I know Brian has written about it a few times……Jauron is the type of coach who likes to try to create turnovers on defense while playing a sound mistake free offensive football…that 2001 year everything fell into place for him……opportunistic defense and solid offense.

Problem is though when you DONT play solid mistake free offense you dont give your team a chance to win……..because well its not a RUN AND GUN, sling it all over the field type of offense you need to comback with when your defense finally breaks after only bending for 3/4ths of the game.

Again the concept is solid……the execution seems to ALWAYS be the problem though.

As for Jauron not changing…………uh do you not remember the NO-HUDDLE experiement?

He did try…..it just failed, so he’s trying to go back to what he knows…..It’s unfortunate because I truly believe Jauron is a great leader/manager of men…….there’s just some disconnect between the planning to the implementation to the execution of his concept.

I’ve not wanted Jauron gone until this year. Again – thought he could adapt. He can’t. Has he tried yes. And failed.

The concept is NOT solid. Jauron, by evidence, has no concept of a productivve NFL offense. D, yes. O No.

The proof is in the pudding.

I"m a pretty fair, and not knee jerk reaction guy. But when you sit down and look at it, Dick Jauron’s idea of an NFL offense is really beyond non existent.

6-10, 5-11, 4-12 and 7-9.

And the offense failing is my point. and it just keeps repeating itself. whether in chi or buffalo.
the man’s idea of NFL offense simply does not work. history shows that.

No, he is not doing “that stuff.” But, the fact remains that he was the head coach of a Chicago team, that on offense bears an eerie, awful similarity to the present Bills. That is the point I am trying to make.
Spin it any way you like. The results are the same. 10 first downs. Less than 100 yards passing. Holding to field goals early and then losing. Good D. Horrorific O.
Dick Jauron football. Seen time after time after time. Draw the curtains.

but like I said I “billeve” the way he tries to win can be successful……….but its just not logical to assume that you can play a perfect offensive game each and every week..(which is the way I believe he prepares)….which is why he’s more of a 5 – 7 win coach each year on average……..

It’s definitely been a pattern with Jauron. I think it’s obvious that the intentions are in the right spot and I don’t think the ideas, gameplans, schemes, whatever are bad either. They’re not good and they somehow manage to turn creative ideas and plays into routine stops for a defense, but I don’t think they’re terrible either.

In Chicago, I think Jauron got screwed over by the whole Cade McNown situation. Jauron was forced into drafting him by ownership and he was terrible. Jauron got stuck playing McNown when he didn’t want to and the Bears went 11-21 during the two seasons where DJ had to play him. Injuries also forced him to play both Shane Matthews and Jim Miller at times during those season as they both attempted over 100 passes in 1999 and 80 passes in 2000. That offensive personel was a recipe for disaster and it was something that Jauron had very little control over.

I believe that a huge reason for Chicago’s 2001 success was that DJ didn’t have to play McNown and was able to settle on Jim Matthews as his starter. Of course that team fell apart in 2002 with Miller back behind center as the run game collapsed and the defense gave up 350 yards and 24 points per game.

It’s a bit of a shame that Jauron never had a chance to coach a good QB or even pick his own QB in the first round of a draft. Instead he’s had veteran retreads, first round busts that he didn’t draft and Trent Edwards. Maybe Jauron could be a consistent 9-7 coach of underachieving teams instead of being a consistent 7-9 coach of overachieving defenses covering for bad offenses if he actually had a good QB.