djsabres Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Crazy people in Tuscon can buy 30-round clips like they buy a loaf of bread. What makes Plax such a criminal? PTR Too soon man. A little girl died, have some class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple haze Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 It's not a complex, its the truth. Players will go for one of two things... money or a successful franchise. We can't run with the big boys in the money game. We'd have to outbid other teams by a mile for big names to come here. If we offer the same money as a team that is either in a better location or is a better team, the player will choose to go there. This is why we basically tend to over pay mediocre players to come here, because that's all we can get. We need to turn some of our young guys into good guys, and we need to win games in order to attract players. I doubt this off season will be very successful, but hopefully we win some games next year and we can build on that. Every big name FA, I would contend, is overpayed. Which is why they are allowed to walk away by their former team in a lot of cases. I don't think the Bills have overpaid for a mediocre player to play in B-Lo. Can you give us a for instance? Most of the people they sign, i.e. Davis, Edwards, even Green, were for average money in the grand scheme. At the time they gave Dockery 7 years 49 million most reports that I read at the time considered him a good signing, based on age and ability. That was a big contract. I agree they need to turn young players into good players. But every team needs to do that. Winning does help, I agree with that as well. The Bills can run with the big boys in the money game because they haven't spent exorbitantly on big ticket players the past few seasons. They have money to spend. Outbidding other team's is the way of free agency. That's how it goes. Bills are in no different a boat than the other teams. The Bears outbid everybody for Peppers. If a team had topped the Bears there is a good chance Peppers would have gone there. It comes down to how much a team wants a particular player. If a team wants a particular player they won't offer the same amount of money as they can get somewhere else. They will leave no doubt in the players mind that they want him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Merriman wasn't a FA, he was released. We were likley the only team interested. He reinjured himself walking onto the grass. What actual FA's would be listening to a guy in Merriman's position? What could he be telling them about a team he hasn't played with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djrocks Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Merriman retweeted a post a little over an hour ago from a guy saying something along the lines of "Shawne get some free agents to come to Buffalo". Shawne replied "they are coming". Know something? He didn't say he'd try or that they will work hard to do so. Just seemed like an odd comment in that he might have already talked to some of his close friends and got some buy in. Doubt it but hey it's the offseason for us.... everyone knows there will be no free agency after this season until a new CBA is agreed upon. also no rookies will be signed for the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Merriman wasn't a FA, he was released... Huh? GO BILLS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bzee Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 he can kill my dog if he brought buffalo a super bowl haha lOl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Why wouldn't the Bills take AJ Green? The Offense would be hella good. Who needs defense when you can score 40 a game Matt Millen? Is that you? But if we follow your logic of "blame the inanimate object with the capacity to kill" then we should level all the buildings and lower all the bridges (ie. take the gun away) so the person who decides to jump off won't be hurt. Or we could cover everything in 3' of Nerf. How fun would that world be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Crazy people in NY can buy two 15-round clips like they buy a loaf of bread. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. I guess you don't know PTR that well, he was trying to make a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Merriman wasn't a FA, he was released. We were likley the only team interested. Are you talking about the interest when he was released or now? According to ESPN, three teams put a claim in on waivers. Bills got him. You don't know about FA interest in him, because he never hit free agency, but chances are another team would have offered him a similar contract that Bills gave him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo1983 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 @DraytonFlorence I signed it....now you better re-sign as a bill http://twitter.com/stephenjames716 RT @DraytonFlorence: RT @stephenjames716: @DraytonFlorence I signed it....now you better re-sign as a bill http://twitter.com/shawnemerriman Twitter has me confused on who is writting to who and who is replying back and etc,but just seen this. also seen @DraytonFlorence Dray FLo! You gonna stay in B-Lo? We need you man! http://twitter.com/TheRudax @TheRudax ask buddy nix and Ralph Wilson http://twitter.com/DraytonFlorence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I guess you don't know PTR that well, he was trying to make a point. Thank you. All I was saying was in light of goings on, what makes Plax so bad a guy? PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkington Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Every big name FA, I would contend, is overpayed. Which is why they are allowed to walk away by their former team in a lot of cases. I don't think the Bills have overpaid for a mediocre player to play in B-Lo. Can you give us a for instance? Most of the people they sign, i.e. Davis, Edwards, even Green, were for average money in the grand scheme. At the time they gave Dockery 7 years 49 million most reports that I read at the time considered him a good signing, based on age and ability. That was a big contract. I agree they need to turn young players into good players. But every team needs to do that. Winning does help, I agree with that as well. The Bills can run with the big boys in the money game because they haven't spent exorbitantly on big ticket players the past few seasons. They have money to spend. Outbidding other team's is the way of free agency. That's how it goes. Bills are in no different a boat than the other teams. The Bears outbid everybody for Peppers. If a team had topped the Bears there is a good chance Peppers would have gone there. It comes down to how much a team wants a particular player. If a team wants a particular player they won't offer the same amount of money as they can get somewhere else. They will leave no doubt in the players mind that they want him. Most FA's we have signed played worse here than they played at their previous location... We signed them based on their previous performances. They go bust here, but still get paid big bucks. That, to me, equals overpaid. We sign the wrong guys, we scout the wrong guys, we draft the wrong guys, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryPinC Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Or we could cover everything in 3' of Nerf. How fun would that world be? That'd be great. If we could reprocess the pacific garbage patch into Nerf it'd be a double win for everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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