Good news

Berrian’s deal was 6 years – 43.4 Million. Thats an average of 7.25 million a year.
Javon Walker’s deal was 6 years – 55 million. Thats an average of 9.15 million a year
At 4 years and 37.25 million thats an average of 9.3 million a year.

Note: I rounded a little on the averages, but that is still a lot of money per year. Evans is easily the Bills best WR, it’s nice to get him under contract.

I have been praying that this would get done soon. I love Lee and I think that he can be great. We now have a WR corps that will be together with a RB and QB for at least the next 3 or 4 years.

Maybe Peters should hire Evans as his agent!!!

That’s what what all my Bears fan buddies call him. Glad to have him for the future. What a class act.

It appears that Ralph is really starting to open up that pocket book a lot in the past couple a years, and really attempting to keep a stable corp of quality player for the next few years, while at the same time bringing in a few key FA’s as well. The Toronto deal helps with this as well. No need to mention how well we have been building through the draft.

I’m so glad to see the Bills organization rewarding hard working guys with integrity, all the while keeping the positive chemistry going. Seems like Ralph (F.O. as a whole) threw out the band-aids and are truly committed to bringing long term football success back to WNY. Maybe he wants that Lombardi before he moves on just as bad as we do….

I like Dick (easy). Keep him around with an extension.

Congrats Lee. You deserved it.

Jason Peters…..Shame on you…..maybe we talk sometime next year.

So when do we start to put the feelers out for Greer…see what kind of deal he might be looking for?

the Bills will not regret this. Lee Evans will thrive with Edwards at the helm and more importantly the organization is sending a message to Trent that they are going to commit to surrounding him with the talent he needs to succeed. So long as Lee Evans is a Bill, which will now be for a long time, our offense will always be able to keep defenses honest with the threat of stretching the field. This is great news.

That Lee is one of 3 top flight receivers in FA in the spring of ’10 and that to get and keep him then would have been insanely expensive, better to over pay by a good fraction rather than get into a potential bidding war for a huge fraction.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-4-9/Evans-third-richest-WR—Believe-it.html

that’s a heckuva lot of money per season. That’s almost Larry Fitzgerald money and I don’t think Evans is on that level. However, we more than likely HAD to give him that type of money to persuade him to stick around. At least we got it done.

The deal is absolutely amazing for Evans and his peeps. Only 4 years, yet he gets all that money, much of it guaranteed. He’ll be able to get one more big payday after the deal too, assuming he’s healthy and still productive at age 31. Good for him. Now I hope he goes out and earns every penny we’re giving him!

Get him the ball more Turk and Trent, show the world he’s worth that money.

as long as Turk finds more ways to get Evans the ball.

Class man, steady leader, now has a chance to make something special with Trent. They sure seem to be developing a good chemistry as of late.

one lesson to take away from this deal is how much winning makes these things easier. By starting off 4-0 it makes it a lot easier to come to agreement on contract negotiations with players; it makes the organization much more willing to pay to keep a guy and it gives a player incentive to want to sign. A win, win. When a team loses as much as we have over the last decade it reduces the incentive to get this done from both fronts. It changes everything. Way to go for both the team and Evans.

Any inside info on this? I assume the Bills were excited to get this done? But why 4 years? They didn’t want 5-6? Sets up Lee for another big deal when he is 31 though.

Hopefully this financial security adds even more incentive for Lee to come up big.

I can’t wait ’till Mr. James Hardy starts catching the ball and drawing attention. Reed is making the catches and getting those 3 extra yards. Roscoe is always depenable. This is a decent unit, and we have not seen the best yet. (This is going to be a long bye week.)