1.) You don't know what he was offered. Again, speculation vs. fact.
2.) They needn't have lost out on those players, as time proved quite conclusively. A 24 hour delay, hell even several days delay, wouldn't have cost the team Galloway, just for an example.
Anything else?
1.) Yeah. I do. He said he was offered nothing, there was no firm offer just what HE referred to as speculation and much of it after the fact that would have been contingent on other things happening including probably getting a long term deal for Cassel worked out with any other team than KC. And he stated he was not willing to go down that road and have it drag on and and lose out on FA or maybe have no deal at all. So unless you're calling him a liar as well as me an ass for taking him at his word and disagreeing with you...
You refuse to acknowledge what he actually said because it doesn't agree with your opinion. I listened to what he actually said.
2.) BB said he felt we would have lost out on signing players if he waited long enough to see if any deal let alone a complicated three way involving a franchised player was even feasible. And he knows more about the timeline and financials involved in this case and that scenario than either of us. He said the KC deal brought us the draft and FA. As time actually proved quite conclusively.
Baker and Taylor were both signed on Friday but only after Moss agreed to a restructure to free up cap. So there was no money left to sign additional players. Cassel AND Vrabel were officially traded on Saturday. Sanders stated he had a better offer on the table. He and Hochstein were signed on Monday AM (league office isn't open for business on Sundays...) at a cap cost of $3M. 3 days later they had signed 4 more players post trade for total of 6 at a cost of $7.3M against the cap. The following week 4 more players signed deals now totaling $13.6M against the cap within 9 days of trading Cassel and Vrabel. Wright and Galloway increased the total to $17.1M 14 days post trade.
It took a whole month for Denver to decide they actually did want to trade Cutler after all. For a first and a third and a starting QB all going to them. Deal only took 48 hours to get done but then Cutler was under contract affordably for 3 more years and had lost leverage to demand a new deal given the PR hit he was absorbing. And Orton was signed through 2009 at approximately $13.6M less than Cassel. Detroit and Tampa were never really in the running once Cutler actually was available. And in the several weeks since franchise tags were initially placed no franchise tagged player besides Cassel has moved an inch as the OP noted.
3.) The simple fact remains he didn't say what you said he did. You just insist that's what he meant...pure speculation on your part because for some reason you apparently feel compelled to insist he made a conscious decision not to persue better value in the process of trading Matt Cassel knowing full well it was out there...somewhere, and there was no legitimate reason not to persue it. You must subconsciously think Bill is the village idiot.
Bill said he did his due diligence post combine and there were no takers. As he was finalizing a deal for Cassel that would also facilitate Vrabel's departure on better terms for NE, two of the incompetent idiots he had already offered Cassel to to no avail tried to piece together an alternate plan designed to land them Jay Cutler. Absent that deal getting done, which was not going to happen per the Denver Broncos, there was NO FREAKIN' INTEREST IN TRADING FOR MATT CASSEL - then or expressed since from any team - foolish as that may ultimately prove to be.
