Big Bills Fan Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Unless they can bring in a proven coach, Dick is our best option for next season, as scary as that is. I would like to see some consideration to Casserly and Reese on the GM side and Schottenheimer as a coach. Haslett is too undisciplined as are his teams in general. Cowher unfortunately will never come to Buffalo considering our unwillingness to spend the money to make it happen, although with our front office structure, it would actually work well to have a head coach who is willing and able to be GM and coach. We are not in a position to bring in another rookie coach ala Mike Smith or Sparano. Williams and Mularkey burned us and set us back in terms of giving a rookie coach a chance. Again, I don't necessarily want to suffer for another year, but realistically, we were still a draft or two away before the start of this season. Trent could use another year of seasoning with an experienced back up who is willing to mentor. Stock up on the lines and linebacker in this next draft and I think that one more year is reasonable for un-tricky Dick. -BBF and resident realist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsVet Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 Unless they can bring in a proven coach, Dick is our best option for next season, as scary as that is. I would like to see some consideration to Casserly and Reese on the GM side and Schottenheimer as a coach. Floyd Reese has been trying to get GM jobs in Cleveland and before in Detroit these past few weeks. He's not the guy I want heading this organization from a football perspective. I don't want anything to do with him. The question remains: Just who would want to work for a 90 year old owner who doesn't seem to care anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. K Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Jauron is like an elementary school teacher... Nice, friendly, teaches you the ABC's, and a couple words, the worst he can do is give you a shameful look. His players know the rules and used to always show up to play... Unfortunately the rest of the NFL is coached by PhD academics cramming something new and different in your face every week. This league is way to competitive for a slow reacting, emotionless, nice guy. I respect him as a man. The fact is our team actually has some talent & we've lost to many teams that have less talent than we do. Jauron and his coaches think the answer to their problem is to work hard at doing what they are good at, so as to do it better. The problem is every other team(& fan) knows what you are trying to be good at, expects it, and developed a way to stop it while you were still in Chicago. If we don't win a game in our division this year that is a clear indication of how far below average our coaching is. Division games are the most influential games for the coaches impact. Finally a team takes on the personality and identity of its leaders... Head Coach, Front office, Owner. Our franchise has no identity, other than heartbreak, & I am not emotionless as I watch this team. We went 4-2 in the division last year, he best record the Bills have had in the division since Wade Phillips was coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. K Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 As I said in a previous post, just because TD didn't work out doesn't mean you don't attempt it again. Every team in the NFL has someone handling pro personnel and amateur scouting. And every team except one has someone with a football operations experience overseeing them. The lone exception is the Buffalo Bills. To think Russ Brandon is going to guide this front office and get the team to respectability is non-sense. I'm sure RB would tell you it's not his cup of tea. I say make RW makes RB president, leaving him to hire a GM. At that point, the new GM hires a coach, with consultation from above. I don't think that's unreasonable. For every TD there's a guy like Tom Dimitroff who did great things this off-season He hired Mike Smith, drafted well, and retained veterans like Lawyer Milloy, John Abraham, and Keith Brooking. He cleaned the team of guys like Crumpler and Deangelo Hall, but left enough for Smith to work with. He hired Mike Mularkey, too. How would you have reacted if the Bills hired him to run the offense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 mariucci My hope too...He will be the perfect coach for our QB...and the coach also loves Edwards play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 although i'd rather a cower or shotty, i don't think we are the mkt for that kind of coach. given that, i'll take hasslet. i think he is perfect for buffalo. Haslett is another failed coach like Jauron. I would take Mariucci any day if he is available....Ralph needs to make this one final push at getting a good coach who knows how to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 We went 4-2 in the division last year, he best record the Bills have had in the division since Wade Phillips was coach. A reason for that 4-2 is that the Dolphins had a coach who was worse than Jauron and we got 2 easy wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsVet Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 He hired Mike Mularkey, too. How would you have reacted if the Bills hired him to run the offense? Mike Smith hired Mularkey. And so far it's been a good hire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generaLee83 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I too like Jauron. He's a good guy and seems like a decent head coach. I think he relies too much on his assistants though and does not have a grasp for the offense at all. I do think that someone stronger must be brought in as a GM. Let's leave the russ brandon COO foolishness behind the bills. Bring in a strong GM/vp of football operations guy like Cower or someone else and run with that. I'd be ok if jauron were the coach next year, but there has to be a better offensive philosophy and someone to check Jauron in the football department. I know, I know, ralph tried and failed with the donahoe experiment, but there has to be someone to run the football operations who is completely separate from the business side of the operation, and that person must insist that ralph stay out of their way. However, if Jauron must go, then either give the illusion to the fans that ralph cares about winning and bring in a big name like cower for the head coaching position, OR, go with my GM idea and bring in some other patsy head coach to answer to the strong GM. I'm not trying to slam you by any means but how do you know whether or not he relies too much on his coordinators? With no factual basis and just a notion I think the exact opposite, I think that Dick has his hands in both the defensive and offensive playcalling. This offense was completely different before the first Miami game. I think Dick was so worried about Trent that he scaled everything way way back in terms of playcalling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berndogg Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 How can you say Hardy was a great pick? He has hardly seen the field and where he has you can't say he has done much. Perhaps he will develop but he is off to a highly suspect start. McKelvin appears to be coming on but he too has much to prove before you can say he is a pick worth what it cost to get him. The situation with Crowell perhaps could have been handled better. He should have had knee surgury in the offseason. We will never know if that is what the Buffalo medical staff recommended. If they did and he refused then the IR move was not a bad one. Besides, he still has not come to an injury settlement which to me says the problem is worse than anyone thought. Congratulations, you completely missed my point. ON DRAFT DAY most people liked the hardy pick. Its easy to criticize after the fact, but the consensus seemed to be that it was a good pick AT THE TIME, re-read my original statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartacus Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Paul Pasqualloni might make a good candidate for head coach. He's been a successful head coach in college and has been building his resume in the nfl, under Bill Parcells (in Dallas, Miami) He's probably learned a thing or two from working in a proven, successful system. He did such a fine job at Syracuse that they now play at a Div 2 level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartacus Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Congratulations, you completely missed my point. ON DRAFT DAY most people liked the hardy pick. Its easy to criticize after the fact, but the consensus seemed to be that it was a good pick AT THE TIME, re-read my original statement The pick sucked then and it sucks now. They need to build the trenches not take flier picks on a guy because he is tall - but has no other attributes needed to play the posiiton - brains being the biggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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