OT: Bills fire Dick Jauron

by Vermont Cubs Fan on Nov 18, 2009 12:48 AM CST Comment 15 comments

The Buffalo Bills have fired Dick Jauron after a 3-6 start, just after being routed by the previously weak Tennessee Titans.

Link.

I can imagine that the Bills have not lived up to their own expectations. With the addition of Terrell Owens, and Trent Edwards, their offense was supposed to carry the team.

Instead, Jauron becomes the first coach dismissed during this NFL season. He 24-33 as a Buffalo Bills coach.

Buffalo's new coach will be Perry Fewell, who has never coached at all. He was previously Buffalo's defensive coordinator.

Any ideas as to what Jauron will do now? Also, any ideas as to which other coaches are on the hot seat and could be fired within the next few weeks?

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Bills certainly didn't live up to MY expectations

their my second favorite team. Obviously Jim Zorn will be fired at some point but he and Tom Cable are actually good bets to make it to the end of the season before they get fired. No one in our division will be fired (not head coaches at least). Kubiak is supposedly fired if his team misses the playoffs again but I for one think they’ll get there. Who knows about Norv Turner. Fox, Fisher, and Del Rio are candidates to be let go at the end of the season.

by Donald Driver on Nov 18, 2009 1:30 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

The only reason I’m not sure if Cable will get fired is if Al Davis can’t find a cause to fire him so he won’t have to pay him. There are a myriad of reasons that he should get canned but Al Davis has a history of trying to find ways to weasel out of paying a guy he’s fired.

Fisher is a lock to stay, imo. Zorn is a lock to be gone. Fox should definitely be canned cause I have never been impressed with him at all. I could go on and on detailing why but that’s another matter for another day. As for Turner and Del Rio, they’ll have to see how their seasons finish out.

Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb

by verno329 on Nov 18, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

All Packer fans

should route for the Bills just a little bit for obvious reasons. They’re probably my third favorite team just behind the Chiefs.

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by jobe on Nov 18, 2009 2:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Definitely

Cable probably won’t make the year. Zorn, I think, will survive until the end of the year then be canned. Mangini, is probably gone when the new GM (Holmgren?) steps in. And lastly, just a feeling, John Fox will be let go at the end of the year and replaced with Billy the Chin.

by PurpleJesus on Nov 19, 2009 7:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Forgot about Mangenius, thanks

It just seems like he’s already been fired doesn’t it?

by Donald Driver on Nov 19, 2009 10:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No doubt

The man is a walking zombie.

by PurpleJesus on Nov 19, 2009 5:14 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think Lovie....

I live by the WI IL state lines and know a ton of bear fans that all think he wiil be gone at the end of the season. I would agree with them in some areas. He has been calling the defensive plays and well their D has been awful!

by bizzle4 on Nov 19, 2009 6:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Michael Lombardis

always saying the Bears have trouble simply lining up in the right defense. Thats pretty damning to Lovie’s reputation as a good defensive coordinator. It’s really quite shocking how poor Lovie’s defense has been just based on his time in St. Louis and his first couple years in Chicago.

by jobe on Nov 19, 2009 8:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Here's the problem

Lovie’s got a nice fat contract. He’ll be fired at the end of next year at the earliest. He may not be a good coach, but they haven’t given him good players to work with recently either. Bears are essentially in crisis right now, can’t compete but can’t rebuild.

by Donald Driver on Nov 20, 2009 3:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Contracts..

they have never stopped teams from firing coaches before. The bears may be in bigger problems next year than this year Urlacher is a FA. I cant remember if Briggs signed an etension or if he is just playing with the franchise tag. So he my also become a FA and I am sure there are many more becoming FAs. Now if that was true I would think the bears would want to start new with everything. They are an older team and need to rebuild IMO. So I think for a team to rebuild it starts with the coach.

by bizzle4 on Nov 20, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Briggs is on like a 6-year contract or something

so they’re likely to franchis Urlacher. The question is not whether other teams will can them when they’re under contract it’s whether the cheap-ass bears will. I guess he’s making like 12 million a year or something.

by Donald Driver on Nov 20, 2009 1:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

hehe, as a Chicago area resident who reads about the bears alot in the newspapers

I cackle to think how Cutlers career will be wasted surrounded by the crap the Bears put around him

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by blackoutsox on Nov 20, 2009 4:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not so sure

why anyone has ever thought that Cutler is a talent to begin with. Some people are accusing Rodgers of being a stat guy who can’t win games when they have to look no further than Jay Cutler for the definition of this type of player. He’s got a big arm, true, but has he ever won at all?

Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb

by verno329 on Nov 22, 2009 3:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good point

The play by play guys for the Packers game talked about this today a bit. It’s crazy that so many people wnated to point out Rodgers inability to win games. It’s like people forget he was in his first year playing and had damn near close to failing units around him.

by packallday555 on Nov 23, 2009 1:01 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I am going to ditto Double D

except that the Bills are not my second favorite team. :P

I expected Jauron, Zorn, and MM to be on a very hot seat. The interesting thing is that there are a lot of good coaches out there, but are going to need a whole lot of money to make them change their mind.

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by Bush League All Star on Nov 18, 2009 8:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs