Heels20X6 Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...mp;sportCat=nfl My personal favorite line was: "Jauron never seems upset, or even to care -- he just jogs off the field, then makes excuses."
DC Tom Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 If I did tweet during games, here's what it would sound like:... • Bills have first-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. • Bills have second-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. ... • Bills have third-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. ... • Bills have fourth-and-goal on Patriots' 1 and punted. It's funny because it's so frickin' believable.
KD in CA Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 • Bills have first-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. • Bills have second-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. • Bills have third-and-goal on Patriots' 1, lined up shotgun, incompletion. • Bills have fourth-and-goal on Patriots' 1 and punted. Of course he should have said FG, but funny nonetheless. As the once-proud Bills enter the season the sole AFC club without a playoff appearance in this decade, the coach remains Dick "Cheerio, Chaps" Jauron, who has just one career winning season. The AFC East test of manhood is playing the Patriots. Jauron has lost all six of his games against New England while coaching the Bills, his team outscored by a humiliating average of 21 points per game in that span. Against the Patriots under Jauron, Buffalo usually rolls over by the second quarter. Jauron never seems upset, or even to care -- he just jogs off the field, then makes excuses. Until the Bills have a coach who doesn't make excuses, the embarrassing playoff drought will continue. Why is this loser still our coach?
DaGimp Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Everyone who tries to remain optimistic about this organization-please read
TheLynchTrain Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 The Bills once wore the colors of the American flag, and regularly went to the Super Bowl. Since deciding the colors of the American flag are not good enough for Buffalo -- the Bills now use a color that's officially blue, but to TMQ is "rusting Russian dreadnaught aft bulkhead cyanic" -- Buffalo has not made the postseason. haha
wonderbread Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Perfect sumation of the Bills right down to the passing game. I just don't understand how everybody sees the problems with the Bills but the Bills.
BuffaloBill Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Perfect sumation of the Bills right down to the passing game. I just don't understand how everybody sees the problems with the Bills but the Bills. Because we have a roster of "hard working guys, who lnow football, practice hard and are good teammates" Jauron seems to believe this is the recipe for success and our front office supports him in this fantasy. The percentage of passes completed for ten yards or less is a terrible indictment on the QB and the offensive coordinator. The fact that Jauron elected to change not one coordinator or position coach (Sanders only came due to a quit) speaks volumes about how blind DJ is. His offense sucks, has sucked for a long time and appears to be headed for the same results this season.
TheLynchTrain Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Anybody see this quote? "Of course, there's no point in being sentimental in a vacant house. Jacksonville has more trouble selling tickets than any NFL franchise, averaging 60,400 per game last year, versus 70,700 in Green Bay and 67,750 in Buffalo, the league's other small markets." I thought the general consenus was Buffalo had between 71,000 and 73,000 seats (I guess depending on how you term the club seats). Is 67,000 general admission tickets not including club? I sent Easterbrook an email about it. I figured he'd be a pretty good authority on a subject like that since, you know, he's from buffalo and all.
Fan in San Diego Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Sad but an accurate assessment of our current situation. Can someone forward that article to RW in the hopes he will sh-tcan Jauron!
Kipers Hair Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Fantastic - must read for every true Bill-iever....
CodeMonkey Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 "Football Scientist" K.C. Joyner -- what does his laboratory look like? -- says that in 2008, 75 percent of Buffalo's passing attempts covered 10 yards or less. The Bills threw more than 10 yards the second-lowest amount in the NFL. With Schonert calling endless ultra-short passes, defenses choked up, which made it easier to stop Buffalo's run. The team's embarrassing streak of no-playoff seasons will continue if the offense doesn't stop being so predictable and throw down the field So he is assuming all the short passes were called that way and not checked down?? Negates the entire Bills section of the article for me, sounds like he is only reading stats and didn't watch anything himself.
KD in CA Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 So he is assuming all the short passes were called that way and not checked down?? Negates the entire Bills section of the article for me, sounds like he is only reading stats and didn't watch anything himself. I wish someone had a stat that could tell us how many of those short passes went to WRs vs. RBs. That would give us some indication of whether it's Trent or the play calling that really doing the checking-down.
first_and_ten Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 Sad but an accurate assessment of our current situation. Can someone forward that article to RW in the hopes he will sh-tcan Jauron! Where would the continuity be if we fired Dick?
tennesseeboy Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 I'm going to wait and see. You don't get TO and all of the downside of TO without an intent to use the upside (long passes). I think the biggest question mark, the offensive line, needs to jell, ML has to be playing and then we'll see long passes. Hell...let's see what the real season brings.
stuckincincy Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 ...let's see what the real season brings. Probably with opponents zeroing in on TO and busting him into pieces.
GrudginglyOptimistic Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 The thing I do not see is why anyone thinks that if Jauron were canned that Ralph would not go forward and make a decision for a new HC with roughly the same MO of high character failure. The common denominator for all the Bills FO failures since the glory days is one and only one guy. 1. The innards of the early 90s Bills teams are set when Polian and Ralph collaborate to pry open Ralph's wallet and draft and sign Bruce. Director of scouts and personnel John Butler also contributes to Bills glory with a great call to get Thurman and a host of other acquisitions of HOF worthy talent and even the hiring of wildman Marchibroda as the OC. The era begins to screech to a halt when Ralph in what pretty much seems as a personal move by him cans Polian, the good news is that the ball has started rolling down the hill and takes a great long run before it is knocked off track by a series of bad football decisions that Ralph has his fingerprints all over. 2. The Bills completely miscalculate how much Kelly has left. Some of this falls on Butler as they waited at least a year too late to draft a replacement for Kelly and ended up stretching to pick Collins (in retrospect hindsight is 20/20 and his career was long enough that a first day choice seems reasonable, but clearly he was from a running school at U Mich and he needed another year of training before he was asked to run a pro offense and we paid for rushing him to start with him having happy feet). Ralph personally miscalculated badly by making a salary cap violating handshake deal with Kelly to reward him in his next contract (my GUESS is this is part of why it took him so long to make the HOF). He ended up paying Kelly a million to simply walkaway without a stink when he got concussed by Jax out of the NFL. 3. Ralph signed the check and had to play a role in the idiotic decision to get Billy Joe Idiot when it became clear the rushed along TC was not gonna make it. 4. Ralph also had to have played a central role since he wrote the checks in the decision to sign Flutie to his incentive laden deal (a good move IMHO) but then stupidly hand RJ a wad of guaranteed dough to be our anointed stater when we had promised Flutie a fighting shot. This stupidity set up a situation where if RJ proved injury prone or failed (one could see from his record in Jax he might be well be injury prone even though he was talented. Ralph signed contracts with RJ and DF which essentially doomed the Bills to a cap disaster if RJ got hurt and DF played like AJ Smith thought he could. Ralph cannot reasonably escape blame for this disaster. 5. The general though is that it was Ralph who completely soured the situation by forcing Flutie to the bench and then starting RJ whom he over-invested in against an Indy team which simply gave up when it became clear from the scoreboard that they were not going to improve their playoff position in that game and Indy LB Bennett ended his season that game. RJ shredded an Indy team going through the motions and lost the last playoff game the Bills have seen this decade. 6. Ralph totally mangled and mishandled the resigning of Butler his last year here, Even if you want to blame the now dead Butler for playing Ralph, Ralph handled the relationship such with Butler that he wanted to play him and he had little plan B if he had even seen Butler playing him. 7. Ralph canned Wado (who deserved to be canned after he publicly gave up with 3 games left to play) but stupidly then tried to appeal his way out of paying him. Everyone told Ralph he would lose and he lost. 8. Having bollicksed up the GM/HC situtation, Ralph then hired TD. Not bad in terms of football knowledge and negotiating balls but horrendous at HC hiring as the last guy he hired Cowher ran him out of Pitts. Clearly having pledged this would not happen to him again, TD hired Administrative Assistant GW to HC the team and together with one hand tied behind their backs (if not two hands) they mismanaged the team leading to GWs firing. 9. Next was the Mularkey episode and this disaster wrought by TD and Ralph leading to TD getting the boot. 10. is the Marv/Jauron debacle- What makes anyone thinks that the results would be any different if Jauron got the boot?
Thoner7 Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 The best assesment of the Bills I have ever read. A+
merlin Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 ...also in this article: ...by trading down New England passed on Michael Oher and Eric Wood, promising offensive linemen who play positions New England needed to improve. Belichick said after the draft that he regretted not grabbing Wood, a puzzling comment since in the course of his double trade-down, Belichick passed on Wood twice.
stuckincincy Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 The thing I do not see is why anyone thinks that if Jauron were canned that Ralph would not go forward and make a decision for a new HC with roughly the same MO of high character failure. The common denominator for all the Bills FO failures since the glory days is one and only one guy. 1. The innards of the early 90s Bills teams are set when Polian and Ralph collaborate to pry open Ralph's wallet and draft and sign Bruce. Director of scouts and personnel John Butler also contributes to Bills glory with a great call to get Thurman and a host of other acquisitions of HOF worthy talent and even the hiring of wildman Marchibroda as the OC. The era begins to screech to a halt when Ralph in what pretty much seems as a personal move by him cans Polian, the good news is that the ball has started rolling down the hill and takes a great long run before it is knocked off track by a series of bad football decisions that Ralph has his fingerprints all over. 2. The Bills completely miscalculate how much Kelly has left. Some of this falls on Butler as they waited at least a year too late to draft a replacement for Kelly and ended up stretching to pick Collins (in retrospect hindsight is 20/20 and his career was long enough that a first day choice seems reasonable, but clearly he was from a running school at U Mich and he needed another year of training before he was asked to run a pro offense and we paid for rushing him to start with him having happy feet). Ralph personally miscalculated badly by making a salary cap violating handshake deal with Kelly to reward him in his next contract (my GUESS is this is part of why it took him so long to make the HOF). He ended up paying Kelly a million to simply walkaway without a stink when he got concussed by Jax out of the NFL. 3. Ralph signed the check and had to play a role in the idiotic decision to get Billy Joe Idiot when it became clear the rushed along TC was not gonna make it. 4. Ralph also had to have played a central role since he wrote the checks in the decision to sign Flutie to his incentive laden deal (a good move IMHO) but then stupidly hand RJ a wad of guaranteed dough to be our anointed stater when we had promised Flutie a fighting shot. This stupidity set up a situation where if RJ proved injury prone or failed (one could see from his record in Jax he might be well be injury prone even though he was talented. Ralph signed contracts with RJ and DF which essentially doomed the Bills to a cap disaster if RJ got hurt and DF played like AJ Smith thought he could. Ralph cannot reasonably escape blame for this disaster. 5. The general though is that it was Ralph who completely soured the situation by forcing Flutie to the bench and then starting RJ whom he over-invested in against an Indy team which simply gave up when it became clear from the scoreboard that they were not going to improve their playoff position in that game and Indy LB Bennett ended his season that game. RJ shredded an Indy team going through the motions and lost the last playoff game the Bills have seen this decade. 6. Ralph totally mangled and mishandled the resigning of Butler his last year here, Even if you want to blame the now dead Butler for playing Ralph, Ralph handled the relationship such with Butler that he wanted to play him and he had little plan B if he had even seen Butler playing him. 7. Ralph canned Wado (who deserved to be canned after he publicly gave up with 3 games left to play) but stupidly then tried to appeal his way out of paying him. Everyone told Ralph he would lose and he lost. 8. Having bollicksed up the GM/HC situtation, Ralph then hired TD. Not bad in terms of football knowledge and negotiating balls but horrendous at HC hiring as the last guy he hired Cowher ran him out of Pitts. Clearly having pledged this would not happen to him again, TD hired Administrative Assistant GW to HC the team and together with one hand tied behind their backs (if not two hands) they mismanaged the team leading to GWs firing. 9. Next was the Mularkey episode and this disaster wrought by TD and Ralph leading to TD getting the boot. 10. is the Marv/Jauron debacle- What makes anyone thinks that the results would be any different if Jauron got the boot? What moves a man, to write such a lengthy post?
eball Posted August 25, 2009 Posted August 25, 2009 merlin, finding anything positive to say about the Bills FO is not welcome on this message board for Buffalo Bills fans.
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