Archives for March 4, 2006

‘”The bottom line is they want Eric to take a drastic cut and we don’t feel his skills have diminished to justify that,” personal advisor Greg Johnson said. “It’s just not going to work.” What could make it work? An extension to the collective bargaining agreement. If the CBA were extended, the salary cap now set at $94.5 million would rise an estimated $10 million and restrictive transition year rules that cut into cap space and limit how contracts are structured would be lifted. That would make living with Moulds’ $10.8 million cap figure and paying him the $7.1 million in cash that he’s due in 2006 a lot easier for the Bills.’

‘Unrestricted free agents: DT Justin Bannan; DE Ryan Denney; DT Ron Edwards; OT Greg Jerman; QB Shane Matthews; WR Josh Reed; LS Mike Schneck; FB Daimon Shelton; C Trey Teague; CB Kevin Thomas.’

‘Levy on free agency: “I’m not coming in with a shoot-from-the-hip comment, ‘We’re going out in free agency and doing this and that.’ We’ll evaluate. We have good cap money. We don’t want to be foolish and throw an inordinate amount out for something. But I see us being active in free agency, yes.”‘

‘While the focus in recent days has been the percentage of revenues that will go to the players, with the NFLPA asking for 60% and the NFL offering 56%, Vincent said you can always move North and South. He maintains the major issue is the owners internal battles over how to divide significant amounts of unshared revenue such as luxury boxes, naming rights and local broadcasting deals. "That is still the number 1 issue" said Vincent. We as players will not sign an extension without that being included. We don’t want to create any more disparity between club number 1 and club number 32 and without revenue sharing, it doesn’t work."’