I’m right there with you.

For the record, I’m hearing that it’s 50-50 at this point on whether Jauron returns or not. :)

while sullivan does come off as a pompous his point in the questioning was to make the organization’s stance on the contract situation look dumb, even if it made himself look dumb. I tend to agree with him on this point.

Kind of a dumb point on Sully’s part, then, as the situation already looked dumb, and it was already public knowledge.

I wish he had a more fun name to say and type….something like Archbold Featherstone, Shadow Stevens, Brian Fantana (or any of the Anchorman names), etc….

People that think canning this guy is going to miraculously make us a playoff team don’t know the Ralph I know

I think you can him if you have an upgrade. Thats the only way – engage in talks behind the scenes with a Cowher and gauge his interest. or even another high profile coach.

If not – then stick with DJ.

If you can upgrade any position on a team you should do it – whether it be coaches, FO or players.

I have no problem with defending that play call, but I think its disingenuous to suggest that call alone is cause for Jauron’s dismissal. That play-call is emblematic of a lot of what many Bill’s fans I believe find frustrating with this team and Jauron. It is exhibit A in a long list of poor game time decisions and questionable play calling and bad time management that extends throughout Jauron’s tenure as coach. There is a pattern here that likely extends to Jauron’s time before coaching the Bills.

So defend him if you must (and personally I’m not sure what the right thing to do is) but I for one am sick and tired of the Bills nortorious ability to find ever more excruciating and tortuous ways to lose games. If there is an “art of losing”, the Bills have mastered it.

During the Bye week they should have worked on getting Marshawn to be the focus of the game plans going forward. They had 2 full weeks to look at tape and see the level of predictability we were putting out there. Yes we were 5-1 but it sure as hell was not a very pretty 5-1, late game comebacks should not be the foundation of your game planning. It’s Jauron’s fault for not guiding his coordinators. The coordinators work for him, not the other way around.

Then after the Miami debacle they should have re-adjusted – but they didn’t.
Then after the BRETTS debacle where Marshawn got a whopping 16y, Did Jauron adjust anything? Nooooo
By the time we played NE, it was hopeless to be a Bills fan because we were being guided by a blind man. Oblivious to what the job of a head coach really is and that’s to put your team in the best position to win football games.

Marshawn did not magically change in recent weeks, what changed was that the pressure to feed him the ball was so great that they actually kept feeding him the ball, more than 12 times and low and behold he started taking control of games and carrying the team on his back because that is exactly what he is, a franchise “FEATURE” running back.

Jauron should lose his job because he is not a HC, period. He has had 3 years in which to showcase what he clearly does not have and that is game smarts, a solid grasp for both sides of the ball, a clear vision of what he wants to accomplish and more importantly he has demonstrated over and over again that he is clueless at knowing how to prepare a team for a situational battle.

Joe P. , I can wholeheartedly support you spending more time with your family instead of watching Bills’ games. It seriously will pay you great long-term dividends and probably reduce your (anyone’s) stress level considerably (unless such a person doesn’t like their family much).

I rarely catch a whole game, and sometimes miss all of it. Win or lose, I catch the highlights and read the articles, but avoiding the actual games can have great benefits.

You should go with the Russian chick.

Wall Monkeys!

Then he threw a pick…. and still didn’t look miffed!!!!!!!!!!!! That bothered me more.

It’s also not just one play in Jauron’s case. It is the icing on the cake here, a cake made up of numerous coaching blunders, game mismanagement, clock errors, overconservatism, etc…

And the funny part about that ridiculous stance is it’s just because Sullivan is a child who plans on throwing a hissy fit until he gets his way. The new Batman action figure and achieving a firing of a head coach are equal goals in Sully’s mind, and he’ll do as much crying as possible to get either.

just look at Butch Davis, Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban etc………I think he can look around at his peers and realize his strength is in the college game. His offensive philosophy doesnt really translate to the NFL game – now his motivational game DOES translate, but I’d think he would be hard press to just hand over his offense to someone else….He’s too much of a hands on guy.

his style woulda been great in Buffalo.

But they hadn’t shown vast improvement. At least I never thought so. They were struggling mightily against teams like Oakland and St. Louis. The O struggled for much of those early games, but turned it on in the 4th Q’s.

I don’t know why they didn’t wait a little longer for the season to progress…

If it’s true, why? Why rush it? 6 games into the season??

It’s not like Jauron was this "hot commodity that could easily go elsewhere right? The context for him is probably the worse that it could ever be with Cowher, Schotty, Spags, Grimm, Fassel, Heimerdinger all possible options, poor Dicky would not be very popular.

So why rush it? Wait until at least 2/3rds of the season has passed before you tie the knot. It’s not like he did anything spectacular in the first 2 years and that it was simply a formality, he has been MEDIOCRE so why rush into it?

If Mr Wilson has to buy out the contract he should take some of the money from Russ who probably was the one rushing him to re-sign DJ. Russ, you as the COO should know better. You had lots of leverage over Dick and there was no need to rush into things, only negative PR could result from it. And I don’t want to hear the distraction argument because that’s bogus and everyone knows it. Dick Jauron for all his Head coaching deficientcies is a good man, a very honnerable & professional person and would have never let it become a distraction either in the media or with his players.

Pure and simple, Brandon screwed up big time! And you’d think Wilson would have known better too.

First: Guy is PRO-Scout and Modrack is College-Scout

I agree that Dan Connor would have been much better.

You are way to quick to pull the trigger on Hardy. Let’s give him another 1-2 years before we proclaim him to be a bust. Big receivers take time.

McCargo well… All that I can say is that I really wanted Ngata and we had our chance but our brains-trust at the time (Marv, Modrack & Jauron) chose Whitner. What really makes maters worse is when you consider what could have happened next:
a) We stay put at #42 and we could have drafted: Tony Scheffler or Greg Jennings
b) We still trade up and we could have drafted: Nick Mangold or Mathias Kiwanuka

I always liked Marv Levy, he is a stand-up guy. But he screwed-up big time with the 2006 draft. We would not be the same team today had they done their homework better. I definitely blame Modrack the most because it’s his team that builds the draft board and assigns the grading. Not sure that we can blame Marv for it other than thinking that a safety could help us more than a monster NT.

Anyway, I still hope that Wilson guts this team from top to bottom and brings in a guy like Cowher as a Head Coach / GM. We really need a guy who understands football around here cause we really set our team back in 2006! Ask yourself where we’d be today?