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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

I think they could do stuff with Dion Dawkins, Mitch Morse, Tre White, and Micah Hyde. (LOL but maybe I'm wrong there too, I just looked though). None would be desireable. I don't think they should, of course. They could also try to extend DaQuan Jones. On that, I expect they'd like to but his people and Beane's people are still too far apart on what that would look like.

That would be a big "Phew"

I most fervently hope that you're right and I'm wrong. I would absolutely LOVE to be mistaken on this. I'm serious.

I think you're missing PUP, IR and NFI. As far as I know they must all fit under the cap by 4 pm today.

You're correct that GM's like to have X amount of space just in case, but Beane is still working on just getting under the cap.

I think Beane has to find an additional $11.7-$14.2M cap by 4 pm today for -Von Miller on PUP ($7.94M) -4 guys on IR ($2.46) -whatever agreement the Bills made with Nyheim Hines on NFI (that's the wiggle room - $0.8M to $3.5M) I'm not exactly sure where we're going to find that, but it's clear that some more moves have to be coming. Including moves that, as you say, we would probably be wiser not to make. But that's where we are. Bills have 4 guys on IR. Shorter, Spector on "eligible to return". Doyle, Davidson on season-ending.

This. In fact, Beane is going to need to clear up some more cap somehow, because (for example) if a practice squad player is elevated, we need to pay him If we need to sign an injury replacement, we need to pay him. In fact I THINK Beane needs to make more moves, because I don't think IR, PUP, and NFI (depending upon what was negotiated) are counted in the cap that is currently calculated on sites like Spotrac, and they need to be accounted for. We may be seeing Beane restructure some guys he would rather not.

Do you understand what restructuring actually does? Because, not wanting to sound condescending, from the above written, I'm not entirely sure that you do Look at Tre White as an example: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tredavious-white-21768/ Beane's strategy of only restructuring when he actually needs the cap space is correct. Restructuring every player that can be restructured, is how you wind up with either a bunch of players who may no longer be playing up to their contract (not to say that will be Tre White, but it could be) OR a year with massive amounts of dead cap hit. Worse, you can wind up with massive cap hits - for players who are no longer even under contract! Here's another example to look at, Dion Dawkins. What would restructing Dion do to 2025? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/dion-dawkins-21805/ Here's another example of that, from another player who was restructured: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/micah-hyde-12440/ This is Micah Hyde's last year under contract. Next year, we will have a cap charge of $3.4M for Hyde - while he is not under contract to us! There's a reason Beane and other GMs have referred to it as "kicking the can down the road"

Um, we did cut Kameron Cline AND Kendal Vickers They’re not on our 53 man, they are on our practice squad.

That already happened thru preseason Add in Dodson has been a stalwart on ST, which I know many here don’t care about but McDermott does

Just like that winning coach Doug Marrone said, eh? "Never Confuse Effort with Results" Oh Wait

Obviously from his post-cutdown interview, Beane is concerned about that too. But he seems more concerned with keeping the guys who are best for THIS year. But I do need to point out the "one more year" thing. I'm not sure this is your mistake, but Teller did not need "one more year" in Cleveland. He played "right bench" the first half of the season after the trade, took over for injury and played decently, then became a 2nd team all-pro the following year on a strong RUNNING team (4 for attempts, 3 for yards). It's been said previously that Beane traded Teller and he became an "instant all pro" in Cleveland, that's not true. Beane traded Teller who sat on the bench, then became a 2nd team all pro 2 years later - and again, on a strong RUNNING team. As many times as Beane trades off a guy we drafted with years left on his contract. Well, OK - I didn't hear anyone suggesting that about Zach Moss or Cody Ford, but then, I didn't hear anyone suggesting that about Wyatt Teller the first year after we traded him either.

I'm not sure what your point about Cincinnati is. Daquan Jones didn't play vs. Cincinnati, calf injury. Ed Oliver played 75% of the game, wasn't on injury report but was wearing a shoulder brace a couple weeks earlier. Jordan Phillips was questionable with a shoulder, got off season surgery. TBH I'm not sure who our DL against Cincy was - the starters were Eli Ankou and Tim Settle. I think Ed Oliver (shoulder) may have played some 1T? Also Jordan Phillips (shoulder), and Boogie Basham took snaps. Our starting DE were Shaq Lawson and Rousseau, AJ Epenesa, Kingsley Jonathan, and Boogie behind them I think. Anyway, it appears their subpar and broken O-line beat up our sub-par and broken D-line. Shaq Lawson has become a very good run defender. Rousseau is also pretty good against the run.

Um...you don't yet know what the results in NE under Bill O'Brien as QB coach will be, right? The Patriots haven't yet played a game with O'Brien as OC and Mac as QB. ( @BuffaloBillyGOBrien is a dual role, as well, OC and QB coach) So are we wondering what Joe Brady offers Josh Allen as a non-QB coaching a top 5 franchise QB?

Maybe stupid question, but is he rich? Being the nephew of a famous rich uncle doesn't make that automatic. We like to see everything as either/or: good/bad hero/zero. But most situations and people are more nuanced than that.

Pretty crazy that $1.865M for 3 years makes Chad the highest paid player in the N CFL, when that's not even NFL Rookie Minimum Edit: thanks to those who pointed out my brain fart

Isn't that "Whataboutism" WEO? We've been talking about Apple here. He can be "not an upstanding citizen" for not being willing to gift 2T of blood to his unborn child without any reference to the morals and ethics of his ex-girlfriend, which could be horrid. You can take those on in a separate discussion if you wish, but her being scummy doesn't make him less so. (I don't think she went "right to social media" by the way, the child has evidently been born (at 25 weeks) and had several medical procedures.)\\ And on that note, I think I'm outta here.

Maybe my perception of Clark is colored by playoffs since that would be like 2/3 of the Chiefs games I watched IIRC the Texans "Boogie'd" Omenihu by flipping him to the Niners for a following year 6th. I'll take your word on his beastliness, but is some of that caused by playing with Nick Bosa?

I haven't watched every niner game so I have no visual basis to disagree. Did you watch every chiefs game to compare Clark? Anyway, looks like Omenihu is gonna be lacking that "best ability is availability" trait for the first 6 games.

It's a little hard to tell the size and proportions, but I think it's a wolf or fishing spider. The eyes are different (between wolf and fishing), if you care to get close enough to look. Their venom isn't that harmful. https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/commonspiders.pdf Bottom row on the right Was just canoeing last week, and one of the kayakers at our put-in found a freakin' tarantula in her kayak. Damned thing was like 6" across. First time I learned there are tarantulas native to Missouri. That's one learning I wish I'd missed.

I'm not sure he's an upgrade; I think 4.5 -5 sacks and 13-16 QB hits was Clark's production last 2 years Similar production 2020 and 2022 from Omenihu