S. Diggs Restructures

[Warriorspikes51]

Just now, Straight Hucklebuck said:

So about $20M in cap space now. 

Can realistically make that 35-40 million with 1-2 extensions and an Oliver trade

[Negan]

Alright, maybe a big move on the horizon.  

 

Come on Beane work some magic.

 

Fill some needs.

[Figster]

30 minutes ago, Success said:

That got my attention.

 

This one might mean a slightly bigger FA move is coming.

 

I've been thinking OBJ all along because its something Von Miller wants. Takes care of upgrading 2WR. Helps Josh Allen and now Diggs can also benefit with OBJ on the field. Diggs wants a Championship at all cost.

 

Whatever is in the works, I love what these guys are doing to help the team.

[Saxum]

38 minutes ago, Chaos said:

 

 

Seems odd to do with a player who is disowning the Bills to go become member of Jerry Jones flock as some are claiming.

Bills are absorbing more of the cost to make him easier to trade?

[Chaos]

Just now, Limeaid said:

 

Seems odd to do with a player who is disowning the Bills to go become member of Jerry Jones flock as some are claiming.

Bills are absorbing more of the cost to make him easier to trade?

scary thought

[Franco_92]

What is our cap space given what he frees up, and accounting for the signings so far?

[Warriorspikes51]

Just now, Limeaid said:

 

Seems odd to do with a player who is disowning the Bills to go become member of Jerry Jones flock as some are claiming.

Bills are absorbing more of the cost to make him easier to trade?

Unless this changed his dead cap hits then a trade isn’t even a possibility

[Warcodered]

 

[DCofNC]

1 minute ago, Limeaid said:

 

Seems odd to do with a player who is disowning the Bills to go become member of Jerry Jones flock as some are claiming.

Bills are absorbing more of the cost to make him easier to trade?

No, he was plenty easy to trade before based on his current contract, this makes him all the harder for the Bills to absorb the money to trade him as it accelerates what he would cost on our cap.  He’s now here for this year, bar none, no way around it.

[hondo in seattle]

Restructuring contracts means less money against the cap this year but more money against the cap in future years.  Financially, it's no big deal to Terry.  It comes out about the same for him either way.

 

But Beane now has more cap space this year at the cost of less cap space over the next five years.  So why is he giving up future cap space?  Who is he signing - or resigning - this year?   Seems like he's after someone and I'm guessing David.  

[Southern_Bills]

2 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

 

Seems odd to do with a player who is disowning the Bills to go become member of Jerry Jones flock as some are claiming.

Bills are absorbing more of the cost to make him easier to trade?

 

Well, the Bills are still the ones who decide to trade or not to trade. 

 

I would lean towards perhaps what you see in the media doesn't mean as much as you think.

 

 

[Success]

Seems like he's staying.

 

Looks like we'll just have to win a Super Bowl so he's happy.

 

 

 

[78thealltimegreat]

bills seem to have around 22 mill give or take a mill after this…they can always do a Dion adjustment and get close to 30 mill…since they only need 2.7 mill for their rookie class they honestly could be looking at doing a few things but who knows 

Edited March 15, 2023 by 78thealltimegreat

[DCofNC]

1 minute ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Unless this changed his dead cap hits then a trade isn’t even a possibility

Not true, his dead cap IF CUT, would have been too big to swallow because you have to immediately pay his guaranteed money.  However, if traded, we are on the hook for his signing bonus, which was not huge, he could have been traded pretty easily, the guaranteed money would have followed the contract, the new team would have to take it on, which is still very decent for a top WR.  Doing this added 5.4M to what we would have to eat on Dead cap in a trade or cut, making it virtually impossible to move on from him.

[BillsFan2313]

Just now, KingBoots8 said:

 

 

What does this have to do with Diggs?

[DCofNC]

2 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

Restructuring contracts means less money against the cap this year but more money against the cap in future years.  Financially, it's no big deal to Terry.  It comes out about the same for him either way.

 

But Beane now has more cap space this year at the cost of less cap space over the next five years.  So why is he giving up future cap space?  Who is he signing - or resigning - this year?   Seems like he's after someone and I'm guessing David.  

Cap is going up in the future and contracts will come off as well.  You can kick the can down the road quite a while, eventually you have to push reset for a year, which is probably around 3 years out when they eat the Miller deal, probably part way with Diggs, and then slap an extension on Allen to reset that situation.  You are taking a shot to win in the next two to 3 years right now.  The Chefs got a SB win in their cap reset year, if you draft well and have a great QB anything can happen, we are going to need to crush some drafts to make it happen without pain.

[KingBoots8]

Just now, BillsFan2313 said:

 

What does this have to do with Diggs?

Nothing- wrong thread lol

[Drew21PA]

If I’m honest I didn’t see this coming 

 

guess terry had a chat with him.  

[Dablitzkrieg]

19 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

It means they spread out the cap hit over the length of the contract and freed up money this year.

[dave mcbride]

8 minutes ago, DCofNC said:

No, he was plenty easy to trade before based on his current contract, this makes him all the harder for the Bills to absorb the money to trade him as it accelerates what he would cost on our cap.  He’s now here for this year, bar none, no way around it.

Given that he’s the second best player on the team (given that Miller is injured), him remaining on the Bills is a good thing.