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I think that’s his floor in this draft. He could legit go in the top 15.

I was also surprised by this.

No. He’s out of other people to blame. He’d already fired all of his coordinators prior, so now all he has left is to blame it on bad luck. The alternative would be to actually take real accountability himself.

Osemele story That’s exactly what Hardman wanted - and what the Jets did.

Multiple reasons that they have multiple rings. More often than not they make their own luck.

The Jets are a garbage organization - and that’s a reflection of their owner. I don’t blame a player for sticking up for themselves if they are getting lied to and treated like crap. Good for him. I’ll remind everyone that the Jets used an old MRI to convince a player that he was healthy enough to play and would not further injure himself if he did. The more recent MRI showed that he was far more injured and that playing would put him at risk of further injury. Seriously, F the Jets.

I scrolled past this a couple nights ago and the wife blurted out "Oh my god! 4 Falls of Buffalo!" We have not watched it. Seems like something to punish my kids with if they get out of hand.

Not quite, it depends on the contract structure. For a contract that large there would be a signing bonus. So let’s look at a 4 year, $40M contract with the following structure: $10M signing bonus and salaries of $4M, $6m, $9.5M and $10.5 M. The cap hit associated with the signing bonus would be split among all 4 years. Here are the cap hits and cash payments: Y1: $6.5M (salary + 1/4 of signing bonus) [$14M cash] Y2: $8.5M [$6M cash, $20M total] Y3: $12.0M [$9.5M cash, $29.5M total] Y4: $13.0M [$10.5M cash, $40M total] Now, let’s say the player gets cut in March of Y3. The caps hits would be thus: Y1: $6.5M (salary + 1/4 of signing bonus) [$14M cash] Y2: $8.5M [$6M cash, $20M total] Y3: $5M (remainder of signing bonus) [$0 cash] So it is easy to see why teams use signing and restructure bonuses to kick out cap hits. And why players like that.

Cincy hitting Higgins with the tag so quickly tells us that they won’t be signing him long term. He either gets traded or plays on it this season and walks next. Either is a win for the Bengals, though a trade is the more favorable. To the end they made sure to tag him before the combine, where potential deals can be discussed. Smart move on their part.

He is one of the obvious restructures. Nice to see it moving along.

It would depend a lot on how we got there.

Just heard McDermott reiterate that “Only one team gets to lift the Lombardi trophy.” and that “31 teams go home disappointed every season.” In addition to McDermott having said this multiple times already I’ve heard Beane say something similar this offseason. My unpopular opinion is that I hate hearing the leaders of the team say crap like this. It gives everyone an excuse for failure every season. Oh well, there’s 31 of us. <shrug> No big deal. I wonder how he’d have responded to Bass if, after missing the game tying kick, he said something like that?

Or if he hand not played a significant portion of the season with a broken wrist.

This. If a team has an owner who has cash and is willing to spend it, then it is a sustainable model. But you have to spend on good players and then get out of their contracts by the time they aren’t anymore.

A couple weeks ago I noticed that Tasker on 550 and some other media close to the Bills started pushing the narrative that the team “had to get younger”. I took that to mean that the team was going to move on from some of the bigger names. This was the team’s way of preparing the fan base for it so there’s be less of a backlash or uproar. This would fit.

Okay, but it’s not like KC’s wasn't and they lost to Cincy. I’m not sure how unpopular it is either. I’ve read more posts like that than I can count. Every season it’s the same thing: “If x, y and/or z hadn’t happened, then we’d have won it all that year.” I’m not convinced. Pressure mounts throughout the playoffs and the Bills are yet to handle that well. I’ll give you this though, I think that it was their best opportunity for a championship.

The first thing to understand is that every dollar teams pay a player must be accounted for on the salary cap.* So if the Bills were to rework Von’s contract they would still be on the hook for cap hits for what they’ve paid him but hasn’t been account for. Think about it this way: There’s a running total of how much a team pays a player. Eventually the cap hits must equal that total. There is no way around that. *There are a few exceptions to this: 1) The Veteran Signing Benefit allows teams to give a small number of veteran players on vet minimum deals a small signing bonus that doesn’t hit the cap. 2) Cash that teams recoup from a player. 3) Salary forfeited by players who are suspended.

My opinion is the same now as it was then - a modest overpay. It was a four year, $52M extension, which is paying him $54.4M over 5 years. Is $13M AAV on the extension too much? I thought $10M AAV would have been more appropriate for his value, but at the same time some TEs were getting paid and Knox had great red zone production. So I can see how it got above that $10M AAV. A bit of an overpay, but nothing egregious IMO.

I don’t like ranch on my wings. Love a good blue cheese on them - and on the accompanying celery. It it absolutely the way to go. On this I am not flexible. But, oddly, I love wing dips that are made with ranch but never cared for the ones made with blue cheese. shrug

Only four more to take the lead….

In that SB the Rams beat the Bengals, who had beaten the Chiefs, who had beaten the Bills. Not to say it couldn’t have happened, but the Bills winning it all is a lot to assume.

If the Bills were to cut Diggs realistically it would have to be before 3/17 and very likely with a 6/1 designation. That’s because his guaranteed salary would still hit the cap as dead money. Diggs is much more likely a trade candidate. I’ve read that 6/1 designations may be used for trades as well as cuts. Each team gets 2 per year. So that is another possibility for a Diggs deal.

Also Jags tagged and traded Yannick Ngakoue. Did GB do it with Davante Adams too?

I think he’s getting franchised.

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