Who the hell cares where someone “should” have been drafted. He was drafted 10th and will get paid as a 10th round pick. If he wants to pout about it, let him.

Well that sucks.

Wait, Eugene Parker? I know that name. Isn’t he Peters’ @ssbag of an agent also?

i really think that he needs to be there. like, out of all of our picks this year, he’s the biggest chance to be a bust – and so needs to be playing as much as possible right away.

remember? and he held out almost all of training camp.

Joel Segal, grow a pair and don’t wait for Parker. Be a man.

Yet another reason that rookies need to be on a pay scale. It is in the long term interest of each rookie to be signed and ready to hit the practice field. It is in the immediate and long term interest for each team to have all rookies signed. The agents are the only people whose interests are out of step.

With the Bills players (and Flaming Thumbtacks) reporting a week before everyone else does that mean that the Bills get an extra week of camp? Or is camp pretty much shut down a week before everyone else?

I anticipate that we by the end of today have locked up Jairus Byrd, Levitre and Wood, although I could see Maybin missing a couple of days, which is unfortunate. However, I don’t believe it’ll cause a problem for Maybin, because he’s just so hard-working (he lives up to the profound definition of hard worker) and extremely athletically-gifted.

Definitely necessary. The whole purpose of the draft is to promote parity, but then you have the most poorly performing teams having to lock up a veritable question mark for a TON of cash and cap room.

I think it may be a little while before we see Maybin. I know the folks here all have brains in their head and won’t feel this way, but maybe the worst part of this is the negative fallout for some fans regarding the player. I would wager that AM would much rather be there for the first day of camp than not, but if he takes a lesser deal, he could end up with the whole league mad at him, and certainly would screw things up for a lot of other agents and players who have no such feelings (or if they do are in the same boat).

You guys should chat Maybin up on twitter sometime – he’s very quick to respond and seems like a bright kid. I have very high hopes for him over the next few years (note I said “next few” – I think a DE’s rookie season is almost always a wash…but you never know, I was living in TN when Kearse put on his rookie year clinic on sacking).