Nephilim17

I don't know enough about college prospects but if the brass loves a guy way more than the other options left, say Brian Thomas as an example, I'm good with giving up a fourth and maybe a third to get him. We should have an extra third because of Edmunds, right?

https://www.nfl.com/news/texas-wr-xavier-worthy-sets-nfl-scouting-combine-record-with-4-21-second-40-yard-dash

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Greg Cosell likes Mitchell a lot. I trust his opinion. I'd be happy with him to add an explosive element to the Offense. Is Legette's 4.39 2nd time official? If so, he just (re)made millions of dollars his first time lost him.

Holy crapy. This is almost as bad as the dating sites where (I'm told, not that there's anything wrong with that) that all the guys lie about their height (every guy claims to be at least 6' even if he's 5'8") and half the women, at least my age, subtract 5 years from their age. Shame, shame, shame...

Question with an example please: If a void year has a $3 million cap hit an the player signs with the same team for $7 million for one year, that player is technically earning $10 million ($3 million void year bonus money plus $7 million new money) for that year, right? But if that player signs with a new team for $10 million, he still gets the $3 million void-year money from his old team plus the new $10 million, right? So he's actually getting $13 million that year instead of just the $10 million. If my understanding is correct, the player is richer if he signs with a new team for the same (or relatively close to the same) money. So I think it's in the player's best financial interest not to "settle" for a new contract with void-year money if another team is going to pay around the same for that new period. Correct?

I guess we know spring has sprung when Tyreek breaks a three-year-old's arm. Who needs a groundhog when we have this fine young man.

This is both hilarious and sad. It's like a young adult saying, "I don't believe in gravity." Also an indictment of the athlete-scholarship system where total idiots not only get into a school but often emerge with a university degree.

Such an open-ended question. If we make a SuperBowl and play superbly but just happen to run into another team that plays at the same level but it's just a question of a bad bounce or something (not bad coaching like 13 Seconds), if would be hard to fault McD.

I hope I'm wrong but I'm thinking (largely due to the Chiefs but for other reasons as well) that the Bills will never be a bona fide dynasty with Allen but will be a very good team consistently with maybe one championship season over his career. I think for the term "dynasty" to apply, that means going to the SuperBowl multiple years in a row, and winning at least one if not more) and I don't see that.

Letting Douglas go makes no sense to me. So you save $10 million. And who's gonna be our number 1 or number 2 corner? And what do you pay him? You think you're gonna get a proven starter at corner for $5 million? No? So we draft that guy? And we pin our hopes on a rookie being a starter? No way.

Thanks, @GunnerBill. So I assume no talk of DE (other than keeping Von) or DT, interesting.

Can you imagine Mitch Morse saying this with a year left? Some guys, most of them younger, need (more) media training. Even if you feel it, you don't say it to the media.

Where was his fire when there was a loose fumble in the SuperBowl?

Have you heard anything from your contacts about what the organization is feeling on Steph's ability now? Or nothing yet?

WIth the tight space we have, you say bring in a 1tech and a safety... Where does a vet WR rate in terms of a free agent signing? How much would you limit the spending on a vet WR and who do you think that lands us?

Most people were happy. @Back2Buff @Einstein @Wayne Arnold were not fans of the extension. And they took heat for it.

Sure, it's bad for a player, but if signing bonus was changed to salary, a team could cut the player and not be hit with dead money. That would be positive for a team. But I don't think it's allowable. And the only reason for a player to agree, theoretically, is if the player wanted out so bad, he was willing to leave behind money to make himself tradeable and not give his current team a huge hit with dead money.

First, I think it's useful to define where "dead money" comes from: Dead money exists because of how salary cap accounting rules operate. Signing bonuses, option bonuses and certain roster bonuses are prorated or spread out evenly over the life of a contract for a maximum of five years. When a player is released, traded or retires, the remaining proration of these salary components immediately accelerate onto his team's current salary cap. To use a simple example and only using signing bonus as the only bonus, if a player signs a 5-year deal for 15 million per year ($75 million over 5 years) and a signing bonus of $20 million ($4 million per year)... If that player is no longer wanted after two seasons, the team can escape paying the player's base salary $15 million a year, but the signing bonus for every three remaining years accelerates at once and there is then 3 year's of "dead money," $12 million dollars. So, as far as I know, midway through a deal, teams will convert base salary into signing bonus (thus spreading out the big base salary hit for a season when money is tight) but that money is equally distributed over the remaining years of the contract as bonus. The Bills have done that a fair bit lately. But... I can't remember a situation where the INVERSE happens: the signing bonus is converted to salary which can be avoided. I think that's either your question or related to it: can a team escape the "dead money" hit of remaining signing bonus. I don't think so. I don't even think if a player was willing if the CBA would allow for it. Possibly because bonus is "paid" immediately but just for accounting purposes it's spread over a deal. Maybe the concept is you can't take back a signing bonus that was paid upon signing and in the past. If not the simple reason of you can't take back something that was paid all at once in the past, I'm not sure why. I'm about 85% sure of this. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

This is my second Mea Culpa to you in a few days! What that hell are you doing to me?!

Not news we can use but nice and interesting to see. I don't hear Jim's name come up in this convo outside of some fans here. "To me, [Joe] Montana and [John] Elway, Jim Kelly -- those guys, all those guys," Marino told Sports Illustrated before Super Bowl LVIII. "Patrick Mahomes, he's going to be considered one of the best ever, too. You got Tom Brady, you got a lot of guys. So, there's a lot to pick from there." https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-legend-dan-marino-lists-his-greatest-nfl-quarterbacks-of-all-time-one-surprising-name-makes-the-cut/#:~:text="To me%2C [Joe],of the best ever%2C too.

McD joins the Competition Committee; a couple days later this happens. Coincidence? I think not!

Good watch. The Brandon Jones, safety, section was intriguing. He's only 25 and moves well and hits hard (at least according to their highlights and analysis). Wouldn't mind him on an affordable deal.

Good points about lower salaries but — and I'm not an employment lawyer — I'm guessing some enterprising US lawyers would bake in a million dollars for suffering and anguish, etc.

I hate the Chiefs as a team but I love this. This is a bigger achievement than anything any player can do on a field.