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Haack - $1.575M Sanders - $6M Feliciano - $5M (1st year hit should be this or a little less) Total: $12.575M Less displacing (Becker-660k, Love-780k, Cam Lewis-780k Total Top 51 Cap Hit - $10.355M Bills Current Cap: $10.618M Beane is all square going into tomorrow from everything I have seen so far.

I always like Sanders. That being said he is long in the tooth and $6M is a little more than I could have hoped for BUT I will wait to see how much is guaranteed. Has that been released?

Of course he is. He brings a wrinkle to the game that John Brown didn't have. He also can field a punt and a kickoff if needed to in an emergency. He was loved by the team and the fans here in Colorado I'm sure he will fit in nicely.

I'm not sure. There seems to be leeway in system somewhere.

I've noticed in the pass that some GMs don't do the restructures until they sign the guy they want. Kind of pay as you go. Plus not having all the cap space maybe helps a little in negotiations with the players agent.

That doesn't stop him from playing QB.

It's only $1.6M off the Top 51 Cap.

There is still a ton of players not signed and more getting cut every hour. Beane is patient. We are not.

Yes, they have to stay under the cap at the end of every day. Some teams will look like they are over on Spotrac/OTC but that is unofficial. They official numbers are kept my the NFL.

Bills Cap now at $9M. Looks like the Hyde contract came in. Still waiting on the Feliciano $'s and the Dirty Red contract extension. I'm still expecting a vet (30 years old or so) TE followed by a Lee Smith cut/retired along with a DE if one can get the $'s down. A speedy RB/WR may be in the works too. My prediction is the first gets signed on Thursday (maybe late Wednesday but what do I know).

But the Bills haven't done enough to vastly improve their 13-3 record! Get with the program!

I know we all like Roberts returning punts for us but I think the most important thing to consider is the game day roster slot. I believe the Bills can do better than having a slot go to a punt returner. I say punt returner because a lot of guys can return kickoffs.

Yes. Patience is the word this year. Also if Beane wants a TE Ertz isn't the only one and I'm willing to bet most would like Josh throwing them the ball.

I did try to address the first year cap hit in my numbers. But I think you are right about the 1 year contracts. I expect to see a lot of them at bargain prices. It would be a way for players to ride the storm out. A TE could garner a serious look by Beane especially a one year type deal. It would reduce the risk as to Knox's development or not.

The only signing they have done is a franchise tag. They have lost a bunch of players and are still over the cap.

Bills draft pick take $1.5M off the Top 51 Cap.

Not our heads, the agents heads. Guys are happy to sign these contracts!

They were 13-3. You don't know near as much as you profess to. I'll debate you whether or not they "got better" when camp is over.

He has more to do! I can't wait.

It seems to me that it's such a unique situation that Beane is not going to let it pass without doing nothing. I don't expect any BIG signing. They will go to the teams that can afford to pay those player top dollar. I do have hope that a couple of impactful players will get signed especially now that Buffalo is a "destination". Not many better places to take a 1 or 2 year contract till this blows over. I'm quoting myself to clarify. I do not think I got this down compared to GMs and Agents. I'm sure they got list broke down by position and with much more details than I do along with other teams suspected needs etc.

OK, I'm snowed in at my house in the Colorado Rockies and I don't have anything better to do. I'm retired and I just got signed up for my first Covid shot Tuesday! A trip back to Buffalo is being Planned! I wanted to take a top overview (35,000 ft for you people that were stuck in those meetings like I was) of this years crazy FA. First off I truly enjoy looking through all things Spotrac and I found something interesting I want to share. I'm using their info and for anyone wanting to "tear into me" over this don't bother. I did what I did for myself. If you don't agree that's fine! If you got some thought out input I will edit my OP. Using todays available Cap for Free Agency (money available to the teams) and taking off a very reasonable amount of leeway. What I mean there is teams are NOT going to spend every penny available in FA I came up with a $ amount. Currently that is around $572M. That figure comes form $780M right now available minus $208M ($6.5M team average) in wiggle room. That would be money left over after FA for draft and some working space. So there is around $572M chasing FAs. Let's take off $100M ($3M or so from each team) for signing a few no name team depth type players. The Bills need to sign a type of guy like Bojo, Boettger, etc) All teams still typically need to. Now we are down to $472M. Now comes the crazy part. I added up the 85 or so players (minus a few that won't get signed for various reason ie OT Fisher) from the Spotrac FA list that have a "Market Value" attached to them. I'm using this as starting point as well as a lot of others do on this site.). That number is a whopping $817M. Now if you say that through signing deals these players take only a 2/3 (.67) 1st year hit of their average "Market Value" that still comes to $548M. Remember this is just the 85 players of the currently 769 Free Agents on the list. So the $472M in team money available for FA and just looking at the 85 "Market Value" players leaves a deficit of -$76M. What is further interesting is that all the recently released players (John Brown as an example) are not even figured in the "Market Value" on Spotrac! I reason this to be that things are moving way to quick right now and they are not going to do the calculation for these guys. As of right now there are 769 FAs on the Spotrac list and I was just talking about the top 85. That leaves another 684 FAs per Spotrac! I have NEVER seen a FA list this long in all my years of following Spotrac. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/ https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/ https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/transactions/released/ My conclusion is what a lot of us have been thinking. There are way way too many Free Agents chasing way too few dollars! I just had to prove it to myself! I think there will be a frenzy to sign the marquee players and FAs targeted by teams with money but it wont last long until a good portion of the available FA $'s are eaten up and then the FUN will begin. All these numbers are fluid and a lot of things are happening but the basics still apply. I know Beane and his boys know this and I expect him to make us happy in the next week or so! FWIW and for anyone interested it took me only an hour or so to rough these numbers. I'm sure smart GMs and Player Agents have done the same. I expect a Free Agency period like none we have ever seen before and the Wizard is not going to let it pass. Think about the guys who have to sign cheap and where will they want to go. Buffalo will be on a lot of those lists. Then again I could be totally wrong but something tells me a Super Bowl run is coming THIS YEAR!

I was just going to say that about a "ring chaser" (great term and it's great to say about the Bills!) or maybe two. Three seems a little too much for the cap.

I'll "show my work" about the Bills Draft Pick cost concerning the Top 51 Cap is as follows: Every pick that is signed "displaces" a current player already being counted against the cap. Currently those players are making at least $780,000. Round 1, Pick #30--------$2,021,038 minus $780,000 equals $1,241,038 Round 2, Pick #61--------$1,000,327 minus $780,000 equals $220,327 Round 3, Pick #93--------$865,515 minus $780,000 equals $85,515 Round 5, Pick #161--------$734,059 will not count Round 5, Pick #174--------$724,218 will not count Round 6, Pick #211--------$696,650 will not count Projected Draft Pool: $6,041,807 Top 51 resulting cap hit: $1,546,880.

Nowadays teams are only required to be in compliance with the top 51 Cap Rules. Sites like Spotrac and OTC show the total cost of picks but it's not an NFL thing.