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The Bills are talking to Emmanuel Ogbah. Not sure if it gets done.

So $39M is the real number. He gets $3M AAV more than MVS got when he signed with the Chiefs. Sounds about right after two years of salary inflation.

I know we have to pay for some depth, I just don't know why we are rushing to get these sorts of players re-signed. Give it until next week and then sign the best available depth DB for the vet minimum. Better yet wait until after the draft and see what's left. I keep seeing people say "no way the Bills can use 11 draft picks, there isn't room on the roster" but that's only true because of the likes of Lewis and Rapp. I would rather get as cheap as possible at those depth spots and spend our cap space on a real difference maker. JMO

Not really a fan of this. Lewis and Rapp are not guys you sign on day zero of FA. If they sign elsewhere so be it, we can find cheaper options on day 3 of the draft or in late stage FA. McDermott is a little too obsessed with continuity at depth positions IMO.

It's 3 years up to $50M. Not announced publicly yet.

No, dead money usually represents salary that has already been paid to the player and the team has used creative accounting to kick the salary cap implications to future years. Knox now is thinking about what money he'll be earning this year. Being released into a FA market versus taking say a $4M pay cut, his agent will tell him he's likely to lose more than that on the open market so take the pay cut. Restructure is not the same as rework. Restructure doesn't require the player's approval because it doesn't change the money in their pocket, it just converts salary into some sort of bonus (usually a signing bonus) that spreads the cap hit out over several years. A rework is a more polite way of saying pay cut, or occasionally a pay increase if the player is the one with leverage. No doubt about it, Knox has taken a straight up pay cut. Perhaps there will be incentives that can earn him most of the money back like what we did with Von, but it is still classified as a pay cut.

$19M AAV... Jeez, Danielle Hunter is gonna get close to $25M at this rate.

That almost certainly is not it. Everyone in the NFL is greedy, as they should be. They are getting advised by greedy agents. Players take pay cuts because the alternative is entering a crowded free agent market and risking an even worse salary than what the pay cut offers them.

Really interested to see the true numbers. I worry a bit about Dawkins' conditioning as he gets older but it's almost certainly going to free up cap space this year. He's supposed to cost $16.6M this year, maybe we cut that number in half.

For anyone who can't see the image he posted "It was good while it lasted Buffalo. Excited for this next chapter of my football career. Wonder if it's okay to eat ranch now."

Uhhhhhh... Maybe he is trolling?

This guy has had good info before:

It is a paycut. Players do it all the time if they know the alternative is a release and the risk of having to accept an even worse salary. And typically I am against the paycuts Beane gives out, historically they have still ended up being a waste of money. But in this case it was the only realistic means of saving money on Knox's contract without tying up more future money.

I was told a couple weeks ago Knox was approached about a paycut. I'm not sure what leverage we used considering his dead money hit would have been higher than his normal cap hit, but I'm glad to see he accepted the paycut. Perhaps we threatened a release with a post-6/1 designation? Glad to see Beane being especially ruthless this offseason. It is a necessary change.