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According to both Ourlads.com and NFLPA.org the Bills have been busy since losing to the Jets. With 54 players signed, I currently have them around $7-$7.5 mil under a cap of $93.5 - but there will be many adjustments to that number.
They have signed the following:
LeWaylon Brown DT
Greg Carothers LB
Greg Ochs QB
Wendall Hunter LB
Nicholas Setta P/K
Eric Powell DE
Tai Tupai DT
John Goldsberry FB
Dylan McFarland T
Tory Woodbury QB
Brad Cieslak TE
For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.
According to both Ourlads.com and NFLPA.org the Bills have been busy since losing to the Jets. With 54 players signed, I currently have them around $7-$7.5 mil under a cap of $93.5 - but there will be many adjustments to that number.
They have signed the following:
LeWaylon Brown DT
Greg Carothers LB
Greg Ochs QB
Wendall Hunter LB
Nicholas Setta P/K
Eric Powell DE
Tai Tupai DT
John Goldsberry FB
Dylan McFarland T
Tory Woodbury QB
Brad Cieslak TE
Are these just rumors or is this official? If official can you give us a little background on these players? Thanks.
Marv Levy Era
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According to both Ourlads.com and NFLPA.org the Bills have been busy since losing to the Jets. With 54 players signed, I currently have them around $7-$7.5 mil under a cap of $93.5 - but there will be many adjustments to that number.
They have signed the following:
LeWaylon Brown DT
Greg Carothers LB
Greg Ochs QB
Wendall Hunter LB
Nicholas Setta P/K
Eric Powell DE
Tai Tupai DT
John Goldsberry FB
Dylan McFarland T
Tory Woodbury QB
Brad Cieslak TE
Lesson 1) Your cap numbers are wrong, see Clumpy (your master)
Lesson 2) TD is now gone so you can stop your worship of him and his bargain basement approach that is worth as much as my recently used toilet paper
Lesson 3) Re-read lessons 1 and 2 over and then repeat lesson 3.
Lesson 1) Your cap numbers are wrong, see Clumpy (your master)
Lesson 2) TD is now gone so you can stop your worship of him and his bargain basement approach that is worth as much as my recently used toilet paper
Lesson 3) Re-read lessons 1 and 2 over and then repeat lesson 3.
are you high??
1. Clump and I use the same numbers. I took the latest figure he had and subtracted off the new Crowell contract and the contracts of these players and then gave $500K of breathing room. Please stop.
2. Where did I praise TD?? I simply posted the players the Bills signed...see the thread on trick plays by Belichick where I knocked TD.
3. Go back to school yourself.
For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.
Cieslak was on the Bills' practice squad all season and was activated for the last regular season game. With all of the injuries at TE, he got a lot of reps in mini-camps and preseason and impressed the coaches with his stamina and durability. Bills fans who want the team to have a flashy, athletic TE who is a deep threat won't be impressed at all by him, but he did show decent hands (I believe he had a catch against the Jets, but I'm not sure) in camp and is the kind of TE who isn't afraid to block--which is the kind of TE that most HCs like to have around and most teams need at least one of. Depending on what Neufeld's injury was and how many TEs the Bills keep, Cieslak might have a chance to stick with the team as a third or fourth TE. With Everett out and the O-line being so bad, the Bills kept their TEs in a lot to help with blocking and didn't throw to them much this year. If they have to do that again next year, Cieslak might have a chance to stick with the club, especially if Neufeld doesn't come back and Everett is slow to develop.
McFarland was a late round Div 1-AA project that the Bills drafted two years ago and have kept. This will be his third year in the league and he will have to show that he is ready to produce in training camp or he will be gone. Depending on what they do to shore up the O-line, he could have a chance to make the squad as a back-up, but he's going to have to show more than he has so far.
LaWaylon Brown was brought in when Edwards was injured. I'm not sure, but I think he was active for one game. He's showed nothing, but was basically insurance in case the Bills lost another DT. I don't think he was activated after Sape was injured, so I think that tells you how much of a chance he will have of making the team next season.
Goldsbury wasn't bad in preseason on special teams, but the Bills chose to keep Joe Burns as their back-up RB/special teams demon over Goldsbury. Depending on how he progressed as a blocker in practices, he might be given a chance to either replace Burns or D.Shelton--both of whom are getting up there in age--in training camp, but the chances are slim.
Somebody at OBD must have liked Hunter because they brought him back to the practice squad twice, but with the changes in the front office and to the defensive staff, I don't know how much of a shot he has.
Woodbury was with the Jets and in the Bills TC this season. He is a "slash" type QB who was so-so in training camp. He might have a shot at the # 3 QB spot or as a "slash" player depending on what the Bills do about replacing S.Matthews and at WR in the off-season. I think he's a guy the Bills have kept around because of MM's fascination with using a "slash" type player on trick plays. I would be disappointed to see him with the Bills next season.
The Bills' practice squad was decimated during the course of the season--not just as a result of the injuries to the team and the need to bring in potential back-ups at DT and LB (Cieslak made the PS originally), but by other teams signing players off of the Bills' PS. If I'm not mistaken, three players were signed off of the Bills' practice squad over the course of the season--I know that there were two CBs (Evan Oglesby, who ended up starting for the Ravens in at least one game was one) and I believe one other player.
In recent years the Bills have shown a reluctance to send players that they really want to look at to NFLE and have signed a group of "throw-away" players that they could use to meet their required contributions to NFLE. Some of these players may have been signed for that purpose (Setta, in particular comes to mind). Except for the players that I have mentioned, I doubt that any of the others are more than camp fodder.
Given his past history, don't be surprised, though, if Marv Levy brings in some players from other teams' practice squads that nobody has ever heard of that end up making the team. For example, who knew who Steve Tasker was when the Bills picked him up from Houston? The same with kids from small colleges (like Andre Reed, Don Beebe, etc.). If the 1990's Bills proved anything, it was that a player didn't have to be a well-known prospect to end up making a big contribution to the team winning games.
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. And, thus it was that they surrendered their freedom; not with a bang, but without even a whimper.
1. Clump and I use the same numbers. I took the latest figure he had and subtracted off the new Crowell contract and the contracts of these players and then gave $500K of breathing room. Please stop.
2. Where did I praise TD?? I simply posted the players the Bills signed...see the thread on trick plays by Belichick where I knocked TD.
3. Go back to school yourself.
If "high" means I live in reality, you must be "low".
As of 12/18/05, I have the Bills $11,145,772 under an ESTIMATED salary cap of $93,500,000 million with $137,984 "dead cap".
theres a big difference between 7-7.5 and 11.1. Like I said you and Clumpy arent using the same numbers unless clump has newer, different, numbers behind the scenes.
Besides, there is little doubt that the contracts of Moulds and Williams will be drastically reduced in 06 and those additional funds could easily DOUBLE our current cap space of even 11 mill. There will be PLENTY of cash to get SEVERAL big name players.
Now, in actuallity I may have jumped to the conclusion that your point in this thread is that we are well on our way or have signed most of the players we need for 2006. That of course is SO far from the truth that its sickening.
If I wrongly assumed that that was your point, Im sorry.
According to both Ourlads.com and NFLPA.org the Bills have been busy since losing to the Jets. With 54 players signed, I currently have them around $7-$7.5 mil under a cap of $93.5 - but there will be many adjustments to that number.
They have signed the following:
They are camp fodder.
LeWaylon Brown DT
Greg Carothers LB
Greg Ochs QB
Wendall Hunter LB
Nicholas Setta P/K
Eric Powell DE
Tai Tupai DT
John Goldsberry FB
Dylan McFarland T
Tory Woodbury QB
Brad Cieslak TE
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