Arkady Renko

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.

I don't mind the latter proposal, but I don't think Garrard is worth a damn and who the heck is Ragone?

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?

3-0? Wasn't it like 2-1 or something? Either way... .I remember him putting up like 13 points or something during those games.

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?

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.

You can be my man-valentine, Jack

Weren't you here a little while ago threatening to cut players from TBD and telling people to do laps?

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...

That's why you are seeing all those bring back RJ posts on this board.

Worst owner in NFL history.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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...

Shane Matthews is dragging the team down, bring back Jim Ballard.

This reminds me of the current debate about Iraq...

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."

I would rather we this time stay away from a player that the Patriots feel they can do without.

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.

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.

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?

Have fun!!! ... but what job gets you that kind of time off?