Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Isn't Gronk married to a porn star??

I think they should interview the coach from Syracuse

If nothing else, the Jets can't afford to hire someone with all the baggage as the fans will be all over this. They need someone who fans will be excited about.

I think you're overlooking on big fact, The one other huge constant since Brandon sat in the corner office while watching the club lose more than it won was Littmann dealing out a budget every year to work within. Whether it was to Brandon, before him Nix, Levy, Donahoe, Butler, and all the way back to Pollian, there was a set amount of money work with and that is truely the common denominator. People have ripped Overdolf for being tight on contracts. Is it his fault if Litmann doesn't give him the money he needs to work with. Even the past two years, when Brandon was the top guy making all the decisions on Ralph's behalf, I wonder if Russ was still told, do whatever you want, it's your call, but this is the amount of money you have to work with. Blame Russ all you want but this has been mentioned many times in many forums, many argue was the reason behind Polian leaving in the first place, whatever it was if it involved money Littmann gave the final approval, and ultimately what doesn't involve money. Yeah maybe there were given a budget, but from everything that's been stated the amount in the budget came from Littmann with RW's blessing. So if Russ does leave this year and all the problems go away, everyone can say see I was right it was Russ, but just remember Littmann walked out the door six months prior. Russ may have been a good soldier, knew that's part of the job description working here for RW, so accepted it and never publicly complained about it and took all the lumps for it while Littmann stayed hidden in the corner.

If you want someone to run the business, then why not Brandon. You don't need a football background to do that. He basically would be representing the owner. How many owners particularly new ones no that much about football, they are business men. Who know what if anything was really offered. The more I hear from Pollian, I question if he was offered anything? Is he just trying to say he turned it down when nothing was even offered. Why would he go on record as giving advise tothe Pegula's based on something he was told by Marrone, the same guy who allegedly quit when he heard a czar such as Pollian was being brought in?

Actually that's debatable Irregardless is a word commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795.[1] Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect" usage, and recommend that "regardless" should be used instead

With regards to the Brandon comments about the contract. These clauses aren't that uncommon, he was working for RW at the time, the goal was to get Marrone signed, since this would never cost RW a dime, why not. And Brandon at the time was representing RW's best interests, so have no problem with the opt out clause. I assume when you say Rex Ryan's QB sucked, you're referring to Sanchez?? The Jets still had a much better overall offense than Buffalo. Rex also hads a history of having trouble developing QB's so don't think he's a good choice here.

I doubt on the outside you could ever get enough evidence to obtain search warrents to veryify phone records, email, etc, but likely all NFL teams give up all those rights to the NFL office to seize and and all records as they desire. Probably anything the agent may have is off limits, but anything the Jet's have the league could certainly get access too.

Is this the way the improved board is supposed to look? No differentiation between the original post and the reply. Or Tipster, we you just drinking too much when replying. Either way should there be a way to prevent this? Maybe not the right place for this but.....

If it can be proved, that's the hard part. Just like Johnny Manzeil didn't get paid for autographs Do agree penalties are usually harsh, could see them losing 1st round pick , but often very hard to prove. The only thing that may make it easier to prove is likely the league has the rights to examine all emails, phone logs etc of all teams where as a private person, had to get access to those records

I'd give it better than a 50/50 shot he does NOT gets a job. but the wild card out there, there's always the Raiders. Could see him going there to save face. Could do well as they do have alot of young talent. He'd become a God if that were to happen as did something no one else could do. Whomever the new coach is out there could be stepping in at the right time. The only thing you have to worry about is the goast of Al Davis somehow still making bad decisions.

LOL So is it our turn is that it?? Great idea, probably best you take this post down as don't want to let the other 20 teams in the league whom also don't have good QB's in on a great idea like this. Want to fix this problem, the NFL needs to figure out a way to slow the game down for the other 21 players on the field for the QB to catch up. Players have just got too fast, too big, too much training videoing, scouting to the point it's impossible for the QB to keep up. Maybe need to reduce scouting or 5 Mississippi's is the answer. I do honestly think the long term solution is Stepford QB's But to your original question, if you sign a coach to a 4 or 5 year contract, that's plenty of time to turn things around, so yes, doubt it would have much influence as it's supply and demand and the supply far exceeds the demand.

First off the reason the Dick Jaurons of the world are hired by the Bills is because RW for all his charity giving, never seemed to want to pay much $$ for coaches or at least that was preception. He is now out of the picture as is his money man Littman. Even Tom Donahoe could only spend the money on a coach that those two would allow. All these year the front office folks could only go along with what those two said. Yeah Buddy Nix, and Marv, and Brandon were GM's, but thee were GM's that were given allowances, and from everything stated were not allowed to exceed. As to hiring the Marrones, Mularkeys, and Williams of the world, as was pointed out Carroll, both Harbaough's, Garrett, to name a few were all unknowns until given their first HC position. So the three new guys the Bill's hired had the same chance of success or failure as anyone. There are two groups of established winning coaches out there, those currently working for a team which kind of hard to get one of them unless you want to give up a ton of draft picks or something. Once every ten years or so there may be a good established coach who doesn't want to work anymore for his current team and they mutually agree to part ways, but those are rare. (John Gruden, Jim Harbaugh) So that leaves one other group, established coaches who have "retired" either by their own choice or the teams choice. The trouble with many of those is while they had one or even two good runs, they are usually living off past achievements, and no promise that they can do it again. Their prior success as a HC makes them feel they can now ask for additional power, coach/GM etc and their prowess as a GM never got them where they got to in the first place. (See Bill Parsells.) So unless you get a guy who just got out of football and still has the passion, the chances of these guys doing well is likely about as good of odds as finding the next Bill Cowler with a brand new HC choice. And usually if you get the guy who was just fired, then he's maybe no better than a Marrone, Williams, etc. as he was fired because he didn't win.

Don't contacts for assistants expire Feb 1st? That would be an awful long wait unless Cowboys gave permission early which why would they?

who was fired??

With these articles coming out, it may bury him. I'm sure too all the writers in Buffalo are scouring their sources to find more bad stuff to release on him right now to make him look even worse. I think he may have made a slight over calculation of his importance. Will be interesting to what the next week brings. There's always the Raiders!

I do find one thing somewhat interesting pattern here. What does Tom Donahoe, Mike Mularkey, and Doug Marrone all have in common? They were all rather upset at how they were treated by the local media and fans constant ripping of them and help hasten their departure through different means. Both Marrone and Mularky's families were even upset about the treatment according to the rumors and affected their kids. One person, OK he's just thin skinned, two well maybe all coaches have similar personalities, but three people makes you start to wonder if the problem is the constant, the media? Now if you can show me evidence that this happens in every NFL city, then I'll take back my questioning. I'm not questioning the criticism, that happens all over but maybe when you compare the news about the Bills relative to other stories in the area, it becomes overwhelming and you just can't escape it and becomes too much for the people to handle. Obviously you hear much more about what's going on locally, but haven't heard these types of reports from other cities where coaches just couldn't handle the media criticism. Comments have been made if he can't handle Buffalo media, how would he ever handle NYC media. One difference though in the grand scheme of things, in a huge city like NY, football is very big to many people, but percentage wise, maybe not so big compared to a place like Buffalo where there are less alternatives and a greater percentage of people live and die for the Bill's, like the guy who called WGR in tears when the team was sold. Do people call into NYC sports radio in tears? My take on Marrone was didn't love the guy, but would rather have seen him stay another season for continuity and due tend to agree with many of the comments on Marrone in the article, his behavior did seem to agree with what the article stated. But with three similar stories involving Buffalo media and Bill's leaders, makes you wonder where the problem really is and did they have a valid complaint at least to some level? I'm sure most will disagree and blame it all on Marrone, and Mularky, and Donahoe. Maybe you're right, but all three, that just seems too much to blame the coaches.

I voted for Bevell, if I had a 2nd choice it would have been Hue Jackson

Would mentally challenged qualify as a minority candidate? If so I'd suggest Marrone.

I'm also against Pollian, but at least his success was as a GM. Parsell's best work was as a coach, not as a GM or Czar. Pollian has hired and groomed people to become GM's' AJ Smith, even though I think he'd be a terrible choice, Bill taught him. Who's Parcells taught to run a football team that he could even bring in? For one thing he never stays anywhere long enough to mentor anyone. Think this topic should be merged into the thread titled, "Who do you NOT want to coach the team"

I think all this talk that Marrone was a Brandon pick is crazy. I'm sure Brandon liked him, may have talked him up even to Whaley, but know way he was selected if Whaley wasn't also on board, maybe not quite as happy about it as Brandon, but still OK with it. So what happened since. Well just as your example of ten posters, I'm sure there are some that years back, say you would agree with 80% of the time, now you may think that same person is absolutely crazy almost every time he posts. May be a similar thing here, early on their ideas meshed, but as time wore on they changed. Considering Marrone appears to be somewhat of a Cybil personality, I'd more wager on the change coming from Marrones side of things. Add to that it appears that Marrone thinks very highly of himself which added to the delusional state on his side.

I agree that Int Cam just through reminded me alot of the one EJ through against Houston!

Let's see first how this plays out for Marrone before saying he was smart. He got $4mil, but lets see first if he does get a new gig? It's also possible he takes the seaosn off and goes back to college. In hindsight he appears somewhat similar personality wise to Harbaurgh and for the same reasons may be better suited ot tell 19 and 20 YO's what to do.

Announced, when was it announced by Terry P? I must have missed that press conference. All it is is more speculation, someone taking something that was said and twisting the words around, over analyzing them to come to some conclusion and then passing that along. I find it a bit strange that there's been no comment whatsoever from Terry P re this entire Polian hire thing which makes me wonder how close they really were to a deal?

I thought he went on IR, not cut?? As someone else pointed out here a few weeks back, the point in time when Williams got hurt and wasn't playing anmore was right around the same time our running game to a big turn south?? Coincidence? maybe or maybe his play was much better than most of the expects on this board think?