GASabresIUFan Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 This maybe the busiest day in Buffalo sports history. Kevyn Adams pulls off a blockbuster hockey trade and kind of gets over shadowed by at least 10 moves by the Bills. Quote
Kirby Jackson Posted March 7 Posted March 7 56 minutes ago, HappyDays said: When the offseason first started, my dream was cutting White, Morse, Poyer, and Harty, and convincing Von to take a paycut. Consider me satisfied! Once we restructure Allen's contract we can be real players in free agency. Any idea where that will have us in terms of cap space? I’m too lazy to look it up. 1 Quote
HurlyBurly51 Posted March 7 Posted March 7 Wasn't sure where to put this. Here's what I got so far this offseason (mostly today😀): Tre White post June 1 cut Mitch Morse released Jordan Poyer released Deonte Harty released Siran Neal released Nyheim Hines released Rasul Douglas restructured Von Miller restructured Mitch Trubisky signed David Edwards re-signed Taylor Rapp re-signed Matt Haack signed Ryan Bates traded for a 2024 5th round draft pick Coaches: Washington, Shula, Butler - out Ronald Curry, Jahmile Addae, Christian Taylor - in 2 2 Quote
Ed_Formerly_of_Roch Posted March 7 Posted March 7 1 hour ago, EmotionallyUnstable said: Spotrac has us at 7mil over the cap currently (I am not sure if all of the moves are reflected) but obviously before any Allen deal. Going off this number; and 11 mil for rooks, it looks like they’ll have 10 or so mil at minimum to play with in free agency if they get the Allen money converted. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/ So couldn't the Bills wait till June 1st to sign all the rookies and that would allow them to use the $10mil saving from White to pay them with? Quote
HappyDays Posted March 7 Posted March 7 10 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said: Any idea where that will have us in terms of cap space? I’m too lazy to look it up. Over the Cap and Spotrac are showing different outcomes, it will probably take a couple days before we know for sure. But I am pretty sure that once Hines's release is official we will already be below the cap, and that's before the inevitable restructures of Allen's and Oliver's contracts. Even with Rapp and Edwards re-signing I suspect we will have enough to work with to make one above average signing and then a few signings to fill holes. Most importantly we will be in excellent cap shape heading into 2025. 2 Quote
78thealltimegreat Posted March 7 Posted March 7 2 minutes ago, HappyDays said: Over the Cap and Spotrac are showing different outcomes, it will probably take a couple days before we know for sure. But I am pretty sure that once Hines's release is official we will already be below the cap, and that's before the inevitable restructures of Allen's and Oliver's contracts. Even with Rapp and Edwards re-signing I suspect we will have enough to work with to make one above average signing and then a few signings to fill holes. Most importantly we will be in excellent cap shape heading into 2025. You are are correct Happy next off season the 2025 version of the Bills will have around 50-60 million dollars in cap space Quote
mannc Posted March 7 Posted March 7 1 hour ago, HappyDays said: Quite the opposite. Putting younger less injury prone players on the field and freeing up cap space puts us MORE in contention this year. No doubt in my mind we will be a better team than last year. Absolutely. This is exactly what the Bills needed to do. We are taking a page right out of the Chiefs' playbook...moving on from expensive, older veterans, stockpiling draft picks, getting younger and cheaper, especially on defense, no sacred cows, other than the QB and a few key pieces. 3 1 Quote
Draconator Posted March 7 Posted March 7 3 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said: Any update on our current salary cap numbers We're better tonight than we were this morning. Quote
LEBills Posted March 7 Posted March 7 7 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said: Any update on our current salary cap numbers looks like we are about $4 mill over not counting the Rapp, Mitch, and Haack signings. Josh will be restructured, maybe Ed too which should get us below the cap with some space. A cut or extension of Taron, or an extension of Dawkins may be on the table as the major moves left if we want to do more spending 1 Quote
SoonerBillsFan Posted March 7 Posted March 7 (edited) Im ok with this. A restructure of Allen and Dawkins is about 29 mill freed up. 20 mill going into FA is perfect,more than enough to get business done. Tre whites cap frees up on 6/1 to nearly cover all our draft picks. I'm hoping for some sort of trade, as well as a couple trade ups in the draft. I'm not thrilled with this year's FA crop esp. at WR. https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space Edited March 7 by SoonerBillsFan 4 Quote
Warriorspikes51 Posted March 7 Posted March 7 Get to 40 mil in space and take a big swing. Chris Jones Christian Wilkins (camp fights with Josh) DJ Reader Leonard Williams + Re-sign DQ. Derrick Henry if he doesn’t sign with Ravens CB Jaylon Johnson? only 24 We tried to acquire him at the trade deadline. That would be super intriguing. Benford or Rasul could move to Safety *Edit Franchise Tagged 1 1 6 Quote
GASabresIUFan Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 (edited) 1 hour ago, LEBills said: looks like we are about $4 mill over not counting the Rapp, Mitch, and Haack signings. Josh will be restructured, maybe Ed too which should get us below the cap with some space. A cut or extension of Taron, or an extension of Dawkins may be on the table as the major moves left if we want to do more spending Not exactly. Because we cut players like White, Morse, Neal, and Harty you have to add back the contract of a players that replaced them on the Rule 51 roster. The current deficit is just over $7 million without Rapp's and Trubisky's contracts, and without the full benefit of White 6/1 release. Edited March 7 by GASabresIUFan 1 Quote
buffaloboyinATL Posted March 7 Posted March 7 4 hours ago, Old Coot said: Rasul listed as a "salary conversion." What does that mean? Convert salary to bonus to spread the cap hit maybe? 1 Quote
John from Riverside Posted March 7 Posted March 7 The Josh Allen restructure alone will get us under the cap Quote
BB2004 Posted March 7 Posted March 7 After this happens, do we do what we can to try and resign DaQuan Jones? 2 1 Quote
Tuco Posted March 7 Posted March 7 5 hours ago, Old Coot said: Rasul listed as a "salary conversion." What does that mean? It means they added 3 void years to his contract, then converted a bunch of his 2024 salary to signing bonus that can be prorated over those 4 years. Thus making our 2024 cap charge smaller by charging the rest of it to next year's cap when the void years kick in. It's not really an extension as Douglas still winds up with the same amount of money this year and his contract ends after this year. It's just a different way of saying restructure, I guess. Note: Nothing says in the future they can't still come to an agreement on an extension and simply change some or all of the void years to regular years. Either way it saves us cap space this year. 1 Quote
Old Coot Posted March 7 Posted March 7 I just love the concept of void years. Haven't we all had a few years of our lives that we wished we could void? Quote
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