MadBuffaloDisease

I thought it was "only" $35?

Brock Berlin was his QB. Parrish was the leading receiver with 800 yards, for comparison's sake.

It's a no-brainer. Cutting Moulds saves $5.5M that can be used to get TWO players in FA (and even with no new CBA, UFA's will need to sign with SOMEONE, and every team will be in the same boat). He's on the wrong side of 30, had a 10.1 average last year, and his attititude isn't getting any better. With the naming of Losman as starter, he should have been working-out in Buffalo with JP, but he didn't. Worrying that the Bills won't find someone to replace him or that he'll go play for the Pats and burn the Bills isn't a reason to NOT move forward. Again if the thinking is the Bills won't make the SB this year, you get the future started earlier.

True. It didn't hit me until Dan replied that Kraft owns his stadium while no other owner does. There was never any guarantee that an owner would be able to own a team AND his stadium, thus there shouldn't necessarily be a provision for stadium debt. If Kraft has a problem with the stadium, he can sell it (I think).

If the CBA got done, he MIGHT have approached $3M. Now there's no way.

Davis could play WR.

Ideally. No. I'd keep the 19th pick and use it on a DB, if one were slated to go around there. If not, trade down. I'd then use #8 and the 3rd rounders to move up to #5 to get Mario Williams.

And the cap THIS year is supposed to be $2M higher than originally thought. Nothing huge, but enough to get the RFA's and EFA's tendered.

Well that brings up an interesting point. I guess if I were a Mass resident, I'd be loving Kraft for not making me pay, per se, for the new stadium. However that means nothing to the rest of the country. And Kraft will own the stadium. Ralph doesn't own The Ralph.

What, no wrestling with the players?

No, Jones isn't on the side of the small market teams. He's saying that the small market teams don't do much to generate revenue. I guess there's TONS of money in small markets like Buffalo, that morons like Ralph haven't figured-out how to tap. Right. And Kraft has a point about stadium debt.

That's what I saw as well. Don't know how his arm strength suddenly improved like that, but I guess it's possible.

Olof Pillar is his French cousin, a la L'April Fool?

I'm down on Ngata now, and I think that the draft is deep enough that the Bills can select one in round 2 if needed. Obviously addressing the lines in FA is the way to go, allowing the Bills to take Davis at #8. However the guy I'd make a strong push for is Mario Williams. The guy has sick numbers and would be a pass-rushing terror for opposing teams. It would take a move up to the top-5 at least and would take more than just the points difference (i.e. a premium), but I'd be working that trade until he was selected, and then take Davis.

Yeah, except that every team will get an additional $17M in extra cap room to keep their players and/or sign UFA's.

Without a new CBA, the cap would be $95M. With a new CBA and expanded revenue sharing, it's supposed to be $112M. Congrats to the smaller market teams, like the Bills, if it happens!

No one can say that. And designating him a franchise player after the injury he suffered was NOT going to happen. I think that they allow Brees to shop himself and give them the right of first refusal. I still wouldn't be comfortable turning the reigns over to him, when the team is at a critical juncture (i.e. making the playoffs last year but not this year). HELLO NATE CLEMENTS!

I'd draft Davis (again if Williams and Ferguson are gone and they can't trade up to get them) and play him at WR. Let Everett be the TE. That would be some SERIOUS freakin' speed!

They haven't been seeing eye-to-eye for at least a year. Last year Smith traded 3rd string QB Cleo Lemon, a Schottenheimer favorite, to the Dols for a box of tape, without even consulting him or even giving him a heads-up BEFORE it happened. And if I were Marty, I sure as hell wouldn't want to hitch my wagon to Rivers when Brees proved successful. And IIRC, the Chargers HAVE the money to keep him.

I'd take Joel Dok.

I wasn't sure so I assumed Davis. Oh and Guesswhoz, Davis is FAR from just a "workour warrior." He caught 51 passes for 871 yards and 6 TD's last year.

Whoa boy! This "freak" is 6'7" and 295#, ran a 4.66 40-yard (regardless of what you think if the 40-yard dash, that is SICK!), and benched 225# 35 times. If I'm the Bills, I'm trying ANYTHING I can to trade up and get this guy, and if that doesn't work, take Davis at #8. That is, if Ferguson isn't there (and he probably won't be). If Davis is the guy in the 1st, trade the Bills' 2nd rounder (10th in the round, 42nd overall) and their own 3rd rounder (9th, 73rd) for the 28th pick in the draft and take Bunkley.

Too injured. And Bentley can play OG, and play it well.

The Pats won't get CLOSE to Davis, unless they trade their 1st 3 picks in the draft. Davis will be gone by the 10th pick.

Bastige!