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Here are some facts that will blow your mind. I know they caught me off guard, because I haven’t really paid much attention to Dick Jauron’s coaching career.
If he coaches seven more games, Dick Jauron will rank in the top fifty all-time in games coached in the NFL. Take a moment and let that sink in for a bit, before we get to the names around him.
Now, take another moment, and let it sink in some more. Top fifty all-time. No, really, think about it.
Since he debuted in 1999, the only men who have coached more games are Andy Reid, Jeff Fisher, Jon Gruden, Tony Dungy, Mike Holmgren, Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan, and Bill Belichek.
So far this year, he has passed Doug’s boy Wally Lemm, Vince Lombardi and Bobby Ross in games coached. He will pass Steve Mariucci, Joe Kuharich, John Madden, John Robinson, Brian Billick, and Jimmy Johnson if he can avoid the axe for seven more games. He will then rank right behind Buck Shaw and Bill Walsh in games coached.
Only Norm Van Brocklin has a lower winning percentage than Jauron’s among coaches currently in the top 50 in games coached. And Van Brocklin basically coached two expansion teams: the Vikings for the first six years of their existence, and the Falcons starting in their third season. He had five non-losing seasons. Jauron has one.
I am actually hoping that the Bills show signs of life, rebound for a good stretch, and that Jauron makes it to the end of the season. It's like a poker hand where you've hung around too long. Why fold now, at the river? You've put a lot of chips in the pot, let's just make sure that they've got your 10 high beat.
At this point, we are pot committed on Dick Jauron finishing in the top fifty, so let's make it happen. Please.
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Wow! Sounds like it's high time for the Bills to move on.
How Dick Jauron ever got a job after the Bears I will never understand. From refusing the play rookies, to asking for Kordell Stewart as his QB. to sticking with John Shoop as his OC,....I could go on.
My hope is that the Packers or Vikings fire their HCs and decide that he would be the man to turn things around.
Yet for some reason he has been crowned as a great teacher of the game and a master game planner in the national media.
I don't get it at all.
Jauron -- one winning season in nine, so far -- is the perfect warning example of the high cost of mistaking luck for skill.
Let me tell the tale in words lifted from Wikipedia...
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In his first two seasons, the Bears finished last in the NFC Central with 6–10 and 5–11 records.
Jauron, however, led the greatest turnaround in team history during his third season.
In their 13-3 2001 campaign, Chicago finished 8-0 in games decided by seven points or less, including back-to-back overtime victories. [My emphasis]
Jauron was named the 2001 AP Coach of the Year and became the third coach in team history to record at least 13 wins in a season, joining George Halas and Mike Ditka...
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Close games are determined by LUCK folks. If you want the final proof, here it is.
In the one season when he'd have been 9-7 if he broke 50-50 in them (which would have been his winningest season ever!) he rolled lucky a few times, went 8-0, and became...
NFL Coach of the Year ... Leader of the Greatest Turnaround in Franchise History ... A winner compared to Halas and Ditka.
Because as we all know, "winning close games" is the great test of character and leadership.
So after time runs out on him in Chicago he's able to get another HC job in Buffalo because, "A recent Coach of the Year is available, and look at that record in close games, we gotta consider this guy."
[How he got his contract renewed in Buffalo is a mystery to me, I'll admit.]
W-L record in 3-point games...
Vince Lombardi with the Packers: 50%
Bill Walsh with the 49ers: 42%
Vince Tobin with the Cards: 75% -- #1 all-time among coaches with 64 games or more. In close games 15-5, in other games 13-38.
It's bad enough to believe a myth, to invest in one can be really costly.
Nice poker analogy.
Dick will not be fired until the end of the season, you watch. Ralph likes to honor contracts, it's the type of guy he is. After that, well who knows, can we say Toronto Bills????
Cheerio, chaps!
If close games shouldn't count for success then any worthwhile analysis of Jauron's coaching career would then throw out all the close games, not just the ones from his 13-3 season.
Another close win for Dick Jauron.
Lose, Bills, lose. It's the only way to avoid eternal mediocrity. With yesterday's win over the Jets, Jauron's contract will probably be extended again.
I want this guy fired. If they don't want to fire him, at least demote him to being the guy who cleans the men's room after games. Remind me not to use that particular can, though. If Jauron cleans like he coaches, no way would I trust to make things sanitary.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Couldn't they have waited three more weeks?
Right now there is not enough time or money to develop most franchises. That tends to be very hard on coaches. Their insurance, in my opinion, is in making sure the clock is managed correctly, and, in restricting penalties to zero tolerance. They can't control injuries and it isn't their wallet that purchases talent.