that winning is an attitude thing. he have to believe you are a better team than the opposition. we are taking on the head coach’s demeanor and it isn’t working.

What was Jauron thinking with the play challenge on Welker’s reception? If you wait as long as he did you need to be screaming at the ref to make sure he hears you. and then to hear his explanation after the game, that made me sick. the last thing this team needs is a loser for a head coach and that is what Jauron is. Nice guy, yes, but a below average coach that will not take this team anywhere.

i had promised myself I wouldn’t think about the Bills for 7 days but who am I kidding….I think this got brought up yesterday and Kurput you are shining a light on it here: TOUGHNESS. Smacking people in the mouth. Playing with fire. Whatever you want to call it, there is no aggressiveness in this Bills teams. We let the other team dictate to us how the game will be played, rather than us forcing the opponenet into how we want to play. There in the 4th, I thought Marshawn was ready to go “beast-mode” and instead Turk starts the shotgun passing attack crap again. Sometimes, you just have to line up, and say “we are pounding this down your throat.” The good teams are good bc they can ALWAYS find a way to score points. They just find a way. We cannot do that. Every first down we get is an absolute STRUGGLE.

Until I see that fire, that tenacity, this team is going nowhere. I do believe it will be there next Monday night as our fans will be electric. BUT, if Jauron doesn’t change his style to MORE AGGRESSIVE, then it will be another tight game that Buffalo prolly will lose bc we have a coach who plays so close to the vest, that he hopes in the 4th quarte we will make a play to win the game, rather than smacking the other team in the mouth from the get go and enforcing our will

While I was catching up with posts, I was thinking that Jauron is losing the team. The players don’t Billeve anymore. I used to be of the opinion that changing coaches/schemes would set back a franchise. But after seeing what teams like Miami and Atlanta have done this season, I am ready for a whole sale change in the schemes and coaching staff, except April. Instead of trying to copy a fair-weather/dome team like Indy, why not try to copy some cold weather teams like the Giants, Steelers, or Pats?

Hey, let’s not forget that this team is still trying to play catch up with NE in the talent department, too. While I still feel nauseous from yesterday’s loss, NE was clearly better yesterday.

I’m so glad I didn’t play Trent in my fantasy lineup yesterday. Several weeks ago, I wrote a title block in someone else’s fanpost titled “Trent Edwards = Total Efficiency”. In light of the last few performances, I think I’d better change that to “Trent Edwards = Total Enigma”.

Sure, we have some holes, but after a 5-1 start this team has gotten complacent, and it all starts with the coach. Now, perhaps he may not have changed, but to me this team looks tired. I thought we were going to see some new things, but too me our team has gotten blander every week, and now here we are on a 3 game skid. BS

Wow, I’m surprised with all the agreement. This has been my stance for a while and I usually get criticized for it.

Quite simply, we can’t win with Jauron. Maybe we could luck into a nice season like he did w/the Bears, but even that looks unlikely. With a rather easy schedule this year, we’re still already on the outside looking in regarding the playoffs. The entire coaching staff is just incompetent, outside of April. Hell, April is the only guy who shows any fire on the sidelines and gets his guys fired up. No wonder his units are always good regardless of player turnover.

I’m checking out ESPN News now and that old Titans GM is talking about the Dolphins developing their identity, with the wildcat and playing tough, just like teams like the Giants, Steelers, Pats, etc have. The Bills have no identity. They are like the mysterious drifter brought into the hospital with no memories and no idea of who they are.

well, let me start by asking if everyone here is as stoked as me that we’ve got jauron wrapped up for the next 3 years? please, im just kidding, don’t go calling for my head. i’m getting so pissed off at watching this team, it’s sickening. get this a-hole off the sideline and bring in somebody with some god damn passion.

K, I’ve been on board with the Jauron thing as long as I’ve been on this blog (not very long – I know). His complacency pisses me off to no end, as a fan and as someone who has played the game of football. You don’t need to be a Parcells or a Mike Singletary or a Bobby Knight type guy to coach with fire and passion. A team’s personality is bestowed upon it by the personality of its coach. When the coach is complacent, the team is complacent.

Take a look at Belichek (as much as I hate the man), he never gets fired up, or yells, or makes a fool of himself during press conferences, but his team sure as hell plays with fire and attitude. That’s because he instills two things into all of his teams: 1) We’re going to line up, and play 60 minutes of in your face football (even if we’re up by 56 points in the 4th quarter) and 2) I don’t care if we’re 13-0, there are a ton of things we need to get better at and here they are. He doesn’t come into a press conference and say “We played a great game, blah blah blah”. He says “We won, but we need to run the ball better, we need to do this or this or this”. He is constantly focusing on what needs to be improved. Meanwhile, DJ says, “Well, we lost, and we looked terrible, but at least we’re 5 and 3!”

The DJ optimists (or perhaps, apologists) always pointed to the fact that the team played smart because it had a smart coach. They didn’t turn the ball over a lot, they didn’t make a ton of mistakes, they minimized penalties, etc. etc. Well, someone look at the past three games (or hell, the entire season) and tell me that this team is playing smart.

I’m at a loss. I never thought this team had a shot to be a perennial AFC contender with Jauron, but I at least thought this team could make it to the playoffs with him. Now, I am really beginning to question that. We’re in year 9 of a rebuilding process (3 with Jauron) and I’m really struggling to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe it’s there, and I’m just too depressed to see it.

Why is it, that every time a new coach comes in here, we’re forced to go through a whole new rebuilding process? Why is it, that the Falcons, Dolphins, Ravens, etc. can change a coach and become immediate playoff contenders the next year?

I’m not even sure this post has a point anymore…but I need to seriously vent. To quote Chris Farley’s character in Waynes World 2, “…I’m gonna go pick a fight.”

Might be that we are not aggressive enough. If Jauron is going to be as he is, then the coordinators need to step it up. Now, frankly, our defense is not doing too bad until the fourth quarter. But I want to know why our offense is not on the cusp of ingenuity, as it seemed to be in the first six games? I am just not satisfied.
We don’t do any misdriection, or delay running. Not enough play action…and for cryin’ out loud get Lynch to the outside and pull a dam guard. Not to mention, our FB blows.
The few injuries we have…Reed and Butler, can’t be that important to where we can barely muster 3 points in 58 minutes, although I do believe Butler is a very good guard who needs to get back and Reed is our go to guy. It is very perplexing why we can’t get things going? Is Edwards hitting the skids that bad? I feel there are very little answers beyond the coaching staff. Talent is not everything…this is a coaches league. Look at Dallas…Wade Phillips is a puss and its beginning to show on the field. Unless Jauron can turn this ship around, I will not be happy when he is running training camp next summer, after we are 7-9, and looking at close to a top ten draft pick…again. (Although that would give us a DE, who unfortunately won’t be completely ready for a year or two.)