Big Turk

Teams spending stupid money now...

Base salary converting to signing bonus which lowers cap hit this year and extends the dollars over the life of the contract.

It might be "legal" to tamper but the actual tampering has been going on since the end of the season. How else do these players agree to contracts at like 12:01am on the start of free agency?? I am supposed to believe that they came up with the contract over the course of 2 days? Please.

Think he had a couple against us if I am not mistaken.

I posted it in the restructuring thread yesterday afternoon, but probably should have done a new thread on it.

Beane is a wizard in getting players to take pay cuts but then guaranteeing the lower contract. Win-win for both Bills and players. Just did the same thing with Tim Settle to save another 600K.

Have not seen either Josh or Von announced, just that it was expected any day now before the start of the league year

They just did Settle saving them $600K...seems it's similar to some others on the last year of their deals recently that were in danger of getting cut...lowered the dollar amount, but guaranteed the contract which meant they will not be cut either

You don't trade assets for an aging player at a position of low value and then have to pay him at a level that makes him highest player at his position. How do people have so much trouble understanding this concept?

Tim Settle restructures to save the Bills 600K in cap space. https://billswire.usatoday.com/2023/03/12/buffalo-bills-tim-settle-renegotiate-deal-2023-salary-cap/

No you don't...

Pretty sure he values $17 million in cap space more. Bills will win the AFC East by multiple games. Again.

For a 3rd and TE Hunter Long

Love me some Matt Milano.

I have unlimited PTO so I can't relate to this

Still remember him walking out onto a field when it was like below zero temps at 80 years old in a short sleeve shirt when the Vikings honored him during their time they played outdoors for a year or two... That dude was a real one...RIP.

GB is probably trading Rodgers and letting Love start next year but they have essentially wasted his entire rookie contract and will go from paying one QB big money to paying another QB big money in short order if he does well... This is NOT the way you do it anymore...worked well back in 2000 maybe but not anymore. The NFL is a changed league with how QBs are paid and how much cap they take up and a huge part of building a SB caliber team is taking advantage of those early windows when you have a franchise QB on a rookie deal so they can have more money to build around him that they won't have once they have to start paying them. GB essentially squandered that with their archaic thought process on how to draft and develop QBs these days and are demonstrating to the NFL how not to do it.

What rules are we playing by? Today's or 20 years ago?

DaQuan was our best DL last year. By a wide margin. Had great pass rush win rate and wreaked havoc that others cleaned up on passing downs many times.

When you are the Texans you have to overpay...much like Buffalo used to have to do. Not anymore.

This was literally the most expected news of the offseason.

Wow that is a haul.

Otis Elevators?

Tempo of course!! I hear they also flew Buddy Nix in.

We won the division by more games last year than any other team in the NFL. Until they can match us at QB, I'm not worried. Once that happens, then we can consider it. No. We have Josh Allen and they don't.