The mighty Bills from Buffalo will take the AFC this year.
For two decades I watched people say the Patriots window was closed, that their time was dwindling, that it was all over… seemingly every time those predictions happened, the Patriots went and won another Super Bowl.
A lot of doom talk simply because we lost to the Bengals in the playoffs. Let us not forget that the Bills watched their brother DIE on the field just a few weeks prior. Their heart was simply not in it. If it had been, the Bills would have captured the AFC last year.
The Bills have won 2 of their last 3 in Arrowhead and they’re ready to make it 3 of the last 4.
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
I took a look at the Bills' cap situation this morning, and whew. It's one of the uglier ones I've seen.
They start 2024 league year $43M over the cap.
Restructuring Allen at the max level gets them to about $21M over.
If they do a post-June 1 cut on Diggs and Tre White, that gets the Bills to about $9M in space, with 44 players on the roster. Enough to run their draft, basically.
They could do some other restructures, but which of these contracts do you really want to touch?
Von Miller (24 - 23.8M; 25 - 23.9M; 26 - 26.4M; 27 - 32.7M). Tough call when he is cut-able after 2024 for a pretty reasonable hit.
Dion Dawkins? He's 30 and has a few void years, so this is probably the best bet. Work out a new deal with him that is light on cap in 2024 and keeps him there for 3-4 more years after that.
Dawson Knox? This contract is the worst one on that team and one of the reasons they're in tough shape. He's 14.3, 15.4, 15.9 the next 3 years. Again, probably a guy you're better off not touching and then cutting after 2024.
Mitch Morse? They can pick up $8M or so with a cut here, and Morse may retire, anyway.
Taron Johnson or Rasul Douglas could be cut to create room, but both are starter-caliber players for them and tough to replace for the savings they'd generate.
Bills' best-bet to win a SB with Allen is PROBABLY to huddle the wagons next year and do a soft re-set, with the plan of cutting guys like Miller and Knox after 2024 and making a push in 2025 and beyond.
Do Beane and McDermott have the goodwill capital built up to survive that, though?
Yeah….them and the phins are in some shit. [Reply]
It’s a shame it did break up in his hand. Being a Chief he’d have been portrayed as the bad guy in the media but, the media assholes would have had to defend the asshole fans throwing them in the first place, seeing as no one seemed to think it was mention worthy during the game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
I took a look at the Bills' cap situation this morning, and whew. It's one of the uglier ones I've seen.
They start 2024 league year $43M over the cap.
Restructuring Allen at the max level gets them to about $21M over.
If they do a post-June 1 cut on Diggs and Tre White, that gets the Bills to about $9M in space, with 44 players on the roster. Enough to run their draft, basically.
They could do some other restructures, but which of these contracts do you really want to touch?
Von Miller (24 - 23.8M; 25 - 23.9M; 26 - 26.4M; 27 - 32.7M). Tough call when he is cut-able after 2024 for a pretty reasonable hit.
Dion Dawkins? He's 30 and has a few void years, so this is probably the best bet. Work out a new deal with him that is light on cap in 2024 and keeps him there for 3-4 more years after that.
Dawson Knox? This contract is the worst one on that team and one of the reasons they're in tough shape. He's 14.3, 15.4, 15.9 the next 3 years. Again, probably a guy you're better off not touching and then cutting after 2024.
Mitch Morse? They can pick up $8M or so with a cut here, and Morse may retire, anyway.
Taron Johnson or Rasul Douglas could be cut to create room, but both are starter-caliber players for them and tough to replace for the savings they'd generate.
Bills' best-bet to win a SB with Allen is PROBABLY to huddle the wagons next year and do a soft re-set, with the plan of cutting guys like Miller and Knox after 2024 and making a push in 2025 and beyond.
Do Beane and McDermott have the goodwill capital built up to survive that, though?
Cap wise, the Bills can just push it all into the future, New Orleans style, but it's kinda like, why? This core isn't worth running it back. You almost might be better off sacrificing a year of Allen's prime, gutting a lot of that trash stuff, fixing your cap, praying you hit some picks and go for it in 2025.
They 100% won't do that, but if I was a fan I think that's best long-term. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Eleazar:
Never had the pleasure as far as I can remember. Sounds like I can count myself lucky :-)
We had the most obnoxious Bills fan in our section this year... He was over the top dickish. I just kept looking at him and saying "enjoy it now, you can be regular season Champs again." I thought about him at the end of the game last night. It made me smile. [Reply]
They made that deal to try to close the gap on the Chiefs and seal the deal. And it destroyed their window with this squad. That, and the awful Dawson Knox extension. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
They made that deal to try to close the gap on the Chiefs and seal the deal. And it destroyed their window with this squad. That, and the awful Dawson Knox extension.
Raiders, Broncos, Chargers, and Bills all fucked their caps overspending for FA's in hopes they were only one player away.
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
We had the most obnoxious Bills fan in our section this year... He was over the top dickish. I just kept looking at him and saying "enjoy it now, you can be regular season Champs again." I thought about him at the end of the game last night. It made me smile.
I'd bet money he thought about you as well... [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
They made that deal to try to close the gap on the Chiefs and seal the deal. And it destroyed their window with this squad. That, and the awful Dawson Knox extension.
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
They made that deal to try to close the gap on the Chiefs and seal the deal. And it destroyed their window with this squad. That, and the awful Dawson Knox extension.
Kinda crazy looking back. 13 Seconds wrecked that organization so badly that the only option to beat us in their mind was to overextend for old Von Miller and kill their window post 2022. [Reply]
