No_Matter_What

I don't understand why people worry so much about WR room being set. There is like 85%+ chance that we draft WR in rounds 1-3 imo. I doesn't guarantee that WR room will be upgraded but FO will try for sure.

Assuming that "up to" means he is in fact over the threshold I hope it does and also hope we don't sign anyone, unless it is really worth it. 3rd round comp pick is too much of a value to be lost for random UFA. Also sad to see Motor go.

Some people are saying that anything under $1.75M doesn't count, and that (hoperfully) includes Sherfield, and more than likely Johnson. If true, we are still 2/2 and basically waiting for Motor's deal.

Some comments directly in your post. If I understand it correctly Beane said $9M prior releasing of McK and prior Dane's contract change. That makes sense, and would mean we have about $12.5M right now. Since you need about $10 more for season itself (rookies, PS players, in season moves and 53man roster rule), we have very little space in fact. Just for one extra $3M FA and couple of vet mins. We definitely don't have $7-8M for FA without additional restructires.

Random question: anybody knows anything about Daiyan Henley, LB from Washington State? I've seen him mocked to us in the first (!) on some local forum, and don't remember ever seeing his name mentioned on TBD before...

Hmmm. It's on Sportrac and they have it much better than tweets above: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/jordan-poyer-12500/ It says 10M guaranteed, 3.6M cap hit this year, 6.2M cap hit next year, and only 750k dead cap if released. There are some incentives too. If true, this is the best deal Beane has ever done lol.

I really doubt he will get bigger just beacuse we released him

Btw this looks like we are going to get a WR somehow very soon. I doubt we are going to enter the draft with just 4 NFL receivers on the roster.

It was always a possibility once we kept/restructured Hines and added Harty, but I didn’t think it will happen before TC (and I know he was due some $300k or so today). Wish him all the best. He was a good Bill.

I hope that anyone who mentions this as an example how our division rivals are getting better also mentions that Miami just lost him lol

I just posted this in another thread. I fully agree. And I like it TBH. I know most people here don't care about the cap or think it can always be manipulated but at some point we need to make it work with cheap guys as starters. We have top secondary so we have to survive having young LB next to Milano.

Apparently Dodson signed for $2M. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyrel-dodson-29586/ I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't sign any LB at this point and waited for the draft. And I can also imagine that we won't draft anyone high and roll with Bernard or Dodson as starting LB.

Agreed, it is a good sign that it will not be something his agent is proud of. But what would you think in fact means? I've seen even numbers like $10M AAV floating around, which seems way to much to me. I hope it is $7M or so. Also, it was reported as 2yr deal, but we've seen in the past that it actually can be 1yr deal with void year.

Ok, so its really just number of players in/out and ONLY IF you lose more players than you sign then you start looking at the contracts? So let's say we only lose Edmunds for that crazy contract and sign some random RB for 6/2 and we get nothing? If that is the case I agree with @HappyDays that once you know 3rd round is in play for someone like Edmunds you should start considering "playing comp pick game". Not saying that you should do anything to get that comp pick, just take it into equation. If we don't get it because we lose 3 players and sign 3 players I'd say it could be a mistake. If we sign 5 FAs who qualify then like you said its all moot point.

I know, you misread my post. I wrote $10M for rookies, PS players, 52/53 player and some in season moves, and I meant all these things together. $2M rookies $4M PS players $1.7M 52/53 player (not counted now, counted once the season starts) $3M bacis buffer for season Hence ~$10M total.

2 questions: 1. Are you sure that Poyer counts like any other free agent? I thought that re-signing your own doesn't count. 2. Do you understand how the formula works? If Poyer signs something like 14/2 does it mean we can completely lose 3rd round pick for TE, or it can just cause that it becomes lower pick, let's say 5th round?

They still have Milano original cap hit, so it is actually about $16.5M before Poyer and Allen. I guess/hope Allen gets max. $2M (so $1M extra cap hit) and I don't expect Poyer's 2023 cap hit to be more than $6M (so $5M extra cap hit) - I still hope he signed for $7M AAV and I guess there will be a void year, so his cap hit might be as low as $4M. So my guess is that we have about $10M cap space right now. Which means we have effectively zero, since you need $10M for rookies, PS players, 52/53 player and some in season moves.

He should. From us. Something like 8/3. I think that he won't get much more than that.

No problem. I hope you and the Bills are right. I just reacted on you saying that I am trying to find out something to be upset about. I am the direct opposite, so it hurts me when people say it

Now I am completely lost. You are either confusing me with someone or just trying to be jerk from no reason at all. I didn't express any opinion on that KC signing. I guess I find it stupid what they did, but I don't care that much about Chiefs. I care about Bills. I support almost everything what they do, and I really don't know why you feel the need to attack me personally for a little random critical hot take. But whatever, you do you.

Again, same as I just responded to MAJBobby. I am not trying to find anything. I am pretty sure that I am one of the biggest Beane and McD supporters on this board. I have all silly whiners and trolls blocked. I mention guarantees since cap space is my hobby (as you can see from my posting history) and on the first glance this looks like a questionable signing to me. I think I am allowed to have critical hot take from time to time Peace.

Bobby why so offensive? Your guess (apparently implying that I whine about everything) is completely wrong. I am one of the biggest Beane / McDermott supporters on this board. That doesn't mean I have to immediately praise every single signing, does it? I have no idea why you felt the necessity to react this way.

I get what people say about potential and granted I wouldn't know if he is any good even if I watched Saints but still, giving $5M guaranteed to a guy who has grand total of 793 receiving yards in 4 seasons (!) is really confusing to me. I guess we'll see. I do expect something really big happens in the next 36 or so hours.

Nope, I already counted Milano. Sportrac shows $14.5M, I added $6M, so right now we should have something over $20M.

Yeah but it is not relevant. Total cap hit of rookies will be over $7M, but we only need about $2M extra, since those rookies will be replacing other players already accounted for. So @GolfandBills is right, all draft picks cost us about $2M in cap space.