Bills fire head coach Dick Jauron
Posted by Anthony Stalter (11/17/2009 @ 3:14 pm)
According to NFL.com, the Buffalo Bills have fired head coach Dick Jauron after starting the season 3-6.
Defensive coordinator Fewell Perry is expected to become the Bills’ interim head coach, a Bills source told NFL.com’s Vic Carucci.
In just short of four seasons with the Bills, Jauron compiled a record of 24-33 (.421 winning percentage). The Bills failed to make the playoffs in each season under Jauron. Buffalo has not made the playoffs since 1999, the longest active streak for a non-expansion team.
On Monday, defensive end Aaron Schobel questioned the Bills’ lack of direction with seven games remaining in their season.
“It’s embarrassing,” said Schobel, the longest-tenured player on the Bills roster, a day after a 41-17 loss at Tennessee dropped Buffalo’s record to 3-6. “I mean, we’re technically, mathematically still in it, I guess, but it’s like what … are we doing here?”
Speaking within earshot of several Bills officials near the entrance of the locker room, Schobel expressed his frustration, but stopped short in explaining what he thinks the franchise’s problems are by saying: “That’s about all I can say without saying what I want to say.”
Terrell Owens posted this on his Twitter page roughly about the same time the news broke:
Wassup everytweeter? It’s a beautiful day n the neighborhood here n good ‘ol Buffalo!
Now, that could be a genuine statement by T.O. but then again I don’t know how many beautiful days there are in Buffalo in the middle of November. So my guess is that Owens is a fan of this news.
Jauron did nothing to help the Bills succeed over the past couple years and it was painfully obviously that he wasn’t moving the team in the right direction. They got off to a hot start last year but fell apart shortly thereafter because opponents started to figure out ways to stop Trent Edwards (which isn’t hard) and Jauron and his coaching staff never made adjustments.
I’m sure he’ll catch on as a coordinator or assistant somewhere next year, but he’s likely done as a head coach at the NFL level.
The Bills are similar to the Browns in that they need a complete makeover, starting with the front office down to the players. I highly doubt Perry Fewell is the answer, which means Ralph Wilson needs to get to work on finding a permanent replacement in the offseason.
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Blogging the Bloggers: Candyman weds, sad Mets fan, and more
Posted by John Paulsen (09/28/2009 @ 7:22 pm)
- SPORTS BY BROOKS has photos from Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian’s wedding. We here at The Scores Report wish the couple the happiest of marriages, but we put the over/under at about 18 months (which is about 18x as long as these two have known each other)>
- DEADSPIN introduces us to the Mets’ saddest fan.
- YOU BEEN BLINDED says that Brett Favre’s game-winning TD against the 49ers actually makes him worthy of discussion.
- PRO FOOTBALL TALK suggests that Randy Moss may be back to his old ways — lollygagging.
- THE SPORTING BLOG reports that Terrell Owens likes to talk trash to Rodney Harrison via this thing called “Twitter.”
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T.O. blaming Garrett, Romo for running him out of Dallas
Posted by Anthony Stalter (05/25/2009 @ 10:40 am)
Now that Terrell Owens is in Buffalo, he’s putting what happened in Dallas behind him and moving on.
Just kidding – he’s making sure that everyone knows he wasn’t to blame for his release in the Big D.
Via Rotoworld:
Terrell Owens is blaming Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and quarterback Tony Romo for running him out of Dallas.
Answering a fan who said he was unhappy that T.O. left Dallas, Owens tweeted: “Neither ws i, blame the OC & romo!! but i’m happy 2 b where i am but i miss the other guys tht were & r true teammates!!”
That’s pretty impressive that T.O. managed to blame both Jason Garrett (the “OC” Owens’ is referring to in his tweet) and Tony Romo in the characters allotted to send a tweet. And might I add, I think it’s great that we’ve become a nation that has found a way to shrink the written word down to only letters to convey a message. Only in today’s society can we look at “ws i” and know that the person writing the message meant “was I.” Awesome.
Getting back on topic, I wouldn’t be totally surprised if both Garrett and Romo did play a part in T.O.’s demise in Dallas. But Owens didn’t help himself by constantly trying to disrupt the chemistry in the locker room and bitching at Garrett that he wasn’t getting the ball enough. In the end, there were many factors that led to Owens getting the boot. But what’s great (and when I say great, I mean infuriating) about T.O. is that he never points the finger at himself. It’s always someone else’s fault.
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