BillsVet Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 As bad as Ralph is as owner, Mike Brown makes him look great. Can anyone here imagine Ralphie being the GM as well? Mike Brown is, as Stuck in Cincy knows. The Bills are a mess, but maybe having Russ Brandon as GM isn't worse the Cincinnati. Isn't it funny how teams with bad owners can't win anymore? Al Davis in Oakland. Mike Brown in Cincinnait. Ford's in Detroit. Wilson in Buffalo. Heck, even the Bidwell's in Arizona are at least going to the playoffs in the joke that is the NFCW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Is Brown gonna fire Lewis this season, or is he too cheap to? No firing. Lewis started out ok. The club is again in the midst of an injury run - 16 on IR, 5 waived off of IR. 7 starters on IR, plus only 2 games by QB Palmer so far. Most of their top 3 picks for 3 years out for good on injury or poor lifestyle choices. Brown goes for what he thinks is a talent bargain, and doesn't see why other teams passed on that bargain. Brown has only 1 full-time scout. Brown is owner, president and GM - the management staff is his relatives and friends. That's today's socialist NFL. I chuckle when folks feel that non-attendance will change the mind of one of the Gang of 32. Kinda like MLB - the PGH Pirates are an example...the revenue sharing insures that actually trying to win is optional. Sports clubs don't operate as normal businesses have to. In a normal business situation...often free (taxpayer provided) place of business, no need to actually offer a good product. Lewis is no better than fair. Very smarmy, condescending press conferences. He's poor on gameday decisions. Nowadays he's part of the "Brown Collective", so to speak. He gets 3M per year, and he isn't leaving until 2010. Brown certainly won't eat a contract. OTHO, there is something to be said for a coach not giving a sh*t. The NFL is loaded with players that don't care about the game - it's all about he Benjamins for many. B'gals signed FB (backfield Guard in reality) Jeremi Johnson to the highest FB contract 2 years ago. He was strictly so-so in '07, showed up so overweight at '08 camp that they wouldn't let him practice. When he finally lost some, he busted his knee or some such. Waived off of IR last week. With a pocketful of $$$. If a miracle happened and ownership of an NFL franchise dropped in my lap, I'd put it on the market the next day. I couldn't stand dealing with the many strutting, self-important primadonna personalities that populate much of the rosters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Maybe I am wrong, but I liked MM more than Jauron. MM threw that scumbag receiver off the team (the guy from Pitt. Was his name Edwards?). He stood up to Moulds who by then was a useless, whining malcontent. MM wasn't ready for the prime time mind you, but there was evidence that he was alive. Bring in Marty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you thinking of Charles Johnson or Bobby Shaw? Both guys were ex-Steeler receivers braught in by TD. I think Shaw was they guy who was here when Mularkey was here. Johnson was from the Gregg Williams era IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2003Contenders Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 In a way, MM did get kind of a bum wrap. Recall that the team went 9-7 in his first season and darn near made the playoffs but for the collapse against the Steelers. Much like the Music City Miracle game caused a domino of events, I think that Pittsburgh loss did too. I find it hard to believe that either MM or TD really wanted to get rid of Bledsoe at the end of the season. There were certainly rumors at the time that Ralph was very angry with Bledsoe for the Pittsburgh meltdown and wanted him gone. Who knows? The bottom line is that, regardless of whose decision it was, the idea of handing the job to a very raw JP was foolish. At the very least, they should have let Bledsoe compete for the starting job, which he was willing to do. The Miami collapse that someone alluded to represents another critical em passe. JP was having a career game -- 3 TD passes to Evans. Moulds went into sulk mode, and the bone head interception that allowed the Dolphins to get back into the game pretty much sealed the deal. The critical thing here, though, is that MM wanted to suspend Moulds the league maximum 4 games. It was Ralph (not TD) that stepped in and castrated his head coach by insisting that Moulds only be suspended for 1 game. That is when the players essentially gave up on their head coach. I am not saying that MM was the answer. It is hard to say what would have happened if he had stayed on. The reason he gave for resigning is that he couldn't find competent assistants willing to sign on once Ralph forced him to fire his OC and DC. That, by the way, has always been Ralph's MO for provoking a coach to quit. He did it with Marv. He tried it with Wade. And he tried it with MM. Mularkey went along with the firings, but quit afterward. So, make no mistake about it: Ralph wanted MM gone. If the rumored extension was actually signed by Jauron, and the Bills finish 7-9 or worse, look for Ralph to call for Turk's (and possibly Fewell's) heads. That's how we'll know that he wants to be rid of Jauron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Jauron stays on because mediocrity is the perfect result for Wilson. Big success comes with big time salaries, big raises for coaches, and lots of unwanted attention and controversy that always comes with being in the spotlight. Losing 12 games or more means unwanted media attention to spend more money, lower ticket prices, and deal with bad PR, mass public outcry, and less revenue from merchandise sales. Ralph would love nothing more than to have a smooth, quiet 7-9 every year for the rest of his life - whether we like it or not. yeah but its looking like 6-10 this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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