Archives for March 10, 2006

‘This team needs to make decisions with the long-term goal of making a Super Bowl, not the short-term goal of patching over the holes and going 8-8. The return of Moulds would be a good sign that the Bills are headed in the wrong direction.’

‘”It’s a bad deal. It’s too much money; 59.5 percent [of revenue for the players] is far too much. It’s a bad deal. And it’s particularly a bad deal for medium- and small-market clubs.”‘

‘So why did it pass 30-2 with low-revenue teams like Jacksonville, Arizona and Oakland voting for it? “I got the sense in the room they were just afraid of a work stoppage, afraid of the union, and they would accept anything,” Wilson said. “The union should’ve asked for more, they would’ve gotten it. It was a panic deal. I’ve seen it before, but not like this.”‘

‘The alternatives, at least from Buffalo’s point of view, were pretty ugly.’