Ya Digg?

Why would either side want to sign off on that? A restructure benefits both the team and the player

Yes and no. I’m definitely someone who feels you can manipulate the cap for as long as a team wants. Does a team eventually have to pay for it of course, but teams can always do things if there is a player they want to sign or keep players they want to keep. Every move the Bills made yesterday can be justified outside of cap savings. If they wanted to keep all of those guys they could have, but having some time to digest what happened those were all smart business and football decisions

People on here are usually pretty level headed, as today’s news shows, I’m sure everyone will be calm, cool, and collected when signing news comes out. Not really sure why you would think anyone here would overreact, that’s just preposterous!

Sorry but most fans have no loyalty to the players, personally I think your statement is way off. Players are always made out to be the enemy - Diggs, Miller, Edmunds, going back to players like Mario Williams....all of these guys ended up on fans sh*t lists. Most people are fans of teams, not of players. Teams aren't loyal to the players, why should the players be loyal to the team? Both sides know it's a business, and they are loyal up to a certain point.

But that’s not taking a pay cut-what Brady did is completely different than what Josh will do. Josh will still get his money and rightfully so, his cap hit will be reduced

How is the team going to be competitive when players know that the team will make even the best player take a pay cut? No one would want to come to Buffalo if they know that’s gonna happen

Congrats, you get to say I told you so…you must feel so good right now

I can't honestly think of a special teams play he made this past season

They got a 5th round pick for a backup lineman who only played 35 snaps, what could they possibly have expected to get?! Switch it up and let’s say the Bills traded a 4th or 3rd rounder for what I just described-this place would absolutely burn to the ground

Well considering someone thought Ryan Bates and his 35 snaps was worth more than a 5th, I’m thinking multiple 1st rounders

Yeah could be that, or, and hear me out on this one, people are sick of reading about completely nonsensical trades. Just in the last 12 hours people have wanted to trade away the starting LT and the all pro linebacker. Now let’s throw in the large amount of fans who for some reason also want to trade away the team’s top receiver, who still by the way is a top 10 receiver in the league. Could be that too, just saying

A backup lineman is most definitely not worth more than a 5th

You think the Colts got the same value the Bills did from those 2 trades? Moss didn’t even have 800 yards this year, was pretty much phased out by the end of the year

So not for nothing, hasn’t there been a ton of complaining on here for about 2 years because the Bills went out and signed a high priced free agent who was over 30 years old? And now there are 4 pages of people saying to do the exact same thing???

That's very true it's not, but in terms of one year, are there really going to be players who make more than from their first NFL contract? Even up to the 4th round a rookie is making over a million dollars a year. There aren't very many players (if any at all) who would be taken in the 5th round or later who would make $1.5 mil in NIL deals in college

Outside of someone like Tim Tebow or Johnny Manziel, what other players would make significantly more money by staying in college with a NIL as opposed to going pro?

Sorry I should have clarified better-these universities as a whole are making billions off of these guys

Perhaps not being exploited, but considering the NCAA and the universities make billions off of the players, it's allowing them to be more fairly compensated for what they are doing for those universities

There's no guarantee that player will end up on his team. For example why would Pegula pay Marvin Harrison? No shot that guy ever plays in Buffalo

Now I am completely basing this off of one play for one and one game for another, but after watching Mooney drop that Hail Mary (against the Browns I believe) and watching Reynolds drop multiple balls in the NFC championship, I don't think I want either of them in Buffalo

Back when men were men!! Who cares that these guys can’t walk, some of CTE, at least these men were men, am I right?!?! it’s almost like the changed the rules to make the game safer for a reason… that being said, I only watched like 3 minutes of it, but I didn’t see many plays that would’ve been penalties. A super late hit on Kosar, a couple of dirty low blocks, and a lineman ripping a QBs head off, but other than that it was about what we see now

I don’t know, for me I think these opinions are a bit extreme. Football in particular is weird-the player is always the enemy. Fans root for teams or schools, they never root for players. Think about it just in the Bills who are the enemies? Von and Stef because they got paid and Gabe because he is about to get paid. Most people don’t care about the players at all once they have served their purpose. it’s the same thing with college football-Nick Saban left because he lost his stranglehold on college football. He could see the playing field was being leveled and he got out (I think the college portal had a big reason for that as well). Pro football and college football seem to be the only places where people continually root for the giant billionaire owners and mega billion dollar schools and fight against the people who are making those people all of their money

What does that even mean? Best pure football?

That’s better than these colleges (while also continuing to increase their tuition), school presidents, and the NCAA getting all of the money and the kids get nothing

It works against the argument that someone in college would make more than in the NFL (which they don't)