Trent Edwards stood in front of reporters on Sunday and said his team would bounce back. Trent said the team has a head coach (Dick Jauron) that the players rally around. He said times of adversity are when people show what they are made of. Am I missing something?
Rally around Dick Jauron? Since the decision to punt late in the game against the Saints this Bills team has appeared to, dare we say, quit? Check out mentally? How else do you explain getting run over in that 4th quarter. That was followed by an abysmal effort in Miami. And the topper, of course, one of the worst exhibitions of football we have seen in the 50 years of Bills football. 13 penalties. Mental miscue on a late kick, again. A loss to a Browns team that had not won since….well since the last time they stole one from the Bills.
This team might just be so lacking in talent and playmakers that Bill Belichcik couldn’t make it work. But that we will never know. What we do know is that it is not working with Dick Jauron. The few veterans he has have either gotten injured (Mitchell, Whitner, Posluszny) been cut (Walker) or have become somewhat invisible (Owens and Evans).
People have told me that it does no good to make a move now. I disagree. Make the change. Put Bobby April or Perry Fewell in charge. That would allow the Bills to immediately begin negotiating with the wonderful list of available people to turn this thing around. Get on the phone with Bill Cowher. Fly out to see Mike Shanahan. Catch up with Mike Holmgren What is the worst they can tell you? No? Then I would get one of them under contract by late November as Director of Football. I would allow them to monitor the team, but not coach. Not yet. At the end of the season, the new football king would make a call on a coach (maybe take over himself) and set the course for a different future.
