Tuned in to the highlights without knowing the score. Game over psychologically with that start and home field advantage. Apparently SF had a fair few injuries too.
It's the dead cap number rather than the actual salary itself which is the issue. It'd be more than double the highest ever and over half of their total cap for 2026 if they did it before June 1st.Surely Denver must have made some small contribution as well
I must admit to profound ignorance of the NFL salary cap maths, but am I reading the info Tony put up that as of now Josh Allen's salary accounts for 18% of the total allowed wage bill at Buffalo? He really would be untradeable then as I can't imagine too many teams having such a huge amount of headroom as that to be able to pay him and he certainly isn't going to accept a pay cut to trade and why would he?
So I think we can assume he stays at least for a couple more seasons. He clearly is a massive talent, but he can't presumably drag the team to the Lombardi on his own, although he has got close. What do Buffalo need on the roster to help him and have they got the cap headroom? Also, if Allen stays, as he surely must, are the coaches the people who the organisation bins for letting their talent down, as it were?
What is dead cap then? As I said, my ignorance here is profound.
If you sign a player on a long contract and want to bin them off early then you are liable for any money you have guaranteed to him. In the case of a trade, it's not real money, that would get picked up by the team you've traded him to, but virtual money does get charged against your cap. If you were to do it before June 1st then all of it is in the the next year, do it after then and it's split 50% across that and the next season. Therefore cap wise the Bills would have to pay $173m to not have Josh Allen. Russell Wilson at $80m is the record
He’s so far removed from his rookie season. It’s a real shame.
