JimBob2232

Are you kidding? Wow.the Ax has come out. I wont recognize this team next year....unless we go 4-12, then I might.

Well, we are getting eaten alive with dead cap money right now with all the releases. Thats for starters. But it doesnt explain the high cap number overall. I think the Mike Williams situation hurts alot. You just cant have a top pick fail, or it kills you financially. I also think the handling of EM was suspect. You cant renegotiate a contract and cut the guy the next year. That is bad for the cap. Unless you are the patriots and can find a superior replacement in the 7th round of every draft and win paying your players the league minimum, this isnt going to work. We now have ONE GUY eating 1/9th of the cap. OUCH. Problem is, if we cut him, we have one guy WHO ISNT ON THE TEAM, eating 1/15th of the cap...so take your poison there. Is drew still eating dead cap space? I cant remember when he was cut... Plus alot of contracts were backloaded, as per typical NFL protocol. Cant blame TD there really. Spikes, Fletcher, Milloy and others came on a few years ago, they are probably seeing huge escalations in base salary, eating away at our cap. I cant say TD did a bad job of handling the cap. I think he did a good job actually. Actually overall I give him a B+ on cap management.

Um...no. I would take TO if... a) I felt we had a coach who could handle him b) We got him very cheap and could cut him at ANY point in the season for minimal loss. If we trade for him, his first year salary will be guarenteed, which is too much money to waste on a loser such as TO.

With Roscoe Parrish under center

yeah, something is wierd here. did he take a pay cut, or did he restructure and extend his deal. I need more details before saying this is a good thing for the pets

Okay...not the point at all. Lloyd was just a name I chose off the list of free agents. In actuality there is nobody even close to moulds calibur on the FA list...so the drop off is even more severe.

Yeah...using the same logic, I guess Ben Roeth was also a bad early pick.

Hmm...sounds like an olympian...can he play football?

Umm.. My Top 5 (Shouldnt we make this top 8?) 1. Bush 2. Mario Williams 3. D'Brick 4. Hawk 5. Lienert

Maybe they should put movie promotions on the bases of baseball games.... oh wait.

Okay, ill bite. Would you rather have moulds or Brandon Lloyd? Moulds is going to cost 6 mil against the cap this year REGARDLESS of whether he is on the roster or not. You bring in Lloyd (using him as an example here, because we WILL need another WR), and you pay him 3 mil/year (and thats probably low..) So for a 1M savings, you severely downgraded at WR, created even more inconsistency for JP, run a fan favorite out of town, and created very little free cap room to solve our real issues (OL/DL/DB). Doesnt sound too smart. I think it is a moot point, sadly. I think we need to eat the 10mil cap hit this year. Keep moulds, and let him go prior to the start of next season. The only other option IMO, is to extend his deal one year, give him some up front money now. But if we do that, we have to rely on keeping him 2-3 more years, and im not so sure that is a smart move either. Suck it up. Keep EM this year. Move on. Address it next year.

Some of you are getting they salary cap number, and the actual amount of cash paid to a player in a given year mixed up. Be careful. They are 2 completly different animals.

There should be one exception... the land taken from justice souter to build the freedom hotel. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161051,00.html

The problem is that some of you are not looking at the totality of this picture. All you see is the large cap # on moulds and the 5 mil we can save cutting him. You have to also realize that IF we cut moulds, we need another WR. Another WR is going to come with a 3-4 mil cap hit this season, negating most of the "savings". So for a 1M savings, you get another WR who has to learn the offense, more changes for a growing quarterback, lose a fan favorite player and uncertainty of performance. Keep EM. At least for one more year. Then deal with it.

Doesnt make alot of sense...but then again, it is the jets. 1) it will take alot to get that pick 2) they are guarenteed one of the big 3 QBs will be there at #4 3) If they get the #1, why not bush? 4) The way things are looking, who says leinert isnt there at #4? It would be interesting if they got the #1 and took leinert. What does NO do? Do they take bush? or go QB as well (their real need). Talk about throwing a wrench into everything.

One of the funniest reporter/athlete exchanges happened Saturday when Boston Herald scribe John Tomase was talking with Boston College defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka. The snippet, verbatim: Tomase: "Someone brought up Rosevelt Colvin earlier. During the (New England Patriots') season, he talked about how much he loved sacks. He said on the field it's all he cares about: 'I want sacks. I don't want tackles or interceptions, I want sacks.' Do you have that kind of feeling on the field?" Kiwanuka: "Do I think of sex on the field?" Tomase (mortified): "No! Sacks – SACKS! Good God. I was wondering why you were smiling so much." Kiwanuka (laughing): "I was wondering where you were going with that." Tomase: "Sorry – Boston accent."

No. I wouldnt have. It was a gutsy (and good) pick for the colts. However, they probably would have been better served trading down 5-10 slots and taking him then. Hard to argue with the pick now, but at the time it was a very suspect pick.

Yeah, that was impressive. Unfortunatly #8 is too early to take him, and he wont be available in round 2. However, I wouldnt mind taking a look at kudla in round 3 or 4 (if he lasts that long)

Yeah, somone comes to you and says "i want you to keep doing your job, in fact, try to do it better...but I need to cut your salary in half...if you agree to it" What are you going to do? Laugh? Even if you thought you could never make that much money again at another place of employment, its in your best interest to play hardball. This is what EM is doing, and I cant blame him for it one bit. Does he want to go elsewhere? I dont know, nobody here does either. It seems to make sense he might want to, but we cant know without him telling us. I'd like him back one more year. We have too many holes to fill as is, and dont need to add WR to the list of holes. The money we are going to save on releasing EM is gong to be eaten up by another WR. I just assume we keep EM at his current salary and deal with it next season.

QB Chad Pennington $15,000,000 cap # $3,000,000 savings if released... OUCH! Some big names on this list

wow, there is no way #10 is big enough to be an OL in the NFL

I have a hard time believing a QB as good as (???) McCown would want to come to buffalo, knowing he has to prove to everyone he is better than Losman and Holcomb, and could wind up as a #3 QB. Dont get me wrong, if he signs up for it, Great!...but it doesnt make much sense from his POV.

I agreee....???

I'm sure we will talk to him. I am sure we will also talk to reggie bush. I dont think it means anything.

So..what you are saying is... -Lets keep mike williams, and lets allow him to eat up EVEN MORE of the cap than he would have before. BRILLIANT!