MadBuffaloDisease

The cap has been increasing every year. But guess what? Players want more money every year. So give them a lot more, they'll want a lot more. It won't help them keep any more players than before. And while they're getting more money, they want agents to make less. Nice.

Oh yeah, and the NFLPA is looking to reduce agent fees from 3% to 2%. Still think the players aren't the main problem?

Speaking of which, does anyone know who Yvel Vram/Dik Smub/Barry Brady/FFS/Pyruvite Gal was ORIGINALLY?

He'd be a HUGE loss for the Pats.

His best days are probably behind him anyway.

There POTENTIALLY might be football in 2008. Or there could be a lockout or strike. And I just read what will happen if there is no CBA after 2007. Suffice it to say that if both sides let it die, it will suck for everyone for the next 2 years at least.

Yep. And what gets me is that the greedy "new guard" owners seems to have NO problem giving money to the players, but not to their fellow owners. Amazing.

The system the players have been playing under has been highly successful and made the players richer than they ever were before. So basically it ALL does come down to them and their greedy agents. But with their greed potentially comes a last capped season, an uncapped season in which fewer players become UFA's and they lose their pensions, and then they face a lockout in which they'd make NO money. Stupid is as stupid does, and I guess they didn't learn their lesson from the NHL. But you're right that the owners have some fault. It was the greedy ones who gave-in immediately to the NFLPA's demands for more money, because they figured that with a cap based on ALL revenue, but without ALL revenue being shared, they'd have an edge over the less-successful franchises. And once you gave into that, the NFLPA was never going to give that up. But with a potential stoppage of play in 2008, those large market teams with their overextended debt are going to be hurting BIG TIME.

It all comes down to the players and their agents. They want to have a piece of ALL revenues, but at the same percentage as before. Try pulling that at YOUR work. I say if there's no CBA, the owners pull the plugon the 2006 season pronto, i.e. before the league can decertify. Let them sit-out a year like the NHL players did and see them come crawling back.

NO RESTRUCTURE! It's either pay cut or BE cut. Let Eric try and get $4.26M this coming season from some other team. Good luck with that.

Sounds sexual. Oh those Randy Japanese!

Is this from "inside sources?"

The Bills can and WILL find as much cap room as they need to get better players. Clayton doesn't know shiite.

I like the way things are going far.

I figure at best he'll get a heavily incentive-laden contract that could pay him a ton if he reaches them. But no one will give him a boatload of money. Just look at LJ Shelton last year.

No way MW plays for Parcells, or Parcells wants him. That's a match made in hell.

I don't see it as a huge problem. If Eric agrees, the Bills keep him, save almost $3M, he gets paid over $4M for the year, and everyone should be happy. If not, he gets cut, the Bills save $4.5M, and they get a younger WR.

Well in Moulds' case, there seems to be a way to save almost $3M in cap room with his contract (would require him to take a 30% paycut and forgo a $1.1M bonus), yet still pay him over $4M for the season, which makes keeping him the smart thing to do. The trick will be getting him to accept it. Although I can't see him making more than $3M this season, if he were to be released and signed by another team.

Yes, keep him for a year and offer him a paycut, not a restructure. I doubt he makes more than $4M this year if he hits the open market.

Not so fast. I saw this topic on BB.com and in the thread it said that Moulds could take a 30% paycut from $6.089M to $4.262M (savings of $1.827M), AND that he could forego a $1.1M bonus he's scheduled to make, for a total cap savings of $2.927. I didn't know about the bonus and figured that a 30% reduction in base salary wasn't enough, but saving almost $3M against the cap and keeping Eric (and the difference between what they save by releasing him versus this is $1.595M) is the best option for the Bills, especially since it will cost more than $1.6M to find a worthy replacement for him. And his salary of $4.262M is certainly more than fair.

Can you play a cover-2, that is a modified version, with a 3-4?

Anyone know what Vernon Davis measured at?

I don't buy it either. Williams started the first 6 games and Peters started the last 10 games. McGahee's rushing average to the right for the season was 4.0, which was about equal to the 4.1 he had rushing to the left. Given that Peters played more and McGahee still averaged the average for the year, it tells me Peters was doing fine.

Thanks.

I was going to write that, but figured someone else had a better take. Yeah, by my plan, 10 others.