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That's pretty close to what I was thinking, although mine was just a little lower. I used Jimmy Smith's contract from last year and added a bit for inflation. Smith got 5 years, $48M. Was thinking 5 years, $50M-$52M for Gillmore. The Ravens really kept Smith's first year cap hit low though - only $3.6M. If Gillmore got 5 years, $50M with a $15M signing bonus and a first year salary of $1M they Bills would lower his 2016 cap hit from $11M to $4M. http://overthecap.com/player/jimmy-smith/1382/

Yes on Gilmore. A long term deal would almost certainly lower his 2016 hit somewhat. Some significant cap space is going to get freed up, but people will be surprised how quickly it gets used up. Also you have to start looking toward 2017 because contracts with low first year hits rise quickly.

False. To win this game the Broncos will need some great offensive play so it'll likely go to Manning. I don't see that happening, but it is Manning's last game and it is Carolina's players first trip to this big of a game so you never know.

I actually read through all the released texts. I don't know what happened outside of those, but I can tell you what they led me to believe. Richie incognito did not seem to be bullying Martin, but did come off as an absolutely terrible person and a complete flaming A-hole. In fact if you look at his history, Richie incognito has worn out his welcome (to put it mildly) everywhere he's been. He's probably still a terrible person. I'd sure put money on that. But he's an excellent OG and the Bills need one (okay, two) of those. I'm OK with him continuing to be an excellent OG for the Bills for couple more years if he keeps his nose clean for that period of time. The Bills should protect themselves contractually in the event he screws up again, however.

That would be huge. 2 years at $5M-$6M per, I'd guess.

"Sabres Continue to Struggle"

You don't think Goff is worth a first? Obviously he won't be there for Buffalo, but he sure looks like a first round QB prospect to me.

Actually it was Derek who said David belonged in that conversation. It was a fairly recent interview and maybe he was just trying to show his brother a little love or something. But no one has been agreeing with him and quite a few have pointed out how ridiculous of a statement it was. It was kinda like if he'd said that Jessica Alba was in consideration for the most beautiful woman ever. Sure, she is (was?) attractive and all, but someone would have to be a huge fan of, very specifically, Jessica Alba to even consider putting her on that list.

AMEN!!!

Miller has too much raw talent to fall. Some team will fall in love with his potential and take him relatively high. I doubt he makes it to Buffalo's 2nd round pick so he'd probably only be in play with a trade. 19 is too high IMO.

Ah. My bad. I guess I'd already moved on mentally from that statement. Unless you're asking his brother, Derek, David Carr doesn't show up much in that conversation.

You're missing some details on this. The 2015 revenue from NBC for Thursday Night Football was $300M so the $450M combined revenue from NBC and CBS is only a $150M increase. The players' share is between 47% and 48.5%. That amount is divided by 32 teams. So we've got $150M*.485/32= $2.27M So that's a $2.27M per team cap increase (or $2.2M on the low end if 47% is used). It's not nothing, but it isn't some huge increase.

That is all true. I'm not sure what his responsibilities in Buffalo are, but I'd prefer he'd not be big part of TT's development team. Maybe he's learned from the past and is a good coach now, but I do not have confidence in him due to that track record.

The OP is talking about David Carr of the Texans, not his younger brother, Derek Carr, of the Raiders.

Yes it is. Obviously he doesn't have the same power here as when he was head coach in Cleveland or offensive coordinator in Houston. Maybe he's in a role where he can do some good here. Honestly, I had forgotten he was on the staff.

Yeah, he couldn't overcome Chris Palmer's coaching and team construction. Palmer imposed upon Carr a career death sentence by defensive mauling - exactly like he did to Couch in Cleveland.

$1.6M guaranteed salary, but his contract has offsets. So if another team were to sign him that pay in 2016 would be deducted from the cap hit. Really, it's a minimal amount when you're talking about upgrading the back up QB position on a team with a smallish starting QB. A better backup last season equates to at least one more win. That's not where you want to start penny pinching. I expect them to draft a guy for sure

Wow. That's a lot to infer from Rex going to the Pro Bowl instead of the Senior Bowl.

Awesome

I assumed the contract could be from any team. And a good second guess is a one year transition or franchise tag.

Actually, if they just took it down with no fanfare and no announcement there probably wouldn't be much. They'd get asked about it and could offer a simple, generic statement and not take questions. It'd be covered in the usual news cycle and then it'd be gone.

3 years, $48M, $24M guaranteed

I'd add that the situation will have to play out like one of these scenarios: TT excels: He'd probably get his big deal sometime late this season or in the offseason. If the deal didn't get worked out he'd get tagged and make $20M. Difficult to be too mad about that I'd wager. TT takes a big step back: Then the Bills would have saved a lot of cap space by not jumping the gun and any hard feeling he would have toward the Bills would be pretty moot. TT stays level with last season: This is the toughest scenario by far and the most likely to result in a big difference between what the Bills will want to pay and what TT thinks he worth. Thus, there's a real chance for some hard feelings in this case. But it'd probably be the same situation as if they fried to do a deal now. TT's agent can make a case for him to get PAID big time and the Bills FO can make a case for him to get paid a lot less. The Bills have got him wrapped up for this season on the cheap. He seems okay with betting on himself so let's just see if things clarify on their own before we make a move. It really is the prudent course of action.

It's probably more about perception than anything else. It looks fishy to have a major sports franchise in Vegas due to the perception that it would be easy to fix games. In reality games can be fixed anywhere (obviously), but anything odd would be questioned much more if it happened in Vegas or involving a Vegas team. In short, the NFL doesn't much care about the game being dirty, but they certainly want to avoid the APPEARANCE of game being dirty. Avoiding putting a team in Vegas is certainly an easy way to avoid the latter.

http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/demario-davis?id=2533008 I know nothing about him, but sometimes starting at the beginning and seeing what kind of prospect he was helps bring his picture into focus. Thanks to those with real insight who responded - BB, Yolo, etc. I linked his pre-draft write up from NFL.com. His speed, explosiveness and change of direction abilities are all outstanding. He was the top LB performer in 4 categories. He also has good size. Yet he was projected to be a 5th round pick (according to the linked write up). He was drafted in the 3rd. It seems he was a raw, small school prospect who possessed great athletic ability. He was actually the kind of prospect I love in the late rounds because sometimes the lack of quality coaching is what's holding them back. But I do not select such players in the third and I certainly expect their ceiling will be apparent within 4 years. Judging from what I've read I'd say he'd be a cheap, backup level player who knows the system. Probably not a ton of upside to him as a defensive player, but he might hold some value on Specials.