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The cap floor is calculated using cash spent - not cap space - over a rolling period of several seasons. The Browns were already over the minimum limit before this all started.

Tyrod's revised deal makes him a 2 year bridge. The Bills will be looking for their long term answer at QB, but it's debatable whether this draft is a good place to find that.

Not coming into the trade. If Cleveland cuts Osweiler then they'd have his whole $16M guaranteed salary hit as dead money.

To be fair, people were complaining about a contract that just got slashed. How many are still complaining?

The salary cap floor is based on a moving average of cash paid. The Browns were over the minimum before FA started.

Yes. Desperately needed a player like Hyde at S.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyrod-taylor-7899/ Nice job by Whaley. High end bridge deal, fair to both sides. Team is competitive in the short term and can look for and acquire their long term FQB.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyrod-taylor-7899/ Seems reasonable for both sides. It's a high end bridge deal that doesn't preclude the Bills from trying to acquire their long term FQB. And we can be competitive in the short term. Nice job by Whaley on this one.

That is crazy

He's a great candidate for a June 1st designation which would kick half of his dead money to next season.

This is for the best. Hope he hangs them up for his own good.

Agreed

Depends upon the new contract details.

Yeah. Very little can be gleaned from this info. I'll wait until full details come out before judging. It's certainly possible that Taylor's agent gauged the market and determined that a lesser offer the Bills were offering was competitive with or better than what he'd get as a FA. Then we're looking at a deal that is probably a good one for both sides. It'd also be a deal that wouldn't prohibit the Bills from acquiring another QB via the draft, trade or FA. Or we might just be looking at the Bills kicking some cap hit down the road. I'm hopeful it's the former.

Thanks, John

You think the problem is that the Bills players aren't trying as hard as players on other teams? And how would you know if this team has a good head coach? McD has literally never been head coach of any football team at any level.

I wouldn't get ahead of myself on next season. It looks good because so few players are under contract. It's actually not that great. 25 players currently under contract through 2018 and over $106M in current obligations (including TT). Restructuring Glenn's deal could easily kick $6M of cap space into future years by converting $8M of his base salary into a signing bonus. His contract seems tailor made for this kind of restructure. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cordy-glenn-9851/ Kyle is in his last season so cutting his cap number would require an extension or pay cut. Extending him would just kick cap dollars into next season since this will likely be his last year. Asking him to take a pay cut is probably the best option. Dareus is a very poor candidate for restructure since the team would have to hand him a lump sum of cash and lower his 2017 salary. That salary is the cash that is on the line for him if he is suspended again. No way would I remove that financial incentive for him to stay clean and out of trouble.

I agree. I expected the 2nd round tender. I have to think some teams would be very interested in him for only a 5th. The Bills can match, but I doubt they'd do so.

The Bills were 16th in points allowed and 19th in yards allowed. That seems pretty average.

The Bills would jump at the 33rd pick for Taylor, but it's just wishful thinking. The Browns are not interested in his current contract so they aren't trading anything for him. They do have interest in the player and he fits what Jackson wants to do, but he wouldn't prevent them from pursuing other QBs.

This makes way more sense.

Yup. THAT is how you tank. Jest are going full 2016 Browns tank in 2017.

1) Logical. Possible. No downside. Extremely low probability of happening though. 2) Logical. Probable. Little downside except potentially pissing off Taylor. Reasonable probability of happening. 3) Illogical and highly improbable or a sign of horrific organizational dysfunction. This would mean that Pegula and Whaley just hired a HC who strongly disagrees with Whaley about Tyrod and that they didn't work out that difference prior to hire. Whaley knew what he thought of Taylor during last season. There's been no new information since week 15. From that perspective, a reasonable plan is #2 above, look for someone better or someone equivalent and cheaper, but keep Taylor if we can't find that. So is #1, keep him around and try to trade him until close to deadline. But not having a plan and setting your organization up for a disagreement is nothing but bad.

The other option is that Pegula hired a HC that disagrees with his GM regarding Taylor. Again, that makes no sense.

First of all, yes, JLC is a horrific shill and crappy reporter. Is it even remotely plausible that Whaley hired a head coach with whom he disagreed on the Taylor situation? I'm not the biggest Whaley fan, but I'm living in the real world here.