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Here is a list of cap savings I got From Bills Digest. These are the players most likely released and how much cap space they will free up. Mike Williams. 2006 cap figure $10.8 mil, $2.5mil cap hit, $8.3mil cap savings. Eric Moulds 2006 cap figure $10.8 mil, $5.4mil cap hit, $5.4mil cap savings. Sam Adams $3.5 mil cap savings. I don't know the other figures. Lawyer Milloy and Troy Vincent will only save us $2.6mil in cap savings combined. We need to keep those two at that price. That makes it a total cap savings of $17.2mil in cap savings if we release the first three players mentioned. Not bad, huh? Now let's go shopping for a MotherF'in D Line and O'Line!

Visions of Andre Reed dancing through my head

They never show footage the game. You can only hear the announcer giving the play by play and you can see the reaction from the bills' fans while watching it on their TV.

You gotta see this commercial. I caught it today on ESPN while watching Sportscenter. It's a cartoon. It starts off showing Buffalo cold and miserable looking and then it goes to a family watching another Bills loss. The announcer says the QB is about to take a knee but the QB botched the kneel down and Buffalo recovers for what appears to be a miraculous TD return. Then clouds go away, the sun comes out and people are celebrating in the streets and then the announcer shouts "on no!! the bills player stepped out of bounds!! No touchdown!!!" The sun immediately goes away and the clouds come back out and Buffalo looks miserable again. I found it both sad and funny. A Bills fan had to make that commercial. No one else could possibly know the pain that comes with Bills defeats and the heartbreaking fashion Buffalo ends up losing!

This wasn't a quote from BB.com. This came straight from MM, via his weekly column, that he writes himself, in Bills Digest

inaccurate passer in the entire league? Just wondering.

Mel Kiper does get it right on a lot of players, but and then again if you throw enough s**t on the wall some of it will stick. I say hell no to Kiper. I say go all out for Pioli. Offer him part ownership and the president title.

Sounds a lot like my "Ralph Wilson is a cheapskate" theory. I for one think TD should get another chance. Only because he will have no choice other than to fix the mess that he created with our offensive and defensive line. He has pressure on him now and he might respond by actually breaking the bank to bring in sone real players. Besides, I'm not in the mood for another 10 year plan to start all over again.

I got this quote from Bills Digest, page 5, Vol 3, Issue 14 "I've never been in this situation where my team isn't playing for something at the end of the season. Some might think that with no playoffs on the line that I'd be more apt to play some younger players who perhaps haven't had much of an opportunity to play this season. Heading into it, I believe the number one objective every week is to win the game and you should do it with the best players you have. Playing younger guys who might need experience is fine if there's a reason to put them in there other than to just get him experience." You notice how he said "just to get HIM experience" rather than "just to get THEM experience". I couldn't help but to think of JP after reading that comment.

I can see where he's going with this. If Mike Williams is released we can then resign him at a much lower cost. If he turns out to be good it will be worth it. If he remains a bust, then it won't hurt the Bills to let him go for good.

As far as philosophy goes. I agree. You have to have that "I can run on anyone" mindset. The thing that concerns me about the Bills running game is that they seem to run the same play over and over again with little or no success at all and it is usually up the middle between the C and G. I agree wuth you about the center position.The one thing that worries me about Preston is that he looks like a soft 300 pounder. If that makes any sense. I hope he works hard in the offseason and adds some muscle. He could be a good one.

You make some good points. Especially when you said "Nothing was done to improve the weaknesses that were shown for that game". We got run on in that game and how does management respond to that? By letting PW go. Great job guys

The draft? Free agency? A great coach? The Bills tried all three and failed miserably. They drafted both Mike Williams and Jonas Jennings. One worked out nicely. The other, well, you know how that is going. They also brought in CV, BA and MG via free agency. TT was signed as a LT and was then moved to C. That doesn't cut it. McNally was brought to Buffalo as well. His genius as a O-Line coach has been questioned because of the bums he has to work with. So where do we go from here. IMO I say through free agency, only this time don't do it on the cheap and no converted players please. The Bills need to break the bank on offensive lineman. I don't want to wait for players to develop on the line. We need them to perform at a high level from day one for Willis, Lee Evans and JP's sake.

I'd really like to see Carroll. He learned the error of his ways. Bill Belichick was once considered soft on his players as well.

Do you really think that game had that much of a carry-over affect? If it did then this team IS mentally weak and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

I was looking back at the season as a whole and trying to find a turning point in the season. The game versus Tampa Bay comes to mind. It was ONLY week 2 and MM had already seen enough from JP. That had to send a bad message to the players and the entire organization. MM had no trust in JPL whatsoever and the players must've felt the same way as soon as JP was pulled so quickly. Not only did the players loose faith in JP, but JP himself didn't take the benching well either. He didn't play at a high level after that until he came in off the bench against KC. Not only was the benching of Losman detrimental to JP's development as a QB, but so was the way JP was handled from the start. He was handed the job instead of earning it. The job should've been up for grabs. If he would've won the job outright he would've earned the respect of his colleagues as well as his coaches. JP said the same thing himself. He wanted to beat out Drew or whomever else for the job. I don't like the way management handled the whole JP situation from the start and I still don't like it now. When are they gonna learn?

You were disappointed in the O-Line???? That must mean you had high expectations. I'm not disappointed in the O-Line at all. I feel like they performed at the level I expected, which is lousy. I am disappointed in the entire defense. They really let me down.

Bill Gates

Last night I witnessed the Sabres streak come to an end. I also was there to see the Bills lose @Tampa, @Miami and the Pats game in Buffalo. I'm never going to another Buffalo game again

I'm still in the belief that the O-Line gets fixed and in a hurry but I would like to see McNair at QB for the next three years. It can be the same type of scenario that Drew Brees went through in SD with QB's coming in and talking his job. Brees became a better QB because of it.

I got this clip from the Miami Herald If McNair is still on that roster March 2, he can enjoy a $50 million bonus from the Titans. Because that's about as likely as millions of college students getting $50 million windfalls from aliens landing with technology that turns Ramen noodles into crude oil, the question becomes where will McNair play next year? ''That's out of my hands,'' McNair said. ``I want to be back here. That's got to do with management. I don't get involved in that. If they decide to renegotiate my contract, that's fine. If not, we'll just have to work somewhere else.'' http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/13463057.htm Volek is waiting in the wings and McNair is getting up there in age. I know we have JP here and all but JP is still young and he can wait another couple of years. I say go after the guy.

John Guy

here's a little tidbit from TD's "Ask Him Yourself Q & A" segment. Todd V. (Rochester, NY): Many teams have used sports psychologists and even hypnotists with great results. New England is one of those teams. Without better focus and better performance from individual players, this team will NEVER be successful. What steps is the team taking to address the poverty of performance this team seems to face every week? Tom Donahoe: Utilizing a sports psychologist is something that we have always done. Dr. Kevin Elko works with our players on a continual basis and has been much help to the players and the people in our organization. You're always trying to get the players to perform better and as an organization you take every means to make that possible for your players Why don't they just hypnoitze the Bills players and staff into thinking it's the first drive of the game over and over again! Maybe then we'll score more than one TD a game.

as head coach and GM and President of the Bills what will they do to get the fans back on their side? It will be interesting to see how the GM, who cares more about the bottom line because of his President title, will change things up this offseason. I believe he should relinquish one of his titles because being both GM and President is a conflict of interest. He is trying to show RW that he can make a buck and at the same time bringing in players on the cheap hurting his own abilities to bring in top level talent. Since TD has gotten here he has signed a bunch of nobodies, with the exception of TKO and London Fletcher of course. Other than those two players, name me a top tier free agent that TD has brought in. These are the names of the Free agents that come to mind. Rian Lindell, Trey Teague, Eugene Robinson, Mike Gandy, Bennie Anderson, Jeff Posey, Chris Villarial, Sam Adams, Lawyer Milloy and Troy Vincent. The latter of the group seeing their best days in the rear view mirror. Hardly world beaters to say the least. To make amends for this TD will have to fire John Guy. Someone needs to be tha fall guy and this guy (no pun intended) will be the scape goat. TD also has to go out and sign some bona fide ballers. Having parades, talking big and unveiling new jerseys won't cut it this time around. And now for Mike Mularkey. MM will have a lot to prove as well but he can't do anything in the offseason to get the fans to show support. The only thing he can do is get to work even harder this year and come back mentally tougher. He already has a built in excuse for this season. New QB and injuries and a whole lot of bad luck so he deserves one more chance. Firing TD might not be so bad after all if he follows the script I just laid out. Changing GM's might set this organization back even further.