Bob Malooga
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No, no effect on me, besides being a fan of a team paying a RB in 2015 $10M a season...when people didn't want them to pay Spiller $4M a season. But, again, that's not my biggest issue, although I think that's absurd for a RB.What's wrong with McCoys contract? It should have no effect on you and obviously the Bills have plenty of cap space to cover it.
Lol, no sir, I am not...sure as hell wish I was though!Are you in Sunnyvale, CA?
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No way are Gragg and Gray "good enough" to be our TE's from now until one gets cut "before the season." Lol. They desperately need to bring in another TE, Roman's offense needs it.I agree with it all . I think we need a guard more than a Te.. Gray and Gragg are good enough right now. Their will be a Te. cut before the season,that we can pick-up.
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They are, it was reported all day yesterday...they want Cameron and Clay for Lazor's offense, as they have plans for a Gronk/Wright duo.I've been so used to Twitter blowing up with news that now its back to normal and I just keep refreshing the page over and over again waiting for a deal to happen. No news on Clay since yesterday makes me think the Dolphins are trying to sign him long term
(Forgot the Miami reporter who tweeted that exact idea...but there is this from another Miami reporter.)
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If I have a bill to pay, and I can have either 5 days or a couple weeks to figure out how to pay it...I will take the extra time, because it is beneficial to me, not the bill collector.I did. Twice now.
Miami is benefitting from the extra time. Bottom line. No matter what happens, they WILL know how much the offer sheet is for and have time to figure it out and match it.
I won't be surprised to see him re-signed in Miami before Buffalo evens puts an offer sheet on the table, that is the point...huge waste of time and resources.
Did I?You said that the Bills never should have let him leave. Not much nuance there, so I don't think I missed anything, either in meaning or intent.
Subsequent posts in response to others, suggest you don't have an appreciation for the complexity of the situation. You certainly don't need me to point them out.
GO BILLS!!!
"Their biggest mistake was letting him leave *WITHOUT AN OFFER*...there is zero chance they get him now."
Try again.
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Ok, so then...explain what Buffalo is gaining by waiting until Miami clears enough cap space to keep him?Again, the underlined section shows you don't really understand this issue as well as you think you do.
My opinion on Buffalo's handling of the situation has absolutely nothing to do with what is going on here.
This is ALL there is to understand about Charles Clay and his situation...
"Charles Clay is a restricted free agent, Miami retained his rights on the transition tag. Another team can sign him for at least $7M+, and Miami has 5 days to match that offer from the time it is made. If they do not match it, then Clay goes to the team who put in the offer. If they do match it, he stays in Miami."
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Miami won't keep him for only a year, they will need to work out a long-term deal...if they want to keep him.If not this year, we might get him next year after the tag expires. Get gresham for a 1 year deal in the interim
That is probably the only way he DOESN'T come to Buffalo, is if they give him something long-term, which is what they are trying to do this weekend.
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No, it wasn't...I didn't expect them to MAKE him STAY in Buffalo.Ooh. Right for the "can't read" gambit. Nice.
The gun to Mario's head was in the form of making him the highest paid defender at the time. I'm sure that Clay could have been tempted by a similar offer, but that would have been absurd.
The transition tag on Clay also complicates the issue on several levels.
Most importantly, it takes two and there's every reason to believe that Clay's first preference is to return to Miami. It was never a question of simply not "letting" him leave.
GO BILLS!!!
You just went and took one small part of a statement, to make it look like I said something that I did not say...ignoring my entire statement in the process.
Well done.
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I completely understand it...there's not much to understand.Gresham will most likely not sign before Clay's situation is resolved because he wants to see the going rate. Another reason why it's silly to worry about the timing of something you don't seem to fully understand.
Charles Clay is a restricted free agent, Miami retained his rights on the transition tag. Another team can sign him for at least $7M+, and Miami has 5 days to match that offer from the time it is made. If they do not match it, then Clay goes to the team who put in the offer. If they do match it, he stays in Miami.
It's pretty easy to understand, actually...what is not easy to understand is why Buffalo didn't give him an offer sheet, what are they gaining by waiting? Nothing.
Meanwhile, Miami is getting the benefit of not being on a 5-day clock to match an offer, instead being able to focus their resources to reshaping their roster.
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It is correct, if they offered him on Wednesday, Miami would have until Monday to match it...now they have all their roster reshaping done, and all the time they want since there is no offer sheet.It's night and day because Miami can match and retain Clay so the Bills have to structure the deal in a way that hurts Miami's ability to match and they can only make ONE offer sheet. This means the two teams are playing a very high stakes game of chicken.
That wasn't an issue with Mario, they could structure the deal however they wanted.
That's not correct.
The Dolphins get five days to match any offer for Charles Clay, after the offer sheet is put in by the Bills, Browns or whomever.
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Understandable, but I am not pinning my hopes for the TE position on a former Canisius basketball player...situations like that are extremely rare.I am okay with something like that.
Like tying his shoe laces together maybe and turning out the lights and changing the time upon the clocks. Hiding car keys etc.
It was a glass half full post by me.
Rather sign Gresham and draft Williams, Walford, O'Leary...or if you want a legit TE prospect, draft Jean Sifrin, or sign him as an undrafted free agent.
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And putting in an offer 2 days ago, would give them much less time to rework their roster to make room for him.
They would've had 5 days to do everything they had to do, the Bills afforded them more time to work things out.
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Red zone threat. "Go up and get the ball type of player for us "
Like Ramses Barden was supposed to be? Lol.
I doubt Chris Manhertz is a factor at the tight end position, whatsoever.
How so, an offered needs to be made, no matter what...only difference is, Miami has a chance to match the offer, Houston didn't.Mario wasn't a restricted free agent. It's a much more nuanced negotiation with Clay than it was with Mario.
If I go visit a team and leave with an offer in my hand, I feel a lot better about them wanting me...if I leave emptied-handed, I feel I wasted my time.
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Can you not read?Do you propose a gun to the head next time?
GO BILLS!!!
I would propose OFFERING HIM A CONTRACT BEFORE HE LEFT! It's common sense, he was there THREE damn days.
But, now I am curious...did they hold a gun to Mario's head? Because if they did, it worked.
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I don't think so. They had the #2 rushing game in the league 2 years ago. All they needed was a capable QB and some offensive linemen, and they were playoff bound.
Letting players like Brandon Marshall and Ben Grubbs slip through their fingers for 5th round draft picks? That is an epic fail, especially Grubbs since he restructured his contract.
I like Harvin, but they need size, not more speed. I like Incognito, but at this point is he any better than Urbik or Williams? I like Cassel, as a backup. I like Shady, a lot, but not at his contract. I like Tyrod Taylor, if we didn't already have two second string QB's. I just don't understand what they are trying to do...and yes, I know, it's March 14th. But to me, it just seems like more of the same...signing playmakers, who are household names, to sell tickets and build hype.
One signing I do love, is the signing of Jerome Felton...I don't care what anyone says, you need a capable FB in the NFL, look at the best teams, they all have one. And I also feel like their pursuit of Charles Clay is a joke. If he was honestly ranked higher than Julius Thomas on their "wish-list," I think we might have some issues. And I see no way they land him nw, shouldn't have let him leave without an offer sheet, that was stupid.
As far as I'm concerned, the draft needs to be QB, TE, OG, OG, OG...there is absolutely nothing else they need, besides some depth. (I AM thoroughly entertained though, I love the national exposure...just hope it works out for the best in the end.)
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Their biggest mistake was letting him leave without an offer...there is zero chance they get him now.
And now they have 3 scrubs at TE, none of them who know how to block.
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Rodak is a hack. I don't think that he understands the salary cap. That is dangerous for someone tasked with communicating it to the general public.
He also doesn't seem to know the difference between the franchise tag and the transition tag...as he keeps saying Clay is on the franchise tag. (Or at least he did until someone embarrassed him.)
He's a clown...and apparently there is a change.org petition to have ESPN fire him! LOL.
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Is this a serious question...and are there honestly 15 people who would rather have EJ Manuel over Ryan Tannehill?!? LMFAO, that is absolutely hilarious.
Glad I saw this, laughing is good for the soul!
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I have said in a couple different places that Nigel Bradham was the best LB on the roster. I said last summer he would be the break out player.
That is what allowed them to make this move.
They were the #7 defense with Kiko Alonso, and the #4 defense without him...I do not understand why people are upset?
Nigel Bradham is a better NFL LB than Kiko Alonso, and he deserves to start from now on.
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he was appealing his suspension to that point. He learned he could never play at OSU right around that time. Big 10 rules. He likes the Molly.
Rather have him experimenting with that a couple times, than becoming an alcoholic....which is a much worse habit to kick.
Or beating women, stealing stuff, etc...doing some "Molly" is not preventing me from drafting a good football player.
I'm done with the "choir boy" non-sense...I want to win.
Appreciate the feedback, though.
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Based on what? Right now scouts have him as a 2nd-3rd round pick. I like David Johnson, but would be concerned with the level of competition that he's faced. I would consider him in the 3rd round, but would prefer a Jeremy Langford. He's played against better competition and has still looked like a stud. I don't see that Ayayi kid making it out of the 2nd round. Most scouts have him as the 3rd or 4th best running back in the draft. Definitely behind Gurley and Gordon. At the end of the day, there's a decent pool of good running backs out there in the draft this year. However, when you start talking about the 4th round and later, the level of talent really tails off. We'll start talking about guys like Terrance Magee and Dominique Brown. These guys are projected to be nothing more than rotational switch up players rather than every down backs.
Level of competition shouldn't be much of a concern, he proved himself at the senior bowl...and other backs have had success with weaker competition.
I like Langford too...Tyler Varga is also interesting to me. I just want someone with size and decent speed, everything else can be coached and developed.
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I like Tevin Coleman, I think he possibly has the best upside of the backs I've seen this year. Has the big body, seems to have good-enough speed to be effective at the NFL level, and was productive at Indiana University, where the defense knew they were going to run him. I have seen 5 or so guys now (Coleman, Johnson, Ajayi, Abdullah, and one other), and though Abdullah seems like the most SURE THING to be a productive pro, Coleman seems like, if he goes to a team with a strong OL and TEs who can block, he will be a STAR, and could have a couple 1400 yard seasons.
He looks like a long-striding Frank Gore (which may or may not be a good thing). Seems to take a couple strides to hit his top gear (but maybe it's just him letting his blocks develop... Do I need to really add a disclaimer that I'm not a professional scout?), but once he hits his hole and gets through the LOS, he is big enough with enough speed to be a problem for the defense to bring down.
In college, they seemed to run a lot of sweeps and pitches, so I don't know if that was because he had a problem going immediately north-south, or if they had the athleticism instead of size on the OL so that's just how they utilized it, by getting out in space. With us probably bringing in a good blocking FB, and surely to greatly improve out G situation, I think he would do very well here. I would love to grab him in Rd. 2, and give him the ball 15+ times per game, even with Fred and Bryce on the team. I think we will be running it 35x per game, so that would still leave 20 carries for Fred, Bryce, and Boobie to figure out (though I feel us carrying Coleman, new FB, Fred, Bryce, Boobie might be too many backs, and one could be on the bubble at the end of TC).
Again, I haven't watched him game-in, game-out, but I like what I've seen. I didn't have a chance to evaluate his catching ability, and obviously nobody sees pass-pro on a highlight reel, but he's big enough to be strong at it, if he makes the effort to learn, how Fred was not good at it but he put in the work, and became VERY good.
Small hands, fumble problems, not elusive, high pad level, not a power runner, bad change of direction, dances around and is indecisive at the line of scrimmage...
Those are just a few of the things I remember Mayock and others saying about him. They also said his body is maxed out physically and he won't bulk up, doesn't have the frame for it.
So, with that...at 5-11, 205 lbs...I rather keep CJ Spiller, who is the same size and a much better RB. (Frank Gore weighs 10-15 more pounds than Coleman.)
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Reasonably certain Spence isn't in this years draft. He transferred to some directional Kentucky school
Weird, he's listed on all the draft prospects list...and even tweeted that he was going pro.
Noah Spence @nspence94
Not what I wanted but now it's time to get ready for the next level, I've learnt so much in the last couple months that it's all worth it.
I bet he improves his draft stock tremendously if he does return to school...maybe that's why he did return, found out he wouldn't be drafted.
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I like him too, but where? I think taking him in the 3rd is a bit of a reach and I don't know that he'll make it to the 1st pick of round 5
If he's their guy, and he's there...you take him.
3rd round might be right about where he goes though anyways...that's when I would expect the majority of the RB's to start going, besides the higher end ones in the 2nd.
However, I think Johnson is one of the top-5 RB's...all of which will be gone before the 4th round.
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Josh McCown is not an upgrade to Kyle Orton, he is on the same level as Kyle Orton, which is not very good. I do not see McCown as a 1-3 game improvement in the "win" column, and that would be an "upgrade."
I don't know what it would take to get Sam Bradford, but the fact the Bills said they are not even interested in him, really worries me. Makes me think it's the same old Bills, to be honest.
Either way, I hope they draft a QB...Garrett Grayson, Brett Hundley, Bryan Bennett, Brandon Bridge...get someone to develop.
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I really wanted James Carpenter...good signing by the Jets.