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You don't cut him just because. But you use the Star deal as leverage to redo his contract. He actually will make $8.25 million this year, and there's a $1 mil roster bonus decision coming in March. If Beane was smart, that payment is due a few days after the league season opens. For comparison, Murphy's 2019 bonus was due on March 17, 4 days after FA began. Also, if Bills are able to snag a prime DE in first week of FA for $20 mil AAV, there's logic to dump Murphy and bring Shaq back at $8 mm AAV.

There's been an avalanche of Dem voices hitting Sanders in the last week. I think it will be tough for him to rise above his 25% base, and Perez will start hitting the Biden & Warren campaigns to drop out very soon.

Two schools of thought, considering he had over 60% in 2016. Either people are on to him more than Bernie Bros realize or people really hated Hillary. Either way, 25% is underwhelming.

Looks like DNC will kneecap Biden when he does poorly in SC and Nevada. They won't like him taking votes from Klobuchar.

Nothing new, other than a straight cut in salary. He gains by the salary guarantee which assures a roster spot in 2020, and another $2.5 million if he's injured for next year. The bonuses appear to be unchanged from the original terms, where he can earn an additional $1.2 million in 2020. If Bills have an adequate young guy in the wings, they will be incentivized to deactivate Star later in the season.

Straight up pay cut.

Did you fail math in school? $6.25 - $4.50 = $1.75. Maybe you can help me identify the poster who was loudly banging the table for the Bills to sign an over-the-hill David Harris to an above-market contract to pry him away from the Jets? I think the rationale was that Harris would be a great guy to help transition into the new defense and be a solid locker room presence, even at a highly inflated salary for a 30+ LB? Who was arguing that?

The wall came down in Fall of '89,six months after Mogilny defected. He and Sabres took a much higher risk than Wings and Fedorov.

Two sources. But who's counting.

You mean other than the dozen or so posts in this thread showing his 2020 salary dropping by $1.75 million?

It is most certainly a pay cut for this year and next He was not going to be cut this year, so his salary would have been guaranteed anyway.

Totally predictable because it benefits both sides.

BTW, I need to air a grievance since we're playing Detroit again. I caught a portion of "Russian Five" a documentary they did about Red Wings cup run with the addition of the 5 Russians. Their depiction of Fedorov's defection got me riled up, because they characterized it as a stunning move to get him from behind the Iron Curtain. They also spent a lot of time talking about the "risk" Detroit took in selecting him in the mid-rounds in the '89 draft. But nowhere in the doc did they acknowledge what happened leading up to the '90 draft, and the fact that Mogilny had already defected. The Red Wings made it sound like they were executing a major heist by being the first to take a risk on a Russian player in the draft, and then setting up his escape from the dangerous confines of PORTLAND, ORGEGON, well after Perestroika was under way!!! There wasn't a peep in the doc that maybe they were bold enough to make the move is because the path was already set.

Just to clarify it for the rest of us - whose train of thought is ridiculous? Plenz or bills-fan?

This is a silly argument because you don't need playing experience to help out in all phases of game day preparation. As an aside, I was p''d off about the fanfare that the 49ers assistant got, when Cardinals & Bills were at the forefront of hiring female assistants.

I'd add that we reached the only downside of capitalism in advanced societies, which breeds contempt and envy. In a land of availability and opulence, many people stopped measuring their progress from where they came from, and now rue the place where they didn't end up. That's why income inequality pops up into the discussion so much. It doesn't matter that the US poor have so many more options than they ever did, apparently the only thing that matters is that they don't have Jeff Bezos's checkbook. And the only solution is apparently to empty Bezos's checkbook and redistribute his cash. The biggest problem that socialists have is not understanding the true incentives to invest and innovate. Bernie & his acolytes think that the economy will chug along just as well under a heavily taxed and regulated environment, and workers will be as productive.

You've got the right decade, but the wrong hemisphere.

Wasn't that the day that Dahlin missed the Sabres game?

I don't follow NCAA closely, and this is the time I start checking names that pop up for a possible Bills pick. I'd be livid if Bills used their top 2 picks on Ruggs, whose highlight film looks nearly identical to ..... Robert Foster.

Always is ... Why do you think that mobile apps & services are "free"?

Unfortunately, I think he does ?

If there's evidence of wrongdoing at the polls in November, of course he's going to question the results. That's why the Electoral College was established and that's why there's 2.5 months between election and inauguration to resolve any outstanding questions.

Enjoy the outing. Stop by Tracks bar on 31st across the street. The owner is a huge Bills fan.

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You should almost never trade up for any prospect other than a QB, and historic data proves it. The 2014 draft was an epic fail on so many levels, but also has to be looked in the context of the GM needing to salvage a bad QB decision two years prior. The Bills don't need a lot of bodies this year, but they need the right bodies to fill out the roster, and using up two high draft picks to select the 3rd best WR in a very deep draft is reckless. Also, the Bills absolutely had a need to backfill the DL in the 2019 draft, because Star was on a short leash, Shaq was in his last contract year, Phillips resigned for a prove-it one-year deal, and Murphy proved to be unreliable. Even after drafting Oliver, DL remains a huge need for Buffalo this offseason. Trading up in this draft and missing out on the very few blue-chip defenders would be horrendous.