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Haven't heard if Sunday's game in Toronto is sold out. Hope it is so it will be televised. Joe

Edwards really missed Reed who is very good finding the open spots in zone coverage

I'll be very happy if Edwards has a career like Dan Fouts

I don't think the Bills have any intention of retaining defensive tackle Tim Anderson. They gave him a Restricted Free Agent qualifying offer in the hope that someone would make him an offer which would give the Bills a 3rd round draft choice if they refused to match that offer.

Maybe the remaining 2.5 million will be paid next year as a roster bonus. If so those monies will apply to next years's "Cash to the Cap" amount

If I understand the "Cash to Cap" concept, the total dollars from saleries and bonuses spent this year will not exceed $109 million, even though bonus monies are amortized over the life of player's contract years. So let me pose this question regarding the $20.7 million that is allocated to amortized bonuses from previous years in the Bill's 2007 Salery Cap. I got this figure for the BillsZone 2007 Salery Cap Page (link below) http://www.billszone.com/mtlog/archives/20...ry_cap_page.php Technically, this $20.7 million was already paid in the previous years of "Cash to Cap". So don't they have this year's $33 million of cap space PLUS the $20.7 million of amortized equals $50.7 million in Cash to Cap dollars to spend? The only care they would have to take is to make sure thay they balance salery and bonus dollars in such a way that it doesn't exceed $33 million in Cap Space. What is wrong with my reasoning?

I recall that NFL owners were supposed to have a meeting to resolve the revenue sharing issue this past Tuesday, January 23. However, I have not seen anything reported about this meeting. Did it occur? Was anything reloved? etc. Our new comissioner said he would step in and make a decision on revenue sharing if the owners could not agree on a formula on their own. I suspect he may have to do that because the big revenue teams appear to be dragging their feet (in the hopes that it will go away?). The future viability of the Bills future may be at stake.

It has been suggested that Thomas was retained over Gates for his all-around play. Thomas is a better receiver and accomplished blocker. With our offensive line still trying to mesh, a runner who could also help protect the QB is very valuable. With Gates in the lineup there is less predictability, since the expectation would be a run. With Thomas it could be anything.

As I remember it, in previous years season ticket holders received their tickets as individual game tickets became available to the general public, which this year was around July 15th. It is now about 2 week past that date, and I have not received my tickets. I would appreciate a reply if you have or have not received your season tickets. I'd like to know if I have to call the Bills to check if my tickets were mailed, or if they have been lost in the mail. Thanks.

If Moulds refuses to take a paycut, why haven't the Bills released him? I think it may have something to do with the CBA - if there will be a new Collective Bargaining Agreement of not. I base my thoughts on this from the strange events that have taken place over the past few days. When Moulds' agent said they would not accept a paycut this past Sunday, many "experts" were predicting that a CBA would be in place before the start of free agency on Friday. Why take a paycut with the Bills when a new CBA promised more big money for free agents? However, as the week progressed and the potential agreement fell apart, the big money disappeared. Without a CBA, more than a third of the teams would have difficulty getting under the salary cap and would not be players in the free agency market. A large number of good players would have to be cut on "Black Thursday", thus providing a lot more competition for Moulds. Those teams that had money to spend could cherry pick from this large pool of free agents, without having to spend big bucks. It was also expected that free agency would be hampered by the rules in the old CBA in the year prior to an uncapped year, eg the 30% rule, the length of new contracts, etc. I think Moulds and his agent have decided to keep there options open until the status of the CBA is finally decided - probably by tomorrow evening. Without a new CBA, Moulds might be better off taking a cut in pay down to published numbers of around $2 million because he likely would get much less as a free agent without a new CBA.

Note one important ommision in the 1986 draft - OT Will Wolford was drafted before Ronnie Harmon

Like many of you, I feel somewhat disappointed in the hiring of Dick Jauron. However, this hire has an interesting precedent in Bills history - Marv Levy. This was the way things were when Levy was hired in 1985. The Bills hired a coach who was 36-42 with one winning season when fired by Kansas City in 1982. Levy was very smart - at least intellectually. However, Levy really didn't show show his football smarts until he got his second coaching opportunity. At the time the Bills GM, Bill Polian, was a relative newcomer who hired someone he knew well. The Bills were in total disarray, coming off two consectutive 2-12 seasons. Levy was not reguarded an offensive geniuses - he was heavily criticized for his Single-Wing offense in KC. Does this mean that Jauron is the second coming of Marv Levy and a new Bills golden era is about to start? That is certainly a stretch, but we can only hope that Jauron can achieve half the success of Levy's coaching career with the Bills. However, at least there is some hope, given the success SOME coaches have had in their SECOND run as an NFL head coach. We wanted the Bills to hire someone with coaching expierence. The truth of the matter is that all the former head coach candidates available had warts - otherwise they would still be coaching their first team. I was strongly in favor of Mike Sherman until I saw some of comments made by the Packer fans on the Stadium Wall in the past week. They were generally complementary although there were some big BUTs. Not a good game-day coach, not a good clock manager, couldn't win the big games, didn't make adjustments during the game, etc. Didn't we hear these same criticisms in the past 5 years? I have been a Bills fan a long time - back to the start of the franchise in 1960 when I was a teenager. I've had my doubts for every coach hired, some justified, some not. Other than the second hiring of Lou Saban, the only time the Bills hired a coach with a good NFL pedigree was Chuck Knox. He had one good year the left. You never really know what you get until they get here and put their teams together. So we just have to wait and see - maybe Jauron will be another Levy.

If you check out the link, you will see the posting date of January 21, 2006.

Some time ago I remember reading in this forum that it would cost the Bills about $5.8M to put the Franchise Tag on Nate Clemens, based on what was heard on the national media (Mort?). Aparently that number was very wrong, based on the positional franchise tag just published on Ask the Comish. Ask the Comish Cornerback $8.816 million Quarterback $8.078 million Wide Receiver $7.768 million Offensive Line $7.424 million Defensive End $6.666 million Running Back $6.323 million Linebacker $5.95 million Defensive Tackle $5.134 million Safety $4.968 million Tight End $2.687 million Kicker/Punter $1.787 million If these new number are true, I seriously doubt the Bills will franchise Clemens, evn if they only intend to use the tag to trade him.

The Bills should apply for a roster exemption allowing them to carry 75 players on the active season roster instead of 53. That way we can pick up all the released players this forum likes.