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Actually, I believe that Ralph just wanted to fire Wade because he didnt like several of his assistants. If Wade agreed to fire Ronnie Jones, Ralph would have said, Oh, and I want you to fire _____, too, and then _____. Wade knew he was gone, and wanted to show other assistants around the league, for future jobs, that he would fall on his sword for them. It was more of a PR deal than anything. I think Wade phillips would have easily let Ronnie Jones go to save his job as head coach of the Bills. Wade was a smart guy, even if he didnt wear a headset.
i agree -- wade was so gone. in fact, lenny p at the time (i think it was him) wrote that donohoe liked wade personally and wouldn't take the job until wade was fired. he didn't want to have to do it himself, which i think was smart of him.
i have to say, if this is true, than the longtime rumblings about wilson being a difficult and mercurial owner are definitively true. i'm not saying these guys didn't get what was coming to them, but if true, the way wilson has done has left a bad taste in my mouth. i know i predicted a few days ago that mm would certainly be back, and i may about to be proven really wrong. so my predictions are kind of worth squat. that said, if this goes down, i expect levy to be the gm and for him and ralph to hire an experienced coach. who that will be i have no idea.
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Mr. Clayton is reporting that meetings with Modrak and Mularkey are NOT going well and as a result, MM is now on shaky ground! The sticking point is with Assistant Coaches. Tom Donahoe, by the way, is NOT a part of these talks. It's looking like MM is holding firm with his staff. Isn't that awfully like Wade Phillips? Seems that way....
he may want to get fired.
that's how ralph gets 'em to leave, by the way. marv wouldn't serve up henning, and wade wouldn't serve up ronnie jones. ralph had demanded their heads on platters.
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Thanks for the chuckle.
NOTRE DAME'S WINS IN 2005
Pittsburgh (5-6) Under .500 in the Big Least!
Michigan (7-5) Good win in the Big House
Washington (2-9) They beat Idaho and Arizona. Wow!
Purdue (5-6) JV teams could score 35 on Purdue
BYU (6-6) They went 5-3 in the Mountain West Conference (
) and their non-conf win was Eastern Illinois 
Tennessee (5-6) Vols also lost to Vanderbilt
Navy (8-4) Nice record, but it IS only Navy. Not in ND's class
Syracuse (1-10) Only win for 'Cuse was UB
Stanford (5-6) Irish squeak out a win on last minute drive
ND LOST to Michigan State (5-6) at home
So where are these quality teams on the ND schedule? Who did they beat? I see only two teams with a winning record, one of which was Navy.
Like I said, their best 'win' was a 34-31 loss to USC.
fair enough, but i don't care what anyone says -- tennessee is a quality opponent. yes, they had a down year, but they lost a lot of close games against good teams. more importantly, a lot of their current players will be playing in the nfl. the same goes with michigan state, who is a lot better (talent-wise) than their record. they should have beaten ohio state in columbus, and would have if not for a flukie blocked fg returned for a td by the buckeyes.
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I'd have gone 5 seasons if I thought Donahoe had anytrhing to do with the mess that John Butler left before he ran off to California.
Wait, are you suggesting that we should actually consider what a guy has done in the past before he's sent packing?! Or that somebody who's been succesful before might actually be succesful again?!?!
So if we can count Ozzie's work from way back when, then should we also take into account Donahoe's 5 division titles(more than Newsome's), all his playoff wins(more than Newsome has), multiple conferencechampionship games(more than Newsome's teams) and superbowl appearances(exactly as many as Newsome)?
Or should we embrace Newsome's history while ignroing Donahoes, because maybe Newsome's recent failures haven't had teh same kind of emotional effect on us? I for one sure hope the Bills make a rash, emotional decision instead of taking everything into account.
simon - could you live with keeping modrak as the gm? he's part of that same success you cite, and moreover was part of philly's recent run of success.
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of course he can learn. but in the absence of actually proving it, paying a *coordinator* nearly 3 times the going rate for the *highest* paid coordinators is, you know, batsh*t insane.
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Easterbrook had a good review of the end of Sunday night NFL Primetime on ESPN.
This was his comment about the Bills.
The second-most predictable action this season was Buffalo play faking then throwing to blocking back Daimon Shelton in the flat on short-yardage downs. Shelton is a hard working blocker, but possibly the slowest person ever to line up in an NFL backfield. (William "The Refrigerator" Perry was actually surprisingly quick for his size.) In three games before Week 17, Buffalo failed at the goal line by trying to throw to Shelton in the flat on third-and-goal; each time the defense appeared to have been notified by mail where the ball was going. Sunday, the Bills facing third-and-goal at the Jets 4, Buffalo play faked and threw into the flat for Shelton, who was immediately stopped for a 1-yard gain, the Bills settling for a field goal in a game they would ultimately lose by four points. So many Jersey/B defenders were around Shelton on this play it was as if there had been a bright flashing arrow pointing to him at the snap. Though the early call to Shelton meant the predictable play had backfired four times in a row, later in the game Mike Mularkey called it again! Interception returned for a touchdown
did he mention in his piece that the bills scored 26 points against a good defense and only lost because of a special teams breakdown?
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since we're comparing, how about the last five seasons (the number of years donohoe has been in buffalo)? also, you pretty much get a few years grace period if you win a super bowl, which they did 6 seasons ago ...
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i cannot believe they are paying that much money for that joker. talk about gleefully throwing paper money into an open fire. first off, he was a bad head coach who coached scared, and he's not even all that as a defensive coach. over his career, if you averaged all the defenses he oversaw (including his 3 bills units and his titans units), he's a middle of the pack guy. is he better than monte kiffin? dick lebeau? ron rivera? dom capers?
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i will never forget that game, as i was already dancing in the aisle at joe robbie when he coughed that thing up....it happened on the opening drive, too.
i don't know...as much as i think mularkey is, as TD said, "CAPABLE of winning in this league," the interpersonal squabbles that have erupted on this team speak volumes for the job he has done this year. i am NOT among those here who think marv levy walks on water, but i will say he was brilliant at managing personalities in such a way that that he got the most out of everybody. that cluster!@#$ that erupted in '89 should have split the team once and for all, but it didn't. imo, that was all marv.
by contrast, all we saw this year was one squabble after another between mularkey and his players, and, apparently among the players themselves. that's not good leadership, and frankly, i thought that would be one of mularkey's strong suits going into this season...which makes this year's disaster that much more disappointing.
not so fast - both moulds and adams played better near the end of the season. maybe mularkey got through to them.
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What a surprise, another error from TMQ!
"In three games before Week 17, Buffalo failed at the goal line by trying to throw to Shelton in the flat on third-and-goal; each time the defense appeared to have been notified by mail where the ball was going."
Uhhh... except that the play worked for a TD in the first half against San Diego to make the score 28-10. (i.e. still a ballgame.)
Easterbrook really, really, needs to employ a fact-checker.
JDG - who didn't need a cite or a link to recognize the arrogant writing style.....
i wonder if easterbrook would say the same about butch rolle. but of course he caught touchdowns, so it must have been a good call, right?
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yep, and jp new too much because as soon as he arrived in buffalo he started hanging out with all of the a-holes and philanderers. hence the hiring of troy "gillooly" vincent to keep him quiet.
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oh jesus mother of mary. vincent didn't break his leg on purpose. they were playing a little game called football. broken limbs happen all the time. where is this coming from?!?
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you know, no one really knows. while enough places have indicated that the players don't like losman to make me believe it, speculating as to who is at fault without knowing anything is a fool's errand ...
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Brad (Albuquerque): Chances of Marv Levy replacing Donohoe if he's let go?
Len Pasquarelli: (12:36 PM ET ) i think marv levy will have some role in the buffalo front office . . .don't know if it will be GM or not, but there's plenty of buzz about it
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I disagree. I think most factual news people get from the newspaper (with the exception of local news) is from a large wire service like the AP or Reuters. Once the story hits the wire, the same story, word for word, appears in newspapers acros the country as well as every major news website (CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox, Newspaper website). When news happens, everybody reads the exact same story whether you read it 5 minutes after it happens or the next morning in the local paper.
but reuters, the ap, knight ridder are news reporting organizations built largely to serve newspapers. moreover, there are the top shelf newspapers like the ny times, the washington post, the LA times, and the wsj that usually get the best and most highly prized scoops. television news is hardly ever first in this regard.
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??? newspapers are the *only* outlets that publish well sourced factual news. you ain't gonna get it on tv, and you're certainly not gonna get it in the web or the blogosphere, which is mostly people providing spins on media stories generated by real newspaper reporters.
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That's the point of having of TSW. Who needs Warren Buffet's rag to be the arbiter of the "truth," especially when it's from Sully's perspective?
Maybe that's why the News circulation figures are dropping like a stone (our booming economy has something to do with that as well, unfortunately
)actually, the news overall has become a far better paper now than it ever was. its investigative reporting and "public" journalism is heads and shoulders above what it once was in the 70s-80s, and that's largely attributable to having a great editor (a woman whose name i forgot).
as for their circulation numbers dropping, that's hardly something to celebrate. newspapers are a great thing.
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He's done as much as Shanahan did as a coordinator in San Fransisco, or as Belichick did w/ the Giants, Jets, and Patriots before taking over as head coach. Those guys failed in their first attempts, got on the staffs of experienced coaches, and then performed well enough as coordinators to earn another shot as head coach, where they did better. I'm not saying Gregg will have the same level of success, but I'm also not saying it's a fact that he won't. Why? Because I don't know that to be a fact.
Neither do you.
uh, belichick got to the playoffs one year (11-5) with the browns and made it to the second round after beating parcells' pats in the first round.
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absolutely.
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i don't know about that. from what i could tell, most of it had to do with tressel having bigger, stronger, and faster guys to coach than weis. osu is clearly more talented physically than nd this year -- that's obvious.
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but they are reporting a story that on the face of it makes sense, which is why i'm sharing it - john guy will be fired before donohoe is replaced. like i said, it makes sense.
more fueling of the marv rumor
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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indeed he was. wilson demanded that he fire henning; marv wouldn't. "retirement" was the polite word for the departure.