That according to NFL.com’s Jason LaCanfora, who said the following on NFL Total Access on the NFL Network.

“I don’t see any way he’s back there,” LaCanfora said. ”The Chargers won’t franchise him, they’ve come out and said that. There’s been acrimony between the two sides over the years and there are too many teams that need receiving help, St. Louis, San Francisco and Tampa are some teams off the top of my head. Somebody is going to give him big bucks.”

Other clubs like Chicago and Seattle may also be looking for a top flight wideout.

DAILY REPORT

Metzelaars joins the Bills after spending the previous eight seasons on the Indianapolis Colts coaching staff.  He spent the last two seasons as the team’s offensive line coach.  In 2010, the Colts offensive line tied for an NFL-low 16 sacks in 695 pass attempts.

Metzelaars played tight end for the Bills from 1985 – 1994 and was named to the team’s 50^th anniversary team in 2009.  Metzelaars recorded the most receptions (302), receiving yards (2,921), touchdowns (25) and games played (156) by a tight end in Buffalo Bills history.  He entered the NFL as a third round selection (82^nd overall) of the Seattle Seahawks after playing college football at Wabash College.  He played 16 seasons in the NFL.  His 235 career NFL games rank as the third most of any tight end in league history.

– The Bills have announced that K Rian Lindell has signed a contract extension with the team.  In accordance with team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Lindell has spent the past nine seasons in Buffalo and holds the following team records: career field goal percentage (82.93%), consecutive PATs (225), single-season field goal percentage (92%, 2006) and consecutive field goals made (18).  He is second on the Bills all-time scoring list with 878 points.  Lindell played in 180 straight games before snapping the streak in 2011.  He missed the final eight games last season due to a shoulder injury.  Lindell, a 12-year NFL veteran, connected on his first 321 extra point attempts as a pro, the streak is the longest in NFL history to start a career.

DAILY LINKS
BuffaloBills.com – Lee’s keys to successful quarterbacking

BuffaloBills.com – Lindell re-signs with Buffalo

BuffaloBills.com – Metzelaars to tutor Bills tight ends

Buffalo News – Bills re-sign comfortable Lindell

Buffalo News – Metzelaars excited to return to Bills

Associated Press – Bills re-sign Lindell; hire Metzelaars as TE coach

Audio/Video/Photo Clips
BuffaloBills.com
Pete Metzelaars Meets the Media
Bills Focus: Pete Metzelaars 1-on-1 Interview
Bills Focus: Rian Lindell 1-on-1 Interview

WGR  -2/07 Pete Metzelaars w/ Bulldog

WGRZ – Team Also Signs Kicker Lindell to Contract Extension

YNN – Former Buffalo Bill Opens Up About Heart Disease

Additional Clips
Inside the Bills Blog
Chandler on Big Pete’s to-do list, Metzelaars on Bills history, Bills surrounded by coin flips, NFL combine invite breakdown, Metzelaars: I was worst kept secret, Lindell a lock for all-time scorer, 2012 cap projections

Buffalo Rumblings
Buffalo Bills Free Agents: Briefly Looking Past 2012
Discussion: Is Stevie Johnson Worth A $9.4 Million Franchise Tag?
Buffalo Bills Needs List: WR vs. CB For No. 3 Position

Pro Football Talk – Pete Metzelaars will coach Bills’ tight ends

Pro Football Weekly – Buffalo Bills top three offensive and defensive draft needs

QUOTE OF THE DAY
Tight ends coach Pete Metzelaars
On what he makes of this franchise since his playing days:
I think they’re a team that started building in the draft. They missed on some draft picks in the past and it hurt them. When you miss on high draft picks it hurts you in the NFL. They’ve hit some recently and have continued to do so. I think they’re headed in the right direction. Everybody is very positive here and has good feelings about where the organization and the team are headed. They got off to the quick start last year and hit a bad patch and they want to build upon the good things that took place last year. I think the feeling amongst the coaches, the organization, and I think the players is that we are going to build upon the good things that we did last year and let’s go forward from here. I think it’s a very positive outlook on things that are taking place.

THIS DAY IN BILLS HISTORY
February 8, 1960 — FIRST BILLS SEASON TICKETS GO ON SALE
Bills season tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. The first customer in line was Arthur (Archie) Diemer of Attica, NY. By noon, over 3,000 tickets had been sold to the public.

PHOTOS OF THE DAY

Bills K Rian Lindell signed his new contract with the team yesterday at One Bills Drive.

Bills tight ends coach Pete Metzelaars met with the media yesterday and talked with his old roommate, Steve Tasker.

“The first thing is I’m trying to figure out where to go in the building and not get lost and how to get in the building (laughs),” he said. ”Next is to find out how (the coaching staff) calls stuff, what do they call it. Everybody runs the same kind of plays in the league it’s just what is your terminology, what is your verbiage for it.

“So just start learning that kind of stuff and then sit down and start watching film. Watch the guys play, how they play, what are their strengths, what are their weaknesses, what do they do well, what don’t they do well, and let’s correct the things that they don’t do well and improve upon them and lets build upon what they do well.”

Metzelaars is also very interested to get in the ear of prospective free agent Scott Chandler in the hopes of convincing him that he can help him take another step in his career at the tight end position.

“I will try to talk to him or text him or however they communicate these days (laughs), but try to get in touch with all the tight ends that I’m going to be working with,” said Metzelaars. ”Hopefully we can get him back. I know the team would like to have him come back. He had a very good year last year, and try to build upon that. I would like to get some players to break any and all records that I may still be holding around here because we’ll find somebody better than me.”

“I think they’re a team that started building in the draft,” he said. ”They missed on some draft picks in the past and it hurt them. When you miss on high draft picks it hurts you in the NFL. They’ve hit some recently and have continued to do so. I think they’re headed in the right direction. Everybody is very positive here and has good feelings about where the organization and the team are headed.

“They got off to the quick start last year and hit a bad patch and they want to build upon the good things that took place last year. I think the feeling amongst the coaches, the organization, and I think the players is that we are going to build upon the good things that we did last year and let’s go forward from here. I think it’s a very positive outlook on things that are taking place.”

Pete Metzelaars – Fan 590 (Toronto); Greg Brady and Jim Lang @ 7:40 am (listen online)
Rian Lindell – WGR Sportsradio 550; Howard Simon show @ 9:30 am (listen online)

You can also listen to the Bills new flagship station (WGR Sportsradio 550) on the Bills mobile app.

A coin flip is still needed to determine if Carolina or Miami will pick eighth and then ninth respectively. Meanwhile behind the Bills at 11th and 12th overall are Kansas City and Seattle. A coin flip will also be needed to determine who will draft 11th right after Buffalo and who will draft 12th.

Those coin flips typically take place at the NFL Combine, which runs Feb. 22nd-28th. 

There was a prevailing thought that the Bills would rotate between picking 8th, 9th or 10th in each round with Carolina and Miami, but Buffalo had a stronger strength of schedule than those two teams. Going on reverse strength of schedule Carolina and Miami will be slotted ahead of the Bills in every round with Buffalo picking 10th from start to finish in the draft.

Barnett will be a guest on the Total Access program, which begins at 7 pm ET. The veteran will likely talk about the team’s move to the 4-3 defensive front and playing under defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt, whom he had as a position coach last season.

Defensive linemen and defensive backs had the most invites of all the position groups with 59 each. Here’s the full breakdown by position keeping in mind that defensive ends and defensive tackles are lumped together as are offensive tackles, guards and centers and punters and kickers.

Defensive backs – 59
Defensive linemen – 59
Offensive line – 55
Wide receiver – 47
Linebacker – 32
Running back - 30
Quarterback – 19
Tight end – 14
Kicker – 11

A reminder that Buffalobills.com will have comprehensive coverage of the NFL Combine from Indianapolis including interviews with Chan Gailey and Buddy Nix, a closer look at positions of interest for the Bills and some interactive material for the fans, all on Buffalobills.com. Stay tuned.

“(Steve) Tasker started the whole deal making it the worst kept secret in Buffalo,” Metzelaars told Buffalobills.com. ”Steve ended up tweeting it and Jim (Kelly) picked it up and re-tweeted it.”

Metzelaars had specific instructions for his son after telling him he had accepted the position and was flying back home from Buffalo to Indianapolis.

“I told my son not to say anything to anybody,” said Metzelaars. ”And by the time I got off the plane back home he tells me, ‘It’s all over the internet!’”

With 878 points in a Bills uniform Lindell is in striking distance of Steve Christie’s franchise scoring record of 1,011 points. Not counting this past season in which he played in just eight games, Lindell has averaged almost 102 points a season (101.75) over the last eight years. Just 133 points behind Christie, if Lindell stays healthy he should pass Christie for first place on the all-time scoring list come the middle of the 2013 season.

Lindell already holds the team record for career FG percentage (82.93%), consecutive PATs (225), single-season field goal percentage (92%, 2006) and consecutive field goals made (18).

Buffalo based on their cap figures were listed under the working on a budget category. The paper made a safe estimate in assuming the cap to be around $124M keeping in mind that $5M must be set aside for one’s draft choices, more if a team has more picks, which the Bills do (9 right now). Here’s what was written as well as the NFL clubs that are in the same boat.

WORKING ON A BUDGET
Teams that aren’t up against the cap, but need to make smart moves to avoid trimming a ton of players and salaries.

Jacksonville Jaguars        $107,270,274
Buffalo Bills                         $108,426,522
Seattle Seahawks              $111,742,430
San Diego Chargers         $111,960,165
New Orleans Saints         $113,358,069
Philadelphia Eagles          $113,964,694
Baltimore Ravens             $115,670,281
Minnesota Vikings           $116,078,422
Houston Texans                 $116,306,676
Miami Dolphins                 $116,636,173
Indianapolis Colts             $116,773,288
Green Bay Packers            $118,001,169
Arizona Cardinals             $118,787,639

Bills GM Buddy Nix said last month that they intended to be aggressive where they could in free agency for the three or four needs they believe need to be addressed.

“I’m not limited except by the cap,” said Nix. ”Nobody’s ever told me you can’t do this or you can’t do that. There’s a lot of things that go into it that I’m sure you guys know but one of them is, and the thing that I ask our cap people, Jeff Littman and Jim Overdorf, the thing I ask them is if we sign this guy for this amount, then is it going to cost us this player and this player and that’s kind of the way I try to make my decision is, are we going to be able to keep the core, important guys or are we just going to get this guy and can’t get anybody else?

“Listen, I want to win. That’s what I came here for, that’s what I want to do. I want to do whatever I can to help that along. And I’m saying there’s a lot of us involved. We’ve got a lot of good people in personnel and a lot of good help and we’ll use all the resources and then make the best decision we can.”

DAILY REPORT

DAILY LINKS
Buffalobills.com – Frandina re-joins Bills front office

Buffalobills.com VIDEO – Top Ten Performances; Spiller vs. Miami

Buffalo News – Fitz won’t blame injury for poor play

Additional Clips
Inside the Bills Blog
The Bus Stops with You
Scott’s Super Bowl ticket hand-off
Searcy chops dreds
King: HOF WR issue not changing
Latest mock has new pass rusher

Tonawanda News  – Time to end the NFL’s blackout rule

NFL.com Blogs – Receivers Reed, Carter, Brown left out of Hall again 

Buffalo Rumblings
Andre Reed Not Part Of Hall of Fame Candidate “Housecleaning”
Buffalo Bills’ Rian Lindell Now Among NFL’s Highest-Paid Kickers
Giants Super Bowl 2012 Nets Perry Fewell First Championship

Buffalo Wins – My favorite Andre Reed play

THIS DAY IN BILLS HISTORY
February 7, 1988 — BRUCE SMITH NAMED MVP OF PRO BOWL
Bills DE Bruce Smith was named Most Valuable Player of 1988 Pro Bowl.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Bills offensive coordinator/running backs coach Curtis Modkins breaks down RB C.J. Spiller’s game against the Miami Dolphins. Top Ten Performances; Spiller vs. Miami

In their AFC East write up in the category of most improved was OT Demetrius Bell. Granted he missed eight games with a broken collarbone, but by their evaluation standards he improved most from 2010 (when he was essentially playing on one leg) to 2011. Here’s what they wrote.

Demetrius Bell: From (2010) -13.0 to +6.8
When Bell first started for the Bills in 2009 he looked out of his depth. He wasn’t quite so bad in 2010, but he looked far from competent at the left tackle spot. He did just doing enough to make you think that he warranted another try if nothing else. Still, his performance in his 401 snaps this year was something of a surprise, with Bell giving up just a sack, hit, and pressure on his 252 pass blocks. It would have been nice to see more of him, but what we did see suggests the Bills may have been right to show patience.

In the category of deserving of more snaps was former fourth-round pick Da’Norris Searcy. Here’s what they wrote.

Da’Norris Searcy: +2.7 on 231 snaps
It may be tough for Searcy to find more playing time with the combo of Jairus Byrd and George Wilson having been such a good one this season. The Bills’ fourth-round pick in 2011 showed he had something, most notably with a standout display against Miami in Week 11. A flash in the pan, or something more, only more playing time will tell.

George Wilson is an unquestioned leader on defense, played very well in 2011 and was the quarterback of the secondary, but Searcy will provide a strong push for playing time. It will likely be one of the more intriguing training camp position battles this summer.

Spiller’s Week 14 game against the Dolphins is the latest edition in our Top 10 Series and offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins is the one providing insight as we review film of the tailback’s 167 total yard performance that included a pair of touchdowns.

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For Kendrick, a devoted ballerina, Super Bowl XLVI was the first pro football game she ever attended in person. She also donated the $5,000 in prize money back to her dance studio.

Searcy chopped off all of his dreadlocks that he had during the 2011 season. Here’s his twitter avatar as proof.

One note, the last Bills players to completely shed their dreadlocks was Stevie Johnson and Donald Jones and that turned out pretty well. We’ll hope for similar results for Searcy.

In his Monday Morning QB column, King offers the following on the state of the wide receiver debate with respect to Carter, Brown and Reed.

Rotoworld’s Evan Silva has Upshaw going to the Dolphins at ninth overall, a very realistic pick for Miami. So who do the Bills go with one pick later? South Carolina do-it-all defender Melvin Ingram. Here’s their commentary on the mock pick.

10. Bills — South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram
The Bills are implementing a base 4-3 up front, but plan to be “multiple” on defense in an effort to keep offenses off balance. With versatility as his calling card, Ingram is what the doctor ordered. Ingram was productive as a 4-3 defensive tackle, 4-3 end, and 3-4 outside ‘backer in the SEC, wreaking havoc with power, explosiveness, and closing speed that jumps off the page. Buffalo finished 30th in the league in sacks in 2011, and Ingram has a knack for quarterback disruption.

Used mainly as a pass rusher by the Gamecocks, Ingram logged 17 1/2 sacks his last two collegiate seasons.