OL Urbik, Rinehart re-sign

[BillsModerator]

Two of Buffalo?s interior offensive linemen will be lining up for the Bills in 2012. Restricted free agents Kraig Urbik and Chad Rinehart signed their qualifying tender offers Monday ensuring they?...

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[indybillsfan]

While expected, still very good news. Hopefully they each get a multiyear deal.

[Puertoricobills]

Great News...Keep Building

[Inahaze]

Yeah I am very pleased to see both signed their tender....I like both and we can only get better keeping these guys.

[Svupper]

It is always nice to read that players who have performed for the Bills are retained. Way more excited about this than the "return" of Shawn Merriman.

[hemma]

on Rotoworld:

The 27-year-old Rinehart started 12 games last season, shuffling between left and right guard. Pro Football Focus gave him strong pass-blocking grades, and considered him fairly effective as a run blocker. Rinehart did outplay Kraig Urbik, and should return as the starting right guard with Eric Wood at center and Andy Levitre at left guard. Urbik figures to be the top reserve.

[phoenix14830]

Chad Rinehart - G - Bills

Bills re-signed restricted free agent RG Chad Rinehart to a one-year, $1.26 million contract.
The 27-year-old Rinehart started 12 games last season, shuffling between left and right guard. Pro Football Focus gave him strong pass-blocking grades, and considered him fairly effective as a run blocker. Rinehart did outplay Kraig Urbik, and should return as the starting right guard with Eric Wood at center and Andy Levitre at left guard. Urbik figures to be the top reserve.


Kraig Urbik - G - Bills

Bills re-signed restricted free agent G/C Kraig Urbik to a one-year, $1.26 million contract.
Urbik, 26, made 13 starts last season, opening the year at right guard before kicking inside to replace injured C Eric Wood. Pro Football Focus graded Urbik as a terrific interior pass blocker, but he'll have to improve immensely as a run blocker in order to keep his job. Urbik is more of a swingman type.

[camgookamera83]

Yup.. no Decastro @ 10 is what this says to me so cross that off as a probable NO.

[kanatablues]

Now extend them later this spring/summer ...

[Darkside02]

I think a 1.5 million one year deal is a joke.

This is Buffalo's starting RG and he is receiving backup money.

Seems obvious the Bills have other plans.

[notagoodname]

I think a 1.5 million one year deal is a joke.

This is Buffalo's starting RG and he is receiving backup money.

Seems obvious the Bills have other plans.

not only that, it would have only cost a 3rd rounder to steal either guy which means none of the other 31 nfl gms thought any higher of them than the bills did.

[TheBlackDahliaMurder]

I think a 1.5 million one year deal is a joke.

This is Buffalo's starting RG and he is receiving backup money.

Seems obvious the Bills have other plans.

Or... they're RFAs and we have no incentive to sign them long term yet.

[caffeine addict]

I like when they say re-sign. Resign is so confusing.

[CaliBills92]

Awesome!!!!

[GreggTX]

Only 1 year for Urbik tells me DeCastro is at least a possibility depending on who shakes loose at 10. He may be an interior lineman, but he could be a difference maker.

[Abe Froman]

Only 1 year for Urbik tells me DeCastro is at least a possibility depending on who shakes loose at 10. He may be an interior lineman, but he could be a difference maker.

Restricted free agent tenders aren't ever more than one season. At the end of the year Urbik and Rhinehart were restricted free agents. The bills then tendered a contract to those players with a specific draft round value. The higher the round you tender them, the higher the pay they recieve in their one year contract. Not sure how the pay works but I think it's an average of players in that round or something like that. If a team were to offer that player a contract, the Bills would have the option to match that contract or recieve a draft pick equal to the round they tendered that player for. The Bills had no reason to offer them more than they had to pay them. It's not a sign of much of anything other than no other team wanted to sacrifice a draft pick for them.

[Soda Popinski]

If these guys both graded well, why did our oline suck so bad down the stretch?

I like both, but they are both decent, not great. It's been a while since we had great

[Abe Froman]

If these guys both graded well, why did our oline suck so bad down the stretch?

I like both, but they are both decent, not great. It's been a while since we had great

Wood was playing at a really high level at center. Losing him hurt a lot lot. There was a game we played levitre at center and he skipped every shot gun snap to fitz, that was one terrible game. then Urbik moved to center afterwards. There was a game where levitre played Left tackle. There was one game in the last third of the season I believe where we had some guard play who I can't even remember. We had 3 Different Left tackles, two different left guards, two different centers, three different right guards and basically one right tackle, although Pears did miss some time in games where Hairston had to play. That is why the line graded poorly. Continuity is huge, and there was none.

[Soda Popinski]

Wood was playing at a really high level at center. Losing him hurt a lot lot. There was a game we played levitre at center and he skipped every shot gun snap to fitz, that was one terrible game. then Urbik moved to center afterwards. There was a game where levitre played Left tackle. There was one game in the last third of the season I believe where we had some guard play who I can't even remember. We had 3 Different Left tackles, two different left guards, two different centers, three different right guards and basically one right tackle, although Pears did miss some time in games where Hairston had to play. That is why the line graded poorly. Continuity is huge, and there was none.

Brown was pretty awful at center.

[Abe Froman]

Brown was pretty awful at center.

So 3 centers...