joey greco

Yea, Easley's gonna emerge. His bad hands and alligator arms will magically improve, and the cast of nobodies will be entirely unaffected by the loss of their best receiver. The only quality, proven, wideout will experience no difficulty being the focus of the opponent's db's rather than the second concern. Good post.

The Bills have a better chance of beating the Pats. Their win against the Jets was very fluky with the turnovers. They should be able to generate interior pressure, which is key against the cheaters. It's just a better matchup in general, even though the Jets may not be the better team overall.

There is more than enough money to renegotiate with any player on the roster that they want to AND sign free agents, which they chose not to do. The cap has nothing to do with the reasons why this team failed to improve through free agency. Oh, sorry, that was not precise at all. The NFL salary cap has nothing to do with why the team failed to improve through free agency. The owner-imposed cap, however, has everything to do with it. BTW, resigning Poz and Whitner is the kind of thing that good teams do. They don't have to be starters, they provide the kind of quality depth that winners have and this franchise is totally lacking in. There are zero cap reasons that they couldn't be resigned. There were no attitude or legal issues with either guy, yet we're still left with poor talent behind the starters. There is absolutely nothing behind the starters, as we saw all throughout the preseason.

Are you kidding? You get a mandate that the team cap is 20 million below the actual cap. You still do your best to have as good a team as possible. You sign guys, but have to release/trade others to stay within the team budget. Do you really need to have something this simple spelled out for you? 20 million under the cap for no good reason except additional profit. Cheap. DUH JG

They gained about 7 million in real savings and a fourth round pick at a cost of 1.1 million. Not very hard to understand. And ngu is obviously playing the company stooge and trying to discredit a reporter who has let us all in on what really counts to this franchises. It's just a no u argument and there is absolutely no reason to believe it.

Chandler is a mortal lock-he's the only TE that's shown a thing and they'll keep at least one. Rinehart and Johnny White are near locks. I'd also think they'll keep Searcy, Cordero Howard, Roosevelt, Huggins, Nelson, Sanborn, and, just for fun, Wrotto.

Well, they could have possibly resigned Poz, who's not great, and signed Barnett. They certainly have the money to burn, and they do need 2 starting ILB's and quality depth. You don't get better by constantly creating new holes to fill, you need to build on what you do have, and improve whenever you have the opportunity.

Not buyin it.

No, grasshopper, S.J. will simply be traded away when it comes time for his payday. It's win-win-donkeypunch (Ralph-Stevie-fans)

Agreed, although I couldn't care less if Sullivan is there when it happens.

I think that the term you're looking for is "panic mode".

The only replacement pool that the Bills draw from when they lose/trade/release their good (read high-salaried) players is the draft/UDFA pool. Coincidentally, those players play for far less money than the players they are replacing. I'm sure in April we'll be hearing how the Bills are hurting at wr and need to spend an early round pick to replenish the talent pool at the position.

The only source for that rumor is the Bills in-house propagandist. Evans has no reason not to admit to it now, but hasn't. His pre-trade comments should more likely be read as a signal of his class and professionalism. I'm sure he's not unhappy to be gone, but there is 0 evidence that he formally requested a trade. P.T. Barnum would have loved you guys.

Just because they're being paid doesn't mean that they're any damn good. I think everyone has finally admitted that a poll of fans would have done a better job drafting than this franchise's paid professionals, so dismissing that the same could be true of the coaching based on nothing more than an identical appeal to authority seems fairly silly.

Really? There's only one starting caliber LB on this roster and he can't stay on the field. We also have a poor defensive backfield, as will be made very clear when our improved defensive line actually requires teams to throw the ball for a change. Oh, and they might want to replace the only deep threat they had in the organization. Maybe improve at QB, too. Fred Jackson isn't getting any younger either. The only place you can reasonably say that they improved over last year is on the defensive line. They are objectively worse at linebacker and wide receiver. They won't be able to focus solely on the offensive line next year either. 30 million under the cap. I think they'll win a few. They have a lot of really awful teams on the schedule this year. Of course, all those teams are also saying the same about the Bills, but I'm sure they'll find a way to win about as many as last year.

Who are you, Rip Van Winkle? You sleep through the last 10 years? What we've seen in preseason is exactly what we've seen when the games count from this franchise. Same issues, same problems, same lack of answers, year after year, with the same bull **** thrown around by the same suspects preseason after preseason. I'm really tired of people muddying the waters by throwing out veteran teams who've had historical success and their preseason performances. Situations are not comparable at all. Longtime losers usually have a good preseason when they're on the verge of having a turnaround season. The Bills aren't close, and shrugging off a performance like they turned in last night takes willful myopia.

Fitz put the ball perfectly into his hands and he promptly popped it to a defender. Fitz is not the problem (not that he's a playoff-caliber qb either) with Easley. Given all the physical tools he should have shown something, however all he's shown is that he's a liability.

I agree. This team will be great as long as it refuses to accept reality. They should all attend self-esteem seminars, then they'll all be winners. Unfortunately those things are like 25 bucks a session, so there's no way ralphie's gonna spring for it.

I'll B word about what matters. That the first and second teams were treated like prison bitches. That our starting offensive line is embarrassing. That our secondary is a joke that was disguised by our inability to stop the run. That we traded one of our few NFL quality players for monetary reasons while 30 million dollars under the cap.

I'm old enough to remember hearing this same bull **** excuse for the last 10 years. First team vs. first team this team is consistently physically embarrassed.

Sorry but you forgot to add cornerback (sorry Bill, but it's true. This team is going nowhere with the terrible db's it has atm.) and wide receiver.

Or we just a have a terrible owner who is simply counting down the days to his own death (and that's !@#$ed up in itself), who would rather protect profit than pay to put a respectable product on the field. This team is a joke, and it's not because of some ridiculous curse. 30 million dollars.

Sounds like exactly what the camp watchers have been reporting.

!@#$ing r.w. ass-kissing kool-aid drinker.

LOL, cept when it is