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  1. Donahoe was forced to resign in a power struggle after the 1999/2000 season, after the Steelers posted a 6-10 mark and missed the playoffs for the second year in a row.  Somehow I guess Cowher managed to completely rebuild a new team the next season, and in 2001, after promoting their TE coach at the time to OC they were suddenly contenders again.  I don't know the specifics but I imagine since TD is so bad at running teams that the Steelers never saw any success under him that there might have been 3-5 players left on the Steelers in 2001/2002 that were around when Donahoe was there...and it was the complete overhaul of the roster that returned the Steelers to past glory....

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    Post TD, the steelers record each year is as follows:

     

    2000: 9-7 missed the playoffs

    2001: 13-3 lost to NE in championship game

    2002: lost to Titans in the AFC Div round

    2003: 6-19 no playoffs

    2004: 15-1 Big ben takes them to AFC champ game, where they lose to NE

    2005: 7-4 with losses to Indy, NE

     

    In 5 years, they have made the playoffs 3 times and missed it twice.

  2. The next years were some of the worst football Carolina ever played and the boned headed moves affected them for years.

     

    Say what you will about the man, but he has a track record of success.

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    The "bone-headed" move that you are talking is their signing of Sean Gilbert

    DT from washington....They gave his a 40M contract and also gave up 2 1st

    rounders to the Redskins.

  3. Guys,

     

    Donahoe is here to stay like it or not. Ralph Wilson has the utmost respect for him and loves the job he is doing. They have become close friends.  With Bulter and Polian, the relationship started to deteriorate, which contributed to their exits.  Not the case here.

     

    Donahoe stays.

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    With JB, it was purely a matter of money.....and their relationship deteorated

    due to a contract spat....RW was offering peanuts, when teams like SD were

    willing to thrown top dollar money at JB.

  4. One of the reasons I like Manning and probably many on this board is because they way he plays resembles a lot like the play of Jim Kelly....The guy is always

    pumped up, never cares about the INT that he throws, always rallies the people

    around him and finally the most important, actually comes to play every single

    down....Looking at Manning play, we are all reminded of our SB seasons...

  5. So stuffing the run on 1st and 2nd and thus setting up longer 3rd down yardage doesn't have anything to do with it?  I was hoping along with everyone else that losing PW wouldn't hurt the Bills.  I think that hope has been dashed, however.

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    I did not say that....In fact m,entioned that in another thread....

     

    One of the problems is this team did not stop the good teams against the run..

    Teams like the Patriots and Steelers used their run games to run against this

    overrated defense even last year....with PW or without......This year they got

    to play some of the best RBs in the league, a Warrick Dunn, Larry Johnson,

    LT, Dillon, McCallister, Jordan.....The better backs have exposed this teams

    run defense even more....

     

    Last year we beat the bad teams ike the 49ers, Rams, etc...who had no dominant run game....

  6. Actually I think the deal with MM is pretty much linked to TD. If Wilson pull the trigger on TD, MM is probably not going to be retained by a new GM... Probably.

     

    But looking at alternatives for TD - you might think Modrak gets a shot, in which case MM might be retained...

     

    IMO - neither will go.

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    If RWS clears the house, then he will be getting a GM and HC from the outside.

     

    What has Modrak done that RWS will make him the GM....Part of the

    responsibility for the inability to build a line goes to the scouting department

    and Modrak heads that.

  7. Remember, 46 years ago Ralph wanted to have the AFL's Miami franchise but the Orange Bowl wouldn't give him a lease.  Never say never.

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    I did not say "never"....However with the way the economy has been over

    the 5 years, there are not many counties/cities today that can come out and

    say we can support a new NFL franchise in their backyard....The 1st thing they

    would have to shelve out is a HUGE Stadium with luxury boxes....My question

    was if such a county/city existed that would pull the plug....With the economy

    I don't see such cities that can vie with an existing city for a NFL franchise..

  8. Maybe Nate Clements is pricing himself out of Buffalo because he knows there is no way TD and his wisdom will pay up so he can get out of this loser of a team..

    Perhaps they should stop losing then. There is not one player on this team that can look in the mirror and say they aren't part of the problem this year.

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    Moorman and Ryan Lindell....They have been absolutely fantastic.....

  9. a lot of people dont think Vick is a great QB.

     

    but people seem to rank QBs by stats, rather than what they do on the field.

     

    M. Vick will never pass like Manning. but Manning will never run like Vick.

     

    Vick has earned the right to be thaught of as a great QB.

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    I don't think Vick is better than Big Ben....Look at the differnce in the

    Steelers teams with Ben behind the center and without him.....They are

    a average team without Big Ben....He is also another guy who never

    posts big stats, except for the most important one....the Ws....He also

    can play under lots of pressure..... I am happy that we have JP...he

    is coming along....However, I wish that damn Jax GM/Coach would have

    gone for that trade rather than taking Mr. Reggie SuperStart Williams

    who can't even start for his team in his 2nd year.

  10. What makes it ironic is the fact that the media "darling" in NE only lost one player from his 2005 offensive Super Bowl roster during the off-season.

     

    But...  but...  but...

     

    or maybe more appropriately Butt.......Butt......Butt  ;-)

    Where's old Bollywood Donahoe with his 1200 plus posts here demanding Bill's fans worship at the altar of the Piper's Son?

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    I don't like Brady, as he has lost to the BIlls just once in his entire career....

    However the guy has lost more than one player on his offense....His starting

    LT Matt Light has missed quite a few games...and his starting Center went

    on IR just last week....Plus he has had no running game last 5-6 weeks with

    Dillon sitting it out with injury......

     

    Actually Brady has played terrific except for this weekends game this season.

    He has even thrown some long balls....

  11. I'm not sure TD has "very little to show." He worked his way up from scout and was a very successful GM in Pittsburgh. Millen, on the other hand, never held a personnel or front office job in his life before landing the Lions' gig.

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    My "very little to show" comment was with respect to their current GM tenures...

    Both Millen and TD have nothing to show for their 4 or 5 years as the

    GM of the team.....Both have made bizzare draft day decisions....Both have missed

    out on their 2 coaches (GW/MM here and the motorbike riding dude/Mariucci there).

  12. Can you forward this post to jerry gray and the entire Bills defensive staff?

     

    They seem to think that only arm tackles at the shoulders are allowed in the NFL...

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    Yeah..I was wondering why no one was talking about this....So much bad

    tackling yesteday...even though things did not go big due to the average

    backs the Panthers have in Foster and Davis (Davis best days are past...

    the only thing he does is boost Fantasy football owners by getting TDs on

    goalline situations)....

    But no gains were converted to 5 to 8 yards by the Carolina backs....

  13. Ahh, you meant they should roll him out and run the ball?  Didn't get that in your original post, but it's a good idea.  Only problem is you risk injury running a lot, and I prefer the QB to throw.  I'm not a huge Vick fan myself, but it obviously can work.

     

    CW

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    Yes..I was disappointed that they never added that dimensions to their

    gameplan yesterday....That might have kept one of the safeties or LBs

    (like a spy) on JP and forced single coverage on both Evans and Moulds.

    Again, shows this coaching staffs inability to identify the strength and

    weakness of this team and adapt their gameplan to that.

  14. Those are pretty good excuses, but they are excuses.  Plain and simple this defense can't force a punt.  Either the other teams scores or we get a turnover, otherwise they stay on the field.  The 3rd down conversion rate against the defense  must be astronomically high--and nothing is more demoralizing than continued 3rd down conversions by the other team.

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    Agreed....I think that has been the biggest problem for this defense.....Of course

    people will rant that the lack of run-stopping on the 1st two downs is causing

    the 3rd downs to be makeable...While there is some truth to that, I have seen

    many of the times the opponents completing 3rd and longs pretty comfortably.

    This has to be the one of the worst defense from the 3rd down statistics...

    I don't know if the 3rd down malaise is due to players playing out of positions or

    due to faulty play calling by the coaches...

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    I know it sounds wierd  but think about it......when was the last time TD threw some serious money at any of his own draft picks when they become FA?

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    He did re-sign Schoebel to a pretty good contract extension for a average DE

    He just re-signed McGee to a pretty good extension.

     

    He got Takeo to come here with a 10M signing bonus. He also gave out big

    money to get Bledsoe, Milloy and Vincent to come here.

     

    Looking at the list of FAs we have had, which ones did you think we needed to

    re-sign to a big contract ?

    1. Peerless Price (got a 10M signing bonus)

    2. Winfield (at that point got the biggest CB contract of the year after

    champ bailey)(

    3. Pat Williams (a guy at 31 years with 10 years in the league got a 5m

    bonus to sign)

    4. Jonas Jennings, a guy who was always injured got 14M bonus to sign

    and was on IR after game 4...

     

     

    Teams have to be wise with their cap money and distribute it to sign

    Draft Picks

    Extending current players

    Signing FAs

     

    TD has done his fair share of all the above....Your point about Clements

    walking out on the Bills on that issue is not valid.

  16. With the one minor difference that TD was a proven general manager with a very good track record and very good reputation around the league as for two decades of being a top notch talent and personel evaluator, and Matt Millen had a very good reputation around the league as a player and mediocre analyst wth zero managerial experience or personel evaluator. Otherwise they were identical.

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    Was TD a GM at Pittsburgh or a VP of Personnel ?....Because I think personnel

    decisions were made by both TD and Cowher together with Cowher getting

    the upperhand...Also, I think most of his 20 years in Pitt were spent in the

    scouting department....

     

    I thought this was his first job where he had complete authority over

    personnel decisions...So I don't understand where the "Good Track Record"

    came from....

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    Spoke volumes if you ask Me...I'm not the biggest MM Fan, but I have a feeling he's doing what is best for the Team in this case...And I think after Pat left, and Edwards got hurt, SA simply did not want to give much of an effort anymore... ;)

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    I think the guy has stopped playing since game 1......Adams is probably most

    responsible for why we are stinking at stopping the Run...Of course having

    ineffective DEs against the Run doesn't help too.

  18. The Ravens and Felons are 2 other teams rumored to be interested in Rivers, there may be others... and though he hasn't played, IMO he's a much more valuable commodity than the other QBs you mention.

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    Why...What has Rivers done ? At least Schaub and Ramsey have won games

    in the NFL....At this point they are all the same....unproven.....

  19. Mario Williams would be my choice at this point,  with Kiwanuka a very close 2nd.   

     

    The Bills haven't had a good pass rush from the front four in years.  They will finally have a chance to add an elite pass rusher and I don't think that's an opportunity they can afford to pass up.  Big,  athletic pass rushing DEs are probably the rarest of the rare in the NFL these days.

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    They are not high motor guys ;)

     

    Also, TD has already spent 3 2nd rounders on DEs....He is not going to

    be spending a high pick on another DE....He probably will get his DT,

    someone like a Volfork whom he could have had last year.

  20. What the hell happend to putting your best players on the field and letting them make plays, instead of relying on a specific package to accomplish something.

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    Proof in the Pudding.....Another confirmation that this Coaching staff cannot

    adjust their schemes to the personnel they have.....and trying to outsmart

    themselves..

  21. That my friend is his job, first and foremost. 

     

    I don't mean to be cruel, but I fear the Buffalo franchise has the same life-expectancy of it's owner.  The league may insist that a prospective owner keep the team in Buffalo for some period of time, but they may concede the privledge to move the franchise in the future.  In the meantime... Donahoe is doing a good job for Ralph and his heirs.

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    My problem with this "moving to" somewhere is: WHERE...I don't think there

    is any city today that is sitting on a pile of cash to build a profitable stadium

    for an NFL franchise, other than LA.....and LA will see a football team before

    the time of RWS and the bills get sold....I just don't see another LA or

    Houston or Raleigh out there that can lure a NFL team to their backyard.....

     

    The NFL has reached its saturation limit from the point of # of teams in its

    league. I don't think the NFL is going to expand anytime soon nor is there a

    traditional city sitting out there that can fill up a 70,000 stadium day in day

    out (irrespctive of how the team does)....Folks....the Bills are not going anywhere

    after RWS...

  22. That was rough, the worst day ever.  But, in all fairness and as much as I loved those guys, the only one that had much left in the tank was Bruce. 

     

    Phat Pat is playing at a pro-bowl level right now, and his loss could be directly attributed to at least 3 losses for the Bills this year.  If we could stop the run a little bit, we beat NO, ATL and possibly either NE or Carolina.  We'd be sitting at 6-5 or 7-4 and control our own destiny.

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    There are so many other reasons why we are 4-7.....I don't think having

    PW would have changed that score to 7-4....Why don't people accept that

    we have much bigger holes on this team than a starting DT.....the biggest

    of them being the inability of this coaching staff to ADJUST their game plan

    to the strengths/weakness of this football team.

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