simpleman Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 A complete football team is not just composed of players. In order to build a winning team you need the right players, the right coaches, and the right Front Office. Fall short in any group and you will not have a consistently competitive team. Players: You need players with the right physical and mental skills that mesh with the skills of the other players on the team to create a winning team. The players need more than the right skills, it is critical that they have the drive and ability to do anything and everything they need to do to develop and use those skills to be part of a winning team. Coaches: You need a coaching staff that is able to teach, guide and motivate the players to give 100%, 100% of the time during the game. They need the knowledge and the ability to develop the right schemes and the plays to maximize the skills and abilities of the players to defeat their opponent. And the ability to be flexible and quickly adapt those schemes and plays to counteract those of the opposing coaches and the outstanding plays of opposing players during a game. The coaches must be able to prepare their players physically and mentally so that they are able to play at their highest level in every quarter of the game. They must design a system that puts each player in the right position to succeed. That means not fitting a round peg in a square hole. If the player does not fit the hole required, they inform the front office so that the right player is acquired to fit the right hole. Front Office: You need a Front Office which has the ability to find and acquire the right players whose skills are complementary, and can mesh to become a complete and balanced winning team. They need to find and assemble the right coaching staff who can work together with the FO and the other coaches to teach, guide and motivate the players. The FO must have the means and the flexibility to acquire and release players and coaches quickly when it is determined they are holding the team back from winning, which is the ultimate goal of the team on the field. The Front Office must also be able to properly balance the goal of the team to win with the goal of the business to make a reasonable profit. Win or Lose this weekend, we have to judge the team on all three parts of the team and decide where the strengths and the weaknesses reside. When assigning blame, we have to ask ourselves what each part of the whole team holds responsibility for it. It is not just players that win or loose games, it is the responsibility of every part of the team to do their job right. Whatever the result today, please try to keep this in mind when you single out that one hero or scapegoat. Winning takes more than just one person. Football is a team sport! What are the overall strengths and weakness of the Buffalo Bills? Where did the team succeed? And where did it fail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 When after all of this you still can't win and don't know why, see Brady/Peyton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) Everyone that's been following this team since their '90s Polian-era success knows, unless they're blind, that the front office on this team sucks. It's built around friends and familiar faces instead of people that have been proven to get the job done. Your initial post is correct, but when we have a front office that hires people like Marrone, who then in turn hires coordinators like Hackett (a familiar friendly face) along w/ others from SU, and Pettine, who turned the Jets D from a 1st ranked scoring D into a 20th one, now having us, with better talent than the Jets had last season arguably, a 24th ranked scoring D, then it's a problem. On top of that when Marrone then "has to have his guy" Manuel and after Manuel plays like he has, then it's clearly indicative of poor decisions all the way around, which then naturally and logically lead to questioning whether or not Marrone & Co. actually know what they're doing. Again, anyone that's been following this team knows that the front office needs a complete house cleaning, but who's going to do that? Brandon? Please. Wilson's got one foot in the can and I can only imagine that he's running at a fraction of full mental clarity. So nothing's going to change until he kicks. In the meantime, the cat's out of the bag on this ridiculous notion that Wilson did whatever he could to keep the team in Buffalo, which makes him a liar. So in essence we're sitting here waiting for Wilson to croak, and then to see who buys the team and what their intentions and pre-purchase arrangements are/were just to see if we'll still have a team at that point. If we do, if the new owners don't get rid of the front office wholesale, then we're in for more of the same. Once again, in 34 seasons not directly influenced by Polian the Bills have made the playoffs in only 7 seasons, of 36 now counting this season already, so that's making the playoffs less than 20% of the time. In those 7 playoff seasons, besides 4 having been with residual Polian talent, we've won only two playoff games. So in essence, when Polian hasn't been here, we've won 2 playoff games in 36 other seasons. Two (2), in 36 seasons otherwise! Is there a more futile franchise? Wilson has clearly had a hand, particularly "back when." It's beyond the pale to consider that Wilson then fired Polian in the middle of a Super Bowl appearance streak. I mean who TF does that? Hopefully the new owner(s), first of all keep the team here, but second of all have the sense that God gave a retarded monkey to clean house in the front office and hire some people that can get the job done. In the meantime, expecting things to change fits right in with the anecdotal definition for insanity, doing the same thing(s) over and over and expecting different results. Teams absolutely need a good QB in this modern era of passing favoritized NFL rules, but right now Manuel is already starting to look like another swing and a miss. 2 playoff wins in 36 non-Polian seasons. Edited November 17, 2013 by TaskersGhost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris heff Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Everyone that's been following this team since their '90s Polian-era success knows, unless they're blind, that the front office on this team sucks. It's built around friends and familiar faces instead of people that have been proven to get the job done. Your initial post is correct, but when we have a front office that hires people like Marrone, who then in turn hires coordinators like Hackett (a familiar friendly face) along w/ others from SU, and Pettine, who turned the Jets D from a 1st ranked scoring D into a 20th one, now having us, with better talent than the Jets had last season arguably, a 24th ranked scoring D, then it's a problem. On top of that when Marrone then "has to have his guy" Manuel and after Manuel plays like he has, then it's clearly indicative of poor decisions all the way around, which then naturally and logically lead to questioning whether or not Marrone & Co. actually know what they're doing. Again, anyone that's been following this team knows that the front office needs a complete house cleaning, but who's going to do that? Brandon? Please. Wilson's got one foot in the can and I can only imagine that he's running at a fraction of full mental clarity. So nothing's going to change until he kicks. In the meantime, the cat's out of the bag on this ridiculous notion that Wilson did whatever he could to keep the team in Buffalo, which makes him a liar. So in essence we're sitting here waiting for Wilson to croak, and then to see who buys the team and what their intentions and pre-purchase arrangements are/were just to see if we'll still have a team at that point. If we do, if the new owners don't get rid of the front office wholesale, then we're in for more of the same. Once again, in 34 seasons not directly influenced by Polian the Bills have made the playoffs in only 7 seasons, of 36 now counting this season already, so that's making the playoffs less than 20% of the time. In those 7 playoff seasons, besides 4 having been with residual Polian talent, we've won only two playoff games. So in essence, when Polian hasn't been here, we've won 2 playoff games in 36 other seasons. Two (2), in 36 seasons otherwise! Is there a more futile franchise? Wilson has clearly had a hand, particularly "back when." It's beyond the pale to consider that Wilson then fired Polian in the middle of a Super Bowl appearance streak. I mean who TF does that? Hopefully the new owner(s), first of all keep the team here, but second of all have the sense that God gave a retarded monkey to clean house in the front office and hire some people that can get the job done. In the meantime, expecting things to change fits right in with the anecdotal definition for insanity, doing the same thing(s) over and over and expecting different results. Teams absolutely need a good QB in this modern era of passing favoritized NFL rules, but right now Manuel is already starting to look like another swing and a miss. 2 playoff wins in 36 non-Polian seasons. Then based on your assessment, being a fan of this team and or bothering to come to this web site would be the "anecdotal definition for insanity". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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