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Von is as good as gone next offseason. His contract was structured to effectively be a 3 year deal. Expect him to be cut with a 6/2 designation. Knox’s contract was reworked this offseason. He reduced it by $4.5M total to acquire additional guarantees of $17M. Included is a partial guarantee of his 2025 salary. So he almost certainly will be here in 2025. That gives the Bills some time to find his replacement if Kincaid can’t fill the inline role by then or if the team does not want him to do that.

I heard a former player (RG3?) discuss this. His OC told him he wanted him to install a play he liked from his time in college. He said he had never worked so hard on making a play successful. He later figured out that the OC was getting him to buy into the offense. It taught him about what could happen when you do that, so it bled over into his regular prep on other stuff too. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s a good thing.

That’s a good list. I think next offseason was the original plan for a reset, but that injuries led to the Bills to move up the plan by a year. They just couldn’t get out of Miller’s contract that fast. He’ll have at least $15.4M in dead money if/when cut next offseason. That can be split over two seasons with a 6/2 designation. Also any incentives he hits this season will be adjusted on the cap. As for Milano, I agree that due to injuries there’s a good chance they’ll move on from him too. $17.3M dead cap so he’d be the other player I’d use the 6/2 designation on. Knox would have $17M dead cap too. His 2025 salary is partially guaranteed so I think he sticking around for at least that. Remember, he took a $4.5M haircut this offseason for added guarantees. Bass comes down to how he plays this season. His contract is going to keep him on the roster for 2024. If he fails apart then I see them signing another K and IRing Bass with some excuse. Next offseason it’s only $3M dead so the Bills can move on if they need to. The dead cap can add up fast. We already have $4.5M on the books for 2025 and with the numbers above, you are correct, it could balloon again.

So here’s how an injury settlement works in the NFL: - a player under contract who gets injured in practice, game, other organized team activity or in the team facility doing team related workout, etc. is entitled to be paid their salary while injured. they can’t be cut until they can pass a physical. if they go on IR for the season, then they get paid for the whole season. - an alternative to the above is that it the team and player/agent agrees to an injury settlement where the player is paid a portion of their year’s salary. the player immediately becomes a FA. - the player may then sign with any of the other 31 teams as soon as they can (usually this means passing a physical). the team they have the agreement with may not re-sign them until the number of games they have been paid for under the settlement plus three weeks has passed. So the injury settlement is just a way for a player who is trying to prove themselves in the NFL to not have to sit out a whole season because they get hurt in camp. This is why Claypool agreed to one. He’s trying to stick. The team gets to save a little money/cap in the process.

Teams can’t release an injured player unless they come to agreement on an injury settlement with that player. This is why roster bonuses are so important for high priced veterans.

List of NFL teams cap space and dead money Lots of teams have a substantial amount of dead money. It’s an obstacle, but the Bills aren’t alone with it. And they only have themselves to blame. Giving Diggs an extension and big pay bump with two seasons left on his contract was a big mistake (and I said so at the time). At that point it was already clear things weren’t good between him and the team. More money was not going to fix things.

I’ve said it dozens of times already: The Bills traded away the same guy they traded for. He’s never been any different.

OTC has better info that Spotrac, but it still takes time for them to get all of the info on contracts. Even then they are not always 100% accurate. In this case they still haven’t gotten all of the contract info because teams must be cap compliant. We can’t be over because the league would not approve a contract that put us over. So a move has already been made to keep us under the cap. Either it’s Von or they have to do a bunch of smaller ones, including Milano. People freak out about cap hits in future years, but it makes no difference whether a team does nothing versus kick $5M into next year and then carry $5M over. Except that it gives you more flexibility.

Not sure if serious…. But PFF ranked Martin 13th overall last season with a 70.8 grade so it would seem we are good.

I’m confident that the Bills will be a 10 win team or very close to that. The Jest could light it up or implode. My money would be on the latter, but they’ve got talent and if Rodgers stays healthy they could win the AFCE. The Phins are a good team with talent too. A lot rides on their new defense and play of their OL. Less variance than the Jest, but more than the Bills. Beating them twice would be huge with respect to winning the division. The Pats may have found their QB, but even if that’s true they don’t have much in the way of talent anywhere else. I hate that we play them twice two weeks apart at the end of the season. I’d rather get them early while teams are healthy. Attrition over the year could bring talent levels close enough that they could steal a game if they get some bounces. Hopefully they’ll have thrown in the towel by then and be coasting to the end of the season so we get two easy wins. I can see them with a top 5 pick next year.

I might watch SNF games live, but on Monday night I’m much more likely to watch 2 or 3 condensed games from Sunday. It really minimizes the dumb announcer banter plus no commercials. Plus I get to bed at a decent time. If the MNF game is good I will watch it during the week. I love my NFL+.

I’ll settle for some degree of consistency between the Bills and other teams. There are always nuances and differences, but standards usually seem very different.

The Phins “folded” in the 2022 playoffs cause they had Skyler Thomson playing QB. That was a whopping 3 point loss to the Bills. They “folded” in 2023 because they lost every player that could rush the passer to injury. I am not saying that they have it all figured out. They certainly haven’t proved anything close to that yet. But that’s two seasons lost to one of the same excuses I hear here ad naseum - injury. Why give McDermott a pass on that (for longer no less), but not McDaniel?

It’s not that I think Beane should get off scott free. I don’t. He should go along with McD. I’m just not 100% certain that he will.

Yes, that’ll probably be the way it works initially. Once owners get a taste of PE money they’ll want more and more of it. 10% is only the beginning. I wonder which team the Saudi Wealth Fund will get a chunk of.

Yup. For now……

McDermott is not going to hire anyone that brings in fresh ideas and does things their own way. That’s why so many hires have been from within. Even if Brady (or another coordinator) fails, it’ll be more of the same. He’ll just hire another coordinator to do things his way. There won’t be any metamorphosis until we have a new HC. That likely means a new GM too. Until then, things will be done McDermotts way.

Really? I don’t think it’ll be all that different compared to what it looked like under Brady last season. Schemes always get tweaked from year to year, adjustments need to be made for changing personnel and Brady will have a chance to put more of himself into the scheme, but I doubt we see a whole new, more beautiful animal.

I’m not going to respond to all of the OP’s points one by one. I think some have varying degrees of truth to them while others are pretty far off the mark. I am confused by the OP’s “metamorphosis” comment though. Yes, there is an ongoing jettisoning of veterans. But the other things he talks about aren’t happening. So where’s the butterfly? That’s the thing about a metamorphosis, it’s a development into something better. While often necessary, simply swapping out older players for younger ones isn’t necessarily a path to getting better or becoming something different and new.

I literally got so bored I quit reading it. And I’m doing nothing right now.

We took our shot and missed. We’ve taken some others that have hit. Such is the NFL draft (and basketball and hockey).

The Ravens need help at b/u QB. Huntley played for them for years so methinks Cleveland is trying to move him to any other team for whatever they can get. A late round pick swap would get it done.

Yup. Noah Brown is a guy that’ll get snatched up by a team that either doesn’t have 5 NFL worthy WRs on the roster or loses one to injury. He doesn’t make much sense for the Bills as he is a possession WR, not a field stretcher.

Small, straight up zone corner but could be depth here or somewhere else

Note: It is not a foul if the blocker’s opponent initiates the contact above the waist, or if the blocker is trying to slip or escape from his opponent and any engagement with him is incidental. The RB looks to have pulled up so the contact was pretty incidental. in any event the assertion was that Teller’s block was illegal/dirty. He couldn’t have known what the RB was doing behind him.