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Yes indeed. It's funny to watch their MBs and see how they've turned on Clay now that the $$$ are finally on the table (bad knee, not a difference maker, just average)...

Ha! That was the first thought I had as well. If he becomes a Bill, watch them restructure ithe $$$ next year to be more team friendly. The Fins decision to use the transisition tag has really handcuffed them...

If he's reluctant to move up the road to LA, I can't see him uprooting the family to play in Buffalo for a couple of years...

More like one. The Fins fans don't seem to have as much interest in this as we do, from the sites I've visited.

Miami reportedly has only 38 players under contract for 2015, so at some point they'll have to fill out the roster. I suspect the Bills are betting the Fins will eventually blink and get on with signing other guys, which will use up their $21 million in cap space pretty quickly. The OvertheCap guys are pretty good at what they do and they think Miami's screwed by the Suh deal... http://overthecap.com/suhs-contract-cripples-the-dolphins/

Here's an interesting take on why teams use the transition tag... http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2014-03-06/transition-tag-alex-mack-jason-worilds-what-it-means-free-agency-match-offer-test-market-franchise-tag "So what is the message the teams are sending these players by using this management tool to restrict player movement? Said Andrew Brandt, the former Green Bay Packers vice president of player finance: "We don't agree with your agent's perception of your value. Let's let you test the market and see what happens." That's what they'll say publicly, but the real message is: "We don't think you want to stay here." Otherwise, why even put the tag on the guy in the first place? If you are willing to match or beat any offer they are going to get on the open market, there is no need to guarantee, in Mack's case, a one-year salary that pays him $2 million more than any other center in the league. The only reason you have to put the transition tag on a guy is if you think he no longer wants to be on your team, and therefore won’t give you the right in free agency to match any offer he gets on the market."

LOL...Little Rock, AR

Latest from Vic... http://bills.buffalonews.com/2015/03/16/source-bills-have-90-percent-chance-of-signing-clay/

At some point, you have to consider cost for every position grouping. While it's fun to think Daddy Pegs has an infinite checkbook, IMO we want to be in position to sign a franchise QB in 2016 (if one comes available), extend Dareus, Gilmore and Glenn and possibly resign Harvin if he has a monster year. Striking a balance between some lower cost depth players that will give us more flexibility beyond 2015 is just smart roster management, IMO...

He's toast...

Trade for either Evans or Mathis...

Tell me how much Stevie's gonna cost first. He'd be #3 or #4 on the depth chart and we've already got Harvin at $6 million. Can't pay that much for someone who'd essentially be a backup. Without a doubt, Goodwin has to have a career training camp and stay healthy, but I'd like to see what he can do in a better scheme than he's played in so far...

He's more columnist (i.e., Sully) than beat reporter. The fact we're talking about him means he's done his job...

Duh! This guy's starting to make Sully look intelligent. His logic doesn't mean that Clay's any closer to accepting the Fin's 1-year deal either, or he'd have done it by now. He's probably still negotiating with Buffalo, which is a good thing for the Bills and not so favorable for Miami... Maybe the Fins as well... http://cover32.com/dolphins/2014/05/30/dolphins-players-not-shy-about-calling-out-omar-kelly/ http://www.finsnation.com/fins_nation/2012/10/omar-kelly-is-the-biggest-troll-in-the-history-of-the-internet.html

In the Twitter-verse we live in, I have no doubt you'd hear about it first. The agents are masters at manipulating social media--and the Internet sites that live and die by it--hoping to make teams to panic on rumors and innuendo... Given that this is stretching out another week, I'd like to see the Bills have him visit Buffalo again, just for the PR it would generate. I think it would help cement the perception that Whaley/Pegs are not going to let any other team into this kabuki dance...

Sure it does, from our perspective. If he signs an offer sheet from the Browns, then the Bills are out of the picture....

I increasingly hate the Twitter-verse...

Man, that post about having until April 24th sure has put the kibbosh on this thread. Sort of like Ex-lax, it's opened TSW's bowels to a wave of Tebow and other byproduct threads...

Well, that approach hasn't worked on TSW, so why should we think it would for the Bills...

It will be interesting to see how Brady reacts to Stevie's free lancing...

It's accurate: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/11/2015-nfl-free-agency-dates-and-deadlines/ Playing the 'who'll blink first' card works both ways, however, as the Bills still have OL and backups to sign...

Takes me back to the good old days of "Donahoe drinks babies blood..." http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/23265-donahoe-is-the-son-of-satan/page-68

This thread would be only 20 pages if we didn't feed the trolls...

The Suh contract has to be a big impediment for the Fins in also locking up Clay (paying $14 million plus for two TEs). Today's MMQB gives a perspective on what kind of problems they're going to have beyond this year: http://mmqb.si.com/2015/03/16/sam-bradford-chip-kelly-jimmy-johnson-eagles-nfl/6/ The MMQB: You wrote Thursday that the Ndamukong Suh contract in Miami is particularly onerous. What concerns you in the future about that deal for the Dolphins, and how will they handle it? Fitzgerald (OvertheCap): In order to fit Suh within their cap easily this season, the Dolphins opted for a structure that will see Suh count for only $6 million against the cap, despite the annual contract value of $19.1 million. That leaves Suh with an average cap charge for the 2016-2018 seasons of $21.9 million. Quite honestly I am not sure how you compete in the NFL for a championship with those figures, especially for a defensive tackle. When you look throughout NFL history, the highest percentage of cap spent on one individual player by a Super Bowl winner is just 13.1 percent, which occurred in 1994, the first year of the salary cap. The average is under 10 percent. The only defensive tackle to have the highest percentage of cap allocation on a team was Warren Sapp, who was just under 10 percent. If we assume the cap continues to rise at a rate of $10 million a season, the only seasons where Suh is at an acceptable cap number are 2015, 2017, and 2020. That is really limiting what you can do during the effective term of his contract. The 2016 season in particular is worrisome. His $28.6 million cap charge is crippling, and the team will need to decide to restructure for cap relief, making his future cap charges even more difficult to handle, or bite the bullet and realize what a mistake they made. This is the same contract structure the Dolphins recently used with receiver Mike Wallace, who had a cap hit of $3.25 million in his first contract year and a $17.25 million hit in his second year. At the end of the day, I have a feeling this contract may be looked at similar to Mike Ditka’s decision to trade an entire draft for Ricky Williams. It’s a situation where a team or a person gets it in their mind that they need a player to make an impact on an organization.

Yeah, it's a somewhat misleading phrase that conjures up a "three yards and a cloud of ground up tire pellets" image. Moving the ball on the ground and through a short-area passing game (pseudo runs) is really what we're talking about here...