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Red Squirrel

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  1. As for Ryan versus Mangini, Ryan got the Jets a playoff win which is something I would take in Buffalo.  While he inherited a lot of talent he also had a rookie QB who was erractic and cost the Jets multiple games.I am not saying Ryan is in the elite of coaching but he has reenergized the fanbase in New York.

     

    I'm not so sure I agree with the highlighted part; I'm in their media market, and my sense is while there are some Jets fans that eat up the trash talk, Ryan is still viewed warily here. They know they really jumped the gun by nicknaming their previous fat slob coach "Mangenius"; they know that for all Mangini's quirks, he didn't leave the cupboard bare. And there is some recognition that shooting your mouth off like Ryan does creates bulletin board material. Of course, one more win, and he'll be the best thing since Rockne, because that's just the way Jets fans are.

  2. There's a lot of breathless talk about these coordinators turning down interviews; let's see how uninterested they are after their teams are eliminated. An awful lot of this talk from Schottenheimer and Grimm (which we haven't actually heard from his mouth) could be designed to show their current players they are still loyal to them. Let's see what happens after this weekend's games. The two guys I mentioned might be done for the year, or other names might pop up from eliminated teams. I can only speak for myself, but the only experienced coach I liked going into this process was Cowher, and I like him less and less every time I see him grunting and slobbering his way through another halftime show on CBS. And I HATED how Donahoe rushed out and signed Greggggg and deemed it more important to sign a HC rightnow than to give proper consideration to candidates that still had teams in the playoffs. I am still patient about this process.

  3. when you've gone

     

    vs Alabama

    @ Florida

    vs Georgia

    @ LSU

    @ Auburn

     

    for the last month, I'm going to be he last guy to give you sugar about playing Tech.

     

    #1, you probably heard some knob on ESPN or CBS say this, and they have a vested interest in hyping a product they've paid a lot of money for.

    #2, if many teams within your league have weak non-conference schedules, then you can't compare yourself in a positive OR negative way with other conferences; this is just common sense.

    #3, when you have the 4 tomato cans in the beginning, you only need 2 wins afterward to be bowl eligible; this has already happened several times, and not just in the SEC.

    #4, the scheduling scenario you describe DOESN'T EXIST.

  4. The SEC has HUGE built in advantages; in most conferences, there are only one or two schools that get quality fan support win or lose; that number is about 7 in the SEC. A big reason for this is in darn near every SEC town, there is no competition for the sports fan's dollar. So the stadiums are just rockin'. And that is great. And what follows, obviously, are massive athletic department budgets, fantastic facilities, salaries for coaches that would cause our team's owner to have a stroke. The problem is that SEC schools are also bullies. They regularly schedule almost all of their non-conference games at home against tomato cans. The 12th game in the schedule...in the PAC-10, it became a conference game. In the SEC, it's a game against a Louisiana directional school. Most fans who are serious about college football know this; it's why we hate the SEC, and root against it even when it means rooting for other schools with severely skewed priorities like Texas.

    Basically, what I'm saying is: SEC fans, keep up the chant. You can win 6 out of 10 BCS championships, and you still are underachievers.

  5. If true, it's a typical uninspired hire at a time when the franchise is at a crossroads and cannot afford another blunder. This guy seems like more of a Jauron clone tha say a Mike Tomlin. Be ready for the "He's the guy we targeted all along" presser from Nix. Garbage. The Tampa 2 only works with exceptional athletes. Newsflash: we don't have them. This team needs to go to a 3-4 and stock up on LB's . Then get a true noseman. It will take far too long for this team to be any good running a cover 2 scheme. We need new players at almost every position in the front 7 to be effective. Get Harbaugh. At least he's been a head coach at some level and turned around a joke of a college program.

     

    You're kind of blurring two issues here; first off, no defense works well without good athletes (and I agree that we don't have enough of them). Secondly, cover 2 is about having the safeties play deeper, one on each side of the field. This part of the scheme is something the Bills executed EXTREMELY well this year (were 1st or 2nd most of season in passer efficiency rating defense). There is nothing written in stone saying a cover 2 has to be with a 4-3 or 3-4 front, and there is no requirement that the D has small players, like Jauron and Fewell wound up putting on the field this year (perhaps it is over this issue that Nix views Frazier as an upgrade over Fewell). It IS necessary to have one LB on the field who can cover the middle of the field as well as a DB, but most teams regardless of scheme try to have a guy like that out there, anyway.

     

    I've posted before on Harbaugh; I saw enough of him the last couple years that I can say with conviction that he is a much better recruiter and motivator than game coach. He makes strange decisions, and IMO we'll be better off if he stays where he is.

  6. Speaking for myself, one thing that marred his desirability WRT to coaching here, was the implications he made about Hull.

     

    I agree with this. Back when I was an unrefined little pisspot, I thought it was hilarious when Haslett kicked Terry Bradshaw in the head. It wasn't; it was a punk move by a guy that is better at getting attention for himself than anything else. Just like his rambling about steroids.

  7. 22 penalties..and don't say it's just because the 49ers didn't mentally show up that day. I've had seasons for 14 years and that day was the loudest I've seen that stadium on a consistent basis in that time. Their LT was frazzled because it was his first start, he was facing BRUCE, and he couldn't hear the snap count. We even had Steve Young so frazzled that he lined up behind the G at first on one play

     

    The points you make are fair, but my recollection is there were several pass interference penalties on SF early in the game. These types of penalties wouldn't have much to do with crowd noise (other than to increase it afterwords). I readily admit that I am going solely on memory here, because complete historical boxscores and game reports are hard to find. And whether it was 25 or 22 is not exactly turning my argument on it's ear.

     

    Meanwhile, the Pats are getting punked, and I'm sure we agree that's a good thing.

  8. I ignored it because everything you wrote had nothing to do with your claim that RJ's supporters are the ones who keep dragging things up. I think that 99% of RJ's supporters at the time fully realize his abilities by now.

     

    If you're referring specifically to his performance in that one game, then everyone also forgets that Wade decided to play Fina with a bad leg in the first quarter against one of the better pass rushers that year, which led to Titans' early points. Take that, and a few questionable calls that went against Buffalo in the first half and I think that Johnson played very well in the second half to put his team in a position to win. The way Flutie finished the second part of '99 doesn't give me much confidence that the result would have been much different.

     

    I guess you misunderstood something I typed in a prior post, and I have no idea why. I never said anything bad about Johnson's performance in the Tennessee game. But once again, you prove my initial point; you have excuses out your wazoo about why Johnson didn't leave that game with a 158 passer rating, but you just won't concede that the same reasons why he didn't could possibly account for why Flutie had a few ragged games in '99. One game that was quite similar was the Baltimore game. It was obvious that the Ravens were building a top D (see: the following season), but winning the game wasn't enough. The AZ game, which I was at, a Cards DB who never made a good play his entire pro career made a circus catch INT. The two losses in the middle of the season against the Raiders and Seahawks...no defense those two days, and the Bills had to chuck and chuck and chuck the whole game. See what I mean? Excuses are easy to come by, and I could say the same thing you did...how would those games be different with Johnson? And there is an obvious answer....Rob would eventually have fallen on the ball again, and Doug would have been back out of necessity.

    And on that note, I'm outta here.

  9. Actually I think it's the opposite, Flutopians can't let go of the myth, because the little guy got a raw deal. Perhaps. But it's not like he was going to win against top teams which was the crux of the debate at the time.

     

    I think that even the hardest RJ supporters of the time can admit that the guy just didn't have the full package to succeed in the game. However, back then it was obvious to most observers that Flutie's game had topped out and he had serious issues playing against top teams. By 1999 he was shot and didn't look much better in 2000. So realistically it always made more sense to go with the younger guy to see if he would amount to anything. Unfortunately, the RJ experiment failed, but it's not like things would have been rosy if Flutie was retained. By his second year in SD, he lost his job to a rookie.

     

    Hmmm. Almost sounds fair, if you can overlook the patronizing use of the term "Flutopians". But then you pretty much ignored what I wrote, and then added something that is utter nonsense about 2000.

  10. Huzzah for Flutie for most of 1998, boo for Flutie in the 1998 post-season. For ALL of 1999, he sucked on ice.

     

    And you're living in a dream world if you think things would have been better in 1999 if Johnson had been the starter...and my evidence is...2000! And 2001!

  11. You must have forgotten how the 1998 season ended. And you must have forgotten that the Bills led by Johnson HAD THE GAME WON.

     

    I'll forgive you, but only because it was A DECADE AGO.

     

    You must have forgotten how the 1998 season started; and you must have forgotten how things worked out the next season, too. And the one after that.

  12. A post that makes sense. Everyone wants to draft a QB with the first pick. First I will put out there that I hate Fitz. He is terrible, and was terrible last year in CIN. Edwards and Brohm still have potential and I think you have to start with the OL. Do we need to draft a OL with the first pick? I would say no because that doesn't fix anything then put another Rookie on a young inexperienced OL. They need to draft a LB and use FA to pick up at least a LT if not another OL position. I also think Edwards or Brohm need to be giving a chance. YEAH YEAH YEAH, "Edwards has had his chance". Got it. Levitre, Wood, Harga, Butler have had their's as well. Dump them all if you think that is the correct way to go. Build a line this year and put noodle arm or Brohm back there next year to see what they got behind a OL that can block.

     

    Fitz as primary passer: 5-4 (won last 3 in Cincy last year, too)

    Edwards: 1-5

     

    I'm not in love with Fitz, either. He had a few games where it looked like if he tried to pee on the field, he would have missed it. But the record is the record. The *team* plays far better with Fitz, and Edwards needs to reestablish himself somewhere else.

  13. Getting rid of Flutie was the BEST move they ever made. I hated him at QB. His run first and throw when he felt like it was a joke and every decent defense that he played figured him out and shut him down,

     

    Now for the truth: (as Bills) Johnson: 1 rush per 6.0 pass attempts. Flutie, 1 rush per 6.2 pass attempts.

     

    Do I have to drag out the sacks per pass attempt stat, too?

  14. Don't recall saying I was a RJ homer or that I agreed w/the decision you jack a$$. Where exactly did I say that? I commented on the fact he made a great throw to PP, was poised through out the game etc... Read the post. I said that could have been his defining moment. Never mentioned the rest of his career etc. BTW... the turn around in the 98 season started in game 4 w/ Johnson at QB vs. the 49's.

    If I'm not mistaken Flutie only becomes QB after Johnson falls on the ball and hurts his ribs in Indy, another game they were winning with Johnson. Again, I'm not saying I was a fan of Johnson, I'm just pointing out things that actually happened back then at the time. Myself, I preferred Flutie back then. They would win ugly and he would do the little things. BTW Flutie didn't get run out of town until the new regime took over after 2000 season. Back then, I too thought they should have kept Flutie over Johnson but that wasn't what my post was about.

     

    Johnson's performance in the 49ers game is kind of overstated. The 49ers just didn't mentally show up for the game. They had something like 25 penalties that day. And eventually they did wake up and almost came back to win it.

     

    I agree with you that RJ did a heckuva job against the Titans; I don't think that winning the game would have altered the future for him. He was just a fragile guy (his wikipedia entry describes his elbow tendon before Tommy John surgery as being frayed from overuse; if I were him, I'd edit that myself, because that's just embarrassing), and he reacted horribly to defensive pressure.

     

    Somebody here asks the question, why is this still going on? Here's an answer: Johnson's fans, much like Edwards' fans today, have a litany of excuses why their man doesn't do better. Which is fine. Until they forget that the guy they don't like is winning with the same bad O-line, the same dumb coaches, etc.

  15. If we draft McCoy, I could see this song replacing "Shout" as the Bills song. Please people, if you need religion so much in your life that you have to talk about all the time no matter what, stay in church on Sundays and leave football to the rest of us.

     

    Amen. No pun intended.

  16. Great, great find. Finally, something approaching proof that Wade was ordered to play Rob Johnson by Wilson.

     

    I don't see this article as proof any more than Marcellus Wiley saying it on ESPN a dozen times. He doesn't quote anyone; it's just connect-the-dots.

     

    Not that I don't believe it to be true.

  17. What makes me do it? Why do I go to Bills games and suffer watching a terrible football team? Why do I sit in the stands cheering them on at every possibility when they have such a losing team. I sit in the stands bundled to the 9s, drinking beer, high fiving guys I do not know. I go home barely able to talk from yelling for the past few hours. I belong in "R" wing in the psycology ward for acting so nutting. Then I go back and do it all over again the next game. What is wrong with Me... The doctor asked if I was a Bills fan........ He said it is common and that I am not alone... Is there anyone else out there with the same abnormalities ? I would like to know I am not alone.......

     

    I got you beat; In addition to the Bills, I root for the Mets, Knicks, and ASU. There's 4 turds floating in my bowl of soup.

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