It all comes down to how you succeed in the draft. The teams that win the SB continue to load through the draft so that they don't have to pay big money for above average players. The Bills are paying big numbers for above average players such Dawkins ($14M), Knox ($6.5M), Morse ($11M) and this year to Hyde ($10.5M) and Taron Johnson ($7M). - All numbers are their cap hits for 2023.
They will have to do a salary cap purge next year to clean this mess. Their issue is that their backups or their draft picks have not worked out....they have missed badly on their 2nd and 3rd round picks.