obie_wan

well - you just affronted many of the posters on this board - the Bills said it - it must be true

Bills have no interest in opening a dialogue since they have already made their position clear to the Peters camp back in Jan - no more money this year.

Your version is what transpired back in January - The rest sounds about right Inconceivable that Peters stayed away from all off season activities without some understanding of the Bills position to not give him a raise.

The Bills are pre-occupied with the Peters fiasco. Oh - wait - they haven't talked to him since january. Sorry about that

Are you insinuating that an NFL franchise worth close to $1 billion would not bother to check up on their best player since Janaury after he underwent surgery from an injury that forced him to miss game time? No way!!

for a slow white guy

you forgot the part where he gets injured because he is not in game shape and misses a lot games

why waste the picks they already have Chambers and Matt Murphy. just not enough roster spots for adding actual talent to the OL

thank you

If you add in the unstated item that the Bills probably told Peters no raise this year back in January (which is what prompted him to stay away) - then maybe its the Bills acting in a juvenile fashion with their best player.

The Bills obviously knew this back in January when their contact broke off. Yet they arrogantly refused to acknowledge the problem and failed to protect themselves by gettiong anyone with any experieince to fill in at LT

my guess is the Bills opening response as noted by Brandon was - "we just re-did your contract, you have 3 years left, wait till next year" which is what prompted Peters to stay away. The current response that they are willing to talk if he shows up is damage control, after the horse left the barn

The Bills probbly should not have set the precedent then by re-upping Schoebel, Butler, Williams etc.

you forgot Matt Murphy. the staff consider him the favorite since he is a converted TE - just like Peters.

There is NO excuse for not having a bona fide backup LT for the 2nd most important position of the team - especuially when you are trying to develop a young QB. Contract situations happen. Good mgmt expects it and plans for it Instead the Bills stick their head in the stand - regarding the talent at OT and about letting the Peters situation fester to this point.

I know the Bills want to conserve the greenbacks, but hopefully they have at least one telephone on which they can make outgoing calls. Peters may be acting like a jerk - but the more mature front office may want to come down from their ivory tower and be a bit pro-active in finding out what he wants and why he missed those OTAs. Pretty lame for the COO to claim that "Peters never called" The real crux of the problem is that Bills gave themselves no leverage by not addressing the backup LT situation. Going with Kirk Chambers or moving Walker to LT will both be disasters -- with the development of Edwards being severely hampered as a by-product. They knew something was up well in advance of the draft and should have taken some proactive steps to protect the offense for 2008. Eventually Peters will return - but at what ultimate cost to the team in preparing for the 2008 season. The longer he holds out, the more likely he will miss time due to injury in 2008 - thus furhter hindering the offense.

It's a lot harder when you don't even look. Knowing Peters was an issue (health or contract), Brandon Albert would have at least given them an option at LT.

Mind boggling to most NFL organization, but not to Bills fans saddled with a front office that has no respect for the importance of the OL (especially LT) The galling thing is the Bills should have known from the lack of contact with Peters since January that his desire for a new contract was coming. However, the Bills in their typically arrogant way chose to ignore the situation and not reach out to their best player. 1. to determine his contract demands 2. to determine his health Peters is either still injured and the Bills are justified in waiting on a new deal or he is healthy and deserves a new deal. Either way, the front office put the team at a huge competitive disadvanatage by not obtaining a bona fide backup at LT to fill in while this situation plays out. The stated plan to move Wlaker to LT is a joke. He can barely pass block the right side without TE help on every down. Moviong him to LT will be a joke and again hamstring the offense by needing to keep TE in on both sides. After moving Walker, they have no one capable of taking his place on the right side

Joey Galloway - in his prime then traded for #1 pick (or 2)

Sounds like they should have had an idea of what Peters was up to before free agency and the draft. If they were committed to playing hardball, they should have protected themselves and obtained a bona fide LT to fill in for Peters while the Bills again cripple the franchise. Either he's healthy and deserves more money, or he's injured and the Bills are justified in waiting. Under either option, relying on moving Walker to LT is stupid at best, but typical of the Bills treatment of the OL over the last 15 years.

yeah - good thing Jauron fixated on McKelvin or hardy would have been the pick at #11

I learned to count from the Holy Book of Hand Grenades - ". . the counting shall be 3 4 shall not be counted and 5 is right out . . ." they didn't cover the # 2

he already has a blown out groin from last year

if Brandon wanted to play hardball with Peters, they should have at least got somebody on the team that could play LT. the last contact they had with Peters was January. They could have brought in a free agent and drafted someone that could at least line up at LT. It took 15 years to find a LT and only a few months to poison the relationship.

The Bills are handling this like a first time GM flexing his muscles would be expected to. Unfortunatnely they are jerking around the best player on the team and have no real ability to go forward without him. They need to check their egos at the door and get this resolved before it gets ugly and reaches a point they regret.