Arkady Renko

How's the economy doing in October?

Donahoe hired two bad coaches and swung and missed three times on the QB position (keeping Johnson, Bledsoe, Losman). I don't know if he was worse than Levy, but he certainly was bad.

Yep.

NYT does not charge for anything that I can think of anymore. To be fair, my local paper mainly had sensational news stories and wire service reports when I was growing up (80s-90s). Not much different than what you see on CNN and Yahoo today.

And some decent mini-golf nearby.

How is the NY Times on the web any worse than what is in the printed newspaper? Would you bet that your nieces and nephews have never read newspaper articles online?

Copyright is very fluid area of the law, but briefly quoting an article and providing links to the source of that quote is not necessarily any sort of copyright violation. Or -- to be more precise -- the violation can be defended as fair use. You can certainly quote another's work and comment on it, the question is how much of it you can. I am not sure the newspapers have such an airtight copyright case against bloggers as some may seem to think. If you listened to some in the media, TBD should be paying content providers for what TBD puts on the front page of this site.

I think there would be anti-trust concerns with that model.

There's not even one in Rochester.

Link?

I hope someone can answer your question, it is a good one.

Huh? I thought he got put into the guard spot early because we needed to replace someone there.

Sources deep within my belly say that the Bills will not sign Jones.

Maybe he should hire KC Joyner to do PR for him.

John McCargo is already on the team.

I am too young to have seen him played, but he sounds like a great guy. Very sad.

IIRC, the June 1st cuts do not have any real meaning. You can get the same result and cut players earlier.

There's always OTA...

Anything new about Losman?

Enh, who cares? Who goes to the Super Bowl to see it live? It doesn't matter to me where it is.

Link?

Tim: You are tasked with saving the newspaper industry. What do you do?

[Comment From Brandon P] I thought Ashton Youboty exceled at the Nickel position until he was injured last year - do the Bills still like him at that spot? Or do you think they stacked up on DBs in the draft due to a lack of confidence there? 12:43 Mark Gaughan: I think they do still like him. He will give Drayton Florence a strong push at slot corner. I know there was a lot of gnashing of teeth over why they took corners late. I don't see the problem. Those guys go down all the time with ankle/leg tweaks. You need a flock of them. Plus, late in the draft all the big men on defense are gone - most of the time (Mark Anderson of Chicago, a 7th rounder, being a huge exception.) ... But the list of prospects on D-line and O-line were very depleted late in the day. There's more prospects, in general, at corner. It's easier to find a corner who can run 4.57 than a D-lineman worth a darn in the 7th round. I heard good things about the 7th-rounder from West Virginia. He can run. He runs in the low 4.5s.

It's sad that you don't get to hear such good things about people until they've left this world. RIP, Linda.

I don't want to speak for Tim, but I imagine it's hard not to be annoyed when it's just email after email and post after post saying the same bs to him.