Which player should first get out this year?

[vicmantak]

From a Bills salary cap and a consious cost-performance list... if I'm not wrong it shoud be Mike Williams, Mark Campbell and/or inclusive Troy Vincent.

[vicmantak]

p.d. To make it more reliable... please, no more than 3 options.

[LifetimeBillsFan]

Bennie Anderson has GOT to go! The Bills need to have a LG who can help their center handle the big NTs and DTs in the NFL these days. Neither Teague nor Preston have shown that they have the strength to do the job alone and Anderson showed he can't handle anyone, let alone help the center in pass-blocking.

I'm not sure that Moulds would be worth re-structuring, even if he would be willing to do it. He can still play and the Bills don't have anyone to really replace him as a big target who can command double-teams, but the only way that I would keep him is if he would re-structure his contract and promise to go along with whatever offensive system and personnel that the coaching staff decided to use, regardless. He would have to convince me that he would keep any disagreements he had about how the team was being run or coached "in-house" and would not go to the media or become a "locker-room lawyer" over any disagreements that he might have.

I wish that Troy Vincent had taken the front office job that the Bills offered him. I have a lot of respect for him as a man and for all of the things that he and his wife have done off-the-field, etc. But, he's definitely lost a step and I just don't think that he has enough left to get the job done consistently. Part of the leadership that I would expect him to bring to the team is recognizing that when a team is throwing the ball almost exclusively to a guy like Chambers, he has to be double-covered on the last play of the game when the game is on the line. If Vincent couldn't recognize and react to that last season, I have serious doubts about what he can do for the team next year.

I have to say the same thing about Lawyer Milloy, but, at this point, I don't think the Bills have anyone ready to replace him in the starting lineup and they have more pressing needs elsewhere to spend their money on in free agency.

Josh Reed finally started to play halfway decently, but it would really depend on how much it would cost to bring him back. He still drops the ball too much in critical situations for me to want to spend much on him. I'm not sure that he couldn't be replaced by a better, hungrier young player for less.

With the way that Angelo Crowell played last season, if the Bills can draft a young LB in the middle rounds who can back him up at SLB, I could see letting Jeff Posey go---unless the new DC is going to use him in the role he was originally brought to Buffalo to play. He never seemed to fit in the Williams/Gray defensive scheme and hasn't done much since coming to Buffalo. It would seem to me that the Bills could replace him with a cheaper, young player who might be more productive.

Last, but not least is Mike Williams. For me, this is strictly a medical call. Unlike a lot of people, I do not believe that Mike Williams is a bust. When he is healthy, I think that Williams can be a pretty good player and has the potential to be the answer to the Bills' need at left guard. But, the key is his health. Anyone who knows about back injuries or who has ever had a bad back knows how absolutely debilitating a bad back can be and how long it can take to heal. Also, back injuries are tricky and, depending on the injury, they can easily recurr (I know this because I have a bad back that resulted from a sports injury many years ago that caused chronic instability which can be periodically debilitating even now). I can understand how Williams could have been unable to play most of last season and been limited in his ability even when he could suit up if he had a back injury--in my eyes, that doesn't necessarily make him a bust: if he can recover from that injury and play effectively again. And, this is where the medical call comes in.

If the Bills' medical staff and any specialists that they send Williams to for further evaluation agree that Williams will be able to fully recover from the back injury that sidelined him last season, I would be willing to renegotiate his contract and keep him with the team. Williams has indicated a willingness to move to guard and to renegotiate his contract to reflect the fact that guards make less money than offensive tackles. If the medical people feel that he has recovered from his injury and it will not recurr, I would be willing to restructure his contract downward and give him a chance to win the starting left guard job. He's played well enough under Coach McNally's tutelage when healthy to lead me to believe that, if healthy, he has the potential to be a pretty decent offensive guard. Given how much it would probably cost to sign a top free agent guard and how much dead money cutting Williams would leave on the books, it would be a risk to keep him, but a risk that would be worth taking. But, ONLY if Williams has recovered from his injury and his back will hold up. If his back injury is chronic and is likely to recurr with some frequency under the physical stress of playing and practicing regularly, then the risk isn't worth it and Williams will have to go. At that point, based on what Williams has produced to date and given his salary and high draft status, I would have no choice but to label him a bust. But, if he can come back healthy and at a lower price, I'd have to give him another shot to contribute to the team.

[Dont drink the water]

Agree on Mike Williams but they need to either extend him with a minimum signing bonus in order to make it worth Bills' effort. Running game went down with Algernon Peters.


From a Bills salary cap and a consious cost-performance list... if I'm not wrong it shoud be Mike Williams, Mark Campbell and/or inclusive Troy Vincent.

Also interesting that author did not vote for who he advocated. :D

[Typ0]

a quarter is too much to be spending to have Coy Wire on the field for a defensive play.

[tat2dmike77]

a quarter is too much to be spending to have Coy Wire on the field for a defensive play.

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