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Exactly! Mularkey knew that. He didn't really feel comfortable going into a season with a QB with no experience. TD sold MM on it, much the way he did many here.
Mularkey would have liked to keep Bledsoe around another year, to be sure Losman was ready to assume a starting job, before cutting ties. I am not saying he expected Losman to outperform Bledsoe (although many here thought he could, with one arm tied around his back), but he wanted some assurance that if Losman was not ready, his career was tied to him. Kelly Holcomb was signed to appease Mularkey. Mularkey liked Holcomb.
Many here assumed that if they were making that kind of committment to Losman, they must have believed he had a realistic shot at being successful. TD belived that more than Mularkey did. He only baught what TD was selling, because he was assured he wouldn't be fired if it blew up in their face. One thing neither guy figured on, was that everything would blow up in their face (ie: the defense would not perform at anything close to the level it did the previous two years), and TD would get the ax...as it turned out, the QB sitution was far from the only issue that the 2005 Bills, and their coach, faced.
this makes a lot of sense, and without any real knowledge of the situation, was basically what i suspected given the outward signs.
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i've gotta say, why "meathead"? that's just ripping off florio's name for another TE head coach, tice. and florio ripped off himself -- very unoriginally, i might add -- to name mularkey "meathead" as well.
as for the origins of the term "meathead", it came from archie bunker, who used it to refer to his overly educated and intellectual (in his view) son in law.
i'm sorry to be so picky.
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do you really think he tried more than butler? butler drafted ruben in the top half of the first round, played a large part in drafting fina in the first round, and drafted a few guys in the third (louchiey, hicks). he also drafted dusty ziegler and signed joe panos to a big contract (panos was actually, genuinely good for philly before he got hurt in buffalo). did he succeed? no, but he certainly *tried* as hard as donohoe, who had spent one first rounder and one third rounder on the o-line. the guys he brought were late round guys who came cheap (i'm including teague and villarrial in this group).
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my in-laws in buffalo are big bills fans, but they don't troll the net or listen to talk radio. this is how they find out about stuff for the first time, and i'm sure there are a few hundred thousand western new yorkers just like them.
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Once upon a time, a decade or two ago, ESPN was just starting. They hired a few guys named Chris Berman and Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman, who once upon a time were fairly humorous in a smartalecky kind of way. It was a little new (for sports), a little goofy, and it worked great. ESPN and SportsCenter became a phenomenon.
Unfortunately, Berman and Patrick and Olberman ruined sports forever by being sporadically mildly amusing.
Now, everyone on SportsCenter tries to be funny, like them, but they are not like them, and are not funny, and sound like complete morons.
And the same thing has happened to our lovable TSW.
There were and are a couple witty, mildly amusing old timers (and, admittedly, a couple of new timers) that once upon a time made TSW a great place for wisecracks and Pythonesque abuse, and they, unfortuntely, because they were funny, made this place nearly unbearable. Now, every tard on the coaster tries to be funny.
Except you tards forgot one thing. You're not funny. You're Stuart Scott.
So remember. If you're trying to be funny, make sure you're funny.
(To those here who are actually funny, carry on.)
but ... stuart scott is insufferable!!! talk about annoying smart alecks.
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I understand but you're listing the 1% who may be exceptions to the rule. The other 99 % do NOT succeed unless they surround themselves with superior talent in asst. coaches and players.
The pending Bills hire is not Lombardi and to say it's great or horrible, either way, is foolish.
apropos of nothing, really, the season in which marv had the best assistant talent -- dan henning on offense and wade phillips on defense -- was the year the team was most inept. the talent was the problem, obviously.
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I think you could put in Shanahan, Holmgren, Walsh, perhaps Vermiel (on the offense)...
Maybe you could argue Parcells, but he DOES have mucho input and to me that seems the natural way to go. If not, why not have Steve Jobs as your HC? If you have other football men running the show, then what is the need for a top coordinator, etc.. to assume a HC position when in fact you are advocating removing the HC from the essential workflow that needs to take place in order to prepare for your opponent?
put in gibbs too (offense).
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the game against the Browns was absolutely nuts............i lost a lot of money on it..............they got a touchdown, onside kick, touchdown, onside kick touchdown......what are the odds...........21 points in the last 2 minutes or something crazy......... thats not one onside kick recoverd...but 2 within the last couple minutes of the game
i remember that game. courtney brown looked like he was going to be one of the greatest defensive ends ever. he got hurt (again) the following week, as i recall.
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He was there from 1995-1998.
defensive rankings:
1995 - 28th overall (they were an expansion team)
1996 - 3rd overall (they beat the bills in the playoffs that year and shut down the bills after the first quarter)
1997 - 7th overall; 3rd in points (they crushed the bills in buffalo that year)
1998 - 11th overall - they played a very close, low scoring game against buffalo that year and lost in the last seconds when flutie ran it in.
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In one sentence - that is EXACTLY what I mean and highlights my issues with Marv.
I guess I shouldn't rag on Levy for being who he is, just like I don't rag on Parrish for being who he is. They can't help it. They are who they are and they are doing the best that can given their limited abilities. I was just always resentful that our opponents in the big game had a head coach providing added value and direction that allowed them to beat us.
My position is that if we had a head coach that was on par with our opponents, one who could provide that added value, that direction, that knowledge of a weakness we could exploit, that we would have won those big games.
Marv was a wonderful head cheerleader that made everyone feel warm and fuzzy after the SB losses. Well, in my book, that is like the admiring the orphan who pulls himself together after he killed his parents...
scott - do you think don shula was a good coach?
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if this is to be believed, then the bills should think about trading down or moving up to land the elite player (ferguson). i would probably risk moving up.
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well the bills went 9-7 last year with a far more talented offense than the 2001 bears and a defense that surpassed that bears team in every statistical category, including turnovers. and let's not forget special teams last year. plus the bills schedule was easy too. 13-3 is 13-3 -- it ain't easy to do.
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i don't like clayton either, but there is the actual fact that in 2004, ralph and donohoe had dinner with jauron and ralph reportedly loved him. they went with mularkey, but jauron made it hard for them.
i'm starting to make my peace with the possibility of a jauron hire. maybe he'll turn it on here.
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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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Wow MM is a whining bitch
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but there were *real* savings (as in 2005 salary not paid) to be had. we go on and on about the salary cap, but the cap is just a representation of real money, not the thing itself. cutting bledsoe kept millions of dollars in wilson's pocket.