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Seems fair- on paper the line looks good, but let's see it on the field. It will be enough to stop getting gashed by the run all year to make me happy.

It's nice to see someone take the time to post a note when players do good things. Great read and kudos to these players!

I think the offer will likely be half that 3 years, 15 m offer. I'd say look for 3 years and 7 million. Fred is a stud and has been playing terrific and hes an emotional leader- that's why he gets an offer Otherwise he is an over 30 year old backup coming off a leg injury. Let's watch this and hope Fred is smart about not asking for too much money

Flying East to West maybe you get no jetlag. As a West Coaster there is nothing worse than flying East and getting up a 4 AM (PST) to start working every day.

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Let's be clear- there should be a difference between personal character and football character. I for one don't care much if off the field these aren't aces- most aren't. This history of the NFL is laced with hard drinking, drug using wife cheating superstars- that's fine. A lot of you people where way to self righteous running Lynch out of town for personal issues or Whitner for being a twitter clown. Those guys can play on my team What I do want is FOOTBALL character- practice hard, play hard, work to get better, study the game, be intense.

I think Stevie will make it- he's played well 2 years in a row and seems to have some national recognition- over/under is 1

There is another way to fix LT- low budget free agents. Buddy has proven he can find decent lineman cheap (Pears etc) We could add 1 or 2 guys here so it's not such a huge need before the draft and give ourselves some options. Some Tackles still around include Stacey Andrews, Marc Columbo, Kirk Cousins, Adam Goldberg, Max Starks and Tony Ugoh. Not saying there are great options at LT, but adding 1 or 2 sure might help.

I for one am horrified by the idea of underage drinking for a college kid! I can see the shame in that from my glass house!

^This On the open market it turns out Bell played his cards right- even though after 5 other visits he couldn't get paid what he wanted, one big injury later and he gets his fat contract. Don't confuse the two issues- 1) While Buffalo needs a tackle and would have liked Bell back, 2) Bell wanted way more money than he has proven to be worth. A team on the upswing cant take a huge injury risk- we are more than one LT away from contending

Check the link here to the Bills unis on the Nike set- lots more pics and an explanation of the terribad collar: http://nikeinc.com/nike-football/news/nfl-uniforms-buffalo-bills

After watching some pretty average receivers get some serious cash this offseason (Meacham?) It's nice to see Stevie have such a great attitude about staying in Buffalo. He could have made more money as a free agent- possibly alot more. He chose to stay- He's got my respect for sure.

Don't be such a homer- outside of Buffalo a 31 year old running back, with a ONE 1,000 yard season in his career AND coming off a season ending LEG injury is at best worth a fourth rounder. That's it- no emotional argument will work. The guy played great last year but RB is an easily replaceable commodity these days. I'm guessing this is also the hold up on the contract renegotiation- Fred is not going to be paid what he thinks he's worth.

Unless they are secretly on the phone with another team while at dinner! Then- not so much

Not sure if you realize this, but ALL talk radio shows repeat things multiple times. A huge part of their audience only jumps in and out of the show and can't actually listen to the whole three hours. Hosts have to keep repeating things to fill in new listeners. I think the guy is generally hilarious and does not take himself or the role or sports talk radio host too seriously.

This deal simply will not happen. 1) The Pats will not pay a RB the contract that Forte is looking for. 2) The Pats place a high value on draft picks

It will feel really good (hopefully soon) when we can not look back at recent drafts with horror. As Bills fans the best part of most of the last 10 drafts has been the second guessing rather than the actual players we have. Many of us geek out for this and watch the draft with our books in hand hoping this player or that is taken, then furiously scrambling to look up who we picked and get the details. Last year was the first where we can away feeling ok- no shockers - It is, maybe, perhaps possible we have our act together???

The prime time exposure is the second most important thing for the Bills after putting together a winning team. Want to attract new fans? Want to attract potential free agents down the road? Win, and even better do it on prime time.

The real issue here is the that the Bills aren't "building through the draft and resigning their own players" as promised. Yes, Donte was drafted WAY too high, and thas has been his biggest problem with Bills fans. Still, he started and played ok, something the majority of our picks the last 10 years can't say.

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The loss to Pittsburgs backups at home to knock the Bills out of the playoff chase a few yearsback. An unknown named "Fast" Willie Parker shredded our defense. Painful

This feels a bit harse on the owner, but the poster is correct- The Bills organization infrastructure is rotten and well below benchmark organizations. We don't attract or pay to retain talent. We can not attract big name coaches. (I mean, is Bill Cowher going to report to Buddy Nix, who reports to Russ Brandon, who answers to Littman, who has final sign off on big moves from Wilson the whole time defering all financial decisions to Overdorf.) It's a poor org chart of mediocrity and cronyism. Buffalo needs to wipe out everyone and bring in fresh front office talent (i guess that would only come with a new owner) or we will not be able to compete. The other alternative is to get really luck and stink up the joint the same year a franchise qb is available with atop pick.

You guys are over-estimating our capacity to do draft day moves. The Bills braintrust is so confident in their scouting that we generally ignore outside consensus on round status and haven't pulled the trigger on a draft day trade in awhile. Heck I remember the Spiller pick- our guy was running to stage with the pick the second the prior pick was announced. We didn't even take a few minutes to listen to offers.

This thread is typical of us reacting to a name player we don't know much about (I do it all the time) Burfict was an absolute bust this year. I live down the street from ASU and watched or went to most games. He looks paunchy and slow. He is not a playmaker. He was often out of position. He plays like a Raider with some of the dumbest and costliest fouls I've seen.

Cowherd puts on a pretty good radio show. Many of his opinions are edgey, or at least interesting. If you were a neutral observer you might like him. Problem here is he admits to having a big market bias, and therefore favors Dallas, the Jets, the Pats etc. Buffalo does not get much airtime, and when it does it is rarely positive news. I'd wager that becuase he favors the big name teams he hasn't spent much time watching Buffalo. If he did watch them play the Jets, thay certainly would not make him a believer.