YoloinOhio Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 http://m.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/Charles-Clay-restructures-contract-with-Bills/db510cd8-2171-4d17-a18b-ba0ca30011f6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 One down, several more to go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireChan Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Leo and Graham next too. Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 43s44 seconds ago The #Bills have also announced that Leodis McKelvin and Corey Graham could have restructured deals, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) One down, several more to go...yup. This had restructure written all over it when it went down last year IMO Edited February 26, 2016 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsForever Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 http://m.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/Charles-Clay-restructures-contract-with-Bills/db510cd8-2171-4d17-a18b-ba0ca30011f6 What a distaster! Doug Whaley and his myopic plan at work once again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) @tydunne The #Bills have also announced that Leodis McKelvin and Corey Graham could have restructured deals, too. "Could have"? @mikerodak Funny thing about Clay deal was Bills structured contract so Dolphins would take big hit in 2016. Bills easily got out of own hole with him. Edited February 26, 2016 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 yup. This had restructure written all over it when it went down last year IMO With a $10M roster bonus due this year, definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsForever Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) "Could have"? @mikerodak Funny thing about Clay deal was Bills structured contract so Dolphins would take big hit in 2016. Bills easily got out of own hole with him. I totally disagree here with this tweet. This opens up all possibilities of disaster with the skyrocketed dead money involved now. Clay is a MAJOR risk on the future of the club with his reliability (has only played one healthy season) and chronic knee problems with the restructure. Edited February 26, 2016 by BuffaloBillsForever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It was pretty obvious that this was going to happen as soon as they signed him last year. No way they could afford a $10M roster bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarleyNY Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 @tydunne The #Bills have also announced that Leodis McKelvin and Corey Graham could have restructured deals, too. "Could have"?@mikerodak Funny thing about Clay deal was Bills structured contract so Dolphins would take big hit in 2016. Bills easily got out of own hole with him. Nothing funny about it. The deal was set up to be restructured. Whether or not the $10M cash payment is a roster or signing bonus is meaningless to Clay, but how it is allocated for a cap perspective is very different. It was nearly impossible for Miami to match that contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I totally disagree here with this tweet. This opens up all possibilities of disaster with the skyrocketed dead money involved now. Clay is a MAJOR risk on the future of the club with his reliability (has only played one healthy season) and chronic knee problems with the restructure. Really makes you wonder why he was a top 100 player just the year before last? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarleyNY Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I totally disagree here with this tweet. This opens up all possibilities of disaster with the skyrocketed dead money involved now. Clay is a MAJOR risk on the future of the club with his reliability (has only played one healthy season) and chronic knee problems with the restructure. It's a terrible contract. The structure made a lot of sense technically, but it is stupid from an overpayment perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 @JoeBuscaglia Wrote this last month in the offseason blueprint column. Potential Clay restructure fully explained: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsForever Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) @JoeBuscaglia Wrote this last month in the offseason blueprint column. Potential Clay restructure fully explained: It's not fully explained as it misses the most important thing and that is the rising dead money involved. Clay is a major injury risk and even his own doctors in Miami have questioned his longevity. That is were the potential ramifications of the dead money come in play. Edited February 26, 2016 by BuffaloBillsForever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codyny13 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I always find it funny when guys act like the money is coming out of our pockets. Don't worry about it, let the pros crunch the numbers and sign the papers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It's not fully explained as it misses the most important thing and that is the rising dead money involved. Clay is a major injury risk and even his own doctors in Miami have questioned his longevity. That is were the potential ramifications of the dead money come in. Sour grapes perhaps. We'll see, but they have to make room to get the left side of the OL secured and this is a prelude to accomplishing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsForever Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Sour grapes perhaps. We'll see, but they have to make room to get the left side of the OL secured and this is a prelude to accomplishing that. So Clay staying healthy ONCE in his career is sour grapes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 So Clay staying healthy ONCE in his career is sour grapes? Questioning his longevity after he left for Buffalo could be sour grapes because they wanted to retain him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machine gun kelly Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It's obvious we don't know all of the information coming down over the next few years as most teams probably have a rough guess with different streams of revenue what may happen down the road projecting likely rises in the cap. It's like anything else in business, it's a forecast, so is only so accurate. With that said, are these restructured deals kicking down the road dead money, and place us in a difficult situation when we do need to pay for a franchise QB. We have to hope they know what they are doing, and keep building through the draft. The Bills will have the money they need to resign, but will not pay for any large free agent contracts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 It's not fully explained as it misses the most important thing and that is the rising dead money involved. Clay is a major injury risk and even his own doctors in Miami have questioned his longevity. That is were the potential ramifications of the dead money come in play. We weren't cutting him this year or next no matter what. This just confirms the year after- not that radical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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