We were told late last night that the Buffalo Bills and defensive end Aaron Maybin were close to working out a deal.
We then were given a solid tip that a deal was already done, and we reasoned that the Bills were squatting on it in order to avoid having to cut a player in advance of Saturday night’s preseason game against the Packers.
Bills receiver Terrell Owens then got in on the act, Twitter-style, that Maybin had agreed to terms and will join the team Friday. (T.O. thereafter backed off, possibly because he had thrown a wrench into the plan to keep the agreement under wraps until after the next game.)
But now ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that, indeed, Maybin and the Bills have agreed to terms on a five-year deal.
Schefter says that Maybin will arrive at the team’s training facility on Friday to sign the deal, and that he won’t travel with the team to Green Bay.
It remains to be seen whether the Bills will still be able to avoid dumping a player before officially adding Maybin to the roster.
Who cares? The Bills stink.
I don’t understand how TO could have ruined their chances of not having to dump a player before the game…. don’t all contracts have to be approved by the NFL? So then wouldn’t the NFL office know that a contract had been signed? It seems like if they were trying to hide it from anybody it was the media. Pretty dumb to risk getting in trouble with the league just to keep a guy that you will eventually cut anyways.
While it is always convenient to blame TO, someone within the organization had to let the cat out of the bag to him – That is where the breach in security occurred.
My uneducated and meaningless opinion is that Maybin was probably in contact with TO, and let him know that he was finally signing. Then again, knowing the incompetence of the Buffalo staff (see multiple 1st day draft pick reaches in recent memory, including Andy Levitre, who “graded out” as the best lineman after getting manhandled every which way the 1st preseason game), who can say how TO really found out.
Not a Bills or TO fan/apologist (or AFC East fan for that matter), just the way I see it.
About time jackass now Crabtree has no excuses.
Let him sit 49ers
Can’t they just postdate the contract for Sunday and avoid the problem ?
What’s Crabtree’s next brilliant move?
I am a Bills fan, but I highly doubt either Dick Jauron or Russ Brandon or anyone else at OBD is intelligent enough to pull something like that off.