Would be honored if you'd listen...alright, honor is a bit much.
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Would be honored if you'd listen...alright, honor is a bit much.
http://www.buffalowins.com/podcasts/...ts-review.html
http://www.buffalowins.com/buffalo-b...le-awards.html
1stQuarter MVP – CJ Spiller: This is easy. Spiller has been dynamic and a game breaking talent. He appeared capable of scoring 52 against Cleveland on his own prior to his shoulder injury. Aside from his goal line fumble against New England, he has been Buffalo’s most reliable back. Spiller will continue to split carries with Fred Jackson as the season progresses and could potentially make the ground attack the focal point of the offense.
Bills most valuable head coach: Chan Gailey-The fan's choice. That is for fans who want to leave the game early or turn it off at home before the game ends. You get no nail biters with this guy.
The Lee Evans/Eric Moulds Memorial Award for the #1 Receiver that Inexplicably Gets Only Two Passes Thrown His Way A Game: Steve Johnson
Fools Gold Award - Russ Brandon
Every year, good hearted fans flush the previous failure away and believe the sales pitch that THIS team will be different...buying tickets and merchandise. Then they watch their team get lit up within the division, due to subpar coaching and QB play.
Next year, a QB in Round 1 with a new coach. That equals a stampede to the ticket window.
Replacement Refs for not costing us any games.
The 100 Million Dollar Baby Award: guess
Quarter awards? Why?
We're 2-2. And even if we were 4-0, 4-0 in September doesn't mean anything (see last year).
No one has earned **** yet.
Profootball focus gave honorable mentions to CJ, Kyle, and Byrd.
I have been pleasantly surprised with Byrd's work. He's been hitting like a Mack truck.
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Gailey is 60 years old, making him the 3rd oldest coach in the league. Dave Wannstedt is the same age. Sorry to be harsh, but Gailey has been a proven failure at this level. Tom Coughlin and Pete Carroll are older, but they had success in Jacksonville and USC respectively. Where has Gailey's success been? It's mediocrity at its finest. Did you know since the start of 2010 season, the Bills have the 3rd fewest wins in the NFL? Yup, 12 wins and only the Browns and Rams trail them by 1 and 3 wins respectively. I wonder if those teams have any slogans dedicated to their GMs and coaches? It is easy to make the comparison of Nix and Gailey to their predecessors because the likes of Jauron and Donahoe were terrible, but what about the rest of the NFL?
Yup
Oh but to some Gailey is a very good coach who is doing a good job. He just inherited a horrible team and it's going to take some time to turn it around..
That is an incredible stat. Not only are we the worse team over the past 13 years as far as being the only one not to make the playoffs and having only one winning season we're also ranked 30th in wins since Gailey took over. All of this and some still think he is a good coach. Good thing we got off to a lucky start last season or we would be the worse over the past 36 games.
Some of these guys laugh at other coaches and teams like the Jaguars, Raiders, etc, but even they have been better then us even during the past several years. As I said earlier, Gailey is a proven loser as a HC at the NFL level. If he hasn't gotten by age 60 he never will.
This isn't a young HC who just recently stepped up from being an assistant coach. This is somebody with decades of experience who has proven that he can't win. I didn't like his hiring then but was willing to give him a chance but after 2+ years I dislike it even more.
Chan Gailey should have been fired last year.
I don't think gailey is dated as an offensive mind. By he may be dated in terms of his coaching style. Wannstedts D def seems dated to me. All the best defenses in the league incorporate blitzes
Not outdated, just out of their proper role or awful. Chan Gailey is a brilliant OC, and has made a career of turning ****ty qbs into halfway decent starters. If we had drafted Andy Dalton or any other competent qb people would be comparing him to Tom Brady. However, as a HC he is out of his element. Dave Wandstache on the other hand is just awful and should be terminated.
Agreed completely.
That's my biggest fear about getting rid of him. I feel like Gailey has done a lot of really good things with this team offensively, and I would hate to lose him on that side of the ball.
If we brought in another head coach, there is a good chance everything would get an overall and our offense would go back to the Losman/Edwards days.
And for the most part, I think he (and Nix) have the right philosophy about how to build a team... minus the whole quarterback thing.
Unfortunately, Gailey is worthless in helping out the defense. And his two d-coordinator choices have been horrible.
Lots of other teams are successful with the HC running one side of the ball, and the coordinator handling the other side. You just have to get the right combination.
- Green Bay has McCarthy on offense and Capers on defense
- New Orleans had Payton on offense and Williams on defense
- Houston has Kubiak on offense and Phillips on defense
pete carroll is 60 years old? and older than Chan? Am I reading this right from the original post?
chan looks like crap if he's younger than pete carroll.
also, in terms of the bills having zero options at HC since everyone and their mother turned them down, i'm pretty sure chan is the best option we've got.
imagine the horror of a new un-heard of high school coach getting the gig, or an expensive retread like billick who clearly won as a result of a great defense with great defensive players while being an offensive genius who couldn't get his team into the endzone.
there is no future for the bills. anything they do or have done doesn't work out. it's maddening.
Gailey is a good offensive coach. He is a miserable head coach.
The Stache shouldn't even be in the league...
It would be nice just to keep him on as an OC if he fails again this year but that's not a possibility. He wouldn't stay and take a demotion. There are other good offensive minds out there you just need to find them. It's not like Gailey is the best or only offensive mind out there that he isn't replaceable.
It doesn't matter if he's a good OC or not if he sucks as a HC. Not just our coaches but many others around the league were good OC's or DC's but they just weren't any good as a HC. You can't keep them on just because of that. Ralph needs to have a good front office and/or be willing to fork out the money to bring not only a good HC here but decent coordinators too. That isn't the case with him though.
The comparisons you made with the other coaches isn't 100 percent accurate. Sure they call their own plays and run their offense but they also decide on how the team is going to play. Just like Tom Coughlin. He has Gilbride as an OC but his playcalling is totally different because Coughlin makes him stick with the plan that he wants to follow with the team or during a game. Gilbride will call the plays depending on what strategy Coughlin wants to play. When Gilbride was an OC in Buffalo that wasn't the case. He just did his own thing for the most part.
It's not like them HC's are just in charge of the offense and the DC is just in charge of the defense. They are still in charge of the team and strategy and style of play that the coach wants to do on the other side of the ball.
They tried that experiment in Dallas where Wade was just in charge of the defense and Garrett was just in charge of the offense and they both did their own thing. There wasn't any leadership and even though both of them were good coordinators you still need somebody to call the shots and prepare the team and that wasn't the case in that situation.
Gailey just can't cut it as a HC. If he fails this season then he needs to go. He's had many years in the NFL to prove himself. Just because somebody is a good coordinator doesn't mean they will be a HC.
More doom and gloom. 2-2 and we're dated and terribad. DOOM I SAY! Those wins were nothing!
I think it has more to do with 12-24 since he's been here and not showing any great improvement this year either. Not to mention the 12-24 we have we also had an 8 game losing streak the first year and lost 7 out of our last 8 the second season. Both of our wins this year was against teams with a combined 1 WIN all season. We're also 2-12 in the division over that span. We've finished in last place both seasons too.
Them aren't the signs of a good coaching staff. A good coaching staff doesn't lose that many games in a row in consecutive seasons and 2-10 in the division. Not to mention they completely choked after a 5-2 start. We're also 4-14 on the road during that span. Even the Dolphins have won at least 5 games in the division in the past couple years.
This year we beat a couple bad teams and was blown out in both of our divisional. Keep on thinking that it's just this season though. But hey we're 2-2 so far this season though so everything is just fine and dandy. Many people kept saying the same things when Dick Jauron was here too.
Chan Gailey has also spent decades in the NFL and coaching. He is still only 60 years old though. He's still a young buck and not a veteran coach. All it will take is some time for him to turn it around even though he is 60 years old and was only a HC for two years in his career and that nobody else wanted him except for Buffalo.
I understand we have such a good background though that we've proved we're that much smarter then the rest of the teams in the NFL. They were just all wrong over all these years and Gailey really is a great HC. All of these years of success and smart moves give you that high standard around the league.
If you take away our long stretch of losing streaks over the past couple years we're 11-8 though. I guess we're not doing too bad if you take away the bad stretches.
http://www.buffalowins.com/buffalo-b...-vs-bills.html
Only way the Bills can win this game is if they stop Frank Gore and make Alex Smith beat them. The 49ers have given up the 6th most sacks this year (12) while only attempting 114 passes, which ranks 30th in the NFL. Keep in mind Smith was sacked 44 times last year, which was 26th most in the NFL. So, the Bills should be able to get pressure. Right? RIGHT?!
I don't know how anyone has 2 favorite teams. It's like having 2 wives, one is enough for me.
Liking another team other than the Bills???
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Samuel L. Jackson disapproves.
Wow Pete Carroll's aged well.
I think Nix can put together a good roster but what this team needs is a screaming type of head coach with a lot of fire to immolate the persistent culture of losing around here. These mellow types just aren't doing it.
I understand having a 2nd favorite team, but never in a million years would I want my 2nd favorite team to beat the Bills.
I live in Charlotte, so I do watch the Panthers games and do enjoy the team and atmosphere... but you'd better believe that if they were playing each other I would spit on the Panthers in a heartbeat.
I wish I could like a team other than the Bills.
I live in Nashville and haaaaaaaaaaate the Titans.
I was born on the bay, so I very well could have grown up a Niners fan but nooooooo, my mother's family was from Buffalo.
So a Bills fan I will remain until the day I die.
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On the plus side, I'm an A's fan!
They're doing well... finally.
Age has nothing to do with it. Scheme and personnel is what means the difference between a winning franchise and a struggling one. Jauron wasn't terrible, he was just mediocre. Bills fans wanted a post season, not another 7-9 season. So, Jauron had to go. But his team gave it everything it had. In the years Jauron was this team's head coach, I hadn't seen 1 game where this team quit on him like it has on Gailey. In my opinion, that is far more of a reason that the Bills should consider other options at the Head Coach position than how old Gailey is.
http://www.buffalowins.com/buffalo-b...tsbuffalo.html
These blanket classifications, in their nature, very seldom hold positive connotations. What’s worse than the feeling that someone is wrongfully slinging generalizations at you and those like you? When the things said are validated, becoming more sad truth than satire, now that’s painful.
Fans who follow and journalists who cover Buffalo sports teams have been seen by anyone who knows the least bit about either as eccentrics for some time now. The conception is that they’re masters of overreaction who have two modes – severely blind optimism and damning sky-is-falling negativity.
Here comes the sad part – this calendar year, we’ve solidified our position as those people.
I go to some Broncos games because they can be entertaining. But again, when they play each other my loyalty isn't split one bit.
Right. Because the defense they have isn't stellar? Lets not forget about that...
The 49ers rule.
WNY drools.