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I think your information is outdated. Hines renegotiated his contract with the Bills this off-season. He counts $3.5 this season and $5.4 next season. $1M of his $2.5M salary is guaranteed. Hines is not on IR, he's on NFI. That makes a difference - on NFI, the team is not obligated to pay the player his salary or any per-game bonuses, and if they wish, they can even go after a portion of his signing bonus. I don't think the Bills are likely to do this. Word was that the Bills offered Hines keep the bonus and we'll pay you the maximum for a PS player; his agent of course wants the full $2.5M salary and $340k per-game roster bonuses. No word on if there's a settlement. There's no point in an injury settlement for a season-long recovery. The negotiating point is that the team is not obligated to pay salary or per-game roster bonuses to a player injured outside the facility, even if he's working out to prepare for football (!!!). This isn't an injury settlement, I'm not sure there's a specific term for it. So hopefully there will be a settlement, but all we've heard so far is from Beane "we'll take care of him; we want him on the team next year" and from Hines agent a shot across the bow on Twitter (I mean X) about how some teams take care of their people. These were both just after the injury.

The Bills are way below (or above, depending upon your perspective) average on dead cap. 29th in the league, meaning only the Jags, Chargers, and Bengals have less. League average is $27.66M in dead cap.

Depends upon the contender but at times you are definitely mistaken In any case, we aren't having a competition on OL. It's Dawkins-McGovern-Morse-O'Torrence-Brown If that isn't getting it done, then we'll see change - same as other contenders do, especially if they have injuries to contend with

I Get It. Just sayin' I don't mind sharing some tweets, but we can't replace what Yolo did with one ordinary human's contributions. Need 3 or 4. Not wanting to carry a bone, but just for anyone who's interested you can see tweets (or X's or whatever they are ) through a web browser, no app necessary (but it is requiring you to log in now a days - can use a google account, not necessarily your primary lol) Dalton Kincaid. James Cook. Deonte Harty. Dawson Knox. Trent Sherfield. Latavius Murray. maybe even Davis, if he's open short and quick? Any of these guys. Just don't alternate between targeting Diggs, and throwing long, low % throws, to Davis.

Fair. I missed the memo, but that's not a surprise. Is Hackett thought to have had any input into the design of the offense, or was that thought to be all LaFleur? Y'know, in the time it took ya both to whinge about this, ya coulda gone to Twitter (I mean X) and found some content to share.... I miss Yolo too, but I'm trying to be part of a solution, not part of a precipitate. JS'n

I would say the issue is not his neck

That last kind of thing (McDermott says a player won't practice, but he's out there) has happened before. I think there are two reasons for this: 1) the player is out there for warm-ups and position drills/1:1s, which is all the media is allowed to watch - but does not participate in the team part of practice 2) the trainers communicated to McDermott that a player was injured and needed to be held out, but then after treatment and warm-ups the injury improved to where they said "OK, let's give it a try and see where you are" Pretty sure today is likely to be a walk-through in shells for the team portion, so it's a practice an injured player could handle in theory. We don't owe the NFL an injury report until tomorrow, so we won't get any more info.

TF did I just hear? https://youtu.be/A6uLBUOjkXQ?si=HeUFoIIjZR1SMt-2 6:13 in, in case that doesn't work. Coach McDermott just said that there isn't a lot of film on Hackett and Aaron Rodgers together; said that they've been around each other, but not in the roles they're in as OC and QB. But, Hackett was in GB for 3 years as titular OC!!!! 2019 - 2021 During those 3 years, GB was 13-3, 13-3, and 13-4 and Rodgers went to 3 probowls and was 1st team all-pro 2x and league MVP 2x. What TF is McDermott talking about? Is he implying actually, Matt LaFleur was the OC and Hackett was OC "in name only"? I hadn't heard about LaFleur calling the plays etc., but did he? Is that why people felt Hackett was so unqualified to be Denver's HC? Or is McDermott confused, which would not be a good sign (and seems unlikely)?

Good point. But keep in mind that Poyer and Hyde can interchange roles. So you could see Poyer as FS and Rapp taking the SS role, with Hamlin subbing in situationally. Or, you could see Poyer and Hamlin as the starters with Rapp subbing in situationally.

PSA: Hamlin started 13 games for the Bills last season, during which the Bills compiled a record of 10-3. I don't think he's back to where he was quite yet, but then, he took a couple games to pick up last season.

I'm not sure how "nobody seemed to even realize he was hurt" Dane Jackson was injured and taken off the field. Micah Hyde was also injured and taken off the field - he only played about 2/3 of the snaps. It was in the media after the game that Hyde had gone to the ER. McDermott said in his presser that he'd called Nate Breske, the Bills head trainer, to find out if he should go to the hospital and was told both Jackson and Hyde were being sent home. I think the severity (shut him down for the season) was a surprise, but the fact of the injury (which uncharacteristically had him out for 1/3 of the game) was not.

Not good. Not good at all.

I now have a Peter Gabriel earworm: https://youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?t=110 "All you do is call me.....I'll be anything you need" "I wanna be....your sledge hammer"

Oh, you never know. He might have friends somewhere - like maybe 2 on a Dolphins board and 1 on a Pats board, if there are Pats boards.

In contrast to most of Maddy Glab's pieces which I find kinda lame, this one had some genuine funny moments. Dawson says "best way to describe Kincaid is as a Golden Retriever" Like "Air Bud", really good at football - but still, a Golden Retreiver. Dalton politely agrees that he has "Golden Retriever energy". He then "returns fire" by describing Dawson Knox as "Dad, he's the Dad of the group". The 27 yr old 'club action Machine" Dawson is hit to the core: "Wow" "Feels like my rookie year was yesterday" But the fun really starts when discussing Dalton's hair routine. I'm a little concerned about how "Golden Receiver Energy" will hold up against press man coverage, tho

So here's a little point about the "bend not break" "measure success by points allowed" Bills defense. In 2021, the Bills D was #1 in both points allowed, AND yards. 2020, 16 in points, 14 in yards. 2019, #2 in points #3 in yards. 2022 is requires more work to correct for # games played in pro-football-reference, but I make it #2 in PA and #6 in yards (by 18 yds per game vs #1 & #2 teams) Point being, the Bills D historically doesn't seem to be doing a disproportionate amount of "bending" in allowing yards vs. allowing points. Where we've had a problem is in throttling other teams in a handful of tight moments in big games - 13 seconds, Vikes game etc Well, and the Bengals divisional debacle last year which, contrary to narrative, was a horrible fail for the defense.

You do actually need to be told something. You need to have it explained it's not just the impact on the cap for this and the next year that is of concern in restructures, it's the impact on the cap over the duration of the restructure - which is usually several years, and sometimes is extended past the duration of the actual contract using "void years". Take your example of Tre White's 2022 restructure of $2.9M salary into bonus. That didn't just impact 2023; the Bills divided that into 4 equal parts (amortized it) and spread it over the remaining 4 years of his contract. So $0.74M got added to his existing restructure bonus of $1.892 for the year 2022; the remainder got added to his existing restructure bonuses for 2023, 2024, and 2025. (That's why he converted $2.9M salary, but it only cleared $2.2M of cap space in 2022). The long term impact is that if the Bills were to decide that they wanted to move on from Tre in 2024 or 2025, they have an extra $1.78M added to the dead cap of $10.37 they already have on the books from: signing bonus from his 2020 extension amortized into 2024 ($2.1M); option bonus exercised in 2021 ($1.5M/ yr), AND a previous 2021 restructure converting $9.46M of salary into restructure bonus divided over the 5 years of his contract ($1.892M/yr). That's a small amount from $2.9M in 2022, but the impact of restructuring (say) $7.6M of salary to bonus for Tre (which the Bills could do) would be to make it much harder to move on from him and/or (if they add void years) leaving money on the books for him after his contract. For example the Bills will have $3.4M of dead cap on the books for Micah Hyde in 2024 - while Hyde is not even under contract with the Bills. In 2025, we will have $2.84M dead cap on the books for Dawkins - again, while he's no longer under contract with the Bills. We could jack that up to $8M dead money with a restructure of Dion! I say all this knowing that while in fact you NEED to be told something, I likely can't, in fact, teach you anything But your bit about folks who don't understand basic math and concepts and millionaires is unintentional humor at its very finest. You're the capology equivalent of the guy who takes out a $10k credit card with no interest for 24 months in 2022 and charges it to the limit, failing to consider that in 2024, he's going to have a $10k loan to pay back (with interest)

He was practicing last week with a sleeve/brace on his knee

Who is gonna tell him?

No, their actual split salary is what counts against the cap, plus of course signing bonus and any roster bonus not linked to playing in games but just still being on the roster at a certain date.

Not quite. IR counts 100%, but a lot of players "split contracts", meaning they get paid less for the weeks they are on IR. So for example, here's the Bills IR list: Tommy Doyle does NOT have a split contract. He's getting paid his full NFL minimum while he's on IR. But, you can see that Shorter, Spector, and Davidson are all getting less than the league minimum of at least $750k for a rookie or $870k for a year of experience.

I'm sure he'll play

I doubt it's a distraction to Miller. His people are handling it. The buyer said he'd never met Miller.

Reasonable take. Last season in the Bills first meeting, Allen was sacked 5 times, knocked down twice, intercepted twice, only 4 blitzes but 8 pressures. Basically, the Jets DL had their way with our OL. Line was Dawkins-Saffold-Morse-Bates-Quessenberry Second meeting, Bills OL did better but still below par - 3 sacks, 1 knock down, and 3 pressures, no interceptions. Line was Dawkins-Saffold-Morse-Bates-Brown