obie_wan

You take difference makers in the top 10- if they happen to play a position of need - all the better. but you don't pass on superior talent and playmaking ability just to reach for a player to fill a need. and unfortunately Marv's philosophy is to develop a draft board and will not deviate by trading up or down on draft day. So in all likelihood, the Bills will be picking at 8. Huff will probably be the pick since he is a playmaker and he will fill a need position and Ferguson will be long gone. The Bills are filling the DT hole and will also obtain some flexibility on the line thru FA. They need Pickett, even if they have to overpay. The Bills will likely draft an interior OL in the 2nd or 3rd round capable of starting.

a big part of why JP hasn't been able to read defenses and identify the hot read is the lack of grey matter between his ears. Teflon was again overwhelmed by physical tools with a total disregard of teh mental part of the game. Maybe it will come for JP- but don't hold your breath. Bills should hedge their bets and bring in another QB to challenge. A 6th for Patrick Ramsey is good insurance. Brian Griese would be even better. Too bad the REdskins signed Todd Collins

Collins is more of a statute than Drew. bring in McCown

maybe JP can visit the wizard and get himself a brain. then he might have a chance.

I would take Schaub. They should have drafted him when he came out. They should also seriously consider Ramsey for a 6th round pick.

yeah - you and TO. so what that the bonus is prepaid money for 2 or 3 years and the player is severely overpaid in year 1. When year 2 rolls around, the player is in a uproar because his current salary is too low and he is getting dissed. Conveniently forgets all the cash in his pocket from year 1 bonus. But it's all about ME - right NOW

The Bills trade him for draft picks. Or for someone who is likely to be cut anyway - Patrick Ramsey Boy - that's a hard concept.

\ 1`. Moulds is not a pending free agent. he is under copntract for 2 years, so any team contacting him or his agent is tampering. 2. bonus acceleration is the same if he is cut or traded. Bills are smart to wait to see where TO goes. There are not many other good free agent WRs, so the Bills may be able to trade Moulds as other WR options dry up.

They always allowed siging bonuses to be amortized, but you still have to be under the hard cap. Now teams can actually exceed the supposed "cap" and will be penalized by a reduction in a later year under the very mysterious cash over cap rules.

too bad Marv will have his phone on Do Not Disturb. He wants no distractions while implementing his meticulously crafted draft board. Hopefully, Jim Overdorf will take the calls.

Too bad Marv won't. Marv won't trade on draft day once his draft board is set.

not anymore the cash over cap rollover provisions let teams push cap dollars into the future with big signing bonues and actually steal salary cap dollars from future years. now you know why Ralph voted no.

he would start for the Bills

then we should trade the pick. but Marv will not deviate from his draft board. Mike Martz will do wonders with him

you miss the point. Ralph does not have a bottomless wallet from which signing bonus money can be withdrawn. The Bills will not be big players in free agency because teh cash is not there to support it. Also why the Bills under ralph will never hire expensive coaches Also, under the new cap - the TV deal does not cover player cost any more.

How about Scott Linehan going after his former QB, now that he's HC of the Rams? Bulger would probably be included in the deal. But if not, maybe Fairchild has some interest??

PArt of the trade off from the large market teams to kick back some cash is that they will be allowed to exceed the cap through signing bonuses. The amount they can exceed will be computed on a 3 year rolling average and will added to the cap in a later year. The kick back from the high revenue teams will only allow the small market clubs to approach a level playing field for the actual cap. It will not allow fund signing bonuses for small market clubs.

"The low revenue Bills on the other hand, have less wealth (fewer assets) than the Skins and also less $ in transit through their system. In order for the Bills to pay out a large bonus, they have to change assets from locked up investments like longer term certificates of deposit which provide greater cash returns than shorter term financial vehicles into cash so they can pay that bonus. Or they can take their ongoing income from selling seats and other profitable items and rather than purchasing financial vehicles which lock up the wealth in exchange for higher yields, they do not invest it but sit on it with the thought of paying it as a bonus quickly." In order to compete with the Redskins of the world for free agents, Ralph will have to use cash from his other businesses because the cash flow ofrom the low revenue Bills situation is inadequate. The team may have "value", but it's cash flow is absorbed by player costs and operating costs. Ralph may be "rich", but his personal wealth is not in the same class as teh billionaire owners. Since the team is not producing excessive cash flow and Ralph has limited personal resosurces, the Bills are at a major disadvantage.

without having seen a single provision of the agreement, how can you possibly assert that the Bills will still be "competitive". With teams being able to spend over the cap thru signing bonuses, it is likely that the Ralph does not have the cash to spend on sigining bonuses to compete with most other teams to improve much thru free agency.

Ralph hung tough to the end, thereby guaranteeing he will never be in the Hall.

the last right tackle we took in the top 10 worked out real well from a cost / production standpoint. it costs too much to take a RT that high. you need to get a playmaker for what it will cost at #8.

won't be a problem - they'll both be gone and Marv will take the DB (Huff) just as he has done in the past. Can you say Henry Jones?

that and the fact that he resembles a revolving door. he is bad, but then again he is probably better than the last Miami castoff the Bills picked up to backup our RT.

Your pain threshold is pretty high. To me, $7 mil for having Moulds on the field is a huge waste. To pay him that to stay home like TO, as you suggest, is ludicrous.

the problem is Ralph does not have much in the way of local revenue streams. Revenue from local TV and radio deals, luxury boxes, stadium naming rights in the Buffalo market will not let a team like Buffalo compete with the big boys when the salary cap goes to $110 milllion based on shared revenues of the larger market teams. Player salaries will constitue 30-40% of a large revenue team's budget while a team like the Bills will have to commit > 70% of its total revenue to player costs. That's why the union is smart to mandate that the owner's get their structurre in place to prevent small revenue teams from becoming orphan step-children unable to pay large money contracts to the union members.