Wayne Cubed

And yet another thread...

Soooo besides the players the Bills have drafted, the team is filled by a bunch of crazies?

The fins blew a load of money on LBs 2/3 years ago. How'd that turn out. They just cut both of them. Burnett played in all 32 games as a dolphin recording over 200 tackles. Yea he's 30 but his replacement Wheeler is 28 and could have been had the previous year for $700,000. Guy had one good season and the fins jump all over him. Lots of overpaying goin on.

Free Agency is 22 hours old, not to mention the draft is approaching. Are you saying it doesn't count if he finds a replacement this way? As to your other point and I've heard this from a bunch of people. It's not that simple to just lock a player up the previous year. That player has to a.) come to the negotiating table and b.) actually want to sign with the team. Is it that far fetched to believe that Levitre just didn't want to resign with the Bills? That he wanted to be a free agent and see how much money he could get...

Considering teams bring in 90 players for training camp, where would you expect those players to come from. I hardly consider 10 to be a lot of UDFA. Hell, if the Bills are 22 players short, thats 68 players. That means they'll have to do even more cutting down.

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Well only the home games get the no income tax. All away games are taxed at rate of the state played in. So, I thought your 5% was a pretty good average over the course of the year.

Technically 7.8 is not 7.8 in Buffalo. No income tax in Tennessee. They would have had to offer more. Potentially overpay, actually definitely over pay. Bidding war would ensue, and at the end of the day he could still end up picking Tennessee.

Not to mention he's a UFA. He can go where he wants. So the Bills would presumably have to offer more. And then you get into a bidding war... Over an OG. Sorry, not worth it.

The Bills have been down the "over-paying for a free agent OG" road before. In fact I'm pretty sure Dockery was considered the best interior lineman that year. How'd that work out? Don't let the fact that he was a Bill cloud the issue.

My take is this: How many conversations has anyone heard between 2 GM's? My guess is zero... I think people assume way to much about the conversation being had. This sounded like a total off the cuff conversation. Its pretty obvious that these GM's talk regularly, but why would he devulge any information that isn't common knowledge? I doubt they go out and call these other GM's and say "Hey, were gonna sign x,y,z" or "were doing this specific move with this player." To me it's such a none story, IMO.

It means ReTweet... Chris Brown re-tweeted what Drayton had already tweeted.

Except he said the Bills "may" not be doing anything in the first couple days. He didn't say "won't", as you put it...

Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter Vikings trying to trade WR Percy Harvin and are in discussions with Seahawks, amongst other teams, per team sources. Seahawks favored. Adam Schefter‏@AdamSchefter And so the first blockbuster trade of the week is shaping up to involve...Percy Harvin. Imagine Harvin, Russell Wilson and Beastmode.

Who said signing McKelvin was done over signing Levitre? They had an opportunity to sign McKelvin and did it, which has absolutely nothing to do with signing Levitre. Levitre is going to test FA, it's come from his own mouth. Hell, he might be stupid not to. But IMO, if he's going for huge OG money, he's not worth it.

You can't get a game changing WR without someone to get him the ball, otherwise he's just some other guy running around.

Huh? Why would you enter negotiations with 2 players if you don't have enough for both? Wouldn't it make more sense to figure out 1 player, in this situation it's Byrd because his franchise tag is less so therefore less of a cap hit? And at the same time cut and make more room under the cap. Then go back to that 2nd player with an actual number. Signing Levitre/Byrd and entertaining other FA's on 9 million, is not possible.

I agree with that, completely. The problem is there is too many variables. Should the Bills not gone after MW when they were in desperate need of a pass rush? What if the kid was saving for 3 years but at year 2 a new toy comes out, that they have an opportunity to buy. Or lets say one of their favorite toys breaks and they have to spend some of the money they have been saving on that.

This is the time of year that a lot of stuff is leaked out and thetr is a lot of misdirection going on. If the Bills have everyone thinking they are going to take Nassib, it might force another teams hand. The other odd thing about this is why would you telegraph exactly who you are going to take because if any other team knew it, well then all they have to do is get ahead of you.

Actually you are completely wrong. You don't run a business based on what if's and scenarios. On Feb 13 Mark Gaughan published what the Bills actual cap number was at the time, $116 million. With the cap being set at $121 million at that time and the Bills being able to roll over about $9 million that left their available cap number at about $130 millions. Leaving the Bills with about $14 million to sign free agents. Subtract rookie salarys from the draft, which is around $5 million, that reduces the number to $9 million. You don't walk into negotiations for a FA like Levitre with only $9 million in space to work with. Especially if you value Byrd over Levitre and are trying to work his contract out. This is exactly "basic math" as you put it. But yea, people running the Bills finances, I'm sure don't have a high school diploma. Hell this is just child's play.

Beard currently. Going Grizzly Adams/Duck Dynasty with it. Previously I had a full on Salvador Dali mustache, but only because I had developed some alopecia in my beard area. I find I look like I'm a 14 year old with no facial hair.

As I posted earlier in the thread, it's possible they didn't know or weren't sure how much money they would be able to offer Levitre. At the end of the season, the Bills available cap space was a lot smaller then what it currently is. There would be no point in them throwing out a number, if they didn't actually have that amount. And from the looks of things, they needed to makes some cuts, figure out if they were going to franchise Byrd or not. Byrd is the smaller of the franchise numbers so it makes sense to franchise him and not Levitre. Now that all of that's out of the way, just happened Friday, I would bet the Bills will be able to offer him a deal. Whether he takes it or not is an entirely different subject matter.

Meh. Have to get one done to know how much you can spend on the other. Can't go making offers without knowing what you have to spend.

Except the NFL is a billion dollar industry, with a huge TV contract, which it wasn't nearly that when Stephenson/Bullough were coaching. Teams will still get their money. And in this day in age, if they don't, they'll just move town to somewhere that fans will fill the stadium. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

HUH? Please do explain which FA or draft pick have the Bills not been able to sign because they are being held hostage? They went out and signed the biggest DE contract ever WHILE he was on the team...