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And same agent, which I assume you know but others don't.
And Rex's agent as well. Interesting, no?
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Now schefter is saying that the bills are showing remorse over benching TT and he could stay depending on Lynn or whoever gets the job.
Also looks like the amount of people interested in Lynn was fabricated. Down to 3-4 from the original 5-6 teams
It could be his agent was leaking these rumors to get the Bills to pull the trigger quickly. When the Bills hired Marrone there were similar leaks about how Marrone was being pursued by everyone as well.
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and Whaley's line of authority was more clearly established, and rightly so.
Have to disagree with that. "What is your job?" wasn't asked because Whaley's responsibility is crystal clear. Whaley will be "overseeing" the hiring of the next head coach. But then even that was qualified. The interview will have the Pegulas and Monos sitting right there as well. And nobody knows what the reporting structure may look like. And Schefter reports the new HC will have even more power than Rex did.
Clarity is a stretch.
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Yeah I didn't love Lynch as a prospect but his tools are outstanding......and if they had drafted him they would be in a much more understandable position wrt letting Tyrod go.
Lynch is a beast of an athlete with a great arm and, in theory at least, he would appear to be a fit in the current offense.
I'm definitely not in the trade-up mode this year either.........there are some toolsy QB's in this draft but nobody that just jumps off the screen as a franchise changer.
We do have Cardale on the roster, and he was taken just after Dak Prescott in the draft. So the narrative coming from the football department could be that he's just as good and the ticket to punch moving forward.
I seem to recall Donahoe's gang feeling the pressure in a similar situation, and the reaction then was to dump Bledsoe, trot JP Losman out as the uncontested savior, and declare victory.
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If the decision is already made, I'm incredibly frustrated. I understand if you think TT has reached his cap, but I agree with many others of not having a plan B.
It was worse without Tyrod.
Ultimately, it's the head coaches decision. So why is it happening now?
If this was after we had our coach and he made the call, I'm still unhappy, but I'll also have blind faith in the plan
A penny saved is a penny earned?
Seriously though, isn't this supposed to be the worst draft for QBs since ... well, we took EJM?
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That must explain the bad tackling . . . .
I am glad to find out that we have championship defensive players and the scheme was the only thing keeping them back from a Super Bowl.
Little known fact: the scheme required the players to stand and watch.
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To take it a step further it's especially mind-numbing when the GM's job is clearly on the line.
Head-scratcher. Has EJM's agent been working on a low basis deal?
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How many head coaches in the NFL spend their time developing QBs?
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What a maroon!
@rapsheet
#Dolphins WR Jarvis Landry fined $24,309 for a crotch grab & $24,309 for slamming his helmet on the same post-TD demonstration
The 2014 draft was crazy thin at WR, wasn't it?
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Just glad it wasn't the players.
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This is an excellent thread because the more I think about how the press conferences themselves have become news, it reinforces the fact that Berchtold isn't doing his job well.
The media is not to blame for the sub-par Lynn and Whaley press conferences. The media can ask whatever questions it wants to, however many times, about any subject.
The Bills can't control all of that. However, they can put their employees in the best position to answer questions and that takes preparation and having the right people available to answer the questions, including the owner. You also don't let the employees twist in the wind, at the complete mercy of the press. It's appalling to me that this Berchtold guy was invisible at perhaps the two most important press conferences of the year.
They have failed miserably at that.
Public speaking is part of the job. If Whaley has problems doing it, get him the help he needs to do it better and give him some prepared remarks for crying out loud.
Agreed.
Additionally, it's a relationship. That is, it is two-way. There has been criticism that the press is at fault for not developing better sources within the Bills organization. While that criticism may be fair or not, it is also true that the Bills organization would be better served to reach out and develop a better working relationship with its press corps. And to redirect a question from that PC to Berchtold this time: what is your job? This Whaley PC, for example, has more consequences than just ducking blame to the yokels. It's bigger. It's self-defeating. Other people in the NFL see that mess and it makes the Bills a very unattractive situation.
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Just saw a fearmonger foaming at the mouth over a city welfare program for the homeless. Apparently helping a homeless person increases crime and violence.
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The Bills knew it was going to be a crap fest. They sent Whaley out there to get it over with and probably did t care about the reaction til they realized it was a national story for a minute so the owners had to try and smooth things out. SB should have known that would happen if they dogged the PC, he should be fired for that alone.
Oh, they definitely cared. Pegula reacted immediately and had the interview with the AP.
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If you want it defined, read any/all of JW's reports, then read any Sully or Bucky or Vic report.
I'm sure it sounds like that to you since you love to deal in extremes, but the reality is, most of us simply want logical, factual reporting without all the hyperbole, click bait, anonymous sources, and middle school gossip. I dont need the soap opera the 24/7 media is manufacturing.
There is plenty to criticize about the team and organization. It can be done well, or it can be done by a bunch of poop slinging monkeys.
All of these reporters have been critical of the organization. They also do not write the same types of articles. Sullivan's job is to take the evidence as he sees it and write his take on them. In the absence of input, his job is going to require filling in more and longer blanks. Some of JW's articles follow a one-on-one interview format. (I also very much appreciate his access to ownership.) That's a completely different article. It may be the style we prefer, but calling one right/good/professional and the other wrong/horrible/unprofessional is as insipid as saying chocolate is good and vanilla is horrible.
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JW is very good and talented and works at the truth, the facts and just not opinion, the only guy I pay attention to. Class reporter and I have never met him.
Ty on the other had just repeats what others report and rarely gets new information. Just because he is local guy doesn't change his style.
You realize that even if a reporter's article is nothing but a transcript of what Suzy Sunshine employed by the team said that the report is both factual (she said it) and the personal opinion (she said it) of the situation as she's filtered it, right?
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Maybe I'm getting it now. DW botched the presser forcing Terry to speak to you to set record straight. Am I warmer?
DW was covering his own ass. And, yes, he botched it, making the entire org look like morons. He botched it so badly that the owner stepped forward and through his actions denied DW's opening statement of "speaking for ownership".
Dead man walking.
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and that's why i refer to this offseason as being the most dysfunctional since post-2005.
this will not be received well, but i credit Russ Brandon for doing just that when he stepped down as GM and hiring Buddy Nix.
jw
Squaring images of the war room on draft day, involvement in player contracts, continued corporate ascent, overlapping and ambiguous areas of responsibility, etc. with the "he's dropped the reigns" remarks is great yoga logic exercise.
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There is still a chance that it will happen. If the coaching search turns into a giant steaming pile (which isn't impossible), Pegullible may have to get rid of Whaley and hose and lather the whole place.
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He does a great job setting up the card table, Bills table cloth, and folding chair though.
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Right, except for two years ago when the organizational plan was spelled out explicitly at the intro presser and the media gushingly reported on it and without any rancor. Lauded the clarity, actually.
Yep.
It should be obvious, but it is possible and actually highly beneficial for people in the entertainment industry to pursue coverage and interactions with media and getting their message and brand out there. Feeding news for free publicity. We see this all the time with actors doing the "morning show circuit" to promote a movie, etc.
Whaley failed spectacularly in this regard, unless his message was "The Bills are a dysfunctional clown show!" One can always blame the media, but an interview is a two-way exchange. Whaley's side of it was shockingly atrocious.
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exactly.
So Rex bluffed the owner into "firing" him, is what you are saying. Maybe Rex isn't as stupid as some people think?
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As I said elsewhere, I wouldn't be shocked if Rex pushed for the firing before week 17 so he could see the Clemson game. Does anyone know if he attended?
What does that even mean? Push for a firing?
It is possible to quit a job, right? Happens all the time, in fact. And it's not like the Buffalo Bills have never had a head coach quit before. And might that be a tad, ah, embarrassing?
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It wasn't all questions about Rex. There was one beach ball tossed to Whaley there at the end by the media along the lines of what is the plan moving forward? (It was a completely appropriate question given Whaley had just said he was focusing on moving forward.)
Whaley just ripped off a quick answer to this open-ended question. "Find the right coach and continue to bring in talent" and thus he missed his exit. He could've used this as an opportunity to discuss pros and cons of potential coaching candidates, what sort of systems he thought he had built the roster for, how the well-oiled decision making process of the front-office works and what role the HC would fill there, the fate of the assistant coaches or a timeline thereof, strengths and weaknesses of the roster, what the team accomplished on the field this year, how he planned to build on that, how he planned to strengthen weaknesses, tell some funny stories about his days in scouting, etc.
Instead it was terse, defensive, and almost like he couldn't wait to field another incredulous rephrasing of "Seriously? You have no idea and never discussed it?"
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I get that.
I suppose my question is why keep pushing on the Rex issue. For me, I don't care about the how's and why's of Rex's firing. He needed to go, I think that was obvious. They just seemed to interested in the process of firing Rex.
And it's odd because last week it was the TT benching. They asked a hand full of questions about TT.
Good question. My 100% guess is that Whaley left blood in the shark infested water.
I don't have much sympathy, frankly. He's had almost a week to get his story prepared. He had to know they were going to ask about Rex. Being or feigning cluelessness was IMHO the wrong approach.
Schefter says decision is made - Tyrod is gone
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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You want sources with inside information that are completely neutral and independent? Are these people from the Kremlin?