if you ask me. What this says if true, is that its what I already know. Its all about the almighty dollar. But why the hell does Wilson care bout money, when he is ultimately going to be able to feed the next 5 generations of Wilson’s 100x over? He runs it like a business. Just about the bottom line. They have X amount of dollars to spend. And that’s what they spend. They are never in the top 5 of the draft, so they don’t dole out the mega-contracts, which has protected their salary cap number.

I’m really flabergasted about everything. I wish the Bills would hold a press conference here and address some issues. We have no clue what’s going on at OBD. Very secretive those “inner-circle” guys are

its just that Wilson would rather Save money to earn money…..while other owners such as Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder believe in spending money to make money……..and in the end…..Both ways foster losing franchises……..unless you have smart folks in the personnel department.

There are so many teams looking for coaches this year and they are all ending up interviewing assistants and people like Mangini. Maybe it was smart to let them all battle it out for this kind of coaching talent. All reports point to Shanahan, Holmgren, and Cowher looking for head coaching stints next year.

If this is the case, and Wilson stays true to his word of making a big splash in free agency this off-season, it could be very smart to use this off-season to load the Bills with talent. This serves two purposes. One, it could prove that with talent Jauron is a playoff caliber coach and then we don’t have to make a change at all next year and can keep continuity going in our coaching staff (which Cowher, Reid, Shanahan, and Fisher have all proven creates perennially competitive franchises). Or Two, Jauron fails to take us to the playoffs, we cut him off, and then become attractive to one of these coaches as a young team, loaded with talent.

Maybe it showed industry savy and informatino gathering talent that we might have known Cowher was unavailable this year before the Jets and Browns

Has anyone outside of the owners ever had a good look at the real books? I’ve never seen it. One could make a legit argument that player salaries are high (especially good free agents) but without a good look at the books we have no idea what affect that has on a team’s bottom line. We may get a peek in 2010 if there is no cap.
I am absolutely sure owners talk to each other on a regular basis. They are businessmen first and businessmen talk to each other. I recently retired from co-owning an Ace hardware store. Our rep told me that Ace sits down with Do It Best, True Value and Orgill execs monthly. The Detroit big three sit down together regularly. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the NFL owners were already playing their cards in anticipation of the next CBA. I would not hazard a guess as to why Ralph retained DJ but I would believe that Ralph and the other owners have talked strategy on how best to approach the next CBA. Betya Al Davis is on Ralph’s speed dial. That’s “strategery”.

they have to talk. They are all in it to make money. However some make more than others and they have their disputes. However, they all scratch each others backs in some way, shape or form

Read up on it and curl your hair. Very, very spooky.

is a really stupid thing for Florio to say. Why would a man over 90 years of age keep a coach he didn’t want to help out the other NFL franchises he competes against? I know some people get upset when they don’t get their way, but that’s a borderline idiotic thing to say. Everybody knows that NFL franchises are profitable and just about any owner can afford to buy out any coach’s contract. The issue with the CBA is they can’t give in to the players and let them have an unrighteous percentage of the pie. The proportion of revenue the players get should be about the same as any other business shells out for its employees. That’s WHY there is a salary cap… so teams like the Cowboys and Redskins can’t ruin the rest of the league.

He’d field a competitive team. I don’t see his keeping Jauron as a means to save money he invested. If Jauron/Bills fail next season, the fallout in revenue would make letting Jauron go this off season seem like chump change.