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If the babe in your avatar starts going next year, I might reconsider my cancellations.

Our group has decided not to renew at least four of our six season seats for next year. Had 'em for over 20 years. I've talked to a number of guys in our section who are planning on the same. They're serious...look them in the eye and you know, it's over. We won't be made fools of. I can't even express my sadness right now.

Amen. The man has to go.

I think the OP's point has some validity. Why else is the importance always stressed of having players on your roster with playoff / Super Bowl experience?

Heh heh, I like this comment: "Yeah Willis. Please do it for you. Have an awesome game on Sunday so we can find someone we can trade your stupid ass to so we can go and get Fred Jackson from Buffalo. Frigging idiot. Why now?" Yeah, you can have Freddie, B-more fan...when the Chesapeake freezes over.

Bring in Marty, then we party!

Exactly, if, as I suspect, ieatcrayonz has been advising them all along.

It's a big decision either way. I'm glad they're taking a thorough, deliberate approach; but I'll be very disappointed if Jauron stays with the team, even in another capacity.

I'll watch, just not from my frozen aluminum perch at the Ralph. Our group has emailed the ticket office to let them know that if Dick Jauron is retained as head coach, we will not be renewing our six season seats after 20+ years. Wonder how western New Yorkers will feel about this team if many of the games are blacked out next year?

This is the usual pattern, I agree. I've seen it many times before. But things feel very different this time around...the mood was very apparent and palpable. Coupled with a bad economy I'd say 1000 is way too low. Guess we'll see.

We've got six we will not be renewing if Jauron remains as HC, and we're twenty-one years strong...the coaching is just killing us. Shook hands goodbye with other friends / longtime STH in our section at the end of the game yesterday who told us the same. We've joked about it before, but this time it's really serious. My rough guess is it translates into 10,000 non-renewals minimum. Believe me, they know at OBD, since they have the results of a recent questionnaire. Not exactly sure, but I don't think I'll be assuaged much if Jauron is booted upstairs. I think we need to make a clean break and send him packing. We don't need his play-not-to-lose philosophy filtering down to the team in any way. Rather, we desperately need a HC with a win-at-all-costs attitude.

"But Jauron was content to go to halftime with a 3-3 tie. That's the most troubling thing, even more than the brutal clock management or the poor communication. In the final game of the season, with nothing to lose, with a chance to let it all hang out, Jauron wasn't thinking touchdown. He was reaching for the low standard, just like his owner." - Jerry Sullivan I just want to strangle Dick Jauron so bad.

I agree completely. And our new head coach, whoever he is, better be one who fully appreciates and supports the good thing we've got going here on special teams.

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For sure, it's why after so many years this team still doesn't have an identity. "We're going to have a lot more communication between the top people...one man's not going to be calling the shots." - Ralph Wilson A horse designed by a committee is a camel. A football team designed by a committee is the Bills.

Seems to me there's a lot of folks in the biz that know talent when they see it. Guys like Polian are extra special because they know what to do with it. Fitting the individual talents of 53 men into the concept you have for a winning team whole is something we just haven't been able to do with much success since he left. Besides talent you have to understand and factor in personality, drive, motivation, team chemistry, your market, playing environment, division/conference competition and so much more. Got to be able to pick the right coaches as well. I doubt we'll see his like again.

Last week I swore I was gonna give away my final ticket of the year to some idiot who could sit out in this weather and watch yet another heartbreaking loss. But after yesterday I'm back on the bandwagon. Damn. Every time I nearly get free they pull me back in. You see how it works? See why Ralph can laugh after games? When we beat the Pattycakes* this week we'll all be high-fiving each other and be delerious for awhile. We'll carry the memory of a strong, promising season finish into the new year, make some good free agent signings, have a great draft, and speculate how this will be the year. The more things change the more they stay the same.

See, this is the crux of the matter. No play call is 100% right or wrong in every situation, but when the game is on the line, a good coach knows the right call because he feels it in his gut. He is into the flow of the game and does not arrive at his decision analytically. Year after year now we've seen Jauron the Yale boy stuck in his head and tripping over himself, making the wrong decision at crunch time. Hey, nobody gets all those calls right, but have you ever seen ANYONE so consistently get them WRONG at the most critical times as Jauron?

I agree. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that a good head coach would have found a way to secure at least two additional victories this year. In the end that may not have been enough (to reach the playoffs), but at least it would have made watching Bills football between Thanksgiving and New Year's a lot more fun. Another year at the NFL banquet table and we're left with only crumbs.

Nah, she's dead. She might appeal to Jauron, though.

I haven't heard the exact statement, but blaming the late arriving crowd would be like blaming sun glare for your car accident because it made it really hard to read the text on your cell phone screen. I was in "line" at about 7:15, which is to say I was at the back of the crowd, right at the crest of the hill that rises up from the parking areas. It took about 45 minutes to go from there to the barricade, and another 20 minutes or so to get through the turnstiles and to my seat. Now, things were moving ok, although very slow, up until about 7:45 when it began to get increasingly chaotic and ugly. I would guess the barricade was breached a little after 8:00, maybe 8:15 (I wasn't watching the time at that point). So, yes, I guess the breaking point was reached as it neared game time and large numbers of late arriving fans (partying or otherwise) began to realize they were probably going to miss part of the first quarter. But the entry procedure the Bills had put in place threw fuel on that fire. It was ineffectual and incompetent, confusing and dangerous. The added irony here, is that the whole pat-down security procedure was sped up to the point of absurdity. To get everyone through the checkpoints faster, the checkers simply went through the motions with hundreds of fans. One quick pat-or-none-and through you went. In addition, I noticed they were hardly concentrating on their jobs at hand, anyway. They had one eye on the mob the whole time. I plainly saw fear on their faces as they worried about their own safety. Nothing more frightening than an out of control mob!

You may be right, but I have to believe there were many others who called or emailed today, and the combined weight of those messages were heard. Anyway I'll try to get through to Guest Services tomorrow and see what they say.

Ummm.........no, not a one. Well, as the ad slogan says, it really is a whole different game when you're there.

Agree 100%. Especially head-scratching considering the nice pass to Royal was in big part why we got down in fg range to begin with.