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I am not a believer in Jalen Hurts yet. He hasn't shown me to be a good enough passer to make up for his cap number once it starts coming into play.

I am on the fence on this whole thing, leaning to the against it side. But I believe the solution for June 1 is for Aiyuk to sign an extension on SF paper the trade.

Not going to check all the posters, but I don't think the people saying "We can't afford to move on from Diggs" and "We can't afford to sign Higgins/Aiyuk" are the same people. I was part of the "We can 100% move on from Diggs and it is very advantageous for the receiving team" camp. Higgins and Aiyuk would have to come with extensions. I think it "could" be done. The issue is what is the direction this team is going in regards to roster management? I think they likely want to get out of some of their hefty vet contracts, get younger, and get out from under some more hefty vet contracts. I am not sure immediately bringing in a $30M receiver fits in there. That said IF the Bills are going to do that with either I would prefer they take a swing at the bigger and more physical receiver in Higgins over Aiyuk. I like BR, but he doesn't $30M excite me. I wouldn't be shocked if the Bills go down the path of OBJ or similar route in a post June 1 move. But I also won't be shocked if they want to roll as much of Tre's $10M over to 2025 either.

Not that all rookie WR's hit the ground running but Aiyuk had 748 yards (5TD), 825 yards (5TD), 1015 yards (8 TD), and 1342 yards(7TD) with a round robin of Jimmy G, Nick Mullens, CJ Beathard, Tre Lance, and Brock Purdy as his QB's I don't think it is a coincidence that Aiyuk broke 1000 yards once SF found some stability at the QB position.

The Bills? Ford is getting ready to release a commemorative 2 Bronco for 2025. That bad boy tops out at 28 mph.

There was some complaint about the 10 year length on the PSL's up thread. That likely coincides with right around Josh Allen's retirement. I would assume that is by design once the market resets? Based on the Sabres, the terrible upkeep of KBC, and Pegula pulling out of Blue Cross Arena lease in Rochester, I have every expectation that he becomes a bad tennant and the team tanks. He will want to stick his hand in the honey jar one more time before that happens. Edit: I was corrected on the timeline down thread. I still have little faith in Terry Pegula.

They aren't PSL's. You don't own the right to the seat for other events, you get no priority, and they are only for one single season. Ultimately these are just itemized season tickets broken down into ticket and profit. But because SU is non-profit that profit is considered a "donation" and that donation is tax deductible. Also the total "all in" cost of a season ticket to SU Football is between $99 - $650 INCLUDING the tax deductible donation. Good luck telling the IRS your PSL is a donation. This is not the same thing.

What a shame. So unfortunate he could never find the real killer.

I was having a conversation with a buddy over a couple of beers about good o'l Ter-Bear and one of us said "well it is his team" regarding all things Pegula Sports. Then it occured to me that with an $850M subsidy, all his sports teams playing in buildings with publicly paid for money, and he gets to barely keep up with his lease agreements. At what point do the teams become at least in some part a public good like the philharmonic, the Adirondack's or SUNY? I know it is the way the world works. I know it is what every municipality does and this was always coming. It is really driving me crazy at the moment. It is insane to me that that $850M is equal to UB's entire budget, in theory we could have waived tuition for every student at UB for an entire year, and in return we get an owner who took the money and treats the gift like some sort of timeshare grift. For reference there is not a single college athletic department in any college sport across the country that charges PSL's.

Talking about Diggs like he was Chad Johnson playing with a zero-knee'd Carson Palmer and Mike Brown as the owner. LOL.

Seems odd to ask "how do you feel about the player" and then have an option to vote for his character. When you ask about "the player" it seems like we should be asking about what happens between the hash marks not the locker room. Anyways, there has to be some middle ground between "cancer" and "GOAT". It feels like "Wall of Fame", "Bills Legend", and "Best Bills WR ever" are nearly identical. The player is on pace to go into the "Hall of Very Good" not the HoF. The Bills have not been very good in a long time so the "Best Bills WR ever" crowd isn't very big. But he is a full standard deviation below Andre Reed and James Lofton. Not even in the same class. I think Diggs likely projects a career out similar to Chad Johnson. I do think Ocho Cinco was a better receiver at his peak but with much worse QB play. Diggs is fine. He may have one or two very good to great years left in the tank. We might wine here and there about missing him in the offense. But the BIlls were never going to take a $30M per year cap hit for the next 4 years to keep him on the roster. I am not sure having him on the roster for $30M each for the next two is work it. Based on the WR trade market this year it looks like they got good return and traded him when his value was high. He is likely going to bounce around on $12-15M deals for a while like OBJ does.

DK would be a Davis replacement not a Diggs replacement. You don't pay DK the kind of money he will likely command when you pay your QB top tier money. That said, if DK is willing to take ~$12M-ish when his contract is up.* (He won't)

There isn't a "Keep some cap like the Bills did" in the NFL. This isn't the NHL. There is no "negotiating' cap space in roster movement. For the most part teams can either restructure existing contracts which is a predetermined formula, cut, or extend (to move some things around). There are no Jeff Skinner situations in the NFL where you try and move a player and negotiate what you keep and what you don't. That said DK's dead cap number is much higher than his cap hit on the roster. It wouldn't make any sense for Seattle to move on before June 1 if at all.

Struggling to find it now, but I swear I read something the other day that Terry hasn’t actually spoken to the media/taken questions since something crazy like 2019 for the Sabres and 2020 for the Bills. dates might be a little off, but I think that’s close. I would absolutely kill for Terry Pegula to address the new stadium, PSL’s, anything regarding the Sabres, why the fork he backed out of his Rochester Americans lease 11 years early, or why he has refused to keep up with general maintenance with the KBC.

I like that the premise here is that in the first 30 days of the new league year Brandon Beane called his buddy, a guy who spent 65 days on the practice squad back in 2021, to tell him about an interaction he had with Diggs. I don’t know if this is true, but its 1000 foot view is. Diggs was becoming too big a pain in the ash. They no longer believed he was a $30M pain in the ash so they moved on.

I can be super critical of Beane. I don't know WTF OP is talking about. That said, we have seen what Terry Pegula is capable of if you look just a few miles down route 5 at the Buffalo Sabres. It ain't good. The Bills should never ever let go of Brandon Beane. Him and Josh Allen are the only two people protecting this team from Terry Pegula and historical suck-itude.

It has been pretty well noted that Terry Pegula keeps a pretty tight leash on local reporters and won't hesitate to go as far as pulling credentials for being critical of management for either major team. In some ways Buffalo is a tough market. But in others Terry has a lot more control of the market compared to a lot of other football, hockey, or basketball markets across the country. I don't think Pegula could hack it as the owner of a team in Philly, NY/NJ, Boston, Dallas, or even other mid-markets like Pittsburgh and San Fran.

That assumes that only 4 people catch footballs. in 2023 13 different players caught footballs for the Bills. 9 of them had double digit receptions. 9 players could make up 700 yards. The top 4 WR for the Bills last year had 3200 yards combined. 400 yards less than your "not good enough" prognostication for 2024. The bottom 9 of 13 players who caught footballs in 2023 contributed nearly 1100 yards. So if the Bills get similar production from the bottom of the roster, @khlax3 scenario actually mean it would be an improvement from 2023. You are also way overplaying the difference between a 4300 and 4500 yard season. There is certainly a discussion to be had about why one season is better or worse than another for Josh, but the 200 yard difference in passing is way down the list of things worth mentioning. There is room to color outside the lines on what OP is saying without taking it so literally. The Bills passing game will likely have more equitable distribution in 2024 and that may very well be a good thing.

They were always voidable. All Houston did was move the very small amount of bonus money he had left on his contract to 2024. Otherwise he was cutable almost any time with next to zero cap ramification. The Houston restructure is a giant nothing burger.

Playing catch up on the day. Diggs has always been tradable post restructure with Buffalo because it relieved all cap responsibility from the receiving team bar one $3M bonus. Which is honestly fairly minimal The $18M-ish per year cap number hovers around mid-teens (among WR cap hits) year over year. He isn't expensive in comparison to his peers. If he didn't perform to a mid level no 1 WR he was always cut-able on short notice for next to zero cap implications. Stef has always been a decent trade for the receiving team. Some posters just got hung up on "$31M in dead cap" so they quickly labeled him "untradable". The disciples over at Cover 1 helped carve this fake news into stone. But ultimately the facts have not changed, and the facts are why we got a 2nd for Stefon Diggs and LAC got a 4th for Keenan Allen.

Right. I don’t disagree that he is a huge pain in the ass. I just think that C1 is way over playing it. I don’t think they are parroting stuff they know is wrong to defend themselves. I think they lack a real fundamental understanding of Diggs salary cap situation and have for the last year or so. And because they are wrong about the cap stuff it causes them to put too many eggs in the”Diggs is the most toxic player ever” basket. I think Diggs was a really difficult teammate and that has caused him to be on the chopping block for quite sometime. But to continue parroting he was some sort of gangrene that risked rotting the whole team is false. His trouble vs cap hit vs production no longer made sense and was worth $3M and a 2nd. It is that simple.

For context they’ve been saying they thought Diggs was a slam dunk restructure this offseason. They don’t understand the Diggs contract situation at the most fundamental level so they are overplaying the “Diggs is the most toxic player ever” card.

Imagine the Bills trade Diggs and sign Justin Jefferson. My god.

We may be getting caught up up in grammar. I mean next year as in 2025 because the current league year already started. $31M is the dead cap for 2024. Which is only a ~$3M increase from having him on the roster.

Imagine your boss going out of his way to tell the world that you are a moron. haha.