CodeMonkey

They published online a recorded conversation between two people without their knowledge and/or consent made by other people.

Wasn't the same true 3 or so years ago?

Interesting (at least to me) that as of 4pm Eastern both the text article and the audio recording are both still online. I would have thought the NFL would have had at least the recording pulled by now.

Just the fact that his presumed "shooting the ****" conversation about his starting QB is out for the general public to hear.

There are invasions of privacy all the time. From extreme telephoto lens cameras taking pictures of celebs naked on a private beach to stealing and posting/selling couples private sex videos. Yeah there are rules and laws, but these types of sites tend to have lawyers who specialize on circumventing them. Like I said, it will be interesting to see if the NFL lawyers can break through that.

Not sure if I have a anti-Nix agenda. In general he has not impressed me, but I don't recall demanding that he be shown the door either. This is just another instance where he has not impressed me

Will be interesting to see. Sites and publications like that do this kind of thing all the time and tend to get away with it. We will see if the NFL lawyers fare any better than the others.

What is worse, crazy or incompetent? Should have said nothing at all, there was nothing to be gained by making those Fitz statements. No real harm in saying he doesn't know what to do about getting a QB if that statement was only to the TB GM which is what he intended. Unfortunately it backfired on him.

If that's true I may have to go to more than my token 1 evening training camp this summer.

No. But I also don't expect him to make statements about Fitz, you know the QB of the future last year, like he did either. Suicide for trying to sign quality FA's you mean? Maybe, but that remains to be seen.

So the Bills GM gets a private phone conversation recorded by a couple kids who weren't initially even trying to record it. And during this conversation he not only says that he has no idea what he is going to do about the teams QB situation, but that he doesn't know what he will do about his current QB that he gave a big contract to last year and who will be fighting for the backup position this coming season. And all of this happens right before the Bills go out and try to sign free agents that presumably will be getting offers from other teams as well. Yup that is definitely a win for sure.

I still contend that they fell into nothing. Targeted acquisition.

Hmmmm yes, maybe Buddy is using his often touted misinformation techniques (touted here anyway) in this case again. Maybe Buddy knew he was being recorded when he said that about Fitz and it's all just a clever ploy to get Fitz to take less pay!

The discernible benefit is cash now and cap space in 2014. Whether or not that is enough benefit is up to personal opinion.

Well all of Fitz's experience tends to show that he has no upside. So maybe if you know for a fact that Fitz is not the answer you give TJAX a shot? At this point what have they got to lose. Plus cutting Fitz now saves cap space in 2014 and real money now. Basically there are no good answers I guess. Just differing degrees of ****ty ones.

Depends on the cable company, but sat TV is not the highest-tech provider. Fiber like FIOS is the future in my opinion. Far more bandwidth than sat will probably ever have, bi-directional communications possible for things like interactive TV, and you can bundle internet and phone with it like cable does today. Unfortunately the rollout takes a long time due to logistical issues, but it is in progress.

I hadn't realized keeping his contract had 2014 cap implications. That certainly complicates things now doesn't it.. Buddy really did screw the pooch didn't he.

$4B is a lot of subscribers that sign up just for the ticket.

That assumes that there are an awful lot of DTV subscribers that subscribe only to get the ticket. Maybe that's true. But if DTV does not renew it's exclusive contract (in the US) it will be because they looked at the numbers and it did not work out in their favor. I don't know what DTV pays the NFL for the US exclusive rights, but it must be a monstrously big number.

For a while they were giving the ticket free to any new subscriber. Plus anyone who called got the price reduced. I'm not surprised they aren't making money on it. In fact I'd be surprised if they weren't losing money on it. I know one person who has directTV because of the ticket. He and his wife are avid football fans and they live in the primary market for neither of their favorite teams. I think it would be better for the NFL and all the providers if it was non-exclusive like the other sports packages. They could put each game up on pay-per-view if they wanted to as well for people who only care about one team. Lots of possibilities.

I agree with you. If cutting Fitz freed a bunch of cap space then maybe. But freeing no cap space and at the same time creating another position to fill tells me Fitz is on the team restructure or not. And you know as much as anyone else here.

If the contract stands pat and Fitz stays on the team, cap room is unchanged but the Bills have one less player to sign and the Bills shell out the $7.5 mil in cash money. That would seem a better option for the Bills (and obviously Fitz, but maybe not Mr. Wilson) than cutting Fitz and having to sign yet another additional player without netting any cap space. Maybe team Fitz is seeing this as the desired outcome and think they have Nix between a rock and a hard place..

Why in the world would Fitz take a pay cut. Would you? A Marcia type restructure for no less money, sure. But if Nix is asking Fitz to voluntarily take less money and Fitz does not want to, that isn't being a prick. That's being a businessman. Nix can always cut him and pay the guarantee. No one held a gun to Nix's head. He made his own bed and now has to sleep in it..

Yeah, those pussies. Get out there and die like a man for the sake of entertainment!

I disagree to a point. Nelson was decent with the Bills. Chances are high that he would be better in a pats* offense. Normally I would be happy for him, but the Bills play the pats* twice every season, and if the Bills LBs suck again next year I would hate for Nelson to light up the scoreboard those 2 games.