It looks like Darwin Walker's got a decision to make: since coming to Buffalo from Philly (he was part of the deal that sent Takeo Spikes and Kelly Holcomb to the Eagles), he hasn't spent much time at the Bills' facility. In fact, he hasn't showed up at all. He's unhappy about his contract, wants a new one, and is holding out in the meantime. But here's the thing: 178-year-old general manager Marv Levy is nobody's fool. Everybody suspected he was senile when Buffalo made some at-the-time suspect draft picks in 2006. (In hindsight, the picks were solid, Levy looked like a genius and the rest of came off as jerks.) Now, if Walker refuses to show up for work, Levy's got an out:
If recently acquired defensive tackle Darwin Walker doesn't report to Bills training camp by Aug. 5, he will be traded back to Philadelphia for a 2008 sixth-round pick, NFL Network's Adam Schefter reported Friday.Cue Nelson Muntz.
According to Schefter, Buffalo included the clause in the original trade ... because they knew Walker was unsatisfied with his current contract.
So, Darwin, when can the Bills expect to see you? Next week, at the OTAs? Great. Oh, and Marv says don't be late ... or it's coming out of your salary.
Gotta love old people.
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5-27-2007 @ 11:14AM
nganassim said...
So essentially Buffalo traded a pro-bowl linebacker (who is aging to be sure) and an inexpensive backup QB with starting experience for a 2008 sixth rounder and 2008 conditional pick. Sharp as a knife that Levy.
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5-27-2007 @ 4:40PM
bfflonyguy said...
ngan - That's wrong. Spikes is not a Pro Bowler (even though he's paid like one) and hasn't been his whole career except once - before his severe injury. Living in the past is a dumb way to build a team. The Bills shopped Spikes for over a month to the whole league and Philly's offer of a 6th rounder (which might or might not be substituted by Walker) and 7th rounder was obviously the best that anyone offered. Holcom is worthless for trade (KC can't even get a 3rd rounder for Trent Green!). Holcom is currently the #4 QB on Philly's depth chart and unless there's an injury to their other 3 QBs, they will cut Holcom for ZERO value. Yeah a 6th and 7th wasn't much to get in return but there's no way he was worth the salary cap space he was tying up when he would not even have made the starting lineup over Crowell or Everet. Spikes wasn't even kept in on 3rd downs last year! On top of all that, Spikes ASKED TO BE TRADED IN THE MIDDLE OF LAST SEASON after Troy Vincent was cut (and who isn't even in the league any more, byt the way)!
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5-27-2007 @ 4:43PM
buffalonian said...
ngan - That's wrong. Spikes is not a Pro Bowler (even though he's paid like one) and hasn't been his whole career except once - before his severe injury. Living in the past is a dumb way to build a team. The Bills shopped Spikes for over a month to the whole league and Philly's offer of a 6th rounder (which might or might not be substituted by Walker) and 7th rounder was obviously the best that anyone offered. Holcom is worthless for trade (KC can't even get a 3rd rounder for Trent Green!). Holcom is currently the #4 QB on Philly's depth chart and unless there's an injury to their other 3 QBs, they will cut Holcom for ZERO value. Yeah a 6th and 7th wasn't much to get in return but there's no way he was worth the salary cap space he was tying up when he would not even have made the starting lineup over Crowell or Everet. Spikes wasn't even kept in on 3rd downs last year! On top of all that, Spikes ASKED TO BE TRADED IN THE MIDDLE OF LAST SEASON after Troy Vincent was cut (and who isn't even in the league any more, byt the way)!
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5-27-2007 @ 4:55PM
buffalonian said...
Sorry, I meant Keith Ellison the OLB (not Kevin Everet the TE), was who'd probably be starting for the Bills ahead of Spikes this year even if he was still here.
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5-27-2007 @ 6:48PM
David Petrulli said...
holcomb would have been cut. so it is a '08 6&7 for spikes. spikes is old, unproductive, injury prone and eats up your cap. i'll take a 6 & a 7 over a cap eating fragile old man
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