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I think I'm clued in on how pro sports ownership works. It's quite simple, really. I was also clued in that Joe Paterno's self-righteous act was a fraud. Though I had no idea he was letting his DC do what he was doing. That was a whole other level. Shame on you guys. Not sure Sandusky State East can ever live that blind-eye down.

Personally, I think they wanted someone at center who could anchor better against big DT's as much as they wanted younger/healthier. Morse could be pushed around in tight quarters and with the concussion history I think that was something he had to concede in his game to stay healthy. Eric Wood had to adjust his game similarly after all of his injuries early in his career as well(including having his leg snapped trying to anchor against a bigger DT). 2 pages and no "see, we should have drafted Creed Humphrey 4 years ago" references?

We've run the gauntlet over the years with Ralph Wilson indulging John Butler's over-spending in the late 1990's and then 15 years of mostly cash-to-the-cap after that followed by Pegula indulging Beane's over-spending. Anyone who has been a Bills fan for 25 years or so knows that in the end your statement doesn't actually mean anything. Players all think they are the exception and agents all know that it's pretty much the same everywhere(by design). If the up front money is right and you have a franchise QB like Josh Allen you will be an attractive organization to play for.

Could definitely see Daquan or Epenesa join him.

MY guess is that Beane has been doing A LOT of negotiating to coax players to take pay cuts and hometown deal extensions and that the organization not yet giving Josh Allen a big up front check..........the most OBVIOUS way to create big cap space.........has been entirely intentional. Perception is reality and if players think that the Bills *might not* do that full Josh Allen re-structure then they know that the Bills might pull the trigger on cutting or trading THEM to get under the cap. They will worry about the potential that they might be cut. Deadlines make deals and the Bills have a deadline to get under the cap and right now they can say "hey, business decisions may have to be made".

Yeah to be clear I was by no means suggesting that the cuts they made were some kind of cost cutting measure. That part was basic accounting to get under the cap. Those costs are sunk.

No it's based on the fact that EVERY super-rich new owner that has come before him has eventually lost their taste for wasting money...........an opinion that is largely supported by the fact that most teams that win championships do so with fairly firm budget constraints. Counting on there being no end to Terry Pegula's generosity on the football side of his sports holdings is naive. If behaving in the manner of 97% of the other owners by imposing limits on spending is "byzantine" then I guess that's your statement about pro sports ownership in general. If we are lucky it doesn't happen until the Pegula children are in charge and the fortune gets divvied up.........as has been the case with Lamar Hunt Sr and the Hunt family's $15B+ estate(of which Clark Hunt Jr. "only" holds about $2B). Hopefully, the Bills have a championship by then and get to a point where they win the way all of the multi-SB winning franchises like the Patriots, Steelers and Chiefs have been doing for the past quarter century.

Mack has been a turd compared to Aaron Donald..........whom they wouldn't even have had to trade up for.

Beane wanted him bad enough to pursue him in an 8 figure AAV market even though he was stuck in the middle of his terrible Star Lotulelei deal.

Pegula's willingness to use cash up front is why the Bills have been able to pull these levers to push cap debt down the road and subsequently spend the most actual money on players in the AFC year after year(New Orleans does this in the NFC). But I remember when Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys and started pushing the envelope to expand his unshared revenue.......a separate multi-million dollar stadium rights deal with Pepsi when Coke was the official soft drink of the NFL is where it began..........and everyone realizing that these mountains of unshared revenue he could generate with the Cowboys name would create a competitive disadvantage for other teams in acquiring/retaining players because cash is king when it comes to the salary cap. Well look at Jerry now. His investment in the Cowboys has grown to outrageous proportions.........but he operates with an approach almost akin to "cash to the cap" with regard to payroll. Part of that, IMO, is because he has a lot of his own money invested in the infrastructure now. He bought a team with a county run stadium and later built a palace largely out of pocket that he is the sole owner of. And instead of approaching unshared revenue as money to spend on players he is looking at as an entirely separate business. We see something similar with the New York Yankees.........whose payroll to revenue ratio has gone from $240M/$300M in 2004 to just $300M/$900M(estimated) in 2024 even as the value of the franchise has skyrocketed as has the revenues of the team and their self-owned TV network and other holdings. The lesson is that winning matters most until it doesn't. The turning point is often when the owners start re-investing their earnings into the product, IMO. And I can even speak from experience as a fairly well off business owner. Every time I re-invest in new infrastructure it changes how I feel about doling out salaries. You can make the argument that greed just naturally expands as the only reason for the 2 largest franchises in US sports getting away from their win-at-all-cost mentality. And the Pegula's are raking in dough on the Bills and their investment in purchasing the Bills has more than doubled. But I believe it also changes when the product is re-invested in. And the Sabres are likely very unprofitable. And now Pegs is having to re-furbish his hockey arena while he is also facing somewhere in the neighborhood of $500M in cost over-runs on the new Bills stadium. Let's not forget that part of the strange PSE mission statement leaked a few years ago was keeping the family lifestyle intact. So if you don't think it's a consideration then we already know you are wrong about that.

In the highly unlikely event that they were to trade Dawkins I think that might indicate that Terry is worried about the cost over-runs that are going to come out of his pocket on the big hole across the street. Sabres fans are perplexed about why Pegula didn't weaponize his cap space to add draft capital in recent years and Terry recently issued a statement promoting "a new roof" on the arena as a sales pitch for the product. All parts of Pegula Sports aren't spending like the Bills side has in recent years to indulge Beane's wants and perceived needs.

We had it via dial up in the 1980's @Buffalo03 but didn't know what to call it.

Yeah, getting younger.

If he's available for Jeudy-like compensation it's because he has a $3M roster bonus next week.........which would drive his cap hit to $10M for 2024. I think a $10M actual cost for one season(with void years or not) is a no-go.

I agree that Jeudy and Coleman aren't even comps........Jeudy has been a good NFL WR. But it was one of Beane's dumber moves. Cost them $5M for a 10 day training camp tryout as I recall. The people who think the Bills are in a cap dilemma because of Covid are just bad at math........the cap is the same for everyone. They enter offseason now with the greatest or near-greatest cap deficit because of horrible financial decisions(like Coleman) in Beane's first couple years on the job. Those mistakes compounded quickly and fixing them cost even more. Be nice to have that $100M+ he wasted on garbage back.

Chris Jones Otherwise nobody until at least the following week when prices start to come down. If they come to terms with somebody Monday it will probably be an overpay.

It's an excellent year for WR talent but the key driver for WR in round 1 specifically isn't the talent. It's that this past season so many teams found out the hard way that they needed more playmakers to combat the ever-increasing amount of two-high and zone coverages. I've felt this was going to be a 6-8 WR 1st round since mid-season. I think we are seeing those defense's impact that safety market as well...........you don't need an $18M safety when you have 2 centerfielders or are playing a ton of zone.

As long as he not the kinda' ho that's bound To where shorts up his a$$ when your friends come around You gotta' let em' be CantGuardMike

Fruits and vegetables are called produce because they are what the land produced. Producing is still producing. There are better examples. The problem with resign and re-sign is that they both involve a change in work circumstance........they aren't used in an entirely different nature.

Yeah CB contract rates have also gotten stagnant. Just an abundance of athletes to fill the positions. 7 on 7 is helping pump these kids out in bunches and inevitably more of them don't have the ball skills to be receivers.

The only chance anyone has of catching my penalty minutes record is if the mods start handing out points for using resign instead of re-sign. I am less annoyed by the lack of a hyphen there than I am people using "instinctual" instead of instinctive though. Not sure when or why it became acceptable to use the wrong suffix. I am anticipating idiotish to replace idiotic any day now.

I heard last week that the players who had void years don't count toward the comp pick formula...........which would eliminate all but Dodson, Epenesa and Davis. I don't know if that's true but it makes sense. If you put a void year on them you are, in effect, releasing them if that option isn't exercised.

Those were HOF'ers who got teams to SB's and that team was in a DIRE cap situation with an uncertain QB future. These are just some "good" players who aged/injured out from a team that has yet to achieve much but has a great trajectory do to Josh Allen at QB.

Gross. He stinks. Please don't let there be any guarantees. And LOL at @Billl

Oh man that would have been sweet. Why can't free agency start a week later every year so the roster bonuses can kick in(or out) on the 17th?