CodeMonkey

What if he becomes ... Payton Manning ..... just think!

I would think both Nix and Gailey could give a **** about what coach is on the other sideline for a preseason game. I am also sure they would much rather be surprised by outstanding play from a few players that maybe they were not expecting. And a overall good effort from the team (which I am sure they are very much expecting).

Wow. A 1+ page thread on nothing but what a tweet from Spiller might mean.

Absolute 100% bull ****. I am not a big fan of the Spiller pick. But I understand that Nix picked who he thought was the best available player still left. I may not care for it, but I understand why he did it. To say that RB is a position of need on this team with glaring needs almost everywhere except RB because there is a need for a "offensive playmaker" is so ridiculous it is laughable. Tell me "best available" or "we will need a stud RB in 3 years after the rebuild" and I am with you. But I cannot stomach "we filled a offensive playmaker position of need". Ok, rant mode off. I just hate rationalization.

Another player yesterday was Maybin. My son told me his line was very short when they stopped more people from getting into the Poz line. Maybin not a kids favorite yet I guess

My wife took the kids yesterday. They have 4 players in a tent signing autographs. 1) Kids only. Adults not even allowed in line. 2) 1 item per kid, strictly enforced. 3) They have pieces of paper that can be signed if the kid has no other item. Yesterday was Poz, don't know who else. Tomorrow (Thursday 8/5) it is all 4 QB's. When the time limit approaches, they close players lines and that also is strictly enforced. The Rochester D&C sports section shows who is going to be signing the current day and the next day.

No he won't. But he is a damn fine DC.

I think that people who post 10 wins and making the playoffs this season are unrealistic. I guess that's why they play the games and don't leave it up to forum votes

Spiller will sign when both he and the Bills come to mutually agreeable terms. It would be stupid for Spiller to sign before then just as it would be stupid for the Bills to sign just to get him into camp. Today, tomorrow or 3 weeks from now. It will happen when it happens. That's really all there is to it. Nothing more to see here, move along.

I agree with you. Both sides are trying to do the best for themselves. What a lot of people don't remember (or choose to forget) is that this is first and foremost a business to Spiller and the Bills. To the fans it is what they are passionate about. The Bills want to pay as little as possible, while Spiller wants to maximize his earnings ... particularly guaranteed earnings. When your business is running around while other strong fast violent guys try to rip your head off or break you in half, I'd be pushing for guaranteed money as well!

Funny how a lot of people automatically take the teams side in cases like this. Spiller has the rest of his life to consider. Maybe 13 million is not a lot of money to you, but it is to most people including me. I can guarantee that Smithers is busy trying to save Ralphs wrinkled old ass some coin. Why shouldn't Spiller do the same for himself?

Is there some reason he should change his "tone" to appease Bills fans?

I know, I know. The new coaching regime has instilled a entirely new attitude which makes it a completely new team.

Really nothing to get excited about so far anyway. Same team on the field essentially as last year minus T.O. My kids want to go once Spiller shows up so maybe that's when things will pick up fan wise in general . At least CJ is new and potentially exciting to watch. Until then, yawn.

If Chan goes with a run-centric offense, which I'm thinking more and more that he might, short patterns might be all the QB's will be asked to execute.

Well done! Thanks from all of us who can't make it out there.

Except for one thing. This is supposedly a simulation based strictly on 2009 stats (so far anyway). So if we did not draft Spiller, and it was still the Smithers/Jauron show, this still would have been the prediction. Plus I suspect this "simulation engine" of theirs does not factor in coaching at all. And the coaching change is the main reason some people think the Bills are "moving in the right direction". If Jauron was still the coach would you still be billieving this "prediction"? Smells like a big pile of dog**** to me.

Yeah, taxpayers should spend millions of dollars on a waterfront stadium to make Buffalo "look better" on TV the 8 (excuse me, 7) times a year a football game is televised. Don't spend that energy or money on trying to bring Buffalo into the 20th century by getting out of the manufacturing rut that put the city in it's current condition in the first place. Yeah a waterfront stadium will fix everything wrong with Buffalo.

+1000000000000000000

At some point the NFL is going to implode under the weight of it's own greed and ridiculous salaries. When attendance drops off because the cheapest ticket is $100+ and the TV contracts shrink accordingly, then they will do something about it (if it isn't too late). Until then, they will just sit back and count the cash of the people willing to shell it out. I suspect right now they believe that American Football is such a great game that people (well, Americans anyway) will pay whatever it takes. And why not, it has held true so far.

Calculating just regular season games, that's a paltry $812,500.00 per game. NFL salaries are just plain ridiculous. But good for him, set for life now.

No. You didn't curse. maybe something like you !@#$ing suck perhaps

Very easy to say when it is not your money.

I'd much rather get killed on twitter than lose 13 million $$$. !@#$ twitter.