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BILLS DUMPING TROY?
Our friends at WGR in Buffalo tell us that Bills safety Troy Vincent has said on the air that he is on "minor" injured reserve, and that he can play again in four to six weeks, but with another team. (The interview can be heard right here.)
Though Vincent was being vague, it sounds to us as if the Bills have reached an injury settlement the 15-year veteran.
Here's the way it works. A player who passes a physical at the outset of the season can't be cut for a subsequent football injury. In many cases, the team and the injured player work out an injury settlement, which pays the player for an agreed number of weeks under the assumption that, at the end of the period covered by the settlement, he will be healthy.
After the expiration of the time period covered by the injury settlement, the player may sign with another team, but not with the team that released him.
As we understand the relevant rules, the first step in the process is the placement of the player on injured reserve, even though his official designation is "waived-injured." Then, there is a finite period of time within which the team and the player must reach an injury settlement. If no settlement is reached, the player is waived and may file an injury grievance.
In this case, our guess is that Vincent and the Bills currently are haggling over whether his hamstring injury will require four weeks or six weeks to heal.
If we're right, he'll likely receive anywhere from $612,000 to $918,000 -- based on his 2006 salary of $2.6 million.
Of course, Vincent also would have the option to receive the balance of his 2006 salary as termination pay, since he was on the roster for the initial game of the season. But since the Bills likewise have the option to park him on IR for all of 2006, it could be that Vincent has decided to take what he can get by way of an injury settlement, and then join a team that is in contention for the playoffs later in the year.
Then again, we could be interpreting all of this incorrectly. If any agent or front-office type out there can make any sense of Vincent's comments (they begin at 7:50 of the spot).
Our friends at WGR in Buffalo tell us that Bills safety Troy Vincent has said on the air that he is on "minor" injured reserve, and that he can play again in four to six weeks, but with another team. (The interview can be heard right here.)
Though Vincent was being vague, it sounds to us as if the Bills have reached an injury settlement the 15-year veteran.
Here's the way it works. A player who passes a physical at the outset of the season can't be cut for a subsequent football injury. In many cases, the team and the injured player work out an injury settlement, which pays the player for an agreed number of weeks under the assumption that, at the end of the period covered by the settlement, he will be healthy.
After the expiration of the time period covered by the injury settlement, the player may sign with another team, but not with the team that released him.
As we understand the relevant rules, the first step in the process is the placement of the player on injured reserve, even though his official designation is "waived-injured." Then, there is a finite period of time within which the team and the player must reach an injury settlement. If no settlement is reached, the player is waived and may file an injury grievance.
In this case, our guess is that Vincent and the Bills currently are haggling over whether his hamstring injury will require four weeks or six weeks to heal.
If we're right, he'll likely receive anywhere from $612,000 to $918,000 -- based on his 2006 salary of $2.6 million.
Of course, Vincent also would have the option to receive the balance of his 2006 salary as termination pay, since he was on the roster for the initial game of the season. But since the Bills likewise have the option to park him on IR for all of 2006, it could be that Vincent has decided to take what he can get by way of an injury settlement, and then join a team that is in contention for the playoffs later in the year.
Then again, we could be interpreting all of this incorrectly. If any agent or front-office type out there can make any sense of Vincent's comments (they begin at 7:50 of the spot).
