NFL Cap going up this season.

[ProcessTruster]

17 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

Washington is going to make Garrett the highest paid non QB player in NFL history.  

could be.  I live here and lots of Garrett chatter in the DC area. 

[Magox]

For those that are interested in what the future of the salary cap could look like in the next 4-5 years, this is an excellent read.

 

 

 

[GunnerBill]

4 minutes ago, Magox said:

For those that are interested in what the future of the salary cap could look like in the next 4-5 years, this is an excellent read.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for that. Good read. I have always thought Lurie was one of the better owners in the NFL. I remember the day he fired Chip Kelly 18 months after sidelining Howie Roseman and handing Chip the keys to the castle. He fronted up, did an hour and a half at the podium getting roasted by reporters where he completely owned the decision, set out what the next steps were going to be and accepted he had made a mistake and he was determined to fix it. That's what leadership looks like folks. 

 

Almost exactly a year later Pegula fired Rex Ryan and the first person who was sent out to do any media was Anthony Lynn as interim Head Coach. That is not what leadership looks like. 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

My reaction if the Bills have to cut everyone in 2030 because of void years but we won a Super Bowl…

 

 

 

[Magox]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

 

 

Thanks for that. Good read. I have always thought Lurie was one of the better owners in the NFL. I remember the day he fired Chip Kelly 18 months after sidelining Howie Roseman and handing Chip the keys to the castle. He fronted up, did an hour and a half at the podium getting roasted by reporters where he completely owned the decision, set out what the next steps were going to be and accepted he had made a mistake and he was determined to fix it. That's what leadership looks like folks. 

 

Almost exactly a year later Pegula fired Rex Ryan and the first person who was sent out to do any media was Anthony Lynn as interim Head Coach. That is not what leadership looks like. 

 

 

Interesting nugget in what Brett wrote is that he speculates that the 8% share Laurie sold which was $650 Million was used to help finance their "rolling bonus options" to keep all their players.  The Bills did just sell a 20% stake which is supposed to net Pegula around $1 Billion, maybe and hopefully they will use some of that to do the same?

 

 

Edited Thursday at 02:49 PM by Magox

[machine gun kelly]

22 hours ago, njbuff said:

There are ALWAYS ways to manipulate the cap to get what players you want.

Exactly.  We have a number of players that can be restructured including Josh.  God knows they’ve done that enough with Mahomes.  I’m going to keep banging the drum of Garrett, and if not Crosby.  Beane has proven time and time again, he stinks at picking DE’s.  We need to buy one.  We can save $8 mil. By cutting Von.  Von was a good idea, but since his injury, he’s only soaringly helped in 2024, and not at all in 23.

 

We can draft one of the many beast DT’s in the draft as that draft is deep.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

4 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

Exactly.  We have a number of players that can be restructured including Josh.  God knows they’ve done that enough with Mahomes.  I’m going to keep banging the drum of Garrett, and if not Crosby.  Beane has proven time and time again, he stinks at picking DE’s.  We need to buy one.  We can save $8 mil. By cutting Von.  Von was a good idea, but since his injury, he’s only soaringly helped in 2024, and not at all in 23.

 

We can draft one of the many beast DT’s in the draft as that draft is deep.

Let’s get the big fish but we should at least get something comparable to Leonard Floyd. They need to add a good edge player and a good 1 tech.

 

 

[Jerome007]

Diggs counted for 31M last year. This coming year: zero. Von Miller will count for a lot less too. Some Bills are FA now. The allowed cap number really went up. So... WHY are the Bills AGAIN over the cap?

[Buffalo_Stampede]

12 minutes ago, Jerome007 said:

Diggs counted for 31M last year. This coming year: zero. Von Miller will count for a lot less too. Some Bills are FA now. The allowed cap number really went up. So... WHY are the Bills AGAIN over the cap?

The Bills have a lot of middle priced players. But the biggest thing fans and media don’t talk about when it comes to cap space is players signed. Bills need a CB, but other than that they’re pretty much set roster wise. Obviously they will make moves cap wise and roster wise to improve but they’re in good shape.
 

 

Edited Thursday at 09:09 PM by Buffalo_Stampede

[Doc Brown]

14 minutes ago, Jerome007 said:

Diggs counted for 31M last year. This coming year: zero. Von Miller will count for a lot less too. Some Bills are FA now. The allowed cap number really went up. So... WHY are the Bills AGAIN over the cap?

Josh's cap number ballooned this year.  Not as many free agents to re-sign as usual.  You can create a lot of cap space with cuts, restructures, etc... where we can even sign pricey free agents.

Edited Thursday at 09:10 PM by Doc Brown

[RyanC883]

22 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Let’s get the big fish but we should at least get something comparable to Leonard Floyd. They need to add a good edge player and a good 1 tech.

 

 

 

is Floyd available?  

Edited Friday at 04:30 PM by RyanC883

[ColoradoBills]

22 hours ago, Jerome007 said:

Diggs counted for 31M last year. This coming year: zero. Von Miller will count for a lot less too. Some Bills are FA now. The allowed cap number really went up. So... WHY are the Bills AGAIN over the cap?

 

Player's "cap costs" are not evenly spaced throughout their contracts.

Every year is different.

A recent new contract was for Spencer Brown.  You can see how different the cap costs are.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/72474/spencer-brown

[jlgarsh]

On 2/19/2025 at 1:48 PM, Royale with Cheese said:

Trade for Garrett and pay him league minimum for 5 years.  But give him $200 million guaranteed and a cereal named after him.  Pegula has the cash.

Genius.

The Joe Smith contract. Remember that debacle the Timberwolves tried to pull in the late 90s?

[Desert Bills Fan]

Can Josh’s salary- $14M I think , be converted into a signing bonus and save that? Or a portion of from cap costs.

[Niagara Dude]

Cap management by Beane needs to improve,  I find amazing that this roster has so few all pro level players but always find themselves well over the cap. This is another reason why Beane needs to resist Cook's demands for 15 million. 

 

Another blunder is cap money he put into Dawson Knox and then drafts Dalton K

 

 

[Jerome007]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:03 PM, ColoradoBills said:

A recent new contract was for Spencer Brown.  You can see how different the cap costs are.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/72474/spencer-brown

Yikes. Unless he stays good, from 2026 and onward they can cut him easily.

55 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:

Cap management by Beane needs to improve

I wonder how it is for the other NFL teams. As in Bills land, we always hear that the Bills are over the cap every start of the offseason. I thought that for once, the Bills would be in great position this year. Hence why last season was supposed to be a transition, a temporary down phase. 

[ColoradoBills]

17 hours ago, Jerome007 said:

Yikes. Unless he stays good, from 2026 and onward they can cut him easily.

 

I'm not sure what you are concerned about.  Spencer was signed to a contract that pays him "on average" of $18M per year.

He is only costing $8M in cap this year.  Thus, the future years are a little more than $18M.

Brown's contract is much less than what top Right Tackles are making.

 

This is how the majority on NFL contracts are handled throughout the league.

[Brand J]

18 hours ago, Niagara Dude said:

Cap management by Beane needs to improve,  I find amazing that this roster has so few all pro level players but always find themselves well over the cap. This is another reason why Beane needs to resist Cook's demands for 15 million. 

 

Another blunder is cap money he put into Dawson Knox and then drafts Dalton K

 

 

Man, I was just coming here to say exactly the same. It’s damning to hear “the Bills have no talent” or “it’s a middling roster” which is somewhat justified with only 1 All Pro and 2 Pro Bowlers, yet the team is over the cap mostly every year. This with Allen being dramatically underpaid in relation to his peers. The money management has to get better.

[ColoradoBills]

34 minutes ago, Brand J said:

Man, I was just coming here to say exactly the same. It’s damning to hear “the Bills have no talent” or “it’s a middling roster” which is somewhat justified with only 1 All Pro and 2 Pro Bowlers, yet the team is over the cap mostly every year. This with Allen being dramatically underpaid in relation to his peers. The money management has to get better.

 

The cap hasn't been "mismanaged".  If anything Beane is too conservative handling the cap.

If he wanted to, he could free up $60M-$70M in space in March.

Typically, Beane has been a "pay as you go" GM compared to many.

 

Tre, Von and Diggs wasted a chunk of money but that was driven by injuries and Diggs doing Diggs things.

All 3 of those should have been among the "pro" elite type guys.

 

Overpaid some for Knox but that is not a cap killer by any means.

There was a huge turnover in starters last season and the team still performed.

 

As for Josh and his cap.  Beane is actually using cap for a good % of Josh's AAV.  As of now no cap is pushed out past the end

of Josh's contract.  Compare that to Hurts who already has $100M pushed out PAST the end of his contract.

Like I said, if anything Beane is too conservative.  

 

 

[Mr. WEO]

On 2/20/2025 at 9:44 AM, Magox said:

 

 

Interesting nugget in what Brett wrote is that he speculates that the 8% share Laurie sold which was $650 Million was used to help finance their "rolling bonus options" to keep all their players.  The Bills did just sell a 20% stake which is supposed to net Pegula around $1 Billion, maybe and hopefully they will use some of that to do the same?

 

 

 

you think Pegula would use a free billion dollars to spend on the guarantees/bonuses on player contracts?

 

 

 

On 2/20/2025 at 7:46 AM, Magox said:

For those that are interested in what the future of the salary cap could look like in the next 4-5 years, this is an excellent read.

 

 

 

 

The total broadcast revenues will go up, but the traditional networks contract costs may not be much higher, as shown above, many are watching on the streamers.