Sen. John Blutarsky
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How about Jauron voodoo dolls as the handout at the gates?
He's already among the dead, he's beyond voodoo's reach.
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Or...
Ralph announces that Dick is being fired and April will be the interim coach for the 2nd half and the rest of the season.
Do we then get to have Jauron thrown into a lion pit at midfield in lieu of a marching band? I'd be in favor of that.
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I'd put group moon, but with this group that'd be scary. Also, I can't really advocate anything illegal like setting foot on the field or throwing things.
Seriously though, he'll be there, cameras will be rolling. You wanna send a msg to RW and the ESPN crowd do something loud and do it collectively. I think booing is too vague, you could be booing anything. Be specific, it leaves no room for misinterpretation.
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Oh my...
Let's all hope the Bills are up 35 at the half cuz if they put in another stink-job halftime could get very very ugly.
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How about we all just bring torches and pitchforks to the game, then encircle the admin bldg after the game sit down and refuse to leave. I'd love to see the video of 70,000 people marching on a stadium with torches and pitchforks.
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F it. Buy them, move them. Let LA experience the "joy". In keeping with the spirit of the franchise I'm sure that LA will simultaneously have a 9.5 quake, tsunami, mudslides and massive wildfires immediately following the presser announcing their relocation. That's how powerful the suck of the Bills is right now. "Bills Football: Destroyer of Hearts and Minds since 1959"
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The Bills should field a team of 53 midgets this weekend and see if anyone notices.
I thought that was already the plan. Especially on defense.
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Dick Jauron is well into his 3rd coaching job now. His teams have all had similar characteristics. They try hard, they have bad offenses, they have no QBs, they have rotating OCs, they are CONSTANTLY injured. Dick's mantra has remained the same through it all, offensive mindset is the same, defensive scheme is the same, vacant sideline affect the same, strength and training regimen the same, training camp the same, etc. All the while garnering acknowledgment for being a nice guy and having the respect of his players. At what point, if you are Dick Jauron, do you wake up one morning and realize that your entire ethos is what is causing you to fail? How do you move forward? On what basis would he be able to continually tell himself otherwise given that he has had no real success doing things the way he has done them as a HC anywhere he has been?
Ben Franklin said insanity is trying to solve problems, expecting different results, using the exact same methods. By this definition, Jauron is batshit crazy. When has he ever changed ANYTHING of substance in his routine? People like Bill Parcells and Bill Belicheck are people who could continually do the same thing and reasonably expect success and even THEY do things differently over time. The difference is that coaches like Parcells and Belicheck define their systems and put their stamp on whatever they want to run. Whatever it is it is run their way. Coaches like Jauron are defined by their systems. it's all they have in the bag. We have 4 good WRs right now? irrelevant, Dick needs TEs. Give Belicheck our WRs and watch what they do offensively. We have a bunch of the ultimate 3-4 OLBs on the team? Irrelevant! Dick is a Tampa 2 guy.
There is a term for what coaches like Dick Jauron are. Coordinators. Good head coaches can morph themselves into whatever their teams need at the time and mix and match coordinators to suit their needs. You've got a great O-Line and a QB who doesn't make mistakes and an awesome defense? Great, you are the '86 Giants, Mr. Parcells. You've got a big armed QB, a good young WR, a great receiving TE and an all around RB with a so-so defense? Great! You are the 96 Patriots Mr. Parcells. You've got no QB, no defense, won 1 game the previous year and have a collection of "athletes" without positions and a multi-talented RB? Great! You're the 08 Dolphins Mr. Parcells (I know he wasn't coach, but his fingerprints were all over that team). Hell I'll even give Brian Billick credit and I hate him. He got hired as an offensive mastermind and won a Super Bowl and very consistently won with a team with an annually terrible offense and great defense. That = good HC skills.
There are tons of great coordinators who sucked as HC. Dick LeBeau, for example, is a tremendous DC and a terrible HC. Ray Rhodes was a great DC and awful HC, Wade Phillips is a great DC, Norv Turner is a great OC, Ted Marchibroda was a great OC, Buddy Ryan was a horrible HC but one of the best DCs of all time. The list is endless.
The ultimate failing of RW during his whole tenure is hiring HCs for what they have done tactically in previous roles. He hired Phillips because of his success as a DC and ignored his horrible showing in Denver. He hired Greggggg because he could bring a 4-3. He hired Mularkey because of his offensive "creativity", etc, etc, etc. What he really needs to evaluate is the candidate's leadership skills, openness to the creativity of others, ability to marshal and lead a staff of others who will actually do the bulk of the work, willingness to hold people accountable for failure, motivational ability (not everyone is a yeller but if you don't yell you have to do SOMETHING effective), and game management skills. Basically he needs to interview for the Bills COO job, not for head coach. The coach doesn't do much coaching, that's what the underlings do and if your HC can't find and groom quality underlings your team is doomed to failure. Some would say that Bill Walsh helped Shanahan, Holmgren, Reid, Gruden, Mariucci, etc. succeed. I would argue the opposite. Without those men's talents day to day as position coaches and coordinators Walsh would not have been as successful. Jon Gruden was a WR coach for the SB Packers. Any chance that Tyke Tolbert is gonna be Jon Gruden someday?
Sadly, I think that Jauron is well beyond the point of realizing that his way does nto win, has not won, and will not win. If he's salvageable at some point doesn't he have to say "The hell with it Alex, let's chuck it deep and see what happens" or "Hey Perry, let's run some 3-4 on 3rd down and see if we can use Maybin a little better."?
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One thing is for sure, after the Bills beat Cleveland there will again be a buzz ... the maybe's ... the possiblies ... and the certainlies.
The Bills could win this game 42-0 they will still be a floating log in the bowl of the NFL waiting to be flushed...
I said 5-11 before the year and I think I might be wrong...
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If you were owner of the Bills I'd want to kick your old, wrinkly ass
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Why not? I did
Airline tickets were already paid for, sadly
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I nominate my new avatar.
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Me and 3 others coming up from Philly. We'll be the people dressed like this
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Cowher's waiting for JoePa to retire so he can go to Penn State, win a BCS title and then rule as Lord and Emperor of all Pennsylvania until his death.
Let's say you're a high school senior. Where are you gonna sign? With the chin or the sweater vest? I dare a Western PA kid to turn down the chin...
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How do they know what we want? I've got a list... awaiting the phone call...
I don't recall asking for TO. Actually, I recall asking for the exact opposite of that. We should compare lists, I bet they are similar.
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You guys are evil. Did you ever consider this is someone's livelihood we're bashing right now? In unrelated news, I voted NO this morning.
Yes I am, yes I did and he'll get a big fat severance package so I could give a rat's hind quarters.
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mangini > jauron
a burlap sack full of week old jelly donuts>jauron
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If we continue to suck like we have do you think Dick would resign like Mularkey did?
What if Ralph called Skeletor to the carpet and told him to fire Turk thinking he'd quit rather than can his OC the week before the year and Skeletor outwitted the old fart by saying OK knowing that RW would then have to fore him to get rid of him and owe him 9 mil. Sounds like something R would do to get out from under...
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What are you basing Buffalo's supposed "smallish overall team size" on?
I just looked at a bunch of rosters on NFL.com, and we're no bigger/smaller than the rest of the league...except at WR, where we really haven't sustained any injuries (knock on wood).
They may not be small, but they sure do play that way.
I think the problem is that the Bills are small in areas that matter, brains and balls for example.
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When they move, they and the rest of the NFL are dead to me
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The bus lot? The one across Abbott Rd. from the stadium, you mean?
Yeah the one right next to where thousands of people have to cross the street and are funneled into a cattle chute so they cross at the crosswalks.
And if they are that concerned about a buried IED type device I hope they are sweeping all the trash cans near the gates too.
....and if God forbid any of this stuff happens I have a locktight alibi so don't even dream it...
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CBS went along with McCord's banning because they want to keep the tournament. Also, it would be kind of difficult for McCord to see the tournament if he isn't on the property.
That would be kind of the point. They'd throw it to Gary McCord out on the highway outside to make some sort of comment about how his sight line for the tournament is terrible.
I'm not saying that a judge would grant them a PFA. I'm just saying that would be a way for Davis to try get his agenda accomplished without directly confronting the NFL contract.
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Rules are different at the Masters -- not entirely sure, but I believe Augusta CC and its advertisers pay for the airtime themselves. The NFL has a contract with CBS, Gannon's employer. One suspects Mr. Goodell wouldn't think kindly of one of his franchises annoying a rightsholder which pays the league billions of dollars. And if I'm a higher-up at CBS, I want demonstrable proof that Gannon has been either biased or unprofessional before I even THINK about agreeing to their request. In absence of same, the Raiders have no case, because he's supposed to state his opinions.
That's true for the Masters now but it wasn't back in '94. Gary McCord is literally banned from the property and since it's private property whaddya gonna do? He can't go as a guest, he can't go as a broadcaster, I don't even think he can buy a ticket to the Masters. If I were CBS and wanted to make a fuss I'd have McCord come and do commentary from the first piece of public property or right of way.
It does sound like the NFL has something in it's contract about this but if there were ever an owner to challenge this it would be Davis. If they want to contend that Gannon made terroristic threats and act to ban him from the premises and get a PFA keeping him a distance away from Raiders property I think that the contract clause might be hard to enforce because one would think that the PFA would supercede contract law. They probably couldn't do anything about road games, but they could mess him up in Oakland. Plus, they don't own the stadium so they can't really keep him out of there, but they can probably keep him off Raiders property.
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I agree. I wonder if kraft is going to let Simmons continue to man the foxboro lockerroom glory hole after writing that?
Well, now that Tedy's a broadcaster doesn't that become his? Or did they make him a special one?
Ralph to get his HOF ring at halftime Sunday
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I am totally doing that and if it makes me evil so be it. I don't get an audience with RW very often.