Os is retiring

[Ebenezer]

WNSA is now reporting that Jerry Ostroski will retire at a 3:30 press conference due to his knee.


Cap savings 2002: $1.75 million
Cap savings 2003: $1.00 million
Cap savings 2004: $2.00 million

Bills currently ~$3.65 mil under the cap (top 51)...when you factor in the top 53 they are ~$3.0 mil under.

[lordofgun]

Could we have signed Sam Adams if he retired last week? :mad:

[clumping platelets]

Maybe Sam Adams didn't want to play here?????


:ontome:

[Bufftp]

I'm tired of hearing about Sam Adams, unless it's the ale of course.

[Pride]

But perfect timing for a trade with the Giants!

[lordofgun]

I never get tired of Sam Adams. What a great great man.

[Michael82]

Originally posted by Pride
But perfect timing for a trade with the Giants!

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! We would be able to afford his contract or a trade for him or someone else. Or maybe they'll use the money to grab someone in the waiverwire. Hmmmmm. :rolleyes:

[Michael82]

3 million bucks?!?! That's exactly what we need. If we cant find someone to help the DL or OL...i say we work on extending contracts. Antoine Winfield is one of the ones I can think of....

[Aero II]

Originally posted by lordofgun
I never get tired of Sam Adams. What a great great man.
He was a great man, but why would we want to sign a guy that died almost 200 years ago? Sure he organized the Boston Tea Party, but a modern day DT?

[Dozerdog]

I don't want any guy wearing a blouse and a wig playing DT- and what's up with the big buckles on the shoes?

[Ebenezer]

Originally posted by Mike32282
3 million bucks?!?! That's exactly what we need. If we cant find someone to help the DL or OL...i say we work on extending contracts. Antoine Winfield is one of the ones I can think of....


Winfields base is $450,000 this year and $375,000 next year...go ahead and extend him but you'll only save enough to buy some used footballs.

[lordofgun]

not that there's anything wrong with that.

[LtBillsFan66]

He would have been cut. I guess he wants to go out on his own terms - sort of. I wish him the best.

[RedEyE]

If JO is retiring then the OL needs reinforcements as well. This should make for an interesting 2 weeks before the season begins.

[don137]

Originally posted by lordofgun
I never get tired of Sam Adams. What a great great man.

Anyone that has a beer named after him is alright in my book:clap:

[Pride]

:lol: Don!

[JefftheBillsfan]

Newman needs to be exteneded too...i say lets take on as much salary as we can this year and free some more $$ up next year. Anyone know of any DT/DE FAs next year?

[WG]

Anyone know of any this year?! LOL

It could easily be the difference between 5-11 and 10-6.

[JefftheBillsfan]

i say we go for it all next year...we already have a lot of cap space here is a chance to get more. they aren't going to have to pay a lot to rookies next year either we will be able to go after anyone....lets take another year of development...and super bowl next year.

[Halbert]

We should be able to do both. The problem is going to be finding someone to sign this season. The only DL-men available are probably not better than what we already have and any castoffs won't likely be much of an upgrade either. A trade would be good but we'd have to give up something to get something worthwhile.

I guess we just sit back and see if TD has any more aces up his sleeve.

[LouGrant]

Originally posted by don137


Anyone that has a beer named after him is alright in my book:clap: Billy Carter..... Peed on an airport tarmac in front of Arab dignitaries... My kind of man!!:up:

[The_Philster]

Originally posted by JefftheBillsfan
Newman needs to be exteneded too...i say lets take on as much salary as we can this year and free some more $$ up next year. Anyone know of any DT/DE FAs next year?

Let's not get crazy about using all that spare cap space....we may need it in case of injuries. But extending Newman is a must. It's ridiculous how the team keeps signing restricted free agents to one-year deals and then have to spend more to keep them the following year when they are unrestricted.

[JefftheBillsfan]

the philster = the man of reason

[SABURZFAN]

Originally posted by Bufftp
I'm tired of hearing about Sam Adams, unless it's the ale of course.


:lol: