not even worth the effort to respond

I’d like to see a D that can stop the run before I pronounce this unit “solid”.

Agreed, the O-Line does need to grow up, and that’s one of the things I look forward to watching develop over the next few years.

But I have to believe there are better options for coach out there.

Sorry.

I think Jauron is a lot like Fisher. They both have the same mindset about defense, seeing how both were DB. I feel they have very similar coaching styles as well. Fisher is not a in your face kinda guy. Fisher’s teams have never really had great offenses as well. Defense wins championship, and I feel if we plugged some players in a few places we would have a great defensive unit. Again this is all just my opinion.

but do yo uremember how bad our run blocking was last season????

Thats building your team up for failure

Maybe in the short run, but the guys they got rid of weren’t making this team any better in the long run, except Peters. Peters played his ‘get out of jail free’ card and left town. He was not expelled by Jauron, et al. He wanted out.

The guys they have now are a work in progress but for the most part seem to have the chops to play at a high level. As is Buffalo’s tendency under Jauron I think our rushing attack gains effectiveness each week after the bye.

So the question is if DJ had another year would it work?

I’m not saying it will work, and the odds are deffinatly against it working. The point is in your first paragraph. Turning this team over will not help make the playoffs for the next 2-3 seasons.

I’m hoping that during the bye week we can work with our OL, and get them healthy(along with the rest of the team). Maybe then we can see the Bills team from the first two weeks of the season.

IF you have coaches and players worth keeping…There’s a reason guys like April, Evans, Schobel, McGee, Peters, Reed all made it through a regime change. They were worth keeping. When there were that few guys worth hanging onto, what good was continuity?

Same thing now, though there are more players worth hanging onto.

The comparisons to Fisher and Belichick aren’t worth making. Fisher had a young, first round QB that was steadily improving, and a team that showed signs of life/improvement, unlike our Bills. Belichick coached some bad Browns teams and you don’t see many coaches succeed after a start like that, but if I recall correctly they had a decent season or two. He was young and still an up and coming HC. Jauron is neither.

I also think its a bit of a copout to say that we’ve lacked depth because of regime and scheme changes. We see other teams build depth quickly even after changes, so why can’t ours do that? Poor player evaluations, especially pro personnel, and mediocre drafts.

I think the downside of firing Jauron is minimal

pretty much all that needs to be said

Thank God for this comment. Rec’d.

Point 1 – You focused on choices in your critique. That’s rare when people are venting about Jauron. All that other crap is meaningless. THESE are the real issues, and his choices have led the team to where they are now. I’d add in his inability to find a quality offensive coordinator to that critique as well.

Point 2 – It will probably be a moot point, because no NFL team is likely to give Jauron a head job if he’s fired from here, but I still, and will always and forever, maintain that Jauron could have been a championship-level coach in a stable environment with a GM who supported him. He didn’t have that in Chicago, where he was essentially a prolonged lame duck after Jerry Angelo arrived, because Angelo couldn’t do what he really wanted to do (i.e. fire Jauron) after that 13-3 season. And I don’t think the vast majority of Bills fans understand just how unbelievably screwed up Ralph Wilson’s front office is. Jauron’s kind of had to make a go of it on his own in Buffalo, and that’s not his fault – it’s Wilson’s.