Sisyphean Bills

First, Martz runs a variant of the Coryell/Zampese offense. That offense is a vertical passing game and a power running game. If you don't remember the Bills offense throwing a number of bombs, flags, deep crosses, deep outs, hitting the TE and RB 10-15 yards down the field and setting it all up by pounding the snot out of the defense with a punishing ground game and lots of play action, then you are not alone. And, you weren't watching the Coryell system. Linehan did not run the Martz offense. When he was fired, the Rams switched back to that system to try to take better advantage of their personnel. http://www.geocities.com/epark/raiders/foo...ll-offense.html http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp...&id=2545442

Maybe it was a tactical move to preempt the unending QB debates.

Kind of comical isn't it? The Bills are paying Derrick Dockery $49M/yr, the highest paid OL in Bills history, and then perhaps decide they are required to neuter their offense in various ways because they can't control the interior of the offensive line.

True. As a battered fan though, I was starting to when reading these insensate comparisons. Like comparing his record to Tom Landry. As if anyone that's awake can't tell the difference between Monet's Water Lillies and a Velvet Elvis because they are both paintings.

Dude, I said he was a 3-4 tweener LB. You disagree by claiming he is what I said he was?

Everybody sort of assumed Modrak and Guy had power, I guess from the promotions last year; but, from Ralph's own lips he admitted this past week that Modrak was part of the outer octagon and not the "inner circle". Furthermore, Modrak is a Tom Donahoe guy and lives in Florida and is apparently really only interested in scouting. The "inner circle" apparently was Ralph, Brandon, and Littmann (and perhaps Ralph's daughter and Overdorf). [Edit: But now Modrak may get a key to the elevator as well.] That's very heavy on the financial and marketing side and crazy thin on the football side. Sort of correlates with the product on the field, no?

A thought about that: Jauron's new contract did, apparently, include a raise. (Reportedly around $2M/yr.) It may also have included more defined discretionary powers with exclusive control over staff and ...

http://www.wgrz.com/sports/story.aspx?stor...100&catid=4 He could change his mind, of course; but, what he is saying now is no changes anywhere.

Terrell Suggs is a pipe dream. He's a 3-4 tweener LB and Dick Jauron runs a 4-3 Tampa 2 defense. In order to get him to come to Buffalo, land of the lost, they'd have to woo him with an insane contract because (if he gets to FA) other, better teams will make offers as well. So, if the Bills offer a contract that'd make Dwight Freeney blush to a guy that doesn't fit their scheme, they might have a snowball's chance of landing him.

The line about complacency was obvious fluff. Keeping Jauron, keeping the entire coaching staff, and keeping the front office, scouting, etc., etc. exactly the same is complacent. It is satisfaction with the status quo ante with total unawareness of its deficiencies -- the definition of complacency. The very next line, Ralph talked about how they knew what the problems were and the answers to those problems. If they knew how to fix problems, explain why they were one of only 3 inept teams ever to go from 5-1 to 7-9 and continued to make the same blunders over and over again.

I think Thurman Thomas nailed it. Until this team gets new ownership, you'll continue to see coaching and play like this. 'Nuff said.

It's almost Detroit Lionsesque. http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=80600

Facts suck.

This is one of the most condemning facts against Dead Dick. The schedule was so weak, that the Dolphins were able to pull off one of the biggest single season turnarounds ever in the NFL. Against nearly an identical schedule, Dead Dick lead his team through a 2-8 free fall.

Great football teams do not develop and organize themselves.

Is there anybody at 1 Bills Dr. that gives a rat's ass what the stupid fans think? BTW, you can't really say that not using play action, not running any screen passes, not throwing deep, not running a toss sweep, not running a counter trey, etc. "would have been great play calls if they had worked."

Not sure. How about you?

Thanks for the public service.

Apparently, Wilson thinks that he has identified the root cause of his problem. The main problem with his dysfunctional outfit is that there hasn't been "enough continuity" in the past decade. So, he's going to fix that problem by keeping a guy that is a proven failure and who has been outwitted, out coached, and out played time and time again and keeps making the same blunders. Of course, Wilson hasn't really identified the problem, has he? That's why the fans are enraged. The problem isn't that we haven't stuck with bad coaches long enough, the problem is that we keep hiring bad and incompetent coaches. Not only that but these coaches blow the team up when they come in, set the team back years, and then show they can't coach their way out of a paper bag. So, we are left with a "solution" to a fictional problem, but we haven't identified the true problem. Now, let's juxtapose something from Wilson's statement. He said that there will be no changes because his "inner circle" chatted and they chatted with Dick "Cheerio Chaps!" Jauron and they believe they've identified the problems as to why this team is spinning its wheels and they believe they have the solutions. Ask yourself: do you believe them?

He's only part of the outer octagon, not the inner circle.

"We'll blow up your ship!" 6 of the 7 teams we beat have made changes to their front office or coaching staff. Seattle: Holmgren out Jville: Harris out Oakland: Kiffin fired St Louis: Linehan fired Kansas City: Peterson resigned Denver: Shanahan fired Only San Diego hasn't fired anyone, but they're also the only one who's season isn't over yet. As a bonus, Cleveland and the Jets fired their coaches. Apparently for not blowing Dick's team out.

We don't really suck; we're just endowed with greater than normal gravity!

I understand perfectly well that you don't know what offense we run. Hint: terminology != scheme.

It took Jerry Angelo about 23 seconds to realize that Dick's master plan of grooming Cade McNown as the leader of his team was a train wreck and mushroom cloud before he shipped the guy out of town for a song. That Jim Mora tirade was a thing of beauty, though. Sometimes even good coaches need to be fired.