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That's why Fewell got the interim job and not April, too. Right? I don't know if he specifically turned us down or we just went with Greggggo. But I do recall his agent putting out some garbage about the Buffalo school system not being good enough for Lewis's kids...as if Lewis was going to live in the city.

I know this has been addressed in other threads, but it keeps coming up: "Gailey had Aikman, Smith and Irvin blah blah blah." Let's look at the numbers, shall we? Emmitt was still pretty much Emmitt, except he was averaging 4 yards a carry instead of close to 5. But at quarterback, Jason Garrett played in eight games and started five in 1998, when the Cowboys went 10-6 under Gailey. Jay Novacek was already gone, as was Alvin Harper: the #2 receiver on that team was Billy Davis. Who? Exactly. In 1999, Garrett started two more games and finished two others as a 33-year-old Aikman struggled through a fog to an 81 passer rating. Michael Irvin played in four games before his career ended on the Vet's turf. The leading receiver for that team? A 30-year-old Raghib Ismail. The other receivers? Ernie Mills and Jason Tucker. Who? Exactly. Yet the Cowboys still made the playoffs as a wildcard.

To add insult to injury...his last name was Kelly.

They've even got a guy over there whose main crusade is that Lindy Ruff should be fired. Stop and think about that from the Bills' perspective for a minute.

Yeah, Blake Williams played at Princeton. Of course, Bill Cowher had two daughters who played basketball at Princeton too

Did Ralph go out and sign players? I seem to remember Brandon being pretty gd involved when the Bills went after TO.

We should also consider that Reid may be saying McNabb is still the starter in order to drive up his price in a trade. If teams know Philly HAS to get rid of McNabb, they're not likely to offer as much.

Thin is also '84 and '85 realizing that your coaches were Kay Stephenson and Hank Bullough...that your '83 first-round quarterback was playing in the USFL and had stated he had no intention of playing in Buffalo...that your '85 first-overall pick was fat and out of shape...and that you weren't even going to get the #1 pick in '86 despite finishing 2-14 for a second year in a row. Or living east of Rochester and being able to watch the Bills only in their away games because every home game was blacked out (except in '80-'81)...then being in college in New Jersey when they finally got good again, not even being able to listen on the radio much less follow them on the intarwebs; thank god they were on MNF and national Sunday games often enough back then.

But read what I said: "in any season THAT BEGAN AFTER Mangini blew them in."

You really have to wonder?

Bingo. They have yet to win a playoff game in any season that began after Mangini blew them in.

so this will be five years now since the Pats* won* their last tainted SB*? I'd say the dynasty* is dead.

His wife is a partner in a Dallas law firm and he's lived there for a long time, though he did carry clipboards in Miami and New York for awhile. I know it always takes a Princeton man to fix the messes made by Yale men, but do we really want another Ivy Leaguer as our coach?

None of the girls are in school in NC. The oldest already graduated from Princeton, the middle one graduates from there this year, and the youngest is a freshman at Wofford in South Carolina.

Fixed that for ya.

Well, he *has* hired Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells in the past; those could hardly be called "lackeys." Then again, there's Barry Switzer, Dave Campo, Chan Gailey, and Wade. Here's my take: as with Shanahan prostituting himself for Dan Snyder, if Cowher is the kind of guy who would take more money to work for Jerry Jones, then I don't want him here anyway. I don't think he's that kind of guy. I think he knows what he had in Dan Rooney and he's not going to go back to coaching just to work for an egotistical loudmouth who has to be involved in every decision and take credit for every success. (This is not to say that Ralph is a prince, but Ralph doesn't preen on the sidelines during games and make himself the face of the franchise.) I could be wrong, though, so I'm rooting for the Cowboys this weekend.

And why would he want to work for Jerry Jones?

To distract the mainstream media. Also, perhaps the coach they DO want to hire has let it be known that he wouldn't mind hiring Frazier as assistant HC/DC?

It's appropriate because all we've heard for the last few years is a giant sucking sound.

One can only hope

Anthony Gray. Would rip off huge gains in preseason and then get cut...apparently because he was dumber than a bag of rocks and couldn't pick up a blitz or run a route to save his life

Lawrence McCutcheon

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