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Why is this even a poll? The Bills have 2 starting caliber rbs and should keep/use both of them.
+1. And they should find Corey McIntyre too.
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How many coaches don't get fired after losing nine games in a row?
Presuming we lose against Denver and New England.
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I gave him a D.
I think he's 1 for 2 on the draft. I really like the SEC heavy 2011 draft. I think the Lee Evans trade was a positive. Lynch also had to go.
However, he earns the D by:
1. Not making the call to fire Edwards last year;
2. The Terrell Troup selection, despite knowledge he had back issues;
3. Not obtaining real OLBs, even if they are marginal. Putting 300 lb. linemen out there all year at that position is inexcusable.
4. Not obtaining a top notch TE through either draft.
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Anybody think Gailey stands a greater than 50% chance of getting fired if the Bills lose out?
Perhaps somebody knows this, but who's the last coach (if there ever was one) that kept their job after losing nine games in a row to end a season?
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I think it's hard to predict what the Rams will do. They will have a new coach in place. I think they need offensive line, cornerback or WR talent over another high draft pick QB. They could pick Kalil and move Smith to Guard. Or draft Blackmon as a weapon for Bradford.
The Vikings and Colts are historically bad on defense, and could use playmakers there more than a franchise QB. Their defenses stop less people than the Bills.
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Oh, I don't think there's any guarantee those guys last that long.
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He lost me weeks ago when he abandoned the run against the Cowboys, especially when Jackson was tearing it up. Gailey calls games like a little girl, if the bills get behind all he calls are pass plays trying to catch up. Turk Schonert was no better.
Ya know what tho, April comes around and everyone forgets how inept he is, they all think the draft is going to send the Bills to the SB next year.
I'm probably in the minority, but I think the playcalling on both sides of the ball is the #1 contributor to this epic collapse. The Bills got figured out by the Bengals game and Gailey never adjusted the plan. You factor in injuries, and that lack of adjustment multiplies the punishment by ten.
I think the offensive playcalling is putting an awful lot on Fitzpatrick's plate. To run Gailey's offense, yes, you do need a Troy Aikman or Peyton Manning. They are probably the only caliber of QB capable of doing it for an entire season. That's not a defense of Fitzpatrick, but today was another demonstration of Gailey's infatuation with the pass. The defense knows this, so any Bills QB will be throwing into a defensive ripsaw knowing exactly what they are going to see.
Gailey's predictability doomed him in Dallas and at Georgia Tech.
This game is about constant week to week adjustment to what your adversary is throwing at you. The best coaches and assistants in the NFL are brilliant at adjusting to the opposing team. Gailey might be an offensive genius but that genius only goes as far as to the point somebody gets some tape on the team. I'd rather have somebody that adapts better to changing conditions and personnel.
What bothers me is that Gailey won't be fired despite this collapse. The Bills will start off 2012 with a fast start because he'll spend the summer tinkering with the plan and it'll catch teams early on off guard. However, midway through the season, when teams have tape, we'll be ripe for a collapse yet again.
I really don't want to see the Bills with yet another head coach and staff for 2012. However, should the team lose out, Gailey has to go. There has to be accountability.
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I used to be on the Chan Gailey bandwagon.
After today, no more. I'm tired of abandoning the run when it works. I'm tired of seeing a man enamored with his game plan, with refusal to adjust it to conditions and personnel. I'm tired of this lousy coaching staff he put together.
I'm tired of this season.
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You do realize Jeff Fisher was head coach for 17 years, and was 5-6 in the playoffs, with a SB loss?
As head coach, he didn't guide the team to the playoffs for the first five years of his coaching career.
You willing to give Fisher nearly two decades? Willing to wait five years?
That's the thing about Cowher and Fisher. They were there for the NFL equivalent of "forever", and despite generally competent front offices, still had teams that underperformed.
I doubt Bills fans are going to be that patient.
My confidence in Gailey is certainly less today than it was at the beginning of the season, but I wouldn't want to replace him with Jeff Fisher.
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#1: Maurkice Pouncey
#2 Rob Gronkowski
#3 Jacoby Ford
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If names make it public and it's the volume of players I'm hearing might be involved-- it could be VERY embarrassing. with a trial coming, names will likely be a part of the evidence to show distribution regardless of the crazy volume making it a given.
This won't quietly disappear or be put on the back burner ala Cincy.
I don't see how the NFL avoids the whirlpool of trouble from having one of Chicago's largest drug operation kingpins on one of its football teams. This could be the NFL's version of the Pittsburgh drug trials.
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Unfortunately for the NFL, I think this is about to become a very big deal.
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There we go again. Excusing our mistakes by claiming that Maybin with the opportunity and coaching couldn't produce the same kind of performance here. That's BS. I don't mean to be a jerk but what superior defensive talent do the jets have? I'll give you their secondary no doubt but good players are good players and bad players are bad players.
Sometimes good players play badly but bad players are always bad players. In other words Maybin isn't some bum the Jets coached up. He's a good player that is on a team that actually gave him a chance and put him on the field not because of some far superior talent they have on defense.
He is not a role player that gets significant playing time around these "far superior players" for the Jets. This guy is a difference maker with 6 sacks and 4 forced fumbles. I know it's a team game and a team defense but those numbers would make him one of our best players statistically.
All I'm saying is that I don't buy the magical powers of the 30 year old Jets intern in the Aaron Maybin: Extreme Makeover show.
I do feel however, that his success with the Jets would be replicated on very few teams. I think Maybin is a system pass rusher. He's an Elvis Dumervil or a Calvin Pace, a skill set for a very precise type of defensive scheme. Maybin fits the Jets. Good for him and good for them. However, I'm not faulting the Bills for cutting him. You cut non-productive players.
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The part-time "intern" did not somehow magically elevate the alleged "professional" football player to greatness.
It's a cheap article. As other posters have suggested, the Jets have the far more talented personnel surrounding Maybin and the schemes that benefit from the talented personnel. You put Maybin on the Rams or the Patriots and you get the Buffalo version of Maybin. It's just that the running back that would pancake Maybin has to worry about the talented MLB or DB barreling down on his QB on the blitz.
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I don't think RGIII will be there. Even if Indy picks Luck, somebody will take RGIII or get into postion to get him the top 5.
Besides, Fitzpatrick is only as good as A) the parts around him and B) the plays being called. Even the greats would struggle missing their starting center, running back and your second wide receiver. Even the greats would have a hard time getting downfield if the defense knows what's coming. Those two things conspire against Fitzpatrick more than anything else.
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No Kate Beckinsale? Salma Hayek?
The list is noteworthy in not being all that diverse, so there's no Halle Berry or Ming Na, either.
I agree on Jamie Lee Curtis. I'd also throw in Jessica Lange.
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No love for Mario Williams?
Sure there is, but you don't think he's isn't the #1 priority for the Texans? I just don't think he'll make it to the free agent market.
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The Colts have very limited resources at this point. They are a small market team stretched by massive stadium debt and massive contracts. If they've got to pay a #1 on top of Manning, Freeney, and the rest of the big contracts they've got, in addition to paying down a high amount of team debt, their ability to dish out a big contract to one guy when the team has numerous holes, is too, limited.
That being said, I'd go for Colston at WR from New Orleans and/or Campbell on the defensive line if the Cardinals are both insane and too cheap to resign him.
I'd draft outside linebackers.
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...go find me some outside linebackers.
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If you invest in Fitzpatrick, part of that investment is in the receivers, and it's obvious SJ and Fitzpatrick are often on the same page. For me, all those catches against Revis demonstrated the man has talent as a WR against top shelf cornerback talent.
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I don't think Bill Cowher coaches in the NFL again, even if the Giants job opens up.
He's been away too long and he wouldn't be able to get the band back together of all the assistant coaches that really made him into the "great" coach that many perceive him to be.
He gets paid a lot of money to talk about football every Sunday. It's far better than working nearly 24 hours a day coaching a football team with expectations the size of a mountain staring down at you. Expectations, I might add, he did not have to deal with in Pittsburgh. Wherever he goes, he'll be expected to win and win yesterday.
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I think it was a good move to sign Pears. Consistency on the offensive line is certainly an advantage if you can keep it.
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Ummm… I understand the feelings and I've also criticized Gailey's coaching of late.
But you're not being quite fair.
When he was OC in Kansas City, Gailey resurrected the "Pistol Offense" which is a modified shotgun. He did so because he was down to his 3rd string QB (the infamous Tyler Thigpen) and it was an offense that Thigpen ran in college.
Gailey was actually able to extract some productivity out of Thigpen and The Pistol.
Point is, Gailey has shown in the past, that he can be flexible and innovative when necessary.
There's actually evidence that Gailey would be able to build an offense for Tebow.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like he's been coaching very well recently.
I agree to a point. Gailey is innovative. Problem is, in the NFL, you have to continue to innovate. Once he finds something that works, he sticks with it regardless if it remains successful.
That will be his ultimate downfall in Buffalo if he doesn't change that about himself as a professional coach.
In the NFL, it appears the coaches who do well have a skill to adapt to changing circumstances versus being innovative. For example, Andy Reid....probably an innovative coach, but a snail to adapt. Martz...innovative, but doesn't adapt to available personnel.
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Gailey's press conferences are as predictable as his offensive playcalling.
If he runs the same plays in the same order against Miami that he ran in the last game.......against Miami, I'll be on that wagon to see him fired.
Merriman, Parrish, players "wanting to stay" with their team/c
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The Bills need to retain and assemble talent as cogs in a performing machine.
Considering the game continually shifts more to rotational play, there is no B-team anymore. It's now A-1 and A-2 teams, and continuity does matter in team sports.
I don't see Merriman and Parrish as stars but I do see them as useful parts in the Bills machine. Our successful teams in the 90s had lots of good cogs to go along with the two or three great ones.