Buffalo Bills fans are like abused women... We keep going back knowing how things are gonna turn out, but we still tell everyone "this time they're gonna change!"Kristina Schmitt
As a Buffalonian I am embarrassed. As a Bills fan, disgusted. As a Bills fan from Buffalo I am not the least bit surprised. Dick Jauron misses the guillotine yet again.
After what seemed to be the most heart breaking, upsetting loss of the Jauron era in Miami, Bills fans did not think it could get any worse. Apparently we spoke too soon. Buffalo loses 6-3 in a gut wrenching heartbreaking loss to a, up until that point, winless team.
Now I know what you are thinking, there is no way Dick Jauron could survive this. But unfortunately enough for Buffalo fans he seems to be the Charlie Sheen of the NFL. The Teflon man, nothing sticks to him.
Jauron, a coach not even wanted by the ever losing Detroit Lions, seems to have found a niche within the Buffalo Bills organization. The scapegoat. He has become the man who constantly and willingly bears the weight of loss for an owner who refuses to spend any money, a team who can’t seem to get it together and a coach [himself] who can’t seem to find a winning season
As we all know, shit trickles down hill. Turk Schonert, although he should have been fired two years ago, was kept on for [most likely] use as a scapegoat when Jauron needed to save his ass.
The next logical step (other than firing himself) would be to replace his embattled quarterback Trent Edwards with a veteran free-agent such as Jeff Garcia (who ironically enough would probably have more of a playing rapport with wide receiver Terrell Owens, despite the off field drama which would most likely occur.)
Despite the three year losing streak, the fact that he hasn’t won a divisional game in god knows how long and the fact that he is the most wanted and probably despised man in Buffalo his team has stood by him. Publicly expressing their upset about constantly “letting Jauron down.” Admitting time and again that they are not performing to their potential, which they feel is a slap in Jauron’s face.
Any other team would have called Jauron out on the carpet and made it abundantly clear they wanted some real talent to lead them. In other words, throw them under the bus to save their own skin (much as they helped Jauron do with Turk Schonert.)
But I have surmised that they are unable if not unwilling to give up a coach who publicly accepts all the responsibility on his shoulders rather than assigning blame where it is due. They have a name for that, cowardice.
Last time the Buffalo Bills fired a Head Coach in midseason we were fortunate enough to obtain on Marv Levy. Look how well that panned out for us, while we did not win any of them, we were fortunate enough to appear in four consecutive Super Bowls. We wound up with some of the best players to ever play the game, let alone [for] the Bills.
These same NFL greats are now the same aging goliaths whose shadows hang heavy upon the team who is eclipsed by what they once were. These same players that had publicly embraced us last season when we started out 4-0. The momentous greats who now can’t stomach sitting through an entire game at home. They have even publicly come fourth saying what we have for a while now; these players are not fit to wear the Buffalo Bills uniform.
Unfortunately for Buffalo, Ralph C. Wilson Jr., the illustrious Patriarch of the NFL at 91 years old, who was pinnacle in the construction of the AFL-NFL merger, is not a Buffalo citizen, he is a citizen of Detroit. And seems to aspire (lately at least) to be no better than the 2008-2009, winless Detroit Lions.
But being now, and always (no matter what city they will reside in after Mr. Wilson’s eventual and unavoidable demise) a Buffalo Bills fan, I can only Hope that Chris Berman is right. I hope that I can be shown that “Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.”
Until next time Buffalo… Don’t drink anything I wouldn’t…
Mac The Bartender
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