JuanGuzman

Tampering Jerry

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Give new meaning to; "Nobody Circles the Wagons like the Buffalo Bills"

Source?????? What your saying sounds more like your opinion

Glad to see Pittsburgh is somewhat handcuffed by the cap. I would like to see the Bills make an offer at Pitt's Restricted Free Agent Max Starks and move him inside to G.

For arguments sake: Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins offer Nate a contract of 6 yrs 50 Million which he accepts, the Bills have the right to match it because we tagged Nate with the Transitonal Player Tag and have the cap space. However, the language of the contract cointains a poison pill similar to the Steve Hutchinson/Nate Burleson arrangement. eg. Poison Pill stipulates Nate Clements contract becomes fully gauranteed for all 50 million if he plays more than 3 games at orchard park stadium or something like that. Thus making it impossible for the Bills to re-sign him unless the Bills want to gaurantee the contract (which no team in their rigth mind would do). These poison pills have already stood up under arbitration challenges and set a precedent that makes the original objective of the Transitional Player Tag obsolete. In fact a team attempting to sign another teams Transitional Player would be idiots if they didn't include such a poison pill.

The irony is that tagging Nate might in fact be worse for business. NFL players sympathize with each others opportunity to set themselves and their families for generations. If the Bills re-neg on a negotiation that appeared to be in good faith; Nate Clements would hold out and moreover current players on the Bills roster and around the league would lose respect for the Bills organization. The patriots have gotten away with stuff like this in recent years but its easier to re-build your reputation when your winning Superbowls. As for the tagging Nate with the Transitional Player Tag it simply gives us seven days to match the Best offer Nate Clements recieves. If we choose not to match the offer we recieve no compensation whatsoever. While at first glance the Transitional Player Tag might may appear to be an effective way to retain a free agent as long as we are sufficiently under the cap (which we are). However, last years Steve Hutchinson/Poison Pill/Seahawks-Vikings has set a precedent the renders the original intentions of the Transitional Tag useless. If you remembr Vikings in the language of contract stated that if Steve Hutchinson was not the highest paid lineman on his team the entire 49M contract was guaranteed. Since the Seahawks were already paying Walter Jones more they couldn't match the contract unless they wanted to gaurantee the entirety of the salary. IMO since there was arbitration hearing on the legality of the vikings poison pills and the judge sided with the Vikings - - the Transitional Player Tag is effectively DOA.

I watched a bit of NFL network today and they had the Senior Bowl practices going on on. Anyway Amobi Okoye defintely look more like a speed defensive tackle in his one on ones he favoured finess rushes using spin moves both times.

Is that Sarcasm? If it is than i apologize in advance for this reply but in fact the inverse is true: Drew Rosenhaus is known for having players hold out or threaten to hold out. Im thinking TO and Javon Walker, Fred Taylor (currently dissapointed the jags didn't enter into negotiations with him prior to the off-season) ditto for London Fletcher those are just the ones off the top of my head but he is know for aggressive negotiation tactics in which he tries to have his players compensated if they performance exceeds what the team is "paying for" his whole mantra is that if a team can cut a player who is making too much money and underperforming than the player who is playing really well for not much money should be able to force his team into compensating him for it.

Like Most WR's his draft status will be highly influenced by his testing #'s but I defintly think he has higher top end speed than Jarret. Factor in his youth and I would put him as the #2 Wide reciever prospect behind Cal Johnson although I think most boards have him as the #4 reciever. No way he falls to the second round.

Titans are 40 Million under the cap, im not sure if they intend to resign Bennett but they have a lot of money to spend and could easily match any offer the bills come up with for him. IM just saying Bennet's case he is not going to be a cap casualty in Tennesee, because they have a lot of money left to spend.

Nate Clements would make my top 5 corners' in the NFL list. He is entering his prime, can cover 1 on 1 and in Perry Fewell's Cover 2 scheme. Corner is a tough position to evaluate because you have to possess knowledge as to what defensive play was called before you can evaluate who messed up. But i would put Nate Clements in that select group of corners just below Champ Bailey: Guys like Rashean Mathis, Terrence Newman, Chris McAlister, Nathan Vasher, Lito Sheppard. ( I excluded old guys like Ronde barber and Ty Law, or overated guys like Deangelo Fall altough Give Hall a couple years and he will a great one)

Only if we are sure that we can get the guy we want at the later pick. If last year shows us anything its that Levy and the Boys are committed to getting "The GUY" regardless of the draft position eg. Drafting Whitner when a lot of experts thought we could trade down & still get him or trading up to get McCargo when many felt he would be available in the second round.

Link I have no idea where a guy like him ranks among rb's coming off breaking his leg. But he is bigback with a unique set of skills. IMO he is better than Kenny Irons, I would probably rate him higher than lynch but its a toss up.

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My view point would be that that our interior lineman eg. Fowler, Gandy and Preston are all finesse blocking o-lineman while there is nothing inherantly wrong with a finesse blocker having all three at interior positions means the bills are often physically overmatched by their defensive counterparts. What we need is a big mauling gaurd who can just manhandle people on occaision. I don't care if he messes up once and a while in pass protection. SOmething in the mold of a Shawn Andrews Vince Manuwai, Logan Mankins ( I know thats high expectations - but if it means using a 1st or second rd pick to get a Franchise interior O-lineman i am on board. ) A RFA I like is Max Starks he is 6"8 337 he has played R. tackle the past couple years with the steelers - although he played a lot of Guard in college. He struggles a bit in pass protection but when he gets his hands on you he just a pure drive blocker who would open up a lot of holes in the running game.

Levy gets the credit for actually pulling the deal. But give Bill Kolar (bill's d-line coach and Hargroves old coach in St louis) credit for noticing Hargrove went A.W.O.L in St Louis and telling front office that the kid was a player and would be good addition to the squad. I really like what I saw from Hargrove and with Denny's improved play this year the bills have solid DE rotation to work with. As a side note heading into the season i was really concerned about the Bill's DE's situation especially considering the ineffective DT's we have. But all things considered the DE were a real pleasant surprisefor me this year.

Put me in the category O-line help as opposed drafting a big receiver with their 1st rd pick. Although, One guy i haven't heard mentioned on this Board is Sidney Rice, WR, South Carolina although he is only a sophmore he is draft eligible this year and if he comes out this year he would be IMO the #2 wide reciever prospect ahead of Jarret and Ted Ginn jr. Lastly I would add that im not sure if Jarret's skills suit Fairchild's gameplan, aside from Lee Evans strechching the field Fairchild had the recievers running a lot of double move routes eg. Smash Outs or fake running the out spin back to the middle on a curl pattern. These routes require a lot of agility and elusiveness and i wonder if a big tall physical receiver would be mis-used by our system. I think what Bills need though is just a Big Mauling Gaurd. Gandy got owned all year at the point of attack. If we could get someone in the mold of a Shawn Andrews (eagles) or Vince Manuwai (jags) just a big beast with a mean streak i think it could do wonders for the running game (mcgahee wouldn't have to kitty foot up the middle trying to use his vision to find a hole because mike gandy is pushed back 2 yards in the backfield - we could actually open up some legitimate holes for him). I find it difficult to evaluate interior lineman but i understand Justin Blalock is rated as the best interior O-lineman. Its pretty Futile to declare who the team should draft prior to both FA and the Combine but if we could move down in the Draft and End up with some combination of Sidney Rice and a Run blocking gaurd and a defensive back who step in and play nickle position if asked i would be an ideal draft for me.