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Bills' No. 1 pick Maybin a likely holdout
Buffalo Bills No. 1 draft choice Aaron Maybin is expected to be a contractual holdout when the team opens training camp Saturday. buffalonews.com/Mark Gaughan | Posted at 11:35 AM
The reason is the Bills open camp a week early this year, and that is making it harder for the team's top draft picks to negotiate deals in time for the first practices.
The Bills will be the first team in the NFL to open training camp to both rookies and veterans this summer. The Bills get to open early because they are one of two teams in the league that will play an extra preseason game. The Bills meet the Tennessee Titans in the Pro Football Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 8. The Bills camp starts four days sooner than every other team and a week sooner than some clubs.
So is the extra preseason game worth the risk of our rookies losing time or would we have been better off without the HOF game?
This article doesn't make sense to me. It's as if Gaughan is assuming that OBD doesn't know that TC starts a week earlier. It's as if he expects Overdorf to wake up today and found out about TC starting from Gaughan's article. Does he really think they're not going to push to get Maybin's contract done until a week after TC starts?
If there's something you do every year, but this year it starts a week earlier...then start doing it a week earlier! I could be wrong, but I thought that last year we started signing our draft picks a couple days before camp too.
Granted, it's true that the Bills don't usually set the market for draftee contracts, but I don't see that being as much of a priority (waiting for the market to be set) as getting them into TC is.
As someone mentioned on bb.com, the Bills are actually opening TC on essentially the same date as last year, not a week early. McKelvin signed on July 26th last year, and camp officially started on the 25th. Not sure where Gaughan got that they were starting a week early.
"Misguided political correctness tethers our intellects."
- Nicholas Cummings
There is always some dispute between what the team feels a non proven player with potential should be paid, what the player who should feel like he awoke in a dream should feel he is worth and What that players AGENT FEELS HE PERSONALLY DESERVES... Keep in mind the agents fight this and drag it out for two reasons... they get a cut and they get to go to potential clinets and say look what i got Maybin...
Just get it done when it needs to be done. we dont need the guys missing time on the field but we also do not want to be one of the teams that bend when resistance is on the board.... We handled Peters great in this sense i think...
Rookie contracts in the NFL are out of control IMO. Unproven players get millions of dollars while some veterans that end up playing better than them make far less. Look at Mike Williams. Did play at the level he earned?
I really don't think it's imperative that Maybin is on board when the team breaks camp. If he wants to hold out, let him. I think he's going to turn out like Whitner on the field anyways.
We are counting on several rookies to make contributions this year, so any missed time at training camp hurts. Maybin is young and raw, with only one productive college season behind him. Wood, Levitre and Byrd are most probably changing positions, and Byrd missed the OTAs because of his school's exam schedule. Nelson is very raw, too.
The sky isn't falling, but this is not the best year for any prolonged holdouts.
Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
I really don't think it's imperative that Maybin is on board when the team breaks camp. If he wants to hold out, let him. I think he's going to turn out like Whitner on the field anyways.
You think Maybin will be widely accepted as a top 10 plater at his position? Sweet!
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