Arkady Renko
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I will be happy as long as we can get a quarterback in here who will wear #11 and start another QB controversy.
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That's kinda defeatist, get on a campaign, run yourself...it's a good feeling to be part of the process. You feel like you are making a difference - and you are. I don't really think that you hate me, but you too are thinking about leaving the area..It's not a easy thing to do. I came to central Florida for the Sun but also because of the shrinking employment base. That was 20 years ago and, trust me, I'm still home sick many times throughout the year. I love WNY
Jeff
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.
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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...
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I have some favorites:
Peter Warick
TJ Housh
Plax Burress (I say Hines is the #1)
Anybody catch the north-south game? Damn Jerome Mathis looks good!!!
I dont think this is a NEED but rather a would-be-nice. How sweet would it be to have a 2000 Rams like WR corp?
Evans/Moulds/Burress WOWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Hoping for these folks to be our third WR seems a little greedy to me, but it would be nice...
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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...
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The fact of the matter is that the old steel belt is going down like a dinosaur and there is nothing that anyone can do about it. THERE IT HAD TO BE SAID. Most younger people have moved out of the area for a solid future. Are they wrong to do this? I did it and I don't think that it was a wrong decision. Look, It is a very difficult situation to watch, but we can't honestly say that we didn't see this coming?
Jeff
Except that many other rust belt cities are handling the industrial transition much better than Buffalo. What makes Buffalo different? Worst fiscal policy on the local and state side.
Raising taxes and more spending has been tried plenty before. How about something new for a change? You yourself are saying that you left Buffalo b/c of the problems there yet you don't want them to try anything different in order to solve them?
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No to mention, the "government employees" are not the ones that people think. They aren't the lackeys in the office or the morons who caused this problem. They are regular people, people who now are jobless in an area where there are already a bunch of jobless people in Western NY. I think a tiny tax increase would have been a better move than laying off employees. Or how about paycuts for the BIG government employees? I'd like to see Giambra take one...
I'd also like to see that !@#$ing moron mayor of Rochester take the !@#$ing Fast Ferry the hell out of here before it causes any more problems. !@#$ing Johnson! :I starred in Brokeback Mountain:
Yeah, I think most people would be in agreement that the govt employees that should be laid off are the middle managing beauracrats that take up too much of the budget. Raising taxes however, would be a destructive move. The area has lost enough jobs and people already. More taxes will just further the downward spiral.
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I think that too much of the problem with Buffalo comes from the folks over in Albany. If it didn't, why is every other upstate city sucking?
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Also, wasn't ESPN saying that Garcia had problems adjusting to Cleveland after being a NoCal boy most of his life? Why would Buffalo be any different?
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Word is that Feeley will start and I think Fiedler will then depart. I wouldn't mind if he was the guy that we signed. He has had a history of putting up good records while QBing teams with a good running game and good defense. There would be others I would take ahead of him, but I think the pickings won't be that great for QBs willing to play back-up.
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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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OT- I-Pod help
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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.