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All but 1 Jets starter on the O-Line was drafted in R1 of the draft.
I also loved to play calling today.
A nice stat (I thought) was the Jets run the most play action.
Give us 1 more season of experience on the OL and we have an excellent chance to be very strong all the way from RT to LG. We need a good draft for a top LT and we can be well above average.
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Other than Sanchez (who it looks has come along great under his plan), who has Brian worked with? Maybe have him target a QB in the draft and have him come along a little slower than Sanchez. If he sees a guy who is worthy of a top 10 pick, have him tell Nix that he needs to get him at all costs. Depending on what is done with our O line next year, either let him sit and learn under a FA pick-up or get him in later in the year.
Anyhow, I think his plan in this playoff game has been superb. Obviously he has a top line to work with so he knows the importance of putting one together. If Nix does go after a Coordinator, I would like to see how his interview goes....
I know this is unpopular but with a patient coach like Schottenheimer the Bills could bring Brohm (don't scream) along slowly. The guy has a terrific and highly accurate arm....all the potential in the world. All he needs, IMHO, is a coach and a team to believe in him. Do it!!!
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As it stand today, almost a week after the entire staff was sent packing, the Bills have done a masterful job of keeping plan B quiet. It seems very obvious that Plan A is Bill Cowher but beyond that it seems like they aren't going to let us know too much.
I have the feeling that there are several guys they can't talk to right now. Brian S. is one, Zimmer may be another, Sean McDermott seems like and one name we haven't kicked around, Jason Garrett. At least 2 of those will be avaialble come Monday.
No one is talking about him now with all the big Cowart news going on but as I mentioned in another post a day or 2 ago, I can possibly envision a scenario that plays out with Schottenheimer taking the reins if Cowart doesn't pan out. The Bills have their press conference and Schottzie stands up and says that although he was thoroughly satisfied in his retired life an opportunity like this doesn't come along very often.....and he has studied the situation and IS CONFIDENT THAT HE CAN HELP WIN AN NFL TITLE FOR THE BUFFALO BILLS!!!!!!!!
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Are we on the same page thinking that maybe, I say MAYBE Schottenheimer, as a close friend of Cowher is waiting for him to make a final decision on whether or not he'll give it a go in Buffalo. If the word is "No", then maybe Schottzie will step up to the plate and say that while he had every intention of remaining retired, enjoying every beautiful round of golf with no headaches, no pressures, etc, this wonderful opportunity to coach the GREAT BUFFALO BILLS is just too much to let go by the wayside and he intends to put every effort into making them into a CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM!!!!!!!
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This is a tough one to call alright. Seems to me that the man wants to coach again this year and I'm thinking that in all probability coaching the Bills doesn't scare him IF he can settle a few sticking points..... like his salary, money for his coaches, overall power and authority in draft selections and personnel in general, etc. If Ralph gives in to his demands maybe we finally see Cowher as THE MAN the Bills have been looking for!!
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I think they are doing everything they can to get Cowher. If that falls through. Nix will be on the phone with Marty and a deal will get done quickly.
I have my fingers crossed on that one, Maddog. I think I'd rather have Schottzie and Schottzie Jr. than anyone!!!
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Tampa 2 is great with guys like the Williams' in Minn and Sapp and McFarland in Tampa manning the middle of your D-Line....With the high motor guys we seem to have a passion for at OBD - not so much.
I'm not saying he's quite as good but Kyle Williams was a Pro-Bowl alternate this year and if you check it....that ain't too shabby. What I'm saying is IF..IF we can manage to get another pretty good one along side of Williams, and believe me he's not currently on the roster, then I think we're fine up the middle.
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This would be the best of both worlds scenerio. We get a proven program building HC who is known for turning teams around. Once rebuilt, he passes the team on to his son (who is clearly on the rise in the NFL coaching ranks.) Serves both sort term and long term goals and would likely satisfy the majority of fans.
In my humble eyes that's what's known as too good to be true. Schottzie is undoubtedly one of the very best coaches in the HISTORY of the game, his playoff record notwithstanding, and I'd be overjoyed to have him and doubly so if he'd be accompanied by his talented son, who as noted above is clearly on the rise in the NFL coaching ranks.
I just wish that Ralph and Nix would get together and make him/them an offer so good that it just could not be refused and I almost guarantee a winning program pretty much right off the bat. After all, check out Schottenheimer's records over the years; for God's sake, the man hardly knows what a losing season is!!
Come on Nix, convince Ralph to part with big bucks, lots of control, Brian's hiring, and get the Schottenheimer hiring done!!!
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From what I hear (i.e. Peter King and ESPN), Cowher wants at least what Shanahan got from Washington and that the Panther's owner, Jerry Richardson, is not willing to pay a coach anywhere near that amount. So, perhaps the chin will head back to CBS and keep waiting.
The panther's might not pay that amount but chances are that the Bills would.
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Blah. Just a big waste of time. Would rather have Leslie Neilsen as the freaking coach. They shouldn't bother interviewing coordinators. I want Ralph to get Cowher in a room, throw a bag containing $10 million in cash on the table and tell him "You get one of these a year for the next 5 years" and see what happens. Anything less than Cowher, Billick or the Bronze Medal (Marty S.) will be a big disappointment.
Don't quite agree with your "waste of time" comment, but nice post just the same.
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I didn't expect anything more than that. I expected him to play poorly, and he did. The fact that some of the reasons for his poor play are beyond his control does not change the fact that he played poorly. Now, as I often am forced to do when discussing topics with you, I'm going to have to request that you to answer my original question should you choose to respond again: what did you see from Brohm that tells you that "the kid can play"?
The kid can play......
First of all in case you didn't notice the game was played in a virtual blizzard. Combine that with the fact the Brohm was playing behind undoubtedly the worst OL in the league, facing a team which was coming after him play after play giving him almost no time to throw, and I'm thinking it wasn't all that bad.
Additionally, bandit, in his last 3 pre-season games with GB he completed passes at a 69% rate, but by then GB already had their minds made up! Check it out...it was a sham. The guy is FAR better than people think.
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I think Cowher does want to coach this year. Just not in Buffalo if he can help it. Right now the Bills are Cowher's "date insurance" for the prom. He knows he can dance with us but is waiting to see if any prettier girls will go with him.
While Cowher can always go back to CBS I think he feels like he can't waste another year from the NFL. The longer he's out of coaching the more the game will pass him by. That's why he can't bring himself to say no to the Bills like Shanahan did.
When it comes down to it, and no better jobs are available, he may say yes eventually. The problem for Buffalo is we can't wait around for Cowher to decide. We have to look at other candidates.
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That's a good post, in line with what I've been thinking. If I were GM I suppose I'd give him no more than week's end to sh&t
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The thing is that if we met with him twice, or should I say HE MET WITH US TWICE, why would he do that if he wasn't interested?
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He was a complete failure as a head coach. Not to mention the fact he's a guy who relies on the passing game, and Nix has said we need a team that isn't built for a dome. WE CAN'T HAVE A PASS-FIRST TEAM! Period. Mike Martz would build the same crap he built elsewhere.
So how did he do in Detroit?
Maybe you forget the Bills of '88 through the mid '90's. Yeah, we had Thurmond but we were a predominantly passing team! Maybe we don't have a Kelley on the roster right now but if Brohm or a draft choice QB comes through for us, hey, history often repeats itself, huh?!!
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Fitz wasn't the marketing ploy...I guess no one understood what I was trying to say.
Let me reitterate...
Brohm has had little to no time doing anything with the offense this year besides throwing to Hardy (aside from ATL game and short prep week). It has been said multiple times from Bills' staff and Brohm himself, that the plan was to not have Brohm play this year, but he would be a project for next year.
If they threw Brohm out to the dogs in another game with this line, the Bills' fans may lose some confidence in Brohm already (yes we are all quick to judge). So by playing Fitz, its a marketing ploy to keep Brohm in the minds of Bills fans as their 2010 Bills' starting QB.
Will we actually draft a QB in the 1st or 2nd?
That makes loads of sense, #18; save the man for next year when he knows the players and playbook and can actually come out of the gate running more or less at full tilt.
Will we actually draft a QB? Good question and I for one don't really think so. Not sure of course, but don't think so! Somehow I get the feeling that Nix doesn't really have a top QB in mind in this year's draft and maybe we'll groom the living hell out of Brohm, keep Fitz as #3, and pick up a #2 FA somewhere to actually push and compete with Brohm.
At the risk of boring you to death, Brohm has a terrific arm, is highly intelligent, has been highly accurate to the tune of 65% in college, has lots of guts to take a beating, etc, and IMO has what it takes to play QB successfully in the NFL.
Last 3 pre-season games at GB...
12 - 19 for 83 yds 0-1 against Buffalo
4 - 5 for 45 yds 0-0 against Arizona
20 - 28 for 154 yds 0-0 against Tennesse
Yeah sure, you don't see any TD's there but the completion % is 69% and by all accounts he was playing with the bottom of the barrel scrubs. For this he gets cut? I'm not seeing it folks. I'm thinking the pack was saving money by making it look bad for him, cutting him, quickly picking him back up and putting on the scrub team. Notice how they tried to get him back when we claimed him; and that meant that he would have had to be ACTIVE for a good number of consecutive games.
To cut this off; I'm thinking he's a whole heck of a lot better than 95% of the fans out there think!!
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You know one thing that makes me really scratch my chin is Kelley recommending Tebow so highly. Say what you want about Kelley, criticize the hell out of him and dump on him, but hey, if you think he doesn't know good QB'ing when he sees it you're not thinking straight. HOF QB and all that stuff, huh!!!
Anyway, he says the Bills should grab Tebow, he loves the Bills, so that really makes you think!!
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Forget about Tebow; what the Bills need is a QB from California. I'm thinking Tavita Pritchard would be perfect.
California? California?? Did you really say California? Yeah.....RIGHT!!!!! Pfffffft!!!
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The consensus on this board seems to be that running the 3-4 would be greatly preferable to the 4-3, but won't doing so require a tremendous amount of roster gutting and contract eating (particularly among the DE's)? Given the major problems we already have at QB and OL, would it be wise to add so many more problems to the list? Couldn't we just run a non-Tampa 2 version of the 4-3 instead and go after reasonably sized LB's?
IMHO you're complicating things. Look... Maybin is too light in the butt to play DE, and besides even if he could he plays the same position, same side, as Schobel who I'm confident will give it a go for a couple more years. Therefore, McKinley, Maybin goes to LB, if and only if, we go to a 3-4. That's how I see it anyway.
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In his CB interview he singled out QB and how important a strong arm was to cut through the winds. Well that cuts out anyone on this roster.
Happy New year all
Just want to point out, ICE, that Brohm had the 2nd strongest arm in the 2008 Combine. If he doesn't have enough arm for Ralph Wilson Stadium, well hell, I guess we'll never find an adequate QB, huh?
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Cowher Grimm Weis -
Finally, some sanity
Levitre, Wood, and Byrd are promising young players to build from.
Maybin ... time will tell ... few DEs have a major impact in their first few years like linebackers. He's a project as many people have acknowledged and we have so little data upon which to form a definitive assessment. He hardly played. And who knows what the future holds if he was to move to the outside LB position.
Only our stupid coaches would continue to play a 235 lb guy at DE.....HE'S A LB!!!!!!!!
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Gone:
- Edwards - His head is way too messed up to be useable in Buffalo
- Lynch - Jackson is much better, we could use the cap dollars, maybe draft pick.
- D-line - need to get bigger, faster, stronger and nastier. Maybe one of our most important
needs in the offseason
- Our strenght and conditioning coach
- AVP - love the guy, but hasn't shown much as OC and when he was QB coach, what did he
really do with Edwards?
Stays:
- O-line - I actually like the line we have, just need to make sure who our LT is. Like our
guards (keep Incongnito) and center. Another year together should help.
- DB's - With the exception of Whitner, they all can stay
- LB's - Mitchell and Poz can stay. Remember a good D-line makes your LB's and DB's
look better
- Maybin - as an OLB until he "grows into his body"
- Fewell - would not mind seeing him stay as DC (even though it won't happen), with and
upgraded D-line
- our DB coach
Needs:
- WR
- OLB
- DL
- 2nd string RB
- Tight End, probably on our roster already
I seldom agree with a post as detailed as yours but in this case I think the above looks pretty good, Dave. Actually the only kinda serious problem I have with it is Fewell. I don't like his "bend but don't break" style. I know...I know, we don't have the horses and all that stuff, but I'm thinking a little more creative blitzing, etc, would have helped. Also, the past few weeks seeing him as the HC it's become apparent that unfortunately, well.... he is somewhat retarded, huh!!!!
Also, when you say Maybin as OLB, I completely agree, BUT I would push for the 3-4.
In needs you don't list QB. Good for you! I don't know whether or not we agree but it seems to me that we already have a QB on the squad with a VERY good arm, highly intelligent, pretty darned accurate, and has a whole hell of a lot of potential, and his name is not Edwards nor Fitzpatrick.
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Should he stay or should he go now?
Should he stay or should he go now?
If he stays there will be trouble
An’ if he stays it will be double
So come on and let me know!
I'm OK if he stays next season at a much lower price. But he isn't worth the big bucks.. for the Bills at least.
Given his production this season.. he isn't worth big bucks for many teams. So, the Bills are in the running to keep him on the cheap, I suggest.
IMHO................... HE IS RUINING OUR RECEIVING CORPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has set our receivers back a year just by the fact that the QB I'm sure has some sort of instructions, implied or otherwise, to put the 6.5 millions bucks to use and throw him the D*** ball!
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ummmm no. He was a second round pick of the Pack one year ago and winds up on their practice squad?? Even Hardy didn't stoop that low.
You have no vision, pal. Just going by conventional shortsighted (non)wisdom. THE GUY LOOKED PRETTY GOOD LAST NIGHT considering the horrible OL, the lackadaisical receivers (read Owens), the piss poor coaching, and the total lack of preparation he had the time to receive.
be careful what you wish for w/regard to coaches
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Wherein lies the problem.