Scout.com says Peters may be back monday

[Fingon]

Rumor: Bills Expecting Peters Back

by Scout Rumor Central of ScoutNFLNetwork.com, August 28, 2008 at 3:14pm ET

 

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A source in the Bills front office tells Scout.com that they're holding firm with LT Jason Peters. The team likes Peters a lot, the source tells us, and has developed the player, but isn't sympathetic enough to buy one of those "take a number" gadgets for all the players who would line up if they renegotiated his deal. Peters still has three years left on his contract and management feels that it would set an unacceptable precedent to tear up his deal and re-write it.

 

Our team source expects Peters to show up Monday, practice for a week, and then sit as Dick Jauron refuses to start him. The team moved right tackle Langston Walker to left tackle late in July to fill in for Peters, and Walker has grown in the role, despite spooking Bills fans when he was hurt on Sunday.

 

 

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[BillsD#1in2008]

i hope this is true but if Peters is back on monday,practices for a week,is in good shape and has a decent grasp of the new system i hope we start him and bring langston back to right tackle. GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bobinaz]

i hope this is true but if Peters is back on monday,practices for a week,is in good shape and has a decent grasp of the new system i hope we start him and bring langston back to right tackle. GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

That would be nice, but I don't see him starting the first game if he comes back. I look for a couple weeks of practice.

[2020 Our Year For Sure]

They haven't heard from Peters, its just some guy in the front office throwing some speculation out there. We should still be prepared for life without the Holy One.

[keepthefaith]

They haven't heard from Peters, its just some guy in the front office throwing some speculation out there. We should still be prepared for life without the Holy One.

 

Yup. Peters has too much to lose by staying out and missing game checks. Hard to imagine him being ready to play in a week or two.

[cody]

I have a hard time believing that Dick Jauron would tell anyone that he would refuse to start Peters.

Maybe some time with the second team would be helpful, given the time he's missed. Spreading the word that Peters will sit is probably not the best way to get Peters to report.

[clownments22]

I have a hard time believing that Dick Jauron would tell anyone that he would refuse to start Peters.

Maybe some time with the second team would be helpful, given the time he's missed. Spreading the word that Peters will sit is probably not the best way to get Peters to report.

 

Yeah I don't like the idea of him coming in and not playing either. He might as well not come in. He's the best guy at his position on the whole team; he better be on the field.

 

Lawyer Milloy started week one after he was on our team for all of 5 days. And that was going to a completely new team. I realize they've made some changes within our offense, but it's basically the same. I'm sure Peters could handle it.

[ronnieroscoe]

I think they reported we signed bryant johnson...twice. Maybe they got it right this time.

[jimmy griffin]

these guys reported that the sabres signed ron francis 10 yrs ago.

[eball]

It's not Jauron's style to sit a player based upon a grudge -- that's the most unbelievable part of this rumor. If Peters comes back, he'll be inserted into the lineup as soon as the coaches are convinced he's ready, and he won't be held out as any sort of "punishment."

[cody]

It's not Jauron's style to sit a player based upon a grudge -- that's the most unbelievable part of this rumor. If Peters comes back, he'll be inserted into the lineup as soon as the coaches are convinced he's ready, and he won't be held out as any sort of "punishment."

 

The moral is: If you want people to believe your rumor, make your rumor believable.

[Max997]

They haven't heard from Peters, its just some guy in the front office throwing some speculation out there. We should still be prepared for life without the Holy One.

 

Peters will report, he's not about to start missing paychecks especially when he owes a bunch in fines

 

I'd let him sit til October

[Max997]

Lawyer Milloy started week one after he was on our team for all of 5 days. And that was going to a completely new team. I realize they've made some changes within our offense, but it's basically the same. I'm sure Peters could handle it.

 

do you really not understand the difference between a player coming from another team that has been practicing all training camp vs a player that has been sitting home since the end of last season?

[eball]

Peters will report, he's not about to start missing paychecks especially when he owes a bunch in fines

 

I'd let him sit til October

Letting Peters "sit" once he returns -- if he is in shape and ready to play -- is the worst thing the Bills could do. This is a player they supposedly want to keep for a long time; why damage the relationship by holding immature grudges? It's just business, and the Bills understand that.

[5 Wide]

Peters will report, he's not about to start missing paychecks especially when he owes a bunch in fines

 

I'd let him sit til October

 

 

Peters could care less about the fines, they are usually negotiated away or severely reduced. The way Peters must be looking at it is, why not sit and let a $190,000 game check go by when he is holding out looking for game checks in the $500,000 range. This has all the makings of a very ugly, very prolonged stalemate. I of course hope I'm wrong.

[Kelly the Dog]

Peters will report, he's not about to start missing paychecks especially when he owes a bunch in fines

 

I'd let him sit til October

Good idea. Punish the entire team and put your playoff chances in jeopardy because one guy, your best player, was an idiot for a month.

[clownments22]

do you really not understand the difference between a player coming from another team that has been practicing all training camp vs a player that has been sitting home since the end of last season?

 

Well I honestly hadn't thought about it from a conditioning stand point. I was thinking about it more along the lines of learning the system. I was assuming he was in playing shape, which may not be the case. The point I was really thinking about was how lame it would be if they didn't start him as some type of lame punishment, like it was pee wee football or something.

[cody]

do you really not understand the difference between a player coming from another team that has been practicing all training camp vs a player that has been sitting home since the end of last season?

 

There was also a powerful emotional aspect of that game. A week earlier, Milloy was one of their leaders. Then he was on the field against them.

Best decision Gregg Williams ever made.

[5 Wide]

Well I honestly hadn't thought about it from a conditioning stand point. I was thinking about it more along the lines of learning the system. I was assuming he was in playing shape, which may not be the case. The point I was really thinking about was how lame it would be if they didn't start him as some type of lame punishment, like it was pee wee football or something.

 

 

The first week and a half of camp all you hear about is players complaining about this being tight and that being sore. They all say, being in shape and being in football shape are two completely different things. You can be the worlds best weightroom warrior, but you will get kicked around the field jumping out there with the guys who have been strapping it on for the last month

[Tim Anderson's Lunch Pail]

When Peters reports, he'll play. When Walter Jones sat out the entire training camp/preseason because of the franchise tag, he showed up right before week one and always played. Peters will be no exception.