2026 Cap

[Mark Vader]

22 hours ago, GASabresIUFan said:

Just to warm everyone's hearts, the Bills have 33.221 million in cap committed for next year for the void years of players no longer under contract after this season including Milano ($11.071), Bosa ($7.2), McGovern ($4.805), Jones ($3.724), Epenesa ($2.861) and Ogunjobi ($2.57).

 

 

 

 

Yeah, the Bills can easily be $40-$50 million under the cap this year, and they would only have to restructure one or two players to get there.

 

Release Taron Johnson, Codrington & Rapp and that will be good savings.

 

Restructure Dawkins & Hoecht, and that's all they would need to do. You wouldn't have to touch Josh Allen's or Ed Oliver's contracts.

Edited 2 hours ago by Mark Vader

[corta765]

24 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

 

You wonder if he has an internal mandate to achieve year over year competitiveness, because of the uniqueness of the Buffalo market - they cannot, like an LA team, afford 1-2 terrible years because they mortgaged the future.  I don't know if that's the case or not, but it would make sense to me.

It is an interesting question. I have actually thought Terry has said he is staying hands off and McB has carte blanche for what they want. On the flipside I would argue they could be more aggressive because truthfully Bills fans have been very good even in really bad years, whereas LA if you don't win they just dont care.

14 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

Restructure Dawkins & Hoecht, and that's all they would need to do. You wouldn't have to touch Josh Allen's or Ed Oliver's contracts.

That is really important because that is an easy ace in the hole cap wise when the times come and the longer you can go without touching those the better.

[Mark Vader]

1 hour ago, corta765 said:

It is an interesting question. I have actually thought Terry has said he is staying hands off and McB has carte blanche for what they want. On the flipside I would argue they could be more aggressive because truthfully Bills fans have been very good even in really bad years, whereas LA if you don't win they just dont care.

That is really important because that is an easy ace in the hole cap wise when the times come and the longer you can go without touching those the better.

Right.

 

The important thing is how they deal with Dawson Knox. I don't see the Bills releasing him, which means they should activate the 2 void years he has and extend his current contract which will give the Bills some cap relief.

 

A restructure of Josh Allen & Ed Oliver would net the Bills a combined $21 million of cap space, but they don't really need it with the other moves I mentioned that they can do.

[Mango]

4 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

It does but the cap increases every year. So you spread cap hits and take bigger hits in later years when there is more cap space available. For example, the cap is roughly $24M more this year than last year. 

 

But also our void years for 2026 are nearly 2x Tremaine Edmunds 2026 cap hit.

 

I'm not necessarily saying Edmunds fixes anything/everything. But we do seem to be struggling with both starting LB positions. 2x Edmunds would be super helpful right now.

 

So when you borrow from the future and then get it wrong it really compounds the issue.

 

[Kirby Jackson]

5 minutes ago, Mango said:

 

But also our void years for 2026 are nearly 2x Tremaine Edmunds 2026 cap hit.

 

I'm not necessarily saying Edmunds fixes anything/everything. But we do seem to be struggling with both starting LB positions. 2x Edmunds would be super helpful right now.

 

So when you borrow from the future and then get it wrong it really compounds the issue.

 

I don’t disagree. You have no choice but to keep borrowing from the future while you have Josh in his prime. If you’re going to win it will be in this window. 
 

As an aside, I think Edmunds is having a big year. I saw him on someone’s DPOY ballot the other day. 

[Mango]

Just now, Kirby Jackson said:

I don’t disagree. You have no choice but to keep borrowing from the future while you have Josh in his prime. If you’re going to win it will be in this window. 
 

As an aside, I think Edmunds is having a big year. I saw him on someone’s DPOY ballot the other day. 

 

 Agreed, I have been watching a bit of Chicago this year. I am constantly going ugh/whoops. 

The odds weren't really in our favor, tough task for an undersized LB corp hold up year after year. Also I think the league is becoming a bit more smashmouth compared to 5 years. That certainly isn't helping.