Digger44
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It was Minor IR. As soon as he is healthy the Bills have to release him and cannot sign him unless he clears waivers.SamBam39 said:I think he was put on IR for the year.
brady2brown said:It was Minor IR. As soon as he is healthy the Bills have to release him and cannot sign him unless he clears waivers.
Patsfanin Philly said:And as a vested veteran, his contract was guaranteed since he was on the roster for game 1. So now he's gone from the Bills but they are on the hook for the entire salary...What was the point of using Minor IR vs regular IR????
Oh I forgot , it's the Bills, never mind.........
dhamz said:The point was to get a guy they considered a locker room problem out of the locker room.
Digger44 said:Wasn't he scheduled to be released from the Bills sometime soon? He may make a decent addition for depth.
Lockdown06 said:this is pure speculation, but maybe he's one of the guys the Front Office was thinking of when they released the two players earlier this week?
POSTED 2:00 p.m. EDT; LAST UPDATED 3:47 p.m. EDT, September 14, 2006
LEVY SCREWED THE POOCH ON VINCENT
We've gotten some more information regarding the manner in which Bills safety Troy Vincent landed on IR. And the manner in which the situation was handled by the team convinces us that G.M. Marv Levy has little or no skill when it comes to the complexities of managing an NFL roster.
For starters, it turns out that there really is a "minor" Injured Reserve. It's a procedure used in lieu of an injury settlement, pursuant to which the player is added to IR but must be released when healthy.
When a player is on "major" IR, he's done for the year and gets paid his normal salary.
But in Vincent's case, the end result is the same -- the Bills will owe him his entire salary for 2006. Why? Because Vincent is a vested veteran entitled to take the balance of his $2.6 million salary as termination pay.
And once he's healthy, Vincent can sign with another team and receive wages on top of the $2.6 million base salary he'll get from the Bills.
In hindsight (or if Levy had applied any foresight), the Bills would have released Vincent prior to the start of the regular season. He then could have been re-signed after the first game, and his full salary would not have been guaranteed.
So while Levy might have been a very good coach, running the team is a much different endeavor. In this specific case, Levy's failure to understand the rules has forced his boss to pay $2.6 million to a guy who was available for only one game.
Meanwhile, we're hearing that the injury really isn't very significant, and that Vincent could be healthy soon. So when he's healthy (and then released), Vincent will be able to sign with any other team in the league.
Technically, Vincent would have to clear waivers if he's released after the trading deadline. But it's unlikely that anyone else would claim his contract when he can be signed the next day for a lower contract.
So look for Vincent to be playing for another team at some point this year, even though he'll be receiving the bulk of his compensation from the Buffalo Bills.