After we signed TE Jordan Cameron, I knew that we were letting Charles Clay walk.

We just kept the transition tag on him, to force the Bills to pay a higher price.

 

The bills are who I feel sorry for! Big money for an average at best player!


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What did it cost the bills?

 

Roughly $12 Mil in cap space next season.

 

You have to wonder how well Clay will be able to play moving forward. If there's anything chronic in that knee it's a matter of time before he falls off a cliff - production wise.

 

Well there goes our insurance for a cameron concussion. We almost have to draft a te now in the 3rd or 4th

 

I love clay, but he's not a $20 mill TE. We didn't **** this up, if anything we conned the bills into a stupid move. For perspective, Charles ****ing clay will make $9 million more than gronkowski over the next two years. That's asinine.

 

Except Gronkowski isn't getting a signing bonus this year or next, so of course he'll be making less. Plus he signed his contract what, 3 years ago? He was dealing with injuries at the time (still is really) and took a lesser deal to get guaranteed money.

 

As of right now it is safe to say that the offense did get worse.

Still a lot of offseason to go.

 

How so?

Cameron is a better receiver than Clay will ever be. He's bigger, stronger, faster, and a much better red zone threat.

 

But Clay has a tougher skull. Can Cameron survive a 16 week season?

 

Cameron has a tougher knee? JC isn't without his issues, but I like his skill set significantly more.

 

over under on how many games clay plays with a bum knee on astro turf in a cold weather city....

 

Clay won't get 500 yards. Not sure Cameron will either. The offense is worse now than last year, but the obvious reason is because of the loss of Wallace.

 

If Cameron stays healthy Clay won't even be an afterthought to anyone here.

 

OK, the money the Bills pay him is by far to much for us to keep Clay - but nontheless I will miss him. In certain situations he was able to make a fantastic play out of nothing i.e. converting a fourth down with a catch and run after a bad play call in clutch time or the move on Polamalu and so on. I agree with letting him walk but I will miss him.

 

We are assuming the Dolphins undervalued Clay's market (even though many on here thought the original offer the Dolphins made was "a little high, but worth it".)

Think about this though, what if signing Cameron wasn't a reaction to Clay, but the plan all along? We did not hesitate to sign Cameron. Almost as if that was the plan. What if Tannebaum, having been on the player side of things and having intimate knowledge of Rex's player preferences, knew he'd be hot after Clay. Maybe he knew the Bills would spend bigger in a bidding war if he was just a FA. So he he put the T tag on Clay with max they'd be willing to spend, knowing the Bills would have to spend too big to get him. Meanwhile, if the Bills balked we had the space available and oh no we have two good TEs and if not, we still have Cameron.