Fan in Chicago
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Here we go again... Only the pessimists are realists... the optimists are pigeons, or morons, or something...
Give me a @#$%ing break!
I can't speak for either of the other two non-pessimists on this board, but I can assure you that I am not an idiot who buys every product. I am a Bills fan; I am happy when they win, sad when they lose. I am also smart enough to know that it is a sign of intense psychological pathology for someone to select a voluntary action such as being a fan of a particular team and then not only to go around looking for reasons to be gloomy but also to feel compelled to yell in the face of every other person in this voluntary activity that they should be gloomy too. Think about it, man. I don't know if Dick Jauron will win a championship for the Bills, but neither do you. You know what, he probably won't, because so few teams do win championships. So be it. Be a fan, watch the games or not, buy tickets and tschotchkes or not, but do not tell me or anyone else that it is somehow smarter to walk around with a self-created raincloud over your head. I am smart enough to know that following sports is supposed to be fulfilling, even the torment that all Bills fans are heir to.
I do not post that often, but I imagine that about 90% of my posts have made this same argument. Maybe I will kill this thread too, but it bears repeating: Being repetitively, aggressively gloomy is NOT, repeat NOT in itself a sign of intelligence. In its most extreme forms, it is a sign of dementia. In its TBD form it is annoying as hell.
Go Bills!
Forget the logic, this is one of the best written piece on this board - excellent use of the English language.
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I have asked this before - Is Frank Reich willing to coach? I remember him helping Jim Kelly out a lot so my feeling is that he can be a good QB coach.
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Ralph Wilson is a very old man. If JP isn't the answer--which right now looks to be the case--it's time to start looking for the next guy. You can't afford to spend the next three years or so developing JP and not having a backup plan. Maybe that plan should involve drafting Cutler.
Your final statement does not follow from your logic. How will getting Cutler or any newbie help Ralph's win-now plan ? My personal opinion is that win-now plans patched together by short-term solutions are doomed for failure. A few years back, the Redskins loaded their roster with overpaid oldies and it did squat for them.
Answer me this - which veteran QB is out there that can come and really help us more than Kelly Holcomb can ? Kitna ? Garcia ? Brunell ?
I totally agree with Kelso's Helmet & a few others here - give JP a chance to compete. If he wins out the starting job, he will have made great strides towards his own development.
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One thing we know - whatever his sources tell him will actually NOT transpire. So, we might as well get his take on the DC to strike that coordinator off our list.
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As long as the bag heads are going to DEMAND that Jauron have a winning season than the Bills coaching staff is going to try to win next year even if the idol of the bag heads is not starting. You can only support developing a QB when fans will support the team; unlike other cities the Bills do not have lots of revenue streams other than ticket, concession (they need to cut back on beer sales due to the idiots) and jersey sales. A new QB would increase jersey sales.
Well considering ML did not really 'listen' to the clamouring for Mike Sherman, I doubt the decision for or against JP will be made by fans' choice. Maybe, just maybe, the open competition really happens. That would be the best way to go anyway 'cos then pretentious old-timers like Moulds will have nothing to complain about.
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First of all, I am not sure why Donnie Henderson is thought so highly of. This is an honest question, so I will appreciate someone setting me straight.
Secondly, with Haslett to Rams and Capers to Dolfins, how many DC positions are out there for Bates to choose from ?
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This team is going to have to go into the camps with a win now attitude and technically KH was better than JP. Although only marginally, I would think a ten year vet should have been much better than an eratic first year starter, but I'll save that for another time.
Last year is only part of that decision, the other part is DJ is going to want to see how JP reacts to being number two and what kind of competitive fire he has in him. In other words, DJ will want to see if JP can earn the job rather than just having it handed over to him. If he shows that kind of fire and earns the job that would go a long way in earning back the respect he may have lost from the veterans last year.
That is a lot of conclusions about DJ's style. What makes you say all these things ? He was never instrumental in any solid QB direction at Chicago.
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Those who haven't read international papers may be surprised that they follow a lot of WORLD sports as opposed to just their own country's sporting interests. When vacationing in India, I can see NBA and NFL games on live TV even though nobody plays American football there and neither is basketball a professional sport there. Also NASCAR is shown regularly. What does that say about how close minded we in the US are with respect to sports ?
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can't see/hear the live feed from bb.com due to the damn firewall at work
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Didn't know where to post this so am doing so here. From a life long Packers fan:
"As of today, Sherman is still without a head coaching job.
If you're swept by both the Vikes and Bears, you simply can't stay in
GB. He's a decent coach, but not exceptionally skilled in drafting
players. Even with the loss of talent to injuries this year, you
would've thought that he could have held on to a couple commanding
first-half leads. "
While I still prefer Sherman over Jauron, the reasons for Sherman's firing are similar to our discontentment with MM.
FWIW.
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I was just comparing FACTS and not future requirements. They are both the same on the other criteria.
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Seriously...is there anyone that was available, with head coaching experience, with a winning career record, who could walk on water, bring in free agents, solve world hunger, stop global warming, teach JP to be Brett Favre, and create lines of steel out of the guys at the Big Tree Inn that was going to be welcomed with open arms by more than 85% of Buffalo fans??? You guys shot down every candidate this year for every possible reason save maybe shoe size, then again Mike Sherman does have some small feet.
Just to humor you let us just compare the facts:
DJ = previous HC experience
Mike Sherman = previous HC coaching exp + winning career record.
So MS wins out, no ?
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the majority of this post is stating that Sherman would have been the better hire. so i stated that IF there is that big of a difference, it could be overcome with talent. I would like to have seen MS as well, but it's not going to happen. so, let's get some good talent in here and see what happens.
Can't disagree with this post of yours. But you can understand my frustration after having seen the local fans reaction for DJ during those losing years. I am just PO'ed that e hired a proven loser than a proven winner.
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But what is the need to attempt 'overcoming the difference'. Why could we not have hired someone with a better track record and tried to be more than we will be now ?
And the wind in Chicago is better than the hot air emanating from OBD right now. I am just waiting for the spin machine to get in motion, perhaps it is being filled with extra oil for the long grind ahead.
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That is just so much nonsense. Good coaches get players to play to their maximum potential, they can motivate, they can game plan. What you are saying is that only the talent scouting department matters in the NFL. If that were the case, there should be no cocahing changes - just front office scouting department changes. Let me flip around the argument a bit - are you implying that it was wrong to fire GW and chase MM away ? Cos it can not be that there was talent on the roster. If there was, we would have won no matter how well or badly GW and MM were coaching.
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JoeF had a good post a few days ago
At least the players had decent things to say about Jauron.
Contrast that with the Mike Sherman comments from Pack fans, where Sherman required staff to be yes-men, he locked the scouts out of the war room on draft day, etc...
I repeat what I have said in the past - who cares if the players are happy or not ? I just want them to do their jobs on the field and be productive. being a players' coach is like saying you are a friend of your kids. A parents job is to parent and a coach's is to coach.
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Now we have a new sheriff in town named Marv Levy, who has a very different approach. We are going to build this team right, from the bottom up with quality, character players. Not everyone will be from that lack of character institution--the University of Miami--we'll get some quality guys. We will build the lines-- so we can block and tackle. We will get the fundamentals right.
Enter Dick Jauron. Certainly no flash there. But by every account a quality man who players will play for. Oh, and he went to Yale, so he's likely smart, and can learn from his mistakes. And he's high character, and a teacher. And he knows the value of a stout D-line.
So what do many on this board want--run him out of town. Why, because we did not hire the flashier, instant gratification candidate in Mike Sherman.
I disagree with almost the entire post but SDS and Bill have summarized my thoughts. Just a couple more - What makes you say Mike Sherman would have been the 'flashier' choice ? I don't see him gloated on by the media or anyone else. Atleast he has a better record with the Packers and took them to more playoffs than DJ did Chicago.
Just because he is the 'surprise' choice does not make him the best choice. His record as HC and DC has been dismal. For every Bellichek there are several more Rich Kotites so please stop giving that example.
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I admit I believed him and also enjoyed the thread. But his excuse that you quote holds no water. He had made statements such as 'it is a done deal', 'will be announced in a PC 11 am Tuesday'. if it was a done deal how can talks break down ?
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In the past five years did you agree with:
A) The Donohoe hiring
B) Trading for Bledsoe
C) Using #4 on M. Williams
Because as I recall, those were very popular choices with seemingly a lot of "common sense" that a majority of fans agreed upon. I would just love to give Marv and Jauron a chance, just a little, tiny, small, minor chance before we start villifying them.
I wonder what the Pittsburh fans thought of Cowher during his down years. But the Rooneys stuck with him. If we keep pulling coaches and players every 2-3 years, we will never have the stability required to win the big one. I just hate it when the team, coaching and roster is jerked around every couple of years.
Don't get me wrong - I did want TD gone but not MM yet (circumstances created made him quit). Also, I am sticking with our team but expressing strong dissent. I have supported the coaching choices in the past and had been wrong. This is one time I am wishing I am wrong again
$8.8M to Franchise Clemens?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I agree with the first part. The rationalization we used when Pat Williams was leaving is similar to waht is being posted in this thread. I believe we should keep him mainly because of the key question - who will replace him ? And I cannot accept drafting a corner will be adequate 'cos we don't know what we are getting and that player will be a rookie makin rookie mistakes.
As for the second, I refer to the logic above. Even if we draft better linemen, we will need to keep our secondary of the same quality. NC will perform better with better front end push from the DL.