Quotes by Donahoe in today's D&C article by Leo Roth prompted this thread. It suggested to me that our FO/coaching staff consider that we only compete offensively and that implicitly they seem to believe that the best offense is the way to a championship. I only post this b/c I cannot disagree more if in fact it's the case.
Donahoe's quote:
He’s suggesting a rule change where each team would be guaranteed one possession, an opinion greatly influenced by Buffalo’s season-opening loss to the New York Jets. The Bills lost the coin flip and
Chad Morton returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown to win the game 37-31.
“We didn’t even get a chance to compete in overtime,” Donahoe said.
“It just doesn’t seem right that a coin flip should determine the outcome of the game. Guys are fighting, playing hard and if a team returns a kickoff, the other team should at least get the opportunity to match it. Once they have that opportunity and lose, I don’t have a problem with it being sudden death. You can’t play forever. But it seems to me that would be a more fair system.”
My reply:
Apparently TD thinks that we only "compete" offensively. Perhaps it's a philosophy issue.
But we did get a chance to compete. We had our STs on the field during that runback unless I missed something! So if he would like our chances of "winning games" to increase, then my first suggestion would be to not ignore STs and D any longer. Then again, what do I know...
Article link: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...y1_bills.shtml
Donahoe's quote:
He’s suggesting a rule change where each team would be guaranteed one possession, an opinion greatly influenced by Buffalo’s season-opening loss to the New York Jets. The Bills lost the coin flip and
Chad Morton returned the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown to win the game 37-31.
“We didn’t even get a chance to compete in overtime,” Donahoe said.
“It just doesn’t seem right that a coin flip should determine the outcome of the game. Guys are fighting, playing hard and if a team returns a kickoff, the other team should at least get the opportunity to match it. Once they have that opportunity and lose, I don’t have a problem with it being sudden death. You can’t play forever. But it seems to me that would be a more fair system.”
My reply:
Apparently TD thinks that we only "compete" offensively. Perhaps it's a philosophy issue.
But we did get a chance to compete. We had our STs on the field during that runback unless I missed something! So if he would like our chances of "winning games" to increase, then my first suggestion would be to not ignore STs and D any longer. Then again, what do I know...
Article link: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...y1_bills.shtml
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