Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

[cookie G]

Consultant would be fine with me.


Polian willing to help Bills find a way to end playoff drought

http://bills.buffalonews.com/2015/12/23/247898/

Bill Polian hates what Buffalo Bills fans have had to endure for 16 years in a row. He feels their pain, their heartache, their utter frustration.

And when any of them asks the former Bills general manager and Pro Football Hall of Fame member what their team needs to do to finally end its postseason drought – whether it’s during his weekly show on SiriusXM NFL Radio or in an airport – he won’t hesitate to offer his thoughts.

Fix the offensive line, which he calls “aging and unathletic.” Add a receiver to complement Sammy Watkins. Get a true backup to quarterback Tyrod Taylor and draft a QB of the future.

Polian, who resides in North Carolina, said by phone Wednesday he’s willing to provide far more detailed and comprehensive analysis directly to the Bills, but only on a consulting basis. He also made it clear that the Bills, with whom he began a long and illustrious NFL career, are the only team for which he would be a consultant.

[BillsImpossible]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

Good, czars suck.

[Mace]

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Oh I could live with this, yes.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

Fix the offensive line, which he calls “aging and unathletic.”

Aging? There is one starter currently over 30 and he was the best one on the line. Three other positions are still on their rookie contracts.

[Mace]

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Aging? There is one starter currently over 30 and he was the best one on the line. Three other positions are still on their rookie contracts.

Good point but I'll accept it needs to be improved. I think Polian would be a better consultant with oomph instead of theoretical GM or permanent prez of operations. He might not be your guy for modern day fine tuning but I think he'd be great at setting up an efficient football oriented organization.

[Guest]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

Consultant would be fine with me.


Polian willing to help Bills find a way to end playoff drought

http://bills.buffalonews.com/2015/12/23/247898/

Bill Polian hates what Buffalo Bills fans have had to endure for 16 years in a row. He feels their pain, their heartache, their utter frustration.

And when any of them asks the former Bills general manager and Pro Football Hall of Fame member what their team needs to do to finally end its postseason drought – whether it’s during his weekly show on SiriusXM NFL Radio or in an airport – he won’t hesitate to offer his thoughts.

Fix the offensive line, which he calls “aging and unathletic.” Add a receiver to complement Sammy Watkins. Get a true backup to quarterback Tyrod Taylor and draft a QB of the future.

Polian, who resides in North Carolina, said by phone Wednesday he’s willing to provide far more detailed and comprehensive analysis directly to the Bills, but only on a consulting basis. He also made it clear that the Bills, with whom he began a long and illustrious NFL career, are the only team for which he would be a consultant.

"But...but...but...our OL is good enough. We need to save that money and high draft picks for more WRs and DBs..."

[Guest]

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Aging? There is one starter currently over 30 and he was the best one on the line. Three other positions are still on their rookie contracts.

Young or old they are still as a group a piece of crap.

[WagonCircler]

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If Polian is speaking this openly with the press, the excrement is about to hit the fan at One Bills Drive.

I'm not sure anyone's safe, including Rex.

As a consultant, Polian wouldn’t limit his input to player-personnel. Among the examples of issues that need addressing are the problems Ryan had with replay challenges in the Nov. 29 loss at Kansas City.

“I was shocked when I heard that – shocked out of my shoes,” Polian said. “Everyone in the league has a” replay “system and a person assigned to it. Secondly,” defensive “calls not getting in on time and too many men on the field. You should never have too many men on the field because if the offense substitutes, you can substitute. You have all the time you need to make those substitutions. If the offense doesn’t substitute, you’re not worried about substituting. That’s clear-cut.”

And what of the many problems with players struggling to learn or flat-out rejecting Ryan’s defensive scheme?

His answer will no doubt be music to the ears of Mario Williams, Jerry Hughes, Marcell Dareus, Preston Brown, and other players who have openly questioned the defense’s fit for those who have to play it.

“You need veterans to make that defense work,” Polian said. “First of all, the players thrived in another system – in a simple, straight forward, very easy to understand, very easy to communicate system where there was constant repetition of the same thing, over and over again, taught in a very straight-forward way. And the techniques were geared toward what the players could do, what their skill sets were, and the plans were constructed around the players and what they could do.

“Rex’s defense is just the opposite. It is not straight forward. It’s exceedingly complex. There is no carry over learning from one week to the next. There’s exceedingly complex language. There are exceedingly complex checks that have to be made at the line of scrimmage. There is a guy designated to make those checks. It was” linebacker “Ray Lewis in Baltimore and it was” safety “Jimmy Leonhard with the Jets, who literally could not put one foot in front of the other at the end of his career.

“I remember asking one of the Jets’ coaches during the offseason, ‘How in God’s name can you put Jimmy Leonhard on the field?’ He said, ‘No one else can translate the defense, no one else can get everybody lined up.’”

[YardRat]

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lol...

The team needs to improve the offensive line.
The team needs a QB.
Rex's 'defensive genius' will (did) ruin a dominant unit because it's too complicated and doesn't play to the player's strengths.

Why the **** should anybody pay for that kind of advice when they can (and could have) gotten the same wisdom by reading these forums?

[Mace]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

lol...

The team needs to improve the offensive line.
The team needs a QB.
Rex's 'defensive genius' will (did) ruin a dominant unit because it's too complicated and doesn't play to the player's strengths.

Why the **** should anybody pay for that kind of advice when they can (and could have) gotten the same wisdom by reading these forums?

Big shots only listen to other big shots, even when it comes to the obvious.

[Mace]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

If Polian is speaking this openly with the press, the excrement is about to hit the fan at One Bills Drive.

If Polian is speaking this openly with the press, he's either trying to sell himself to an ownership that already sold itself to Ryan, or he's venting his conscience for the hell of it not expecting anything.

Rex is going nowhere, he's the big shiny.

[WagonCircler]

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Some big shots don't need a map to the playoffs. They not only know the way there, they know how to build the vehicle.

[Mr. Miyagi]

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Please come in Polian and clean house. You can shape it any way you want.

[Mace]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

Some big shots don't need a map to the playoffs. They not only know the way there, they know how to build the vehicle.

Oh yeah, enduring excellence is the hallmark of the Colts.

[WagonCircler]

Re: Polian May be a consultant, but Won't Wear the Czar Crown

Oh yeah, enduring excellence is the hallmark of the Colts.

Polian can flip you off with a Super Bowl ring on his middle finger. And he would, but you're a ****ing nobody.