LifetimeBillsFan
03-08-2009, 01:43 AM
I predict that the agent of at least one player who has visited the Bills and walked away without signing a contract will call on Monday or Tuesday and say something like this:
"Um, my client talked with his wife and family over the weekend about the numbers that you talked with us about during his visit and, um, he decided to reconsider your offer and, um, we'd like to know if, um, your offer is still on the table...."
I could be very wrong about this, but I think that the signing of T.Owens will make one or more of the free agents that they have talked to reconsider whether the Bills have a chance to be a winning team this season and Buffalo might be a place where they would have a chance to make it to the playoffs.
Looking at the Bills before the TO signing, a free agent player could be forgiven if he saw a young team that was just not quite good enough to compete for a playoff berth against the Pats, Miami and the Jets. Why would a mid-level FA, who isn't going to get the kind of money that he really wants, want to go to a team that isn't going to pay him much, where he has little chance of making any playoff money when he could wait and perhaps get picked up by a potential playoff team, maybe at a slightly lower salary, after the draft or someone gets injured?
But, now, with TO joining the Bills, that same guy might see the Bills as being a team that does want to win and now has the potential to put some points up on the board this coming season on offense and maybe compete for a wild-card berth and some playoff bucks. He may say to himself, "If they add me and maybe a couple of other pieces to the mix, the Bills could be a much better team this season than I thought they would be. Maybe they could have a shot at making the playoffs."
It wouldn't surprise me if one or two guys comes to that conclusion and the Bills end up signing one or more (less likely) of the guys who have already visited them sometime this week. I could see them inking one of the linebackers that they have had in for a visit.
Because I think that they will probably further explore the possibility of trading for Waters, I think that it could be awhile before they get around to filling their need for a LG: in part because working out a trade for Waters could take some time (if they can even make such a deal), and, in part, because they won't want to sign a FA OG until they determine if they can get Waters and if K.Simmons is healthy. Still, I think that they are very much aware of the fact that it is a need that the have to fill and will work to fill. But, at the same time, I don't think that they will let the fact that filling that need may take time deter them from trying to address some of the other holes in their roster that they would like to fill as well.
What do you think?
"Um, my client talked with his wife and family over the weekend about the numbers that you talked with us about during his visit and, um, he decided to reconsider your offer and, um, we'd like to know if, um, your offer is still on the table...."
I could be very wrong about this, but I think that the signing of T.Owens will make one or more of the free agents that they have talked to reconsider whether the Bills have a chance to be a winning team this season and Buffalo might be a place where they would have a chance to make it to the playoffs.
Looking at the Bills before the TO signing, a free agent player could be forgiven if he saw a young team that was just not quite good enough to compete for a playoff berth against the Pats, Miami and the Jets. Why would a mid-level FA, who isn't going to get the kind of money that he really wants, want to go to a team that isn't going to pay him much, where he has little chance of making any playoff money when he could wait and perhaps get picked up by a potential playoff team, maybe at a slightly lower salary, after the draft or someone gets injured?
But, now, with TO joining the Bills, that same guy might see the Bills as being a team that does want to win and now has the potential to put some points up on the board this coming season on offense and maybe compete for a wild-card berth and some playoff bucks. He may say to himself, "If they add me and maybe a couple of other pieces to the mix, the Bills could be a much better team this season than I thought they would be. Maybe they could have a shot at making the playoffs."
It wouldn't surprise me if one or two guys comes to that conclusion and the Bills end up signing one or more (less likely) of the guys who have already visited them sometime this week. I could see them inking one of the linebackers that they have had in for a visit.
Because I think that they will probably further explore the possibility of trading for Waters, I think that it could be awhile before they get around to filling their need for a LG: in part because working out a trade for Waters could take some time (if they can even make such a deal), and, in part, because they won't want to sign a FA OG until they determine if they can get Waters and if K.Simmons is healthy. Still, I think that they are very much aware of the fact that it is a need that the have to fill and will work to fill. But, at the same time, I don't think that they will let the fact that filling that need may take time deter them from trying to address some of the other holes in their roster that they would like to fill as well.
What do you think?