d_wag
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Fantastic news, players like this absolutely need to be retained. Carrington next please.
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MVP of first half -- jerry Hughes, very fast, very impressive; don't know what went wrong in IND but loving this guys motor and instincts
LVP of first half - Kevin Kolb, missing guys, looking rattled, can't see him making team
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Will kolb get cut?
Yes, not helping the team at this point
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The best thing about that sack is that we only rushed 4 i think
And Hughes would have got to him as well, very good game for him thus far, very quick
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This is a waste of time - kolb looks crap and ej is missing valuable 1st unit snaps
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Gotta give it too Lawson...He was coming full steam and still held on to throw Ponder for the big loss...Very nice play...
He was unblocked. Was fast getting there and wrapped up but a lot easier when no one touches you.
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That was on kolb. Ball shouldn't have been thrown.
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I'd give money to wood and carrington right now, or at least make the effort to.
Wood seems like the type of guy who likes buffalo and is committed to the new staff. Yes he has his injury woes but he provides leadership and stability to the line. To lose him a year after Levitre would hurt.
I think Carrington is in for a big year and after 12 he showed how useful he can be as a rotational player, not to mention his ability to block kicks. Not looking at a cap buster here - decent signing bonus should get this done.
Buffalo can't afford to develop guys and let them walk for nothing. Takes two to make a deal but Whaley should be busting his ass to make this happen. I'm skeptical they are making much of an effort.
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his inclusion on the extra point team in general is strange. his inclusion on the extra point team at that stage in the game is laughable.
i bet he only misses two weeks.
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agreed fitz game mananged todays which is all that should be expected. these comments are, as usual, obvious at best and inaccurate/self-complementary at worst
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I didnt see where he got hurt and he played a lot of the game on Thursday. I think he is suffering from the dreaded "He's-too-raw-to-keep-but-too-good-to-risk-release-itis. They could use the IR exemption on him later in the season, in case of serious injury to one of the tackles.
i believe the IR exemption needs to be declared before the season starts - and you only get one of them.........mcgee and brooks are leading contenders for that spot IMO
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would you really expect any different? he's a motivater, that's his thing......if they win this year he'll be glorified, if they miss the playoffs again he'll be fired - but i guess isn't that different then most coaches, but more dramatic given his persona and New York in general
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Why arent you applauding the incredibly shrewd move of cutting of Dwan Edwards then, which saved about 3 mil of cap space.
actually it's 4M and i do applaud it......in fact i suggested on this board back in the spring as soon as they signed williams/anderson
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On the contrary, cap space is totally irrelevant at this point as Bills are healthy under the cap even with TTs big salary. Cutting him would be meaningless from a cap perspective. Cutting him is serious from a cash standpoint though, because Littman needs to sign off paying a waste of a roster spot a guaranteed $2.5 million for one weeks work.
cap space is never irrelvant or meaningless...........it can be used for extensions, taking larger chunks of signing bonus amortization, or, failing that, rolled into future years......good teams maximize their cap space year after year, they don't waste it
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The cap space is wasted. It'll come due now, or later. The gap with any cut and resign would be minimal truly.
you're assuming he's cut.......i'm not, i think he'll make it to opening day at 2.5M and bank that for a couple games worth of backup duty
even if he is cut, to resign him for at even the vet min is a waste of cash as it will be guaranteed once he's on the opening day roster.......would rather roll the dice with jackson for game one and then sign another QB the next day when the salary isn't guaranteed any longer.......this is a silly, wasteful strategy
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If they cut him next week and resign him after week one as insurance he'll be on a game by game basis.
To me it's not the cash, as obviously Wilson is OK with its parting. It's the waste of a roster spot that worries me.
it's not the cash, it's the cap space - i'd rather see it devoted to retaining core young players then keeping a journeyman QB on the roster when he has proven time and time again he cannot perform......especially when nix just over a month ago was preaching about how "we can't afford to keep everyone" - which of course you can't if you choose to waste cap space, which they are choosing to do with moves like this
There is no cap concerns whatsoever. Why would you worry about that or mention it? It has nothing to do with any move they would make.
If they cut him 7 days from now, and re-sign him the next day, they would save 1.5 million dollars. And then could keep him as long as they wanted, until Jackson is ready. It's hard for me to imagine, on the eve of the season, another team would pick up Tyler Thigpen and add him to their active roster and cut their #2 or #3.
saving 1.5 million dollars - while wasting 1 million for 2 or 3 games......poor spin.......bills have wasted more then enough money on thipen (and even they admitted that with the jackson trade), time to cut the losses
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people are over-reacting re: 5 WR's - that's how many dress on gameday usually, and the bills will stash 1 or 2 on the practice squad so if an injury happens they'll be called up for the next week's game........with jackson, spiller, and dickerson all available on gameday to splt out it isn't that big a deal
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Because if a team comes in and wants to sign Thigpen now, he would be gone. It will be FAR less likely and the team will know far more about how Jackson is progressing in one week.
i don't buy it....season is 9 days away, not 3 weeks
even if they did cut and then resign thigpen (which is a huge waste of cap space as is given the bonus accelartion) to waste a further 1M to have him around as "jackson" insurance for a 2 or 3 more games is ludicrious
huge mistake going on here, surprised so many are cool with it (or just don't understand the salary cap implications of keeping him around)
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Personally, I think Thigpen gets cut this week and then re-signed before the opener to more like a veteran minimum or just around $1,000,000. It's only going to take Jackson two weeks counting this one to get up to speed. They just can't risk Fitz getting hurt in the opener and giving away the game, because it's a division game against a team we may well be battling for a playoff spot. I even think if we were playing an NFC team the first week, we would risk it and just go with two.
so why not just cut him now and resign him? doesn't add up
complete waste of cap space if he makes this roster at 2.5M - but something only the bills would be dumb enough to do, so i wouldn't be shocked
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It's only a matter of days, or weeks. They may even cut him this week and then re-sign him to a smaller contract. As soon as TJ is ready, TT is a goner.
i hope so - if he's on the roster from day one as a vested vet his salary is guaranteed, which makes it quite obviously a massive waste of cap space that would be better spent on extensions for key young core players
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the bills brass will press the team to cut lindell and moorman to pay for Mario's contract.
is this serious? i'll take that bet
lindell just got a rich new deal and moorman has had his best camp in ages
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reminds me of winfield (and that is a very much a compliment, can't speak to his hands yet but very physical)
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no surpises in first round...still some very tough decisions to come.......i hope dickerson survives but smith looks like a lock after last night and can't see mcintrye going due to special teams, going to be tough
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merriman was a waste a cap space........and general space for that matter........good to see the bills cutting a useless backup, they need to trim so more but got the right idea here.....big black mark for nix but good on him for admitting it, finally
Did the bills just become the new landing spot for Josh Freeman
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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he at worst has an audition.......considering his competition (lewis) can't see how he isn't the best option/opportunity and his demands are min salary (given his pay from Bucs)...........add it all up and i would be shocked if he wasn't added to the roster in advance of the CIN game