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Not to mention, he also have more catches and yards receiving this season than instant Bills legend Curtis Samuel. Wild

That is my understanding. As you likely know, this is just a way to spread the number of future years, offering immediate relief from a cap perspective. Restructures or protracted bonuses are paid out in cash to the player immediately, though the debt is shared over future years. I do not believe these amounts can be altered. For example looking at Josh Allen’s recent extension, you see he already carries a restructure proration, despite having just signed this deal in March. This is money already paid to Allen prior to this contract, but it is still on cap from his previous deal for $37 million over the next four years from money that was dead cap the previous deal, probably from when they restructured him in 2024. So how does it effect Bosa? They can prevent the 7.2 from fully accelerating if they re-sign. The 1.8 for next years dead cap will remain (with the next three years 2027-2030 at 1.8 remaining too). That free’s up 5.4 million that would have been dead money in 2026. Depending on how they structure a new deal, it’s possible they could actually save money by extending him next season. 1 year - 14 million dollars, with a 9 million dollar signing bonus and 5 mil in base salary. This would in theory save them money on the cap next year, although assuming they spread the bonus over the next 5 years like they did this past off season, his dead cap grows from 1.8 a year to 3.6 a year…and if it all accelerated in 2027 it’d be immediately 12.6 in dead money due. Irresponsible but a way they could look at pushing money down the road.

I do not believe this to be true. It is my understanding that the 7.2 remaining in prorated signing bonus for the next four seasons must remain over those years (2026-2030). The only thing that re-signing or extending him would do from a dead cap perspective would be to stop from the full amount from immediately accelerating and becoming due.

Unlikely but wow what a season.

Haven’t rewatched yet, but on the broadcast it was clean the Steelers had resorted to heavy run blitz. Although I am sure Hawes handled his own, I would imagine this scheme was more about trying to blow up the run game than getting Watt away from 85

McDermott is so coy with this. I don’t blame him, but it’s annoying

Injuries must be reported if a player receivers specialized or targeted treatment, above and beyond the scope of average TLC, for an injury. This is why you see guys practicing in full yet on the report. They may be doing everything at practice but are listed on the report because of their treatment to a particular area.

Yeeahhh the contract really kicks in next year. Talk about kicking the can down the road. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/47616/justin-jefferson Between the option bonus and signing prorated, they’re already at 39 mil on the cap next season. You could probably rework some of the base salary and get this number down to around 20 million if you wanted to continue to borrow from Peter to pay Paul.

As they did with Epinessa, and many contracts. Bosa will cost the Bills 7.5 million dollars next year to NOT be on the team. The fine print matters, and when you only look at cap in isolation, it isn’t a true picture of what they’re paying a player on the open market. That’s why I responded to your post. The idea that they cost nearly the same is not accurate IMO.

Yes and Beane has a tendency to go “hired gun” at the position. We saw it with Floyd, Bosa, Smoot, on these 1 year deal vet deals and I imagine he’d be interested in the same kind of thing again.

I love Josh Allen. If I was a division rival of the Bills, I’d probably hate him. Between his unbelievable athletic dominance, constant jawing and heavy tendency to flop and call for penalties….it makes sense guys are pissed off!

Hilarious because he was previously singing the praises of the back up QB who played today; who’s name I do not know, which will likely only be remembered for the wild pick 6 he threw.

Yes, today we could @RunTheBall and should enjoy the W. But I am serious, that the concerns of the passing offense, despite not being needed today, are a consistent limitation that we’ve seen over and over all season. It has little to do with the injuries today, or the match up and the play calling in how they tried to beat Pitt. How could you argue that? However, today the running game masked this major issue, and it was good enough to beat the Steelers and keep us well in the hunt for the WC. It does not however instill confidence in their ability to hang with or defeat more capable teams.

Has anyone seen a replay of the Coleman TD? Was this about to be another gem of a blown up WR screen called by Brady that Allen bailed him out of?

Wet blanket post alert: assuming we’ve already given Brady and co props for the game plan, running, execution…. There are still significant issues with this offenses ability to pass the ball, and it is an issue at many levels, including the coordinator, skill positions, up front and yes the QB too. I am hopeful they have another switch to flip but at 6/12 in the first half with 50 yards and a 4.2 yards per attempt, we were lucky the defense took this game over. Another less than 20 point showing from the offense. The game played out well into their schematic advantage in the second half but they will not be so lucky every game. Edit: the zero sacks stat is misleading IMO. The quick passing game and very low ADOT along with the fact Allen was routinely ducking pass rushers was huge in this stats, along with Brady’s heavy run game imo I would caution everyone to pump the breaks a bit