Billsfansinceday1 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Cutting Benjamin was the most logical move to my eyes. He was targeted often, at least early and the season, and dropped a lot of passes. That is very bad when you are talking about your #1 WR. I don't think the dead cap money means much either way. Clay was dependable once in a while and will be gone next season. Sadly, both came to Buffalo with high expectations and disappointed severely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffaloboyinATL Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Sometimes you just need to make a statement regardless of the outcome. Benjamin HAD to go. No sense belaboring that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 On 12/24/2018 at 2:54 PM, OldTimeAFLGuy said: ..Clay gave an effort....Benjabum was a pregnant door stop.............. Despite the cap implications, it appears to be a case of keeping the ‘gimp’ over the ‘simp’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 On 12/24/2018 at 2:35 PM, dezertbill said: They can't. We only have $7.06 mil in cap space left after cutting Benjamin. Clay's dead cap is $13.5 million. Emotions aside, the better biz decision was to cut Clay this year and let KB walk in FA. I think you're misreading or misunderstanding the cap info on Spotrac or Overthecap. Clay counts $9M against the cap this year, already included in our cap space calculation. (Salaries are paid by game, but the cap calculation uses the whole season). For this reason, our cap space was the same before and after cutting Benjamin, as his salary was already guaranteed but we owe him no bonuses that accelerate. Cutting Clay would cost $4.5M additional, his amortized bonus and renegotiation bonus for next year as his salary is not guaranteed for next year. There is no real reason they couldn't have cut them both if they wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philly’sFinest Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 They should’ve cut both of those bums. Clay will go down as the biggest bust TE in Bills history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transient Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 21 minutes ago, Philly’sFinest said: They should’ve cut both of those bums. Clay will go down as the biggest bust TE in Bills history Lonnie Johnson says ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianmoorman4jesus Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 The only mistake was not cutting both. They actually probably could have gotten a 7th for Clay. There are so few good TEs in football, somebody might have actually wanted Clay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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