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Outside of being packaged with another player or heaven forbid, a draft pick, I'd be very surprised if a team trades for him with his release all but inevitable.

We are going to kill with that robo-rebounder in the paint.

The bottom line is that you don't see 228 lb linebackers even in college football. Being such a light LB will get you killed in the NFL. If I'm the Bills, I'm evaluating plan B. Why they still insist on keeping him at LB baffles me. Try him at another position or release him.

I wouldn't be shocked to see him cut before the season. He's got very little left in the tank.

It's amazing that Tampa Bay, Green Bay and Pittsburgh gets accolades and that'a boys for not spending big in free agency and instead, building through the draft and keeping their own guys. Also known as what the Bills are doing.

I'll buy #10. I chalk #10 as to why the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians are good this year in MLB. Why the Mavericks beat the Heat in the NBA. It's got to be bored cosmic forces, man. And...the statute of limitations has officially run out on the Music City Miracle.

I think Chan Gailey is a good coach and I've liked the hire since day one. While the national media didn't care for it, I thought it was a rather inspired coaching decision by the Bills. I was expecting the long time coordinator, first time coach hire again. I knew the change from the Tampa 2 to a 3-4 was going to be difficult. I knew having Trent Edwards as your starting QB wasn't going to be successful. I knew not having successful drafts gives a team very little in talented personnel. Those things have changed for the better, and I expect it will be seen in the win column this year.

What continues to happen to Cindy Brunson? It looks like she continues to have work done to her face. Unfortunately, the original canvas was better. She's getting close to Joan Rivers territory. I like Michelle Bonner and Shelly Smith in terms of quality female anchors/reporters on the network.

Given that Zach Miller isn't in a Bills uniform, I'm willing to give Chandler a shot. He holds TE records at Iowa in the middle of the greats like Marv Cook and Dallas Clark, so he can't be half bad.

I think he'll be back. With this unusual free agency period, time is of the essence for guys in this buyers market. They want to play and need to play somewhere. I don't think the Bills turn away depth and a decent player familiar with the defense over personal feelings. The Bengals appeared to be the only serious interest and that looks to have ended.

To start he should eat Talley.

That's where I'm at. It's a long winding road of practice and preseason games fraught with peril to Game #1 where the scores count. I've imagined having a stellar, undefeated preseason, hopes are high and Merriman gets dinged in the first quarter of the last preseason game.

We might already have a Kevin Boss on the team in Scott Chandler. Boss is ok, but he's not a superstar, and he's got a different skill set from say Zach Miller. Boss is a big target in the red zone, has taken a ton of big hits, and blocks well. He usually makes the catch when the ball is thrown to him. Much like Buffalo, however, the Giants offense really doesn't rely on the TE with Boss starting at the position. Chandler is 6'7" and started out as a receiver at Iowa before being transitioned to a TE. He's sandwiched between Dallas Clark and Marv Cook in the rankings of best TEs at Iowa. I'm inclined to see what Chandler has if Zach Miller isn't a possibility.

You almost have to wonder if the guy has an illness. You'd think he'd be trying to put on weight, not continue to lose it.

+1 Agreed on that point.

He's done. In twenty years, he'll be in that group of Hall of Fame players that had sad endings to their careers with a picture of him in a Titans uniform. To me, that is a man who will live with a big regret down the road. He was an absolute blockbuster of a player, but he'll regret that perhaps with a little more work, little less distraction off the field, he would have been the greatest player at the position in the history of the game.

To me, it's just a game. And still is. If anything, being a Bills and Pittsburgh Pirates fan over the last 25 years has taught me patience, faith, the importance of hope and not taking things for granted. It's been a learning experience. It makes the good times feel just a bit better. I feel that fans of the Bills will not, and never have, taken the successful years of this franchise for granted.

+1. Not big on handing out money to injury prone players, but I have to admit, I like the signing because of Barnett's skill at coverage.

Eh, I wouldn't anoint them winners just yet. The key to the Eagles season is not at CB nor DT. It's the offensive line and linebacking corps. The line had Michael Vick running for his life last year (34 sacks/12 games played) and the line play was a large part of why the Eagles lost in that wild card game last year. If you think our linebacking corps is ordinary....the Eagles could not stop the run whatsoever last year and so far, the only investment in that unit has been Casey Matthews in the draft. Teams will continue to run on them.

This board is obsessed with name guys, no matter how old or how slow or how injured they are. Why you'd want to drop money on a 30 year old defensive lineman with a bum hip eludes me.

If the Raiders doctors failed him, the Bills doctors will do the same.

It's funny that people are hysterical over Moats at ILB at the second day of practice. We're not even talking preseason games, but a drill at practice, and people are willing to burn the city down over it. I'm not sure there are many "good" options at ILB in Free Agency. A precious few. A lot of the "names" are liabilities just as Poz was...or worse. Guys get old and slow real quick at that position.

Say what you will about the current roster, but Barnett would have been a liability on the field during a game. There isn't much left in that tank.

Panicking about drill formation at practice? Sometimes to run the drill, you need guys that have run it before.

That's because a majority of folks here believe that the business of the NFL and its players, and hell, game strategy must comport with Madden on the Xbox. .Haynesworth is no different than any other player in history that had one, albeit awesome, contract season.