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Yes, that true.
But we're all rabid NFL fans who try to keep up with league happenings. The TV ratings for the playoff games in Buffalo are amazing--we're out-polling every non-playoff city in the nation. Bills fans know the NFL pretty well, or at least as well as any fan can ever know it anyway.
I respect talented teams, coaches, players--even when they wear the opposing team's colors. And the bottom line for me is that Dick is an "ambivalent" hire, to use your own word.
I'm not saying Sherman was the answer either, but his record and coaching mentors are better than Jauron's, by far. Even Haz has more positives than negatives on his resume.
Seems like a missed opportunity to me, but now that the venting is winding down, I guess I'll just go back to writing more checks to RW.
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...the Jets or Fins had hired Dick as their HC? Fear? Concern? Laughter?
Oh well. The deeds's been done. And like WNY politics, we'll just grin and bear it, hoping for the best and knowing in the pit of our stomach that the light at the end of the tunnel is probably a train.
This draft will have to be amazing, though.
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I matched your reaction to that point. In the answer may lie the explanation for many of the woes being bandied about. I'm guessing the hire wasn't done exclusively based upon the similarity in style to Marv he favors or his Coach of the Year in 2001. There's something in the equation that's not visible at this time..................
Looks like Dick was helped by the Jags win-loss record more than the actual defensive stat rankings. Not too many defensive gems in those playoff games either:
1996 regular season (9-7)
Postseason:
AFC Wildcard Game: won 30 - 27 at Buffalo Bills
AFC Divisional Playoff: won 30 - 27 at Denver Broncos
AFC Championship Game: lost 6 - 20 at New England Patriots
1997 regular season (11-5)
Postseason:
AFC Wildcard Game: lost 17 - 42 at Denver Broncos
1998 regular season (11-5)
Postseason:
AFC Wildcard Game: won 25 - 10 vs. New England Patriots
AFC Divisional Playoff: lost 24 - 34 at New York Jets
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You went to the bother of registering for that?
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That's old news. RW wanted Haz two years ago when MM was hired, but Benson wouldn't let him out of his contract to accept the Bills job. ML would never work with a maniac like Jim, so I'm sure that's why he never got a phone call from OBD this time.
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Radio Talk Show Rule #1: Rile listeners up by taking a point of view that makes them want to call in and argue their point. Nothing unexpected here. They'll get more calls from the anti-Jauron legion that way.
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I don't have an audio feed, but those were some pretty grim faces up on that stage.
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Marv looks pretty somber...I wonder if he gonna say something like, "if you don't like Dick, get out of town."
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I'm sure the fans in Detroit and Arizona think exactly along those lines as well.
No offense, but many folks here are not a bunch of rubes that just fell off the turnip truck. They've seen enough to know, with a fairly high probability, what constitutes a successful HC and what ends up on the bottom of your shoe.
Everyone can rationalize all they want, but I doubt there are very few fans who deep down think DJ is the best candidate the Bills could've picked. Today's outbursts have more to do with a perception of "missed opportunity" than anything else.
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I seriously doubt your fellow Skins fans would call Joe Gibbs a clip board holder. I'm starting to think you're just a troll out for a good time.
Danny and Vinney are just fantasy football guys, and if Gibbs didn't come back on the scene, the Skins wouldn't have a whiff of the success they've had over the past two years.
I respect ML a lot. But he's never put a team together, his first hire is a career loser (even during his playing career) and all the Ivy League brainpower in the world isn't going to help him now. I'll take the guy from San Diego State any day.
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Guess what. I'm even more worried now. What this tells me is that if Gibbs hadn't reentered the picture, the Skins would still be bumbling around like when Danny boy was playing GM. You get a HOF coach back in the picture, and shazam...
I do not want Dick having the final say over anything, other than "do you want the 16 ounce size or the commemorative mug?"
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So, Clayton gave you a transcript of how it went down, huh!
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Let's get back on point. We're talking about the HC here, not the GM. How many games did your GM win you this year?
Why don't you take a vote of Redskins nation and see how many of your fellow fans think Joe Gibbs was immaterial to the team's success at any point in his coaching career. That it was all about player personnel and high character and good coordinators, and the HC just was a delegator and mouthpiece?
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great hire
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Unpopular = good?
Maybe. But your argument that this hire bodes well for the future of the franchise is pure conjecture. Right off the bat, from a ticket sales standpoint, I tend to doubt it's gonna be a positive. Nine months from now? Well, we'll just have to see.