Every NFL Team's Worst Contract

[Rubi]

KK got paid. No reason to go super hard and risk injury. He’s chillin 

[thefuzz]

19 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Buffalo went from the #26 overall defense without Star in 2017 to the #2 overall defense in 2018 with Star while we went from the #7 overall defense with Star in 2017 to the #15 overall defense in 2018 without Star. 

Stats don't tell the story with DTs who are primarily space eaters and block occupiers. They're facilitators. Their "stats" show up in the improvement of their teammates' performance.

After Fielding the #2 overall defense in the NFL after being near the bottom the previous year, I highly doubt the Bills regret anything about that contract.

100% agree.

Star is SOOOOO valuable, casual fans just can't see it.  That dude helped Addison and KK so much.

 

Before Star and KK, our DT situation was one of the worst in the entire league.  Still wish we would have paid him vs. Poe and extending Olsen.

[KendrickPanther]

Worst contract on the books is Graham Gano. He has the 7th highest cap hit in the NFL (Kickers) at $3.7m, next year it goes to $4.5m then $5.3m.

He's missed a field goal in nearly every playoff game of his career. We could have kept a Rookie kicker for less than $1m per year and gotten similar/better production. For a Kicker that barely (arguably didn't) win a camp battle with a rookie. The Panthers gave him $9m in guarantees just a year later. It's impossible to cut him. No matter how bad he plays until 2020. Even then its a sizable hit. 

[thefuzz]

2 hours ago, KendrickPanther said:

Worst contract on the books is Graham Gano. He has the 7th highest cap hit in the NFL (Kickers) at $3.7m, next year it goes to $4.5m then $5.3m.

He's missed a field goal in nearly every playoff game of his career. We could have kept a Rookie kicker for less than $1m per year and gotten similar/better production. For a Kicker that barely (arguably didn't) win a camp battle with a rookie. The Panthers gave him $9m in guarantees just a year later. It's impossible to cut him. No matter how bad he plays until 2020. Even then its a sizable hit. 

This is accurate.  Just another in the very long line of terrible Marty extensions.

[Riverboat Ron]

Worst contract is the money we're still paying Matt Kahlil.

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

4 hours ago, Riverboat Ron said:

Worst contract is the money we're still paying Matt Kahlil

No way.  I would gladly pay that money to have him gone!

[BrianS]

So Jacksonville and Buffalo, who signed players who were here, and who we might have chosen to re-sign, now have those two players as the worst contracts on their roster.  Just another small sign that our FO may finally be turning the corner.

[Riverboat Ron]

5 hours ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

No way.  I would gladly pay that money to have him gone!

No problem with that, the original contract that led to the dead money is what I'm referring to. 

[Peon Awesome]

21 hours ago, KendrickPanther said:

Worst contract on the books is Graham Gano. He has the 7th highest cap hit in the NFL (Kickers) at $3.7m, next year it goes to $4.5m then $5.3m.

He's missed a field goal in nearly every playoff game of his career. We could have kept a Rookie kicker for less than $1m per year and gotten similar/better production. For a Kicker that barely (arguably didn't) win a camp battle with a rookie. The Panthers gave him $9m in guarantees just a year later. It's impossible to cut him. No matter how bad he plays until 2020. Even then its a sizable hit. 

Definitely in the running but I think that speaks again to how few bad contracts we have. That $3.7 million is less than 2% of the salary cap. Worst contracts tend to not only be an overpay but crippling financially without an easy way out. The $3 million we would save with Butker would be enough to sign a decent backup lineman or something similar but hardly a game changer

[BrianS]

ffs, Gano again?!?!  So, his contract is top 7 in the league for kickers.  How does he compare?

Oh, right, top 7.  He' paid on par with his performance.  The guy missed two FG's last year.  He can only kick what he is given an opportunity to kick.

[Snake]

On 7/12/2019 at 2:07 PM, Captain Morgan said:

Buffalo Bills

 

Defensive tackle Star Lotulelei

The bad contract: Five years, $50 million with $24.7 million guaranteed (expires in 2023)

                  

Why it stinks

This was a tossup between Lotulelei and fellow defensive lineman Jerry Hughes, both of whom make between $10 million and $11 million a year and are tied to the team for several more seasons. But while Hughes is one year older, he's at least a pass-rusher, and he can be released at a small cost in 2021. 

Lotulelei doesn't generate splash plays as an interior defensive lineman, he'd cost $5.2 million to get rid of in 2021, and he was essentially replaced when a team that already had Harrison Phillips and Jordan Phillips used a top-10 draft pick on highly touted defensive tackle Ed Oliver in April. 

Lotulelei isn't a bad player. But the 29-year-old is basically an average starter, and he's coming off a zero-sack, zero-forced-fumble debut season in Buffalo. The Bills probably already wish they could have that free-agency purchase back.

Star was always in it for the money and never really cared about the wins or losses. Poe was a good replacement. 

[JawnyBlaze]

On 7/12/2019 at 2:28 PM, LinvilleGorge said:

Buffalo went from the #26 overall defense without Star in 2017 to the #2 overall defense in 2018 with Star while we went from the #7 overall defense with Star in 2017 to the #15 overall defense in 2018 without Star. 

Stats don't tell the story with DTs who are primarily space eaters and block occupiers. They're facilitators. Their "stats" show up in the improvement of their teammates' performance.

After Fielding the #2 overall defense in the NFL after being near the bottom the previous year, I highly doubt the Bills regret anything about that contract.

Exactly this