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Every year abou this time, we are stuck with the clowns that respond to each "lets get this guy" post with "we dont have the money". Its been happening every year. That leads to how much money do we have. That answer is vague at best. I trust in Clumpy, but even he admits that the numbers are often off.
Example:
Patmorans blog: http://blogs.foxsports.com/patmoran2...re_Will_Follow
it states: "With the release of four-year tackle Mike Williams days ago, Buffalo will be around $10.2 million under the cap."
That would be AFTER Nates tag.
Later it states: " If the Bills cut Moulds and Adams they'll be under the cap by close to $14 million, after already franchising Nate Clements. "
Now, Clumpy states: "I recommend caution when using this information. If you remember last off-season, all media reports had the Bills $12-17 million under. I had them $5-7 million under. In reality, the Bills were actually over and the release of Bledsoe and restructuring of Moulds were necessary to insure the Bills were cap compliant at the start of the 2005 League Year."
Which talks to the problem.
His numbers show: "As of 2/4/06, I have the Bills $6,474,477 under an ESTIMATED salary cap of $93,500,000 million with $137,059 "dead cap". Which is before the 5.89mil tag which comes of the space we had. That means that using Clumps numbers, we went to 589K of cap room. We then cut Mike which by Clumps numbers saved us an additional 4.907 mil. Add that back in and we are up to 5.5mil under.
So thats a 5 mil discrepancy between Pat and Clump.
I pose the question to both of you: How much stock should we put into your numbers? Should ANYONE say that we dont have enough money for (insert Player name here)?
Answer those questions honestly if you would please.
Simply put, IMO, we should not look at any persons cap numbers as the gospel and be stuck thinking we cant sign player x, y, or z.
Now, I trust these guys and thank god they are out there to do this work.
But, IMO we will be able to land a top tier OL and mid level or even top tier DT when all is said and done. Does anybody see why that cant happen?
Example:
Patmorans blog: http://blogs.foxsports.com/patmoran2...re_Will_Follow
it states: "With the release of four-year tackle Mike Williams days ago, Buffalo will be around $10.2 million under the cap."
That would be AFTER Nates tag.
Later it states: " If the Bills cut Moulds and Adams they'll be under the cap by close to $14 million, after already franchising Nate Clements. "
Now, Clumpy states: "I recommend caution when using this information. If you remember last off-season, all media reports had the Bills $12-17 million under. I had them $5-7 million under. In reality, the Bills were actually over and the release of Bledsoe and restructuring of Moulds were necessary to insure the Bills were cap compliant at the start of the 2005 League Year."
Which talks to the problem.
His numbers show: "As of 2/4/06, I have the Bills $6,474,477 under an ESTIMATED salary cap of $93,500,000 million with $137,059 "dead cap". Which is before the 5.89mil tag which comes of the space we had. That means that using Clumps numbers, we went to 589K of cap room. We then cut Mike which by Clumps numbers saved us an additional 4.907 mil. Add that back in and we are up to 5.5mil under.
So thats a 5 mil discrepancy between Pat and Clump.
I pose the question to both of you: How much stock should we put into your numbers? Should ANYONE say that we dont have enough money for (insert Player name here)?
Answer those questions honestly if you would please.
Simply put, IMO, we should not look at any persons cap numbers as the gospel and be stuck thinking we cant sign player x, y, or z.
Now, I trust these guys and thank god they are out there to do this work.
But, IMO we will be able to land a top tier OL and mid level or even top tier DT when all is said and done. Does anybody see why that cant happen?
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