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Anyone seen this? http://www.disneysfolly.com/2009/06/lost-i...sney-world.html

I hate this argument "fans don't know because they're not in this position". It's easy for ANYONE to say that about anything and still be incompetent. Fans that watch football every Saturday and Sunday for 15 years or more know something about football. So stop with the power card.

I thought he just went to USC. Great guy though!

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. But judging by Ralph's comments, I'm willing to bet he low-balled Cowher. And believe it or not, the world isn't perfect. Money does talk, to anyone.

"well, even if they're just a coordinator, everyone in the league says they're a head coach in waiting" I guess that means PROBLEM SOLVED huh?

So Jerry Gray wasn't a good Defensive Coordinator? Should we just forget the fact that we had one of the top defenses in the league while he was here? Ranked 2nd overall in 04 and 05. Considering what he had, Perry Fewell did a very exceptional job. Steve Fairchild? Kevin Gilbride? Sam Wyche? Minus the Titans playoff game, Bruce Dehaven has always fielded a nice special teams unit, regarded as one of the top in the league. Bobby April? Don't forget he won Special teams coach of the year in 04 and 08. Give me a break. We've had great unit and positional coaches here. It's just the guy that Ralph hired to call the shots sucked at it. Gregg Williams was power crazy, Mike Mularkey was Donahoe's puppet. Jauron was Wilson and Brandon's puppet. I don't expect and don't care if we don't win a Super Bowl next year, but after a decade of crap, literally crap, percentage wise our best choice is to get a PROVEN guy. A guy who can at least lay down a solid and clear foundation to make us a contender again. And to where if he leaves, his protege can come in and assume the controls and continue to build a winning team. I don't care if it costs $12 million a year, Ralph owes it to the fans. As much as they've supported this team and continue to sellout home games after 10 years of no playoffs.

So as long as the guys manning the ship suck, at least they're still manning the ship, right?

I mean look at how many head coaches are killing their careers in Washington.. Gibbs, Spurrier, etc.

I'd go bonanza's if we got both!

Again, I'm using Cowher as an example. I'm not die-hard Cowher to Buffalo. But for all this talk about Ralph spending the money... what's he going to spend it on, Frazier?

Is that why Joe Gibbs returned to coaching? Not the boat load of money but because a great QB was in place? Give me a break. Money talks to anyone. Period.

As many coordinators the Bills have hired over the past nearly 15 years, I think this was Ralph's chance to finally put his money where his mouth is. Every little NFL insider from John Clayton to Pat Moran were joyfully proclaiming that Ralph would "do whatever it takes and money won't matter" and bring a coach in to right this ship. Now after nearly 3 months of that kind of talk, Ralph is backing up and going after coordinators again. I certainly hope that kind of mularkey doesn't apply to first time head coaches and he doesn't sign Frazier for $10 million a year! Who cares if a Super Bowl winning coach has never won a Super Bowl with 2 seperate teams. The fact is, they have and they know what it takes. And they would apply the same methodology with the Bills as their Super Bowl team. Say what you want about Bill Cowher: "he had other people making decisions, blah blah blah" The bottom line is he made the playoffs 10 out of 15 years in Pittsburg. I don't care if it was good karma or just dumb luck, either way the Bills need it. You don't make the playoffs 10 out of 15 years and NOT learn anything about winning, building the right team, etc. And so what if he's our coach and we don't win a Super Bowl during his tenure, at least we know we'll be a contender again. You can't say that about any other positional coach, coordinator, or whomever. All the heresay about how Frazier's the next great head coach doesn't mean anything to me. People around the league still say Jauron is a good head coach, so you make the judgement on that one. Ralph has had a great chance to really redeem himself and this organization, however, I feel once again he's dropping the ball.

These Dear John letters on message boards and facebook are annoying.

I remember upset about the Jauron hire over Mike Sherman. Jauron had only had 1 winning season as a head coach. There's always been better choices and the Bills just pass them by.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4813290

Nothing, it's another inside scoop "from a friend". No hard evidence. Said Cowher was in Orchard Park this weekend...

I'd be content with: Cowher Billick Harbaugh Garrett Schottenheimer

Just after going through 4 coordinators this past decade, I think it's time we aim a little higher.

He's never been an NFL head coach. I think the feeling from most people that don't like it is that when Buddy Nix says it's important to have someone with head coaching experience, most people didn't think that would be at Trinity College 20 years ago. For every time this season Ralph has vowed he would "spend the money" and finally ante up to bring in a solid great coach, he's surely folding now.

I would rather we had kept Perry over Frazier. Seriously.

From Michael Lombardi... http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Sunday...-Post-6968.html

My bad, recently in the last decade, I forgot who I'm posting to sometimes...

Ralph shouldn't be the final word on it. He should just give his input and let them find someone they all mutually agree on. Leadership falls from the top. Just take a look at other top notch executive office within other organizations and compare their team's play. Sorry I'm not sold with Nix. There's a reason the guy has never been more than a scout in the NFL until recently.

You've got my vote.

Sounds to me like Ralph isn't willing to the spend the money. If that was the case Shanahan would have more of a formal interview process. Not sure what all that "Ralph Wilson is finally gonna spend" crap was...