DeeRay
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Ralph Wilson entrusted this "franchise" to someone he felt he could trust. It isn't Ralph Wilson to blame for this display of........
It really boils down to ONE person. That person is the President and General Manager. Everyone says that he is not the personnal guy, he is not a coach, he is not a player. In reality, TD micromanages to an unbelievable level.
He was run out of Pittsburgh because he tried to mold the Steelers in a way that was not to their historical tradition. Now look at Pittsgurgh. They have been in the playoffs almost ever since TD left. They have a Head Coach, they keep developing OCs into head coaches, the next guy to be a head coach is Russ Grimm, their O-Line coach. The Steelers and Bill Cower recognize that a successful franchise is one that WINS, not one that lies to fans in order to fill seats.
Let's take a look at TD's track record in Buffalo:
two Rookie Head Coaches
four rookie coordinators (both Offense and Defensive)
four o-line coaches
we are starting our 5th QB (Johnson, Van Pelt, Bledsoe, Losman, Holcolmb)
no real consistent/congruent/healthy o-linemen
no healthy TEs
loosing entire LB depth after this season (Crowell, Haggan, Stamer)
loosing 2 DTs after this season (Edwards and Bannon)
loosing 3 of 5 CBs after 2005 (Clements, McGee, Greer)and 1 Free Safety (Rashad Baker)
Gandy and Bennie Anderson gone in 2006
Jason Peters and Trey Teague gone after 2005
Loosing 5 defensive starters after 2006 (Kelsay, Adams, Fletcher, Posey, Milloy)
There are a ton of holes to be filled. It looks as bad as when he got here or may be even a little worse.
It's no wonder why the "veterans" wanted Losman out. They don't have the time to develop anyone. They are getting old, as can e seen by the way the D is playing. And their time is coming to an end.
Excellent!!! Halleujah, thank you Jesus. Another convert into the fold of the non-believers and fans who choose no longer to sup from the cup of Donahoe Koolaid. I've been saying this for 2.5 years. The Teflon man is not the savior... he is a total fraud... a false prophet.
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they shouldnt overpay for coaching the gm is more important whether donahoe is a good one or not you can argue
coaches salaries don't count against the cap. Plus, the revenues, both shared and unshared that these owners are making is ridiculous... so they can afford to fire a coach and pay their salary. why do you think they won't open their books... because they're embarrassed at how much they're losing?
It's okay to pay a coach big bucks... but that coach has to be given most of the control on players. Take Belichick for example. He makes the call on players. He tell Paoli what type of player he' looking for and to just go out and find them.
I'm not saying Mularkey should have more control over the players he brings in, because this dude only has on year experience as a HC and I don't have any faith that he can handle that responsibility. However, there's no excuse for a GM to bring in a rookie coach after 3 years of rebuilding. Donahoe should have brought in an experienced head coach and been subservient to him in regards to players. We all know Donahoe is old school though... and old school don't work in today's NFL.
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Good Point... but
One can understand HC wannabees like Williams and Mularkey jumping at the chance to coach an NFL team and accepting minimum wage. But, there is absolutely no excuse for a guy like Tom Donahoe, who was regarded as one of the top men in football, accepting a job in which he knew his hands would be tied. That's bullschitt. Wilson, over that past 10 years has shown himself willing to pay. Wade Phillips was the highest paid DC when he came to the Bills. And Wilson way overpaid for Henry Jones, John Holocek, Ruben Brown, John Fina, and Rob Johnson... so, based on that, your argument on Wilson has no merit. At the time he accepted the Bills job, Donahoe could have had a half dozen GM jobs. He took this one because he new he had complete autonomy. Wilson even made him el presidente. Donahoe's managed exactly like he did in Pittsburgh.... cheap, journeymen players. The only advantage he had in Pitt was that he was lucky to hit the motherlode in Cowher. Cowher, because he's a damn good coach was able to utilize and maximize the worthless players that Donahoe kept giving him a steady diet of. But, one quality that a good NFL coach has is a giant sized set of balls. And Cowher got sick and tired of Donahoe throwing scraps to him and went toe to toe with him. The Rooneys stepped in... who, by the way, know a thing or two about football, and decided that Cowher was absolutely right. Cowher was awarded with a new and huge contract and Donahoe was shown the door. Donahoe hasn't changed a bit... meanwhile the game has.
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johnny... put the crack pipe down. you're not making any sense. Jp Losman has started 4 consecutive games, period. hes laid serious eggs in 3. the vets, led by Eric Moulds, who knows more about football than one single brain cell of yours, had a meaningful discussion with the coach to help him see the light.
Your bulschitt about handling JP differently is just that.... and what would you do differently? Oh sure, now that JP has had a few games to get a good look at him under fire. No one knew what that was going to be like before the season began. This whole team has let us down, not just JP. The defense, the special teams, etc. It's one thing to stick a Ben Rothlisberger as a starter when you have one of the top offensive lines in football and with a vet receiving core... not to mention the best defense in the NFL... but, it's another thing to try and put what amounts to a rookie behind a patchwork bunch of journeymen linemen with a running back that refuses to help protect his QB.
JP?, handled differently? Damn right, but only by providing him with good players to surround him.
Holcomb's experience will help this team mitigate and cover up the piss poor offensive line, to some degree. But, this bunch has nowhere near what it will take to get to the next level... and McNally can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear. These guys stink... period.
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I don't care what his opinions are... I just don't feel it was his place to say that stuff... He should have left it up to MM to make statements on the quarterback situation.
And to call out a teammate is wrong in public... say all you want in the lockerroom... but it's very unprofessional to do it out in the open...
I'm not Anit-Moulds or anything.. but his behavior sucked...
What behavior sucked? Dicussing team performance amongst his teammates and then going to the coach with the feedback and telling him to get clue or announcing the team was going with Holcomb as the starter?
Cool... you don't care what his opinions are. Only he wasn't sharing his opinion with you.
Why would you have a problem with Moulds going public about Holcomb starting? You're making an assumption that MM imposed a gag order. Well, if he did, how come Mould's tit aint in the ringer? MM could have just stated that Holcomb will start. All of the secrecy BS serves absolutely no purpose but to piss the fans off and make OBD hierarchy look foolish. The Dolphins don't care. No NFL team cares. They've all done their homework and they all make their adjustments.
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He could have pulled a TO and said trade me now. Instead, a 10 year vet took the pulse of his offense, something you would think the HC would do, and the consensus was that the offense is better left in the hands of Holcomb. So, Moulds has the balls to step up to the plate and tell the coach the results of this pulse taking. The coach agrees. end of story.
If the offense moves better under Holcomb, doesn't that help the defense out and the special teams as well? So, if the Holcomb move works, don't all three phases of the game inprove and the TEAM improve? Will Moulds get credit if that happens?
What does this team have to lose by making the switch at QB now? If they lose and continue to suck on offense, JP will be back in quickly and they can continue to suck until he learns not to suck.
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My point is, Moulds wants to win. If he wants to win, losing in the playoffs is better exactly how?
because, the entire team gains some degree of playoff experience... not just Moulds. Instead of just hearing how you must raise your performance level a notch in the playoffs, now you expereince it. and as we have just seen, the "experience" component, or lack thereof, just got JP dispatched to the pine.
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or, they new the QB switch was coming ahead of time.
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Ah... let me see. Holcomb and Bledsoe... both drop back immobile QBs. Alas, there is a difference between the two. Bledsoe has the gun and Holcomb has the brain. Bledsoe's problem never was his lack of mobility. Bledsoe's problem was, and always will be his brain... it's way too slow. He does not make decisions quickly enough. Why do you think coaches would set up an alarm clock in the guy's ear?
Lastly to all of you folks who are bitching about Moulds because he wants to win now... shame on him for wanting to win now or shame on you for wanting to continue to lose.
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Well, hell.... hardly anyone ever heard of Ben Sobieski. He was buried somewhere on the Hawkeye depth chart. But Teflon Tom saw him as a steal in round 5. Look at the mileage we got out of this plum. No one is laughing now. Sobieski has made this team for the 3rd consecutive year... and he'll probably be around for a 4th season. Now, whether or not he'll ever be active for a game...
honestly... comparing Pioli to one of the most revered GMs in the game, is well... damn embarrassing, right Tom.
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Who are you really? You're Tom Donahoe, aren't you? How does it feel to let MM take the bullets for you?
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Gamble on Bledsoe? Do you even FOLLOW THIS TEAM?
Face it. If Losman wasn't hurt last year, you'd have seen him in Week 5 and you know it. Hell, we're 1-3 and Losman isn't even the freakin' main problem! You think after 0-4 last year and a healthy Losman that Bledsoe would still be throwing.
Try to think about everything. Not just the stuff that makes you look right for a fleeting moment.
Dude... Losman was active from the Patriots game on. Malarkey was thinking playoffs. The fans weren't until about game 12. He could have started Losman right after that loss to the Pats on a Sun. night and with minimal bitching run the course. He diddn't. And as we all know this team wasn't even close to playoff calibre as a team of 2nd and 3rd stringers bloodied theire noses in their own front yard
Do you even follow football? or is it just an LA thing?
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Ah, but dude... Coughlin was in his first year with the G-men. He had a free pass. Playoffs weren't expected. Mularkey had a free pass too in his first season but decided not to use it and gambled on Bledsoe. Not too many folks are willing to allow Malarkey use of his free pass now after sniffing the playoffs last season. He made his bed. He had a chance last year with the mulligan and blew it.
JP... we can't afford to give up on him. The team just aint rallying around him like the G-men rallied around Eli. Maybe that's because this organiztion set unreal playoff expectations. Or perhaps we got schnookered by PT Barnum Donablow... again.
If you continue to start JP then you've got to bite the bullet and tank the season. You ain't playing for the playoffs, you're playing just to get better every day and wherever that takes you, it takes you. Let the players and fans know outright that you screwed up and you're starting from square one... which, in effect, they really are doing.
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D) It was Holcomb’s first start in 14 games for the Browns.
So, since it's his first NFL start in a while, should we expect him to light it up? And, will the bottom line change? Even though Holcomb had a great game, his team still lost. And... I believe that he may have thrown a pick late in that game to seal the deal.
Holcomb is, without a doubt, the better option for the Bills at QB right now. But, that might not be saying much and we shouldn't expect a quantum leap in offensive production. This offensive line is, well ... offensive.
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Hey Navy... just how big of a steak dinner are we talking? And is it Ruths Chris?
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It's Ralph. And anyone that wants to put the problems of this team on Donahoe have no !@#$ing nuts whatsoever. Go where the buck stops, dude, because anything else is simply making a case to make it look like you were right.
Bull crap!!! The last I knew the salary cap for every team in the league was the same, the pool of players was the same, the access to coaches the same. It's how you play the cards. If you're saying your Teflon man has no culpability and that he's merely Ralph's puppet, then it's the Teflon man that has no "!@#$ing nuts" for taking a job as Ralph's concierge. Sorry, but after firing your HC after 3 years of rebuilding and then hiring another rookie HC to hopefully get you to the next level was incredibly stupid. If Ralph told him that "here's $2M, go find a coach", hew was pretty stupid to spend it on inexperience. And, if Ralph told him it had to be that way, then Teflon Man should have told Ralph to kiss his arse and take a GM job someplace else.... that would have showed some "!@#$ing nuts"!
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2 wins might shut some folks up, but that would only be temporary. Are you looking for something a little longer term? If that's the case and you're thinking "playoffs", which is what it would take to quiet the masses, then forget about it.
We've lost to Tampa, Atlanta, and New Orleans. A loss to Miami is going to tough to swallow. God help us when we play a good team. I can only imagine what would have happened if it were San Diego, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, or Cincinnati that we had lined up against. And even as banged up as New England is, I can just see Belechik waiting his turn in line, foaming at the mouth, for the chance to screw with JP's head.
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Hey... he's pretty smart for his age.
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I don't know if benching him benefits him, but it may very well benefit the team right now. There's valid feeling on the whole team that there is no margin for error because if everyone doesn't do their job (except for JP) then we're going to put JP in a tight spot... and JP can't get us out of any spot right now, let alone a tight spot. When you get into that frame of mind you tend to play "not to lose" rather than playing to win.
Some brilliant mind at OBD was sure that the defense and the offensive players surrounding one JP Losman were so great that there was no question that plugging JP right in was no problem. Well, guess what? The next time OBD does another player/team talent evaluation like that, how about they include scouts from about 10 or 12 other NFL teams. Definitely better info than what's coming from inside the organization.
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call me anything you want... but include the word "right" in there someplace. Oh, and please put a positive spin on what's happening with this team.
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Based on your post Adams is not now or ever will be a STUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that's pretty accurate. Sam Adams without a stud next to him is like an oreo cookie without the middle. And, we all know that you don't fiddle....
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Folks... who has consistently reminded you and warned you against drinking the Teflon man's koolaid? Oh, but I was crusading. So what? Call it what you want to call it, but I was fugging damn straight on the money!!
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I read this on Pro football talk.
On the other side of the ball, word around the league is that the Bills sorely miss defensive tackle Pat Williams, who left for Minnesota after the 2004 season. Look for the Bills to explore seriously the possibility of making a deal for a defensive tackle before the coming October 18 trade deadline.
God, I love telling folks "I told you so". Way before training camp I posted my concern, not so much that we lost Pat to free agency, but that his shoes were no where near adequately filled. Adams is only a stud when there's another stud next to him. That's a fact that's been proven. Without Randall in Seattle, Siragusa in Baltimore, and without Williams in Buffalo, Sam is a nonfactor. So, if Tom let Pat walk and had no itentions of adequately back filling, then he should have cut Sam Adams at the same time. Because, essentially, the result in the defense's performance is relatively the same. They are bad, period.
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If not today, when exactly did your head injury occur? I wish you a quick recovery.
Donahoe's tenure as Bills GM...a bust !!
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Imagine that... perhaps the teflon on Tom is beginning to wear on you guys. I saw through the teflon along time. glad you're finally catching up.