DarthICE Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 1. Remove Brandon as GM and hire a guy with a lot of NFL success in the draft.2. Clean house and hire a new HC with a new coaching staff. So people get that and then continue to biotch. Is there anyone out there who wanted that and that is happy now? I know I am. They don't need to sign FA's they need to draft well and I trust they can do that, especially after last years draft. There are too many people who will never be happy unless the Bills win the SB every year and that's just not gonna happen. People wanted a new direction and now they have it, but many think they could do better after 3 months. If they won the superbowl people will still B word. I have found most bills fans to be the most miserable people on the planet.
BobChalmers Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 I disagree on Gailey. I believe that he has a track record of every team he's been with improving after he leaves. With as bad as Juaron and Co. were, I actually feel that the new staff is a downgrade. Your beliefs and a feelings notwithstanding, his one NFL HC experience is a documented fact. Cowboys immediately before Gailey became HC: 6-10 remnants of the aging super-bowl teams Cowboys with Gailey as HC: 10-6, 8-8 Cowboys immediately after Gailey was let go: 5-11, 5-11, 5-11 - three straight seasons of worse records than even Bills fans have had to suffer recently. That's not opinion - except for the part about Aikman/Smith/Irivin getting old - it's fact. His one chance at being an NFL HC his team did much better then before or after. He gets grief about mediocrity as the HC at Georgia Tech. Maybe he's not a strong recruiter - fortunately that's not part of his job here. That they hated him for never beating Georgia is comical - GT has rarely beaten Georgia.
CountDorkula Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 I'm not quitting anything. That's not my nature. But anyone who doesn't know (regardless of what happens in the draft) that this team is destined for 4th place in the AFCE is beyond help. I was just keeding, i know they wont be so good next year either, but right now they are my pre-season pick to win teh super bowl, just like they are every year. Ignorence IS bliss
QB Bills Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 FAIL POST Were you complaining about Dockery coming in? Was he cheap?? Did you see how he played when here? Do you understand the DC fans are thrilled to have him back and view him as their top OL? Was signing Walker the same year cheap too? Wilson wants them to win. He's tried a few different approaches (respected outside expert Donoschmoe, old friend Levy). Now he's hired Nix who is something in between - hopefully the best of both worlds - a guy with a good pedigree of success who earned some trust spending one season inside the organization last year. What "proven winner" HC are you referring to? Shanahan and Cower were offered plenty of money by all accounts. They didn't want to live in Buffalo. Ralph isn't responsible for the community, he is responsible for being willing to make less money than he could be by keeping them in Buffalo. Gailey is a proven winner - just not a big name the talking morons on TV were going to hype for you. Rather than count on them for facts, I looked them up myself. Gailey makes his teams better, nearly every time. He had one stint as an NFL HC and his team was much better with him for two years than the periods before and after. I can think of no better measure of an HC's impact, and see no reason why he can't be expected to do the same here. Ralph's doing what he can to win. If you want to complain that he blew it 20 years ago losing his temper and letting Polian and Butler go, fine. Since then, sticking with Jauron, bringing in Levy and Donohoe, changing the uniform colors - those were mistakes, but I don't see any reasonable proof they weren't well meaning mistakes. I wouldn't trade Ralph for Dan Snyder in a hundred years - and Danny boy down here in DC is all you need to know that spending money is no cure for anything in the NFL. Where did you read that? I remember reading somewhere that he was as $hitty there as he was here.
Meark Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 I agree on Wilson. I actually think that he had good intentions with both Phil Donahue and Marv Levy. He did open his checkbook for Marv's FA's. Marv just completely dropped the ball on personnel and player selections. I disagree on Gailey. I believe that he has a track record of every team he's been with improving after he leaves. With as bad as Juaron and Co. were, I actually feel that the new staff is a downgrade. Phil Donahue?
first_and_ten Posted March 10, 2010 Posted March 10, 2010 Phil Donahue? He meant Tom...Phil is Tom's brother
Steely Dan Posted March 17, 2010 Author Posted March 17, 2010 You are close too, but it is actually these things that most fans want:1. Hire a PROVEN WINNER as a head coach, not someone who comes cheap. 2. Hire a GM who has been a GM, and has a track record of success as a GM, not as someone's assistant-assistants don't make decisions-they assist! 3. Sign a few free agents who are quality players, not necessarily the big time money players, but not below average players with history of injury, not only on the down side of their careers but almost to the bottom of that side of the hill, maybe a little history of experiencing winning would help too. In other words, don't base your free agent signings on who is the cheapest-go for quality once in awhile. Don't make one move a year, for the sole reason of selling tickets (see T.O. last season). 4. Show some respect to the owner when some respect for something he has done in the last 20 years warrants it. When he shows some respect to the fans who put their hard earned money into tickets, memorabilia, jerseys, etc. by trying to put a winner on the field and not more cash in his wallet, then in turn show respect back to him. Show some respect to him when he quits assuming that Bills fans are stupid and will continue to fill the stadium for a terrible product. 5. Bottom line is, for over a decade, tons of Bills (including myself) have went into training camp with optimism that this is the year it will turn around. This is the year that the team puts it together for Ralph, he deserves it. Well, after this long, now it is time for Ralphy and the boys to give us a reason to be optimistic after years and years of false hope. When they show me that things are turned around for real, and not just because they hired a new coach and GM, how many times over the past decade or more have they done that, with no changes in result, my optimism will return. I will always be a die hard Bills fan, but that doesn't mean I can't live in the real world, and not be a sucker for every little, and I mean little, move Ralph makes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAhbvTBWfc FAIL POST Were you complaining about Dockery coming in? Was he cheap?? Did you see how he played when here? Do you understand the DC fans are thrilled to have him back and view him as their top OL? Was signing Walker the same year cheap too? Wilson wants them to win. He's tried a few different approaches (respected outside expert Donoschmoe, old friend Levy). Now he's hired Nix who is something in between - hopefully the best of both worlds - a guy with a good pedigree of success who earned some trust spending one season inside the organization last year. What "proven winner" HC are you referring to? Shanahan and Cower were offered plenty of money by all accounts. They didn't want to live in Buffalo. Ralph isn't responsible for the community, he is responsible for being willing to make less money than he could be by keeping them in Buffalo. Gailey is a proven winner - just not a big name the talking morons on TV were going to hype for you. Rather than count on them for facts, I looked them up myself. Gailey makes his teams better, nearly every time. He had one stint as an NFL HC and his team was much better with him for two years than the periods before and after. I can think of no better measure of an HC's impact, and see no reason why he can't be expected to do the same here. Ralph's doing what he can to win. If you want to complain that he blew it 20 years ago losing his temper and letting Polian and Butler go, fine. Since then, sticking with Jauron, bringing in Levy and Donohoe, changing the uniform colors - those were mistakes, but I don't see any reasonable proof they weren't well meaning mistakes. I wouldn't trade Ralph for Dan Snyder in a hundred years - and Danny boy down here in DC is all you need to know that spending money is no cure for anything in the NFL. Now that, after 15 days of FA are over and the Bills have signed 3 is anybody any happier.
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