announce this now? What a weird and silly deal for the Bills. I thought Russ Brandon was good at marketing and PR? I guess I was wrong. Well, now that we are stuck with him, what to do? Do Turk and Perry stay? Will there be any changes in the front office?

I guess those rumors last week were just that rumors. The players love Jauron. He has done a pretty solid job of drafting and signing some free agents. The key to the Bills under Jauron has been and will be in 2009 simply QB play. Can Trent Edwards and whomever is the QB do enough to provide a competent offense? I have my doubts under Schonert and Jauron.

but obviously those sources “leaked” it now. I think rather than have all this speculation about the future of Jauron, Ralph needed to take the heat off of him.

And now today at Jauron’s presser, the question will be “did you sign your 3 year extension?” and Jauron will say, “we don’t talk about contracts around here.” Yippee

I don’t really know what to think about this situation anymore. Why this team continues to be so secretive about a contract extension for their head coach is beyond me. If they didn’t want the continued scrutiny from the media they would come out and say that Jauron has been officially extended. Instead they keep this distraction going for several weeks, which could have effected the team during this horrible stretch.
It clearly (jauron term) has become obvious (another jauron favorite) that our front office and head coach has become the laughing stock of the nfl and truly unfit to run an NFL organization.

it’s still possible Ralph eats the money so we can’t get too ahead of ourselves. We’ll see what happens in 2 weeks when the season ends. If Ralph makes a public affirmation that DJ is his coach

I think he likes playing with the fans in some sick sordid way. If this is true, it is reason enough to vomit.

To dissuade anyone with oodles of cash from buying the team. That’s the only reasoning I can come up with why this would have happened now.

It truly will be difficult to root for this team, knowing the outcome will never change under the current regime.

I’m vastly outnumbered here. But I think it is a very good move. Three years is not enough time to change things around especially when you have to unload and change things from a previous administration. On big problem was the Losman thing. DJ was in a no win situation, he had to let JP fail or succeed. Jim Johnson had a similar situation in Miami with an aging Dan Marino. I think giving Jauron 3 years with his QB and team is reasonable.

Regardless of how we feel about the season, I think we are all fairly confident that we have a good core to build on. What we need are to fill some starter holes, Center, one safety spot and a LB spot (Ellison) and we would be good with our starters and then we need depth and that takes time and we are getting there. Kudos to Wilson for not panicking.

I was watching Pittsburgh and they look worse on offense than the Bills. It is their defense keeping them viable and that took time to build. Also being in the DC metro area I’m watching the same thing happen with the Redskins. They were 6-2 and have imploded, losing yesterday to the Bengals. Their situation is horrible, they have no core to build on and no sense of were the organization is going after 10 years of crazy spending. It made me appreciate that even though the Bills have collapsed, we have a sense of a good core, direction, youth, etc. Although, interestingly enough, both teams had a catastrophic event with a young talented player, ours was Everett and they lost Sean Taylor.

Our 5-1 record showed our promise, our current record shows our youth and lack of depth. Our holes can easily be filled and our depth built on.DJ may have lost the fans, but I’m glad he hasn’t lost the players or the owner.

I apologize for the sunshine optimism. I know it is totally uncalled for but what are you going to do?

My hopes for next season and the future are as dim as ever. We cannot win with this man as the head coach and now we’re stuck with him going forward. Why did the front office and old Ralphie feel the need to give Jauron a contract after starting the season hot against a bunch of cream puffs? They couldn’t let the season play out in its predictable fashion?

This makes me sick. Jauron’s a good man but he shouldn’t be getting the nine lives afforded to the cat species. His time is up, but only this organization would be dumb enough to continue with the ineptitude and mediocrity. Without any luck, this team will never win anything because of the way its run and because of who is in charge of key areas. Simply inexcusable for this steaming pile to continue.

Good luck selling out those home games next year FO. There are going to be revolts and people with pitchforks and a man on fire and I killed a man with a trident. Woops. Ralph probably doesn’t want to eat the contract, but he’s going to lose just as much, maybe more, in lost ticket sales, lost gameday revenues and overall ill will towards the organization…..

How many times over the last three years have the Bills lost directly to bad coaching? This is sort of a speculative question. By my account and memory, I have these games:

2008
Jets
SF
Cleve

2007
Browns
Cowboys
Broncos

2006
Det

Which other ones am I missing?

The play call for the pass to Evans was atrocious. Remember, we had 1st and goal from the three, and we call a fade route. A TD there and we are in position to win the game.

Is it possible the source of the “leak” has some sort of ulterior motive either for or against this extension? Anyone care to speculate? (And where is Geronimo these days?)

I don’t think we can take news of a contract extension seriously right now. Does anyone honestly believe that if we close 0-2 Wilson won’t just man up, take the hit and dump him? I actually think if we can’t get a Cowher I want Jauron for one more year, as long as Schonert is gone.

That said, I find it very very hard to justify keeping a coach who finished a season 1-9, even with a contract extension signed. Ralph Wilson isn’t that detached from reality where he can’t recognize that a collapse this severe and complete warrants losing your job. I say we finish 0-2 Jauron is gone

when it appeared to be a pass interference call on Bryan Scott in the corner of the end zone, it looked like Jauron was going to cry? I could read his lips too…

“Oh noooo, you’re kidding me.” *sniffle*sniffle*

Seriously, he looked like he wanted to run into the locker room alone and weep. His weak persona is rubbing off on these players. This is killing me…

i don’t care who you are

Horse feathers! Bull pucky! Tartar sauce! Barbara Streisand!

Twenty-three skidoo!

I truly wanted Jauron to be the coach to finally succeed here. I wish things unfolded differently, but it looks dire for everyone involved – no matter what the outcome may be.

1. He doesn’t fire Shonert, because the Turk is a first-year first-time coordinator. He successfully argues that, with a full year of experience and better talent he should get another chance.
2. The Bills finally draft a pass rushing DE to complement Schobel, but he doesn’t make an impact until the final 6 games of the season.
3. Buffalo decides to keep Preston and Fowler because JauWrong “really likes the guys we have on the roster”. This causes some fans to spontaneously combust.
4. The Bills finish 5-11 against tougher competition in 2009, but win their last two games saving Jauron’s job for yet another year.
5. A Russian spy satellite captures a 10 nanosecond clip of the Bills head coach actually getting angry. A copy of the video is auctioned off on eBay for $12,000.
6. The Miami home game is played again in Toronto because the Dolphins apparently have quite a fan base in the Canadian metropolis.
7. Speaking of Toronto, despite JP Loserman lands a job as back-up QB for the Argo’s.
8. Jame Hardy, on the slow train to bustville, never makes it past Steve Johnson on the depth chart.
9. The Bills are finally back to 7-9 in 2010 and begin 4-0 in 2011. JauWong reportedly signs another 3 year extension and the cycle repeats itself with the Bills losing the next 10 out of 12 games.
10. Anthropologists from around the globe converge on Buffalo, apparently puzzled as to why the fans continue to support the team. It is determined that removing the Bills from Buffalo is about as dangerous as extracting a bullet from a gun-shot victims spine. So the team is left and the patients fans are left in a state of perpetual agony.

I could throw in a prediction about owner, but that wouldn’t be nice.

Another thing that makes no sense to me is the issue of this team’s value after Ralph dies. What is he thinking? Does he wish to devalue the franchise and make it a bit easier for locals to buy it (hardly)? Or does he wish to maximize the team value for his heirs? If he wishes to maximize the team’s value for his heirs he sure is going about it in the wrong way. If I were Ralph I would want my family to get maximum value for this franchise. My final gift to the family. Perhaps his family just doesn’t need the money. In any event, his actions do not make much sense to me. Wierd.

this is from blogs.buffalobills.com

aparently from today:

Q: What assurances have you gotten that you’ll be back next season?

DJ: Well we haven’t really talked about it so in that regard I suppose not and there has also been no indication I won’t be.

Q: There’s a report that you have signed a contract. Have you signed a contract?

DJ: Well you know the answer to that. We don’t talk about contracts and I certainly don’t talk about them.

Q: What’s your rationale behind not talking about it?

DJ: I’m clearly not the one and it would be irresponsible for me to respond to that.

Q: Do you think you’ll be here in the next two weeks, a month, next season?

DJ: I would anticipate that I would be yes.

Q: Are you saying you might have signed a contract?

DJ: I’m not saying anything.

Q: You’re not going to address it either way?

DJ: Right.

Q: You’re not denying it?

DJ: I’m not saying anything about it.

Q: Do you anticipate that you will be here next season?

DJ: I do. I do at this point.

Q: Who’s rule is it that you don’t talk about the contract?

DJ: It’s from inside the organization.

Q: It’s an organizational rule?

DJ: Right.

the bold one is what bothers me. its YOUR contract dumbass. if anyone can talk about it its YOU – for the love of all thats holy

whether or not he got one (and I believe that he did), it probably won’t be announced by the team until the end of the season, so until then, everything is speculation. For me, I’m going into off-season mode, which means its time to start researching which players I want the Bills to go after in free agency and the draft (that they inevitibly won’t).

Great news for Dolphin nation. A couple of extra win per season.

Ps Seriously, what the hell the GM is thinking?