Conflicting reports on potential Peters trade continue

I trust Tim Graham, but I just can’t see the Bills forking over $12 million a season for Peters.

I think what it all will come down to is the question – IS there a team that will give Peters $12 million? If so, I see him being traded away.

If NOT, then I see Peters coming down in his demands and the Bills meeting him halfway, maybe $9-10 million a year with incentives built in.

The Bills aren’t going to cave in, either Peters comes down in his demands or they unload him.

Jeesh….never ends. What kills me about this guy is HE NEVER SPEAKS publicly. Apparently it’s a brilliant move, cuz it seems to be working. The Bills are forced to act. With so much riding on 2009, the Bills Must find a LT and LG that can be a formidable force to lead this offensive unit to open up run lanes and give Trent time. I mean it’s the most imperative aspect of adding T.O., developing Hardy/Johnson, and possibly a rookie TE…we have to have an OL in tact.

If Detroit or Philly, or whomever offers a 1st round pick, I think the Bills must jump on it. If not, I’m in the camp of leave your contract offer of whatever it was/is on the table and move on without him.

Peters has no leverage, he never has and he won’t win this struggle. I firmly believe that unless some team offers up a Cutler’s Ransome, then Peters will remain a Bill; an unhappy, unmotivated, sulking Bill. I am fine with that, let him destroy his career, he can’t keep doing this every year and the Bills could theoretically keep him until he is 31 years old (4 more years), which is what I would do if he doesn’t report to OTAs/Camp. He will change his mind and be a better player for it. It will come.

i would like to thank lynch,whitner and simpson for making it easier for me to not get my hopes up this year for a playoff run once again and the thought of giving up peters is just ridiculous because all of these haters are not seeing the entire picture the guy made the pro bowl bottom line and did not even attend any offseason programs the man is a beast and young at that the bills have the money anyway they gave hangartner money and peters is way better than him and is of the top five in his position if not the best yeah he gave up sacks but look at the line he had to work no help at all and when i comes to running the ball he can knock any one off of there feet and if he gets in to training this year he will be a monster and plus edawards needs him

I truly wish the Bills and Peters could come to a mutual agreement that would leave both sides happy and they would click there heels and everything would be wonderful. The Bills have been trying to piece together a competent O-Line for what seems like an eternity—-free agents, a no#4 overall in the draft, conversions (Peters & Murphy) and late round picks that haven’t developed. I hate the idea that the Bills have a pro-bowl LT in their locker room and are being forced into a trade.

A trade seems inevitable which at this point it seems to me that it is addition by subtraction—-getting rid of a malcontent that doesn’t want to play in Buffalo. The biggest problem is that the Bills have shown more futility then smarts when it comes to drafting players or signing FA’s. If the Bills get a 1 & 3 will they be able to do anything with the picks to make the team better or will we end up with the Tim Anderson’s, Chris Ellis’s and McCargo’s of the draft.

I heard this rumor—-can anyone confirm or re-butte it.——Peters agent is trying to structure any new contract so that Peters will always be one of the highest paid LT’s in football. Obviously, if this is true this would be a major stumbling block for any contract.

his contract (duh, I guess). The Bills aren’t going to magically say, “OK, now we’ll pay you a go-zillion doallars to play here.” So it’s probably more dependent upon finding someone willing to pay him. It’s tough to fathom anyone doing it, there are some pretty good tackles available in the draft. It’s going to take some very specific extenuating circumstances for a trade to happen: a team would have to have a big need for a tackle, a lot of cap, and the picks to ammo up for the trade. Houston, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, Pittsburgh? No one really seems to fit…. which is why there is no reliable info on potential suitors for Peters… because teams are probably calling Eugene Parker and hanging up on him.

Not during draft day, and not after.

Pay him or trade him, but make it happen in the next week. We can’t let one guy drag the team down AGAIN.

One thing that bothers me most about this is… if we sign him to a big contract, I’m going to have a hard time rooting for him as a Buffalo Bill after what he has done to this team 2 years in a row. I will have a very hard time supporting a greedy, ignorant moron. Period.

The Bills better be worried…

1) Will he have the competitive fire to excell
2) Will he take the money and run
3) Will he turn into another Mike “Lard ass, pizza snorting, crybaby” Willams
4) Remember he had talent in college and was a 3rd to 4th round projection——all teams passed on him——-Why—- —-because there were attitude problems!!

Their contingency plan is when in doubt draft a DB—-it has worked so well in the past!!

Ron—-I agree on the uniforms, ugly is a kind word. They are way too busy and look like they belong in a beer ball league. At least they could wear the white pants with the blue jersey’s instead of that funky blue on blue!!! I wish they would just go back to the classic look of the 60’s up until the latest——I would go to the white helmet with the charging Buffalo.

I think there is a curse on the current uniy’s—they’ve sucked since they started wearing them!!!!! Time for a change…..

that Brian finally hit puberty. Good job there, buddy! You sounded much more confident and of age this time! Just joking, but I enjoyed that interview you did, and again very nice work.

It’s too bad those guys felt the need to almost bad mouth you afterwards. They sure didn’t seem very flexible with their opinions, that’s for sure.

The guy at the end was pretty um, excitable, I guess you could say….

And then still dangle him as trade bait on draft day? This at least will give potential suitors less hassle and the knowledge of what he will cost them if they want him.
It seems clear Peters isn’t “at the end of his career and looking for a winner”
he doesn’t want out, just more money…so to me, they should give him the money, still try to trade him, and if nothing happens….eat the contract and pay the man, while at least being able to play the player on their line. Get him signed now, and there is no holdout and he might actually be pro-bowl caliber….

if he does end up signing for some percentage of his current demand, he’ll likely feel justified playing at a similar percentage of effort. I say that OBD should proceed on draft day fulfilling the obvious needs, take a tackle in the 4th round and plan on Chambers being their LT in ’09. Playing an out of shape and disgruntled Peters would be a mistake.

- This is a good year for tackles in the draft, and for some reason if the Bills can get Andre Smith or even Michael Oher with their pick, and an additional Eagles number-1, then trade Peters. He gave up 11 sacks last year and is overrated.
- Bills are still a few years away from being “serious” playoff contender and they could use that pick on Pettigrew, who I believe will be available when Eagles pick.
- Tired of his act as well, live up to the contract you sign.
- Never see these guy’s giving money back when they have a lousy season!