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I noticed how they said check out this "excellent site."
For his acceptance speech at the capologist awards Clumpy says, "All of that maddening number crunching was worth it!"
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What is the logic of cutting JP at any time this year?
I took a look at Clump's 2006 cap page and it seems to me that we lose out big time cap wise by cutting him.
If we cut him he only counts $2,389,000 against our cap this year which, if the Bills decided, they could afford. However the Bills have already paid out his signing bonus and all he is due to receive this year is $448,750($385,000 base pay and $63,750 in other bonuses).
The only thing we stand to gain this year by cutting JP is $708,250 in cap space saved for next year.
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Yet they named a guy the starter for the 05 season after seeing Eli go 1-6 in his 2004 starts and 1-7 overall. He had a QB rating of 55.4 and a 48.2 completion%, 6 TDs and 9 INTs. WOW, I can't believe that they didn't write him off! Good thing for the Giants that their front office and coaches don't judge too quickly!
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Players are cut in training camp every year with a lot less opportunities than JP has already received in 2+ years in Buffalo. Does that mean that every guy cut is a mistake? JP has been here long enough for Dick Jauron & Marv Levy to at least be able to form some kind of opinion on him from film, talking with him & talking with his teammates. If after pre season ends & Jauron decides he's seen enough to let JP go, nobody should be saying he didn't get a fair shot. 27 players will get cut, many of them with a lot less data than the Bills have on JP.
I hope it doesn't come to this, but if JP is cut, and Jauron & Marv agree, it won't be because of an evaluation that was too abrupt. Sometimes, it's easy to spot a bust. If JP is cut, I can guarantee that he'll never be a quality starter in the NFL.
I'm sorry but 7 games is never enough to evaluate any player you have invested a 1st round pick and millions of dollars in. The Bills new management and coaches have 7 games of NFL experience to evaluate JP on....7 games!
Even after the preseason they will not have enough information at their disposal to decide if he is a bust or the real deal. They'll have some indications, but no way can they decide anything with any sort of certainty.
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Nah!...He's developing a new formula to address this.
So John Riggins has an inside scoop on what personnel decisions are being made at OBD. I'm just wondering how in the hell this topic came up in an interview with Riggins on Sirius?
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Perhaps we should have people take the Idiot Test!
My results:
I am 7% Idiot.
You are not annoying at all. In fact most people come to you for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of ou. But what can you do? You are smarter than most people
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Well I hope that they have some sort of plan in place at OBD. I'm just worried that "win now" means something different than my interpretation of Marv's comments from when he was first hired.
I just can't get a grasp of what it is that they are trying to build here at OBD!
The Bills are saying win now, then they release some vets and then don't replace them, or worse, don't upgrade them in FA. We have not or cannot replace our vet losses with our current FA pickups and the draft, at least not at this point.
The offensive line has me the most concerned at this point.
The thought of Anderson starting at LG scares the bejesus out of me. I have heard some convincing arguments that he was one of our better OL at the end of last year, but I am unconvinced.
Vlliarial will be fine at RG if he can avoid injuries.
Peter's seems as though he can move into a 16 game starting role at RT. I'm not sure if he can be the mainstay at LT here as some suggest.
Gandy played good enough last year that I cannot say, "he has to go", but I'm not convinced that he should be our starting LT.
Is Duke Preston our starting C? He seemed to play well last year, but that was at G. Is he ready to call the assignments at the line of scrimmage and be a force up the middle? I do not know! I would have loved getting Bentley here and moving Preston to our LG, but.....
So it seems to me that we are up in the air with respect to 3 out of 5 starting OL (LG, C and 1 of our Ts). This has me very worried!
That being said I will stick with my usual optimistic outlook when I make my annual LABillzFan season W/L prediction. I have always anticipated and hoped for a 13-3 season, and I see no reason to change that now. We will finish the regular season with a 13-3 record! Because at this time of the year I can!
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Are you sure it was the knee blow out that ended your "football career" or was it the multiple concussions that have obviously received?
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'Supposedly' Royal's a decent blocker. Not a Metzelaars, but decent with hands of flubber. Maybe he'll catch one, maybe he won't...
I guess I'd rather have The Bills going 'Vertical' instead of the recent 'Horizontal' posture they would assume all too frequently.
Hmmm. Playing with a lead. I wonder what that's like. 
Surely you haven't forgotten about the Miami game!
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You're not giving this team nearly the credit they're due.
It's 4-3 Sabres with 6 minutes left in the 3rd!
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"taste the sfladave" - I'll try that line out tonight.
"nothing sucks like a sfladave" -
I won't be trying that line out tonight!"all you need is sfladave and a dream"
"only a fool breaks the sfladave"
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If the Vikings get a 2nd they will have ripped someone off! I wouldn't take Culpepper if they gave us a 2nd and he would sign for vet minimum!
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So we have gotten blindsided by the Clements clause! That is quite an increase as compared to the increase in the salary cap from $94 to $102 million.
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I'm going with the 12 hour nothing big but someone surprising guess. It will be interesting to see Marv's first run at free agency as a GM unfold.
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I know I'm asking a homer
but who would you compare Buckner to? I didn't see him play at all this year and I am totally ignorant of his ability. -
Well the CBA is set at 59.5%
102 salary cap * .595 = 60.7 million left over
then figure there is monies being made that are not shared revenue so you could probably add 10 - 50 million depending on the franchise
Now deduct payroll, utilities, equipment, taxes, attourney's etc.. (normal business expenses)
I'd say you be left with anwhere's between 10 - 50 million depending on the franchise.
I'm just guesstimating though
You also have to consider what the owners are making in unrealized gains in the value of their franchises. According to the above mentioned Forbes article from 2001 to 2004 the Bills franchise value increased from $365 million to $637 million, or $272 million. That means that Ralph made $90 million a year during that period in unrealized income. During that same period NEs Kraft made $112 million per year.
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Actually I was watching a movie when I read this topic, The Devil's Own, when Brad Pitts character mentioned this very saying when questioned about something.
edit: It seemed appropriate though!
The Devil's Own
A New York policeman (Harrison Ford) learns that his Irish houseguest (Brad Pitt) is an IRA terrorist seeking U.S. weapons.
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Nate Clements agent is doing the jig right now. His long term deal price definately just went up.
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Makes me think of a saying I once heard, "If you're not confused, you don't know what's going on."
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I remember hearing the reverse...the report I also got was that it is extremely fast, a lot of colleges still have natural grass which tends to be a hair slower than the new field turf. Just what I remember hearing. Not to mention this years group at the combine was overall a pretty athletic and fast group.
Although this scouting report is the biggest crock of sh*t I've ever read.....
Fast Indy Turf or not, when you run the fastest 40 time EVER as a TE at the combine, I'd say its safe to say your pretty damn fast. Va Bills put down the bogus scouting reports and open your eyes.
I did a quick google regarding Indy's turf and here is the first hit I opened up.
"The University of Wiscon-sin cornerback could have waited to run the 40-yard dash on the fast track at UW's pro day just after the Combine instead of on the notoriously slow turf at Indianapolis. Many pro-spects, including nearly all of the top ones, pass on the 40 at the Combine."
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Hasn't one of the complaints about the combine at Indy always been that their turf is infamously slow? I think that is why several players over the years have refused to run the 40 there and insist on doing it on the pro day at their schools.
5th rounder to GB for Javon Walker?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I think that Walker, if traded, would expect to redo his contract immediately with his new team. I think that he would hold out this year considering what happened to him last year.
That being said, does anyone know when he is expected to return close to 100%? I would worry that he wouldn't be truly ready to go by the start of the regular season.
If he would be ready by pre season I would consider Walker and a conditional for Moulds.
edit: the reason I say walker and a conditional is because nobody knows if he will come back close to 100%.