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There are a few ways to look at next year: 1)The schedule is tough & Ralph keeps Jauron so that he can fire him if the Bills don't improve enough to make the playoffs and not subject a new coach to that hard a schedule. 2) Knowing a new coach gets a year's free ride, he fires Jauron & brings the new coach to suffer through a tough season. 3) Ralph spends a lot of $ in the offseason, abandons cash to cap, has a strong enough team so that either Jauron or a new coach succeeds.

Just speculating that Ralph can fire Jauron as coach, but gets something back for the $ he's paying him instead of letting him go out the door and cash checks without reporting to Ralph.

None of the above-He'll make Jauron part of the inner circle by kicking him upstairs to share personnel decisions with Modrak & Guy. He won't be fired, but he won't be coach.

I thought the best part was when they blew up Giants Stadium-I cheered. With the power out last week I saw 2 movies-The Day The Earth Stood Still-very average & Slumdog Millionaire-an excellent Indian movie that I highly recommend.

My opinion on why all the assistants hired for their 1st head coaching job have failed in Buffalo is because we never hire the real hot assistants, like the Spagnuolos out there, because Ralph wants a 1st time coach to sign a low $ contract. So instead, we get the 2nd tier of available assistants, while the more sought after guys get paid like, sought after guys. Even though he's been a failure in Cincinnati, Marvin Lewis is a prime example. The main reason he didn't want to come here when he was the league's hottest assistant was he didn't want to be paid what Ralph was asking-he thought he was worth more (He also thought he had the Cleveland job at a much higher salary but then they turned around and hired Butch Davis & killed his original plan). So we ended up with Gregg Williams, who was paid so low, he got a raise when he went to Washington after his coaching stint ended in failure in Buffalo. Until Ralph is willing to pay big $ to the unproven guy, the top unproven guys will sign elsewhere.

Cribbs was the last pick left in the OJ Simpson trade to SF. He only missed the 1984 season with the Bills, so it was not like he left after 1983 & never came back. He played more than half the 1985 season with the Bills, but didn't want to be here even going as far as to put tape on his locker vertically like a jail cell to indicate he was a prisoner of the Buffalo Bills. He was traded before the 1986 season to San Francisco for a 3rd in 1987 (FB Jamie Mueller) and a 5th in 1988 (Kirk Roach, the barefooted kicker who got injured and never kicked in Buffalo, exiting as a plan B free agent).

Stock up: Bill Polian-Indy qualifies for the playoffs again. Stock down: J.P. Losman-The most he can hope for is to sign a minimal contract with another team just to go to camp to compete for a ROSTER spot. If they still allowed the type of stock deals where you basically bet a stock would go down, we could have made a killing betting JP before the Miami game.

A correction & an addition: Correction: 1982 was the strike year (4-5 record, I attended the 1st post strike game on my birthday), in 1984 the Bills went 2-14. Addition: 1979-Bills become only team in NFL history to lose the top pick in the entire draft to the CFL. Chuck Knox was quite PO'd at Ralph for that one.

Come on JP-just admit you've been posting on this board and use your real name. I've seen enough of your posts to conclude you are either JP or his gay lover.

Only to people who look at stats in black & white instead of looking at what's going on on the field in color. JP never had much pocket awareness, but padded his stats in a few games against bad defenses and looked a lot better on paper than he ever did in the entire 16 games that season. The final game in Baltimore was typical JP-throw 1 bomb to Lee Evans for a touchdown & suck the rest of the game.

Figure the base price of the ticket between $800-1,000. 2 tickets cost say $1,800 +85.60=$1,886. Now if I go to an internet ticket broker, it's $2,500-$3,000 per ticket. My main goal is I want to see the game & make the trip affordable enough so that I can go with a friend who cannot afford to spend as much as I can. So really my own ticket is $43 +$900=$943. I can afford the extra $1,500-$2,000 but my friend can't. So this is the only way I can get him to the Super Bowl & not end up going alone. If I put the $43 on at even 50-1, I still don't have enough to buy the one ticket.

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Jauron will be kicked upstairs in some other capacity than head coach. He'll still work for Ralph, but he's done as their coach. Ralph will get something for his $ & we'll get a new coach.

A couple of weeks ago, someone on the Zone posted that he was told by a reliable source inside the organization that Trent took another hit in a game after his 1st concussion and has had at various times blurred vision, some memory loss & headaches. If that is true, then he may have some kind of groin injury, but it's more likely the concussion is why they've shut him down for the season.

So when the budget got tight, they could raise your taxes by not giving you the check. It's easier to pull the rebate check than to announce what amounts to over a 10% tax increase overall or close to 14% school tax increase. Those are the #s on my house.

I just saw on the news some of Patterson's talk on the budget. Those autumn rebate checks on property taxes are history. STAR exemptions remain.

Say Hamdan starts the Denver game & plays so poorly that he makes JP look good. Now what do the Bills do against NE at home? With the likelihood that Edwards won't be back this year, the team would have to choose between going back to JP or playing Hamdan again vs the Patriots. This could be the ultimate lose-lose situation.

Fire him & pay him. Then spend real $ & get a real coach. This low paid coach thing is ridiculous-you get what you pay for & Jauron is like a $20 camera.

Haslett IS Jauron warmed over (with more fire). Haslett-interim coach, previously fired by another team who would be available because the team he is interim coach of doesn't want him back. Been with the Bills before (as a player). Jauron-interim coach, previously fired by another team who was available because the team he was interim coach of didn't want him back. Been with the Bills before (as a coach). Same shiit, different guy.

I'm not driving 293 miles each way to walk out. I will not park in the stadium lot or buy anything, but I paid for my ticket, am traveling a long way and I'm not missing any part of the game. I'd rather chant fire Jauron every time the Patriots score and let Ralph hear how disgruntled we are. We can be just as effective with our boos and taunts + for the artistically inclined-signs.

No need to cut him, just announce Hamdan is starting Sunday in Denver. Who do we get to replace JP at this point in the season, the original JP-Joey Harrington?

He should be interviewing with the Bills.

I think when you assume Jauron will be be back next year, you make an..................................................................

On WGR: He knocked ESPN for making it look like Jauron signed his contract yesterday after 1 win in last bunch of games.

I really hope you're being sarcastic.