bowl:

Stefon Diggs, Dion Dawkins, James Cook are representing the Buffalo Bills at the 2024 NFL Pro Bowl.

Josh Allen could have joined them… but the 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am came calling instead. (He did beat Tom Brady too, so he made the right choice).

On Thursday, the trio that was there for the Bills and AFC team took part in the annual skills competition in Orlando. On Sunday the Pro Bowl Games Championship will go down.

Check out some of the best video clips and photos of Diggs, Dawkins and Cook below:

Josh Allen, Bills teammates support Joe Brady for offensive coordinator

Josh Allen, #Bills teammates support Joe Brady for offensive coordinator:

The Buffalo Bills have a hole at offensive coordinator–for now.

During the 2023 season, Joe Brady replaced Ken Dorsey as OC. Over the course of his tenure, Brady held the job on an interim basis.

One of the main questions going forward this offseason is whether or not Brady will be named the full-time offensive coordinator. Will he? Or could the Bills look outside of Buffalo for a new offensive coordinator?

Brady has had plenty of support from inside the Bills locker room, at least.

Here’s a rundown of what was said about Brady potentially being the offensive coordinator moving forward (video clips via Bills Live):

Is this the end of the Buffalo Bills’ championship window?

Is this the end of the #Bills’ championship window? (@NFL_DougFarrar):

Let’s begin with the obvious: The Buffalo Bills were devastated by injuries this season. Losing their two best defensive players — linebacker Matt Milano and cornerback Tre’Davious White — to season-ending maladies was a major hit, and if either or both of those players were on the field in the divisional round, the result might have been different than the 27-24 Kansas City Chiefs win.

The Chiefs have been the Bills’ white whale over the last half-decade in the postseason, but there’s now a darker question for Buffalo’s NFL franchise.

Is this the end of the championship window that began five years ago? The Bills had made the playoffs once from 2000 through 2017, but they’ve never missed a postseason since Josh Allen became their quarterback in 2018. The litany of losses takes the bloom off the rose, of course, and if this is a narrowing of those possibilities without even a Super Bowl appearance to show for it, that’s in its own way more frustrating than the Bills teams that lost four straight Super Bowls from the 1990 through 1993 seasons.

On the surface, the Bills would seem to have a reasonably bright contending future… and then you look at the impending free agents, and Buffalo’s 2024 salary cap situation.

Most of the players in question are replaceable over time with smart free-agency and draft decisions, but as Jason Fitzgerald of OverTheCap.com points out, there isn’t any room to operate in an aggressive fashion. The Bills have the NFL’s fourth-worst cap deficit in preparation for the new league year, and the contracts that are most onerous based on cost versus performance aren’t really moveable.

Receiver Stefon Diggs carries a $27,854 million cap charge in 2024, and the dead money incurred with his pre-June 1 release would be $31,096 million. Maybe there’s a trade or a later cut, but the capital they might get from a declining receiver is minimal, and a later cut just moves the money down the road.

Edge-rusher Von Miller has a $23,799 million cap charge for 2024, and a $32,501 million dead cap hit were he released. The structure of Miller’s contract is even more unfavorable pursuant to a post-June 1 release.

Those are the two biggest albatrosses other than Josh Allen’s $47,056,281 cap hit for 2024, and Josh Allen is actually worth that.

So, the Bills are facing decisions with other players whose released might be more manageable. That includes White (whose recent injury history may accelerate that decision), offensive tackle Dion Dawkins, center Mitch Morse, cornerback Rasul Douglas, and safety Jordan Poyer. Problem is, there isn’t one player on the roster whose release would provide massive cap relief — the Bills will have to gut this thing to a point. That’s what happens when you go all in on a championship as general manager Brandon Beane has done, and you can’t blame Beane for trying, but things are where they are.

Yes, the Bills have dynamic young players you can build a rebuild around. But at this point, when you look at the upcoming free-agency carnage and the ways in which the team’s player contracts are currently structured, it’s tough to imagine any scenario in which the Bills won’t have to take at least two steps back before taking any more steps forward.

And with no Super Bowl appearances to show for it, that’s an extremely tough reality.

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Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes trolls Dion Dawkins after beating Bills

Not exactly that nice of him:

The Chiefs beat the Bills, then Patrick Mahomes trolled Dion Dawkins.

During the lead up to the AFC divisional round matchup between the Bills and Chiefs, Dawkins discussed the home-field advantage his team would have.

Like we’ve seen with many of the “greats” in sport, players will use anything as motivation. Dawkins provided to fuel for Mahomes’ fire.

In his commentary, Dawkins said to ESPN that “Pat has never been to the Bills stadium in full.”

Dawkins came to the conclusion that this would be a huge edge for the Bills over the Chiefs. He finished his commentary with “so, good luck.”

Evidently, they had enough luck since the Chiefs won 27-24.

Can you guess what Mahomes’ caption on the post he shared to social media was after beating the Bills?

Have a look, if you haven’t caught on yet:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2Y1t_oLbTd/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=0bc47790-6e02-4463-ae86-3fa17bcb77bd

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Is this the end of the Buffalo Bills’ championship window?

The Buffalo Bills now face a complicated offseason in which what they can spend doesn’t come close to what they need. Is the window closed?

Let’s begin with the obvious: The Buffalo Bills were devastated by injuries this season. Losing their two best defensive players — linebacker Matt Milano and cornerback Tre’Davious White — to season-ending maladies was a major hit, and if either or both of those players were on the field in the divisional round, the result might have been different than the 27-24 Kansas City Chiefs win.

The Chiefs have been the Bills’ white whale over the last half-decade in the postseason, but there’s now a darker question for Buffalo’s NFL franchise.

Is this the end of the championship window that began five years ago? The Bills had made the playoffs once from 2000 through 2017, but they’ve never missed a postseason since Josh Allen became their quarterback in 2018. The litany of losses takes the bloom off the rose, of course, and if this is a narrowing of those possibilities without even a Super Bowl appearance to show for it, that’s in its own way more frustrating than the Bills teams that lost four straight Super Bowls from the 1990 through 1993 seasons.

On the surface, the Bills would seem to have a reasonably bright contending future… and then you look at the impending free agents, and Buffalo’s 2024 salary cap situation.

Most of the players in question are replaceable over time with smart free-agency and draft decisions, but as Jason Fitzgerald of OverTheCap.com points out, there isn’t any room to operate in an aggressive fashion. The Bills have the NFL’s fourth-worst cap deficit in preparation for the new league year, and the contracts that are most onerous based on cost versus performance aren’t really moveable.

Receiver Stefon Diggs carries a $27,854 million cap charge in 2024, and the dead money incurred with his pre-June 1 release would be $31,096 million. Maybe there’s a trade or a later cut, but the capital they might get from a declining receiver is minimal, and a later cut just moves the money down the road.

Edge-rusher Von Miller has a $23,799 million cap charge for 2024, and a $32,501 million dead cap hit were he released. The structure of Miller’s contract is even more unfavorable pursuant to a post-June 1 release.

Those are the two biggest albatrosses other than Josh Allen’s $47,056,281 cap hit for 2024, and Josh Allen is actually worth that.

So, the Bills are facing decisions with other players whose released might be more manageable. That includes White (whose recent injury history may accelerate that decision), offensive tackle Dion Dawkins, center Mitch Morse, cornerback Rasul Douglas, and safety Jordan Poyer. Problem is, there isn’t one player on the roster whose release would provide massive cap relief — the Bills will have to gut this thing to a point. That’s what happens when you go all in on a championship as general manager Brandon Beane has done, and you can’t blame Beane for trying, but things are where they are.

Yes, the Bills have dynamic young players you can build a rebuild around. But at this point, when you look at the upcoming free-agency carnage and the ways in which the team’s player contracts are currently structured, it’s tough to imagine any scenario in which the Bills won’t have to take at least two steps back before taking any more steps forward.

And with no Super Bowl appearances to show for it, that’s an extremely tough reality.

Patrick Mahomes had a petty response to Dion Dawkins’ mild trash talk after Chiefs bested Bills

Patrick Mahomes is now taking even the mildest trash talk as motivation.

With Patrick Mahomes as their quarterback, the Kansas City Chiefs have been so good for so long that they’re probably getting a tad bored. When you’ve qualified for six straight AFC title games (the second-longest streak ever), falling into a rut might be easier than you can imagine.

That also means they’re going to latch onto the silliest tidbits of criticism and trash talk as motivation.

After the Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills in an instant classic postseason battle on Sunday, Mahomes took to Instagram with his reaction. He wrote “good luck” in a post, seemingly referencing Dion Dawkins’ incredibly mild trash talk about the Chiefs earlier in the week.

Credit: Patrick Mahomes on Instagram

Just for context, here is precisely what Dawkins said via ESPN:

“[Mahomes has] only been here once. So he’s never been here. Simple as that,” left tackle Dion Dawkins said. “Pat has never been to the Bills stadium in full. … The environment will be different, and not to say it’s in our favor, but stadium is our favor. Stadium is us. That helps us. I don’t care what nobody says. This is the most dopest feeling I’ve ever had. We’re having two back-to-back playoff games home. Come on now, like we get to leave and go eat wings. It’s cool. So good luck.”

I mean, yes, that’s disrespectful of the Chiefs, but it’s also so tame. It’s literally just a player expressing confidence in his teammates. It barely references anything about the Chiefs or Mahomes and is much more about Buffalo’s home-field advantage.

I’m happy for Mahomes and the Chiefs’ latest bout of success, but this was a bit of a stretch to take as some massive slight to their profile.

Bills’ Dion Dawkins shows off ripped finger injury

Ummm… ew:

The Bills will have Dion Dawkins in the lineup against the Chiefs.

Dawkins will be playing in the AFC divisional round.

He is not injured right now.

But previously Dawkins sustained a finger injury and proclaimed it was “nearly ripped off.” He still has the scars to prove it and… we’ve finally seen it.

Dawkins sent a message to Bills quarterback Josh Allen during an appearance on the Up & Adams Show and pointed out the pain he went through for his teammate. The real lasting image was how the finger now looks.

For those curious… here it is:

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Bills vs. Steelers: Key matchups to watch in Wild-Card round

#Bills vs. #Steelers: Key matchups to watch in Wild-Card round:

The Buffalo Bills will host the Pittsburgh Steelers in their upcoming Wild-Card matchup at Highmark Stadium.

The two teams have been rigorously preparing for the contest throughout the past week. Buffalo (11-6) and Pittsburgh (10-7) will think they know their upcoming opponent, inside and out, after all the practicing and studying they have put in.

Because of that, despite all the off-field talking, speculation and discussion, it will still be the games, within the game, that will make all the difference when it comes to the final outcome of this upcoming weekend.

With that, here are three key matchups to watch during Sunday’s Bills-Steelers contest:

Bills’ Dion Dawkins hypes up crowd at Sabres game

#Bills’ Dion Dawkins hypes up crowd at #Sabres game:

Dion Dawkins loves him some Sabres hockey.

The Sabres did lose, 5-2 against the Kraken, but the Bills offensive lineman did his best to help on this occasion.

Dawkins, who is often spotted at games, was hyping up the crowd before the game prior to the Tuesday night faceoff.

Check out Dawkins at the hockey game below: