Rock-A-Bye Beasley

I know. I was responding to someone mentioning Allen’s cap hit increase, which has also already been factored in.

What about the 16mil in dead cap this year that won’t be there next year?

Just setting yourself up for disappointment. Did you learn nothing from the way last season ended?

Over a decade ago I took an urban planning class at UB specifically about the Buffalo/Niagara region. Learned about all the mistakes that have been made and methods that were being implemented to reduce urban sprawl. It’s sad to think that building another stadium across the street in the middle of nowhere will be another mistake up there with cutting off the waterfront with the 190, but it’s true. I’m not mad I’m actually amazed the people of Buffalo could be happy about this.

Am I mad they’re building another open air stadium in the middle of nowhere costing taxpayers a billion dollars you ask? Yes

And I’m pretty sure putting a roof on it would have accomplished that. Also not building it in the middle of nowhere again could have helped. Keep telling yourself that

I hope Bill Burr talks about Brady

Why are there refs?

I agree if you’re talking about after this season as opposed to extending him. I wouldn’t want to trade him this year unless it’s for a plus starter on o line or safety. I’ll add to your argument in that he didn’t play 60% of snaps last year.

Fair enough although not lunacy because I'm sure there's a team willing to give a 1st or early 2nd for him if he wants to be somewhere else for some reason.

Ok man we will see. They extend Mlano, Dawkins, and T.Johnson and you can sign Phillips and all the depth you want. Or do you not want those 3 long-term? Because I hope they extend them now before the cap goes way up and in a couple years we are looking at much larger salaries. At some point we have to cycle through draft picks and league minimum guys for the bottom of the roster. The only thing we are going to miss out on when this happens is paying special teams players 3.5million a year.

Since this is the trade deadline/rumors thread I'll add an addendum to my last post. Big ticket trade options like Burns and Moore may seem out of reach, but as I've shown above we can keep every one of our players through 2023 by only restructuring Allen and White. If Beane thinks either of those guys or someone else gives us a significant advantage and can be acquired at a price he's ok with, he can get a couple swings at the Lombardi with them. For example, Beane trades 2023 1st rd pick for Burns. His cap would be easy to absorb this season, but next year has 16mil cap hit. To fit that in, Beane could extend/restructure Dawkins and Milano. Two players I'd be happy with for another year or two. Extending Burns would be difficult long-term, but he can be tagged and traded to recoup the 1st round pick given up previously. I'm talking about the main core pieces. I won't be talking about Bobby freaking Hart. A lot of the guys listed are making more than they should and more than the league minimum. Bills will actually save more $ by replacing them with draft picks, current PS and league minimum. Also, Morse is under contract for 2023

I'd be glad to. I'll have a caveat that I don't necessarily think they SHOULD extend all of these players, and the result of this season will obviously play into these decisions. Especially with Poyer. It's really only Edmunds and Poyer that are not under contract for 2023. To clear the cap space for them Beane would only need to convert Allen and White's base salaries into a bonus and spread them over the remainder of their contracts. That should get them pretty close to $30mil. in cap space. I don't know about you, but I'm ok with being stuck with Allen and White a while longer. Now the other two important pieces are Oliver and Davis. Both are set for 2023, but extending them is another story. Oliver will be making over 10mil on his 5th year option, so if he gets an extension at around 14mil/yr Beane could find 4mil OR he can actually save more cap space in 2023 by spreading the 10mil to future years. Nothing crazy. Just moving money around for White and Allen's contracts. No main pieces lost. Davis will be the one where he gets a big raise, but again he's under contract for 2023 at a very low salary so they don't have to do anything. I think it would be a good idea to lock him up long-term before he potentially has two good statistical seasons and the salary cap (and player contracts) goes up significantly as it's expected to. They can afford Gabe's extension in 2024 because the cap is expected to go up significantly. Which is why extending all of our core pieces now is actually the smart thing to do. Don't listen to posters here calling it irresponsible. Here's a list of other players that can be restructured/extended this offseason or next depending on when it's needed: Dawkins, Milano, T.Johnson, D.Jones, Bates, Settle. I would love to have the first four listed here for longer than their current contract. So an extension is again not irresponsible and benefits the team and the player. They love getting big lump sum checks from Terry.

I mostly agree. I just don’t value draft picks as high as you might. I would give a first for Burns in a heartbeat.

I only said we don’t need to lose any players that are currently on the roster. That’s not a crazy idea and it doesn’t involve being reckless. Tremaine already makes almost 13mil this year. If you wanted to keep him how much more would it cost? Would that be reckless? Same for Oliver. He’s already set to make 10 million next year. I don’t think giving him a slight raise would be irresponsible. How did we go from “draft, develop, and sign our own” to “keeping our own would be wildly reckless”?!

Agreed. And the rest of the roster is pretty great as well. There’s no reason they can’t keep everyone currently on the roster if they want. I know that scares some people because they’re risk-averse.

Then which players do you want to lose and why? I wouldn’t mind moving on from Edmunds and Oliver. But let me guess you don’t like that idea either. Oh so you meant to say “I don’t think they have the cap space”

What?! Where do people get this stuff from. How’d they get Diggs?

And there is no suffering if the players are still good. You only get in trouble when the players decline drastically or you sign a guy like star lotuloleilei (Or your QB retires ala Brees) Those other guys don’t know what their talking about. They should let the GM do what he did this past offseason again. They were probably saying we had no money this time last year too. @NewEra @Scott7975 @No_Matter_What

We don’t have to let anyone go. Beane can clear over $60mil with restructures/extensions without cutting anyone.

Is it too late to put it in Buffalo?

No dead cap if traded going forward

they could trade him again to recoup some draft picks or more likely he renegotiates at a lower cap hit to get some more guaranteed $. So the least likely scenario is he plays at $12/yr for the next 3.

For those of you saying improve IOL, can I interest you in former Kromer guy, Austin Corbett?

Gibson would be cool. But duke johnson is just sitting on PS