Buffalo Bills 2025 Thread

[inkman]

3 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

Opportunities = Automatic…..good to know, Webster dictionary is confused then…..🤔

They have a good roster, a HOF QB and less than $3 mill in cap space.  The opportunities are limited. You could argue that holding onto draft picks extends the window of opportunity as those players (see Max Hairston and Cole Bishop) can help the Bills get the chip.  
 

Would I have been excited to see a new player on the team? Of course but I’m not crying about them not getting anyone.  They signed Bosa in the offseason.  He’s rounding into form. Losing Hoecht blows but injuries happen. 

[Crusader1969]

4 hours ago, inkman said:

They have a good roster, a HOF QB and less than $3 mill in cap space.  The opportunities are limited. You could argue that holding onto draft picks extends the window of opportunity as those players (see Max Hairston and Cole Bishop) can help the Bills get the chip.  
 

Would I have been excited to see a new player on the team? Of course but I’m not crying about them not getting anyone.  They signed Bosa in the offseason.  He’s rounding into form. Losing Hoecht blows but injuries happen. 

At some point you just have to go for it

Look at the Eagles. This year and last 

way more aggressive 

[Scottysabres]

5 hours ago, Crusader1969 said:

At some point you just have to go for it

Look at the Eagles. This year and last 

way more aggressive 

Bingo!!!

[ska-T Palmtown]

8 hours ago, Crusader1969 said:

At some point you just have to go for it

Look at the Eagles. This year and last 

way more aggressive 

I would like to agree, but even though the cap in the NFL seems imaginary, it still exists. Not sure you get a $15M player with only $3M in cap space. Oh, unless you believe the AI social media posts where Ed Oliver is "giving back" $13M in salary ... lol

[inkman]

1 minute ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

I would like to agree, but even though the cap in the NFL seems imaginary, it still exists. Not sure you get a $15M player with only $3M in cap space. Oh, unless you believe the AI social media posts where Ed Oliver is "giving back" $13M in salary ... lol

Yeah the Eagles have $9 mill in cap space after the deals.  Not sure how people can compare the situations. 

[Demoted]

Actually a little scary that there were plays to be made by the Chiefs with guys wide open but Mahomes made the wrong decisions.

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[Taro T]

33 minutes ago, Demoted said:

Actually a little scary that there were plays to be made by the Chiefs with guys wide open but Mahomes made the wrong decisions.

Well, when you actually send pressure, there almost always is SOMEBODY open.  The key is, to have that breakdown happen to the side of the field you're chasing the QB away from or at a minimum far down his progressions so that you get to him before he can look to that receiver.

Would MUCH prefer they step up the pressure on Mahomes than play like they did on 4th and 17.   2 guys actually getting pressure and a 3rd doing jack gave Mahomes a week and a half back there and enough time for Rice to finally get open.  They usually don't pressure Mahomes in the playoffs and they usually get 2 stops the entire game whether they needed those stops or not.  

They have Josh Allen.  Pressure Mahomes and the couple of times that he makes you pay for not getting there, let Josh Allen go clean up the mess and get the score differential back to where it had just been.

[JujuFish]

7 hours ago, ska-T Palmtown said:

Not sure you get a $15M player with only $3M in cap space

A $15 million player would cost half that, since the season is half over. Obviously still more than $3 million, but the point is that the cap is prorated.

[Taro T]

2 minutes ago, JujuFish said:

A $15 million player would cost half that, since the season is half over. Obviously still more than $3 million, but the point is that the cap is prorated.

Is it in the NFL?  Serious question.  And the reason for asking is that teams routinely change salary to bonuses during the season to free up additional cap space and it SEEMS to be pretty close to a $1 in vs a $1 out (minus the prorating of a hit that would fully hit this season now getting spread over 4 (or however long the contract is for) seasons giving $0.75 worth of relief for $1 worth of converted money.

Don't recall seeing a team convert salary to bonus just before the deadline and becoming able to bring in a significanlty more expensive player with that newly freed cap space.  Though don't pay nearly as much attention to the details of NFL cap transactions, so maybe that's just having missed some like that which have actually happened.

[JujuFish]

5 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Is it in the NFL?  Serious question.  And the reason for asking is that teams routinely change salary to bonuses during the season to free up additional cap space and it SEEMS to be pretty close to a $1 in vs a $1 out (minus the prorating of a hit that would fully hit this season now getting spread over 4 (or however long the contract is for) seasons giving $0.75 worth of relief for $1 worth of converted money.

Don't recall seeing a team convert salary to bonus just before the deadline and becoming able to bring in a significanlty more expensive player with that newly freed cap space.  Though don't pay nearly as much attention to the details of NFL cap transactions, so maybe that's just having missed some like that which have actually happened.

I guess I didn't verify personally, but Joe Buscaglia (Bills' reporter on The Athletic) was talking about it that way