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Boomer Esiason does the morning radio show for WFAN in NY and the topic of Cowher coaching the Jets came up on Monday. He laughed at the suggestion and said there is no way Cowher would coach the Jets. It sounded to me like he has had some conversations with his NFL Today studio-mate regarding the possibility of the Jets and that's why he was laughing. Cowher is going to go to a team which has a lot of upside (good players or good draft picks). The Jets are not that team given Favre's age and pending retirement and no prospect of getting a winning QB anytime soon. He does not want to be given a hand that's a losing one in a pressure cooker like NYC. I also don't think he fits well in a big city like NY, doesn't seem like his style at all.

I was impressed with how our team fought in Denver. If they fight like that against the Patriots then I think they'll have a chance to beat them. Last year I was pissed at how our team finished the season so meekly. Well this year they were fighters at the Meadowlands before Jauron's brain fart of a call, they were fighters in Denver and got the win, if they beat the Patriots and the players are really behind the guy then that complicates my view of things greatly. I can't stand Dick Jauron as our head coach, I think he's a dolt when it comes to gameplans and gameday decisions. But with this being such a young team and Jauron coaching for his job, maybe both the players and head coach are finally coming together. If the Bills actually do beat the Pats, even a hardcore Jauron hater like me is going to be perplexed on which direction they should go in. I'm angry at why this team didn't fight this way against the Browns and Niners, what a waste of a 5-1 start. Given Jauron and Belichick's track records the Pats should be favored by two touchdowns in this game.

Who said we have a good coach now? Dick is a man who's coaching for his job now. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually, it isn't about how many superstars you have, it's about how having talented players that play well as a team. They played like a team yesterday and made all of us proud. If they play that same way next week they will have a great shot at beating the Patriots.

Well that makes the Pats game even more intriguing, doesn't it. You're right that it looks like it will come down to the Bills beating the Pats. How great would it be if he let it be known this week that the Pat game outcome will determine if he's retained or not. So you really love him guys? Prove it, beat the damn Patriots!

I truly think that Dick Jauron was a dead man walking at One Bills Drive and that there would be no way he could save his job after his team got pummeled by the Broncos and the Pats no matter how much his players loved him. I get the feeling things have changed. All Ralph wanted was that little spec of wiggle room to be able to sell a Jauron Season IV. Yesterday's win was big enough to do that. His players did save his fanny. Maybe Dick can reward them with becoming a smarter head coach. Put in some extra game planning hours. Provide them with the "Monalisa" of game plans for the final game against the Patriots. Sunday is this team's Superbowl...they have yet to beat an AFC East team, they haven't beaten the Patriots in about 11 tries, the Patriots are still playing for a spot and the division title and the Bills can end their 2008 season. Let's see if you can slay the REAL dragon Dicky boy and really earn that Season IV lifeline.

You forgot that we finally beat a team with a winning record (on the road no less)! THAT was great to see. Nice early Christmas present for the fans. This team has a lot more talent than their record indicates, nice going Jaur...aaah maybe I'll just leave him alone for tonight.

I'd like to see the Bills give Steve Johnson a real shot at the #2 receiver spot starting with these last two games. Throw him the rock and see what he can do.

Excatly! Look at what the Steelers did when Cowher left two years ago. They bypassed TWO well regarded guys IN THEIR SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM to hire the DB coach from Tampa Bay. WHY? Because they are SMART and know HOW TO HIRE HEAD COACHES!!!! What are the freaking chances that the answer to the Bills pitiful playoff drought is their current SPECIAL TEAMS COACH??? NONE!!!! THAT'S what the chances are!!!!

Wasn't it just three years ago that we were comforted by the fact that Dick was Ivy League educated just like Marv, and so it would come to pass that he'd be the next Marv Levy? How about we shred any comparisons to Marv's career as reasons to hire the next Bills head coach. Let's hire the best guy possible this time.

April does not strike me as someone who can demand the attention of 53 players. I think the team would react as if they'd just hired a substitute teacher. He's seems like a very nice man who is absolutely great at his job, but I get no feeling that he has the commanding personality to take that next step that John Harbaugh clearly was able to. Maybe he could do it, but if it does come down to the choice of having April or Jauron as head coach, I would take Bobby April in a second because I'm just so sick of looking at Jauron.

You mean the 18 of his 20 wins in Buffalo that were against the NFL's worst teams? Is that the "some success" you're talking about? Dick sees NFL football as something that is very hard, he clearly is good at psyching himself and his team out when they play teams with winning records. Do you think that Miami's rookie head coach with a completely reshuffled roster and his team coming off an 1-15 season kept harping on how hard football is? How hard it is to win? Then add in the fact that Dick Jauron is genuine baffoon on gamedays. You're insane if you think that keeping Jauron here is light years ahead of finding a new head coach. A monkey has better football instincts than Dick Jauron.

Reminds me of the Vernon Davis marketing campaign. A guy working out with big chains around his neck just looks stupid to me. I want a guy that lives and breathes football, not watching himself in the mirror. That vein stuff should be left to those silly primadonna WRs and DBs.

My fault... http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TomlMi0.htm I mistakenly used the total games number (30) as games won. Tomlin's got a 21-9 (.700) regular season record as a head coach. Is he the best head coach in the league? No. Is he doing a great job as a second year head coach? Yes. In fact, it looks like the Steelers are going to win the Superbowl this year. But hey, according to some here the guy clearly is stupid.

Way to twist my words you incoherent jackass. I never said that the reason the Steelers are so great is because of their head coach. Were you dropped on your head as a baby? Tomlin didn't screw it up like Dick Jauron would have. Should I have written that in all caps for you? You list the best players in the league and correlate that to Buffalo's 2009 1st rounder? You sir are a moron. I would give away Buffalo's 2009 first round pick in a heartbeat for Mike Tomlin. You apparently are not willing to do so which confirms my belief you're a moron. I'll take that "idiot" Mike Tomlin off of your idiot Steeler friends hands any day of the week. So he wins even when he's stupid, did you ever think about how good of a coach he'll be when the learning curve is over? Didn't think so dunce.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/TomlMi0.htm 30-21 head coaching record. That's a .700 winning percentage. When they beat the Titans they'll have the AFCs best record and home field throughout the playoffs. Does that not register with you and your friends? Your friends are either very spoiled or feel sorry for you and are just trying to make you feel good about having brainless Dick Jauron as your head coach. Winning is hiding his failures? Oh please dude, the NFL is about wins and losses. Your friends deserve to be smacked in the head with a 2x4 for complaining about Mike Tomlin. Do me a favor and tell them to shut the hell up. If Dick Jauron were given that Steeler team he'd still have a below .500 record. If you were given the choice between having our 2009 first round pick or hiring Mike Tomlin as our next head coach, you'd hire Mike Tomlin as our next head coach and if you wouldn't you'd be stupid.

It's a damn good thing the Steelers did not go with your small thinking after Bill Cowher left. Bobby April? You're kidding, right? The Bills need to hire the guy with the qualities that will make them a great head coach...football smart, ultra-competitive, decisive, passionate, creative, flexible, with someone with steel nerves. Hiring Bobby April would officially make the Buffalo Bills the most brain dead organization in the league surpassing the Detroit Lions.

I think head coaching in the NFL has become a young man's game. I'm talking 45 and younger here. I'd rather have a guy who's already in the league and is either a positional coach or coordinator. I'm not big at all with hiring another retread like Dick was. This team needs big "change" and retread doesn't say "change" enough to me. Just pick a guy who is football smart, we all know by now it shouldn't matter if he went to an Ivy League school.

Exactly! Hey, football is hard, winning is hard...blah blah blah blah blah...Hell yeah it is with a head coach who's as freaking dumb as you are! I want him to just go away already. I can't take seeing that blank deer-in-the-headlight stare on the sideline for one more game.

Yes. In fact, a monkey can do what Dick Jauron does on gameday. Stand there all day with a head set on, waiting to make a game losing decision at the end of the game. When you have a coach as bad as Dick Jauron you simply fire him and move forward. You don't tremble in fear of the unknown. You keep trying to get it right. Keeping Dick Jauron on as head coach is basically throwing in the towel, raising the white flag. Do you ever wonder why the Steelers picked a POSITIONAL coach from ANOTHER TEAM, instead of hiring Weisenhunt or Grimm???? I mean, according to Bills fans the smart thing to do would be to hire from within and promote a coordinator. But they didn't do that, they hired a young bright positional coach from the Bucs who had no previous experience as a defensive coordinator. So the reason why they hire Tomlin (which most Bills fans would have seen as radical and stupid) was because they are an extremely smart organization who know the qualities it takes to become a very successful head coach. Fear is a very stupid reason to keep Dick Jauron around. I'd much rather have a young dynamic coach like Raheem Morris (another Tampa DB coach/head coach in waiting) leading the charge than another dreadful year under Jauron. Obviously he's not the only one, the Bills need to go after a coach in this league who is smart, competitive, cold hearted in his football decisions yet has an endless passion for the game. I really don't care if he's a positional coach or a coordinator. This game is not the rocket science that Jauron likes to make it out to be. We need to stop feeling so sorry for Dick and move on. Yes, it's sad it didn't work out but the guy has had way more opportunities to prove himself as a head coach than any other person ever in the NFL.

You weren't sure what to do with the Bills 2nd and 5 and Marshawn tearing the Jets defense a new one? Are you serious? No wonder you're cutting Dick Jauron some slack. Holy freaking cow what has happened to Bills fans. It's downright scary reading some of these "poor ol' Dick Jauron" posts. For a head coach, the man is an idiot. I've been saying this here when it was a very unpopular opinion last year at this time, but for there to STILL be fans on his side after a 6-10 season, 0-6 against the division and the easiest schedule they've ever had is amazing to me.

A monkey would have called for a running play in that situation. It will go down as the worst play call in Buffalo Bills history. Stop the madness, our coach is an idiot who is devoid of anything resembling basic football instincts. The guys who are rationalizing the play call and are still supporting our baffoon of a head coach have lost their minds.

Third year, 0-6 in the division 2 wins against winning teams in three years as Bills head coach His gameday decisions have become to have a direct effect on the difference between winning and losing 7 of 8 losing seasons as a head coach Losing to two flat out bad teams at home against Cleveland and San Francisco Easy schedule = 6-10 season Dick Jauron is an idiot. I consider him one of the worst NFL head coaches of all time. Why some of you are having heart palpitations regarding Dick's possible departure is beyond all reason. It is truly amazing to me how being a nice guy can still keep some fans like yourself on his side while he's skippering of one of the worst disaster seasons in team history.

Bill Belichick has one of the best coaching minds in the history of football coordinator and coach. This comparison has been brought up here and it's just as ridiculous now as it was the first time. Why? Because Dick Jauron is a dumb head coach. In NY, the local radio has been nicknamed dumb play calls "pulling a Jauron". He's a very nice man that is well loved and respected, but he is dumb. Not overruling the Losman fade pattern to Evans two Sundays ago and overruling the called run to a roll out last Sunday is all the proof you need that this man is dumb. Dick has been a head coach in the NFL for 8 years will NEVER, AND I REPEAT NEVER all of a sudden become a smart man. You can not have a winning team in the NFL unless you have a passable amount of intelligence. Dick has proven in 7 of 8 seasons he is a dumb head coach, it's no coincidence that the one season he had a winning record as head coach is still considered the luckiest team in the history of the NFL. Please can all of TSW refrain from making this Belichick/Jauron connection from now on? It's insulting and absurd to keep doing this.

I'm not getting the NFL ticket next season either if Dick Jauron is still the head coach. I can listen to the game on my Sirius radio and watch whatever local games are shown instead. I can not justify spending $250 on the aggravation of watching a loser guide my team to a fourth losing season. I think Schefter is being a bit overdramatic with the pending doom and gloom in his blog. Even at 90 years old, Ralph knows which way the wind is blowing and how much keeping Jauron will cost him over eating the contract extension. The later is a drop in the bucket compared to what a drop off in season ticket sales and Bills merchandise would mean to his bottom line. No way Jauron comes back. Fans should cut Ralph some slack here because there is no way he can make any sort of Dick is fired announcement before the end of the season. Jauron is one of the most well respected and well thought of (except for head coaching) guys in the league. He can't say anything that could be misconstrued until the season is over. It's frustrating yes, but there's only less than two weeks till we get an answer.

If this is true then the Buffalo Bills should try and trade him to get what ever draft picks they can. A QB with lingering concussion problems (an injury that becomes more susceptible with each occurrence) in only their second year is a very very bad thing. Wow, that would suck if the Bills would have to draft another freaking QB or find a starter through free agency. I hope what you're saying is not the case because Trent did show some promise early in the season. I wanted to see what he'd do in his third year as a starter, but if he still has head problems it's time for a plan B in the offseason.