by Matt Soreco on September 4, 2009
Laugh!
They fired their offensive coordinator today. 10 days before their first game. Thus proving this is a league of imitators (KC and Tampa did the same just days ago).
I’ve been hard on Jauron since last season. I should have been equally if not more hard on where this mess should be blamed on. Ralph Wilson.
That’s right. HOFer Ralph Wilson is a lousy meddling owner.
The only way the Bills will ever be a winning team again is they clear house. Entirely. Including the owner relinquishing all football related decisions.
Year after year we see patchwork. Scapegoats. You know what? The wrong people have taken the blame. Ralph needs to hire better FO personnel. The real FO personnel need to hire a real coach. The real coach needs to make every decision about his staff. The coach and FO together need to dump all dead weight on the roster and truly start over.
No one should stay. Not a single soul.
Sunk costs. That’s the dilemma the Bills are in perpetually. They can’t hang on to failures (front office, coaches, players) just because they are owed money. It becomes a vicious cycle of sub-mediocrity.
by Matt Soreco on September 3, 2009
I was absolutely floored tonight when it was announced that the Bills were going to rest most of their starters for their last preseason game.
They don’t call Dick Jauron’s camps “Club Jauron” for nothing. He’s soft. So are his teams.
You have to be crazy to rest a starting unit who looked absolutely horrible the last two games, and not much better the previous two. You should practice more to prepare for the Patriots. And hope you at least half the slaughtering that’s going to take place on Monday night.
Dick Jauron, you must be pleased with the performance so far. I guess that’s why you’ve only coached one winning season your entire career.
Oh Dick Jauron, you never learn. Here’s a fitting quote for you:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein
Here’s to a well rested 3-13 Bills team.
by Matt Soreco on March 31, 2009
Here’s another angry post from me. The last one was aimed at Mac vs. PC stupidity. This one is aimed at Facebook vs. Twitter stupidity.
Let me first ask something. Which is the best, the phone or e-mail?
You’re probably saying wait, they are different and do different things. You can’t say one is absolutely better than the other. You can say one does some things better, and so does the other.
Right. Same goes for Twitter and Facebook.
The way I see it, Facebook is for sharing personal details, photos and events with friends to keep them up-to-date on what’s happening in your life (and vice versa). Twitter on the other hand is for sharing messages and topics to a wider group (and to follow topics and trends).
Sure there is some overlap (like phone and e-mail are for communication), but they are vastly different. In my opinion anyway.
The social media experts pondering Twitter vs. Facebook really need to step back and observe how each are used so differently. I guess when you are wrapped up in the mix, it blinds you from the obvious.
I REALLY need to start to pare down what blogs and people I follow. Or be more careful with who I consider an expert.
by Matt Soreco on March 27, 2009
I touched on this topic few times before.
Maybe I’m getting crankier with age. I dunno. Or maybe I’m following too many “experts’” blogs and twitters. Because I find myself getting angry at harebrained thoughts and opinions from said experts and thought leaders. In the blogosphere and twitterspere, things seem to either suck or are Godlike, and nothing in between.
My latest pet peeve comes from the backlash Microsoft is getting for their ads that say PCs are more affordable. They are!
The backlash comes from real techies, Apple fanboys, and Microsoft (“big guy”) haters.
Sidenote: I despise haters. Sounds hypocritical, I know…
Guess what? It all comes down to value.
A graphic designer is going to value Macs. Apple fanboys would value a pile of garbage if Apple put it out–which it wouldn’t, I admire Apple’s quality. Techies are going to value any machine that is nanoseconds faster than the other even if the speed isn’t apparent to the naked eye.
There are many more people who value a Mac over a PC. Good for them. As long as you find value, then you’ll pay up until what it’s worth for you.
But you need to shut up and understand why people value PCs.
There is a great remainder of computer users who simply want to boot up, jump on the internet, e-mail, use Word and Excel, save some pictures, and do a lot of other basic things. A PC is of tremendous value to them. Why spend a grand on a mac when you can do what you want on a PC for less than half the cost? Maybe I can take a sip of coffee with the 10 seconds that a PC takes to boot up longer than a Mac.
And about viruses. Knock on wood, I’ve never gotten any. And in the 15+ years I’ve owned and used PCs, I had only one major crash that resulted in some lost data. Hey I learned the importance of backing up–which can also be important in case of theft, fire, flood, etc. Yeah, so there were plenty of not so serious crashes, but they seem to be in line with other devices I’ve owned (gaming systems, cell phones, G1 phone, vcrs, DVRs, DVD players, even cars!). Everything hiccups from time to time. EVERYTHING! Hey didn’t an IPhone update brick phones a while back?
And let me be clear. I’m not loyal to Microsoft (except for Excel which I can’t live without). If something more VALUABLE TO ME comes along, I’ll be on it. Also, I’m a Google junkie (seems like there aren’t a lot of Google junkies who have the same view of Microsoft as I do). So if Google came up with something of equal or greater value, I’ll be on it (Google Docs and Spreadsheets are light years away from Word and Excel).
