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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?

Yeah surprised me as well. I thought Morse would be cut and then Bates would be traded at the end of TC. But the plan now, according to Shil Capaccio is for McGovern to start at C and Edwards be LG1. As I've mentioned before, I really want them to get some players out of this deep draft class at OL. This opens up some roster space.

Eh.........Beane should save the dialogue and just punch himself in the nuts for that one. That fail is all on him for signing a guy with sub 200 yards receiving per year who was also coming off missing most of the prior year to injury to that kind of money in the first place. Just a total dumb@ss signing by Beane. He did much better with McGovern and the later signings.

Oh McDermott got fired? I missed that. Congrats on being right.

Everything is a negotiation.........I expect Beane was working on his agent for a pay cut.

Beane obliterated the all time record for dead cap created in the 2018 offseason. I think it was about twice that figure and that was, of course, when the cap was much smaller. Now Denver has like $70M plus dead cap just for cutting Russ. It's all relative. I used to laugh when Beane would wax about how the previous regime had put them in cap hell when they were $32M under the cap heading into free agency in 2017 with almost nothing committed into 2019. Gotta' respect the audacity it took to say sh!t like that when it could so easily be refuted. He just knew the average fan would buy it unconditionally because they wanted a regime change. BB has been faking it til' he makes it.........I think he's smart he was just really raw as a personnel man...........and I am hoping THIS is the offseason where he really kills it with great decisions. Off to a good start not being a slave to sentimentality. These moves had to be made, IMO.

Nah. Axe Wednesday.