JAAM
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I was hella confused when I saw you wrote that at first hahaha
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All_black_everything
Pro Bowler
Holy shit
All_black_everything
Pro Bowler
GodIsGreat
Veteran
Texans went all in for their qb before the ravens did
JoeyFlex5
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What ever will I do
rmcjacket23
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I'll be the one that says it... dude has the view of a locker room cancer. Not only did they trade him for what isn't a huge return, but it provides virtually no salary cap relief. And from what I'm reading from McFarland, it actually costs them more cap in short term to get rid of him than it does to keep him.
He's also 31 and making a good chunk of $ annually at this point.
It's a good get for the Texans, but not sure its the needle-mover people think it is.
JO_75
Hall of Famer
The Bills Super Bowl window is closed.
Dom McRaven
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Bro, holy shit.
JO_75
Hall of Famer
Teams now a days are willing to eat the dead cap now to have more freedom in the future when it comes to the cap.
if it all stays rosey, they probably get the best possible version of diggs for 2024... who knows what they get beyond that
but for the texans it's a no-brainer and there's only 3.5m guaranteed beyond this 1 year
my guess is we're adding someone in R2 (or at least R3) to come in and add some young talent to this WR group
clearly the front office doesn't think they're set at the position or else they wouldn't have had gallup and reynolds come in for free agent visits - not sure who else is out there outside of DJ Chark
i think there's probably a few guys on Day 2 that the front office would happily add to this corps
that said, Bateman is going to have to be the number 2 on this offence and i dont think that's farfetched based on the talent and the route-running - the thing that was missing last year was reliability/trust/chemistry with Lamar
have to think EDC and the coaches think they can improve the connection between the two of them - and if they do then Bate's got the talent to be that guy for sure - at a certain point you have to trust in your guys to develop - this isnt a 2022 season situation where the cupboard is bare of talent behind the number 1 guy (when we had Bate as our presumptive number 1 and then a bunch of jags behind him)... we've got Zay who's legit, Nelly who's reliable as a WR3/4 and Bate who's talented but has lacked consistency and chemistry
would love to add one of these guys on day 2 if possible (being reasonable about who might be available):
ricky pearsall
ja'lynn polk
jermaine burton (if character questions check out)
not sure that tweet on dead cap for the Bills over the next 4 seasons is correct and the tweet has also disappeared. Dead cap wouldn't be on the books for 4 seasons and those numbers were taken off of spotrac like he was on the roster.
rmcjacket23
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This is the article from Jason_OTC.
Bills Trade Stefon Diggs to Texans | Over the Cap
Bills Trade Stefon Diggs to Texans | Over the Cap
overthecap.com
rmcjacket23
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I believe it looks like this. From cap perspective, Bills on the hook for:
3/5th of $21.5M signing bonus paid in 2022 (pro-rated for 5 years) = $12.9M
4/5th of $16M roster bonus paid in 2023 (pro-rated for 5 years) = $12.8M
4/5th of restructured signing bonus paid in 2023 (converted $6.75M of base salary into bonus, pro-rated for 5 years) = $5.4M
Add those up and you get to the ~$31.1M in dead $, that accelerates into '24.
Basically they paid him ~$49M in '22 and '23, and they only recognized ~$18M of it over that same period against the cap.
or two
allblackraven
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What are the character questions around Burton? That thing after Tennessee game?
I would have shoved her harder.