in a way tyrod > landry. They are bringing in a playoff QB who has actually put up pretty good (not elite) but pretty good stats the last 3 years. >90 Qb rating. nice td:int ratio. granted it seems like the fins always seemed to pad his stats. He'll probably count almost the same against the cap as landry only difference is, the browns will have to eat all of landrys contract, I'm pretty sure the bills already had to pay his guaranteed signing bonus for this year when they restructured last year. so out of pocket (granted a billionaires pocket) they saved 10 million in real dollars. If tyrod balls out this year which he should, because on paper Cleveland has a dang good offense, I highly doubt Tyrod is going to be banging the table to say "I want top 3 money" unlike Jarvis Landry. finances go a lot into value of player. If we would've traded Jarvis last offseason im sure we could've gotten a 2nd day pick, he would've been under team control cheap for another season (2017 season) . Plus everyone knew that we couldn't keep Landry at that price nor did we want to. all over twitter it was who has leverage Miami or Jarvis. Jarvis had the most leverage, then 31 other teams in the NFL, then Miami. I don't know your age but its kind of like the old Oregon Trail game, you could shoot a 700 pound buffalo but only keep 100 pounds of meat. If you were trying to sell that other 600 pounds of meat to someone they would kind of laugh at you and say you cant carry it anyways, much like we really couldn't carry Landrys one year tender at that. so you just take what you get. 4th = 3rd comp next year so I see it as we break even.
so yeah the bills wanted to move on, but they could've carried tyrods contract...plus he is a good passer, qbs are worth more. if tannehill wouldn't torn his knee at the end of the 2016 season...2016 tannehill would garner us more than 2017 landry. I almost think it'd be a push to say even coming off the knee injury, we could've gotten more for tannehill than landry in a trade. tannehill is under team control for a very reasonable contract for todays qb. so ill say Tannehill would've gotten us a 3rd