“Bills coach Sean McDermott wants Josh Allen to begin taking fewer hits in 2023.
"I don't think that's a healthy way to play quarterback in this league and it's undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style," McDermott said. "We have to get that adjusted and it's never going to go completely away, but it has to get where it's workable." That's about as direct as a coaching quote can get. McDermott referenced league data that showed Allen getting hit on 66 percent of his down-field rushes in 2022. Allen's wild style left him with an elbow injury that compromised his season. McDermott admitted the obvious that Allen's rushing is one of the things that makes him special, but he is probably correct that the soon-to-be 27-year-old is at a stage where he might need to make an adjustment. We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Allen's reckless abandon rushing is one of the main reasons he's an annual clear-cut top-two QB in fantas”
Originally Posted by TripleThreat:
I’ve always been confused on this. Isn’t it smart for the team, and worse for the player when they start restructuring and backloading the contracts? Sure they have some dead money but instead of paying 20-20-20, they end up doing like a 10-10-30 sort of payment (millions) and they save maybe 10 million overall? Yes they eat one year but over the course of the 3-4 years, the teams usually come out on top I thought
No.
If the contract is 20-20-20 and you restructure to create cap space, it takes the current years base salary and makes it a signing bonus and that amount spreads evenly through the rest of the years of the existing contract evenly, including the current year. Max 5 years.
So it takes that 20-20-20 and makes it more like 10-25-25. The total amount of cap hit doesn’t change.
Teams that only do this occasionally don’t get into trouble, but teams that do it with multiple contracts each year end up in true “cap hell” and end up crippling themselves with tens of millions in “dead cap” (the amount already paid to a player that hasn’t accounted in terms of the salary cap) money every year as a result of poor resource management.
Originally Posted by unBelizable:
Narrator: he did not learn to take fewer hits.
“Bills coach Sean McDermott wants Josh Allen to begin taking fewer hits in 2023.
"I don't think that's a healthy way to play quarterback in this league and it's undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style," McDermott said. "We have to get that adjusted and it's never going to go completely away, but it has to get where it's workable." That's about as direct as a coaching quote can get. McDermott referenced league data that showed Allen getting hit on 66 percent of his down-field rushes in 2022. Allen's wild style left him with an elbow injury that compromised his season. McDermott admitted the obvious that Allen's rushing is one of the things that makes him special, but he is probably correct that the soon-to-be 27-year-old is at a stage where he might need to make an adjustment. We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Allen's reckless abandon rushing is one of the main reasons he's an annual clear-cut top-two QB in fantas”
Originally Posted by unBelizable:
Narrator: he did not learn to take fewer hits.
“Bills coach Sean McDermott wants Josh Allen to begin taking fewer hits in 2023.
"I don't think that's a healthy way to play quarterback in this league and it's undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style," McDermott said. "We have to get that adjusted and it's never going to go completely away, but it has to get where it's workable." That's about as direct as a coaching quote can get. McDermott referenced league data that showed Allen getting hit on 66 percent of his down-field rushes in 2022. Allen's wild style left him with an elbow injury that compromised his season. McDermott admitted the obvious that Allen's rushing is one of the things that makes him special, but he is probably correct that the soon-to-be 27-year-old is at a stage where he might need to make an adjustment. We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Allen's reckless abandon rushing is one of the main reasons he's an annual clear-cut top-two QB in fantas”
Originally Posted by unBelizable:
Narrator: he did not learn to take fewer hits.
“Bills coach Sean McDermott wants Josh Allen to begin taking fewer hits in 2023.
"I don't think that's a healthy way to play quarterback in this league and it's undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style," McDermott said. "We have to get that adjusted and it's never going to go completely away, but it has to get where it's workable." That's about as direct as a coaching quote can get. McDermott referenced league data that showed Allen getting hit on 66 percent of his down-field rushes in 2022. Allen's wild style left him with an elbow injury that compromised his season. McDermott admitted the obvious that Allen's rushing is one of the things that makes him special, but he is probably correct that the soon-to-be 27-year-old is at a stage where he might need to make an adjustment. We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Allen's reckless abandon rushing is one of the main reasons he's an annual clear-cut top-two QB in fantas”
Originally Posted by unBelizable:
Narrator: he did not learn to take fewer hits.
“Bills coach Sean McDermott wants Josh Allen to begin taking fewer hits in 2023.
"I don't think that's a healthy way to play quarterback in this league and it's undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style," McDermott said. "We have to get that adjusted and it's never going to go completely away, but it has to get where it's workable." That's about as direct as a coaching quote can get. McDermott referenced league data that showed Allen getting hit on 66 percent of his down-field rushes in 2022. Allen's wild style left him with an elbow injury that compromised his season. McDermott admitted the obvious that Allen's rushing is one of the things that makes him special, but he is probably correct that the soon-to-be 27-year-old is at a stage where he might need to make an adjustment. We'll believe it when we see it, of course. Allen's reckless abandon rushing is one of the main reasons he's an annual clear-cut top-two QB in fantas”
