Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
I'd call his bluff, too... Take him in 4 or 5 and say "hey, if your cleared, and you're willing to sign, we'll pay you like an early 3..."
Doesn't work with the hard rookie pay scale. That why his agent made the announcement.Grigs Allmoon said:
What really frustrates me is that it's being reported that the Bills never even interviewed him at any point. How do you take a guy in the second round, with your first pick of the draft, that has character concerns without having even interviewed him? Makes Whaley and Rex look really really bad IMO and me not trust them when they talked about Incognito turning over a new leaf.
Don't you have the ability to give higher signing bonuses? I thought the rookie restrictions were more for the core of the contract.
Nope, teams have a total pool of money they can't exceed. Both for draft picks and for UDFA.
The lack of a personal interview doesn't throw me off too much as I guarantee you that they talked to all of Darby's coaches at FSU who likely gave a more accurate view of him than the direct interview would have. But, yes, the broader picture on him doesn't sound the greatest.
This should have been addressed next year considering Dixon, Jackson and Brown still have time under their contracts. What team carries 5 HBs on their roster? Maybe they plan on getting rid of Brown in training camp?
I fear for Freddy. I don't care what they've been saying, if this FSU kid shines, Brown is axed first, and Freddy is next.
They traded their 4th for Brown and then used a 5th on Williams. No way both make the team probably. Seems dumb. I guess they don't care about burning picks.
Not sure 4 RBs plus a FB make the roster anyway. I guess Williams could get stashed on the practice squad at least.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. Who is the current ace you are referring to?
Marcus Easley has been one of the top special teams players in the league the last two years.
Hard to argue. They started low on picks, only really drafted one pick for need, and seemed to overdraft a lot of the other guys. If you're going to draft BPA, the consensus from everyone really shouldn't be that you reached on all your picks.
I will say this though, we already know Kiper is a hack, but his Reasoning on the Bills grade is ridiculous. He gave the Bills draft a really low grade last year because of the trade for Watkins and used the same trade to lower their grade this year. That's ridiculous. Hitting them for it both years is stupid. He's right to hit them for it this year since this is when they incurred the cost, but it shows how dumb his grade was last year.
Who cares? The draft is what it is. Why not just the results play out and if Kiper (or whoever) is right, then they're right. Who really gives a #### about grades handed out 24 hours after the draft?
Well we know that there will be several 1st round busts - we just don't know who they are yet. So by virtue of not having a 1st round pick to screw up they're already ahead of those teams.
I'm not the biggest Rex fan, but I will say I think this is where he is a benefit to the organization, selling the team to a young kid free agent.
No thanks. I'd rather not add onto the OJ Simpson Wing of the organization. If the police come out and totally clear him, THEN I'm game. So if this is just the Bills feeling him out and letting him know that they have interest if he is cleared, then I'm cool with it. If this has the potential to turn into a signing before all the facts are known, then I'm not happy at all.
I mean most of it is Whaley, Rex and Pegula signing off on these.
Your positivity on Rex and your team are commendable. It does make you wonder what The Moron and His Minions would have done had he not opted out of his contract.
