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Well, the original plan was to have Jeff Burris slide into that slot, but we still haven't heard much about how his meltdown before the last game went down with the Bills management (who has the final say, I believe, in picking who the color guy will be).
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Marv will probably trade down to get extra picks. Depending on how he plays it, he could get a lot of help pretty quickly with extra picks in the lower-first/upper second round range.
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Be careful there. TT got a lot of yards the same way, and had about the same speed as ES. Both guys were plenty special.
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MM got $800,000 to be the Fin's OC, per today's Buffalo News. Given the lower tax bite he'll be paying, he's probably breaking even. And since he's a Florida native, he's probably a lot happier to boot.
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Frank has a much higher calling.
I'm a big supporter of AVP landing the Bills' QB coaching job. He's smart, a great communicator and I think he would be just as good -- and possibly better -- a mentor to JP than Wyche was. He's younger, he knows what it takes to play here, and he's very good at reading the play, at least from hearing him in his two years in the booth with Murph.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed the Bills have Alex in mind, and that's the reason he didn't jump on the opportunity to interview for the Green Bay QB coaching job after their new HC spoke highly of him.
Meanwhile, McCarthy indicated that Alex Van Pelt was under consideration to coach quarterbacks. Van Pelt, 35, played quarterback under McCarthy at the University of Pittsburgh and then had an 11-year NFL career.
Last month, Van Pelt was named quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at the University of Buffalo. He coached quarterbacks last spring in NFL Europe League.
"We've left messages but I have not spoken to him," McCarthy said. "He is someone I'm very fond of. Alex Van Pelt will be a coach in the NFL some day. Maybe here."
Now that the Pack has hired our good buddy, Tom Clements as QB coach, that door is closed to AVP. I sure hope he lands with the Bills rather than the Bulls.
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What is the secret? Is Bates all related to you in some way? The love for him around here is sickening. If he is such a great coordinator, then why isnt the other teams offering him tons of money to come to their team? Why didnt the packers retain him? (such as the Bills did with Jerry Gray when Mularkey came)
Uh, GB did want him to come back. He decided to auction himself off to the highest bidder, which is looking a little shaky right now. He's the best DC available, but it looks like he's really got his heart set on becoming a HC.
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The amazing thing to me is how his players loved him, even though the rest of the world hated the guy (which as you say, Buddy seemed to go out of his way to promote). I've never heard players comment on their love of a coach more than those Bears' guys did. I wonder where that feeling comes from, since Buddy IS the world's biggest prick.
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I caught an ESPN superbowl flashback show on the '85 Bears and it was really funny how Ditka and Buddy Ryan basically hated each other. Ryan wouldn't even listen to Ditka and the defensive players basically dismissed him as HC in favor of Buddy.
Not that the Bills have one-tenth the talent, but it sort of dispelled the kumbaya concept of how a coaching staff has to work.
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More likely its owners trying to nip the escalating coaching salary trend in the bud(except for 'Lil Danny in Washington).
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I would expect that to be just the opposite. Coaches are a particularly breed. Most of them have a lot of similar personality traits. I would expect other coaches to really admire and like Jauron a lot. Respect is a huge thing to NFL players, probably second only to money, IMO. Players and coaches like to be treated with respect. Now, I can imagine a lot of coaches ultimately deciding not to want to join the Bills right now under all the chaos, or not liking the money offered, but I would really doubt if any coach didn't want to speak with or work with Dick Jauron.
Yep. Today's coaching star can be tomorrow's chump and all of these guys (well, maybe not Martz) know it. I doubt many guys are avoiding Dick. RW and Bills, right now, appears to be another story.
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Getting promoted the same day may have factored into his decision to stay, don't you think?
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It is curious that MM would walk away from $1 mil with nothing lined up - as Homer said to Lisa, "If you don't like your job, you don't quit. You go to work everyday and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way!"
The problem is that Mularkey was doing a really half-assed job all last season!
Coordinators are making $1 million all over the league now. Not much of a risk to take.
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No arguing that JP's physical attributes are superior to those of Holcomb's.
Here's my biggest concern with JP: To my eyes, he's much much better on the move. He seems to do a better job of finding open receivers - even when he's running for his life - than he does when he's had time in the pocket. If a QB can read while he's on the move, wouldn't it be even easier when he's in the pocket?
IMO, JP just falls back on what worked for him at Tulane, when things start to break down in pass pro. He WAS able to have success in college doing that, but as you say, that's not how the NFL works. Defensive players have too much speed and DC's are able to take advantage of player tendancies so much better than at the college level, where it's all about physical mismatches.
I think JP can learn how to harness his physical skills, but it may take a different coaching approch than Wyche's emphasis on watching film. Maybe more physical reps/on-the-field work, since JP seems wired more on the physical side than the cerebral side of the QB equation.
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But it kills me how people want to blame JPs performance on the OL. Despite taking the same number of attempts as KH (two fewer, actually), JP -- the mobile QB with "escapability" and a super-quick release -- took 50% more sacks than the rather immobile KH. Same offensive scheme. Same guys running it. Hmm...
KH learned a long time ago to keep his eyes downfield, no matter what. And to make the safe but boring play if that's all there is. It's what an NFL quarterback HAS to do to have any kind of success.
I still contend JP was having growing pains adjusting to the speed of the NFL and was watching the pass rush too much last year. Whenever he'd get pressure, he'd spin out and move all around because he had confidence in his scrambling ability (rather than sliding a few feet/stepping up in the pocket, or just standing in there and taking the hit to make a play).
Unfortunetely, there's a big difference between being able to out run guys in college and the NFL. And all that moving around may have actually hurt the O-line play by not letting the linemen get a better read on how to protect him in the pocket.
If JP can get more comfortable in the pocket, he'll start to get a better feel for reading defenses. He's certainly got more tools than KH and should be able to move ahead of him on the depth chart next year. But he's got to start using his head more rather than relying solely on his physical tools. I hope that Fairchild can do a better job of calming him down than MM/SW did.
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Texans | Kubiak may hire Sherman
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:17:42 -0800
John McClain, of the Houston Chronicle, reports Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak may hire former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman as the team's assistant head coach/offensive line.
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Anybody ever catch the BBC show Coupling on PBS? It's funny as hell and a lot more bawdy than the crap that passes for sitcoms from the U.S. networks.
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JP spent too much of last season watching the pass rush (with good reason) and not looking at his receivers or the d-backs downfield. Give him some protection and I think the accuracy thing goes away.
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Marv and Buddy in the same room, let alone the same team, is an amazing mind fuk of a mental image.
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Dumb & Dumber? Nah.
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We need a tough coach. One that motivates these player to get off their butt and pratice hard and play hard. Look a Bill Cowher he yells at his players SOOO much and that help the players play hard. They probably player harder, because they don't want to get another face full of spit.
I like this guy!! Good move Jauron!
Chuck Dick-erson used to yell a lot too, when he "coached" our D-line. Lot of good that did.
Marv Levy on draft day
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Except Marv's not "anybody" in Bill's eyes. Polian owes ML his whole career, and you can tell by every remark he makes that Marv's opinion means a lot to him. They had a partnership, in the truest sense of the word, when it came to putting the team together.