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What is known is that Ralph has consistently been against a new stadium, for fairly obvious and extremely practical reasons related to the economics of debt servicing and ticket prices in the Buffalo market. Why build an expensive crown jewel that few locals can afford admission to, and whose debt servicing drags down the year-by-year profitability of the franchise? So when the lease deal was announced with statements about how a new stadium would be looked at down the road, it was clear to me that the new stadium talk was all about having a talking point to dangle to the public while Ralph is still owner, basically stalling things (by agreeing to study the issue) until a new owner is in place. The Ralph regime would never seriously consider a new stadium, but a new ownership group might demand one (foolishly, in my opinion) as a condition of staying in WNY. In this way, the concept of creating a working group to study the issue was a work of genius - a way to straddle the interests of the old and new ownership. Clearly Russ went a step further during his presser yesterday, at first failing to use the word "potential" to describe the stadium plan - probably getting caught up in the moment. Notably, he backtracked later on by adding the word "potential". I think Russ knows full well that the numbers do not support or justify a new stadium.

Great articles on Kelly and I'm sold. This guy would really propel us into the modern era and I'm ready to be all in on him.

Serves me right for even opening this thread. Of course I was expecting something substantive.

Really? Recruiting and selecting a HC candidate is a much different skill and task from scouting and ranking college players, and from evaluating pro personnel. There are lots of discrete roles available for Whaley and Nix - in fact most NFL teams segment college scounting from pro personnel.

I agree, that makes sense - it ensures legitimacy of Brandon's ascendency. This move also sets the stage for a clean transition of ownership.

No - WGR 20-20 sports just reported "Nix expected to met with Ralph tonight in Detroit". Not sure if that was just sloppy recycling of earlier erroneous reports, or an actual clarification/update.

Lovie with a strong OC (a guy who can develop QBs) would far and away be my pick, of all the names being floated.

That is a major oversimplification. Too many contributing factors to count. On the business side, he's the best thing that ever happened to the franchise. And you might say you don't care about that, but you have to if you want the Bills to stay in town.

Whaley IS lined up. Again, my point was not about Nix specifically. It was, how can you line up HC interviews if you're not sure who your GM (the guy picking the HC) is?

Feeling a bit vindicated on this point. You can't multitask as far as bringing in coaching candidates when the guy selecting them isn't settled.

Well yea but who makes the HC decision if the GM is up in the air? In this case if Nix goes it will probably fall to Whaley so not much time would be lost in the process I suppose.

So they reach out to Gruden and supposedly start lining up HC interviews before Nix's status is settled?

Most likely a Rooney Rule interview, IMO.

Never heard of Chris Trapasso.

Great, continuity!

Was surprised to read that Grimm was actually interviewed last time. I thought he turned the Bills down. Goes to show how little the public really knows about what goes on inside OBD.

Standing by for video feed...

Phoenix radio tweeting that Russ Grimm interviewing with Buffalo. What do we think?

One of the on-air guys reported it. They didn't play audio of Levitre actually speaking.

Not sure. WGR reported that when asked how much he'd like to be back in Buffalo on a scale of 1-10, he said "10". That's not a guy chasing top dollar as his sole priority.

Ralph proves again he's not cheap. Eating lots of salary there.

The fact that Reid even WANTS to continue his career at this point, after his mess of a personal life, is a bit psychotic in itself, IMO.

"Brandon was right, son, best sightlines in the league"!

He'd risk a leak to Bills fandom about his private will, just to save $10,000 on the production bill?

If true, wow.