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Bills | Team to interview Haslett
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:30:30 -0800
Adam Schefter, of NFL.com, reports the Buffalo Bills will be bringing in former New Orleans Saints head coach Jim Haslett for an interview for their vacant head coaching job. No date for the interview has been announced.
thanks!
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are you sure about that? i thought that may be the case, but it doesn't seem so clear assuming he takes a job at the same level as before. is there any rule on that?
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well, that happened nearly 20 years ago, and if marv can't get past that, that's a problem. as for haslett being a scab, if memory serves, marv coached scabs for three games. he probably could have used someone like haslett, because the bills would have made the playoffs if they had done better in their scab games. as it so happens, i veer left in politics and am pro-union. but remember: the nflpa isn't a union -- it's a guild, and the majority of its members are very, very conservative. consequently, i always disassociate professional sports unions from real life issues.
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well, i'm one of those weird people who think branch is one of the five best receivers in the league, so i gotta disagree. the clutch catches, the route running, the hands, and the speed/quickness put him in the top echelon. great pick by pioli, who overlooked his height.
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he's been working for 3 million plus a year, and is guaranteed that if he doesn't get for the next couple of years. that is virtually triple what mularkey got.
i admit - i'd like to see him as coach. but why would he take a $1.5 million pay cut? his agent would be the laughing stock of the agent world, i can tell you that ...
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Given the choice between haslett/sherman and Jauron I'd take Haslett anyday. People are overratingSherman. Yeah he made the playoffs a few times, but that was mostly do to brett favre and playing in perhaps the weakest division in the nfl. Haslett is a blue collar guy. Smash mouth no nonsense football, which is the kind of coach we need. Haslett isn't my #1 choice but I'd definitly prefer him over Jauron or Sherman
i'm with you. i want haslett, and it's really based on a gut instinct. i think he'll do well here. my unsubstantiated fear is that marv doesn't want anyone under the age of 55 (this isn't a joke).
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It's great to be around so many people who know so much Bills history before 1985.
Shall we take a stroll down memory lane before Polian arrived on the greatness of Bills' front office & coaches? Shall we go into detail on Polian's departure? Butler's? Not recognizing the talented AJ Smith, already in-house?
And yeah, as fans we should really feel great in comparing our franchise to the greatness of Davis, Jones & Snyder ownerships.
But, hey it's easier to kick Peter King of out Starbucks.
shhhhhhhh ....
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I thought he got both hands/arms under it and the only time it moved was when he was securing it so he could try to get up and take it the other way. I will say that at the time I was sitting in a spot where there was a window glare on the TV and I didn't see it as well as I would have liked to.
Either way, it was so close that the official should have thrown his marker and called it a catch so that they at least had the chance to take a better look at it on replay. Immediately calling incomplete on something that close/questionable only serves to prevent the opportunity to make sure the call is right.
Cya
I was in a room with a half dozen large Stiller fans and thought I was about to become the luggage tossed about by gorillas in the old Samsonite commercials.
it was indeed a terrible call, but no worse than the champ bailey fumble through the end zone or the interference call on samuel. note how all these calls go against the road teams ...
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that's not my recollection at all. my very, very strong recollection is that almost everyone (myself included) from the local media to the various chatboards was extremely high on the hire in 2001. in fact, the term that comes to mind when remembering how his hire was received is "savior." I can't even think of any dissenters except that "heinz" guy who interloped from pittsburgh and quickly made himself scarce after numerous angry ripostes to his argument that it was all modrak and that donohoe performed poorly after TM left pitt. i'm in no way suggesting he was right. he was, however, the only dissenter i can think of.
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8. After talking to Buffalo GM Marv Levy, I'm thinking there might be a bit of a learning curve for him. When Levy took the job, he told owner Ralph Wilson, 'I've never done this before. I've got a lot to learn.'' Those can't be comforting words for Bills Nation. I'll tell you what Levy can do that would help the coaches he hires: Be the buffer between Wilson and the head coach. Let's just say that Wilson's phone calls to Tom Donahoe and the last couple of Bills coaches -- sometimes many calls per day -- took up a lot of time that could have been used for football. I asked Levy what he was looking for in a head coach. "Let's see,'' he said. "Vince Lombardi? I'm not looking for a defensive guy or an offensive guy. I'm looking for the best coach.''
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...mqb.real/4.html
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hmm. while it wouldn't surprise me if it's true, i also wouldn't put it past donohoe to feed borges that if they are in fact friends.
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Hmmm...
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/arti...he_hall/?page=4
Next in line?
Word on the snowdrifts of Buffalo is that Levy wants to hire ex-Bill Jim Haslett to coach but Haslett wants more money than owner Ralph Wilson wants to pay. Levy also has an interest in bringing back former defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell. Haslett is not talking because he's also a candidate with the Jets, although not the leading one. A decision in New York should be made by the end of next week. The Jets will interview Patriots defensive coordinator Eric Mangini today about the opening.
what's that they say about leopards and spots?
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i agree - i feel bad for him. i feel bad for dungy too. that kicker has gotta go, though. for those who don't recall, he choked bigtime against the pats last year on opening night as well.
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A key to the success of the Pittsburgh offense was a bunch formation that Whisenhunt used more liberally on Sunday than he had during the season. The Steelers were able to dictate some crucial matchups from the alignment and were effective in throwing and running out of the set, in which three players, usually two wideouts and fullback Dan Kreider, were clustered to one side.
Unofficially, Roethlisberger completed seven of nine passes for 103 yards, and the Steelers rushed nine times for 37 yards from the bunch formation. The alignment, along with an empty set that Whisenhunt also used, often left the Colts' defense feeling, well, empty.
"It's something we used during the season," said Whisenhunt of the bunch formation, "but we definitely expanded the package for today, because we saw some things the first time we played them, and we felt we could take advantage of them. Ben did a really nice job in it. We were very productive with it."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/c..._len&id=2293780
maybe the newly unemployed MM gave his former protege some advice??
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It's a foreign concept they usually are lined up next to the tackle and some of them are as fast as wr's so they occasionaly line up split out like a wr. They're used as receivers to work the middle of the field or split the seems. Teams with young quaterbacks generally use them as a safety valve. Some of them even dominate better then wr's. These are the rare breed. Not all of them can block, but if you can get the te to do it all you got yourself one hell of a player. This team currently has none that are capable. I know this stuff sounds crazy but really it's true I swear
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he did definitely abandon the raiders. i remember when it happened. it lit up xtra 690 for a week or so.
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Total bogus bulls#it.
http://www.nfl.com/ce/multi/0,3783,4893094,00.html]Fox Resume Part I
Also:
"It could be that John still has something to prove after so many stops. Boise, ID, Ames, IA, Lawrence, KS. They were all on his résumé before he reached the NFL as a secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1989. Even then, he stayed on the move - San Diego from 1992-1993, Oakland from 1994-1995, and St. Louis in 1996 - before reaching the Giants as defensive coordinator."
"However, his success as a coordinator did not begin with the Giants. Before serving as a consultant to the Rams in 1996, he engineered the Oakland Raiders defense to a 10th-place finish in total defense in 1994 and 11th in 1995. At Oakland, he worked with future Giants head coach Jim Fassel.
Before joining Oakland, John was the secondary coach under Bobby Ross at San Diego in 1992 and 1993. John started his NFL coaching career with the Pittsburgh Steelers as defensive backs coach from 1989-1991, overseeing the top-rated pass defense in 1990.
John moved to the Steelers from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as defensive coordinator and secondary coach for the Panthers from 1986 through 1988. In each of his three seasons, the Pittsburgh pass defense was statistically ranked among the top 10 in the nation.
Prior to his three-year stay with Pittsburgh, John made eight moves in as many seasons as he worked his way through the coaching ranks, including a foray into professional football with the Los Angeles Express of the USFL in 1985. Starting as a graduate assistant at his alma mater of San Diego State in 1978, John became an assistant at United States International University a year later and made a succession of moves to Boise State in 1980, Long Beach State in 1981, Utah in 1982, Kansas in 1983, and Iowa State in 1984."
The guy has moved around, but to say he hurt Al Davis' feelings and by extension - Ralph's is ridiculous. Maybe you could say Fox reminded him of Lou Saban - maybe. But that's a horse of a different color. Besides, if TD was such a strong leader and President of the organization, if he had a pair he would have hired Fox - IF Fox was his guy. He obviously wasn't - for whatever reason.
take it easy, man!! like i said, it was a *rumor*, and i also said in a subsequent post that people should feel free to discount it. as for wilson, i do think that regardless of how much power he delegated to donohoe, he always was involved in the coaching choice and his seal of approval was necessary. as for davis, ralph is friends with him. davis does (or did -- i have no idea if he has maintained the grudge) actually hate fox. whether that was a determining factor i don't know. in 2001, i don't think that fox was any more of a hot commodity than williams. both ran good defenses, obviously.
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They could block well and actually find a seam downfield to catch the ball for big gains. Some could even score Touchdowns. I seem to remember the Bills using one, many years ago.
A rumor is that our HC who just quit was a TE for 9 years in the NFL. Yet I never saw one block or being used this past season. 3 stooges named Campbell, Euhus and Nuefeld had TE next to their name but never did a thing. I guess our ex-coach was dumber than I thought.
These playoff coaches seem to have some good TE's.
We should go shopping and get one or two of those. They seem to help teams win.
What this strange thing you call TE?
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i feel bad about what i'm about to say given my post, but i simply can't remember. so feel free to discount it. i did see a reference to it in at least one place and i think two places after fox had had success with the panthers.
fox was the defensive coordinator (i'm fairly certain) in oakland in the mid-90s, and while there he simply quit because he couldn't deal with the constant interference and poisonous situation. it happened before gruden arrived.
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joe - it has been rumored (somewhat credibly, in my opinion) that ralph put the kibosh on fox because he quit on al davis. ralph is one of davis' only buds in the league, and davis has it in for fox because fox flat out quit on him. of course, i can't blame fox for leaving that crazy situation, and i wouldn't want to work for count chocula either.
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there was a blatant 35 yard pass interference in the second quarter on randle el that wasn't called - it would have put the steelers in the red zone. as it was, they had to punt. it was a badly officiated game, but the steelers were more jobbed than the colts. the 4th and 1 call was bad, but it really had no bearing on the game - the colts ended up having enough time anyway.
tossing an unsubstantiated idea in the ring
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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whoops - i just had a brainstorm. haslett is on the saints payroll for 2 more years, and i can't see him asking for anything less than a 4 year deal, and he probably wants 5.