Matt_In_NH

Going into year 10 at age 31.....are we going to pay him for his past accomplishments or what he can do in the future? Not interested in paying another aging player. We should find the next quandre Diggs who is 25 IMO

Good thing New England will be worse. I was worried about that.

He wont be on the team, he will have no dead cap or anything? The Bills do not have a good amount of cap in 2025, the Bills are 29th with 27 mil in space but that is before they push a ton of money from this year to next year, that will be negative by the time they are done. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2025/

You are repeating yourself and also redundant I am not advocating for the trade, just saying there should be a price you would be willing to make a move. You could easily be correct on what someone is willing to pay and I would not trade him for a late 3rd. Beane should investigate all options if someone was interested in him.

The Bates move saves 5.4 million in 2025 which is also important. It is mostly cap neutral this year since the savings will be used on a different guy.

So this gets you a 5th this year and helps the cap next year, it is kind of a cap neutral move for 2024....saves 1.44M but that has to be replaced so saves a little but the real savings is next year.

I dont agree but I would do that deal. the cap situation is kind of broken. what logic did the chiefs use when they traded hill. They fixed wr when it was not broke and it has worked out ok. Not saying I think this is a great idea but you should listen to trades if teams are willing that don’t involve Josh Allen.

Someone like Dawkins should have a price beane is willing to part with him for. Can you get a late first or second round pick you could replace him with on a cost controlled contract? Risky? Sure but at some point you cannot keep extending and doing salary to bonus conversions. I think it is highly unlikely but for the right price sure I’d do it.

Huh?

What would you get for him?

According to spotrac it saves 1.4 million with a 4m dead cap hit. Afraid of concussions?

Will they extend Morse now?

we got a deal

The game does not exist in the NFL records, they played 16 games, period.

Bengals game/Damar Hamlin? THe Bills played 16.

They don't have a punter, Townsend is a UFA

According to PFF he started 15 games in 2022, the Bills played 16 games, so how did he miss two?

The two seasons leading up to last year he missed one game each.....then the broken leg. I use the availability argument too a lot. Earlier in his career there was a lot of soft tissue injuries that I remember was being addressed with training/nutrition. Injuries are part luck, part the person dealing with them, part habits and part genetics.

As in he always has a season ending injury or as in maybe he missed 1-3 games at some point? Which btw with this regime should not be shocking given their conservative handling of soft tissue type injuries. Sure he has not been the most available guy but he is worth it.

This chart looks like it was made by Butch from the East Side if people remember him from the old BBMB

Trade for Mike Evans?!

Perhaps this should be merged with the other thread on the homepage.

The thing with this is it is important to be methodical and only pull the triggers when they need to be pulled. I dont expect them to do a bunch of stuff to get to 35M under the cap and then use it in FA/draft/replacement guys/practice squad. Rather, I expect a minimum required moves to get cap compliant with some space heading into FA and then additional moves as guys are signed to stay compliant.

There have been a lot of WR's picked later in the first and second that are true #1's to justify the price to get get someone that could bust anyway. I say be patient, let the board play out and move a little when/if that makes sense. All the pre-draft stuff is noise that people make huge assumptions on. Any draft pick is risky so if its not a QB, I am not trading next years one and more day two picks for a better lottery ticket.

Cap just went up 20M...inflation. Allen will be out of the top ten for AAV soon.