Buffalo Bills News and Discussion
Len Pasquerelli rates Sam Cowart 24th best free agent.
Played just one game in 2001 and coming off Achilles surgery, yet asking for a $10.5 million signing bonus. If he regains his sanity, will have a market, since a few more teams are switching to 3-4 front.
‘The Buffalo Bills have elected not to offer safety Keion Carpenter a new contract, allowing him to become a free agent on Friday.’
@ Chris Brown of WGR reports that Safety Pierson Prioleau has been tendered a qualifying tender offer of $563,000. He joins Shawn Bryson, Jay Foreman, Sheldon Jackson, and Keith Newman as Restricted Free Agents who rights have been kept. Chris Watson and Keion Carpenter have not yet. The Bills have decided not to tender Craig Heimburger an offer; in addition Kenyatta Wright was not tendered an offer but may be back in the Spring.
‘"What I look at as a real positive is the fact that last January we had 38 players under contract and were $19 million over the cap. This year by the end of the week we’ll have close to 60 players and we’ll be under the cap."’
‘That would leave Buffalo director of football operations Tom Modrak, a highly accomplished player personnel man, and Seattle executive vice president Mike Reinfeldt, a polished administrator.’
‘History will not judge Rob’s time here kindly.’
@ Cowart’s and Johnson’s contracts have issues related to their injures. Beyond those two problems, the Bills shouldn’t have much competition for most of their remaining free agents. Bills observers believe the remaining UFAs shouldn’t receive too much attention on the market, and the Bills certainly would like to have Conaty and [Shawn] Price back for their leadership qualities.