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I think your talking about when Sharpe and Trico said and I'm paraphrasing "TD is a good friend and TD supports Mike Malarkey and things are headed in the right direction." In fact I believe one of them said "TD likes the direction this team is going."I almost choked on my dinner! That alone should get this idiot fired. It was a statement only a "friend" would say because they are sooooooooooooo off base.
Exactly...Sharpe did say during that exchange that not only were things going the right way, but he also said something close to "TD and MM will have this Team playing better than any Team Buffalo has ever seen"...It was something close to that I almost positive...That's when I lost it...
BTW...I think they both did a good job of pointing out the Bills strengths and deficiencies...It's just that they went on a campaign of sorts for TD/MM that I felt was unnecessary...What they failed to point out in their assesment was the fact that if the right guys are not in charge it will never work... one year, two years, or the decade they would love to give TD/MM...
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Dude I'm probably twice your age...
You're a broken record with Bledsoe...You love him and you cannot go a single thread without bringing his name up when anyone disagrees with your vision on this Team...It's sickening and frustrating to constantly hear you remind us about a Player who is NO LONGER A BUFFALO BILL...
My overall frustration tonight brought on the comments...For that I apologize...But I do seriously think you have a problem with the DB issue because it is constant...you ALWAYS bring him up...
And Fyou 2...
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We DID see progress - we went 9-7 last year - and everyone said "WE SUCK, CUT DREW!" so they fired our starting QB
Not "open it up to competition in training camp," but outright FIRE him. Guess what happens when you change coaches/quarterbacks every year or two? The Buffalo Bills are what happens.
Yep when you keep bring in the wrong people time and time again...I agree this will continue...
But Mularkey aint getting any better just because you give him another year...And Bledsoe got Parcells...You gonna get Mularkey Peyton Manning?
There is a diiference between change for the sake of change and change for necessity...
And I knew you would find a way to bring DB into this thread...Your Man Love for him exceeds all boundries...Should'nt you be on the Cowboys Board by now telling them what a great QB they have and how stupid Bills Fans are for running him out of Town?
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We were 9-7 last year. Did MM just forget how to coach...? Don't think so.
And before people scream, "We played bad teams," that's not entirely true. We beat the Rams and Seahawks (playoff teams), as well as the Bengals (8-8) and Jets (10-6). You can't keep firing coaches every 2-3 years, that's ridiculous.
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You have got to be kidding me...
The Rams were an 8-8 Playoff Team stuggling when we played them...The Seahawks were going through hell at the time we played them also...The Jets were basically a .500 Team after their fast start, and Carson Palmer did not Play vs. The Bills...
You can keep those rose colored glasses on if you wish but Mularkey is completely overmatched week in and week out...He is not HC calibre...period...He is a wishy-washy OC who got a big break he was no where near ready for...He cannot motivate a Team... And last but not least the HOME loss to Pittsburgh's 2nd and 3rd Teamers pretty much nullified a ton of positives from that great MM winning streak...When he HAD to win a Home Game he could not get his Team ready...
MM is a good guy, a decent Coordinator, and this is GW all over again...He's not ready to be a HC...
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I really do not understand this Roscoe bashing. It makes no sense to me.
The kid got hit and got right back up. Gee, have any of you ever seen a wr get hit before. The kid is tough -- a lot tougher than some of the whingers on this board.
Roscoe has been active for a handful of games. I have no doubt that he is going to contribute a lot to this team.
It seems to me that the bashing of him is similar to the bashing of Willis on this board -- it has nothing to do with what is happening on the field.
Agreed...
The Bills have problems that surpass Parrish and McGahee by a thousand fold...
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I 100% agree...And let me tell you...If this Team is embarassing again next Season under MM I would advise ralph to stay in Michigan and watch the Home Games on The Dish...Cause it is going to be REAL ugly...
I hope to God RW learned a lesson when they stuck with GW for that 3rd Season...
Please RW...again...blow this thing up...Pretty please?
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Well...you can forget about McGahee and Parrish cause both will be back next Season...
Agreed on the rest of the list and there could be others too...
But can we please put MM and TD at the top?
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The Bills are behind only Indy...that's right Indy, in scoring on their 1st drive...
The Bills are now 4-10...
Now what exactly does it say about a HC that can only Game Plan for the 1st freaking Drive of the Game? It says to me that when the real Coaching starts in a Game Mularkey gets his you-know-what handed to him...
This guy is in SO far over his head it will be Years before he realizes what the heck happened in his short 2 Year stint...
And as pissed off as I am about the whole TD era I can honestly say that MM is doing FAR more damage to this Team than TD ever has...Mularkey is just not HC calibre, and he never was...
Thanks again TD...
Blow it up RW...Please blow the whole freaking thing up...
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What is even funnier is the fact that Sharpe has been ripping the Bills a new a-hole on The NFL Network all Season long...In fact... before tonight I felt he was one of the most critical concerning the Bills and their Play...
The comment tonight that TD and MM will build this into the strongest Team Buffalo has ever seen may have been the most rediculous comment I have heard by a Football Announcer in My Life...Here they are talking about being behind only Arizona in missing The Playoffs, then Sharpe makes a comment like that?
Sounds to me like Sharpe has his own cooler in the Booth tonight...Because those are the comments of someone with a heck of a buzz...
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MM and TD will have this thing better than any Team Buffalo has seen?
What???
What in God's name are these 2 watching?
And as far as the turnover in Coaching...well guys...no one thought MM would be this bad, but he is...And nothing is going to get better with a HC who is in WAY over his head...
Seems to me that MM and TD may have slipped these 2 and couple extra bucks...What a joke...
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Yep...just stick with the Plan...
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Yep this is what it's come to...But fear not...things are improving...Dispite the Record, the Bills are getting better and you can't pull the plug on this great Plan yet...
Whatever...Blow the whole thing up...Blow it up...
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They are just being politically correct...not wanting to call Mularkey out...Shortly after, they were talking about how the Bills did have a lot of talent...so...what is it guys?
No one wants to turn a Coaching Staff after 2 years, myself included...But when a HC like Mularkey proves he is just not ready for the Job, you are FAR better off giving the new HC a head start on bringing in his system...
MM MUST go...I guarantee if the Bills retain Mularkey... 2006 will be yet another wasted Season...
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Well...It was LONG before this Game that I realized Mularkey had to go...But this Game does prove this Team is exactly the same Team it has been all year...Exactly the same...This HC can do nothing to improve the performace on the Field...And his comments to the ESPN guys that all he can ask of his Players is to play hard and try to improve just shows what a wishy-washy personality Mularkey has...
Get away from my Bills Mularkey...Please just go away...
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I don't really have a contrarian personality, but I tend to agree.
I find all the bitching about the playcalling borderline laughable. I mean, do people watch other games not involving Buffalo? It's the players, stupid. The cupboard is just bare - look at the roster objectively - it sucks. MM's game management is clearly a lot better than GW's. As for quitting, we'll see how they handle these last few games, but I didn't see any quit vs. Carolina or Miami (ok I turned off the NE game early - you're a better fan than me if you watched that whole thing).
Maybe I'm getting older & thus more patient. Maybe I'm less upset because I had lower expectations for this year than most people here. Or maybe I feel like an idiot for remembering myself say "it doesn't matter who we hire - ANYBODY will be better than Wade".
I just know if we plan on firing coaches every 2 years after a bad year under current management, then we might as well start interviewing for 2008.
And if Mularkey truly is not good enough (and I definitely believe he's not) we will be another year behind if he's retained...Who's happy we kept GW for that last Year?
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I like Hawkins too, but if I'm not mistaken he just got the Colorado job that was recently vacated by what's his name (I'm drawing a blank but I think he was the former Northwestern coach).
And I also like Ferentz. Very much.
And this seems like an apporpriate spot to place my yearly vote for Jeff Tedford.
I too like Ferentz a lot...
Just read Tedford's bio at the Cal site and it is VERY impressive...The quotes from Dilfer were especially notable...
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His father was my Commanding Officer on the USS Scott DDG 995 back in 97. I met Darrell a couple of times while he was still in college and he seemed like a good guy. He had a ton of talent but I think the money and the wrong crowd did him down the wrong path. He did not act like this while in college! His old man would kill him!
His father was one of the best CO's I had ever had in my years in the Navy. Fair and honest, work hard and play hard. He spoke high of his son all the time and im sure he is crushed. Sad what fame and money does to people.
When I saw this yesterday it really saddened me...I drives me nuts when a guy with all that potential just throws it away...I mean... Russell actually had more than potential, because he was a proven Pro Bowl DT...
It takes a special kind of fortitude to overcome the things Russell was faced with when things started going down hill for him...Lincoln Kennedy commented that Russell could simply not get over the setbacks and lost his edge so-to-speak...
I often look at situations like what happened with Russell and I'm reminded of comments Bill Belichick made concerning Scouting and Drafting Players...Belichick and The Pats put a premium on how much a Player LOVES playing Football...He wants guys who absolutely loves the Game, guys who would play for bus fare alone...The thought being, when you hand a young Kid millions of dollars, it will be his passion for the Game that will overcome the natural tendency to believe he has already 'made it." I look at this situation and apply it to my own profession and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt if someone gave me millions of dollars there is no way I have the love for my field of work to keep me undistracted...No possible way...
I think often times in a case like Russell's, the Player simply did not love playing Game...Not that they did not like it, but the burning inside passion for Football is just not there, and they already have enough money to get anything they want so the outside distractions multiply...And sometimes, like in Russell's case, it all goes bad fast...Too fast...29 years old...RIP
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I've listend to all the comments and assumptions and speculation recently about MM/TD and the changes that are on the way.
While a GREAT deal of people insist that there is going to be a complete overhaul at OBD, I think more likely there will be 1 to 3 key changes over the coming months. And one of those ought NOT be to fire Mularky.
MM had a better team to work with last year and scored a 9-7 season. With poorer tools he has done a worse job. Now a great deal of this is down to MM for sure, but the influence of TD is there and we would do well to tweak at the top and let MM have one more year. If the new GM is unhappy with MM after that year he can move MM on...
In all reality tho - we need an experience HC to come in - and there aren't going to be any sensible choices... So we'd be faced with long-time OCs or college coaches - none of whom I believe would be an upgrade over MM.
I think we need a new OC and a new DC and a new GM. Some of that can be fixed with internal promotions (Whyche OC? Modrak?) others can't (maybe Modrak isn't a great idea)...
I for one believe MM should be retained one more year - and I don't think it is a forgone conclusion that he leaves at the year end.
All respect due...No thanks on MM...
Just say no to one more Year of this Mularkey...
Seriously...I simply do not see MM as HC calibre...He's yet another in a mile long line of decent to good Coordinators who are not HC calibre...Unfortunately, the only way you usually find out about Coordinators like Mularkey is AFTER they get HC Jobs...And TD has made the Buffalo Bills the NFL Training grounds for Coordinators who are not quite ready...
Simply said, I do not see MM as being a Leader of men...There is nothing about his personality that inspires me...and I imagine the exact same thing is going on in the Bills Locker Room on a day to day basis...He's not a bad guy, heck he's probably not a bad Coach...But I don't see him being the type of Leader Players want to excell for...I just don't see it at all...And another year of uninspired Football will put this Team a Year further behind...At this point the Bills Franchise cannot afford another year lumped on to the re-building pile...
Time to move on...again...
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Well...not quite...Haslett tried to resign, but Benson refused the resignation for now...Haslett reportedly will resign again after the season...He's made it know he's gone no matter what...From that point they can negotiate how to handle the situation. Sure Benson can keep Haslett from Coaching for the Full Year that will be left on his Deal...But honestly that will just be more bad press for Benson...not that he seems to mind bad press but...It really does Benson no good to keep Haslett hostage...The reasons Haslett has given publicly through certain insiders have been pretty understandable considering the circumstances...
I'm quite sure if Haslett wants to Coach in 2006 something can be worked out...I have no idea if that is what Haslett wants, but by no means is the situation cut and dry or even close to being resolved yet...
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CM: Of all the qualities a head coach should have, what's the most important?
Polian: Leadership is by far the most important quality.
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Couldn't agree more with BP's last statement.. lack of leadership is by far the biggest flaw in both of TD's hires.
Wow... Bingo!
That is just too funny... cause if there is one single thing I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that I worried about from the minute I heard Mularkey speak it was his ability to lead men...To me he just does not come across as the type of Man other men would run though walls for...Like I've said here before, it's just a feeling I get when he speaks, and some of the things he says...
I've been Managing people my entire adult life...over 23 years now...so I'd like to believe I have a little insight on reading people (those who know me would say I have very little insight...
)...Anyway, when I go to hire someone I always Profile the Job and try to get the personality type, and the required skill set cemented in my brain so that I almost know instantly when it's the right person for the Job...When I look at the great Head Coaches in the NFL, and admittedly they are few and far between, one of the things that I notice is that though they take different paths to get there, each of them is unquestionably a Leader of men...I get the feeling from listening to them speak that I would run through a brick wall head 1st for that guy...I just don't get that feeling from MM (wow... that was an understatement...).
BTW My favorite NFL HC is Jon Gruden by a country mile...I would do the Team laundry to have a chance to work for that guy...
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SD takes all the heat...but there was PLENTY of Teams who blew the Scouting Report on Ryan Leaf...While it seemed pretty obvious most prefered Manning, there was a strong undercurrent of opinion that Leaf was the QB with the better long term upside (much of that had to do with pure athletic ability, arm-strength, etc...)...I'm sure there was plenty of back tracking, erasing and shreding in NFL Scouting Departments when Leaf bombed...No one wants to be known as the Scout or the Personnel Director who had Leaf before Manning on his Draft Board...But believe me there were a few who did...Leaf is actually sort of a case study with some forward thinking GM's...the personality profiling stuff that is real important to some Scouting Departments now (I believe there is one Company that outsources the testing...I saw a piece on ESPN once and they used Leaf as an example)...Anyway...
Plenty of Teams missed bad on Leaf, they were just lucky enough to have SD take him before they got a chance... And I think the good Teams took it to heart and made sure it would not happen again...
My God! What Team is Tirico and Sharpe watching?
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OK now name one NFL Team who has not had a similar number of injuries or dings besides the Colts?
This is every NFL Team, every year...The good Teams overcome these things...The Patsies have had WAY more serious injury problems than the Bills but they have built in leadership starting with their HC that allows them to overcome such things...
What the Carolina Panthers went through last year, that was a situation where injuries had obviously killed a Teams potential...What the Bills have gone through this year is not much more than the average... if that...