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The foot "injury" is a bit of concern to me too. I'm all for having him on the Bills and it seems to me right now they are being very cautious. I do believe if healthy during the season he still will get spelled a lot from Davis to keep him as fresh as possbile.

It was a veiled troll line.

Wow Orton, that's right. Back in 2014. Man time is flying by. Quarterback Kyle Orton and holder Colton Schmidt said they had a laser directed at them during Buffalo's 17-14 win over the Lions on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. Schmidt said he had the laser pointed at him while holding on a 50-yard field goal attempt that Dan Carpenter banked off left upright in the third quarter. Carpenter responded to secure the win by hitting a 58-yard attempt with 4 seconds remaining, according to AP.

Shining it into the Bills kickers eyes. Carpenter I believe.

I'm definitely not one of those BUT it would be cool if he could get called up with these new rules for a hopefully meaningless NY Jets game to end the season. If he took some snaps it would sure bring in a lot of British fans for Buffalo. I think that would be OK.

https://www.buffalobills.com/team/depth-chart

Interesting players you have sited. Maybe a Bates/Boettger but no way both are traded. I want to add something about Butler. I brought this up a while back but no one commented because of the way that thread was going. IF Butler was put up for a trade do any Bills fans know what that would encompass? Spotrac shows a Post June 1st Butler trade has the Bills eating $4.5M in cap hit with a $806k cap savings. The team who would trade for Butler gets his services for less than $1M dollars. That is pretty enticing for a vet DT needy team. I wonder if Beane knew this when he did the Butler contract deal earlier this year? I would think so. It seems to me it makes a Butler trade a realistic option.

Thanks to replying to my off the cuff thought. Totally agree about seeing how things play out. It's just no one wants to think about a backup QB until one is needed. Interesting about what you say the Bears fans are saying. Thanks for that. One thing I would comment on is that idea of always another "Trubisky" I just got to say that isn't quite true for the Bills in the past 20 years. Trubisky would of been competing for a starter job not a backup like I was alluding to. I just thought it might have been a subject others could be interested in. If this idea had any merit going forward it would make for some fun reactions.

So if Trubisky didn't get many offers and he doesn't get many next year would Bills fan want him to sign a top backup contract to stay in Buffalo? That's probably around $5M per year.

Well it sure ain't going to be 2025. I'd say 2027.

Oops. I happened to be in the thread when you posted and I "immediately" went to Spotrac to see. LOL. GMs would be spending like drunken sailors.

The Spotrac 2026 cap estimates are $248M. It shows a rollover of $368M because there are no contracts signed to lower it. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/2026/

I would think that most teams don't want to pay out too much cash in signing bonuses the first year. Only a handful of contracts are more than 5 years and for those (especially the high $ ones) there is other ways to give players guaranteed money. I've noticed signing bonuses are going down (in % of total contract) and Option and Roster Bonuses are going up.

Zimmer epitomizes the hungry hard working guys that Beane and McDermott like to have around in camp and the PS. It seems to me that his chances lie in beating out Butler for a job. I don't care (and I think OBD feels the same way) if Butler took a cut in pay. It's about being able to help the team more than the other guy. Any way you cut it Butler will be gone after this year anyway.

Ahh Biloxi, Mississippi. I was down there for tech school from May until August. Of course that was back when planes had propellers LOL. It was quite the shock for a poor boy from Cheektowaga.

With a decent performance this year I suspect the Spotrac prediction of 6 year at $14M is probably pretty spot on. The first couple of years would be in the $12M category and IF the guaranteed money wasn't too steep I can see that happening. If Beane and the Bills don't want to sign him for that some other team probably will. They went 6 years due to his young age and would be 30 years old at the end of the contract. If Edmunds did a "Milano" type deal which was a bit team friendly I would cut off $1M per. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tremaine-edmunds-25111/market-value/

For the series that Allen and the starters are in for I would key on the running game, some swing passes and maybe a few quick TE passes. Keep the long developing plays to the WRs to an absolute minimum if at all.

Yes, they actually thought McCarron could play at least a half season and were wrong. Jets went into the draft with no QBs at all. Bills were lucky that Josh handled it pretty well. We will see how Wilson does.

The Jets went into this with Zach Wilson penciled in as the starter. He is struggling so they signed Josh Johnson a couple of days ago. It's going to be interesting to see how the summer progresses. My guess even if Wilson isn't ready they throw him to the lions.

IMO you won't see an Edmunds deal until after 2022 season. What the Bills will be offering I have no idea.

The only QB in camp for the Jets that has thrown an NFL pass is Josh Johnson. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JohnJo05.htm

My favorite Steeler.

"Other Josh" is cheap.

The contract is set up perfectly to move salary money into restructured money in 2025 and 2026. If Josh is still tearing it up it will give him some guaranteed money in his final 2 years which are only $40M per. I'm laughing while typing "only $40M" but in 2028 bridge QBs will be making 30-35 million.