Arkady Renko

It's kind of interesting that the Steelers handled the Dolphins better despite starting their back-up QB--a bigger deal than missing your top WR--and yet the Bills are considered the worse team despite almost beating the Patriots without Branch.

I would like to see someone try to write a coherent enough email to them to get them to talk about it. I agree with Adam that good teams overcome bad calls, but it bothers me that it always seems to be overemphasized when it happens to other teams than when it happens to the Bills.

pti@espn.com I think

Is that really a highlight show?

Someone has hinted at this before, but if Smith was pumped for information and then cut, I think he would notice it. I would think, then, that he would rat out BB on this tactic. My feeling and hope is that he is one of those players that a team thinks is a steal on the waiver wire but then it turns out there was a reason why he was cut the week before.

Which cars?

Seat belts have to be one of the cheapest things you can do to avoid dying prematurely. A ruffled suit and a little less range of motion is definitely worth decreasing your risk of death. Doing a Google search, I found some statistics from NHSTA about seat-belt use. About 75% of Americans wear their seat belts regularly but those who do not wear them account for 60% of all traffic fatalities. Seventy-three percent of the people who were involved in a fatal crash in 2001 and were restrained survived; of those who were not restrained, only 44 percent survived. I am happy to take risks, sometimes riskier things than going without a seat belt, but this one doesn't seem worth it. But hey, I understand that people who were not brought up to wear them have a hard time changing. So many times I have had to remind my 60 year old father to buckle-up when driving with him and it still hasn't stuck. And he's been in a bad car accident before.

summarize?

Did someone ever figure out why this guy broke out of prison a day before he was going to be let out?

I think being appreciative of Canadian fans and not being happy with speculative talk up North about bringing the Bills to Toronto are not mutually exclusive.

The problem with the defense was the blitzing. The scheme and Gray just were too blitz happy... that's how you get a bad 3rd Down Conversion rate. Anything is better than last year.

I am pretty sure that the only flexible schedule is moving games from Sunday day to Sunday Night. Contrary to ESPN's belief... Monday Night Football moved to Sundays and Sunday Night Football moved to Mondays. NBC has the premiere games.

Maybe part of that was that you shouldn't be blitzing in that situation as Gray normally did. I believe that even when the Bills defense was good under him there was a bad 3rd down conversation rate.

What was that name of that good RB from NFLE who would always be the best runner for the Bills in the preseason and always be cut?

Weren't they .500 with him as QB last year? I'd think that if the Bills were somehow competitive this year, a small stretch of .500 play wouldn't be a big deal.

Here, here! I am so sick of the need to hate certain Bills and try to run them out of town. It's not like there's any rhyme or reason to it. There a lot of players who have fell short over the years. It's not like these players have been locker-room cancers, cocky or anything else. They want to play? How dare they? How dare they even attempt to make the team?? The hatred of Holcomb is the funniest to me. Losman plays terribly for awhile and Mularkey with his quick trigger finger puts Holcomb on the field. Holcomb has his limits and did the best with them. Should he have refused to play? Should have not taken advantage of the opportunity? Should he have committed ritual suicide so that nothing stood in the way of Losman's coronation?

Sunk costs. It shouldn't matter what you spent or already put in.

Both TV and KH will be on the team after today. I will make this bet any day. I really doubt there will be any surprise cuts. But... I am going to throw out one just in case... Roscoe Parrish.

Huh?

3-13 8-8 6-10 9-7 5-11 5 QBs 2 HCs 3 OCs

Lost in all of this is the nice things she said about her husband when she didn't have to. He must feel pretty good.

She looks better on footage I saw of her playing basketball.

Evans, Price, Parrish, Reed, Aiken and Davis will make the team, I think. Tasker or Gus Johnson said that Jauron indicated that he would probably keep an extra WR b/c of how the STs are structured. That's 6... am I forgetting someone?

Both were hot teams that finished strong mainly against losing teams to go to 9-7. Any other similarities? I must say that the Dolphins are one of the most overhyped teams this year. Super Bowl? I will take that bet.

HD, how does it feel to be vindicated about Donahoe?