Arkady Renko
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Weren't you here a little while ago threatening to cut players from TBD and telling people to do laps?
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i really hope drew sticks around to compete for his job because i think we'll be hard pressed to find a competent backup at that cap hit or lower........
i also don't like the fact any new QB brought in will have to start from scratch on the offense, were as drew has been exposed to the playbook for over a year.......there will be a learning curve for any QB signed, which will but hand the #1 job to JP.........i think he should have to earn it........
Yeah, exactly. The marginaL cost of keeping Drew as a back-up is 1.9 million a year. Any backup that we get has to have a value and cost mix that equals Drew at 1.9 million a year to make this an even move. I am not sure if we can get that, but I guess the Bills don't have a choice in this matter...
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I'm sure the decision was made with the approval of if not the demands of Mularchy, Wyche, Clements & probably Ralph as well. This is not the Baltimore Colts where they make QB decisions at the top without notifying the people it will have the most impact on (see as the NY Post called it "Grand Theft Elway")
Worst owner in NFL history.
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Interesting, he made fans of him, not of the team. Wow, imagine a quarterback with some appeal. And how do you think people became fans of him? Maybe because he was fun to watch and made the impossible possible (like going for it in Baltimore on four and fifteen, and scrambling for an eighteen yard gain.) All of the other Bills QB's since Kelly were all about the fans loving the team, until the middle of November when we had been eliminated.
By the way, I have not heard Rich Stadium as loud as when Flutie completed that pass, until Rob Johnson came in in relief for the skins and he got sacked. RJ- the QB all Bills fans hate. Flutie, the QB Bills fans secretly know would have won that Titans game.
The problem is not that he appealed to fans, but that fans would get to the point where they were rooting for Flutie against their own team. That's when it goes too far. I don't think that RJ was better than Flutie, I just don't like the way Flutie fans act. The problem with Flutie was that you knew how far he could get you, which was the first round of the playoffs. He was a gimmicky QB that good defenses had figured out by the end of 99. He could put up amazing plays against bad to mediocre defenses but coaches like Belichick had figured out how to stop him, i.e. don't rush stay near the line of scrimmage and block his passing lanes.
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I don't think that having four team proves that a city is not a small market, but you are right that the 13th to 14th ranked media market is not small market. I just assumed it was based on the contraction discussion. I stand corrected. Let me rephrase it as I don't like the idea of throwing another teams fans under the bus large or small.
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Maybe not really in his Bills coaching career where he had Kelly the whole time, but he did repeatedly pull QBs in other stints during his coaching career most notably in KC with Steve Fuller & Bill Kenney (thank you, Labbatt).
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It's amazing how many people hate Flutie on this site. At the Chargers game in Buffalo two seasons ago, Flutie came in to relieve and the crowd went nuts, chanting Flutie, the snow was falling and the Chargers had done nothing all day. First snap the Flute completed a forty plus yarder right down the middle of the field. The Bills fans were going crazy, you would have thought we won the Super Bowl...(whatever that sounds like.)
You just illustrated why a lot of Bills fans resent Flutie. He made a lot of people fans of him rather than fans of the actual team.
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I rather they stay in Minneapolis. I don't want to throw another small market's fans under the bus. Besides, even with the Vikings in LA, there will be relocation options for the Bills. San Antonio, (Minneapolis if the team moves), Memphis, Portland, Toronto, Sacramento and who knows where else. The key for the Bills longevity is the continued support and solid ownership. Having a team in LA beforehand will only marginally help their chances to remain in upstate NY.
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Granted The Bledsoe thing didn't work out. However I feel the Milloy pickup was huge for our defense and despite being hurt was one of the main reasons in our defenes improvement when he came back later in the season. Early in the year we we're getting beaten with the deep ball. When Milloy came back this wasn't the case. He brings us stability at the safety position
About Patten. He'd be a huge upgrade over any of the wr's we currently have on our roster not named eric moulds or lee evans. I see no reason why we wouldn't want to bring in a true #3 wr threat who can solidify our wr corps and step up into the #2 role should moulds or evans get hurt.
Yeah I would love for us to upgrade at the 3 spot, but we only have so much salary cap space and I'd rather it spent to resign, Big Pat, Jonas and a TE upgrade. Often, a new starter at QB can cause a previously struggling WR to flourish. I believe this is how Moulds started...
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I am too. I am actually amazed with how many of the details he did remember correctly. This was the only part of the book that stood out to me in the error regard. Was a great book and he even got me calling April's unit the "kicking teams."
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Patten barely plays?
branch is obviousily their best wr as far as route running and speed are concerned, but to say Patten barely plays when he put up 800 yards and 7 tds. I'd like to know what he did if he actually played?
P.S He's scheduled to be and UFA. He'd look great in a bills uni. Git Er done Tom NYJ Wr's
I would rather we this time stay away from a player that the Patriots feel they can do without.
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Yeah, I know Reich started the comeback game, but they also played Houston the week before in Houston during the final game of the regular season. He said that Kelly was injured before THAT final regular season game and I was certain that the Kelly was hurt during that loss when they were trying to clinch the AFC East + Home Field. I have this image of Kelly in the Astrodome getting hit brutally mangling his knee in that one.
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Ahh, with the return of the Flutie fans come the rearing of the ugly heads of the fair weather fans. I bet your the same guy who said "if the Oilers score one more point, I turning off the tv." I would have said that you would have left the stadium, but I doubt you were there that day.
I'll be honest, when I was 10 watching that game I turned it off when it was 35-3 and turned it back on when the Bills were down only a 3 or 10 points. I wish I did watch the whole game, but I don't feel shame in giving up on them. It's easy to say you watched the whole game after the fact.
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I thought it was a real interesting read and enjoyed the fact that he wrote it himself rather than having a ghostwriter do it. Most of what he said matched up with my memory, but the story of the comeback didn't exactly. I know he says out front there would be errors so I don't mean to harp on it, but I want to know if I remember things right.
Basically, he seems to say that Kelly was injured prior to the last regular season game in Houston in 92, but I thought for sure that Kelly got injured during that game and then Reich couldn't do much. Is that wrong? Was he injured earlier. Also, he mentions the idea of going for two points in the comeback, but didn't the two point conversion not get added until the 1994 or 1995 season?
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Hey all- I am pretty pumped! I have my backpack packed and am ready for my trip. I leave Tuesday AM for Paris and will backpack Europe for 6 weeks. I will be able to catch the finale of Carnival in Nice and a Barcelona soccer game and plan on visiting 11 countrys. Cheers! Na zdraví! Salud! Skaal! Proost! A votre sante! Prosit! Kedves egeszsegere! Salute! Na zdrowie!
Go Bills!
Have fun!!! ... but what job gets you that kind of time off?
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Hurl,
last time the Bills made it to the playoffs, under Flutie, two times in fact. first time, if it wasn't for Moulds fumbling while showboating after an eighty yard catch they would have been in the AFC championship game, and second time, Flutie led them to the playoffs where he was replaced by RJ to suffer the most humiliating defeat (until this years Pittsburgh game) Face it Flutie is the only winner to helm the Bills since Kelly.
And maybe if a certain QB hadn't fumbled on the doorstep of a winning TD against Miami....
If Flutie is what made Brees good, then how do you reconcile that with Brees poor play in the previous years he was under Flutie's impressive tutelage?
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All I can say is that there were plenty of bashers before the Pitt game, and a lot more after. In mind that game was the straw that broke the camels back for a lot of folks. As hard as they wanted Drew to be the savior he was supposed to be he just isn't. I wanted him to be that guy as much as you did, but I jumped ship long ago. It's time everyone else left the titantic also.
I had major doubts about Bledsoe from the second half of 2002. My desire to have someone new has gone away from time to time especially during that winning streak, but again, I am ready for someone new. We have seen where he take us, we haven't see where someone else can take this talent.
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I didn't say he was the deciding factor in most of these games just that he played an important role. That doesn't mean that other QBs couldn't have done the same, but he was playing a real role. We did have some semblance of a passing game in many of these games.
Again, I want the Bills to go with Losman or someone else opening day next year but my main point is that people totally changed their outlook on that one loss at the end of the season.
In general, I just think you Bledsoe-bashers are right about our need for a change but the excessive exaggeration of the situation probably does more harm than good in your effort to convince the remaining holdouts. If your goal is just to radicalize each faction, I apologize for the criticism.
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Yeah in retrospect it was, but the opinion on this board was completely different in regards to Bledsoe when we were winning those games. People who were saying we would be better off with Losman at this point were being attacked for being unrealistic. The Bills were winning these games against these losing teams by huge margins, but that's what good teams do against poor competition. You don't see margins much bigger than that during the season. Do you really expect the Bills to win 70-7 in those games? Would that have made them not tricks of smoke and mirrors? Bledsoe was a substantial part of victories against three playoff teams. If things had gone differently against Pittsburgh, depending on Bledsoe's performance in the playoffs, the opinion on this board including mine would have been very different, you can't deny that. Just look at the archives...
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How many of us can make $650K per yr. to under-perform? Considering what a piece of sh-- he is as a QB, he will be extremely lucky to even be on an NFL roster come September.
So...dude... get over it... As an NFL QB, Bledsoe is as done as a Turkey left in a blazing deep fryer for 10 hours. Set your self free Bud and stop apologizing for this loser.
Underperform at 650K a year? He's playing in the best league where only the most elite talent-wise even get to sniff at being on a team's roster. The only reason he looks bad at times is because of the highest level of competitors besting him.
He may not at this point worthy to be a starting quarterback, but he most certainly has enough talent to be a back-up. This idea that he is done as an NFL QB is ludicrous.
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