Jauronimo
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he's the 32nd coach because that is the position he earned after taking a mediocre team and making it into a bad team, at least based on wins and losses. I wouldn't fire him for not getting to the playoffs in year 2 but would fire him if he didn't get nine wins. I would have (and did) expect him to get nine wins last season, but the play of the team in the second half of the season earned him this season to show improvement. You gotta hold folks accountable if you want a viable program.
Chan made a bunch of mistakes...edwards, too early to change to a 204 without the personnel, failure to keep quality players, failure to acknowledge or address glaring talent gaps. He has hopefully addressed them, but don't kid yourself. He has not shown enough to warrant any extension past next year without showing significant results in the won/lost column.
whoops...too early to change to a 3-4.
I love your plan. It rewards coaches who cling to mediocrity and punishes those who take risks and try to install new systems. Changing coaches every 2 years for failing to break the 9 win barrier is the way to go. It perpetuates the rebuilding process, which is the most exciting time for the fans. Who doesn't love a 10 year rebuild characterized by total discontinuity and radical changes in direction? Oakland has demonstrated that this approach can deliver the occasional 8-8 season, which proves the system works.
On to Chan's mistakes. Contrary to popular belief, Gailey doesn't make personnel decisions. He doesn't sign or draft players. Addressing the talent gap in a sustainable way takes time, and is the responsibility of the GM. Is there ever really a good time to change defenses? Do you ever have all the pieces for a 3-4 and 4-3 simultaneously? You can either continue playing 4-3 while drafting 3-4 and wait until the pieces are there, or you can start playing and drafting in the new system so that its a mature system by the time the pieces are in place. Is one option that much better than the other?
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Nix and Gailey got off to a good start by switching our defense to a 3-4 and doubling the number of holes right there. I think the next one to go after Poz should be Kyle Williams. He doesn't really fit the new scheme as he is not big enough to play NT. We could replace him with an undrafted free agent or 7th round draft pick.
Couldn't agree more. Kyle Williams doesn't fit the prototype, and should be the first cut if we're ever going to get better. He's not big enough to play in 3-4 and if I were GM he would be ground into meat to feed the players who are actually worth a damn.
All Poz does is tackle people AFTER they've crossed the line of scrimmage. He reminds me of London Fletcher. Although Fletcher was basically an alternate on every pro bowl team for the last 10+ years, made SI's All-Decade 2000s team, is a tackling machine who never gets hurt, he sucks and we're better off without him. I would also have Poz ground into meat but Jasper doesn't like Polish sausage.
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I'm also in the "if he's not a first ballot hall of famer cut him and have him air-brushed out of all team photos and memorabilia" camp. We need to create as many holes on the defense as possible so we can set up our draft picks to fail and label them all busts. Poz may be the best we have and good enough, but he's no damn good and we should replace him with somebody worse.
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I agree that the jury is out, AND that there have been positive signs in the last part of last season, but Chan deserves a number 32 ranking at least considering his Buffalo tenure. I sincerely hope that will change in the coming season, and there is reason for hope. I will also say this...if there isn't a significant improvment this season Chan should be gone.
We should reserve judegment (since the jury is still out) but considering Chan's "tenure" of 1 year you've judged him to be at least the 32nd best coach in the NFL? You wouldn't go lower, maybe 33 or 34? I'm sure Chan will be happy to know that he's in the top 50 of current NFL head coaches. Only 32 guys can say that, including a few first time head coaches one of which has never coached in the NFL before.
So we should fire Chan in his second season, while we withhold judgement mind you, if there isn't significant improvement, so we can bring in another HC, switch systems, have to draft new personnel to run the new defense and new offense, and if that doesn't work by year 2, fire that guy, new systems, new draft needs, etc. and repeat as necessary. Sounds like a good plan.
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That's not my job. If I suggest people I would be arm chair QB and if you are so smart then why aren't you on the Bills staff, why aren't you the GM, how come you can't throw the ball accurately either?
All I know is Fitz is decent backup, that is it and it is pretty easy to see you can't win with him. He has proven it.
That's one conclusion that can be drawn from Fitz's body of work. The other conclusion is that he is serviceable as a starter. Average talent, above average awareness and leadership. Can win a few games, however ugly it may be at times. Good enough to wait for the right guy to come along in the draft and address the WORST defense in the league in the meantime.
Although Gailey and Nix give Fitz nothing but praise they have both said they are looking to draft a franchise QB. They do not see Fitz as the long term answer to the Bills QB situation either.
Fitz is not the worst QB in the league by any stretch of the imagination either. I'll take our QB situation over Carolina, Miami, Tennessee, Minnesota, Oaktown, Arizona, Cleveland, San Francisco, and the soon to be disasters in Seattle, Washington, Detroit and Cincinnatti. Theres only 3 to 5 great QBs in the league, about 6 or 7 good ones, 1 or 2 on the cusp and then everybody else. By your estimation it seems less than half the league has "starting" caliber QBs and the rest have decent backups.
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Hilarious that the offense was greatly improved. The offense was no better, they improved 1 spot in points and 1 spot in yards and the defense got worse. I would say Gailey did a horrible job last year and now we are going into a year with a guy at QB who could not cut it with 2 bad teams was beat out by Trent Edwards twice as a starter. Ugh.
Since you feel the need to direct every thread to how "Fitz sucks" please let us all know how you would have addressed the QB situation had you been given the job rather than Nix. Which free agents, or draft picks would you have pursued? Who would you have traded for?
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Good choice. He'd get her home in one piece. Lets break down the best of the rest.
Of course with OJ there is the chance he might murder the girl, but that was only one isolated incident and I think he's learned his lesson about double homocide. Plus he is a good provider and can ensure the grand kids get a USC education. Thurman is a stand up guy, but there is the risk that he might lose your daughter 10 minutes before the wedding and she may never be found. Travis Henry must know a thing or nine about women, and his matching number of kids means he must be a hell of a father. Travis has also demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to provide for his family regardless of federal laws, which you have to respect. Shaud Williams is an outspoken heterosexual as seen in his interview on Da Ali G Show, which bodes well for grand kids. If she doesn't mind chain restaurants, getting hyphy and a little road rash, Marshawn could also be serious boyfriend material. Just hide your wallets girls.
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This whole thing is the worse thing possible for the Bills. Say they don't have a season, or they do a partial season, there is a chance they do some type of adjusted draft the next season and the Bills could get screwed out of having a chance for Luck, Barkley, or Jones. Also, people would make excuses for Fitz again, like that he never really had a training camp and if he did he would have been awesome, the apologetic Fitz fans will be out in full force about how he never really had a chance. Worst thing possible for the Bills.
Apparently the Fitz haters will be out in full force before any games are even played.
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As I said, I readily admit that I could easily be wrong about this. Anybody know if the "72 virgin" thing is limited to martyrs (as opposed to a feature of heaven for all Muslims)?
That's a pretty sweet deal. I would have done it for 50.
Actually, the more I think about it I'm not so sure that the 72 virgins thing is all its made up to be. Having to deal with 72 versions of "I'm not sure about this" or "I want it to be special" or "I'm saving it for the right guy" or "I want to be in love" or "stop" sounds pretty God awful. 72 awkward sexual experiences really isn't what I'm looking for. Now 72 depraved whores, and you've got yourself a deal.
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Someone better tell him not to try to eat the midget trainer.
All signs suggest that we are on the cusp of a true Golden Age of intellectual enlightenment and global prosperity, unparalleled by any other period in human history, so yeah, there's probably going to be heavy casualties. Considering the existence of midgets is still very much so uncertain, I'm not exactly worried about the midget trainers, yet. If we find that Jasper does in fact believe in midgets and it turns out that midgets are out there literally running amok without regard for normal sized human beings and our laws, and all of our finest midget trainers have been cannibalized, THEN I would worry. But that is pretty far fetched in my opinion.
I'm more interested in what Jasper's strategy is to reduce the national defecit and how commercial skunk farming fits into his plans?
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You will have to be more specific Barbarian.
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Does the fact that "Michael Jasper" is an anagram for
Spherical Jam
mean that we've finally found our Pat Williams
(which is an anagram for
Impalas Wilt)?
I think Astro just blew the doors open on this investigation. Is it just a coincidence that the letters in his name coincide with J - Jupiter, A- Alpha Centari, S - Saturn, P- Pluto, E -EARTH!, R - Reptune? Has he been to outer space or does he find space exploration to be effeminate? What did he learn and how many people will he probe? Did he really invent the French kiss? Will he only probe rednecks and drunks and will he wear gloves?
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Which Bills running back would you rather have date your daughter?
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No, but it sure helps if you don't whiff on those picks year after year by taking mediocre DBs like Whitner and McKelvin or gimmick players like Spiller and Parish or reach for busts like McCargo and Losman.
Missing on high round draft picks is a killer no matter what prevailing theory, strategy or system. I think we can all agree the Bills have gotten minimal return from the first and second rounds over the last few years, which is why . Taking DBs or RBs instead of DL, OL or even QB wouldn't sting nearly as much if the DBs and RBs the Bills selected actually produced.
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I was a little luke warm on the initial post about Repsaj (~may he bless the Bills~), but I really enjoyed this one.
Do you think Repsaj has anything to do with the extreme weather (tornados etc.) this Spring?
There's absolutely no question that maybe Jasper is involved in the extreme weather patterns we are currently experiencing, but how is he probably doing it and what are his motives, possibly?
Is the severe weather a diversion to throw us off his track? Is he going to take the world by storm as Calvin Klein's next underwear model? Have the French already surrendered? Will his enormous ass be on billboards? Do we know too much? Will we be wearing CK Jasper cologne and will it smell like hot dogs? Does he look good in a beret? Does anyone look good in a beret?
If a midget falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a tiny disproportionate sound? What would Jasper say? Is his mind capable of being blown? If his mind were blown would wind speeds exceed 100 mph and cause the formation of a funnnel cloud?
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And what is it that the Buffalo Bills or the NFL usually do produce in the March/April/May/June timeframe that they aren't producing this year that brings in money?
It's not about current cash flows, its about the projected future cash flows, which are looking pretty poor right now. You don't wait until it hits the fan to cut costs, when you know its going to hit the fan. And there is less activity at OBD right now than there normally is this time of year. Less ticket sales, no free agency, and teams are prohibited from having any contact with players which does not allow all sorts of asinine PR events with players. The towel guy in the locker room has nothing to do, and trainers employed by the team aren't working out with players. Stop being so literal and think a little bigger here Billsfreak.
When businesses think they're about to take a hit, 401K match is one of the first things to go. Just ask Paychex.
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It is simple. Build a team that is strong. I would make sure to have a top QB, LT and a pass rush in place. I would build a team that can run the football successfully and stop the run.
Then, I would worry about the secondary and running backs.
Wow, it makes perfect sense now. You just have to get a pro bowl QB, a strong offensive line with a premier LT, a run stuffing D-Line, pass rushing DEs or LBs, and a good running back to run the ball, and worry about RBs and DBs later. Want to climb Everest tomorrow? All you have to do is put one foot in front of the other until you're standing on the top.
All sarcasm aside, I agree with the "run the ball and stop the run" mentality. I also agree that a strong front 7 can better mask a poor secondary than a great secondary can make up for a shaky line. You described the components of a good team, but did not explain a team building or draft strategy to address all 22 positions. You can't fill every position with first and second round picks.
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What on earth would make you say something like this? Just ask any QB just how important the LT position is and see what they say. You can't get a top LT in free agency or a trade (unless you are dealing with the Bills). In almost every draft, LTs shoot up the board. It is WAY more difficult to find a strong, fast, agile, smart 330 pound man than it is to find someone who can cover a receiver.
The year before Manning came to Indy, Glenn and Meadows were drafted in rounds 1 and 2. And as E.A. said, Polian made recent statements about how he should have put more into his OL.
Also, just why do you think the Bills are losing? Seriously, they certainly are drafting enough defensive backs to your liking, no? They have been losing because they have been weak up front on both sides. QB is also an issue, but only Fitz had a chance behind this mess because he is so illusive. A modern day Flutie in a sense.
It's great that they shored up the DL. I am very happy with this. But, until they fix the OL they will not be a playoff level team. History has proven this, wouldn't you say?
Fantastic job of missing the point and twisting my words Bill. In no way did I claim that the offensive line or left tackle position is not important. I simply tried to explain a team building strategy, that has been successfully employed by NFL GMs, that you do not need to spend 1st round draft picks to build a line. In other words, I described a strategy of how to maximize the value of limited resources. If you disagree, take this up with Nix and Polian.
How in the world do I say something like that? Taking a look at the 2008 draft, yes the performance difference between Matt Ryan and Kevin O'Connell is greater than that from Jake Long to Otah or John Greco.
My personal opinion is that the Bills have drafted too many DBs in the last few years due to poor management. They let good DBs walk after their first contract and picks like McKelvin and Ko have not panned out. The Bills continually place themselves in a position where they need to draft DBs every year.
I would not take a RB in round one or maybe even round two. Their careers are too short, and the marginal value of the RB has diminished over the last few years since teams will probably need 2 RBs or more to last a season. The feature back has all but disappeared and NFL rosters are show many examples of mid to late round picks tearing it up, and even a few undrafted guys.
Safety is another position that I wouldn't touch in the first round. They're built like corners and play like linebackers. Often they have short, injury riddled careers.
There's my 2 cents. How do you propose to build a team Bill, aside from using your top 2 draft picks on OL every year?
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Will Wolford ring any bells? The Colts used a #1 pick this year on the O line, as did the Packers, the Bears, the Cowboys, the Dolphins, The Eagles, The Patriots, The Seahawks.
I suppose there wasn't any decent O linemen in the first 3 rounds that Buffalo wanted the last two drafts....
That's an incredible over simplification. I'm not contesting the importance of the offensive line to a football team. If you listen to interviews Polian has conducted and some of the hints Nix has dropped, they clearly believe, and Polian has demonstrated several times, that good lineman can be had in the middle draft rounds. This frees up picks at the top of the draft for skill positions.
The discrepancy between the top rated QB in the draft and the fifth rated is much greater than between the best OL and 5th best, on average. The same relationship holds true with many other "money" positions and OL. DBs, even though we are all pained by Levy/Jauron era, are a money position, and you take them in the top 2 rounds. There's exceptions to all rules, but top cover DBs need the raw athleticism to cover top WRs which they either have or they don't. OL is just as much craft, and learning and preparation as it is tremendous athleticism. DL is another money position. DL have the strength and speed to get to the QB or they don't. There aren't as many total surprises out of college that turn in to sack machines at the next level. Since there are 5 spots on the line, and many players are suitable for more than just one, it means they can also be more easily acquired in free agency than other positions.
This post is filled with sweeping generalizations and can be picked apart by bringing up a player here and a player there, but nonetheless, it does roughly outline an overall team building strategy that Polian and other GMs subscribe to. Its not about filling needs for one year, but maximizing draft picks to sustain a competitive team year after year. Team building, in my opinion, is the most interesting aspect of professional football.
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At least initially, the Bills appear to have done a very solid job with the 2011 draft. I'm certainly not going to complain about it, at any rate.
But it's also worth being aware of a larger pattern. During the last 50 years, the Bills have used their first pick in the draft on a RB ten different times. (Including nine first rounders.) They've used their first pick of the draft on a DB ten different times (all ten of which were first rounders). Not once have they used their first pick of the draft on a QB. Only twice have they used their first pick of the draft on an OT. It's been ten years since the Bills last used a first, second, or third round pick on an OT. (And we all know how Mike Williams worked out.)
After years or decades of watching the Bills neglect the OL on draft day, and after years or decades of watching the Bills field mostly inept OLs (with the Polian Bills being a rare exception), there are those here who need to see concrete proof that the Bills' front office is committed to building the OL. This is not a complaint about the Bills' 2011 draft. It is a statement that, if the Bills' OL fails to significantly improve in 2011, I at least would hope to see significant draft day resources devoted to it come 2012. If Bell is not the answer at LT, then only a franchise QB should be assigned a higher draft day priority than finding someone who is.
Isn't Polian pretty vocal on the subject of drafting OL in rounds 3, 4 and 5? During the Polian era, excluding 2011 where the Colts admittedly used their 1st and 2nd round picks on OL (but isn't his son Chris pretty much running the show now anyway?), the Colts selected two OL higher than the 3rd round. In that same time period they selected 6 DBs in the first two rounds and 2 first round running backs.
There's definitely mixed views on how to get the most value out of the draft. Polian liked to stock his line in the middle rounds and with undrafted free agents. Ozzie in Baltimore has built strong teams using a few high picks on the OL.
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So can anyone explain to me why OBD should fund 401k and pension contributions and maintain salaries while the business has essentially shut its doors? And how is this decision, which is the basis for the rant, contributing to a losing football team?
I'm not claiming that the front office is infallible or that Ralph is above reproach, but what in this instance is there really to criticize?
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did I see $1500.00? their out of their freaking minds
I'm guessing Ike Taylor is buying the jersey for good luck, because he got toasted on that play. God I hate divine intervention!
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If he is on the PS, it's very unlikely anyone would take him off of it, especially the Pats or Jets. That would mean they would have to take a guy not good enough to make the Bills weak defensive roster...and replace someone on the Jets or Pats rosters...
The guy didn't even play NT last year, he played guard at a no name school against midgets...What we we are hoping for is another Jason Peters like transformation...It's the best team for him...if he shows any ability at all then he should have no problem making this team.
Edit...Of course the lockout screws him bad... If there is no pre-season for him to try out, there is almost no way he could make the team.
How far did he throw the midgets? Did he even throw the midgets? What was it like for him to play against midgets given that he may doubt their very existence? Does this pose existential dillemas for Jasper or does he think in a fifth dimension? If we hooked him up to a machine to measure his brain waves would it look like spirograph? Would the machine just catch on fire or would it draw pictures of animals that have not yet been discovered by science or perhaps trace a map to some kind of treasure?
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Wasn't Jasper the little known friendly snowman, who was a friend of Casper, the Friendly Ghost?
Good question, Adam.
Could Jasper have in fact inspired a book written many years before his own conception? Does he bend time and matter? Do his dreadlocks give him strange sexual powers? I heard he ate a live porcupine "just for the experience." But why? Could he turn the world on with his smile? Does he put out on the first date? Is it true that his second favorite sport is pogo stick?
I heard he sends Brett Favre dick pics everyday, once when he wakes up and again before bed. Why? Should we send Brett Favre pictures of our genitals? Is Jasper afraid of polka dots? Could he turn Ellen straight? How high can he count? Is it true that his flatulence is not flammable? Does this give him some kind of an advantage in elevators or long car rides? How is that even possible?
Jasper speaks fluent mandarin. He said he "picked it up from fortune cookies." Is he lying? Is it for our own good? What is he protecting us from and should we root out the nonbelievers? How many purges will it take? Could Jasper microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn't touch it?
I'm worried that I'm not capable of loving Jasper enough. Should I leave my wife? Should we burn all of our possessions? Can he rollerskate? Is it time to panic?
Chan 29th best coach?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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One could easily apply specious reasoning to all sorts of things. By ignoring all other factors such as strength of schedule, system change, different roster, we can compare apples to oranges and arrive at an overly simplistic conclusion most of the time. Sure its easy, but is that really what you want to accomplish?
I want to see wins too before I give Chan the key to the city, but you give a new coach longer than 2 seasons given the situation he walked in to and what he is trying to do. If he were taking over the same schemes and systems that the prior coach established then you can have different expectations, shorter leash. Changing things up after 2 years, in most cases, is a bad idea. The exceptions are guys like J. McDaniels who lost the locker room and alienated everyone in Denver, N. Saban who never had the locker room, etc.