Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I live in Wilmington NC and there's a place here that sells beef on Weck. I've had one a couple times and they're pretty good. He bakes his own kimmelweck rolls right in the place. From what I've heard, the guy is from Buffalo. He also sells, Haddock Fish Frys. Unfortuantely no wings or Salaens hot dogs. Things I miss down here are wings. I lived in Rochester things I miss; Carbone's wings, Dinosaur Bar_B-Que, and whenever I'd get to Buffalo, Ted's hot's and their onion rings.

You're probably right with regards to last season, however if you look at the year prior, Peters was the best. Getting a 1st round pick for someone who didn't appear to want to play here and made what many will argue were crazy contract demands, the Bills did the best they could with the deal. But I do agree with TG it's not likely that either tackle this year will be a better player than JP. The pick we used could be come an all-pro which again could make the Bill's look smart. But until that happens, and even then unless JP also continues to play like he did in 2008, there's a good chance TG will be correct.

So do you want to trade Lee Evans and/or Donte Whitner?? Or were you thinking of Ko Simpson and maybe Parrish, though many people here will argue that we shouldn't even get rid of him. My point is while I agee we do have what appears to be a surplus at the positions you mention, unless you're willing to give up somebody good, you're just going to get someone else's junk in return. There's very few trades made in the NFL particually player for player. You'll see teams unload someone like a Parrish in return for maybe a 4th rounder. Even free agents if you look at the top teams very few of them do much more than fill a few holes with free agents and often the holes are for a capable backup. The draft is where they build the teams from. Football of all sports takes the most practice, signing someone now they've already missed all the mini camps, so will be tougher for that person to contribute. I'd guess at this point, unless some team is giving up a superstar pro-bowl type player, it's very likely the players on the Bill's roster today, barring injury will give the team more than signing some other teams scrap players.

The other thing to like about Reed this year is he'll be playing in his more natural position, the slot. The first year he was here when they had Price at the #2, Reed played much better from the slot. I'd expect the same this year. Additionally he is a very good blocker, which again from the slot likely is even better. If we have someone better, great then play that person, but Reed from the slot I think wil lbe hard to beat!

Since the last ime it was named for the tight end, how about D-2 as in Derek Squared! Or we could come up with some "tight end" jokes!

Hey, look how Greg Norman and Chris Evert got together. I think it's more a factor of the circles that these people tend to travel in. And none of us are invited to even see the circle.

There's also a whole lot of rules about who can sign FA etc, It's not as good as you think it would look for the players. Only teams that lose FA can sign one or something like that. Top rated teams can't sign as many players as lower ranked teams, Whole bunch of rules, so doubt players would be too in favor of this either.

Wasn't aware he also bankrolled Sullivan too. I knew he gave money to Big Al.

Has RW stated who'll be presenting him? My guess would be Marv, unless he wants to go back to the old AFL days, then maybe Al Davis. He and Polian have buried the hacket for the most part, maybe BP?? JP likely will be available on that date. Probably a bad questions to be asking as I'm sure there will be many sacastic (and comic) responses!

Unfortunately for him it's the only job/offer he seems to have got. I recall when he first came on the air in Rochester i nearly 90's, he was labeled as a short timer, before he was on ESPN or something at that level. Instead over the years he has slowly progressed downhill. I think he read too many of his press clipping and that has done him in.

I agree totally, but I also think at this point you don't know enough about either Derek to grade them, so really no easy way to compare unless there's someone who you feel is much better than 4th rounder and you're shocked is still there. Else go for best player.

At this point, why bother?, You currently have a player who was 4th round rookie last year (Derek Fine) and hurt most of the year and a guy with two years exp (Derek Schoman) who not sure what round he was drafted or by who. Neither of those players have been around long enough to know how good they might be. Unless you get lucky anyone you get at this point likely isn't going to be better than the current players, so I think you're better going with best player available and maybe pick up another FA tight end someplace rather than "waste" and I use that term loosely another pick. Usually after the draft there's a bunch of more signings, maybe you get one there or a training camp cut from soneone. I also would be fine with a trade with some team, but I see no need in drafting one at this point . You can't keep chasing draft picks every year and right away give up on whom you already have. That's the long term secret to failure! But wherever they may get another TE from, just make sure his first name is Derek!

You have to take into account the fact that Super Bowl and even AFC/NFC championship game teams all get more prime time games, more ink, etc, so their players tend to get voted to the pro bowl more than other teams. While not saying those guys were bad, how much of a difference was there between them and an average caliper tackle both in ability and compared to salary? Having the average guy, you likely get more bang for the buck!

OK, so it's less. We don't take the offer from Philly. Maybe by Saturday Philly will increase their offer, or maybe they'll go in a different direction totally and we're left with likey a hold out unless we agree to pay him $11mil. From what I've read Peters value may have decreased as some teams are becoming scared off by his behaviour. Peters has had one very good season and a questionable attitude, so not sure how much more we could have got.

Yup, we should have showed Peter's who's boss. Make him play under his current contrct at least another year. Tell him no new deal period. That would have taught him a lesson. Of course most likely he wouldn'y have reported till game ten then at best half out of shape and owuld have been totally useless. But that's the mentality our front office needs to have. That will definitely work in todays NFL

But did he play last year like that's how much he's worth. I don't think so! If he had reported to cmap last year participated in all the off-season work, he likely could have played like the prior year, and I believe he would have had the same contract with the Bills, maybe even better. The Bill's did give Evans what he was worth, so calling the Bill's cheap is not based too much on fact. The problem the Bill's hae had is not spending their money wisely, more than not spending it at all. My precdiction, this season he likely will play like he did two years ago, though not sure that warrented him being the highest paid tackle, but certainly top 5 to 10. Will he elevate his game above that, not so sure, we'll see.

Read online yesterdy someplace, may have been Tim Graham's article that teams are becoming a bit concerned with trading for Peter's because of his "attitude" This article was more geared towards the Bill's having a more difficult time trading him as teams are becoming wary of picking him. Conversely though the same thing can be said for his value as a free agent. Teams are going to become nervious about signing him based on his work ethic. I suppose the Bill's could tell Peters, hey we tried to trade you, but no one wants to give us what we think a pro-bowler is worth so we're not trading you for nothing. And oh BTW, Since no one else views you as a pro-bowler, we're not paying you the most in the league either so take our offer or leave it. You're ours for the next two years and fro mwhat we're eharing you'll never get an offer basee on what you think you're worth.

Agreed, the coach doesn't have to get involved with contracti ssues, his job is to have the players like him, so no need to tick off Peter's The problem here to is everyone sems to think that they are owed nothing but the absolute truth from the Bill's regarding how they feel about every situation. What the Bill's or DJ have told Peters privately may be much different and they don't owe us this info.

I've had both DTV and cable. For the money DTV tends to be a better value. The problem I have is where I live no locals in high def. Yes I know DTV will supposedlly supply you with this box to get locals over the air and run into their DVR, but I don't want to use an over the air antenna. My 1st year into price recently expired with cable so my rates would have gone up by quite a bit. So called TWC and asked them what they'd do to retain me as a customer. They gave me this price guarantee which locks in my price for two years and was about the same as I was paying for my intro package. I figured if I switched to DTV for the fist year could have saved about $50 per month and second year around $25. Not a bad amount, however that included dumping RR and going to DSL which definetely isn't as fast, so would have lost something there service wise. I could have kept RR, but then take $10 off the savings I'd get. I don't live in western NY anymore, now in Eastern NC and I must say the selection of HD channels I get is pretty good. For sports I get: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNnews, the local Fox sports, Versus, and MLB HD all in HD. I haven't looked lately at what other HD stations I'm not getting, but they just added about five more and to be honest I can't think of anything I watch that isn't in HD. The other nice things about cable are I have a TV in my garage, don't watch much, wouldn't want to pay for a converter box either for cable or DTV, but do like the ability to watch channels 1 thru 75 essentually for free. (yes I know you can dup the signal from another TV, but there are limitations in doing so, as in can't be using the feeder box on different program) I also do like the local cable station. When I lived in Rochester, they use to show a number of SU basketball games. When I had DTV I bought ESPN full court, but some of the games shown on the Time Warner station were then blacked on on Full Court so the only way to see them was on cable. Local weather is nice though these days go online more for that. What do I not get? Sunday Ticket but even if I were able to get it, I doubt I'd pay that much for it as it 's up to close to $300, then another fee for HD version, NFLN which would be nice, but for a half dozen games a year, not going to get too upset about it. If a Bills game is on next year, can always go to a bar, or watch online or something. The other area where DTV exceeds is for packages like MLB Extra Innings, or Full Court, DTV has many more games in HD than cable does. Cable has like one Extra Innings game per day in HD where as DTV has probably over half. Now that I have two HD TV's in house I've become an HD snob. If it ain't on HD, I don't watch it! Eventually I'm sure DTV will get locals in HD, then may go back again. I'm also hoping by then DTV will have the TIVO DVR's again. The last time I had them and they were great, though I must say, I have the same DVR here in NC as I did in NY from TWC, but it works much better here, appears to be running different software version. With the price break I got I'd save some money through DTV, but to be honest really can't complain much about cable and it's convienences.

I was talking "tongue in cheek" I'm sure there are a group of people involved. Regardless of the numbers this will still mean more work for how ever many are involved.

I'll tell you one person who isn't likely to be happy with the TO signing. Most likely by now the 2009 schedule was in it's final stages, being checked and re-checked, verifying stadium availability, getting buyin from TV, etc..... Now most likely as a result of this deal, there will be some re-working of the schedule to put buffalo in more prime time games. That person will likely be working some OT over the next copule of weeks. And it's all RW's fault!!

I doubt you'd trade Jackson as he won't give you much of anything, plus you don't know the status of Lynch. Lynch without the off-field issues would likely get you a #1, maybe even a bit more. So if anything, I think maybe they'd consider trading Lynch, maybe gets you a 2nd??

Add to that this is a John Clayton story, who has a grudge against the Bill's so he writes a story like this to make them look bad. Was there a tiny remote possibility of this being true? Sure, but I doubt you'd get more than a 7th rounder for him. Granted a 7th rounder is better than nothing, but consider the source. There was deadline before a bonus took effect, but I thought htta was mid March sometime.

IF Crayon's is correct, I would think it stand to reason that would also mean any players on west coast teams do not become free agents until 3:00 AM eastern, time, therefore you can't talk with them until that time. So if correct, works both ways, the east coast players would have an advantage then too as they could sign offers before free agetns from west coast teams. I recall one year the Bills had a player signed by 1:00 AM local time. That's money that a west coast player never has a shot at getting. All this makes me doubt it could be true, as players and teams would both be at a disadvantage

I don't often agree with you, but on this one, I think you might be right Thats the tough part. Like was pointed out in other posts, Fred Taylor or someone of that level isn't likely to sign here to be 2nd or 3rd string. On the other hand, you need someone in case ML gets suspended (which I'd put the odds at over 50% he does since the NFL tends to be coming down hard on these things) so if you keep ML, it may make it difficult to sign soneone else who's good. It also will be tough to get much in return for him as who'd want him. (well there's always the Raiders) There's been rumors of other little issues too. I think if the Bill's know of other things that also did happen, they may just dump him to the highest bidder, and take what they get. Maybe he has a clause in his contract regarding behavour and they can go after part of his bonus or something.