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At least if he's on the Bills he can't keep killing us! Good article from Pro Football NYC (ok, not exactly a mainstream media outlet, but still): http://www.profootballnyc.com/2011/07/jets-bracing-for-life-without-brad.html Gotta like "Those who shrug off Smith’s imminent exit are only making themselves feel better when they say that Smith’s departure will be “no big loss.” It will be a tremendous loss. Smith changes momentum. Makes enormous game changing and even season changing plays. When least expected."

According to Schefter, it's a done deal: "Last hurdle to a trade between Saints and Dolphins was cleared when RB Reggie Bush reached agreement on a new 2-year contract with Miami."

HA /close thread ^ this guy won...

Seems strange that we haven't even heard any mentions of Whitner getting any looks. I thought that Cleveland would have swooped him up by now - I'm sure their fans are screaming FAILURE right about now too! Interesting too that Weddle got a 5 year deal for $40MM, wonder what that'll do for Donte's value? They have comparable numbers over their careers... I'm just curious, I don't think the Bills should try and resign him, unless it's a really friendly number.

CB Drayton Florence to the Bills -- 3 years for $15 million. - Adam Schefter

:facepalm:

Straight from Drayton's (Twitter) Mouth: "It's official I'm back buffalo see ya at fisher!!!!"

A note from AP Jags writer Mark Long on Twitter: "Just spoke to #Jaguars LB Paul Posluszny. He says chance to get back into 4-3 defense was too good of an opportunity to pass up. #Bills" There you go. It's all about money, until it's not...

From what I've read though, the Bills were offering 4 years, the Jags 6, which would (by my math) make the money different. Plus Paul wanted to be in the 4-3, so he wasn't going to resign here regardless...

Schein and Rich Gannon just got a call about Poz on Sirius - they said the bottom line was Poz wanted to play MLB in a 4-3 and that's why he's gone. They also said that the staff wants to get bigger up front on the D. Interestingly they didn't trash the Bills for not re-signing the guy, just made it sound like it is, what it is...

List of available FA LB's out there: http://www.kffl.com/static/nfl/features/freeagents/fa.php?option=LB&y=2011

If there's one thing we DON'T need to worry about it's that Bills fans will find something to B word about

I'm shocked to say this, but Merriman put it best on Twitter: "Paul Posluszny was a damn good player & could have used him but this is a business people move forward" And then there's this: "We lost Poz to the Jags. It's time to give a call to your boys in SD (Cooper, Siler and Burnett) and get them to Buffalo." Amen on both accounts...

You're continued anti Nix and Gailey rants are getting old. The record might not have reflected it, but if you don't think last years team effort was one of the best we've seen in years, you're not watching the same Bills team as most of us...

Have there been ANY big splashes in FA yet? No one has even been signed anywhere - maybe we should give it a few hours to play out before freaking out. Or not...

My thoughts and prayers are with you Scott...

Why would he do it? "This is an incredibly exciting opportunity," Carucci said. "You're talking about a franchise with such a rich history and some of the most passionate fans in all of sports. The radio show is an ideal platform to interact with them on a daily basis. The other very attractive part of this job is being able to work with one of the true legends of the game in Mike Holmgren and with the highly talented front-office team that he has put together. Everything about this organization is first class." That and I'm sure money plus the opportunity to do something new...

Professional sports are all about the money - just like every other career! Amazing o_O

Here (duh), Pitchfork, The Berrics, Infendo, Google news, Facebook, follow about 200 on Twitter, we have a cool Intranet at work too that everyone posts on - plus I get to do "research" all day at work too here's a question - what is everyone's work Internet policy? Do a lot of places still block sites? Ours is pretty much "no porn", we definitely get away with lots of YouTube time (both on the site and emailed links of anything deemed classic enough to be emailed)...

True, we don't know how the deal will work out for small market teams, it definitely sounds like they'll be dishing out more loot (spending nearly 100% of cap each year, $27MM in benefits). I wonder how much more that is than current spending? And even the ESPN article is completely speculative: "The higher floor proposal could cause some problems for the lower revenue teams such as the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills. Along with the salary cap, teams have to pay an average of about $27 million a year in benefits." Yup, it could. Or maybe not. One thing's for sure, we'll all find out eventually, one way or another...

So Sully writes a speculative article, several other journalists pick it up and now it's fact? Okaaaaaay... Clearly the road to keeping the Bills in Buffalo isn't a simple one, but the fact remains no one knows what will happen when Ralph goes or what has been talked about behind closed doors. This is like being on a plane and worrying about it crashing the entire flight - if it does, you're dead and all of that worry was for nothing - if it doesn't, you're alive and all of that worry was for nothing...

I remember when they first banned smoking inside the stadium - the first year the ban was enacted, Marlboro still had billboards on both ends of the stadium. Irony.

NOOOOOOOOO - NOT HOOTER HILL TOO!!! Also, ^ lol, good call Tom

For real - you know that kid is going to be mugging to the camera, rather than concentrating on hi j-o-b. Panthers = dooooooooooomed....