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BLeonard
03-07-2003, 02:15 PM
The Bills gave Bengals linebacker Takeo Spikes a contract proposal Friday and are waiting to see if he signs the offer sheet.

Barely hours after Buffalo cleared $5 million of room under the salary cap by trading franchise free-agent Peerless Price to Atlanta for a first-round pick, Bills President Tom Donahoe confirmed he had given Spikes a proposed deal.

From bengals.com

-Bill
BillsMan80
03-07-2003, 02:17 PM
Excellent News.
ArcticWildMan
03-07-2003, 02:17 PM
I imagine Takeo will sign it. The real hurdle is if Cincy will match it.
Aero II
03-07-2003, 02:18 PM
SIGN IT!!!!!!!!!!
:pray:
TypicalBill
03-07-2003, 02:19 PM
Woohoo!!!!

Thanks BL

:pray:


he doesn't wanna play with u guys, so just let him go somewhere else :madcurse:
BillsMan80
03-07-2003, 02:20 PM
I can't imagine Takeo would come up here and not sign it...In addition to that, TD waited till after the Price deal. Me thinks he wanted the extra dough.
Ebenezer
03-07-2003, 02:22 PM
WNSA is now reporting this too (from the Bengals web site)...

Cincy will have a hard time signing it...they have made an offer to Kevin Hardy and want Thornton...they don't have that much money under the cap to afford all these guys.

IF TD put a $4.5-$5.5 million cap value on him for 2003 he will be ours!!
Demon
03-07-2003, 02:27 PM
This day just gets better and better!!
WG
03-07-2003, 02:29 PM
Another negotiating ploy?

Perhaps he floated a proposal that he thinks Takeo will sign simply to get out of Cincy.

Cincy then realizes that they have enough to match and do. Meanwhile, we lowballed him.

Then, since Takeo doesn't want to be in Cincy, he makes a stink, and then we offer to trade to Cincy a pick, 2nd, 3rd, combo.

We get Spikes w/o breaking the bank, Spikes is happy simply to be out of Cincy after a short-term scare. We keep our first.

Thoughts?
BillsMan80
03-07-2003, 02:30 PM
Simon is reporting on WNSA that Spikes and France were praying that the Bills would give Spikes an offer sheet, so I imagine he'll be signing it.
Schobel94
03-07-2003, 02:30 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SB here we come!
Cntrygal
03-07-2003, 02:33 PM
:bravo:

I may need a DD tonight!!

:drinker:
jchild178
03-07-2003, 02:34 PM
WHAT A DAY FOR BUFFALO AND ITS FANS!!!
The Spaz
03-07-2003, 02:35 PM
Don't even worry about it the bungles won't match it! Go Bills!
BillsMan80
03-07-2003, 02:48 PM
Welcome to the Zone Spaz...
ct bills fan
03-07-2003, 02:51 PM
It's strange that Donohoe would be quoted on a Bengal site about the offer sheet, and not talk to WNSA about it?? What do you make of that?
BLeonard
03-07-2003, 02:54 PM
That the Bengals media is following Spikes closer than us...?

-Bill
Michael82
03-07-2003, 03:09 PM
Mike Schopp from WGR55 just said that it sounds like Cincy will not match and there's a small chance that they might decline to match today, so they can work their time on the other free agents. Apparently, LB Kevin Hardy is strongly considering the offer with the Bengals. :D
Pride
03-07-2003, 03:16 PM
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The_Philster
03-07-2003, 04:55 PM
I love it!!