Arkady Renko

Why would we have any reason to doubt MM? Every other decision of his has worked out well.

It is unfortunate that back in the offseason it was not more apparent that Williams is who was stopping the run game, not Sam Adams.

He's too busy working on his billion dollar hedge fund to bother learning defensive calls.

While in my opinion it sucks whenever a team abandons a city that supports it, I find some of complaints to be a little exaggerated. 1. Cleveland was promised a team and a definite time table for when they would get the team very soon after the Browns moved to Baltimore. 2. Cleveland got to keep the name and the team records from the old franchise. 3. There is a lot of grief given to Baltimore for taking the team away, but when the Colts moved away from Baltimore in 1984 the NFL made no such promise to Baltimore that they would soon return, nor did they strip Indianapolis of the Colts name or the Colts records. The NFL had an opportunity to bring the NFL back to Baltimore in 1995 but decided that a joke of a city like Jacksonville should get a team instead. There were no plans for further expansion any time soon so Baltimore's only chance of gaining a team was doing to another city what was done to them. In the end, it seems to me that Cleveland ended up better off than Baltimore for each city's loss of team (success on the field not-withstanding).

Bryant McKinnie was the other LT available. How did he turn out? I have lost track. (Not sarcasm.)

The Bennie Anderson Experiment sounds like a good name for a rock band. (Dave Barry)

Yes

Can someone tell me how Holcomb was with the deep ball back in Cleveland? Examining his tenure there in comparison should allow us to decide how big an issue his arm strength is.

Thanks for the advice. Considering the cost (insurance does not cover vision) I think I would go get a second opinion if I found some indication that an eye infection or severe allergies (both things I recently suffered) caused my myopia. My attempt to find evidence that either of the two things cause myopia has thus far been fruitless.

Out of blue, I found out that I have myopia at the age of 23 and now have glasses. All literature I have seen indicates that it is rare to get it so late. I am wondering if anyway else here has ever gotten it after age 20. What bothers me is that these vision issues didn't really appear until I had an eye infection in one of my eyes this summer. The nurses at the time kept on retesting my eyes and then didn't mention anything of the fact that I was awful both times. They just gave me eye drops and sent me along my way. So ever since then, I had issues reading road signs and sports scores on TV. However, when I later was diagnosed with myopia by a doctor and opthamologist they brushed aside the eye infection as a coincidence and that I probably was myopic already. I don't know... everyone thinks I am crazy that the two things are connected, but I cannot escape the significant difference between my eyesight before and after I had that infection. Perhaps it's silly to discuss a medical topic here, but I was wondering if anyone here had gotten myopia late and whether they knew about an eye infection causing an issue with vision.

I totally forgot about George Wilson. He's still on this team?

That Chicken Fries song is pretty awesome...

In your shoes, perhaps I might have had some pithy statements running through my head. In reality, though, I don't think I would have had the stomach to say a single thing to the man. I think you did the right thing. I doubt he would be open to any meaningful interviews that you could have used as a reporter and you avoided giving him the attention he apparently desperately craves.

Career advice is usually just telling people what worked for you. What helped Manning may not be crucial for other QBs. Brady, Pennington, blah, blah.

Perhaps you are right about the running game, but all that had JP due was throw short to medium routes and he was badly overthrowing or underthrowing those fairly easy passes time after time. In general, JP's failure to convert third downs drastically changed the course of the game and it's hard to really compare the game plans for each QBs because of that fact. The difference between JPL and Jake Plummer is that during Plummer's first season, he was quickly showing flashes of amazing talent, running and throwing quick, accurate balls. His problem were INTs, not complete inaccuracy. Isn't it likely that JPL will be getting in the game again anyways? I don't mean that the Bills season will fall apart (which I am always worrying about no matter how rosy the picture is) but Holcomb has had injury problems in the past and I am sure there will be some games where the outcome is no longer in doubt and they will give Losman some reps.

The Bills always seem to face tough teams coming off a bye... A hungry Patriots team, smarting from a loss along with an extra week to prepare, scares me. This makes the Raiders game that much important, IMO.

You didn't do that in 2002? 2003? 1999? 2000?

I hope you don't consider dumping on TD and JPL as giving up on the season.

Note: "One of the best"

Wasn't it 28-3? Wouldn't a 25 point comeback rank as one of the best in history? Very sad...

Makes the Bills victory over them look less impressive unfortunately.

No Canadian spellings here please.

Once we hit 5-6 losses, we should play JPL. Until then, we have a season to salvage.

If anything the Bills blitz too much lately, if you ask me. That is exactly what they should not be doing against people like Vick and Brooks yet, that's all they have been doing especially when they already have the other team pinned to a 3rd and long.

In 2 of the 3 losses the Bills' D faced two scrambling QBs. I am wondering when was the last time the Bills actually really contained a scrambling QB? Seems like the defense has always struggled against them, even mediocre ones like Tony Banks and Aaron Brooks. I do not understand why Gray cannot figure out how to adjust his defense to better defend against the Vicks and the Brooks of the league, but I wonder whether at the end of the season the defensive performance will really turn out to be that much different than the year before. Perhaps the Bills simply have run into offenses that match up well against them. I expect the defense to be suffocating this Sunday against Gus Ferotte