BuffaloRebound

We have 1 QB on the roster. No brainer. I’m sure this is vet minimum or close to it.

Watson’s a good QB but he has one of the weaker arms for a top QB. He would’ve been better off on a dome or warm weather team. See Drew Brees.

Go get Fletcher Cox!!!! only half-kidding. Could you imagine that D Line… Miller, Cox, Oliver, Groot.

I’ll say CB in round 1 because the good ones with speed never last. Then Interior O Line in Round 2.

Kind of weird that meetings he has with teams are announced in the media unless it’s a requirement as a tendered RFA. He must have some promise if multiple teams are sniffing around.

Says a lot that Browns probably had less than 5% chance to land Watson with Atlanta, Carolina, and Saints involved, but they still went ahead anyway.

Minnesota doesn’t have much cap space so it’s not gonna be something where the Bills don’t match because of cap space. Will strictly be about money and what Bills think he’s worth.

Why would he retire and fore-go his $2.5m in guaranteed money?

Wonder what if this means Carolina is in full tank mode now? Do we start sniffing around McCaffrey now?

Not afraid of Matt Ryan, but I’d rather he not come to Indy or Cleveland. So i guess i’m rooting for New Orleans.

This is actually a great thread. And also shows how great it was to lock up Josh for the next 5 years. Other teams will have QB inflation and on lesser QB’s. We won’t.

Only explanation is that they feel Dane Jackson is a cheaper replacement and the 3rd guy in the boundary corner room has to be faster.

The salary cap is 32 houses worth the same amount that goes up in value 10% every year (that might be conservative with the new TV and streaming deals and the gambling rights for the next 10 years). Each team is given a home equity line on that house that you don’t have to pay interest on and a yearly salary cap for accounting purposes to preserve parity. If you wanna spend more this year, but push the accounting salary cap charge for it to future years, that’s your prerogative. Credit card isn’t a good example because interest always accrues and you’re spending money you may or may not have. The salary cap is spending money you will have in future years today that doesn’t accrue interest and the money you will have in the future years grows 10% every year for the next 10 years. (Those media rights deals are locked in). It’s a debit card, not a credit card.

Yes. Jerry Jones makes the same amount from the media rights deal as Shahid Khan even though Dallas brings in 10 times more eyeballs.

Because they already used up most of their push it forward maneuvers. The cap is real to the extent that it is an accounting device that prevents a Jerry Jones from significantly out-spending other teams while at the same time it also prevents a Jerry Jones from spending too much of his future cap. So it protects parity and protects the owners from themselves at the same time

You’re describing NFL socialism, not a salary cap. It’s not the cap that levels the field, it’s the fact that teams split all media rights money equally.

It’s a home equity line that accrues no interest and you don’t have to pay off on a house that goes up in value 10% every year. If you go all in this year, it just means other teams will have more money to spend than you in future years.

It’s nothing like a credit card. There’s no interest on pushing charges into the future. And the cap grows every year except when the world almost ends like Covid. By the time it comes due, the cap has doubled and the charges pushed into the future don’t compound.

And this dude made Schefter look bad on top of everything else. Schefter is the one who reported it first.

At least Mitch bumping this to the back page. Have fun playing with Wentz dude.

Why would he continue playing? He’s made $140m. Nobody’s giving him more than $4-5m for 1 year.

I guess anything’s possible given his decision making off the field, but I can’t see watson picking an outdoor cold weather team with that arm strength.

Are we really in it to win it? Don’t ask for a billion in taxpayer money for a new stadium and then hide behind the salary cap excuse that doesn’t stop other teams from going all in. Take the $3.5m per year that one your JAG signings spurned you on and add that to your Jones offer.

They do when it’s $1billion in public money for a stadium. I’m not one to want a splashy signing for it’s own sake, but I think McBeane’s gotta read the room a little here. Replacing our JAG’s with other JAG’s is gonna leave the large majority of the fanbase uninspired.