After Tyler took his turn in the Mock GM chair, I’m trying my hand at the exercise, laying out my vision for an offseason that might just break Buffalo’s playoff drought.

Our aim with these mock rosters is to remain somewhere in the vicinity of reality (read: no trades for Connor McDavid) in terms of the deals we swung both via trade and free agency. Some latitude was necessary for the sake of conversation, for example, pursuing trades including players with no trade protection. But overall, the hope was to put together an offseason plan that was realistic.

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