Current Bills salary cap situation - 4/8/2022 12:50 PM $200.1MM - taken for “Top 51” - Sportrac current estimate is that Bills are over by $2.8MM for all - Link to Sportrac in 1st post

[John from Riverside]

Its not my money

totally good with the moves

would like to know where we are at after the moves

[Virgil]

2 hours ago, John from Riverside said:

Its not my money

totally good with the moves

would like to know where we are at after the moves

 

Listen here you son of a B word.  You get angry about this, and you get angry now!

[dpberr]

I appreciate your post on this. It's very helpful. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

6 hours ago, BuffaloBill said:

 

 

$7.6 MM which is probably the number the Bills will want to have going into the draft and season.

 

Negative, $1.5M is amortized signing bonus aka "Dead Money"

$6.1M savings by snipping Bease

 

5 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

 

With Beasley Release and Recent moves.  Bills cap Space

 

$18,922,395  https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

 

Still to account for in that 18.9M

Howard

Jones

Saffold

Miller

 

And now also Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson

 

Looked at another way:

 

Bills FA moves as of 3/17 5:52 pm

Offense	Position	Offense	Position
Howard	TE	Jones	1T DT
Saffold	LG (rg)	Lawson	DE
		Miller	Edge (OLB)
		J. Phillips	3T DT
		Settle	DT

 

Might be time for Dorsey to walk into Beane's office and glare......

 

Needs:

OG (especially if we lose Bates)

WR

backup QB

[MAJBobby]

38 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Negative, $1.5M is amortized signing bonus aka "Dead Money"

$6.1M savings by snipping Bease

 

 

And now also Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson

 

Looked at another way:

 

Bills FA moves as of 3/17 5:52 pm

Offense	Position	Offense	Position
Howard	TE	Jones	1T DT
Saffold	LG (rg)	Lawson	DE
		Miller	Edge (OLB)
		J. Phillips	3T DT
		Settle	DT

 

Might be time for Dorsey to walk into Beane's office and glare......

 

Needs:

OG (especially if we lose Bates)

WR

backup QB

Won’t lose Bates IMO

 

alot or WRS left 

don’t care about a BU QB Fitz can come on that Veteran Exemption to count only 890k against CAP but a min deal for all I care

 

[Thurman#1]

14 hours ago, BillsMafi$ said:

Can’t see this team not adding to the CB position in FA with a solid player with Tre coming off an injury and losing Wallace 

 

 

Yes, this.

[Putin]

13 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

 

With Beasley Release and Recent moves.  Bills cap Space

 

$18,922,395  https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

 

Still to account for in that 18.9M

Howard

Jones

Saffold

Miller

Does this means we won’t be able to get few more DT’s 😱

Edited March 18, 2022 by Putin

[Thurman#1]

13 hours ago, MAJBobby said:

How many DTs do you want?

 

And why would you trust a player that doesnt show up or even really want to play anymore to give him another contract redo.  Move on from this malcontent already

 

 

There's zero indication anyone at OBD considers Star a malcontent. Zero. Nonetheless, his lack of availability is a legitimate concern.

 

As for DTs, how many more? As many as they want. We need competition, always. Now if I've got it right they have DaQuan Jones, Jordan Phillips, Tim Settle, Ed Oliver, Star Lotulelei and Eli Ankou. And they might well draft one somewhere.

 

That's competition, and the more the merrier. If Star plays the way he did after Covid, say goodbye. If someone disappoints, trade 'em for a low pick or cut 'em. It's great letting the lowest two or three there know they'd better work hard, 'cause they're on the bubble.

[GunnerBill]

18 hours ago, todd said:

 

 

Yep, and we also don't have any backup QBs. One will be a vet that won't be very cheap. 

 

I think one will be a vet. But they will, by necessity, have to be very cheap. I wouldn't be totally amazed if Matt Barkley ends up back. 

[No_Matter_What]

3 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

I think one will be a vet. But they will, by necessity, have to be very cheap. I wouldn't be totally amazed if Matt Barkley ends up back. 

Glad to see you're alive. It was strange not to see you 2 days or so when the biggest things were happening

[MAJBobby]

@BuffaloBill If you want to update your original post.  SPOTAC has us at 18.9M today (top 51) still not accounted for are (Howard, Jones, Miller, Lawson, Phillips and Saffold)

[Simon Says]

21 hours ago, TheWeatherMan said:

We’re going to need another 15M for Robinson and Gilmore.  Diggs extension should get that taken care of.  

Got to come up with money to lay the guys we ALREADY signed . Jones,Miller, Phillips,et.al

[No_Matter_What]

Anybody has idea when should sportrac has missing data? I mean they are now trying to get info from league or agents or what?

 

I find it weird that some contracts are immediately known to details and in some (many) cases we need to wait days (weeks?).

[TheBeaneBandit]

The good news is we still haven't even had to use any of our big 3 yet Dawkins, Diggs, and White attorneys at law.

[Billzgobowlin]

15 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Negative, $1.5M is amortized signing bonus aka "Dead Money"

$6.1M savings by snipping Bease

 

 

And now also Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson

 

Looked at another way:

 

Bills FA moves as of 3/17 5:52 pm

Offense	Position	Offense	Position
Howard	TE	Jones	1T DT
Saffold	LG (rg)	Lawson	DE
		Miller	Edge (OLB)
		J. Phillips	3T DT
		Settle	DT

 

Might be time for Dorsey to walk into Beane's office and glare......

 

Needs:

OG (especially if we lose Bates)

WR

backup QB

Do we really need a WR?  I think we are good with Davis, Diggs, Mckenzie and Knox.  I think we will see a lot of Hodgins and Stevenson this year too.  Maybe draft one

[Tenhigh]

18 minutes ago, Billzgobowlin said:

Do we really need a WR?  I think we are good with Davis, Diggs, Mckenzie and Knox.  I think we will see a lot of Hodgins and Stevenson this year too.  Maybe draft one

I think we do. I saw nothing in Stevenson that made me think he is an NFL caliber player, and who knows about Hodgins.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, No_Matter_What said:

Anybody has idea when should sportrac has missing data? I mean they are now trying to get info from league or agents or what?

 

I find it weird that some contracts are immediately known to details and in some (many) cases we need to wait days (weeks?).

 

I don't really understand how Spotrac and Overthecap work, but my guess is that the league office is pretty well overwhelmed the first couple days of FA and are working full-bore to keep up.  If Spotrac has sources there, they may not have time to keep them in the loop.

 

I suspect they get info from agents as well, but the same "working full bore" may apply and agents are not necessarily reliable sources when they're trying to make every contract sound fantastic.   Or, contrarily, if their guys sign a cheap deal, they don't want to depress the market so they keep it hush.

 

And yeah, I'm personally F5ing and "Jonesing" for the details on Jones, Phillips, Lawson, Saffold, Miller, and Howard

[Governor]

6 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

I think we do. I saw nothing in Stevenson that made me think he is an NFL caliber player, and who knows about Hodgins.

I’m definitely drafting a WR in the first 2 rounds. WR, CB, then I would sneakingly go safety in any order really.

Edited March 18, 2022 by Governor

[Hapless Bills Fan]

12 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

I think we do. I saw nothing in Stevenson that made me think he is an NFL caliber player, and who knows about Hodgins.

 

This.  Guys can absolutely grow and develop, but "hope is not a plan".  Even Davis has looked uneven in his development at times.

 

7 minutes ago, Governor said:

I’m definitely drafting a WR in the first 2 rounds. WR, CB, then I would sneakingly go safety in any order really.

 

Not a fan of BPA and "let the board come to us" I see

 

54 minutes ago, TheBeaneBandit said:

The good news is we still haven't even had to use any of our big 3 yet Dawkins, Diggs, and White attorneys at law.

 

I think we restructured Dawkins and White last year....though looking at Dawkins contract perhaps I'm mistaken.

 

 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

3 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

I think one will be a vet. But they will, by necessity, have to be very cheap. I wouldn't be totally amazed if Matt Barkley ends up back. 

 

I thought they might want Kyle Allen, but he apparently just signed a 1 year, $2.5M contract with the Texans of which $2.25M is guaranteed - which might be more than the Bills would want to pay/guarantee (and he may see himself more likely to start in Houston)

 

Pretty wild that we signed Trubisky last season for the same $$

 

Nice raise for Allen, who earned $850k last season, Josh Allen must be happy for his friend.