Arkady Renko

...about who the starting QB should be. Sportscenter says they are going to talk about it soon. I imagine it's Bledsoe, but who knows.

Where is the original article? This is scaring me as well...

I don't think that DRM or the DMCA are good things, but I think that many consumers are to blame for this by their excessive pirating that got all of the industry freaked. I hate the corporations involved in the stripping of fair-use more, but piraters aren't helping things either. (I have been reformed since my sophomore year in college). I also think that some DRM is worse than others. Apple's version is about as liberal as you can get with unlimited iPod copying and a large 5 computer limit which can be circumvented cheaply with one CD-RW and some time.

Hmm.... I am trying to find the part in the press release where Drew says that he didn't have this kind of help... please help me out if you can find it.

That doesn't look like Don Banks.....

Yeah, also did so for Doug Fluite for some reason. Not sure why, I just got used to it. I felt bad for Johnson during those pathetic efforts in TB and with the Raiders.

I can understand Bledsoe taking either stance: wanting to be a starter and nothing else or wanting to extend out his career as long as possible. Taking the latter route means that he can move on with his life and taking the former is understandable in that he loves the game so much he doesn't care what capacity in which he is involved. If he's a starter some where, I'll be cheering for him to succeed if it doens't hurt the Bills, just like I rooted for Todd Collins and Rob Johnson in their very limited roles post-Buffalo. I never feel like these players we want gone aren't trying to suck, they just can't help it. I have no problem with them turning it around somewhere else.

Yeah so this is why we shouldn't be looking to sign QBs like Warner. They will have the same problem as Drew would have in this new offense.

That really was his downfall much more so than his problems in the pocket. You can be a pure pocket-passer and still succeed but you have to be able to take advantage of the blitz with screens. You know, we criticize Gilbride for his use of personnel but it seems that he had the right offense for Bledsoe, one that stretches the field and gambles.

I am not a gambler so I have no idea about this, so I thought I would ask it to the folks here who are. Have the odds of the Bills winning the Super Bowl changed in the past few days? If so, have they improved or worsened since the Bills announced their move to release Bledsoe?

You'll have to use iTunes. If haven't used it, I would recommending using this as an excuse to try it out.

To a lesser extent Favre: 7004 Attempts 226 INTs INTs per attempt=0.0323 Bledsoe's INTs per attempts:0.0299 (I do not think that Bledsoe is close to being as good as Favre, nor am I saying that we should have kept Drew Bledsoe. I just don't see the point of continually pissing on Bledsoe since he's already leaving and just paid the fans a huge compliment.)

Or something that comes from the violent sport of pro football?

This all reminds me of when Drew Bledsoe came to the team and when Wade Philips got fired.

I have a feeling that if Bledsoe had said, yeah, I can't do it anymore everyone would be jumping on him saying that he was a quitter and a loser and that is why he failed here. Give me a break...

Yeah, I thought Bledsoe didn't fumble enough.

Wow, someone actually overestimated his own ability? That's a big surprise, especially in an athlete.... In other news, Paul Krugman just wrote a column attacking Bush and the sun rose today.

What do you expect to them to do against the 49ers and Cardinals? Win 70-0? They completely dominated those games just like a good team should. The Jets and the Patriots played the exact same teams yet we don't discount those wins from their record. They were what their record said they were, a 9-7 team against a fairly difficult schedule.

Scratch that, I misread your question. The first reply seems correct to me.

I don't have an iPod Mini, just a 3G iPod, but on mine you go to Browse from the main menu and then chose songs you have them ordered by song name. I do not think you can change this, but maybe the mini is different.

I will be happy as long as we can get a quarterback in here who will wear #11 and start another QB controversy.

Dude, I don't hate you at all. I just don't get why you'd support higher taxes there. I apologize if it seemed like it got personal at all.

I don't hate you for leaving. I also am not from Buffalo, but central NY. Likely, I will have to leave central NY soon. Not because of a desire to do so but because of limited opportunities here. I don't fault people for leaving because of opportunities I fault people who leave for better opportunities and than hope for the status quo in their old home towns. As far as voting goes, I do vote for folks who will cut back on government, but I am only one vote...

Hoping for these folks to be our third WR seems a little greedy to me, but it would be nice...

I hate to be an ass and link to something that I wrote myself, but I tried to outline all of the many reasons why I think NYC's drags down upstate New York cities here: http://jfaux.blogspot.com/2005/02/51st-state.html Just my humble opinion on the subject. Listening to people living in Buffalo, though, it appears that the local government does much damage on its own too...