PolishDave

Dick Jauron football.

What happened to Watt? Did he quit taking roids or something?

I thought they tried to keep him...

These announcers are the NFL's version of good ole boys now. They always try to make it look like it was the right call.

trainwreck

no

Thad Lewis is playing for the Patriots.

I thought a pass had to be catchable for you to call a pass interference penalty on that New England drive?

Have any of you guys who don't believe in a simplified offense ever played football on any level whether high school level, college or beyond? Just curious.

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

I don't think you understood my post. Let me clarify. Thad Lewis was brought into Buffalo as a 3rd string Qb. He ended up starting for some games. He was not a very respected QB in the league and nobody even knew who he was really. And when the Bills beat Miami - they were like WTF? We just got beat by the Bills with this joke of a QB who was a practice squad Quarterback shortly before that. Just pointing out it is not unthinkable that a 3rd string QB might lead a team to victory. It has happened before.

Yep. Some things deserve to be deleted from public forums. And it says a lot about the maturity and character of the people posting it. As long as Rex is coaching the Bills, I hope like hell he succeeds. And he doesn't seem like a bad guy. Don't know him personally, but I am sure he doesn't deserve to have some of these things said about him.

That's what Miami thought about Thad whatever his name was...That dude from Duke...

Huh???

Smartest, most positive thing I have heard from a Bills staff member in a while. Maybe he is the right guy for the job. Let's hope so.

Didn't know that. Very interesting.

On the John Murphy show this afternoon Ruben Brown and John Murphy were talking with Youngstown native Daryl "Moose" Johnston of Dallas fame. They were discussing offenses. They got on the subject of offense simplicity. Darryl made the comment that during the Superbowl run that Dallas had, the Dallas Cowboys offense was pretty simple which ties in well with this thread and this other thread on here about whether simplifying an offense is a good idea or not. They also talked about how a good offense has certain "Bread and Butter" plays. These are the plays that they run frequently (usually with success) in pretty much every game. And I remember this other thread recently where someone mentioned how during the 1990's the Bills had certain plays like that too that were very popular and very successful - "like Thurman Thomas running the draw play out of the Shotgun". I remember those days and I remember how predictable it was that the Bills were going to run it. You knew they were going to run it. The other team must have known it at least some of the time. And yet it was successful anyway. That got me thinking - What are the bread and butter plays of this Bills football team? And I can't think of any that this team runs on offense successfully with any consistency. If you don't have a core set of plays that you can run with confidence and at least moderate success, then how can you have any confidence of winning? I would love to see this Bills offense develop some of those bread and butter plays that are at least moderately successful and learn to execute them with precision and predictability. I wonder how much this coaching staff has focused on doing that? I don't know. I just have the sense that this staff has spent a lot of time trying to draw up plays and game plans that somehow outsmart the other team rather than putting together plays that are more easily executed that this offense can rely on to help move the chains. Thoughts?

For what it is worth - Also heard Darryl Johnston "Moose" today on the John Murphy show. He said during the Dallas Superbowl years their offense was also very simple. Their approach was to outplay the other team based on individual player talent rather than trying to confuse their opponents. One more reason to have a little hope that by simplifying things, maybe they will see an increase in production on offense.

Yes please....Let's hope it gets ugly. Go Texans!

I didn't know Rex was that cool? Are these parties happening somewhere other than the stadium lots on gameday? If so, throw a shout out so I know where to go. Sounds like a good time. Stop being so sensible, practical and level headed....wouldja?

I really doubt you could find a single coach in the NFL who thinks that way or would admit that even to his inner circle of coaches even if he did. These guys (head coaches) just don't think that way. The average person might think that way a lot of the time but head coaches in the NFL don't think that way. It is a defeated loser mentality. If they thought like that, I can assure you, they would never achieve the level of success required to even reach the position of head coach. They would have been run out of the NFL with their loser mentality way before achieving head coach status in any organization. Leaders don't think like that. They don't dwell on and plan for their own demise. They focus on winning under whatever circumstances they are given. They play with the cards they are dealt. Head coaches in the NFL are the ultimate competitors. That is how they get to that pinnacle in their career. If you don't want to win with every inch of your human being and you don't believe you can do it, then you would never climb the ranks of the NFL to achieve head coach status. You would never make it past assistant and eventually your piss poor attitude would get you fired and weeded out of the NFL. Winning attitudes is what gives coaches the charisma, confidence and leadership skills to get someone to pay them millions of dollars per year to be the top coach in their football organization. Their attitudes are what inspires other coaches to join them and work for them. You might find a coach who is mentally defeated at some point, but it sure as hell isn't going to be during an off season when they are preparing for an upcoming season. It is going to be at the end of a game when they are getting beaten badly. And that attitude will last for about 24 hours at most. Then they get their **** back together and focus on winning again. A head coach might also get mentally defeated towards the end of a season where they have lost almost every game. It definitely isn't going to be during the off season leading up to a football season, even with the injuries and suspensions the Bills have faced. Even if you think Rex is a loser and you hate the guy and think he is a pile of crap (not saying you think that way - just saying for those people who do think he is), I can assure those people he doesn't have a loser mentality and especially didn't have one while he was preparing to coach this team during this past off season. If he did have that mentality, Pegula and Whaley would have fired him by now. No way they would let that stand. And they would know if that was his attitude. You can't hide a loser mentality. It shines through. I am completely convinced that they decided to hire him because of his winning attitude and winning mentality.

Good god. Some of you people are really, really, really gullible.

He said the interview took place during the off season, not this past week.

The biggest hole in the story is that Rex would tell him that this would be Rex's last year with the Bills. No way he would admit that to anyone even one of his coaches even if he knew it to be true. The second biggest hole is that Rex would tell the guy he would be the next head coach when (at the time) Lynn was just a lowly assistant. That would mean Rex would have known during the offseason that Roman was going to be gone and that Lynn would be successful when he stepped in to replace Roman. Rex didn't know that and still doesn't. I am quite sure at the time you claim this conversation happened, Rex still thought that this team was going to be very competitive. And if the team was more competitive , Roman wouldn't have been canned. Therefore the story is B.S. I call bunk on the whole story. Total horse doo doo.

Yep. It seems like coaches think that it is up to them to outsmart each other. But in reality good coaching is more about teaching fundamentals and creating an environment for your most talented players to outplay the other team's less talented players.