BuffaloRebound

I’d trade a 4th rounder for Hunt, maybe even a 3rd if cleveland already paid his $4.95m roster bonus and the Bills are getting Hunt for $1.35m for 1 year.

Browns have the cap space to let Mayfield sit out. They ain’t trading him to the AFC. The dude is like a little troll that feeds off resentment. They’ll want him in NFC.

I’d love an interior OL with 1st round pick, but it’s probably gotta be a CB. They would’ve signed Levi to $4m per year if they weren’t looking to upgrade. And the CB’s with speed who can play are usually gone by pick 57.

I’m sure the salary cap is a very large reason this could never happen. ‘We’re signing Von Miller for $17m per year to be our assistant quality coach’

Doubt $8m is gonna scare teams away, but mccaffrey’s 2022 salary guarantees on Monday. Just saying…

Sucks for him but Titans love drafting injured guys in 1st round.

https://www.ourlads.com/story/default/Quarterback-Ball-Velocity-at-NFL-Combine-2008-2017/10243/dh/ only through 2020

Ball velocity numbers (MPH) from the Combine: 60 - Mahomes 59 - Webb 56 - Kizer 55 - Trubisky, Evans 53 - Peterman, Kaaya 49 - Watson He’s obviously overcome this so far in his career but he’s also played at least 70% of his games in a dome or warm weather venue. That’s gonna change in Cleveland and the AFC North.

We have 1 QB on the roster. No brainer. I’m sure this is vet minimum or close to it.

Watson’s a good QB but he has one of the weaker arms for a top QB. He would’ve been better off on a dome or warm weather team. See Drew Brees.

Go get Fletcher Cox!!!! only half-kidding. Could you imagine that D Line… Miller, Cox, Oliver, Groot.

I’ll say CB in round 1 because the good ones with speed never last. Then Interior O Line in Round 2.

Kind of weird that meetings he has with teams are announced in the media unless it’s a requirement as a tendered RFA. He must have some promise if multiple teams are sniffing around.

Says a lot that Browns probably had less than 5% chance to land Watson with Atlanta, Carolina, and Saints involved, but they still went ahead anyway.

Minnesota doesn’t have much cap space so it’s not gonna be something where the Bills don’t match because of cap space. Will strictly be about money and what Bills think he’s worth.

Why would he retire and fore-go his $2.5m in guaranteed money?

Wonder what if this means Carolina is in full tank mode now? Do we start sniffing around McCaffrey now?

Not afraid of Matt Ryan, but I’d rather he not come to Indy or Cleveland. So i guess i’m rooting for New Orleans.

This is actually a great thread. And also shows how great it was to lock up Josh for the next 5 years. Other teams will have QB inflation and on lesser QB’s. We won’t.

Only explanation is that they feel Dane Jackson is a cheaper replacement and the 3rd guy in the boundary corner room has to be faster.

The salary cap is 32 houses worth the same amount that goes up in value 10% every year (that might be conservative with the new TV and streaming deals and the gambling rights for the next 10 years). Each team is given a home equity line on that house that you don’t have to pay interest on and a yearly salary cap for accounting purposes to preserve parity. If you wanna spend more this year, but push the accounting salary cap charge for it to future years, that’s your prerogative. Credit card isn’t a good example because interest always accrues and you’re spending money you may or may not have. The salary cap is spending money you will have in future years today that doesn’t accrue interest and the money you will have in the future years grows 10% every year for the next 10 years. (Those media rights deals are locked in). It’s a debit card, not a credit card.

Yes. Jerry Jones makes the same amount from the media rights deal as Shahid Khan even though Dallas brings in 10 times more eyeballs.

Because they already used up most of their push it forward maneuvers. The cap is real to the extent that it is an accounting device that prevents a Jerry Jones from significantly out-spending other teams while at the same time it also prevents a Jerry Jones from spending too much of his future cap. So it protects parity and protects the owners from themselves at the same time

You’re describing NFL socialism, not a salary cap. It’s not the cap that levels the field, it’s the fact that teams split all media rights money equally.

It’s a home equity line that accrues no interest and you don’t have to pay off on a house that goes up in value 10% every year. If you go all in this year, it just means other teams will have more money to spend than you in future years.