Kelsay extended

[John Cocktosten]

You can't replace all the LBs next year. It's not possible. Might as well sign the most reliable one, even if he isn't that good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

[Ramius]

Kelsay being re-signed as a backup for 1-2 mil per year...sure i've got no problem with that. Kelsay at another 6 million per year? Asinine and idiotic.

[CountDorkula]

Ive been trying to understand this. Trying to come up with words to describe it. All i came up with was;

 

[jr1]

They'll say he's "homegrown" etc. He isn't a game changer and never will be

[BuffaloWings]

Kelsay must have some compromising photos of someone up there.

I just joked about this with a friend of mine.

 

Or maybe it isn't a joke...

[valle7878]

Kelsey is probably one of the worst Linebackers in the league and this move baffles me and we could of signed Peters to half of this deal is besides me. The bills keep getting worst off.

[John Cocktosten]

10 sacks in his last 59 games...

Edited September 29, 2010 by John Cocktosten

[BuffaloBillsForever]

So OBD just signed an extension to Kelsay. Seriously! What the heck, I don't get it. I thought they wanted to run a 34 defense and he does not fit the personnel. I would not even consider him a starter as a DE and certainly not a LB.

 

WORST MOVE EVER! This does not give me any confidence in the new management.

[kasper13]

WTF? An extension to a 31 year old LB/DE/Whatever that couldn't cover me. Everyone says the Bills are cheap yet they throw away money on garbage. Maybe that's why they are cheap not to mention clueless and just a pathetic disgrace to the city and especially to the fans. We deserve better than this crap.

[bills_fan_in_raleigh]

great way to waste money pay big bucks for the junk ya already have

[nobody]

The Bills were just trying to avoid all of the fan outrage from a situation like the Sabres when they lost both Drury & Briere. The Bills 'lost' Edwards so they thought they needed to keep Kelsay.

 

(Oh great - just as I'm finishing typing this - Mike Schopp starts saying the same thing. Help! I've become as cynical as Schopp!)

Edited September 29, 2010 by nobody

[tonyd19]

I challenge all of you: Identify the Bills LB better than Kelsay.

 

(crickets)

 

You can't replace all the LBs next year. It's not possible. Might as well sign the most reliable one, even if he isn't that good.

 

If the contract is backloaded (likely), he won't be here at the end to collect the big money.

 

1) Poz

2) Davis

3) Mitchell

 

All three are better than Kelsay as a LB. I think you could even make an argument that Ellis and Torbor are better LB's than Kelsay. Hell I think Danny Batten is probably a better LB than Kelsay. I like what I have seen out of the front office so far, but I don't get this move at all. Hopefully, they know more than we do.

Edited September 29, 2010 by tonyd19

[uncle flap]

People need to make signs for the next home game slamming this BS

 

i'll be in the rockpile holding one that reads "$24 mil? Ralph - kelSAY IT AIN'T SO!"

[Meathead]

good. im glad hes gonna be around for a while longer

 

too bad we couldnt see him another season at de after having his best season be his last at the position. hes missed some assignments as a lb but hes also made some plays. tbh im not convinced he can make the transition to a high level but im also not convinced he cant so ill leave that up to the football guys that see him every day

 

last season i gave him the phil hansen award for reliable white guy of the team award. yes i said award twice, its a white thing. after seeing him elevate his game last season im hoping we can watch him do the same in this position

 

chuddy apparently thinks he can. lets watch

[Nuncha]

Paying Kelsay 6 million a season over the next four years makes no sense at all. What has he done to earn this extension? The guys SUCKS as a LB! He wouldn't smell the starting lineup on the other 31 teams in the league.

 

 

Maybin will probably be next to sign an extension... LOL! How friggin SAD!!!!!!!!!!!

[bkc]

Two things

 

1 we don't know what he is being paid so it is hard to judge .

2 Coaches come and coaches go and they all seem to think he is useful , perhaps they see him as a good early down olb moving forward.

[26CornerBlitz]

The guys in the Locker room must be saying "WTF!!??!!"

[BuffOrange]

People need to make signs for the next home game slamming this BS

 

Can't

Block

KelSay

??

[BillsVet]

i'll be in the rockpile holding one that reads "$24 mil? Ralph - kelSAY IT AIN'T SO!"

 

Don't place your sign on one of the walls around the field: the team has banned signs there.

 

Maybe they're going TD and banning fan contempt for the organization. It'll get a lot worse too.

[Realist]

I was fine, actually supportive, of the Edwards cut, but this one...I don't get this one at all.

[RuntheDamnBall]

youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

 

Worst contract ever, man. This is like our Carl Pavano deal, except Pavano actually did something prior to signing that contract.

[BEAST MODE BABY!]

So when exactly is Eric Wood going to go off on Kelsay and tell him to give the money back?

[billsfan714]

You know how the Pats know when to let a player go and not over pay aging vets to long terms deals? This is like that only completely different.

Great move there Buddy, 6 mill to a guy who never has and never will be in a probowl. God help us.

[Buffalonian-at-Heart]

I would say over half of the fan base thought Kelsay was going to get cut. He didn't and that was a surprise to most.

 

Then we found out he was starting. Most of us were shocked.

 

Then we've seen him play. He's been horrible.

 

How does it add up to him getting an extension? There are no words to describe this.

 

** This man shouldn't have made the final roster, and he's going to be a major part of our future. **

[QB Bills]

This is quite possibly the most idiotic move the front office has made in the 20+ years I've been watching this team, and there have been many. It's just unbelievable that they keep outdoing themselves. Are they purposely trying to alienate the fanbase? What's next? Ralph using that t-shirt cannon to launch his dirty depends diapers into the stands this Sunday?

 

The Bills really are the laughing stock of the NFL.

[DC Grid]

I think what everyone is missing is the real issue here. Now that we've successfully extended Kelsay, we need to quickly extend Nix as all these great moves mean he's going to be in high demand when his contract is up two years from now. I say a reasonable amount to pay him would be $49,000,000 per season.

 

I can take a lot, but Kelsay's signing is infuriating. Have the Bills reached the point as an organization where the only hope we have for a great transaction is when it's printed in the obituaries?

Edited September 29, 2010 by DC Grid

[Poz_is_God]

no doubt kelsay earned all 6 mil getting burned by finley in green bay

[Buffalonian-at-Heart]

This makes him the 6th or 7th highest paid player on the team. I'm getting more aggravated by the minute.

[Jeff Wright's Mullet]

Just another mad move in a long list of poor personal decisions. F the Bills!

[Red]

I can't believe that they did this.

 

What tape are they watching on Kelsay?

 

Certainly not game tape...

[H2o]

http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-3/Kelsay-signs-extension/58e36ec8-e282-44e4-b9aa-aac4db2f1c8c

 

Seriously, how does ANYONE defend this organization? I mean, ANYONE? I know there are some real homers on this Board, but even you two (you know who you are) have to be coming around by now, no?

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[travdabest]

he got paid the same reason schobel got over paid an poz will get over paid he's a hard working white guy who sucks, remember the good days of brucesmith,ted washington,pat williams,phil hansen,bryce paup,bennett, bills arent good at evaluating talent anymore

[NaPolian8693]

[Lv-Bills]

http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-3/Kelsay-signs-extension/58e36ec8-e282-44e4-b9aa-aac4db2f1c8c

 

Seriously, how does ANYONE defend this organization? I mean, ANYONE? I know there are some real homers on this Board, but even you two (you know who you are) have to be coming around by now, no?

I just heard about this now. I don't even know what to say. They are making impossible to respect anything they do. They are also making it hard to like them period.

 

Un-fuggin-real.

[akm0404]

It's weird when everyone agrees.

 

Quick, someone bring up Michael Vick.

[Lucien K]

Trade Jason Peters, let Jabari Greer, London Fletcher, Pat Williams and Antoine Winfield go, BUT SIGN KELSAY, AGAIN!!!

[travdabest]

their so fn cheap when it comes to paying the real talent but over pays for garbage, u pay derrick dockery, but wouldnt pay peters, u pay old troy vincent but wouldnt pay a prime winfield, countless others pat williams we haventhad run d since he left

[GG]

Ok, anybody going to argue that cutting Edwards and the remaining $1.3 million of real money, and extending Kelsay within 24 hrs with probably $10 million of real money are not related?

 

Let's discuss that well run organization thing again, shall we?

[bobblehead]

There has to be something else. Maybe the report is wrong, maybe its for a trade (wait, Buffalo doesnt make trades), maybe this is an endorsement of Maybin, it has to be something.

Edited September 29, 2010 by bobblehead

[billsfan714]

So "football man" Buddy Nix has given us the unispiring hiring of Chan Gailey, brought in Dwan(fine), Cornell Green(yikes), had a draft where we have 2 guys contributing one of which just barely(Troupe), didnt address our 2 biggest needs, and now Kelsay is extended at 6 million a year. Yeah this is gonna completely different than our other rebuilds-NOT!