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Sisyphean Bills

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  1. Don't you mean Wharone? Buddy being a short timer and all?
  2. Yep. Be careful what you wish for indeed. Gailey did get a lot out of a bunch of no-names. And, he was not conservative or one dimensional in doing it. He used all different sets, spread, wildcat, pistol ... lots of different stuff. At different times, the Bills had very good production in their passing AND running games. What bugged me about Gailey here and at Georgia Tech is his stubborn refusal to move ahead at the QB position. For too many seasons, I watched him try to wring that last drop of turnip juice out of a guy at the QB position when it was just killing the entire team. Don't even care why, but Chan was and is incredibly hard headed when it came to trying to breath life into a QB situation that wasn't working. In retrospect, it was a career killing move to walk into this job with the idea that anyone could make lemonade out the lemons Edwards, Fitzpatrick, and Brohm. Edit: The other career killer was that Gailey blew it hugely with respect to the defense. It was a sort of abdication of being the head coach to focus on being the coordinator of the offense, a bit of outsourcing that part of the product. Gailey might even have survived another season if it hadn't become plainly obvious that the defense went into full-on coasting to close out the season.
  3. There were 3 teams: the Bills, Redskins, and Seahawks. The Seahawks targeted PC and he was their guy all along. The Redskins targeted Shanahan and had to do a little more negotiating. The only really open search was the Bills. Buddy fielded thousands of calls a day and pulled Chan's name.
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  5. Thanks. Glad to see there is substance behind it and not just another empty thought to paint the last guy fired as the worst ever. Like I said, I wasn't trying to defend Gailey or his tactics. I was glad to see him fired at Georgia Tech.
  6. They were talking about the Bears search the other day on NFL radio. Basically said it is a run-away train and that the GM seems content to just interview everyone that can spell the word football. It was concerning in that a good front office usually makes a change when they already have 3 or 4 names that they know they want to go after before they proceed down the road of firing people. The irony is that the Bears best option could have been argued to re-hire Lovie Smith!
  7. On the bolded: Why? Does anyone remember Dick Jauron's offense? This is not a defense of Gailey, but there can be and has been much worse.
  8. We're going to layer it into everything we do at TBD.
  9. I set them up. You hit them off the side of the B train.
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  11. If Blaine Gabbert is an indicator, then it is a little less of a risk now than in the fairly recent past. Still, swinging for the fences on a QB at the top of the 1st round this year, when that QB would've been a 4th or 5th round pick last year, is a very big gamble. It can set your team up for multiple years of failure, get everyone fired, and heap more disappointment on the fanbase, if it doesn't work out. Another approach could be to go into FA hot and heavy [edit: or trade] and roll the dice on a guy in the 3rd or 4th round that has his own set of flaws and strengths.
  12. And, it could work exactly the opposite. The coaches know his strengths and weaknesses and decide to move in a different direction.
  13. He sure is lousy at picking his HC opportunities.
  14. Seems to confirm a lot of armchair analysis on the board. QB was a huge problem. The defense has talent, but suffered consistent lapses. (On any given play one guy is kicking *** and the guy next to him is out to lunch.) And of course, coaching was another huge problem -- and that was addressed quickly. (I actually think Gailey did a solid job coaching up what talent he had to work with on offense. Trying to fix Fitz's mechanics with a guy who's claim to fame was implementing the Wildcat with the Dolphins ... not so much. And the oddity of not being able to get anyone else ready at QB.) Thanks. And, I agree with this grade. He sucked against the run this year.
  15. Thigpen and Jackson are free agents. Fitz is the only QB on the team at this point. OTOH, one of the most brilliant people I've ever met never went to college, community or otherwise.
  16. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/151371-manti-teo-is-special/page__st__260#entry2695658
  17. Might have been the biggest moment since Dick Jauron was hired.
  18. What the data says is that every position on offense and defense has a higher investment on the average overall (ignoring kickers). Teams can and do find great LBs later than other positions. I agree with you that this means LB is less "freakish". You need to find a biggish and strongish guy who can run reasonably fast, has good football instincts, and can tackle. A guy in the 7th round and a guy in the 2nd round maybe near clones of one another in all aspects, but the coaches find the 7th rounder makes fewer mental mistakes despite being a whisker slower running in his underwear on a rubber track. Your LB doesn't have to be 7' tall, run a 4.2 sec 40, weigh 900#, throw a football through the 1 open window on a bullet train from 2 platforms away, or any of those "freak" skills.
  19. Didn't Marrone say he didn't want to dictate scheme? That he wanted to scheme to the strength of his players? If that is the case, a 5-0-6 might be best, but I digress...
  20. I don't have the link anymore, but someone evaluated the overall draft position of each player position for all 32 teams and their 2-deep depth charts. LB (outside of special teams players like kickers) was the lowest as I recall. So, either there are a lot of NFL teams with really bad LB play (like the Bills ) or it is altogether possible to find productive LBs fairly deep into the draft. (BTW, I am kidding a bit; we can logically ignore the first argument, because the numbers reflected the entire NFL and not a sample set of just bad LBs. The fact is that for the NFL as a whole productive LBs are found deep into the draft, and deeper than other positions.)
  21. With the Bills drafting at #8 (ignoring trades), they have to ask if he is one of the top 8 best players in the country. If we assume they are going after him as a need, they have to ask if he is the best at the target position bar none (meaning FAs, etc.) and is NFL ready. It's a win-now game. You don't want to throw high picks at guys that you think might develop into something 4 or 5 years from now -- you'll be fired before then and chances are they'll be playing for someone else anyway.
  22. That's the point. He thinks Te'o shouldn't be judged based on 1 game, etc. By the same token, no one would say that the Big East is better than the SEC because Louisville beat Florida. It's just 1 game. Te'o was not special last night. He was pedestrian at best. He sounds like a guy with tremendous work ethic and character, so you'd scout him based on how he (and not the team around him) has developed and how high you think his ceiling is. Is he a kid you can see developing into a guy that can help your team? To do that takes more than that one game, but he did not play like a stud by any stretch in that one game -- he raised some concerns.
  23. Scouting doesn't follow hype. Sort of goes without saying and not at all what I meant. At any rate, I had heard Te'o had improved his technique this season. After that game though, I'm not convinced and would want to see the tape. Not my gig though... Edit: Hype can and does get into the equation. Josh McDaniels bit hard for Tim Tebow, for instance. But then, maybe he wasn't all that savvy. Another case: the Bills bit for Aaron Maybin.
  24. Is the Seniro Bowl played in South America somewhere?
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