Offside Number 76

He truly is awesome.

Well done.

Not true. This is on the coaches.

Unfortunately, Pats/Ravens is a CBS game. We're stuck with a Fox game here. Still, I'd rather see Seattle at Indy or something, anything, else. I'm about to switch this over to an infomercial.

For the third straight week, we in Buffalo are screwed because the "wrong" network has the doubleheader. No CBS game, just Fox. So, what did Fox give us? Giants at KC. I suppose it's the NFL, and the game could be tight, but I'm anticipating a fugly game that I'm not going to invest time in watching. Background noise only.

Fair point--but there's a problem with it (below). I see two potential "business upsides," both of which are minimal, but for the sake of discussion, here goes: 1. Possibility of playoff revenue with a different coach. Absolutely none with current coach. 2. Increased confidence in team with new coach who has some experience in 2009 might lead to more ticket purchases in 2010. Here's the problem with looking at it strictly from a business point of view: The head coach is going to be responsible for what, a difference in 2000 or 3000 season tickets? Maybe 10,000? In a TV-revenue league, that's virtually no effect on the team's bottom line, no matter who coaches the team. In other words, there isn't much of a financial incentive for on-the-field success in the NFL. If management isn't looking at it from a football point of view, there's no hope.

You're right. Fire him before the game, during the game, after the game, but irrespective of the result, let's have no more Dick Jauron on Monday.

qft

did you really not get it?

That's a lot easier to say from San Diego than from Buffalo.

He already did; don't let this concern you any longer.

I'm not reading through three pages of obvious; I'm just adding my voice to what should be a choir of criticism. Anyone interested in winning a football game goes for it there.

$50 to whoever vandalizes Jauron's lawn tonight. And Fewell's defense was freaking excellent until it set in that the head coach had no intention of winning the game.

Technically, the city itself does not front Lake Erie, you're correct. But that community is on Lake Erie. The people who live there consider themselves to be on Lake Erie. It is a Great Lakes city, and Huron is further away. Geography lesson aside, the Bills are the champions of the Lake.

The post was "necessary but not sufficient...." He means that while top pay for a proven leader is a condition of success, it is not, by itself, going to bring success; other ingredients are needed.

From the list (link posted earlier in the thread), it looks like it was a nationwide honor. Frankly, while I wish Schopp would tone down his attitude at times (but it is hilarious listening to him dismiss drunk callers after Bills games), I kind of enjoy his show. We're pretty fortunate to have a sports talk station with many hours of local programming; there are bigger cities out there where all the sports talk is nationally-syndicated programming (DC comes to mind, from when I lived there a few years ago).

Exactly what I was thinking before I opened the thread. I guess Detroit is the "other other" Lake Erie team.

This guy.

Now that I've looked at the video again, it sure looks to me like the Patriots gained ten yards, or something very, very close to it, and the ESPN yellow line was off by a bit. Don't know or care what the game book says; look where the ball was snapped and where it was when the receiver went down.

But it's only proof that the refs made a mistake.

Exactly. I know I did worse at that age, and I'll bet a lot of other people here did, too. It's part of growing up. They've probably learned their lesson already just through the fear they're experiencing; give them some consequences (short of a criminal record) to go with that, and they'll turn out just fine.

One of the interesting points is that none of the holdouts mentioned have realized the success in the NFL that was anticipated when they were drafted. McKinnie (2002, so he's had lots of time) is the most successful of the three, and quarterback "Marcus" Russell (nice professional reporting job, Yahoo--they may fix it, but it really says "Marcus" right now) isn't exactly a world-beater. But all of these guys, even Jammer, were supposed to change their teams. They didn't. And they won't. I loved Crabtree's catch last year against Texas. That was last year, in college (which I like better, but that's another discussion). He hurts himself, and whatever team ends up with him, through this silliness.

That may have been a preseason game. See here: http://www.databasefootball.com/teams/team...nfl&yr=1977

Seriously, I haven't been Schobel's biggest fan, but he had a great game today. This one definitely wasn't on him; it may have been in spite of him.

Yeah, I get you. Most people here probably do, too. We're still pissed. We'll be pissed tomorrow and Wednesday, and even after the Bills win on Sunday, we'll be pissed.