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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/...ew/si/steelers/ "To improve an attack that ranked among the league's worst in total and passing yards, and scoring, Donahoe brought 14 offensive linemen to camp, the most ever during his seven-year tenure. After only two days of practice, however, he was down to 10. "That's the kind of thing that makes you old before your time," Donahoe says. "We wanted to improve the line because, frankly, if you can't block people, it doesn't really matter what your skill players can do.""

that is the logical conclusion to the whole "weak coach/protect job" argument, which is why that line of reason is silly. Maybe he wanted to meddle and maybe established coaches would reject that, but he certainly didn't see out MM because of some concocted theory of power struggle avoidance.

No, he was Director of Football Operations. He was not President. With Buffalo he was the top dog - there was no one within the power structure of the team above him but an elderly owner. His only advesary was failure. What YOU are saying is that in order to keep his job safe he pursued the only avenue that cost him his job.

OK, "demanded" was my word, and it may not have gone down like that, but I think it was something he desired. Now, the rest of your post may be true, but it can have different interpretations. The point I am railing against is the "to avoid power struggle, must hire butt boy to keep job safe". That isn't the picture you painted above. What you painted above was someone who wanted to be involved in every aspect of the team. That argument is never made, but the former one has been made every day since he the fans turned on GW.

People keep bringing it up - even today.... just had to let one last post out of my fingers before I let it go.

But the two aren't related. MM could be the biggest kitty walking the sidelines, but it doesn't mean TD had that trait as a requirement. In essence, people are trying to say that to save TD's job he would only hire these pussies who were doomed to fail, thus costing him job.... This is not a Shakespearian tragedy... He demanded power when he was hired. He wasn't GM - he was team president.

he dotted that "i" when he demanded to be team president. The ONLY thing that would cost him his job was failure on the field - no coach was going to supplant him.

it makes my skin crawl everytime I read that junior high assertion... TD was the fuggin' President of the Buffalo Bills and had unprecedented power in the organization. He was NOT going to lose ANY power struggle with anyone he brought into town... he had as much power as he could possibly of had w/o actually owning the team. Just wanted to get that off my chest...

Isn't this becoming a habit with him? Every time he has the opportunity to deny that he is being considered a coach for the Bills - he plays the "word" game and allows speculation to run rampant. My pop psycho-analysis says Levy desparately want attention, so he longs to hear people chant his name.... especially after being denied re-entry into the NFL after so many years.

it is a shot from Shallow Hal. Sort of my statement that some people see Marv in a different light than others....

yep. it was the 1st thing that crossed my mind.

That was my conclusion yesterday. The comfort level, the players respect, the 1st hand knowledge of the team, the ST to HC similarity with Marv... it all leads you down this road.

I'm glad style over substance impresses you.... Now, if we can get a coach who makes good sideline facial expressions and shows emotion then this party will be kickin'!

wow... who knew he was such a Mularkey fan?

is this a joke?

Bobby April

NEVER challenge "worse"...

I think so. Businessmen don't write blank checks to people and if TD had a blank check - why the hell dind't he add another "0" or two?

slut.

if you watched the PC you will see that during those questions Marv was glowing like a guy after his piece of ass... The fact that people are asking him if he will become the HC again is something he has been praying for since he left the Bills. He was soaking up every last minute of it.

yeah, commenting on a message board that some people think Jerry didn't give a good effort in some games and made some highly questionable calls is the stuff lawyers dream about. If you have nothing to add then just lurk quietly please.

oh no! what am I going to do!

exactly...

I think the story that is just as big is that people are talking about this possibility from within OBD. That speaks to the chaos that is emminating from there. It does sound like BS to me, but the fact that anyone who is in charge is gone home to other states and the staff is left twisting in the wind to talk amongst themselves is telling.

Ummm, no I don't. I rarely post anything of this nature and I'm pretty sure I don't have a reputation for making up inside information in order to get attention. I posted some hearsay about what was going on within OBD. Nobody has to believe it. I do not have a dog in this fight and have no ulterior motive to knowingly post incorrect information. There are no flashing ads in my posts and I am not a talk show host.