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He has to show up and at least try to play. If he retires for personal reasons (not football injury) then he forfeits his remaining salary, including guaranteed money. TO BE CLEAR I’m not saying that he’s not going to show up in shape and do his best. I’m just saying that this is what someone would say even if they were going to phone it in and pick up their money.

Yup. Also tags do not count until they are signed. I believe that NO is now under the cap because Marcus Williams hasn’t signed his franchise contract yet. When he does the Saints will have 24 hours (or is it 48?) to get back under.

Shoulda said DiMaggio

He’d be a huge get

Yup. The moves being made make a lot more sense if that’s what’s happening. Watson could sure be trying to force a trade to NE or another contender.

Obviously you’d want to check that out first, but the man asked what difference making DEs were out there on the trade block. Hunter certainly fits that bill.

Danielle Hunter, DE Vikings is said to be on the block. He’s a stud but had a bad neck injury and did not play last season. Edit: Also he wants PAID

Odd. She says $32M in first two years, but her breakdown only adds to $30M.

If I ever need a contract done for anything I’m going to hire Dupree’s agent.

I do not think we know what Beane will do as far as pushing the cap. The popular narrative is what you stated, but we haven’t seen Beane in a position to need to push the cap. The other big thing is that 2021 has big one year decrease in the cap, but it’s expected that 2022 will see a huge increase. It really makes sense this season to structure (and restructure) contracts to aggressively push cap hits out to future seasons.

DE is a big need. It’s definitely one position they’d make such moves for.

Yup. This is what I think is happening.

Correct. I’m sure the groundwork for restructures is in place, possibly already written into some of the recent large contracts.

Bills are in good cap shape. They have the ability to create some real space if needed. It isn’t a big limiting factor for them this season.

S John Johnson to Browns. Not that we needed a safety.

There should be good value for a CB at 30. Probably well into second round talents by that pick but we’d have our pick of the majority of that tier CBs. We will have to see how things fall.

Njoku actually performed pretty well last season, albeit in limited snaps. He really improved his blocking. I’m sure that any team trading for him would require signing him to an extension as part of the deal. Heard he might be heading to NE for Gilmore, but that might be dead now with NE signing a TE. Hunt is an elite back. He’d easily be worth a day 2 pick especially considering that he signed an extension and has very reasonable salaries.

Indeed. I’m happy to see the Ravens weakened too. Though I really don’t see Judon as low risk. He’s not the DE I’d have jumped at and either he made out really well for himself or the DE market is going to be insane this offseason.

First year cap hits can be minimized. If healthy, he’d be an excellent pick up. Whose turn is it to track the Pegula’s jet? And the only reason he might not be worth the 30th pick in this draft is the possible future effects of his neck injury.

He was the NFL rushing leader in 2017, which was his rookie season. He is an elite NFL back. He just happens to be on one of only a few teams where he isn’t easily the #1 RB.

Hunt is an exceptional RB. I’d be shocked if the Browns were shopping him - especially right after they extended his contract. The only exception being if there was an issue off the field or with a positive test. I have heard nothing like that though so I’m skeptical. That all said, the Bills should jump on a reasonable trade if he is being shopped and is clean.

Good synopsis. Unless NO can extend Williams or their OTs, then about all they have left is to release or trade Lattimore. I think they’re trying to work a trade to get some draft capital to help the rebuild. They should be able to get something for him, but it won’t be a lot. And teams might just wait out his release too. The Saints also have to give Brees a 6/1 designation. His contract was designed for that to happen so that was always the plan.

He actually got a (ridiculous IMO) 2 year deal last season. $21M total with around $17M of that guaranteed. OTC has a nice write up on that deal and this last one. I have no idea why they would’ve given him that last contract, but it made this rework necessary to spread out his cap hit. The Saints are really doing everything they can to hold onto their young talent. The more expensive older players are being released. They’re taking their cap punishment this season and next for extending their playoffs window with Brees. It will be interesting to see where they find their next QB. I’m sure they’ll take one in this year’s draft somewhere and go from there.

The available cap space number is not that important right now - for the Bills at least. They have several easy places to create space, which would be restructures of several large salaries this season. They’ll be doing that as they need the room. If we see 2 or 3 of those happen, then we are about out of space for significant moves. Legal tampering starts at noon Eastern today. Correct on official start of Free Agency at 4 pm on Wednesday the 17th.