Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson is taking a huge gamble in keeping Dick Jauron on for another year, and the erstwhile Swampscott High standout – knowing enough about him to know – is undoubtedly thankful that Pat Bowlen or Woody Johnson aren’t signing the checks.First, for those who don’t follow these things, rest assured that the Bills fan base is up in arms over this. The fans saw that the Broncos took a huge step and fired a guy who’d won them two Super Bowls (Mike Shanahan) while the Jets canned a guy who, after three years, had a winning record, got his team to the playoffs once, and missed it this year (I think) because the quarterback his superiors brought in started playing like the 39-year-old guy he is.Yet Jauron stays, even though his track record – compared even to Eric Mangini’s – doesn’t stack up.So to say the natives are getting restless is putting it mildly. Jauron can be thankful that Wilson is a bit of a skinflint, and that the idea of a buyout probably gave him a rash. Also, there is something to the idea that teams will never progress in any sport as long as there is a continuous coaching carousal. And that’s certainly been the case with the Bills since Marv Levy hung them up.That is the professional, non-partisan, totally objective point of view. Teams that begin at 5-1 and end at 7-9 generally don’t keep their head coaches. Collapses like that are usually grounds for dismissal, as evidenced by what happened to Mangini with the Jets. They were 8-3 at one point and ended up 9-7. And in his case, the suspicion here is that Brett Favre and his Kryptonite parted ways midway through the season. Mangini didn’t do anything outwardly egregious to precipitate the Jets’ collapse other than to preside over it.There’s evidence (and if you read the Buffalo papers it just cries out to you) that Jauron has an issue with clock management, and that as popular a guy as he appears to be with his players, he’s not enough of a reptile to be a truly successful head coach (a problem Wade Phillips of the Cowboys also seems to have).The Tony Dungys of the world are few and far between. Most of the time, successful coaches in the NFL have to have a bit of a malevolent streak in them that makes players tread lightly around them.And this is what Bills fans want. They want someone with a tougher image so they can have the satisfaction of knowing that even if the team stinks, the players are being whipped soundly by their coach for stinking.It’s an easy assumption to make – that if you yell loud enough and act mean enough, your team will respond with victories. But of course, it’s the wrong assumption.Just because Vince Lombardi was a screamer and a taskmaster, and won, doesn’t mean that’s the way everyone has to do it.And to anyone with any doubts, I give you Ron Meyer, who came to the Patriots with the reputation as a “disciplinarian” but beyond getting the team snow plow driver to clear out a spot for John Smith in 1981, didn’t really do much of anything else.Perhaps Wilson realized that many of Jauron’s problems stem from the team’s dismal reputation for identifying talent. After all, Jauron’s been stuck with JP Losman for the entire three years he’s been in Buffalo. Why? Why was Losman the only guy available after Trent Edwards went down? Whose idea was it to keep him, long after it became obvious Losman couldn’t play?Maybe by keeping Jauron, Wilson was acknowledging that he and his football operations people have been dealing their coach a mediocre hand ? and that’s why it continues to have a mediocre record.Perhaps Jauron could use someone on the sidelines to help him with clock management. Maybe he needs an offensive coordinator he can trust so he doesn’t overrule him at critical junctures of games and turn victory into defeat.All I know is that in this corner of the world, we have darn few people who go on to attain the type of success Jauron’s achieved. And whether he comes from Lynn, Swampscott or Timbuktu, I’m happy that h