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Linky Keep dreaming Tubby. As the story points out, you are also only two plays away from being 2-3. Your "War Chicken" offense is laughable as evident by your "blow out" wins over Miss. St. and Tennessee. But even you finally figured that out: Dead Spread

Why does everybody think he would be sedate? I remember Levy having a similar demeanor, but when he was miked up, he had no problem throwing out the obscenities. I distinctly remember one where he kept telling the ref a particular call was a "chickensh!t" call.

Yep.

And now "JawJa" ROLL TIDE ROLL!!

The Bills only decide a portion of their opponents record (In this case, one third. And to point out the obvious, by the end of the year, it will be 1/16th). So, remove the Bills influence all together. What's left? Seahawks, Jags, and Raiders are all 1-1, for a combined 3-3 (.500). Not exactly a gauntlet of a schedule. It is only week 3, and nothing is written in stone until the end of the year. However, based on what we have seen so far, the Bills have faced some mediocre opponents. Of the 3 teams the Bills faced so far, I think Jacksonville will be the only team that will have a shot at the playoffs.

If the 2008 Bills had lost all three games to their 2008 counterparts, the opponents record combined would be 6-3, and half this board would be under suicide watch.

Seahawks and Jags. So what?. The 2008 Bills are not playing the 2007 Seahawks and Jags. As of right now, the three opponents the 2008 Bills have played have a combined record of 3-6.

Let's take it one step further. Assume the Chargers only go 3-1, losing only to the Pats*. Would the Chargers still be considered "the test"? How about if the Chargers go 2-2? Losses to NE and the Jets (Favre now knows 8 plays). Personally, the Bills are contenders NOW. With the loss of Brady, NE no longer has a lock on the division title, and the soft schedule being dealt to the Bills, a wildcard spot is practically being handed to us. Anything less, a certain HC of a certain Buffalo team needs to be shown the door. Excuse time is over.

Personally, I think this WAY overblown by the JP Losman haters / Trent Edward lovers. In fact, many of them wanted to run Evans off the team, because he had the audacity to stick up for JP and the way he was being treated.

Edwards has NOT played against 2 top 5 defenses. As it stands now (and subject to change during the year): The Seahawks defense is horrible - they rank 29th in points and 25th in yards The Jags are 11th in points and 13th in yards. Granted, the Jags are not a shabby defense, but a top 5? No.

I wasn't trying to be funny. The team has no sense of direction, coaches are taking verbal shots at each other in public, and the loony owner is trying force the resignation of his head coach. Raiders are a joke. Period. Right now, I think one of the High Schools from Hoover, Al. could whip the out of the Raiders.

I'll consider the Raiders as an NFL team when Al figures out who the coach will be. Once he figures that out, we will have to wait another five years before the Raiders can be taken seriously.

I'll consider the Raiders as an NFL team when Al figures out who the coach will be. Once he figures that out, we will have to wait another five years before the Raiders can be taken seriously.

While looking at the past will not always predict the future, analyzing past performance does reveal trends and tendencies, especially those tendencies taken to correct problems that appear before, during, and after a season. In an eerily similar situation in Chicago after the 2000 season, after 2 losing seasons, the OC quits the team to take on a college HC position. Jauron promotes the QB coach to OC. History shows how well that turned out. Considering DJ did not interview even one outsider for the Bills OC spot (after Fairchild left for a HC position at a college), is the promotion of the Turk to the OC based on Jauron's ability to properly assess the needs of the OC spot, or he did just essentially pick the QB coach because that is what he is comfortable with doing? And despite the "horrendous" ending of the TD/MM era, Levy attempted to retain MM. That brings into question just how "dire" the state of the Bills organization was in that you attempt to promote. Further, if Bledsoe was not stymied by a bunch of defensive third stringers, the Bills would have made the playoffs under Mularkey. Would this have proved Mularkey was not a bad hire? As it has been shown repeatedly, other coaches of questionable ability have also won Coach of The Year. Being a winner of the COTY proves nothing other than he won an award. And he did not willing leave Detroit, he was FIRED. Previously in this thread, I declared my three benchmarks. I set those benchmarks for a reason. My desire is to see the Bills become a SB contender every year. Not just once every "x" years. I will not accept playoff contender as "success", especially a coach/team that can only achieve it once every 'x' years. Maybe my standards are just too high. But I have seen people post here who are willing to accept Jauron back as a HC even if the Bills go 7-9 again, and that boggles my mind. Are people so desperate for "success", or any semblance of success, they will talk themselves into accepting failure because they found something positive in it?

Until proven otherwise, it is still an aberration. As of right now, Jauron has coached a team to ONE winning season in seven. Even if he coaches this team to a winning record this season (he should, given the pretty soft schedule the Bills have been handed), that still makes him 2 out of 8. :lol: Oh, wait. you were being serious. We should completely forget his past discretions, because he won TWO games this year? Wow. I see a bunch of assumptions being made with no real supportive data. How were the Bills "horrendous" that led them to 5-11 record? The only data you presented to support your conclusion of "better game control and decision making" is his winning record of ref challenges. You better have more than that. Many posters on this board were pretty pissed off at the way Jauron at times would allow his team to take a knee to end the first half without attempting to generate a point of somekind. Jauron's past spotty record includes waiving the previous season's starting QB and declaring the newly drafted rookie QB the teams starter: 1. days before training camp actually started 2. said rookie QB was NOT even signed yet. What brilliance. While you realize you cannot declare victory, you want your opponents to declare defeat. Priceless. Beautiful. Jauron has a lot to prove, has done some bad things .... However, two games into this season and it is obvious all past screw ups were actually "nothing". Ask Bears fans if they felt the same way in 2001. Jauron does have a lot prove. He needs to prove he can win consistently against the better teams in the league. He needs to prove he can win consistently from season to season. He needs to prove he can actually win a playoff game. Until he reaches those benchmarks, Jauron has proven he is nothing more than an mediocre HC. 7 years of futility will not be washed away by 2 games in a soft season.

I was responding to the poster who tried to claim DJ was just as good, if not better, than Marv Levy. As for extending DJ's contract, I would prefer the Bills wait until a playoff spot and/or winning season (9-7 or better) is assured. If Dick cannot produce a winner with this soft schedule, he needs to be taken out back and shot. (and no, I do not mean that literally).

Oh please, stop. Jauron has yet to prove he can consistently beat the better teams in the league. Jauron has yet to prove he can win consistently from season to season. Jauron has yet to prove he can win a playoff game. When Jauron accomplishes those tasks, we'll talk. Otherwise, put down the crack pipe.

Spin it however you want. The Bills have NOT achieved any greatness this year, last year, the year before that, etc ...

You are right. This present front office has gone 14-18 the past two seasons. If you include this year, they are still 16-18.

I watched the second half of that game. It had to be the two worst offenses I have ever seen. The 2007 Bills offense would have been an improvement for either team. Auburns version of the spread option (a.k.a "War Damn Chicken") turns out is just as good as Borges WCO. Some Barners are denial, claiming it will take awhile for the full offense to be implemented. Interesting spin considering the Spread Option is supposed to be one of the EASIEST offenses to learn (Hint: You have to have TALENT, which AU is lacking on the offensive side of the ball). The most telling sign was Auburn had the ball 1st down and goal at the MSU 7, and tried to run three straight running plays. They never had a chance. They even missed the field goal attempt. As bad as Auburn's offense was, MSU was even worse. The MSU QB played scared. He made bad decisions, poor throws, and just looked like he was in a state of panic anytime he dropped back to pass.

That's it in a nutshell. Until the Bills prove they are for real CONSISTENTLY (i.e more than just a handful of games a season), keep expecting to receive "no respect". As someone else said. Why do people even bother looking for stupid like this. As long the Bills keep winning, it will come. Otherwise, let it roll, and enjoy.

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Country has "x" amount of resources. We do 1 and 2, we will never do 4, and you might as well get used to 5. Instead of doing 1 and 2, let's bite the bullet now, and do 3 and 4. Then 5 will be a rarity.

Good God. The high insecurity level of some Buffalonians is astounding. Combined with their never ending need to have their team "validated" by the national media ....

Like somebody would not be able to recognize the Q&A was meant to be "light" considering such blistering topics as "On his iPod" and "Can't stop eating".