Sen. John Blutarsky
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I think we have to be careful about cherry-picking particular individuals for HC and coordinators. To me, it's too much meddling by the front office.....the head coach should bring along guys who will work with him and share the same visions. Just because we've seen Nolan work well as a DC doesn't mean he'd get along with or share the same thoughts and ideas as someone like Josh McDaniel. If McDaniel is hired as a HC, he is the one that should select the DC, OC, and coaches to work with them, not the front office.
It's like taking your personally-designed radio to the Chevy dealer and having them build a car around it.
You're right. Let's put it this way. for coordinators, those are the philosophies I would like to see.
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So how old is McDaniel, 20? After Mangini went to the Jets, it seems all you have to do is coach one year in New England and everyone wants to make you their head coach, even if you aren't old enough to drink yet. And you think that New England's offense is no better then Buffalo's?? So Lee Evans is just as good as Randy Moss? And Josh Reed and his 30 catches a season are just as good as Welker's 98 in your mind? And the Pats' offensive line is no better then the Bills either, right? The only difference is this Josh McDaniel genius. If he came to Buffalo, Derek Dockery would be a Pro Bowl guard, Duke Preston would be able to call out the defenses when he doesn't even know what offense he's in, and Josh Reed would lead the NFL in receptions next year. Wow. If all of that were true, Ralph had better get Brandon up to New England the minute their season ends.
Not saying that at all but I do think that Evans and Moss at this point in their careers are close, I still give the nod to Moss but he's not what he was even last season. I don't think that Welker is particularly more talented than Reed or Parrish as a slot reciever but they do a much better job of using him hence his better production. For example, Wes Welker almost never catches a pass standing still, he's already moving which lets him use his speed and quickness as strengths. How many times have we hit a Reed or Parrish on the run? It seems like they are always stopped on a hook or a comeback route of some nature which totally negates their advantage. When's the last WR screen to Parrish or Reed you saw to take advantage of the YAC skills? The Pats run that play to death with Welker. It's not genius, it's just playing to your players strengths and putting them in a position to succeed. Running a fade with Lee Evans isn't helping Evans. That play needs to be run and thrown perfectly to succeed with Evans, but if you throw it to Moss you have room because he's taller and better able to make that play. To throw that to Evans with hardy or even Steve Johsnon on bench was silly. Design a play where Evans can run away from someone or beat the to a spot, not try to outleap someone.
I do think that Lynch and Jackson are far superior to any RBs New England can put on the field right now and apart from center which is an obvious problem I think our lines are close. BTW, Dockery was a Pro Bowl guard before we got him so i don't think it's a huge leap to put him back there. Same with Peters. They need to play better, but the ability is there.
To deny what he's done with Cassel in the offense just makes you sound foolish. He hadn't started a game since high school and threw for 400 yards in back to back games. So either Matt Cassel is just plain awesome and everyone is stupid for passing on him or McDaniel and his staff have done an EXCELLENT job in preparing him to play and crafting a successful gameplan for him.
I also think to discount a coach because of his age is silly. By that logic you would not have hired Bill Cowher (35), Eric Mangini (34), Mike Tomlin (35), Don Shula (33), Chuck Noll (37), George Allen (39), Jon Gruden (35), Paul Brown (38), or Bear Bryant (32).
That doesn't mean McDaniels is definetly that great, there are plenty of Mike Shula's out there too, but to say that a man who will be 33 by next opening day isn't qualified becuase he's not old enough is silly. He's been an asst on both sides of the ball (which is unusual) and has shown tremendous success. He's been New England's OC since 2006 so it's not like this is his first year.
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Dude, that's gotta be long. 5 disk box set?
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Lynch was not doing JACK yesterday. You can't keep handing the ball off and getting yourself into 2nd and 9 and 3rd and 7 situations. In the SF game, YEs Lynch was "on" but he wasn't yesterday. Miami swarmed the running game. The good teams in the NFL mix it up and have some 5 or 6 play TD drives! I'm so sick of the idiots on this board who constantly say "just hand it off the Lynch 25-30 times". The Bills need a QB to complement Lynch...someone that can complete a few 1st and 2nd down passes.
Let's be clear. We ran the ball twice on the first series and gained 7 yards (I'll take 3rd and 3 all day) and we handed off to end the half. For the rest of the entire game we handed off ten times since Jackson had 0 carries. 2.5 runs per quarter qualifies as a running game? How many times did Miami run the ball between Brown and Wicky? 30? It's not like they were running it up and down the field either but they kept handing off.
If this were a one week occurence that'd be one thing. Let's reference last week. Trent Edwards, on a windy day, with a groin injury bad enough to sit for a game and a half minimum threw the ball 21 times in the 1st half. Lynch carried the ball 16 times the whole game and was averaging 8.4 yards per carry, not exactly pounding your head into a wall. What's the excuse there?
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first and goal at the three.... LETS THROW A FADE! YAY
TO THE SHORT GUY!
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I'm aware of those two things...but it's not happening... Those are two rare occurrences: Parcells, and Favre.
Our only hope is to emulate the happening in Atlanta...But even that is a stretch.
The 2006 Jets was Mangini, not Favre and Parcells isn't coaching in Miami, Sparano is.
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Honestly, unless you can prove me personnel changes can bring immediate results, I say !@#$ it...we're stuck with this team and coach, and I would rather give Jauron another go before we get another unproven sack of sh*t to re-!@#$ up the whole system.
I know that won't happen. Actually I think I said so in the post.
Re: personnel changes making a big difference in year one see also:
Miami Dolphins 1-15 to 8-5 and tied for 1st in the division. They brought in a retread QB and a new staff. That's about it.
2006 New York Jets - 4-12 to 10-6 with playoffs.
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Brett Farve had Barry Sanders, Mark Chumara, Robert brooks and Antonia Freeman-Sorry dude proved my point!!!
Favre's RB was Dorsey Levens, a nice player but certainly not a HoF player. He also had an old Andre Rison and Antonio Freeman. Mark Chmura wasn't on the Super Bowl team. The point was yes, those were nice players but he wasn't on a stacked team. He made them better, not vice versa. Hell, this year Favre has Laveraneus Coles, Jerricho Cotchery and Thomas Jones. That's not setting the world ablaze with talent.
Re: Elway, you named one RB. I'll give you two more. Sammy Winder and Bobby Humphrey. He took Sammy Winder to 3 Super Bowls. At no point will you see his bust in Canton.
3 of Marino's RBs were Sammie Smith, Terry Kirby, and Keith Byars. Not a world beater among them yet Danny boy managaed to show you he was a pretty decent QB.
The QB who I think best makes YOUR argument is Troy Aikman. He had Emmit Smith, Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek and the best offensive line in football. Without those guys I don't know if Aikman is a HoF QB. With them he was.
Right now our skill players aren't terrible. Evans is a decent WR, Lynch is a good RB, if we could use Parrish better he's a dynamic player. It's not like we have Booker Moore, Perry Tuttle and Tony Richardson out there on offense.
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Which NFL team could you see yourself becoming a fan of, and why?
I agree that football would be dead to me. I have thought about this a lot recently and I just can't make myself care about any other team. I'm really not even sure I could watch it anymore.
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Ultimately your ideal coaching scheme would cost way too much for Ralph, and would result in some serious leadership confliction after one or two losses.
I disagree entirely. I believe what you need today is to have an offensive HC and a defensive HC with the HC playing the CEO role of oversight, stratetigic planning, acquisitions and motivation. So long as the HC you put in has a strong personality there's nothing wrong with having strong leaders as your subordinates. Actually it points to a poor leader who is uncomfortable having strong subordinates. He who must be the smartest, most powerful man in the room will ultimately hire those whom he can dominate and control, not those who will lead and innovate. We all kvetch now because we waste time outs to make decisions. hire stronger cooridnators who don't have to defer to make a decision. Decision making is more crisp and the players know from where the call will be made. They don't have that deer in the headlights look when the OC suddenly turn to the HC to make the key decision as the play clock is ticking down. A good HC made the decision befor he previous play was over and the coordinators knew what they were going to do in advance. You ever see Parcells have that befuddled look? He wasn't always right, but he was decisive. decisiveness breeds confidence. The offense hears go for it on 4th and 1 and the play comes right in it tells them, hey we got this go get it done. If you hem and haw and call timeout you tell the offense, i'm not sure you got this, let me think about it.
Furthermore, you need to grow a QB who isn't beholdant unto the OC all the time. How many time have we watched the BIlls have a close play only to dawdle, give the opposition time to look at it and challenge successfully. I watch Roethlisberger get everyone up to the line, call a play, run it, and gain yards before TV could sho a replay after whatw as probably a drop. You have to build that into a player. if you make everythign "check with me" you create children who require instruction, not men who can take actions. That, in a nutshell, is our biggest problem.
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Name 3 running backs who played behind Dan Marino.
How about John Elway?
Who were the WRs that Brett Favre took to the Super Bowl? Any HoFers? Who was his Rb that day? Barry Sanders?
It is true that mediocre QBs can be made to look good with excellent personnell it is false that one cannot see the talent unless it is surrounded by talent.
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I would love to throw Rex Ryan in there, I do not think he gets enough credit, he's making a guy like Jim Leonhard look good
I dunno if I want Rex or Rob Ryan as a HC though. DC is their niche and they are very successful, kinda like Buddy. Great DC, sucky HC. Now if I could get Rex as HC and Rob as DC I'd be all for that because I think we might kill every QB in the league but Emperor Palpitain, err, Al Davis won't let that happen because he won't fire Rob and DC to Dc is a lateral move which he can block.
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Since 1960 Ralph Wilson has managed to hire 3 good head coaches. Coincidentally, the Pittsburgh Steelers have also had 3 good coaches in that span. The difference is that Pittsburgh has had a total of 6 coaches in that span, 3 since 1969 and the Bills have had 16, 12 since 1969. Of the three good coaches Wilson hired 1 quit on Wilson twice because he was sick of his crap (Saban), one quit on Wilson because he refused to spend any money (Knox) and he lucked into the third because his current terrible GM Terry Bledsoe was good enough to die on the job. When Bledsoe died Polian was promoted. Polian made a job title for an unemployed Marv Levy. Thus, Levy happened to be there when Hank Bullough became Hank Bullough and happened to be available to take the reigns. It wasn't as though there was a job search wherein Levy was chosen. He just was in the building at the time and that's a credit to Polian not to RW.
If Terry Bledsoe doesn't die, it's possible that Polian gets hired and promoted by another team, Levy is never hired, and Bullough is succeded by someone like secondary coach...wait for it...Dick Jauron!
The Steelers are a good team because they have good ownership who is able to spot talent both on the field and in the coaching box. Our team stinks because our owner can't do that but thinks he can. We can blame players and coaches and GMs all day long. At the end, it all has to point back to the man who has been here through it all and has pulled all the strings.
Ralph Wilson.
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Head Coach - Josh McDaniel: current OC New England
Why? McDaniel has taken a New England offense that has lost Lawrence Maroney, Tom Brady, Lamont Jordan, Sammy Morris for most of the year, and kept them productive despite being given a QB in Cassel that hadn't started a game since high school and a beaten up offensive line. Talent wise, New England's offense is not more talented than ours. They are better prepared and have a much better plan of what they will do to a defense week to week. We bemoan the fact that we can't get the ball to our WRs because they are too small, etc. Wes Welker leads the league in receptions because Mr. McDaniel understands how to make a concerted effort to get somebody the football.
Choice #2
Steve Spagnolo - DC New York Giants. Do I need to explain this one?
Defensive Coordinator - Mike Nolan: Former DC Baltimore Ravens and former HC San Francisco
As a HC he was mediocre at best and struggled to find a QB. As a DC there was no mistaking his talent. His schemes are aggressive and he will get to the QB. He's used to having to coach defense with no offense on the field from his days in Baltimore. No margin for error
Choice #2 - Romeo Crennel: Current HC Cleveland Browns. Another terrible HC who was a very good DC.
Offensive Coordinator - Russ Grimm: Offensive Line Coach, Arizona Cardinals
Russ has been a candidate for multiple HC positions including the Bears and Steelers. He's been the architect of the renaissance of the AZ Cardinals O-line. They have gone from a sieve to playoff caliber in short order. My primary reasons for choosing Grimm is, you know he will run the football. I do not trust a former QB to run an offense. In football as in life, when push comes to shove and the chips are down you will do what you are most comfortable doing. QBs want to pass when the game is on the line, they want to have the control and the ball in their hand. O-Lineman want to run. They hate pass blocking in general and would much rather beat a defense to death than throw 50 times. Russ Grimm would bring a power offense back to Buffalo that can win close games and play in bad weather which is something we lack entirely right now. It would also protect Nolan's defense by keeping them off the field. I also have faith that Grimm can bring a good O-line coach with him
Sadly, none of this will come to pass as all of these gentlemen will be tremendously expensive. Most liklely we see year four of Skeletor, possibly with another, uninspired, choice of OC. Fewell hans't been awful and the defense tries hard. I just believe that his fundamental premise is flawed. Unless you have a GREAT offense, your defense needs to make plays for you in the way of sacks and turnovers. Otherwise it becomes death by 1000 cuts. I also don't believe that a small fast defense can survive a season. That has born itself out in the number of injuries we see from the pounding the littler guys take. Ideally I'd like to see a 3-4 back here because I think the biggest problem the 4-3 has is getting good DTs. You need to find 2 (which really means 4) that are big and fast. These are probably the hardest things to find because there just aren't that many humans who are built that way. In a 3-4 you only need to find one (2 for depth) huge guys to take up space and they don't really need to run or be all that quick. Be huge, be strong, don't allow yourself to be moved. At LB it's always much easier to find an undersized college DE with pass rush skills to play OLB than an actual OLB with prototypical OLB measurables. What you find more is the beefed up safety types like Ellison. Equally, it's harder to find the big MLB that can still run like Patrick Willis, it's much easier to find 2 guys like Poz. You can get them later in the draft and they are cheaper.
Our current personel wouldn't be that hard to flip to a 3-4. Honestly, Kelsay and Denney are 3-4 ends already. They give good effort, take up space but aren't dynamic pass rushers. Stroud really isn't a NT but he could play 3-4 end as well. At LB we have Poz for ILB and Mitchell at OLB. There are plenty of guys like Chris Gocong out there who can rush the passer but aren't given the opportunity to in their current scheme. You can get them for a song and say go kill QBs. As I said, it's also much easier to find a smallish DE in the draft that you can teach to stand up. There are also colleg LBs every year that don't run the ideal number but are insane and will run through a wall for you and are perfect for ILB in a 3-4. This year think of James Laurinaitis. He's a player but he's not really fast enough to play OLB in a 4-3 and he's too small for MLB. Put him inside next to Poz and RBs beware. The secondary is relatively unaffected either way. We need a better FS and more heat from the front 7 will help the CBs. So, the way I see it if we can get a NT, an ILB and a pass rushing OLB we can do this next season. As it is we're shopping for an OLB and DL anyway. It's just a matter of which type of guys we pick.
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For the record, Josh Reed has returned a total of 1 NFL punt, in 2004. He gained 7 yards.
McKelvin has already retuend twice as many punts for almost 4 times as much yardage.
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josh reed will return a punt this week
Barring injuries to both McKelvin AND Jackson I seriously seriously doubt that. Plus, how do you pose a question about who is returning punts and then proceed to tell me who will return a punt?
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yea but mcgee might play, what about mckelvin
McGee doesn't run back punts anyway, only kicks. Parrish is definetly out so Jackson and McKelvin will likely continue to split. Stop trolling for fantasy help and do actual research.
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I can give you a definitive "sometimes" response. No obvious rhyme or reason to it though
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amount of seats for $68 (these seats won't have a view of the video board), and I was able to grab a couple of them.
I went to a Jays game some years ago and got "Obstructed view" seats where the person at the ticket booth said you can't see the video board. Not only couldn't you see that, you couldn't see center field or second base at all and I couldn't see more than 50' of left field as they were literally behind a concrete wall or underneath you with an angle wherein you'd need to look through the floor. To top it off home plate was obscured by THE LIGHTS! I was sitting behind the lights for god's sake. If there were ever Bob Uecker seats these were they. I hope you didn't get them buddy because I'm sure they were sold.
I sat near the top of section 510. I looked at the seating chart and those are the tickets for football that were marked $68 so you'll be lucky to see half the field depending how close you are to the hotel and the roof (behind the lights) Those seats are so bad you can sit there for "Value" baseball games for $2. The big problem is it'sot an obstruction like a pole that you can mauever around it is literally a huge concrete wall of the hotel.
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Thousands of people just stopped bathing in celebration...
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I wonder what the oddsmakers are thinking. The Cardinals are favored over the Bills by 1/2 a point -- a virtual pick 'em game.
Why do they think the Cactus Wrens will keep it that close? Is it the fact that McGee is out and the Bills may have a rookie covering one of their best WRs?
Assuming that Boldin's sinus fracture allows him to play and that he's not leaking cranial fluid after getting knocked the f out the other day, otherwise enter steve breaston vs. youboty and mckelvin on the new #3 guy and a negated advantage
If Boldin does play someone needs to hit him hard and early. I'm sorry there are very few people in the world who can have something like that happen and go fearlessly back into the belly of the beast 7 days later. Last week you could see how Green was gunshy when he SAW the pressure coming. Every time he saw the pressure he chucked and ducked, if it was blidside he was relatively unaffected. Mr. Whitner should introduce himself early and see if Anquan remembers he's really just a crappy QB who can catch.
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Simple question...
If this team led by Trent Edwards is the one that finally brings a Super Bowl victory to Buffalo, where would it rank vs. the teams of the early 90's? I've been pondering this a great deal over the past couple of days and I must admit I'm not entirely sure. On one hand they would be the only Bills team to do it. In theory that should earn them the title of greatest Bills team ever. But on the other hand, there's a part of me that feels like no matter what this present or future Bills teams may accomplish, I'm always going to hold those early 90's teams in the highest regard. Or perhaps some of the more "mature" fans among us, hold the AFL Championship teams above the rest? Please discuss... what say you?
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I like this line from one post....
Kurt will not suck next week he will continue being the qb that almost led 6 consecutive TD drives in the second half.
How many consecutive TD drives is it if you count the ones where he kick started the Jets offense or just gave them a direct pick 6?
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I watched until they got to the Super Bowl. I can't do it. The 11 year old boy deep in my psyche is still crying.
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