From: un032221@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Levy must go?
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:27:19 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

In article <BvrABL.1vt@encore.com>, bderolf@encore.com (Brad DeRolf) writes:
> 
> This unbelievable thread about Levy. I've heard the same crap about Shula.

	When?  Shula coaches his team, Levy just sits on the sideline, yells at
the refs, and soaks up the credit.  For the last two to three years, the Bills
have had more talent than anyone, yet have not come away with a SB title.  Who
to blame?  The Coach.  This guy never makes adjustments, hell he doesn't even
call plays anymore!  Marchibroda, and Kelly did it last year, and Levy only
interjects occasional plays, usually in situational stuff.  The Bills are
extrememly poorly coached, and it scares me what they could do if a decent
coaching staff paced the Buffalo sidelines.
> 
> My 1st question always is: Who would you replace him with? 
> Who has a better track record than Levy? Buffalo hadn't done crap till
> he got there. 
> 
But where did that track record come from?  Was it Levy, or the fact that
Levy's team is basically the AFC pro Bowl team assembled, not by Levy, but by
GM Bill Polian.  Buffalo hadn't done crap because the team lacked the pieces,
Polian, not Levy brought the pieces in, but Levy has yet to assemble the pieces
into the team that they can be.  I would replace him with a defensive minded
coach, like Bud Carson in Philly, or Richie Petitbon of Washington.  Whomever
it is, make sure it is someone that is willing to do SOMETHING come gameday,
and makes preparations, and adjustments in the game plan to deal with
individual opponents.
	I never see the Bills vary from their standard routine.  Since
Marchibroda started the no-huddle, what new wrinkles have the Bills even used
for one game?  I can't think of any.  The players are doing their job, but Levy
is not, he's not even a great motivator, or player's coach.

> I am quite happy about Levy taking Dean S. away from the Dolphin's Defensive
> line though. Shula picking up "Mean" Joe Greene and Dwight Stevenson to
> coach the defensive and offensive lines was a real plus in my book.
> But other than that how much can you fault Levy? He still needs better
> defense (coaching maybe?). On Miami's 1st drive on the second half, Miami 
> committed something like 4 penalties and still converted 1st downs. Any quality
> defense does not give TDs on drives where the offense commits 4 or more
> penalties.
> 
Levy and Shula are completely different.  It is like comparing apples and
oranges.  You are trying to compare the Dolphins, a historically disciplined
team with a coach that changes his philosophy to the times (Shula was a run
freak before Marino, but recognized Marino's ability and converted to a passing
guru, now he has both, and has a great ball control system that beat Buffalo),
with the Bills, a talent packed team that tried to execute the same winning
formula week in and week out, and the way the Bill's talent argues with itself
(both three years ago as the Bickering Bills, and before the super bowl) Levy
obviously does not have his players well disciplined.

> Something else angry Buffalo Fans ought to think about. The NFL is very tight
> and luck decides the real close games. Wide by 6 inches could have just as
> easily been inside the upright and Buffalo would have taken one home for the
> AFC. Of course they wouldn't have made it back to the Super Bowl because
> the fire would be gone.
> 
Certainly, but if the Bills had been properly prepared before the game, or made
adjustments to cope with what the Giants were doing, the game would not have
come down to that field goal.

> Miami .vs. Buffalo last week. Miami facing 3rd and 16, Marino to Banks,
> Banks tips the ball 4 yards short of the marker and Clayton hauls it in
> for a 1st down. An INT and we might have a different script. It was only 17-10
> at that point.
> 
If, if.  What if Clark had not caught The Catch, or the Immaculate Reception
had never happened.  The win was 37-10 correct?  even though that catch would
have flipped momentum, and Buffalo may have woken up, Miami still outplayed the
Bills in virtually every immaginable way.  The Bills were unnable to handle the
wrinkles that the Dolphins threw at them, due to poor coaching.  Well coached
players can handle unnexpected situations, poorly coached ones get confused.
Also, the Dolphins were disciplined well enough that they may have been able to 
continue their dominance, unnaffected by the INT.  So the INT may have made it
30-17, still a decisive win.

> 
> My twenty cents worths.
> 
My three nickels, five pennies worth.

> Just Happy the Fins are almost always in the game and are part of the
> BIG picture this year. NO INJURIES, PLEASE!
> 
It is nice to see Don's fish in the list of contenders again, it brings a
nostalgic glow to the game.

> Go Fins.
> Go Canes.
> Heat adds Salley and Baby Jordan!!!
> Marlins.

	-Skins fan the thinks Rypien is overrated.