The grass IS greener

Get their QB
Get the Ball
Keep it when we got it
Get seven versus 3

Your analysis only reveals these simple football truths

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pretty ugly – however – i have zero confidence in DJ taking us to even the playoffs. let alone the big prize…so i can appreciate your views on DJ

the caring factor has been sucked out of me and i’m sure most of the fans are feeling the same way. i think we go from selling almost the most season tickets ever to the biggest drop in buying season tickets ever.

Three of those 4 teams will begin the 2009 season with a different coach than the one that started their failed 2008 campaign. The only team that endorses failure is Buffalo. When you look at it objectively, the grass is most definitely greener for fans of any other franchise. Dick Jauron has sucked the joy out of being a Bills fans and Ralph Wilson’s acceptance of failure has taken away any hope for improvement down the line. No dawn ever comes for a fan of a team coached by Dick Jauron, nor is one ever anticipated. It’s like it’s night all the time- all night forever.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. This sobering reality is why I expect no better than 5 or 6 wins this year. I believe next year a change will be made, since it HAS to be made. It should have been made last year, but instead we get more guaranteed losing.

It’s so sad that this franchise settles for such pathetic mediocrity. In fact, mediocrity might be an improvement. All we’ve seen is downright ineptitude. I have absolutely no hope under the current pathetic coaching staff. It’s sad. All I want now is a handful of good young player this offseason that the new coach can work with.

I really wish someone could provide a reason to believe there will be ANY differences between the past 3 years and this upcoming year. I see it getting worse before it gets better. The perpetual night is a perfect comparison. I’ve said it before, but being a Bills fan is like living in Alaska in January.

There’s the Nick we know and love.

but I agree with a lot of your complaints about Dick Jauron, but he really can only do so much. I think we as fans have come to realize the past few years that the talent we have at the end position is a lot worse than we thought and it has really hurt us. Our scheme could be called into question, but you can’t tell me that a DE other than Kelsey opposite Schobel couldn’t have made an impact. Also those offensive numbers have been skewed by horrible QB play with JP Losman, thanks to Donahoe, which set our team back for years.

The reality is that we have a coach who hasn’t shown much reason for optimism scheme wise or game management wise, but we are in the right direction talent wise. I’d take our talent situation certainly over the teams from that list and could name a bunch more as well. We have a QB that has shown promise and an emerging RB duo that should cause those offensive number to rise. Hopefully, the front office has realized the team’s major pass rush problems after this season, and with talent added to LB and DE our pass rush should be better, causing our secondary to look a lot better as result.

While our head coach’s resume is far from impressive, the direction of the personnel should at least stop you from sinking into doom and gloom. It could be worse…Losman could still be our QB.

Boy if I could write this is how I feel, I’ve been here for 49 years watching this team and have never-never felt like this. Your right they have sucked the joy out of being a Bills fan I have never been this down over a Bills team. The sad part is that I don’t see it changing next year and then we have to put up with a new coach and the change that that brings. So there will be losing seasons for at least the next 3-4 years. God help us!

is while Dick Jauron is the whipping, boy….it’s the 90 year old owner that settles for this mediocrity, forms an “inner-circle”, and signs contracts to play in Toronto. While I find Dick Jauron rather appealing because everyone else despises him so much, I contend the coach will not, cannot change this franchise. Until one voice of reason holds a true GM role no coach will succeed in Buffalo. Which is why I always say “what good HC on earth would come to Buffalo, have to deal with an incompetent "inner-circle” an owner that started Johnson over Flutie, and has to play 1 reg season game in Toronto a year????" Gimme a break. You can throw Dick Jauron to the wolves all you want, but it wont change the product, the organization failures, or the disgruntled pissing matches between the heads of the organization. Go ahead, fire DJ, bring in some schnob that is greedy enough fora HC gig and a $2 mill a year paycheck…..it won’t matter, cuz he’ll run into the same problems that Williams, Mularkey and Jauron have all faced. Instead of a uniform mission statement throughout the organization we have a chorus of terrible singers, that when they all sing together all that comes out is 7-9, 7-9, 7-9

“While I find Dick Jauron rather appealing because everyone else despises him so much”

I’m pretty sure that’s Ralph’s reason for keeping this reject around too…pure spite. I’m not sure why he’s so spiteful after all the years of loyalty from this fan base, but logic sure doesn’t dictate year four of this disaster. I agree that it starts with Ralph, but bad owners don’t get fired, bad coaches do. Our only hope, no matter how small that might be under Wilson, is a better coach.

I’m surprised the Colts and Bucs don’t have more sacks…. Chiefs too with Allen last year. The Colts have Freeney on one end and the Bucs have (had) this great defense… It should be noted they both play the Tampa Two.

As for fewest offensive TDs, the Rams and their playmakers in Jackson and Bulger with Holt and Bruce should have had more in the last few years…. really surprising.

are an overrated statistic. Sacks come a lot when teams miss assignments in OL blocking which inflate stats. Hurries, knockdowns, pass defensed by DL, are all stats that can be just as detrimental to an offense as sacks are. While I agree sacks are nice, more importantly is pressure. Doesn’t neccessarily have to be the amount of sacks you get. I mean hell the Bucs are right on that list and they drafted Gaines Adams #4 overrall. Drafting a DE won’t heal or fix any problems…..its a collective effort of scheme by the coaches and depth on the DL that leads to fresh capable personnel. You have to come with a variety of packages something our defense is sorely lacking

The only team that endorses failure is Buffalo.

That about sums up this Organization. The organization is conent with failure, thus they retain their failure of a head coach. Not much else to add, you hit all the points very very well. Good job. Rec’d.

as we all think……a couple of teams fired their coach that had a so so year, see Mangini. Everyone was hell bent about Cowher towards the end of the season but he said he doesn’t want to coach for another year….So why not sign the big Dick to one more year and then go after Billy boy. As mush as I too hate Juaron I will deal with him one more year if it means we will land Cowher

Over the past 3 seasons, as noted above, the Bills had 90 sacks. This works out to 30 per season or just under 2 (1.9) sacks per game. Games like the season opener against Seattle likely inflate the number as Buffalo rarely seems to get 2 sacks per game. Even isolating it to 50 sacks in 2 seasons (1.6) doesn’t drop the percentage all that much. (Cue jokes about there being no further to dig.) The lack of sacks is clearly an issue, and one—in Buffalo’s defense—best resolved with actual pass rushing DEs.

Let’s say that Buffalo drafts a DE or somehow lures one of the top DE free agents to join the Bills. If a rookie or FA added, say, 10 sacks to Buffalo’s bottom line (35 when 10 is added to the 25 average from the last 2 seasons) I think most of us would be quite pleased. (Keep in mind the 10 sack increase wouldn’t necessarily be all the sacks the hypothetical DE amassed—he could have 15 with the other defenders combining for 20.) That would be 2.2 sacks per game, a tad over 1/2 a sack more per game than the defense generates now.

If you’ve read my long winded offensive line write ups, you know that center has been a particularly problematic area for the Bills. (I still have 2 games to get to from this season and 2 games from last season weren’t completed as my recorder died.) Over the past two seasons (28 games have been reviewed), Buffalo’s centers have combined to kill 56.5 plays, or 2.0 killed plays per game.

By way of comparison, Peters, over the past two seasons, has killed 27 total plays. I think a good center—either drafted or acquired in free agency—could cut the number of killed plays at the center position to the same proportion: basically 1 killed play per game.

So, adding an effective DE would increase the number of sacks by about 1/3 (from 1.6 to 2.2 per game) whereas adding an effective center would cut the number of plays killed by that position in half (2.0 to 0.96 per game).

Give me the center.

Yes, yes, yes! I would rec this 3 or 4 times if I could.