Matt_In_NH

I am not looking forward to it because I think he will do some things to kick the can down the road further. I want a cap reset of sorts.

Josh Allen, Dawson Knox Dalton Kincaid Cyrus Torrence but minimizing picks to “steps up in the playoffs” is a little unfair with limited sample size. But let’s list the teams with playoff wins the last 4 years: chiefs and bills, end of list. Now let’s see if you can answer the question with actual data and comparisons to other gms. Instead of making blanket statements and calling it a fact.

I would love a detailed explanation of this with comparison to the rest of the league. I believe you have totally unrealistic expectations for draft picks.

Void years is trading future cap for cap today. Kinda like buying furniture that you don’t have to pay for this year but next year you will have to pay the bill. It seems a little irresponsible to me to use this a lot. So with Floyd that ten million dollar new contract with the bills would add to his void money. So if void money is 4m and the new contract is 10m then his hit for 24 would be 14M. Another team would be just the 10M. I thought beane would stop that at some point when the cap catches up for the Covid years but obviously not yet. Our years were rarely used before Covid now some teams use it a lot.

You mean other than pay everyone and have 6 number one receivers?

1 what? One million dollars or one 50 million dollars? Yes really. Think like it’s your money.

That would make the CBA garbage. Why would the owners do that? It would also mean the cap is toilet paper. you live with contracts you agree to

So glad to see WR's NOT at the top of the list which is the correct answer. They should use a day 1 or 2 pick on WR, maybe another on day 3 and get a vet or two for depth and special teams at WR. I assume they will sign one or two moderate contracts on the DL because they are so short numbers there. Hopefully they can identify a safety at a good deal like they did with Poyer 7 years ago.

They might win the Super Bowl now

That's it, sign Chris Jones!

By save some cash do you mean lower the 2024 cap hit and increase the cap hits in figure years?

Only if he "throws a man"

This is where I am also, I think the Bills overall odds of winning don't change that much with or without Diggs and Miller. However I don't see the team doing this. The benefit is not 2024 or even 2025 but it allows you to reload with younger talent and get healthy cap wise.

The bolded probably assumes no restructuring to create cap for 2024? Because when you do that, the 2025 numbers get worse. Anyway I am just assuming he is on the team for the foreseeable future. Sure they could move on but it seems like a low probability event because of the contract.

Allen's restructures are built in and just executed by the team, he may get some money sooner but the overall money is not changing. That is not the same as with Mahomes. It really does not change much, their contracts were up and they are free agents. During FA, they can sign with any team, including the Bills. I expect Hyde to retire and Floyd has said he wants money.

Yeah, his agent will talk about AAV and he is correct https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-agrees-to-terms-on-restructured-contract

Anyone talking about a new deal for Josh? He is way underpaid at this point. Mahomes gets his deal redone fairly often.....I expect something for Josh at some point.

Also, this was sparsely used before covid. People think the Saints did some magic and proved the cap does not exist. However look at their page and look at all the void money they have in future years. They ran that team like idiots and never got anything for it after their one and only SB. You dont have to spend like a drunken sailer to win the SB.

I love when McDonald's scores, they do the Shamrock Shake

Meh the Bills only have 5 of the top 34!

Salary cap is not fake?

But toy this year pay for toy next year

you are correct, my bad

Is this a guys real name or are you "drinking the Kool Aid"?

Two more were added before the SB including Thuney. So lets just agree the Chiefs were on the good side of injury luck this year. The Bills were not as devastated as some make it sound. You know going into the season you have to deal with attrition and with key guys. Some they dealt with , for instance with Tre White they eneded up trading for a guy I think is actually better right now. Tre white has barely seen the field for the last 2.5 years. Milano was a great loss, carrying Von was a liability but there were deeps at DE. Bernard really hurt for the KC playoff game but I just think you have to be able to overcome losing Bernard for a game even after Milano has been gone for 12 weeks. If you want to point to injuries then we can write the story of future seasons right now, there will be injures next year, the year after and the year after than until Josh retires. Last years injuries were something they could have and should have overcome.