WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections NewsNotesOpinionAnalysisDiscussionPodcastNFL DraftSalary CapNFL DraftNewsBuffalo Bills NFL Draft Coverage2019 NFL Draft: Buffalo Bills get fair value to trade from 40 to 38New Jason Croom Jerseys 2019 ,6commentsBuffalo traded up to get Cody Ford.EDTShareTweetShareShare2019 NFL Draft: Buffalo Bills get fair value to trade from 40 to 38The Buffalo Bills moved up two spots in the 2019 NFL Draft to select Cody Ford, the offensive lineman from Oklahoma. To make the move, they sent the Oakland Raiders the 158th pick. The fifth-round pick was acquired in exchange for quarterback AJ McCarron at the end of the 2018 offseason. Interestingly, Buffalo shipped McCarron to Oakland for the pick, and now they get their own selection back.According to the draft charts, the deal was very fair. Buffalo gave up 527.8 points according to the old Jimmy Johnson trade value chart and received 520 points back. The Bills may have been able to get away with their sixth-rounder, but the late fifth-round selection sealed the deal. The new draft chart says Buffalo gave up 159.36 points in exchange for 157.49.All in all White Rafael Bush Jerseys , the Bills got a player they may have been targeting in the first round and only had to use their second-round pick and a player they were going to release anyway to get the job done. Great value. What the team does financially in 2019 has a huge impact on the 2020 cap"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections NewsNotesOpinionAnalysisDiscussionPodcastNFL DraftSalary CapNFL Free AgencyOpinionNotesSalary cap space: The game within the gameNew,36commentsWhat the team does financially in 2019 has a huge impact on the 2020 capESTShareTweetShareShareSalary cap space: The game within the gameEver since the Buffalo Bills’ current cap situation started to come into focus, maybe a year or so ago, this comment seems to come up fairly often: “We’re not going to spend all this cap space anyways, so who cares if we overspend on a player? It doesn’t matter, we can afford it, and it’s not going to stop us from making any other moves.”Maybe it does matter. In the beginning of the salary cap era Rafael Bush Jerseys 2019 , cap dollars were “use it or lose it”—if you didn’t spend the money in the current year, the ability to spend it was lost. As long as you weren't bumping up against the cap, it didn't really matter if you wasted a few dollars overpaying a player who wasn't worth it. You weren't going to spend the money anyways. The only consequence was a few extra dollars out of the owner’s pocket.With the 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA), salary-cap rollover became a thing. If your team couldn’t find a player it wanted to spend its cap dollars on, you could now save those cap dollars for the following season. Salary cap management took on much more of a big-picture perspective than before; Wasting money now meant that you’d have less available to spend in future years. Perhaps the best way to think about this is to forget entirely the common “current salary cap” figures everyone references and relies on. Our salary cap in 2019 is $0. We have zero available cap dollars for 2019. Every player we sign, every salary we add to our 2019 roster, we need to steal cap space from our 2020 budget to cover it. Because for all practical purposes White Matt Milano Jerseys , this is the scenario that salary cap rollover creates.Now, instead of having $67 million cap dollars burning a hole in our pocket—where a wasted million here and a couple million in dead money there seems insignificant—every dollar spent is putting us further and further into the negative, to the detriment of next year. Every player, from the superstar to the scrub, from those making minimum wage to those making eight figures, takes on a new meaning regarding being “worth it.” Now, we aren’t just deciding if their cap hit fits into this year’s salary cap. We have to decide if they’re really worth taking that money from next year to bolster our roster this year Matt Milano Jerseys 2019 , or if we could get a better player, or more bang for the buck, with that money next year. Will that player have a meaningful impact on our team for the price tag, or would that money better affect our team’s success in 2020?Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m as sick of the “Just wait ‘til next year!” rhetoric as everyone else. I’m not advocating being cheap and hoarding cap space into perpetuity. But every dollar we spend this year does matter, regardless of how much or how little we may be spending on the rest of this year’s roster. It’s far more complex than “We have the cap space White Vontae Davis Jerseys , it doesn’t matter.”