Saint Doug

Mario is ours. He wouldn't be wasting this much time when there are millions on the line. He's as good as signed - will be sealed tomorrow.

Of course he has another visit PLANNED. His agent would be an idiot if he didn't already line up another visit. We all have back-up plans. Do we all think the Bills don't have other DEs in mind either? I would feel very foolish walking away from $110 million on the table (which could easily be taken off the table if the Bills sign someone else in the time period he's "thinking about it"). I agree. If he walks, it's obvious what his Clabo-like intentions are. The Bills should move on.

There has to be some waiter out there serving these people. Let's get on it! Post!

Don't we get any points for having free agent leverage visits? A free draft pick?

I'd hit it...with lights off...in a drunken stupor.

Now, that's a bit much. Sure, he should be reprimanded in some way, but lose his license? Sometimes people forget that doctors are actually doing something great for society and that their patients and people in general would be the ones that would suffer if he lost his license. Having loose lips certainly does not equate to practicing bad, negligent medicine.

Problem is the Bills make "competitive" offers to a lot of players, yet they always sign with the other team. Make me wonder what their definition of "competitive" is. Or, said another way, Ralph Is Cheap.

I really hope this move is to save money so the team can spend it one someone else, not just to save money. I guess we shall see.

C'mon, sure he does. He's a runner!

The fact that there has been no crying on Twitter bodes very well for these negotiations. It almost seems like professions are dealing with this professionally. I may be wrong come tomorrow though. We'll see.

Sorry, but this is exactly how Brandon wants you to feel. Excited because we are being "aggressive". Too bad we've read this book before. We are being just as aggressive as we were when we played hard to get Clabo, Unfortunately there are huge gap between being "aggressive" and actually signing players.

Eli success and the Giants SB win shows why Polian was fired. Eli has a fantastic team built around him. He doesn't need to single-handedly win each game like Peyton did. In fact, maybe they would get to the SB, but if Eli went down, the Giants would still be a playoff contender. They certainly wouldn't win just 1-2 games.

...because Goodell told him to sign with Philly. And thank God for that. The Fitzpatrick extension could have been worse, it could've gone to Vick.

Yes, he was a visionary, a man before his time. Let us all share in a moment of silence

Funny thing is, all the QBs mentioned in this thread will not make it to the 3rd round, maybe not even the 2nd, once the hype machine is running on all cylinders. GMs seem to lose all sense of reality when it comes to QBs and the draft. Just look what happened last year.

Addition by subtraction. Fitz in second half was completely different from Fitz in first half of season.

What was Nix suppose to say? "Well, winning's hard in the NFL and besides, we lost all those games due to x, y, and z." However, what Nix says usually rings true. Edwards is gone.

Why is this such a surprise? Losing 1 player should not spiral a team down to rock bottom. And if it does, then it means that the GM was inept at or ignoring the rest of the team. Polian didn't build this team right, plain and simple.

We need an update here!

No. He just turned us down a couple of years ago. Why would we want someone who doesn't want to be here?

I don't trust the Bills drafting any pass rusher in the first round. We have a horrible track record. And even if the guy is a "can't miss", I wouldn't trust the current coaching staff to develop him properly. I'm on board for a QB in the first round. Geez, for Fitz being all smart (Harvard, etc), he sure makes some very questionable decisions. He should know by now what throws he can and cannot make.

If we let him leave, he WILL sign with a team within the division, likely NYJs or NE, and for every 1 game he single-handedly loses for his new team against us, he'll destroy us in 9. We might as well replace him with a 1st round DB we'll draft in the spring.

I actually think your not a fan if you don't want them to lose out. The Bills are not going to the playoffs for the 15th season in a row. We have played just mediocre enough to be out of the running for an elite QB every year since our last Superbowl loss. In this league you actually have to hit rock bottom before you can become great. This draft actually looks pretty decent in terms of QBs. Losing the ability to draft one of them will be worse than us losing the rest of our games, which mean nothing at this point. And I don't buy all the psychological mumbo jumbo about the benefits of having a winning atmosphere. If that stuff did help, how could we have ever flipped from 5-2 to 5-8? We obvious learned very little from our string of wins earlier in the year.

It's heavily backloaded. We can cut him in 2 years and it still would've been a reasonable amount of money for both parties.

Good. Maybe he'll sustain the obligatory off-season-basketball-pick-up-game-injury instead of one of our real players.