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Are another one of NFLs great ideas to keep the league and its actions a mystery and generate more intrigue. Who knows, in a few decades, we could see the NFL hosting a compensatory-pick-day at Radio City Hall where they would announce who gets what pick and have a big panel of ESPN, NFL Network trying to predict what compensation the next team will achieve and then predicting what player the team would draft in the upcoming draft with that pick and then comparing that player against the lost player(s).......

The common thread between the two. They are very often injured!

You mean that Underperforming Unit made of a bunch of 300+ lb jokers!

A thread about a comment made by a Punter has 11,000 views and going strong for a month....What a monster I have created !!!! Die! Die! Die!

People need to stop re-hashing this. Peters has gone to 3 straight pro-bowls with the Eagles (plus the two with the Bills) and has been voted to the All-Pro team. Peters has done full justice to the contract the Eagles gave him. We got a first round pick in Woods for him. Let us move on.

Which is ok. Kelly comes from a pretty successful Oregon program and Trestman won the cup across the Falls and has built some good/great offense in the NFL in the past.

I don't think the Bills did anything wrong with the Byrd or Levitre scenario. In their last year of contract, both players clearly stated that they wanted to test Free Agency. One got his wish and the other was tagged.

If I remember, he was also the backup Center and Snapper for the FGs.

But..But...But...he only had only ONE INT in his rookie campaign !!!!!

Still no peep from Byrd about wanting a long term deal with the Bills.

Link ??

QBs always will get a little more, especially since this is guaranteed money.

Actually there is no solid proof as to what Byrd really wants to do. I don't believe there is any report to suggest that Byrd wants to leave the Bills for some other team or vice versa. IMHO, Byrd is simply looking for the best deal for him and his family.

Coincidentally, found this quote in John Claytons mail bag this week. Head coaches coming from college have an advantage dealing with the new limits on offseason preparation for their teams. The new offseason program must be wrapped up in nine weeks. Coaches have only 10 organized team activity days, a three-day rookie minicamp and a three-day mandatory veteran minicamp. Plus, any new coach hired after the previous season is allowed to have a voluntary minicamp. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9334985/nfl-mailbag-ex-college-coaches-edge-shortened-offseason

Why is Mr. Prisco trying to prove himself. Let it go. In this years draft, all QBs had their strength and weakness and different teams rated them differently according to their needs/schemes etc. So what 4 GMs had him rated in the 4th round. I am sure there were 4 other GMs from the remaining 28 teams, who had rated him as a 1st round prospect and 4 other teams would have rated him as a 2nd round prospect and four or more teams may have rated him as a 3rd round prospect. For the Bills sake, I hope they were right about EJ and they have a QB here for the next decade.

May be this is a way to put pressure on Parker to come to the table and agree to a contract that is mutually acceptable to both parties. The Bills could do with Byrds play and leadership and Byrd should be happy to get a good chunk of money that he is worth. Comparing him to Polamalu or Reed doesn't do any good. Byrd's contract has to be based on what Byrd has done ON and OFF the field.

Now we just need our own Eli Manning....Hoping EJ turns into a QB like Eli.

No. He can sit until game 10 and then suit up so that he does become an UFA next year. Of course the Bills can tag him again. The idea behind such a hold out would be as to why the Bills would pay 5M and 8M to a player who will play only a portion of the games.

Or the Vets themselves are dysnfunctional and have not pulled up players like Stevie to not act stupid or selfish.

Wood is the anchor of this OL and will be locked up before end of this season. Spiller is (and will be) the heart and soul of this team for the next few years. He is the most talented player on this team. It would be really silly for the Bills to trade him or lose him to FA without any good compensation.

Do remember that the Rookies had a full week of OTA to themselves earlier. May be Marrone wants to be fair and give Kolb and TJ a shot.

Marronne comes from the Parcells tree and you are not going to get much useful stuff from him or his coaching staff.

Are rookie HCs allowed to start TC earlier ? There is some rule about HCs having additional practices, but can't remember whether it was OTA, mini-camp or training camp.

+1.

+1. And it probably also sent out an IMPLICIT message to Stevie. His post-TD antics will not be tolerated, especially if it ends up disrespecting the opponent.