Arkady Renko

A lot of mocks had the Bills picking him in the first round.

Weren't the Bills still in the playoff-hunt for that game?

Whatever defense it is, it has Kelsay covering a TE.

Well we did already see him start for the Redskins for a short stint and do quite well, actually.

If you wanted to keep Perry, then you needed to make him HC. He was not going to take a demotion especially considering that he had an offer to be a DC at a better team. Changing to the 3-4 was a bad decision. Again, the Bills are latecomers to the latest hot defense. Again, they struggle finding personnel who fit. They should have just switched to a more standard 4-3 or gone to a more pressure-packed version like the 46 or some variation.

It is blacked out on DirecTV as well. Any customer in the blacked-out station's viewing area is also blacked out. Ithaca and Utica both are blacked out on DirecTV, although Ithaca people can see the game on WBNG in Binghamton.

It is more accurate to say that the blackout area includes any station whose broadcast hits a 90 mile radius.

Syracuse is in the blackout area because back in the 1990s, it was discovered that the CBS affiliate hit a sliver of the blackout area, which means that the blackout goes to Ithaca as well. Of course, with digital broadcasts now I would be surprised if the CBS affiliate still reaches that far. Fat chance getting the blackout removed from Syracuse though. If Binghamton is showing the game, they are outside of the blackout area.

Too bad that Colts trade didn't go through.

Explain how Marshawn is better than Fred Jackson based on statistics.

Well it was pretty easy to compare Lynch and Jackson last year considering both played.

He was such a stud that he was benched for a UDFA last year.

Maybe some day we can get Yonel Jordain back.

Losing Lynch will have little effect on the Bills' chances this year. Arguably it will be a benefit. The offense is better with Jackson in the backfield.

Sunk costs. A 4th is what Marshawn was worth today. Move on.

Didn't they cut their safeties and replace them with rookies in 2007?

At least he gives a crap and is pissed when they lose. Yet somehow we knock him for that?

In the NFL, a team should be able to go from bad to mediocre or mediocre to good in just a season. Yet outside the 2001 to 2002 improvement, the Bills have never made such a leap that other teams have done time and time again. It is not just bad drafting or bad coaching. It is creating new holes unnecessarily. Almost every offseason the Bills dig themselves a new hole. Instead of focusing on addressing their existing weaknesses, they do something that creates a new weakness. 1. There was blowing up the 3rd ranked 3-4 defense and implementing an entirely new scheme (the 46). 2. There was trading away McGahee and letting Spikes and Fletcher go only to have to spend the first two draft picks in 2007 on a running back and a LB. 3. There was blowing up a mediocre offensive line only to create a league-worst OL. 4. There is forcing a switch to the 3-4 when the defense merely needed some reinforcements for run defense. These are just a few examples. I am sure others can come up with more. Instead, why didn't the Bills just keep the players they had and the schemes they had and just looked for how they could add depth and competition. Anytime there is any progress, there is this strange desire to blow something new up. I wonder if the Bills had just held tight and sought steady improvement each year that we might have a solid team today.

If we had stuck with the 4-3 we also might not have had to waste picks on defensive players.

It does not matter why a law was passed, whether for religious reasons or otherwise, so long as the law has a limited secular purpose. Even blue laws have been upheld. Of course, this is all moot because opposition to abortion need not require religious faith.

Hmm... I am surprised your argument was never addressed in the major abortion cases.

You are confusing establishing a national religion with people being motivated to support this or that policy proposal based on their religious beliefs.

They are illegal? How so?

Not everyone agrees with lots of public policy choices. Religion-based morality, gut-feeling morality, what's the diff?

I had not realized that he had such a bad track record.