Wonder if the Bills can get involved here.
They have the extra 2nd from Houston in the Diggs trade. So, they have the asset that the Raiders covet in return. Buffalo would need to work around the cap charge I would imagine. But, if that can be worked out either with Buffalo restructuring their own guys to push some cap to 2025 and/or LV adjusting or eating a part of Adams deal, they could make it work.
Just depends if Adams wants to go to Buffalo or whether he wants to go play with ARod or Carr.
And whether he wants to be with that team he's traded to for the next season or two or whether he is thinking, I'm a rental this year and the team will cut me to avoid the $36 mill I'm due for 2025. Which is also not guaranteed. Or he wants to be signed with guaranteed money for 2025.
Honest question, and I'm not trying to disparaging.
Is the Raiders owner all the way there mentally?
I don't think he is that way, but he's clearly incompetent. Can't hire a good front office. Thus constant change in management. Of the $32 mill in dead cap for 2024, $19 mill comes from the 1 year of service they got from Jones, Jimmy, and Hoyer from the prior regime. Every team kicks cap charges down the line, but you want to get a couple of years of service out of the player, not be one and done like that.