....lybob Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 Ralph said Jamie Kennedy! I saw his show once I hate that guy don't sign him.
SawchukBills Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 I blame it on that pole smoker Chris Brown. Thought it was a sure thing...after all we did have a Chris Brown 1-on-1 with him... Since when do we interview players that we are high on?
BB2004 Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 I'm sure the money the FO could have offered was better. The chance to play for a title next year, or the year after that probably was the difference. And that is the state of your Buffalo Bills. Can't even get a middle to low tier FA to come. And to think we had hopes of Cowher, Shanahan, Wilfork, Dansby.... What a joke... When Ralph Wilson said he was going to build through the draft, I think he meant it. If we do not sign anyone else in free agency and there probably is a good chance of that happening, it makes sense now to trade down to acquire more draft picks.
BADOLBILZ Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 I guess we weren't ready to outbid them. I'm not sure he's worth more than that. http://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora/status/10441258205 Kennedy turned the Bills down when they offered him a two year contract when he was out of the league in midseason 2008 as well.
BillsVet Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 Thought it was a sure thing...after all we did have a Chris Brown 1-on-1 with him... Since when do we interview players that we are high on? VP of Communications Herr Berchtold probably set the thing up. That guy has a reverse Midas touch, but at this point it's standard for the Bills to screw up.
pioniere Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 The joke is posts like this. Suddenly Kennedy is worth the money now that he signed elsewhere. If we had given him that contract, the posts would have been "What a joke - we bring in a 1st round bust and call it an answer at DT" I agree. I get tired of all of the 'woe is us' posters on here. If we're such a joke, go find another team to support!
Kingfish Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 3 mediocre UFA's in. 2 leave without signings a contract. Pro personnel and Overdorf are working wonders this year. If they're mediocre then why are you complaining?
HurlyBurly51 Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 When Ralph Wilson said he was going to build through the draft, I think he meant it. If we do not sign anyone else in free agency and there probably is a good chance of that happening, it makes sense now to trade down to acquire more draft picks. I agree about the trading down part, but the primary motivator won't be to acquire more picks. It's to get out of paying top 10 crazy money. This team is in firesale mode.
Kingfish Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 The joke is posts like this. Suddenly Kennedy is worth the money now that he signed elsewhere. If we had given him that contract, the posts would have been "What a joke - we bring in a 1st round bust and call it an answer at DT" And three years from now Jimmy Kennedy would be one of the main reasons given as to why Doug Whaley should be fired.
John from Riverside Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 Kennedy wanted a chance to win, get paid and not move his family. Pretty simple, and he probably got more than Buffalo was offering. How does this team intend to acquire picks? They've got nothing anyone wants in trade, unless Lil' Donte fetches a 6th or 7th. Who else on this team do they have the depth to trade? Getting rid of Lynch means they've gotta find a backup. Perhaps they could trade someone out of the secondary, as that's the only place Dick Levy could build. At some point, fans need to admit to themselves that not signing free agents they bring in means something is wrong. I think you misunderstand me BillsVet...... Not signing these guys is DEFINATELY a sign that something is wrong......if we dont grossly overpay they wont come and quite honestly Jimmy frickin Kennedy wasnt worth that....... Just so I am clear on what I am saying......the damage is done with the rep of this team.....but as a fan you can either get past it, learn not to care about it, or hope that the bills will learn the error of their ways. I think signing the front office people we have was a good start.....but they have a huge obsticle of past rep to get around....and it isn't happening this year. The ONLY way to make positives steps at this point is to draft well.....REALLY well.
seq004 Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 When does it end... Another player that used the Bills for leverage. We get used more than Paris Hilton.
BillsVet Posted March 13, 2010 Posted March 13, 2010 If they're mediocre then why are you complaining? If they can't attract low-end free agents, who can they attract? UDFA's? When players like Jimmy Kennedy eschew a possible starting position in order to remain with their old team as a backup, what does that say? It's not Kennedy, Wade Smith, or individual players with a problem. It's the franchise itself.
Coach Tuesday Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 That is what the Vikings were willing to pay for a BACKUP. For years this team's biggest problem has been an unwillingness to pay for depth. Ralph is a cheap mercurial dipschiitt and I can't believe anyone still argues that the right approach is to sit on the sidelines during free agency.
BADOLBILZ Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 I agree. I get tired of all of the 'woe is us' posters on here. If we're such a joke, go find another team to support! You are focusing your energy in the wrong direction. It's not the fans fault that the Bills are a joke. If you can't take a joke, YOU should find another team to support.
Chalkie Gerzowski Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 political statement?.. love it, i got my ass reamed for making a politically tinged statement not really... put Trent Lott in at OLB.
Kingfish Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 That is what the Vikings were willing to pay for a BACKUP. For years this team's biggest problem has been an unwillingness to pay for depth. Ralph is a cheap mercurial dipschiitt and I can't believe anyone still argues that the right approach is to sit on the sidelines during free agency. How did the last decade of overpaying for mid to low tier UFAs pay off for the Bills? Signing Robert Royal, Larry Tripplett, Derrick Dockery, Langston Walker, Chris Villarial, Tutan Reyes, Bennie Anderson, Jeff Posey, Trey Teague, and Melvin Fowler accomplished what exactly for the Bills? With over 200 players who would gave been UFAs this year being forced to be RFAs instead sitting on the sidelines is definitely the right approach this season.
BillsGuyInMalta Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 Man...we horrified Kennedy into re-signing fairly quickly. I'm sure the Bills will trot someone unimpressive out on Monday or Tuesday, only to have them go somewhere else the next day.
BillsVet Posted March 14, 2010 Posted March 14, 2010 I think you misunderstand me BillsVet...... Not signing these guys is DEFINATELY a sign that something is wrong......if we dont grossly overpay they wont come and quite honestly Jimmy frickin Kennedy wasnt worth that....... Just so I am clear on what I am saying......the damage is done with the rep of this team.....but as a fan you can either get past it, learn not to care about it, or hope that the bills will learn the error of their ways. I think signing the front office people we have was a good start.....but they have a huge obsticle of past rep to get around....and it isn't happening this year. The ONLY way to make positives steps at this point is to draft well.....REALLY well. The reputation was earned over many years by the owner's misguided decisions. He made the situation worse by hiring Levy as GM and following that up with making Brandon quasi-GM in 2008. Those moves were widely panned, but for a guy like Ralph who has hired non-football people for GM's, it's not a big deal. Now, RW freely admits to the world in the Nix presser that he and Brandon didn't personally know anyone to interview on their list. Yes, the damage is done, and it's insurmountable. For the Bills to get back to respectability, they need to win-NOW. Not tomorrow, not next week, but this season. But too many blind squirrels on TBD think just drafting well will erase the other problems you've talked about. Unfortunately, it will not.
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