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2 minutes ago, BuffaloRebound said:

Depending on how many years they’re amortizing the $7m, that could be a $14m cap savings in 2024.  We could already be zero over the cap with another $10m coming from Tre on June 1.  

They are cap compliant already apparently.

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1 minute ago, FireChans said:

Diggs won’t take a paycut because he doesn’t care if he gets cut and the Bills probably don’t wanna cut him. 

By don’t wanna means cannot as well based on numbers 

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6 minutes ago, sven233 said:

 

He wasn't getting cut this year no matter what with $60 mill in dead cap.....  Maybe next season, but not this season.  He wasn't going anywhere.


I don’t believe THAT is accurate 

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4 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:


what? He was very very good until the acl.

 

Tre has played in 10 of our last 40 games or something?  Come on

Tre earned a contract here with his play. Von was signed as a free agent to deliver in the playoffs. So very different relationship with fans.

 

Bills fans never got a chance to love Von.

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2 minutes ago, mrags said:

And nobody thought there was any way Von would take a pay cut either. Why would he. He didn’t have to. Could have told Beane to F-Off and pay him his money. Even if cut he gets a ton and then goes somewhere else 


what day did his salary this year guarantee?

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2 minutes ago, mrags said:

And nobody thought there was any way Von would take a pay cut either. Why would he. He didn’t have to. Could have told Beane to F-Off and pay him his money. Even if cut he gets a ton and then goes somewhere else 

Well he likely knows his market. And realized no way am I getting that. So bills deadline on him was really the 16th when his entire base guaranteed. So they could have moved on from him. 

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4 minutes ago, sven233 said:

I don't want to hear one time this season that Von isn't a team player. He didn't have to do this. This is a team first move all the way. Immediate cap savings and he is betting on himself which means he'll be going all out every snap to try & make plays to hit those incentives.


Von Miller is a washed up NFL football player that is a distraction. If Von Miller was a team player he should retire. The Buffalo Bills should have never signed him. Von Miller should have been released today he has no value as a NFL player anymore and certainly can’t help

the Bills other than sitting on his but with a Bills jacket wrapped around himself playing sparely. At least the Chuck Knox over the hill 1980’s Buffalo Bills players like Conrad Dobler had some professional pride and gave the 1980 Bills something. Von Miller has given the Bills nothing total waste of a Bills roster spot. I don’t want to hear about Von Miller’s knee Conrad Dobler had bad knees without the medical technology we have today to repair his knee. Suck it and play Von Miller or retire in my opinion. Go Bills! Let’s Go Buffalo 

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3 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:

Looking his last Restructure up. 7M of his contract would have fully guaranteed on the 16th of this month. Making all 17M or so guaranteed March 16th 


exactly- he knew he wasn’t getting what he signed today as a free agent so he took his guaranteed dollars as a win and let him save face 

 

none of it was charitable. Good business for both parties aligned with good or for both parties. No one wanted to sign todays deal. It was just the most profitable move for both.

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34 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

If that is as reported it is a proper pay cut. 

 

What I mean by that is it isn't a restructure and it isn't swapping non-guaranteed money for a smaller amount of guaranteed money. 

 

Von's $17.5m salary this year was FULLY guaranteed. He is taking a near $9m pay cut (who knows what the incentives are). That is significant. 

Weren't you and I talking a few days ago about whether it's reasonable to expect much from Miller, that it looked like he just wasn't going to get back to his old self.   Doesn't this say that at least Miller is confident that he will be back?  That's a big bet on himself.  

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1 minute ago, MAJBobby said:

Well he likely knows his market. And realized no way am I getting that. So bills deadline on him was really the 16th when his entire base guaranteed. So they could have moved on from him. 

Yup. But we’ll never know will we 

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6 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

How come Tre White is given so much slack for his injuries but Von gets no grace from the fans?

I would guess because Tre has a much longer history of solid contributions to this team, and was a key contributor to the regular season and playoff success in the last 7 years. That has allowed him to build up a reservoir of goodwill with the fans.

Beyond a few important plays in his first season, Von has not been a contributor here, and therefore, does not have a load of goodwill to fall back on.

I do believe he will rebound, not fully, but enough so that at his new salary, he will not be a boatanchor to the Bills next year.

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Just now, Shaw66 said:

Weren't you and I talking a few days ago about whether it's reasonable to expect much from Miller, that it looked like he just wasn't going to get back to his old self.   Doesn't this say that at least Miller is confident that he will be back?  That's a big bet on himself.  

 

It is. But I still have zero expectations for him. I respect him for making this move. I still think he is totally washed as a player.

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2 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

Weren't you and I talking a few days ago about whether it's reasonable to expect much from Miller, that it looked like he just wasn't going to get back to his old self.   Doesn't this say that at least Miller is confident that he will be back?  That's a big bet on himself.  


what bet? He wasn’t getting more on the market so he will try to play under his already guaranteed salary instead of getting cut and collecting the same elsewhere -subsidized by the bills- and with the humbling nature of being signed to a cheaper and shorter deal

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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

 

It is. But I still have zero expectations for him. I respect him for making this move. I still think he is totally washed as a player.


At least the $9m paycut that he has allowed them to save in 2024 will mean that they can put this money towards a starter at DE, and Miller can just be rotation 

 

Maybe more likely they bring back AJE now?

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3 minutes ago, Meatloaf63 said:

Yes if he wants to be competitive.

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 

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