The Juaron era is a joke
The Buffalo Bills loss today pretty much has ended their hopes for a birth in the playoffs. The loss also confirmed that the Dick Juaron era is nothing more than a joke.
The loss is clearly on the shoulders of the coaches. Miike Schoop questioned Sunday wether the Bills have any decent players. The answer to that qestion is yes.
When managers forecast their sales for the upcoming week they take into account many factors. One of them is actually the weather.
The Bills coaching staff on the other hand did not take that into account.
Any person that has played high school football understands that when it rains you have to run the ball. Especially, when it is almost at the freezing point, and when is consistent for a long period of time.
The reason is the ball gets so slick, and it is very hard to control. Also, when it is raining consistently you have nothing dry your hands on to get a better grip, because everything gets wet. I know this is true, because I played center in high school, and rain is your worst enemy.
The Bills most likely have multiple dry towels in a bag, but when you are on a long drive the towel gets wet, and you cannot change it.
The mere fact that the Bills quarterbacks threw for over two hundred yards is amazing. Of course it would have been higher if Edwards was in there the whole game.
When the Bills coaching staff saw that it was raining they should have thrown the game plan out the window. However, their own arrogance got in the way, and decided to still pass the ball.
Last week the win gave them so much confidence that offensive coordinator Turk Schonert thought that he could run whatever he wanted.
The biggest example of this is on fourth down and two from the San Francisco seven. On the play the Bills ran a crossing route, which was pointed out by announcers was open.
However, on the replay what they failed to show was when wide receiver Lee Evans was lined up to the left of the formation the corner was off him at least five yards, and a simple audible to a wide receiver screen, or three step drop, would have got the first down, and maybe even a touchdown.
Defensively, the way defensive coordinator Perry Fewell game planned Shaun Hill was pathetic. The last two weeks Fewell blitzed a lot, and finally last week it paid dividends in a turnovers by the Kansas City Cheifs.
This week Fewell went back to what he did in the first three loses in the Bills huge free fall. That being only rush four, with zone coverage.
On the positive side if there was one game the Bills could afford to lose is was this one. The reason being that it was a NFC opponent, and had no bearing on conference tie breakers.
Also, the Bills got a lot of help from opponents. The New York Jets lost to the Denver Broncos, and the New England Patriots lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
As everyone knows the key to the season coming down the stretch is the rest of their division matchups, and not San Francisco.
So, hopefully this will be a wake up call to the coaching staff, and they will realize that they have to do what the team is good at. Defensively, blitz people to death, and offensively run the ball, and use playaction off of it.
If the coordinators come in with the same game plan, then they should be nothing short of fired.
Unfortunately, firing Juaron means that you only got two options. A rookie head coach that Wilson can get for cheap, or a retread.
If there is any retread out there that should be given a chance is Jim Fassel. He been to the Superbowl, and understands that it is great quarterback play, and good play calling from your coodinators, that makes a head coach good.
Also, head coaches have to be a jerks. The reason comes from Phil Sims book. When a coach is nice players will do what they wants. So, I realized that coaching is like parenting, and you have to be strict if you want them to do what their suppose to do the first time, and in football you have to excute things the first time.
So, with it being crunch time for the Bills expect them to crumble, unless the coordinators take their heads out of their rear, and coach better.