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Yeah, that is what I thought. I am being super pedantic, but I wish it was reported as "added a void year" rather than "restructure". I get it. It is a restructure....but also it kind of isn't.

I saw that. I wasn't sure if that -$16M number was with or without Tre. He is in red but I still have the option to move on from him in the roster editor. I cam here to ask and it has been answered. Thanks!

It does not "cost" us anything. Moving on from Von after this season nets us $8.45M in cap space. Having Von on the roster in 2025 COSTS us $23.8M in cap space. Removing Von from the roster in 2025 SAVES us $8.45M in cap space. When it comes to moving on from players the net is much more important than the dead cap number.

Yeah. What a bummer. I love Tre. I’ll certainly be pouring one out for him later. Great dude, great teammate, great CB.

I’m a bit shocked at this one. I thought releasing Bates meant Morse was a lock. I am no guru if feels like Bates to center and keeping McGovern at guard may have been the better option over signing Edward’s.

So is it as much a restructure as it is adding a void year? I guess I am being pedantic. Still seems strange though.

This is what I thought would happen. And on top of that I don't get how a restructure changes the cap number for a player in the final year of his contract.

Can somebody explain to me how a restructure works in the last year of a players contract?

You could have just spelled Sean Payton right the first time and your pun would have worked the first time.

I think this is basically Mangas but a different title. My guess is Shula was given a senior title due to age and experience. I checked the teams coaching page on the wayback machine and Daboll did not have a Senior Offensive Assistant or Offensive Quality Control coach. Pretty sure these are generic titles to get guys they like in house, working, and developing. The defense has had a few similar roles that have sporadically come and gone as they bring guys in and out of the fold. Similar to Dorsey, Brady is a young dude who will need a good team around him to help shepherd him into the role.

I’m an idiot and misread it. Thanks for the correction.

Per spotrac it saved $930K

$930k in space saved This means Morse isn’t going anywhere which was speculated either this year or next. Also means his replacement isn’t on the roster. This has to be for draft currency. Otherwise I don’t love it on its own.

I could not get passed that. Why not say "bright green"?

I don't think it dilutes anything. Often times I think players need more time in college to develop and there is no minor league in football. If anything any reason to stay in college a little longer likely helps the NFL in the long run. This should mean that more players are pro ready on draft day.

That is kind of bonkers. Very bonkers. If I were the org I would likely switch to United just because they have much larger premier seating sections than Delta. United has planes with 60 Polaris seats (like full on lay down) That is enough for the 53 plus, HC, OC, DC, Beane, and Terry. Then business class has enough for everybody on the PS to have 2 seats (36 total seats). Plus enough coach seats for everybody else to get their own row. You don't need it every game. But anything in CA, WA, AZ, or over seas seems like a super worthy investment at the very least. I honestly have no idea how much more it would cost for them compared to their current cost, but I would imagine it is fairly affordable for a guy in oil and gas with two professional sports franchises. O/G aside, both franchises are estimated to be worth a combined $5B. https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/company/aircraft/boeing-777-300er.html

I agree with all of that. I credit Brandon Beane not Terry Pegula. It is rare that NFL executives are given a long enough leash to work through multiple QB era’s. There are certainly examples though. Pittsburgh and Baltimore being two. I am saying that if the Bills move on in the post Josh Allen era, the team is likely to spiral with Terry Pegula at the helm.

This thread and the article are click bait. The article was such trash that I actually pulled up the podcast and had it on one while I worked. Neither her nor the host of the show mention Josh Allen's name once. Britt Will doesn't have much of a social media following. At least not enough to be living in a high rise off of 5th ave. like she does. Between her monetized accounts on TikTok, Youtube, and IG she has less than 250k followers. That isn't enough. You can almost guarantee that she has a really large NDA that allows her to live the life she is and why she doesn't even speak JA17's name when being interviewed. Most easy break ups don't end that tight lipped with such nice apartments. Filling in the empty space between then and now will likely never be able to be verified.

Imagine getting a 10 year loan, with interest, to buy football tickets, to watch a game in a stadium paid for with mostly public money..... I don't love the public subsidy of billionaires in general. But if you are going to do it it should have more public benefit than it does. Owners shouldn't be able to take public subsidy then profit from PSL's. Build your own stadium and charge whatever you want for tickets, broadcasts, streaming services, etc. Once Allen retires and their is the inevitable regime change from McBeane there is a real risk of the Bills circling the drain much like the Sabres. The Buffalo Bills are built in Brandon Beane's and Sean McDermott's image. Full stop. The Buffalo Sabres are, and have been built in Terry Pegula's image.

This. Assuming they release and not trade him I would mostly be bummed that we would have another top 100-ish draft pick that doesn't get utilized on a cash strapped team that needs to get cheaper. We could really use that 3rd this year.

If memory serves correct on this there were a lot of inconsistencies from Araiza to the team. From not telling the team at all, to only giving parts of the story, to lying about sexual contact, etc. until it was found out they did have sex outside the apartment. I am not sure there was much of any chance that public institution to keep Araiza even if he managed it perfectly. But Araiza made sure that a slim chance was rounded all the way to zero.

Jim's friends aren't asking him too many heavy hitting questions about this assuming that they were around during his tenure as an NFL QB where he was notoriously terrible to women and the people of this town. His family? I don't know. Say may nephew gets arrested for robbing a convenience store. or fails Spanish, or whatever. Me and my family talk about it. This is life. Not some special Jim Kelly/NFL QB plight. I would posit that if Kelly gets asked about it more than other normies or NFL QB's it is in part due to the fact that they seem to be cut from very very similar cloths

Chad Kelly's issues have absolutely zero to do with notoriety and everything to do with being a grade A ash hole.

It is weird to me that this is even a thread or at least a thread that has gone on for 6 pages.... A lot of teams use dead years. This isn't uncommon, especially for a team that is pressing up against the cap. Not to mention the question answers itself. The Bills had $2.2M of cap space mid season to navigate any injuries or additional signings. Floyds $4.3M is more than $2.2M. We didn't have the space to eat his contract this year. However I do believe that if they extend him they can kick that money down the road as part of the new contract but they cannot make it go away. I would have to defer to some of the better capologists on that one.

I like McD. I think his career will land him in the Hall of Very Good even if he doesn't lift the Lombardi as HC. That said, if Shanahan becomes available you hand him a blank check. SF moving on would be so dumb. Shanahan has brought that team to the last 4 Conference Championships. His SB loses are to the greatest HC/QB combo's the league has ever seen in Brady/Bill and Mahomes/Reid. He is more or less the 3rd best HC in the league. 2nd now that Bill is gone.