Josh Allen restructured

[Brandon]

3 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

Can someone explain the downside of this? Like why wouldn’t every team in cap trouble just restructure as signing bonuses? I know it’s a dumb question. But I don’t know the answer. 

 

The money saved this year is spread out over the remaining life of the contract (including this year).  The main downside is that it increases the cap hit in future years. 

 

Its possible to keep doing it every year as long as the amounts being pushed into future years are less than the annual salary cap increases. 

Edited March 12 by Brandon

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, Green Lightning said:

Beans doesn't want to be in cap Hell every year.

That $7 million isn’t going to change much of anything spread out in future years. 

[UKBillFan]

Every time I log out for a bit something Bills related happens. Dawkins, Davis, Floyd, AJE, Josh… maybe I ought to sign off again.

[boyst]

1 minute ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

interesting. What does that free up? 6 mil?

Not much which is why it's worth it. A tad over $2mm that can be converted to bonus. 

[Warriorspikes51]

Just now, UKBillFan said:

Every time I log out for a bit something Bills related happens. Dawkins, Davis, Floyd, AJE, Josh… maybe I ought to sign off again.

sign off for the night so we can swing a massive trade

[Chicken Boo]

21 minutes ago, zevo said:

I hope it’s Hollywood 

 

If it's a WR, I'd would bet Ridley over Brown.  

[Dablitzkrieg]

5 minutes ago, JohnNord said:

Not sure why this redundant thread hasn’t been moved.  

I didn't ask

[strive_for_five_guy]

1 minute ago, UKBillFan said:

Every time I log out for a bit something Bills related happens. Dawkins, Davis, Floyd, AJE, Josh… maybe I ought to sign off again.

BBB likes to save his biggest move of the day for primetime - Something coming 9 pm or later tonight???

[UKBillFan]

Just now, Warriorspikes51 said:

sign off for the night so we can swing a massive trade

I’ll give it a go - but won’t take the blame if nothing happens. 😁

[Warriorspikes51]

Just now, Chicken Boo said:

 

If it's a WR, I'd would bet Ridley over Brown.  

Ridley would be pretty awesome.

 

However, he is likely going to get north of 20 million per

[Big Blitz]

2 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

Every time I log out for a bit something Bills related happens. Dawkins, Davis, Floyd, AJE, Josh… maybe I ought to sign off again.

 

 

Beane does a lot of work after 8pm - check back at midnight!

[Green Lightning]

Just now, H2o said:

A retooling and shifting of some pieces, but not a rebuild by any means

By that I mean we need a step up from our younger players and solid performances from unproven places to compete with the top AFC teams.

[BillMafia716ix]

So they basically took his base salary and turned it into a signing bonus

[Success]

I like what they did here.  Beane is thinking of the future, and maintaining competitiveness throughout the JA era.

 

And that's the right way to go, imo.  The more chances you have at bat, the more likely you are to get a hit.  Going all in for a year or 2 and then digging out of it never really appealed to me as a fan.

 

You could argue that we're kind of doing the latter right now - but this will still be a contending team in the fall.

 

[UKBillFan]

Just now, Big Blitz said:

 

 

Beane does a lot of work after 8pm - check back at midnight!

That’s 5am here.

 

*Considers setting alarm*

 

Right, seriously, going…

[BBFL]

1 minute ago, Chicken Boo said:

 

If it's a WR, I'd would bet Ridley over Brown.  

I really don’t get the Hollywood Brown train…

[Buffalo_Stampede]

1 minute ago, Brandon said:

 

The money saved this year is spread out over the remaining life of the contract.  It increases the cap hit in future years. 

 

Its possible to keep doing it every year as long as the amounts being pushed into future years are less than the annual salary cap increases. 

And what you don’t spend this year can be carried over. It makes no difference. Basically by not taking all of it tells me there’s a self imposed cash limit set by the owner. In other words the owner isn’t a blank check this year. 

[Chicken Boo]

Just now, Warriorspikes51 said:

Ridley would be pretty awesome.

 

However, he is likely going to get north of 20 million per

 

You think so?  I was thinking the $10-$12 million range.  

[Green Lightning]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

That $7 million isn’t going to change much of anything spread out in future years. 

$7 mil here and $5 mil here and pretty soon you're talking really money...

[Matt_In_NH]

23 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Obvious move. Only question is did they limit the amount they converted for some reason? I had seen over $20m as the savings, as high as $24m. 

Yes