Coaches on the Hot Seat

by Ono on Nov 15, 2009 7:39 PM EST

I had an interesting experience on Saturday. I was talking with a buddy of mine about football. He is a diehard Green Bay fan and I own Rodgers in my fantasy league so we talked about Green Bay. He then made the comment that I thought was so funny. He said, "MIke McCarthy is on the hot seat. There's no one right now whose seat is hotter." What struck me as funny was that that's probably the discussion that's going on in the Packers' community. Of course I had to issue a corrective: Dick Jauron is on the hot seat and Jim Zorn has no seat.

Also this got me thinking about the upcoming coaching carousel. I think it is fair to say that of Bills fan I am up there with the most optimistic and I think Jauron should get at least one more year. But that aside, for those who want Jauron gone, and they have as good an argument as any, things are not looking so good. The reason is that there are just too many teams that will be searching for coaches that the usual suspects will have their pickings and Buffalo will not be at the top of anyone's list.

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The teams with hot seat coaches are:

Panthers

Bears

Brown

Bills

Green Bay

Houston

Jacksonville

Obviously, there is a lot of football left and some of these teams can redeem themsleves and their coaches. However, that's a lot of spots. One glaring issue with the Bills is Ralph Wilson's age. Clearly any established coach would want to be assured stability while they rebuild. With Mr. Wilson in his 90s, one can reasonably assume that his team will get sold in the next 5-10 years. Any coach that is looking to set down and do business will be scared away by the possibility of that instability. This is my chief reason for thinking that Jauron will return. DJ has a rebuilding project underway with many young key players. Mr. Wilson will probably decide to stick this one out and let the product bear fruit. As long as the team still plays hard and with passion, etc (Brian had the great post of how DJ could keep his job)

I hope he sticks with DJ for one more year. I just think there are too many pieces, players and relationships, that need time to grow (OC, QB, OLine, etc) and next year will be truly a make or break year because we should see the growth we've been waiting for and the depth that we've been building.

Just another great fan opinion shared on the pages of BuffaloRumblings.com.

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I was with you...

until the last paragraph and a half

by WhiskeySierra6 on Nov 15, 2009 9:18 PM EST reply actions

no! bad kitty!

Rookies are like teabags...you don't know what you're gonna get until you put them in hot water. -Harry Neale

by weswed51 on Nov 15, 2009 9:42 PM EST reply actions

Hmmmmmm......Let me think about this a minute so I can say this in just the right way

I hope he sticks with DJ for one more year.

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by Joe P. on Nov 15, 2009 10:47 PM EST reply actions

Why?

What reasons do you have that make you believe Jauron should get another year? I don’t know what relationships you want to cultivate. The majority of the players and coaches he’s brought in have been failures. This guy has had FOUR seasons to build this team, and he’s going to finish this season with his worst record yet. That’s not progress at all. There is no improvement on the field, only regression. And there are even fewer signs that Jauron could lead this team, or any team, to consistently play well and win. He’s a failure and needs to go.

One of the reasons you give for keeping Jauron is there will be a lot of competition for coaches? Wow. Talk about a defeatist attitude. If the Bills followed that approach, they deserve to continue losing. Instead of sticking with the same garbage that hasn’t worked, again, maybe the team should proactively go after a coach (after proactively going after a GM) instead of picking some retread off the scrap heap. This team can go after a young head coaching candidate if it wants. They just have to finally find the right guy. Sticking with the loser they have now is not an option.

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Nov 15, 2009 11:18 PM EST reply actions

There's no way Jauron is coming back

I even kind of like the guy. He has some good qualities, always gets the team to play hard, etc. And it’s not all on him. Fact is, the Bills are mostly getting beaten by teams that are just more talented than we are (only exception this year was the Cleveland loss). This is a bad team. But he does deserve some blame too (especially for sticking with Schonert after last season), and the bottom line is he’s had his chance. Time to move on.

by Applsoss on Nov 15, 2009 11:43 PM EST reply actions

O No!

You do realize that this isn’t Jauron’s first season…

by Pruitt on Nov 16, 2009 12:09 AM EST reply actions

There’s been huge turnover in the head coaching ranks for a couple years in a row and I don’t think that’s a trend that will change any time soon. So fire Jauron at the end of the year or fire him in five years and you’re still looking at the same problem of competing with a lot of other teams for a candidate.

Another thing to consider is that some of these potential firings would put good head coaches back into the pool of potential hires. Guys like Fox, Del Rio and Fisher would all find jobs somewhere (and any one of them would be a good hire in Buffalo) so those openings wouldn’t impact Buffalo like an opening in San Diego would.

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by kaisertown on Nov 16, 2009 1:13 AM EST reply actions

Tom Coughlin is very much NOT on the hot seat.

"you just have to know there's always going to be adversity. None of these games are going to be easy. Nothing will be given to us" - Paul Posluszny

by poz on Nov 16, 2009 2:58 AM EST reply actions

Agreed

They are hard to play but not hard to beat.
- Mike Lombardi on the Buffalo Bills

by Sluss88 on Nov 16, 2009 9:13 AM EST up reply actions

I would say at this point 7 of the teams mentioned have head coaches that are not on the hot seat. that could change but at some point but I don’t think the giants, titans, panthers, bears, green bay, jacksonville or the chargers will be looking for new head coaches next year.

by gatornation on Nov 16, 2009 8:03 AM EST reply actions