dave mcbride
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Seriously. Everything you've accused Brady of came incredibly true last night.
I know a lot of people like to suck Brady off and say how they'd give their right arm to have Brady as our QB, but you have held true to your convictions and in the end, no one was more right about Brady and his "legendary playmakeability" as you have been this year.
Good call.
um, he had one off road game against a 13-3 team coming off of a bye and featuring the best cornerback in the league. you can't hold him to the standard of having to win the super bowl every year to legitimize his greatness ...
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I'm not going there in this thread...
Like I said, I would like someone to make a reasonable case why Cowher isn't a HoF caliber coach especially if you contrast his qualifications with Marv's. I found it interesting that this article from Pitt. was so definitive about him NOT being worthy (despite 130 wins and averaging 10 wins per season, 8 division titles, 1 SB appearance... all with one of the most frugal owners in the league).
I suppose my lack of ball washing for Marv means I will forever receive knee-jerk responses from people, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.
re cowher, why are we even talking about this? he's only 48 and has a long career in front of him. he's not retiring from the nfl any time soon. who knows what will happen in the next 10 years.
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3) He spoke with Gregg Williams yesterday (b/c both he and Williams are in Seattle) and they talked about the Bills and GW said it is a tough place to work b/c the phone will ring daily and it is Ralph who wants to know how the team is doing.
Kind of sour grapes I think about GW. The guy who dismantled the Bills defense when he came in because he knew better how to do it. Wow, the audacity of an owner to know how his football team is doing. Nice, Gregg. Go fail in Washington too. Make fun of the guy who preceded you like Wade--even though Wade was a better coach.
except that was the same criticism of ralph leveled by butler, aj smith, and in a backhanded way, wade. ralph is a meddler -- always has been, always will be. he's not an easy guy to work for.
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Have they interviewed a minority candidate yet? No. So it is hypothetical. Marv will not just become head coach, that does not skirt the rules on interviewing.
I think once again in this sound bite, instant 24 news period people and press are overacting. The word "if" does not mean may or may not as some seem to think it does.
you may be right, but they may have in fact interviewed gray. his name has come up.
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"We have already told some coaches that we want to retain them and they're good with it," Levy said. "If we talk to another coaching candidate, we'll tell them that we've made this commitment (to the assistants) before we go through the interviewing process."
And in that remark, again, Levy sent up warning flares by saying "if" the Bills talk to other candidates.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/p...331/1007/SPORTS
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unfortunately, i fear that it will be levy. and what a joke that would be.
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My brother in law is a West Point grad and Army Ranger. His best buddy is a counter terrorism expert that teaches at West Point. The guy has many books out and I have spoken to him at length about terrorism. Bin Laden is a figure head-Zawahiri is the brains. Seems like we havent heard from Osama in a while. Zawahiri has been the mouth piece for al quaeda the past year. I hope to God this is true. I will tell you something else- Al-Zarqawi would be a much bigger catch for the USA logistically the Osama.
no offense, but the american military has been wrong more often than not all along about this stuff (read "assassins gate" by george packer for evidence on this). zawahiri was a struggling jihadist for 15 years after the assassination of sadat, but islamic jihad never achieved anything more than regional marginality. in 95-96, he had the brilliant idea (and he is indeed quite smart) to hitch himself to bin laden's star. bin laden is a world historical figure, on the order of lenin, khomeini, ho chi minh, and havel. zawahiri is a beria, a hess, a zhou en lai-- the guy that everyone claims is smarter but has no capacity to inspire the masses. bin laden, regardless of his reprehensible ideology, has that capability.
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no one is more important than bin laden. zawahiri is their top technician. he's replaceable. the spirit of it all, which is what bin laden is so effective at representing, is irreplaceable.
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I know this belongs on the other board but it is too good of news. Heres hoping this claim is true. Rot in hell you SOB! I have the Champagne on ice!
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1504096
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/13/...rike/index.html
good news if true, but i'll wait for proof. this exact same story ran 2 years ago and proved to be incorrect.
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thanks - good piece.
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To Dave M and buftex...this is not a "Home Office" situation. You can bet your bottom-ass-dollar these guys will be together in Buffalo (or where ever) making the decisions. During the season, Marv and the HC will be in Buffalo. We shouldn't care where else they live...as long as they are here to do their job here.
Again, it doens't matter where RW lives.
i see your point, and as for the detroit office, i advocate a relocation to timbuktu!!
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I have always thought Donohoe was a blite on the franchise and city in general, but I had no idea on how far reaching the impact would have been...
To listen to ESPN from 2 - 4 today - this franchise is a ship wreck in need of rebuilding from the top down..... Nice job TD - you took a salary cap mess and turned it into a an NFL train wreck that may need new ownership just to untie the knots that are in place...
I salute the likes of Pass-the-pipe, the Red Dragon, SoCall Bill and Swaggert the Whoremonger for riding TD for years now...Too bad gentlement that your cries were not heard sooner...
i'm no fan of td, but our very own howard hughes is the person you should be calling out.
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then i'm off the marv bandwagon. that's bush league and borderline pathetic.
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This "location" stuff is as stupid as it gets, IMO. I'd bet that half the players don't live in Buffalo year-round. The funniest of is the talk of Modrack (building a house in Jacksonville) and Marv (hasn't relocated yet).
Puhleeze! Re: Modrack...the guy spends most of his time scouting on the road. I really don't give a rats-ass where he lives. With that said, who cares where he builds a house? Many people have several houses in different parts of the country. TOTAL non-issue. With that said, RW says he wants TM to spend more timein the Bufftown. He better...he should...and if he doesn't he should be gone. But, let's not hold his real estate deals against him.
Next: Marv. The mofo got the job last week and this week his HC quit. He hasn't moved yet? What's taking him so long? I'm goig WAY our on a limb here and predict Marv spends more than a weekend or two in Buffalo. I'd even bet he makes a game or two during the season.
As for Ralph...who really cares where the owner lives? He lived in Detroit during the Super Bowl run...that's good enough for me.
As Bills fans we have plenty of things to worry about. This just ain't one of them.
as someone who's gone through the quasi hell of a constellation of "home offices" that criss-cross the country, i have to disagree. four "offices" isn't telecommuting -- it's chaos that's got a lot of bogus statements about "the end of distance" tossed in to basically rationalize not leaving a particular locale.
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Season Team Regular Season Post Season
Record Finish Record Finish
2000 New Orleans Saints 10-6 1st -- NFC West 1-1 Lost Divisional Playoffs
2001 New Orleans Saints 7-9 T3rd -- NFC West --
2002 New Orleans Saints 9-7 3rd -- NFC South --
2003 New Orleans Saints 8-8 2nd -- NFC South --
2004 New Orleans Saints 8-8 2nd -- NFC South --
2005 New Orleans Saints 3-13 4th -- NFC South --
Career 45-51 1-1
Is this what you want ???
you mean 42-38? because you can't seriously mean to include the 2005 season in his overall record. i'm surprised he managed to win one game last year.
i'm not saying he's the be all and end all -- i'm only calling out a dubious usage of statistics.
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that's not the reason. he and a.j. smith don't get along, and smith doesn't think he has it in him to win the big game. there was some speculation in ny that he'd be "traded" to the jets for picks, but that fell through. spanos has been protecting marty, actually.
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i don't think it's a grand conspiracy either. i think it *may* (i'm not saying it is) well be a penny ante conspiracy on the part of ralph wilson, though. it fits his character, that's for sure.
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I know it happens all the time. It happened to me. And I had absolutely no problem proving it. $$$
But in this case...there's nothing to prove. Speculating that RW !@#$ed with his own multi-hundred-million dollar asset to convince one man to leave so he could save $3M? I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the perceived value of the Bills franchise has dropped by some $20M over the course of the last two weeks. It's a nonsense speculation.
well, in the grand scheme of things i don't think the presence or nonpresence of a middling coach has any effect on a franchise's value. i also think that "making someone's job a living hell" consists of a helluva lot more than saying you want different offensive coaches than mularkey wanted or creating a loose, sem-coherent structure. it may have seemed like an impossible situation to mularkey, but compared to your average worker in a chicken factory or a paper products supplier, any argument he put forth wouldn't pass legal muster.
let me ask you this -- do you really think that wilson and levy are shedding tears about this turn of events? i don't. they'll find someone soon enough, and the faithful will rally. moreover, any possible decline in franchise value will spiral upwards once again as everyone starts to believe again.
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None of which replaces face-to-face contact.
Look, if Marv stays in Chicago, the Bills will be the only NFL team run out of four-different cities: Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, and Buffalo.
And if Marv returns to Buffalo, the Bills will be the only NFL team run out of three different cities.
Its an absurd situation, and there's a reason why successful organizations don't have similar situations.
JDG
i absolutely agree. i work in a company with certain people working far away from our office, and it's certainly not the best setup regardless of e-mail etc. isn't marv coming to buffalo, however?
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