Who knows what happens with their contracts before free agency begins, but: Reggie Wayne, Wes Welker, Vincent Jackson, Desean Jackson, Dwayne Bowe, Marques Colston, Stevie Johnson, Brandon Lloyd, Robert Meachem, Mario Manningham, & Pierre Garcon
My guess is that they wouldn't have started doing this until they felt they were out of the playoffs, which was pretty much decided with the loss two weeks ago to NY. At which point Bell was ready to come back (he was active last week and sat on the bench). Curious if Bell simply lost his starting job to Hairston while injured.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/45604203
Good News for the Bills, glad he'll be ready to go for camp next season.
Anyone think it's kinda shady he waited to get it repaired after he signed the extension?
I don't see how it could be Wannstadt, he's had his hand in this miserable defense as well, I'd also like to see them stay with the 3-4, something that Wannstadt has no DC experience with.
At the time I wanted Akeem Ayers, but Aaron Williams was the best player on the board and while in the short term Ayers may have made more sense, Williams could be the best player.
I thought Mario had been doing a good job as a 34 OLB prior to getting hurt. 5 sacks in 5 games (I know stats don't tell whole story). He'd prob be more comfortable in a 43 though.
Barnett wasn't a free agent until training camp.
Who was going to be the starter other than Fitz coming into this season?
He has seemingly recovered from 3 very poor performances vs Jets, Cowboys & Dolphins and is going to be the starter going into next season. He's making very average starting NFL QB money. If you waited to resign him, and he continued on his pace, there was a risk of losing him and then there's threads about how Ralph is cheap and won't retain any of his good players.
Too much coffee today?
You can talk about the draft all you want, I encourage it. A statement was made that a player wouldn't fall to the Bills pick. I'm saying making that specific statement isn't very logical since we dont know where the Bills are picking. Especially since it's very possible the Bills may not win another game and pick very high.
Also, I don't think Mathieu is draft eligible as he is a true sophomore.
Which they called against the Bills and took a challenge, which means it was indisbutable evidence, to overturn it. So it doesn't really balance anything, not that it needs to since I can see how it was called holding.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8247df3a/article/franchisetag-values-will-be-down-across-the-board-in-2012With the change in the calculation the franchise tag for next year will be approx $9.4M. With many claiming Stevie is worth somewhere around $8M, is the extra $1.4M worth keeping his rights for another year, gain some leverage in negotiations, and allow them to work out a long term deal?
I also just thought this was a noteworthy league story.
Something I've heard on ESPN is that Jackson surrounds himself with some not so great people, and that has been a huge concern of the Eagles, and should be for any team that thinks about signing him.