nichebiche Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 Let's think long-term a little here. Assuming the Bills draft well and, at the very least, do not take a step backward this year with all the new additions, the outlook for 2008 and beyond looks extremely bright. not to discount 2007, because the playoffs are very possible if Levy can take care of the defense during the rest of free agency and the draft. but, come 2008, the core of this team will be fully intact, with plenty of cap space still available to sign a couple key guys next offseason as well as offer key guys like Losman, Evans, Schobel, Crowell, etc to extensions. Buffalo has zero unrestricted FA's in 2007 of any significance. 2008 UFA's -- Losman, Parrish, Crowell, Spikes, Fowler RFA -- Ellison 2009 UFA -- Evans, Moorman, Simpson, McGee, Youboty, K. Williams, Pennington, Butler i believe this is the point that Levy was hoping to get with the team when he said the he wants to build the team from within, retaining and extending key players. the Bills now have 2 full years to identify those players and extend them. after finishing up free agency and the draft this year, the Bills will turn their attention to begin the process of locking up their key players and will still have plenty of cap space left to do so. after seeing the spending spree that was last weekend at the beginning of free agency, it was clear that re-signing Clements and Fletcher simply were not feasible. it would have limited the Bills this year, and would have severely inhibited their long-term initiative. 2007 might be a very good year, but 2008 and beyond look to a return to the glory years.
nichebiche Posted March 6, 2007 Author Posted March 6, 2007 Or he could just bring back the throwback uni's. i guess the Bills could've returned to the glory years long ago using that approach...
beerme1 Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 During a free lunch at the stadium last year in the Van Miller Club, they brought up Marv to talk to everyone inside because they cancelled the practice that we were supposed to be able see that day. Anyway, Marv held a Q and A after his speech I really wanted to ask him if he could bring back the old uni's.
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