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Here are the Indy Coaches. http://www.colts.com/team/coaches.html Sanjay Lal receivers coach. He was well liked here, maybe what Zay needs. Perhaps if it’s Chudzinski he will bring him along. Brian Schottenheimer could also be included, he has had success before.

Would Kubiak consider an Asst Head Coach for O and QB development, with play calling duty and Dennison stays on as OC? Maybe a viable solution.

Stock up on tables? Sorry too old for that, Crossing my fingers, saying my prayers for the Front office to win the off season, better than Rex did.

In the Team video Rick Reilly discredits the Bills in those years because the AFC was weak and NFC strong. In those four years our in season NFC record was 14-2. We earned every one of those Super Bowls.

If you remember the days when the Jerry Lewis MD telethon was on, Buffalo was as city they telecast in. It was not a national broadcast. If I am not mistaken we would out give the major cities out there. I am not talking per capita but strait dollars. They knew then and we proved it again now.

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More similarity to the 1980 team. That year we finally beat Miami to breat that streak. The fans stormed the field to tear down the goalpost. We went to the playoffs after a seven year drought. The fans stood in the cold and met the team at the airport. Joe Ferguson played in the playoff game on a broken ankle. Part of what created his legend. Maybe Shady? The first Super Bowl was that feeling multiplied. The response from our fans is unmatched. The gathering to support our first Super Bowl loss, the greetings at the airport, tearing down goalpost( happened more than once), the donation to Andy Dalton’s foundation, no other fan base would do this. Although newer generation, things have not changed. Thanks to all for your passion.

Dunkirk, thanks for the insight but I beat you to this prediction. If Schwartz end up in NY, Hughes is part of the package for the number 2 pick.

If this happens who could we package for the 2nd pick, you got it Jerry Hughes.

Also his agent

On the subject of punting and onside kicks. Here is article of a. HS who did not punt and used 7 variations of the os kick to win a state title. http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=892888 Some articles talking about punting. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2012/08/to-punt-or-not-to-punt.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/sports/football/calculating-footballs-risk-of-not-punting-on-fourth-down.html Paper analyzing punting in NFL sited in articles. http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/dromer/papers/PAPER_NFL_JULY05_FORWEB_CORRECTED.pdf Go for it!

John Wooden one of the most successful coaches in any sport expected the speed and precision of practice to exceed game speed. He wanted the game to be in slow motion. It afforded better conditioning, knowing assignments and reads better. I have seen him in video of practice comment when things were done right to just do it faster. He would use the phrase "be quick but don't hurry". With quickness precision is the when you hurry you become sloppy. I love the application of this to a football practice.

In my first post, this is the type of thing I was talking about. I really like your thoughts. If you don't want to only rely on end of game stats you could add any drive when score is within 7. Completion percentage when blitzed, with zone or man coverage or both. Including, yardage distance short or beyond gaining fist down on play. Taking sacks or turnovers would also have to be included. I think, metrics like this would help define poise under pressure, abitly to make reads when pressured that provide positive results. Keeping drives alive is the name of the game.

First post sorry for the length but I wanted to jump in. Buddy Nix’s response is exactly what Billy Bean faced when he first introduced money ball. Scouts would go by feel or he looks like a ball player. What his approach did was identify players who don’t look the typical part who had potential because they would be overlooked. How he applied it was to be economical because he would not have to pay the same price for a player overlook and often times was statistically better than going by feel. In baseball the metrics are easy to apply because ever pitch, hit ,fielding play, at bat are charted routinely. In football it would be harder because there are more intricacies in each play but trends most certainly could be developed and understood. I agree you cannot pick a player based on these analytics alone. If you take the Patriots as you example, they have been using these metrics to help for several years. Does it seem year after year they produce better than other teams? Granted on the offensive side of the ball Brady can make anyone look good. San Franciso has adopted analytics to assist and they have turned their franchise around as well. Certainly Harbaugh helps so we cannot give the analytic or him all the credit. What is interesting to me, the most is how we can use this in ferreting out our next quarterback, both by the draft and FA. What is best about Brady, Maning etc is their ability to perform under pressure. We need to find a quarterback who gets yards when you need them most with minimal mistakes. Not in games trailing by large margins, or blowouts. It’s the close games that separate the best. Before the Brandon promotion I was thinking we need to analyze the quarterbacks in some way to determine who has these qualities. I was perusing the net and came across this article and it seems interesting to me. Predicting the Unpredictable…Projecting a College QB to the NFL with a Mathematical Formula Vers 3.0 NFL Draft "Moneyball" for College Quarterbacks http://www.fantasyfo...0_2-17-2011.htm We all want change, we want forward thinking and are we going to rely on Buddy, Whaley’s or the new coaches gut to pick our next Quarterback. We cannot afford to miss again. After Ferguson we had names like Dufek, Ferragamo, Marangi before Kelly came along. We have had a similar unimpressive list since Flute and Bledsoe. Think outside the box and realize this may be a good thing to be analytical.