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My Bills, right or wrong, huh?
Of course no one knows the future. But I hope you don't invest your money, buy your insurance or choose your doctor/lawyer the same way ML/RW pick HCs. Choosing a guy with a very limited (one year) track record for success and hoping his experience to date was a fluke, and he'll do better NEXT time seems like a great leap of faith to me.
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MM had a pretty good buzz and came from the Cowher coaching tree. I wish we could say the equivalent about Dick.
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I don't recall MM having this much animosity right off the bat. In fact, he came off as a reasonably favorable "anti-GW" at the time.
Bills nation is at a very fragil point in its history right now. The torches and pitchforks have been running high for the past year, and this franchise needed a "big positive" to quell the unease about the team's future direction.
Jauron isn't going to have much of a honeymoon, given the current mood, IMO.
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I will too. But my socks remain firmly in place with this hire and it's going to take signing a couple of top-tier FAs to get them to start rolling down even a bit. Still a very muddled situation at OBD and this week's PC is going to be yet another misadventure, IMO.
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Jauron will not help with ticket sales. It is possible, but unlikely, that some big name free agent signings will. The only thing that matters with the fans, however, is on opening day, Jauron will be a genius if he wins and a moron if he loses, and people will love him or hate him accordingly. And the same thing would happen with Sherman. We don't know. Maybe this is what we need. Maybe his OC will turn out awesome. If he is hired, he's ours and he should be supported until he tanks.
As much as we despised TD at the end, he was a genius for giving us hope with his off-season moves each year. We're off to a poor start in the ML-era so far, IMO.
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Yes, and we wear our ineptitude as a badge of honor around here.
Puppet is a more likely word choice than moron.
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Guys like Wannestedt and Turner have rings from their Dallas days and look what that got them when they went elsewhere. The both sucked hind tit and still do as HC's. I don't give a damn what the guy did previously, all I care about is how the Bills look come September and unless you have a crystal ball, you don't have a clue how Jauron will work out as the HC of the Bills.
No, no crystal ball. But if I have to pick a guy with a losing record as a HC, he damn well better have some other successes on his resume like a couple of SB rings as a coordinator, time spent working with a proven winner like Tuna, etc. Jauron's got one -- count em, one -- good year under his belt and even Bears fans chalk that up as a fluke.
I'm pissed because he's largely an unknown HC quantity. This team, right now at this point in time, needed a proven winner to give the fans some hope after the last five years of disapointment under TD. Dick is definately not going to insipre a parade at OBD next week.
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Lets face it, Jauron was an inexpensive choice. He likely was willing to take the job by keeping the coaches currently on the payroll. Sherman may have wanted to bring in a lot of his guys like Bates. I read this morning that St. Louis had asked Bates to be DC for $1,000,000. I doubt RW was going to pay a DC that much when he paid Malarkey that much to be HC.
As for power, Marv hired a guy who is no challenge to him. Sherman would have been a threat with GM experience. Sherman may had wanted a say in things after
having Ted Thompson lose his starting Guards with no replacements.
The decision was not about coaching. Cheap and compliant.
Sounds logical to me. Good analysis.
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Jauron's bio from the Lions team website.
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The last guy was a piker compared to the REAL S.O.S. we've got now.
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I hear you, BUT:
If you're looking at Jauron's career coaching record to project his success in Buffalo, think Bill Belichick.
Belichick was 41-55 as a head coach before his first winning season in NE. When the patriots picked him up, do you think the fans were ecstatic about it? I doubt it. So before we throw this guy under the bus, let's have some patience and see what happens.
So who's Jauron's mentor? BB worked with the Tuna and won a SB before landing his HC gig. Jauron has no equivalent success in his past.
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I doubt this hire sells many season tickets, or even renewals for that matter.
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Yeah, and we don't even get a parting gift.
I wonder if Ralph will let fans wear their
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Pandora's box has been opened, me thinks.