Sisyphean Bills
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Disagree. Because Buffalo is a shrinking city so he brilliantly marketed to Syracuse and southern Ontario.
"Brilliant" to do what every other franchise does? Okay.
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Who is pumped for Jets V Niners next week? Hoooo boy
Hope it is on prime time.
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It's just long enough to get the new stadium built. Then you open the new stadium with a new coach, new uniforms, and hope the fans forgive you for extending the worst coach in football.
He also saw the Oilers/Titans through their multiple city hopscotch while a stadium was built. He might actually be "the right guy" for an organization undergoing this variety of chaos at this level. It's not like there are a lot of coaches out there that have been through it before.
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2 years is sort of a—yawn—modest extension, no? Like maybe ownership wants to see how the team trends post move to LA. And it's not like a coach with a year or two left on his contract has never been fired.
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Makes you wonder the line between bust and stud is often coaching and opportunity.
Might not want to dismiss Lorenzo's commitment and work-effort as major components.
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As a Texas alum, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Charlie Strong obviously had to go, but my attitude is very much prove it towards Herman. I would've rather had someone proven but if he really is the second coming of Urban Meyer, then awesome.
I'm not excited at all but time will tell.
On the upside, his wife has a twitter account.
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Jerry isn't calling the shots anymore. Which is why the cowboys are now winning.
He seems to have settled down. He stopped blowing it up every 2 to 4 years. They aren't trading up and down the draft board like a berserk yo-yo as much. He decided to stick with Romo and build a team around a QB that couldn't really carry the entire team, which has been to Prescott's advantage.
But it did take a long time and some fan suffering for JJ to learn on the job.
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Thing is in Buffalo we know that isn't the case. They were very clear at the Rex hiring presser who is in charge of what and Whaley's remit does not extend that wide. He is basically the GM in charge of formulating the roster.
Not disagreeing.
But let's close the loop. Ask yourself who did/does make those decisions.
Are you saying Jerry Jones would look hot in a dress??
Heh. No, not my point.
I happen to think "the beauty contest judge" angle is overplayed by some. It's not "great scouting" to be able to identify 10 "hot chicks" at a beauty pageant, is it? It's even worse when, if there is a slip up, the judge is excused. Well, he did get 5 out of 10!
Anyway, my point was about identity. You want a winning football program? Fine. How the !@#$ are you going to win football games? How exactly are you going to beat Belichick, the Fins, and the Jets? What is your strategy?
Falling for the first guy to run a 4.3 40 at the combine isn't a plan. Switching defensive schemes more often than your underwear isn't a plan. Drafting every size and style QB out of the freezer case on aisle 10 isn't a plan. Decide what sort of !@#$ing football team you are going to be, and that better address whipping the competition directly, do that first, and execute the **** out of that plan.
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Shwartzs scheme fit perfectly for the personnel in place which is why you saw a very good defense in 2014.
For whatever reason the Bills brass said !@#$ it and hired Rex.
I agree that the personnel fit his scheme. It was only one year. It was the definition of an anomaly.
There is a tendency for us fans to assume that any upward tick is a harbinger of a meteoric rise to greatest. It happens often enough. Some player has a good season, and it's a lock that the good times will just keep going. Unfortunately, it rarely pans out that way. e.g., Trent Edwards spends the off-season working on his putting, and the wheels come off the bus. Suits get worried and promoted, coaching staffs get fired, and the vicious circle of mediocrity spins like an empty bottle round and round and round.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the GM charged with the duty to assemble a supporting cast of talent evaluators to not only prioritize players but to make recommendations on who should be drafted and/or signed as FA's?? It seems JJ has done just that...unlike our beloved team.
One might even think that the GM's job is to run the organization. Hiring the coaches, players, et. al. and putting them under the same roof and giving them the tools to be successful together as a, you know, team.
Or maybe the job is really nothing more than a beauty pageant judge. "What do we know about her?" "She's hot." "And?" "She's hot in a dress."
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I agree regarding the underachievement of the defense. Theyre certainly not horrible but they just have been a bit of a letdown overall so far since the regime change. I think mostly everyone expected the defense to carry the offense the majority of the time and though they have certainly carried the offense numerous times, the majority of the time they havent.
To reiterate the most telling number over the past 26 games: we are 7-7 when we score more than 25 points. During the same stretch the Chiefs are 11-1 when they score 25pts or more.
Not saying we should be 12-2 in those games but putting up +25 we should have a solid winning record like 10-4 over those 14 games. Again thats the difference between a .500 team and a playoff team.
I'm going to disagree and say 2014 was a one year in a row, card carrying, anomaly. That is, the defense has been otherwise mediocre to poor under two regimes. In historical context, Rex Ryan's defense has been a statistical improvement over every "sling a bunch of stuff against the wall" attempt made under Buddy Nix's reign.
One has to go back to Dick Jauron to find defenses that were as consistently mediocre to drifting above average as the Ryan defense. Between, the D sucked hugely.
The Bills really haven't had great defenses in a generation. Gregg Williams rebuilt the defense into a good unit before he walked the plank, and it fell apart under Mularkey and Marv Levy. Steady excellence? Wade Phillips, as he seems to always do, had an excellent unit.
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I just dont find this to be a big deal.
I'd be willing to bet if they launched an investigation for academic ineligibility into every school, Half of the record book would need to be re-written.
Why think so small?
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Drew Brees was a high 2nd - he's been pretty good too, no? If I've said it once I've said it a million times.... it comes down to talent evaluation. Picking a guy in the top 5 is no guarantee if you have not evaluated the guy properly. The guys who come later pan out less.... but that generally suggests that despite a high % of busts NFL teams are normally pretty good at working out who the good Quarterbacks are - although arguably also that 1st round picks get longer to prove it. If Alex Smith has his first 5 years in the league as 3rd rounder he is out of the league by year 6 when it turned around for him.
It's really important to hire a coach who can only operate his own "diametrically opposed to the current roster" system every 2 or 3 years. Adios, Rex!
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As for QB success being the entire key to their system, I'd argue it's the entire key to everyone's system but not everyone realizes it. It's just that very few teams have been able to get top ten or twelve QBs on their roster. And there's very little chance at a Lombardi without a top ten or twelve guy. You have to have a top ten or twelve defense of all time to have a decent chance of success with a QB below that level.
Seems a little strange in the context of this thread. Dak Prescott wasn't drafted in the top 10 or 12. (For that matter, Russell Wilson, Tom Brady, and Derek Carr weren't either and those are the 4 best teams in the NFL at the moment record-wise.)
Sammy is not similar to Dez...Not by a long shot.
They both get paychecks from NFL teams.
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Wasn't it Rex who said just get me good players?
I guess by good players he meant all pros at every position for his defense to be successful....
Straw-man. No one has All Pros at every position, yet every year some defense is ranked #1.
It's just reality that if a new kahuna wants to, say, run an ground-and-pound style of offense, then it doesn't really accelerate anything if the last guy running the show drafted a bunch of small WRs that aren't willing to block, OL that are solid pass protectors, etc. And it may not really help if the new head man starts off day one with a statement like, "This entire roster is pure crap. I'm getting rid of all of you." That might demotivate a few people.
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The love-fest started when he put out the #4 defense in the league that carried an anemic offense to 9 wins. Not when he left, as you attempt to characterize it.
IIRC, the concerns about Schwartz were mostly predicated on running a bland, relatively blitzless 4-3 scheme similar to Wannstedt, with no true DE to play opposite of Mario (this was when Jerry Hughes was used only situationaly the year before, lots of ? about his ability to play the run and set edges). Luckily, his scheme actually fit our personnel like a glove (Career years for close for all of our D-line), we got lucky with a few picks contributing a lot early (Preston Brown, Sammy), Leodis McKelvin had his best year of his career (in large part to Donnie Henderson), and we had very few defensive "needs," with Schwartz.
I wouldn't call not expecting all that "fickle," especially not 1 year removed from one of the worst defenses in Bills history that was schematically similar.
Good point. Schwartz did inherit the right pieces, but he was able to turn that unit around as well. He really did benefit from the second rebuild under Chan Gailey when he went all-in with Wannstedt after the disaster of the 3-4 switch Buddy and Edwards failed to deliver. (I still wonder what would've happened if Gailey had went all-in with getting this team a stud QB, but, well, Chan is still tinkering with Fitzpicks ... so that was never in the cards. <sigh>)
Rex inherited a defensive squad that didn't really fit his system, and it hasn't been so great.
It's virtually a tradition for the Bills to dismantle and rebuild the defense with each new coaching staff. You get numb to it. Tequila helps.
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I'm making no excuses for Mario - NONE. I am just pointing out that the idea he left the building with Schwartz is a misnomer.
It doesn't make sense to me why people think it is not being a good Bills fan to say.... "we screwed the pooch letting him go."
I think one could be a total zealot and say that.
Of course, I would also point out that burning a huge chunk of cap on a player that wasn't producing is also screwing the pooch and really indefensible.
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The polite thing to do is to ask his wife.
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Gronk usually gets away with initiating contact and either flops or pulls the guy down with him and draws a flag, glad to see he didn't get that call...
Since the typical post rips on officiating, I'd like to congratulate the officials on that play. They made the right call and didn't just "give it to them."
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Great game.
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Moneyball and analytics is panning out big time.
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BTW, this cop car has California plates.
The irony is that calling all Trump protesters rioters is no different than calling all Trump supporters Klansmen.
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Now tell me that if Hiliary had won the Democrats would not be doing the same thing.
Of course they would, and Republicans would be protesting and crying, and both sides would still be throwing the epithets around liberally.
Compare and contrast
Carson Wentz Exposed
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Maybe. Tom Brady was very far from a finished product early on, worked (and works) like crazy, and turned himself into the all-time winningest QB in history. So, yes, it can be done. It is anything but a given though. There are tons of guys that work hard (Tim Tebow had bad mechanics and worked his nads off to correct it) and don't amount to much in the end. And there are, of course, the JaMarcus Russell types as well.