A few thoughs/facts

[BillsVet]

Do you actually think up and type the same boring drivel repeatedly, or do you have a software program that takes the phrases (1)"ralph is cheap", "(2)the bills suck", "(3)nix is old", and "(4)smithers" and randomly generates sentences?

 

Either way, your contribution to discussion is minimal.

 

We'll draft Dez Bryant to appease your affinity for receivers.

 

Generalize my positions with those four phrases? Fine. All I had done was generalize what the homer fans say whenever anyone dare attacks this franchise.

 

(1) RW can do whatever he pleases with his team. His leadership has featured too many lengthy periods of failure. When he hires quality people (Saban, Knox, Polian, Butler, et al) the team succeeds. But he's not cheap.

(2) Buffalo stinks because RW doesn't hire solid front office people, and can't attract them as evidenced by this past off-season. I would have been fine with Frazier or Grimm after the fiascos of Shanahan and Cowher.

(3) I've never seen a first time 70 year old GM. And I can't recall anyone in private or public life who is ascending to the pinnacle of their career in their eighth decade.

(4) Russ Brandon is Mr. Smithers personified. He's the guy who does exactly as his boss says, demonstrated by the TO signings. The fact that many propped him up as some sort of wunderkid who could get Buffalo back to respectability continues to be laughable.

[manbeast]

I can see it already from the homer, schlub, off-season Super Bowl fans:

 

1. Who is John Wooten? He's an idiot.

2. Gailey didn't have enough time in Dallas to flame out. Jerry Jones said he should not have fired him when he did.

3. Georgia Tech doesn't get the players to be a top team. It's not Gailey's fault.

4. Nix is a Top 5 talent evaluator. his age doesn't matter.

5. Leslie Frazier hasn't been hired for a reason. He just doesn't have HC experience like Nix wanted.

6. I like the way Buffalo is rebuilding-no wasted money in free agency.

 

For the record, John Wooten's background can be found here.

Butler and A.J. Smith Trusted Nix Judgement on personell moves and draft decisions that is why he didn't go there because he doesn't carry the same weight as those two names. I am very impressed sounds like a really good guy but his work in football as the product on the field doesn't impress. Now if he was involved in the drafting of those players then I would be impressed but the trade for the picks. If I am not mistaken wasn't the guy on the other end of the trade Al Davis.

[manbeast]

We'll draft Dez Bryant to appease your affinity for receivers.

 

Generalize my positions with those four phrases? Fine. All I had done was generalize what the homer fans say whenever anyone dare attacks this franchise.

 

(1) RW can do whatever he pleases with his team. His leadership has featured too many lengthy periods of failure. When he hires quality people (Saban, Knox, Polian, Butler, et al) the team succeeds. But he's not cheap.

(2) Buffalo stinks because RW doesn't hire solid front office people, and can't attract them as evidenced by this past off-season. I would have been fine with Frazier or Grimm after the fiascos of Shanahan and Cowher.

(3) I've never seen a first time 70 year old GM. And I can't recall anyone in private or public life who is ascending to the pinnacle of their career in their eighth decade.

(4) Russ Brandon is Mr. Smithers personified. He's the guy who does exactly as his boss says, demonstrated by the TO signings. The fact that many propped him up as some sort of wunderkid who could get Buffalo back to respectability continues to be laughable.

Nix first year back was last year how was our draft.

[rpcolosi]

I can see it already from the homer, schlub, off-season Super Bowl fans:

 

1. Who is John Wooten? He's an idiot.

2. Gailey didn't have enough time in Dallas to flame out. Jerry Jones said he should not have fired him when he did.

3. Georgia Tech doesn't get the players to be a top team. It's not Gailey's fault.

4. Nix is a Top 5 talent evaluator. his age doesn't matter.

5. Leslie Frazier hasn't been hired for a reason. He just doesn't have HC experience like Nix wanted.

6. I like the way Buffalo is rebuilding-no wasted money in free agency.

 

For the record, John Wooten's background can be found here.

 

 

totally agree, plus wooten is wrong - we DID sit down with Frazier. He was our first interview. so clearly, wooten can't be that reliable.

 

also - if you are giving an "online course for GM/NFL scouting" doesn't that all but mean he isn't capable of getting hired for a real job in the NFL?

[reddogblitz]

Nix first year back was last year how was our draft.

Our second round pick was pretty good.

[purple haze]

I can see it already from miserable, I hate my life so I'm gouing to B word on a Bills' message board, the Bills are teh worst team ever fans:

 

1) John Wooten is a god and everything he says should be taken as gospel.

 

2) Gailey is the reason Aikman had a concussion, why Irvin nearly got paralyzed, and the single reason the Cowboys didn't win more SBs.

 

3) Even though the players that made GT a top 10 this season were all recruited by Gailey, he sucks because they weren't top 10 when those guys were freshmen and sophs.

 

4) Polian is 67 and Nix is 70. Polian is a youngful, Nix is a grumpy old man.

 

5) Even though the Bills aren't the only team that has passed on Frazier, they are the dumbest because I hate them.

 

6) The only way to get better is to overpay in a crappy FA class.

 

It goes both ways. It's sad that as miserable as the Bills make you that you spend so much time here. But that's for another attempt to make others as miserable as you feel. You're the best.

[Thurman#1]

At Dallas by most accounts he inherited a fairly decent team.

1998 he went 10-6 and lost in the first round of the playoffs.

1999 he went 8-8 and somehow made it to the playoffs, and again lost in the first round.

 

So in his 2 years at Dallas, where player wise he was able to hit the ground running, combined he was 18-14 or 0.563% and 0-2 in the playoffs. And the trend was downward. Jones stopped the bleeding.

 

 

 

I'm sorry, but you say "At Dallas by most accounts he inherited a fairly decent team." Well then, you must think that last year's Bills were also a fairly decent team because last year's Bills had the same record, 6 - 10, as the Cowboys did the year before Gailey was hired.

 

Let's look at the record:

 

1997: 6 - 10

1998: 10 - 6 with Gailey

1999: 8 - 8 with Gailey, and at the end of this season, you say that "Jones stopped the bleeding."

2000: 5 - 11

2001: 5 - 11

 

Wow, if that's stopping the bleeding, the next time I get cut, just let me bleed, OK?

 

The facts show that Gailey's term with the Cowboys was a real uptick in their fortunes.

 

 

That doesn't even tell the whole story!

 

The Cowboys were 6-10 before Gailey.

 

They went 10-6, 8-8 in two seasons with him as HC.

 

They went 5-11 three straight years after him.

 

It's more like the Cowpies flamed out once their only spark - Gailey - was removed.

 

 

Ah. You got there before me.

[Thurman#1]

totally agree, plus wooten is wrong - we DID sit down with Frazier. He was our first interview. so clearly, wooten can't be that reliable.

 

 

 

I'm betting the mistake there was by the OP in summarizing Wooten, not by Wooten himself.