Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

[YardRat]

Forked from: TD Lee Evans!

oh wait...

Nice game for Easley...Should be a confidence booster.

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

If Easley can continue to play like that TERRIFIC. That still does not excuse a 4th for Evans however.

[Buffalogic]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

People need to understand we wanted to trade Evans for several reasons and as a favor to him and all his loyalty and hard work the bills made sure he landed in a successful franchise and set him up the best they possibly could. I actually commend the bills for doing that. Yeah a fourth rounder is pretty garbage, especially from a good team, but I like our young talent and I'm happy for Lee. Win/win in my mind.

[NOT THE DUDE...]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

considering the bills got hairston and searcy and easley in the 4th, i dont think nix considers that garbage. all evans has was the 9 route. we need more than that. hell you saw easley get deep in practice and go over the middle vs the jags. evans time was out. plus he had no chemistry with fitz. trade made perfect sense.

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

People need to understand we wanted to trade Evans for several reasons and as a favor to him and all his loyalty and hard work the bills made sure he landed in a successful franchise and set him up the best they possibly could. I actually commend the bills for doing that. Yeah a fourth rounder is pretty garbage, especially from a good team, but I like our young talent and I'm happy for Lee. Win/win in my mind.

Yeah the Bills wanted to trade Evans for several reasons, several $$$ million reasons.

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

considering the bills got hairston and searcy and easley in the 4th, i dont think nix considers that garbage. all evans has was the 9 route. we need more than that. hell you saw easley get deep in practice and go over the middle vs the jags. evans time was out. plus he had no chemistry with fitz. trade made perfect sense.

If the Bills got a 2nd or a 3rd for Evans, the trade would have made sense, but not for a 4th. It was a salary dump & nothing more.

I hope the Bills don't miss him, but they still should have received value for him rather than just give him away.

[YardRat]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

If they got at least a fourth from a contender, they were going that direction. If nobody bit, they would have moved him for the best offer from whoever.

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

If they got at least a fourth from a contender, they were going that direction. If nobody bit, they would have moved him for the best offer from whoever.

Yeah, because they wanted to dump his salary. The trade makes the Bills worse, not better.

[alohabillsfan]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

With Evans here, who do you cut?

[Extremebillsfan247]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

With Evans here, who do you cut?

Parish maybe? always getting injured. JMO

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

With Evans here, who do you cut?

The preseason is not even over, injuries happen. A Bill could get injured or a receiver from another team could be injured. a 4th rnd pick is what you get when you have an accountant making trades.

[Beebe's Kid]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

I liked Evans as much as the next guy, but there are factors that people are over looking for why to trade him...

1. Last year was the first year I really recall Evans dropping balls. He did it on more than one occasion, but I think there are very few people that noticed. He was just the poor under-utilized guy in Buffalo. How many times have you heard "the hands are the first thing to go?"

2. He is no spring-chicken, and he is nearing the end of his contract. I thought he was done at the end of this year, but I read somewhere that he has two left...either way, players with expiring contracts that you don't want to overpay are worth nothing. They walk.

I really don't think this was the salary move that all of the experts on here do. I don't think Lee was Chan's kind of WR, and they got something before they were left with nothing. It is not a move that would resonate well with fans, because he had been our only deep threat for a long time, and he was a class act, so why even get into it?

I think it is kind of funny that people that rant and rave want sane explanations, when they prove time and time again that the explanation will never be good enough.

If we are truly rebuilding, it was a good move. I would have liked to see more for Lee, and if he were a few years younger with more time on a reasonable deal, we would have gotten it. I am as big of a homer as anybody here, but we are over valuing Lee.

I am sure there will be a thread for every catch he makes this year, but they will be from all of the same people that cried Lee was no good the entire time he was here, only to piss and moan when the team moved on. How many times did people say we wouldn't get a high pick for him, only to cry when we didn't?

We now have a big physical receiving core, with Parrish as a small burner. Parrish is also not scared to go across the middle.

Then there is also the fact that incessant whining is really an unattractive quality, and that Lee is gone, and we have a fourth regardless of the tears shed.

[YardRat]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

Yeah, because they wanted to dump his salary. The trade makes the Bills worse, not better.

Prove it.

[better days]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

I liked Evans as much as the next guy, but there are factors that people are over looking for why to trade him...

1. Last year was the first year I really recall Evans dropping balls. He did it on more than one occasion, but I think there are very few people that noticed. He was just the poor under-utilized guy in Buffalo. How many times have you heard "the hands are the first thing to go?"

2. He is no spring-chicken, and he is nearing the end of his contract. I thought he was done at the end of this year, but I read somewhere that he has two left...either way, players with expiring contracts that you don't want to overpay are worth nothing. They walk.

I really don't think this was the salary move that all of the experts on here do. I don't think Lee was Chan's kind of WR, and they got something before they were left with nothing. It is not a move that would resonate well with fans, because he had been our only deep threat for a long time, and he was a class act, so why even get into it?

I think it is kind of funny that people that rant and rave want sane explanations, when they prove time and time again that the explanation will never be good enough.

If we are truly rebuilding, it was a good move. I would have liked to see more for Lee, and if he were a few years younger with more time on a reasonable deal, we would have gotten it. I am as big of a homer as anybody here, but we are over valuing Lee.

I am sure there will be a thread for every catch he makes this year, but they will be from all of the same people that cried Lee was no good the entire time he was here, only to piss and moan when the team moved on. How many times did people say we wouldn't get a high pick for him, only to cry when we didn't?

We now have a big physical receiving core, with Parrish as a small burner. Parrish is also not scared to go across the middle.

Then there is also the fact that incessant whining is really an unattractive quality, and that Lee is gone, and we have a fourth regardless of the tears shed.

Well, as I have been saying we will see this year Evans worth. He is THIRTY years old not thirtyfour. He has 5 or 6 years left.

[CoolBreeze]

Re: Forked Thread: TD Lee Evans!...errrr...Marcus Easley!!

The fact of the matter is the Evans doesn't put the Ravens over the top. They will still not win the Super Bowl, because they are getting old. Lee doesn't make them better than the Steelers, Jets, Patriots or Chargers. The Bills are not SB bound, so they get xtra draft pick, and younger guys who can run more than a go route, gain experience.