dave mcbride
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after the last couple of coaches, i feel pretty strongly that the bills will *not* hire an assistant. i also think that levy is the sort of person who looks at his own experience and says, i made it my second time after getting a raw deal the first time around.
as for college coaches, there are no nick saban's out there who want to go pro right now. most college coaches are woefully unprepared for the pros; it's a very rare one who does do well. for every nick saban and jimmy johnson, there are 10 rich brooks, lou holtzes, steve spurriers, and mike rileys.
put simply, i really think we're going to hire a former head coach.
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in my opinion the Pack should have done whatever they could to keep Bates.
Jerry Gray is a screamer. since he came here on the back of Greg Williams and then worked side by side Dick Lebeau, few are willing to give him credit for the top 3 finishes the Bills defense had under his leadership.....but give him full credit for their falling apart this year.
except for the fact that neither lebeau nor williams were around last year.
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good for grey. i hope you like excessive blitzing. in my opinion, he's a big step down from bates, although he did oversee an excellent defense in 2004. bills fans have seen a lot of bates, by the way, from his days in miami.
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he's won consistently and did it while rotating in an entirely new roster outside of the qb position. he also oversaw teams that blocked well and ran the ball effectively.
the downside is the playoff coaching. i can see losing to a great rams team in st. louis, and the philly game was pretty flukey. but losing at home 27-7 to atlanta was bad, and choking against minnesota at home last year wasn't so great either. i guess he's a marty schottenheimer type, but i can live with that. the teams will most likely be well coached, prepared, and on the same page.
my heart has been telling me haslett, but there is that record of sherman's (plus sherman beat haslett 52-3 this year). he was 53-27 up until this year. that's really good.
i am not keen on the hiring of jauron. if it happens, i'll of course hope for the best and cheer him on. from the outside, though, he looks like the dictionary definition of a retread coach.
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Geez....we all KNOW that once a coach gets fired, he NEVER gets hired somehwere else and enjoys success.
Based on the lahhjik in this thread, we would have "puked" at the sight of Bill Belichick if he came here after he coached Cleveland.
Same goes for Marv Levy.
The sh-- you see on TSW makes me wonder if a good lot of the posters even WATCH the NFL.
the difference between belichick and jauron is that after belichick left cleveland, he went to the pats and the jets and helped turn both of them into super bowl contenders. since being fired in chicago, jauron has overseen a mostly bad lions defense for 2 seasons. and they're not bereft of talent on the defensive side of the ball.
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They weren't?
Were they a good team last year when a rookie coach went on a late season tear and beat a bunch of playoffs teams and won a bunch of road games with Drew Bledsoe as his QB?
They were a good team that took a step back in an attempt to take two steps forward. They had steadily improved under TD's watch until this season; then when they had 1 bad year Ralph and the rest of the chickenlittle crowd peed down their legs.
simon, they were a bad train wreck of a team in 2003 who got blown out repeatedly after an ok start. they were a mess, there was dissension, and the team flat out quit in the last 2 games against miami and new england.
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jauron strikes me as an uninspired choice - the very definition of the retread coach. he had one good season in chicago and 4 bad ones. take out the 13-3 season, and he was 22-42 in his other 4 seasons. moreover, his offenses became progressively worse over time.
offensive rankings:
1999 - 8
2000 - 24
2001 - 27
2002 - 29
2003 - 29
his defenses were never above the middle of the pack either:
1999 - 30
2000 - 16
2001 - 13
2002 - 25
2003 - 12
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I just heard on a local radio station that Marv Levy wants a defensive minded coach and is considering Campo as one of the candidates. He thinks he wasn't put in a position to succeed in Dallas and the two will meet thursday.
Please god no!!!!!
this has to be an especially cruel hoax, correct?
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just checked - haslett's contract ($3.2 million/year) only goes through 06.
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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.
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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.
Dick Jauron coming in???
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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and i'm talking about hiring jauron after detroit.