CodeMonkey

This as well as the O'Neil thing make perfect sense given Pettines long history with them both.

And a good trade with a east coast team for a beast of a running back

But to put things in perspective, the NFL divisional playoff games drew an average of 34.3 million viewers. And the NFC championship game, 55.9 million. I almost never watch all star games as they are pointless. Some of the lead up stuff like the hockey skills contests and hoops slam dunk contests are fun. But the all star games themselves, pass.

Yeah usually that kind of thing is written into the contract in the first place, one way or the other. The same is true of the LB coach they fired recently. Usually if the employer has an out, so does the employee. The NFL is a bit unusual though as they are a monopoly. Agree completely.

Non-compete agreements are largely unenforceable as it violates restraint of trade in most cases. I had a company file suit about that once but as soon as I stood up against it they backed down knowing it was unenforceable. Of course my salary and job profile is not in the same universe as a NFL head coach or coordinator (unfortunately)

My personal opinion is teams should not even be able to prevent coaching moves if the move involves a promotion. That's what the Bills did with Pettine and O'Neil and I am happy they did the right thing. Failure to do so would be akin to a restraint of trade violation which would not be tolerated in a non-monopolistic environment.

Denver by a field goal in overtime.

I couldn't care less what he does now that he isn't with the Bills.

Bring on the freezing rain baby! That's what I want to see!

I had no idea those two went back so far. He was on the Bills only for one season as well. Let the new DC pick his own guys. I don't see this as an issue for the Bills at all, and apparently the Bills agree having granted permission for the interview.

I believe one of the purposes of the Toronto series was an attempt to do the things bolded above. The theory being if the people are interested it makes selling corporate boxes and advertising all that much easier. If no one gives a **** about the Bills in Toronto, why would Toronto based companies advertise with the Bills? The other, and in my opinion the biggest, reason of course is to make the Bills a buttload of cash. And the Toronto series certainly has done that very nicely.

Do you really think Schwartz would agree to come to Buffalo to run the previous DC's scheme instead of his own? I don't. If that's what the Bills had in mind they would have promoted from within. But the Bills got someone with experience and success as a DC. All in all not bad given the circumstances.

I'm sure they had no clue who Pettine was until he was announced. Like a lot of Bills fans a year ago, they wanted a "name". What they also failed to realize is no "names" wanted the job.

I was hoping it was a pic of a smokin hot Jill. Disappointing.

You are obviously very passionate about the Bills and Buffalo. But to players and coaches, football is a business. If you think of it that way for a minute you will understand.

Geez if the Kubiak thing happens and the Browns manage to trade up to get a QB they like (with what, 8 picks in the first 3 rounds that should be possible) they could have something in a couple years.

That's obviously a very valid concern. Hopefully Marrone and Whaley know him well enough to make that determination. I have family in Cleveland and apparently not many people there know much about Pettine and are taking a "whatever" attitude. Apparently some radio personality summed it up by saying that as bad as the Browns offense was this past season, they put 30 points on the board against the Bills. So obviously they hire the Bills DC as their new HC

So if you were offered a job at a different company which was a significant promotion with an equally significant raise in pay, and your current company had the legal right to block it and did so, you would not feel screwed over? Your co-workers would also not see it as you being screwed over? I know I sure would. I understand about stopping the bleeding. But personally I would draw the line at this. And of course this is all hypothetical as of now anyway

Chuck Bullough (I'll save you the Google ... DC at Syracuse)

That's where we agree to disagree. Screwing over one of the subordinate coaches does not exactly make for things being all unicorns and rainbows within the coaching ranks. And we are talking about a LB coach. Is that a difficult position to fill? Were I Marrone I don't think I'd want to go into my potentially make or break season that way. That's just me. Maybe Pettine will get the Browns to pony up for Byrd. Plenty of cap space there too right

For lateral moves I completely agree. But I wouldn't want to block a huge promotion like that. If they do, I'd expect O'Neil to return the favor in kind in the future. Karma's a B word.

I voted O'Neil. If it is true Pettine wants him as DC I have to assume O'Neil understands Pettines scheme pretty well. This would mean the D wouldn't have to start over again with a completely clean slate next season.

I am outraged that WannaStache is not included n the poll !!!!!!

If this happened and the Bills blocked it, that would be a pretty ****ty thing to do. That's a significant promotion. If the Bills didn't want to promote him to DC themselves, they certainly shouldn't !@#$ him over and block the Browns job offer.

In reality Quinn wouldn't be eliminated until after the superbowl unless he either pulled his name from contention or someone else got hired for the gig. So really a meaningless tweet.