MadBuffaloDisease

Well then, he's the kind of "high character" guy Marv has been looking for!

I say keep Willis unless someone offers you a 2nd rounder before the draft. If not, still draft his replacement, but keep him and wait for a team to lose a RB in TC/pre-season, which happens every year. Then if he's still on the roster before the season starts, work the rookie in slowly over the year.

Roderick Hood.

I'd like to see the contract numbers. I've read $15-20M signing bonus and close to $10M a year. If true, that's insane for a guy who will be 30 before the season starts. BTW, speaking of Kyle Brady, isn't he the player who Belichick was salivating over in the 1995, and who went ballistic when the Jets took him before he could? Well I guess he finally got him...12 years later. Ah, requited love.

I heard it mostly involved working with lepers.

They also signed Sammy Morris. Hmmm, the Pats are acting very uncharacteristically.

So you're saying that Welker's agent said to the Pats "...and for just $250K more per year, I'll let you add a poison pill into the contract...?" Doubtful. The Pats likely offered him the deal and said "...and we're going to add a poison pill in there." At best the allowance of a poison pill is a way for the restricted player to choose where he wants to go, when his old team is supposed to have final say on whether he goes or not. I can see why the NFLPA would want to keep that, but also why the NFL would want to prevent that from happening.

Talk about the irony of the Leafs' owner writing a letter to Buttman, after the Canadian press calling Golisano a "whiner."

Wait for him to be released.

Up what ante? Once a restricted FA entertains a contract offer from a team (and there may be many teams offering him contracts, from which he chooses one), he presents that to his old team to see if they'll match it. He or his former team cannot negotiate a bigger/different contract after that. The deal is what it is.

Not really a hard decision on his part.

It doesn't get a guy more cash. The player gets the deal regardless. It's a matter of being able to keep guys you drafted/developed.

There is a "special master" who rules on this stuff, who is supposed to be impartial. I think a new "special master" may be in order.

Except that Posey went from a 3-4 OLB to a 4-3 OLB and wasn't suited to play it. Both Cleveland and Miami play a 3-4 (Miami plays a hybrid, being that they were a 4-3 previously, but Dom Capers favors the 3-4). He'd be a good fit, if even for just a few years, for either team. And at this stage, the Dols need to do something.

We'll see. But it might be moot in any case. WRT Hutchinson, the Hawks would have had to guarantee his entire $49M contract. What are the Pats thinking of offering Welker that the Dols wouldn't/couldn't match?

Those poison pills are no longer legal. The Burleson one was allowed as compensation for the Hutchinson thing.

Click on his name and it tells you he was re-signed by the Lions on 3/1 to a 3-year extension.

The Dols would be fools to not match the offer, considering it's for just a late-2nd rounder in a weak draft. I'd string the Pats along for a week though, just to give them hope. Welker would be like a young Troy Brown for them.

This just after the Bucs sign Jeff Garcia? I guess Jake realized that making $5.3M on the bench is pretty easy money.

I can see millbank's point. But if there's NO retribution when they play in Toronto, playoff chase or not, it's pretty sad.

Walker has blocked 5 kicks the past 2 years. I assume he'll pull double-duty, on the O-line and on opponents' FG tries.

I would hope that anyone with a 15-year old daughter would have taught his/her daughter to NOT a) escape from juve, b) hang around gas stations and c) lie about her age in order to have sex.

Look at it this way: the Bills will be able to draft the best CB or LB in the draft at #12. It appears that everyone will be focusing on QB, WR, DL, and OL with the first 11 picks.

Funny, I didn't hear you mention HIS name at all. Basically the draft is a crap shoot.