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They are experiencing their own step back with worse coaching and a worse QB. Their shot was this year and they of course choked it away in December and January because that’s what the Dolphins do. don’t hold your breath.

I’m my understanding is that you can work in extensions that basically work as a restructure in regards to cap hit, adding on extra years that allow you to bring down the cap hit short-term. If those extensions don’t come at the end of the contract, say there’s two years left, the original terms are ripped up and the new terms are set. The reason you wouldn’t do this is if the player is not going to be here long term or is a retirement risk. Diggs is a good example. The original terms of his contract went through 2024. We extended him two years early, effectively “ending” that contract, and bringing his cap hit down to $11M and $14M for the last two seasons. You can play this game of chicken for awhile, but if the player becomes old and you need to move on or retires, you are going to accelerate that money and there will be some pain. It’s why Josh’s impending cap hit doesn’t matter, much like Brees’ cap hit didn’t matter. There’s still going to be a sizable hit, but as long as you can keep the balls in the air with extensions and restructuring, the real pain of the cap hit is delayed until they depart from the team. This is how the Buc’s signed Tom Brady. Due to his retirement, they had all his dead money floating around. But there’s no reason to not keep extending and restructuring cornerstones like franchise QB’s because it’s gonna suck when they retire regardless. In the Von example, we can add years on and reduce his cap hit but why would we do that? If he retired next year, it would just be more pain.

More like, Whaley was on record saying, “I got you your coffee just the way you like it Mr. Pegula.”

KC won the trade. Best QB in football and moving up 17 slots in the first for the paltry sum of a late first rounder the following year. They have won 3 Superbowls and been to 6 AFCCG since the trade. I’d trade our first round pick for the next 50 years for that kind of success. No brainer. Josh Allen was a great consolation prize, but we were the architects of our own demise unfortunately.

Updated info for @Thurman#1. Let's look at Xavien Howard's recent contract situation. We all know he was cut with a post 6/1 designation prior to getting his first day of league year salary. Here's the work the good people at Spotrac.com did for Mr Howard, who some might have argued was IMPOSSIBLE to move on from. Then let's look back at the glorious work done by those same good people for one Stefon Diggs In summary: also cc: @BillsFanForever19

They have to prepare to throw the bag at Tua. Need to eat that hit now in 24 and 25.

He’s absolutely a HoF QB but he has been surely overrated until recently.

This exemplifies the increases over the years. A 70M difference between 21 and now is pretty stark.

The brightest minds at Cover1 say it’s not possible lol.

Get your own material bro

Sneed definitely isn’t taking a cut. He has never gotten paid. Jones I could see taking a smaller deal with more years.

Morally, I felt it was tough to cut him without due process. Business and football-wise, it was a no-brainer to jettison him. Tough decision. Really glad the kids’ life isn’t over and he gets to pursue his dream. Not sure there’s anything else to say.

Bills fans used to ANNIHILATE Lamar Jackson. That trailed off for a bit until this second MVP. There can be no other great QB’s in the NFL! I eagerly await the tonal shift on CJ Stroud from “what a great rookie season from a promising young QB,” to “Stroud is overrated and I take Allen 10/10 times over him, he ain’t even close!” You know it’s coming. Week 6 if the Texans are like 5-1 and someone on ESPN says Stroud should be MVP, the hate will start to fly.

Hopefully Von plays more left bench next year, or isn’t on the team at all, and we don’t have to worry about this.

Hot take: Sean McDermott joins competition committee yesterday. Today, salary cap is bumped up almost $14M more than projected, which helps keep us competitive. coincidence? I think not. Unlike the draft, where we know exactly who is going to be successful and is definitely not unpredictable at all.

Bah gawd, that’s Terry McLaurin’s music!

2024 cap released. $255M Sean McD already making his presence felt at the competition committee.

2025 dead cap hit with a post 6/1 cut is $22M, which is the same as if we cut him pre 6/1 in 2025. These numbers are all readily available. And yeah, I’ve used Spotrac for years, and I’ve never seen them call post 6/1 designations as potential outs. It’s an educated guess, because I have experience with the website. unlike you, who treat it like gospel when it supports your opinion, dispute it as “wrong” when it doesn’t, and don’t even know how to use it lmao. You also don’t know the definition of brazen, but nice comeback attempt?

Thank you. I was trying to read the daily mail link and I thought I was having a stroke.

They do list 2025 as a potential out. They also say we can say can cut Diggs post 6/1 and save $19M in space in 2024. As far as I know, Spotrac doesn’t use post 6/1 moves as potential outs because they are pretty rare in general. You are very confident and quite brazen about your interpretation of Spotrac for a guy who needed 2 pages of directions to figure out how to use the website.

Click the red X on the right. Then you can debate the numbers with the website.

Jim ain’t getting flack for this. He’s 64 years old. His nephew is about to be 30.

People will call this “low expectations,” but the Sabres are literally unwatchable. Some dark day Bills games in December were unwatchable. We have a primetime fun great team. There’s about 28 or 29 fan bases of teams that would kill to be us.

These two parts, mostly; if you switch to “Bills” and “Allen” it basically becomes your takes over the last 12 months.