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What we have is a bunch of self-out-smarting coaches who can't get these
underachieving players to focus and concentrate and get the job done.
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I agree...Also Butler/Smith have had drafted in the Top 5 positions for quite
a while and were lucky to get excellent trade values when they owned the
1st overall pick both times.....1st they got LT (from the Vick Trade) and
then they got Rivers and anohter 1st rounder for the Eli Manning trade...
Considering where the bills have drafted, they have been unlucky.....
Also, just two years ago the chargers had the worst OL in football.....
Sometimes, you need just that extra bit of luck to make the difference....
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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....
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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...
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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....
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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.
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.
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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..
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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.
Moorman and Ryan Lindell....They have been absolutely fantastic.....
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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.
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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?
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....
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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).
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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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.
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He is probably going to be deactivated for the rest of the season...
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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.....
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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.
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.
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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..
Sullivan Article
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Because those don't sell his papers...