Bills' Cap Picture overstated

[Guest]

Mike Williams hit his escalators

2005 4000000.00 (salary was $726,875)
2006 4000000.00 (salary was $967,500)
2007 5000000.00 (salary was $1,208,125)

His 2005 cap number is now $9.17 million


Bills will enter FA with much less than was has been reported. Local media sucks when it come to the cap

[clumping platelets]

Right now, with Moulds restructure, M. Williams hitting his escalator, and Bledsoe's release.....I have the Bills about $9.4 million under an estimated unadjusted" salary cap of $86 million.

More soon with my cap analysis article

[gimpy]

Right now, with Moulds restructure, M. Williams hitting his escalator, and Bledsoe's release.....I have the Bills about $9.4 million under an estimated unadjusted" salary cap of $86 million.

More soon with my cap analysis article

Hopefully TD can get to work on MW's restructure now that the DB thing is over.

[clumping platelets]

I believe Drew and MW have the same agent. One report from Dennis Williams a couple of weeks ago said that MW's situation will get addressed once their is finality to Drew's......we have finality.

[clumping platelets]

Media has reported as much as $16 million.............it will be about half that with any more restructures/releases/etc

[Lone Stranger]

Kind of depressing. TD was supposed to get us out of cap jail but with all the moves made to date we're still not in very good shape when you see who we have to re-sign. TD's not such a genius.

[Jan Reimers]

We really need to restructure Big Mike. He's a decent player, but not worth anywhere near $9+ Million.

[TheGhostofJimKelly]

I like the media's number better.

[Marvelous]

Mike Williams is our best lineman but if he gets 9 mill he should play LT.
fmr60, wtf are you talking about? TD is doing good as far as capology. The cap is the one area i respect TD more then any..

[Michael82]

I hope they restructure and extend Mike Williams soon. Both him and Clements should be taken care of, this offseason. Pat Williams should be re-signed and a new LT should be signed.

[ddaryl]

We really need to restructure Big Mike. He's a decent player, but not worth anywhere near $9+ Million.

Obviously restrucutring is not that good of a deal. Players still get the money they had in their contract. It just costs us more down the road.

[SoCalBillsFan]

9 million is still very good! It's definately enough to sign pat williams and a left tackle.

[ddaryl]

Something doesn't make sense here

according to yur cap page he was do to count 5.9 million against the cap

This included the amortisized bonus figure of 2.17 mil, an "other bonus" of 3 mil, and a cap hit of 5.9 mil.


What does the 3 mil in "other bonuse" mean, isn't this the esculator clause and don't you already have this figured in ?????

[ddaryl]

bump... where's Clump

[Lone Stranger]

Mike Williams is our best lineman but if he gets 9 mill he should play LT.
fmr60, wtf are you talking about? TD is doing good as far as capology. The cap is the one area i respect TD more then any..

I guess the cap is a matter of opinion. To my way of thinking $9million allows us some room to sign our draft choices, lock in a veteran or two(we are going to lose some) but not really give us the funds to do anything serious in free agency. I'm one who thinks you have to have money to get into free agency. I believe TD's capology is adequate at best.