Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

So tell me exactly why Chan Gaileys resume looks much worse right now than Marv Levy's did in 1986? Both had marginal prior success as an NFL head coach. Marv had success in Canada and had successas a ST coach under George Allen. What put Marv in the HOF? Having a good GM who brought in great talent. Probably for the first time since JB we have a football person with a scouting background calling the shots. (Not that I was all that thrilled wiht JB either) Even TD didn't rise up through the scouting side. That may have been his problem as to why he'd make sone wild picks like Willis. Nix drafted most of the SD players and was involved with signing/scouting of many of the Bill's players from back i nthe 90's. He is a scout and I believe will improve the talent on the Bill's My biggest concern for Nix is how he'll handle the business side of the GM role. Will it take some time to re-build respect around the league, yes. I'm not sure if we can as long as RW is alive either, not becasue of him making bad choices, but just becasue of the uncertainty as to what will happen to the team once he's gone.

Yes Buffalo is shrinking, but the combined western NY southern Ontario is 2 mil. As was asked how many cities have that many people in the area? Not saying it won't happen, but you have to look at more than just the population of Buffalo alone. South really isn't doing all that good of a job supporting teams. Weather is niice too long of the year to bother sitting in a stadium watchign a game, and for years there was little if any pro sports, so they followed college sports. Long time habits are hard to break. Sports have become saturated, hard to find cities to go to anymore. Cities have woken up, not paying for new stadiums like they were 10 years ago. Things are changing in the sports world. I'm waiting for the day a team folds. I'll put my money on hockey first a city like Phoenix or maybe Nashville? Or maybe baseball, Florida, Tampa??

The problem with that idea is if it works and Nix convinces Jax we're truely interested, then Jax may want to make a trade with the team ahead of us in the draft. We need to hope whomever is right behind us wants Tebow. And that's assuming these Jax wants Tebow rumors are even true. Maybe in the 2nd round??

The real person responsiple for the Cowboys winning the Super Bowls were the Vikes who gave Dallas all those draft picks. With that many picks, it made it alot easier to have a good draft. Can't recall, who was the team the Ditka traded all of New Orleans picks for Ricky Williams? Did they have as much luck with those picks as Dallas did in the Walker trade?

And what makes you think Dungy would be a good president? He's had no front office experience that I know of.

No, Apirl had a clause that allowed HIM to Opt out. The Bills had no say. The rest of them, yes the Bill's allowed to look elsewhere. Actually they also allowed Apirl to look elsewhere, till three days later he elected to opt out.

I know people don't like facts getting in the way of a good rant, but.... Yes you are correct RW did fire him five days before the end of the seaosn when his contract ran out and from RW's view JB didn't want to re-sign. My oopinion; JB knew the Bills were in salary cap trouble, players like Smith, etc were nearing the end, so he bailed. Was the marraige between him and RW growing stale, probably, but JB was a players GM, loved all the players and over paid for them. Now the Bills are in salary cap trouble, so he figures at year he takes off, likely already knowing SD was ready to sign him. Smith was JB's flunky, so he followed him out the door. Plus he tended to be a bit more hot headed and it seemed RW bothered him more. Everyone around was praising the signing of TD, so don't try to blame RW on that one, at the time it appeared ot be a great move. Did he screw up with Levy, absolutely. Could he and BP have better worked things out, in hindsight sure, but even from somethings I've read BP has taken some of the blame there too. Not saying RW has been great by any means but can't blame him for Butler or TD leaving.

My thoughts exactly. It may be that doesn't want to be interviewed while he's still working on putting together a game plan and planning for a game. If he just stated call me next week, he'd still have the media bugging him every hour. So by stating he's not interested, may be away to be left alone until next week, assuming they lose.

For starters pretty much all the names you mentioned suck. Could you get lucky and go far with one of those guys, yeah if you have a great team around him, not good, but great. And if you do go with one of these guys, then you're developing a QB, maybe not this year, but you want to start now. Whomever the Bills or any team hires, they'd like to think their HC worries are solved for the next ten years. Therefore you want this guy to be able to develop whatever players and positions you need. You're not going to hire a coach knowing he may not work out more than a couple of years. Would that be an improvement over the current situation, yes, but it's still not a direction a team is goign to go in.

Couldn't agree more. He should totally ignore preparing for Arizona's game and give sole attention to the Bill's. Show them the respect they deserve! PS why does it seem that there's a inverse proportion between the number of posts a person makes and the stupidity of the posts?

And you know this how?? It could happen exactly as you state, however Cowler and every successful HC started out as a rookie HC with no experience at some point in time. How the next guy will be who knows?

What did he really do this year to show other teams he can play? I'd say very little. If the problems were all off the field, but his game performance was still very high, I'd agree he has value. But based on both on and off field things, he has low value. If it were some other position, I'd agree tta other tema smight be more willing to take a chance, but running backs are a dime a dozen, and easy for a rookie to come in a get 1000 yards. If real teammates would keep him in line, hoe come no one was able ot keep TO in line in other places?? McNabb couldn't keep TO inline?? Maybe if Lynch was a rookie, it would work, but next years is his 4th year in the league. The only person who can keep ML in line is ML IF he wants too. We still would need to replace ML and for what you're going to get for him, you'd be lucky to replace him. While I agree we have starting positions to fill, you still need a decent #2 running back. For what you'd get in retrun you likely wouldn't get much of a quality starter for another position, plus would still need to replace him. What did StL just get for Incognito, nothing and I think he has more upside than ML does.

Certainly you're correct. I read the article a couple months back, don't recall the specifics enough, likely there was a second criteria assoicated with that narrowed the list way down. Actually Ewbank was the one name on the list now that you mention it. Why these others didn't qualify, can't recall, or the writer also did a poor job of research. Maybe the age was older than 50. The overall point was older coaches even those with a legacy didn't do very well their second time around.

Comeone be fair, the latest other thread was titled "Modrak and Guy". This one is "Guy and Modrak", so total different thing.

There are alot of rules regarding free agency in uncapped years, it's not the great thing it sounds for the players, I believe they need six years i nthe league instead of four to become an un-restricted FA. Will be interesting how this all plays out.

Last time I checked John Fox was still the coach in Carolina. If the Bills did ask if he'd be interested, that would be called tampering. I know it's a big word, if you need help, I could look up the meaning for you. All these guys you mention as great head coaches all started out just like Williams, Mularkey and whomever we may end up hiring this time. They were coordinators that someone took a chance on. The difference was they worked out, though you could argue that it took Cowler a long time, longer than many teams would have waited. I think a bigger reason that they worked and Williams and Mularkey didn't was they had better players to work with which is a function of the GM. Actually I'm of the opinion that coaching is over-rated, and the GM job is under-rated. Get good players and everyone looks much smarter. For example, what did Marv Levy do prior to coming to Buffalo? There are many other similar situation in various sports, teams who lost for years, hired a good GM and things turned around. It's also been documented that any recycled coach over 50 has never won much the second time around either. They are respectable which certainly would be a huge improvement, but I believe at most only one of them has ever won it all. o be careful what you wish for.

First off you don't know that Nix has never hired a coach. He's never hired an NFL head coach. Has he hired coaches at other levels, who knows. I'm also sure he was involved with the hiring process in San Diego and other locactions he's been at. The bills just did delagte football decisons to a football person, his name is Buddy Nix. Just becasue you read in the paper here that Nix and RB will run it by RW to get hisfinal approval doesn't mean things are any different with other teams. It is amazing how smart people on message boards think they are. It's even more amazing that most of them aren't already coaching in the NFL.

And what makes you know what you're talking about either?? I think the past two seasons after Levy left, TM was calling the shots, prior to that the final decision was made by Levy, though I think he did value the opinion of others. When TD was in charge, from everythign you saw of how he handled thingsa, there's no doubt he made the final call on whom to select. I'm certain they all took TM and other scouts suggestions under advisement, but the final call was made by the GM until RB, then he did likely defer to TM.

Will he be convicted, not likely, is there more to the story, maybe. Does it sound weird yes, to wierd to believe. But I've gone through life believing when someone comes up with a story that you could never imagine happening, it usually is true as no one would ever think anything up so wierd. The fact that the womans wife is a cop makes it more believiable in my mind as I'm sure he asked her 10 times to tell her exactly what happened, is she sure she wasn't leaving anything out, and likely grilled her as hard as he would any suspect as he'sseen first hand many phoney stories told. And yes he most definitely is as you descirbed: getto, scumbag, thug, A-Hole, and illiterate to name a few. In fact he's worse than most getto thugs as he has money so figures he can just buy his way out of anything.

He's not all that busy these days as the team he coaches at the senior center only practices one day a week.

Didn't realize Reid signed an extension that recently. In that case I agree he'll likely survive. I agree totally Kraft would never fire BB, but I still could see him resigning, where he just feels he's had enough. Will see, if not this year, one of these years may happen. There's usually always one surprise every year, last year was Gruden.

Of the eight teams playing this weekend, how many of them could get fired as a result of losing their first playoff game?? My take, the coaches of the following teams are safe regardless of what happens: Jet's Bengals Ravens Arizona Green Bay I think if Dallas loses Wade Phillips is likely gone The one that could come as a surprise might be Philly. Reid's been there for a number of years and overall has maybe .500% record in playoffs. There's speculation that if they lose their first playoff game, they may also want to get rid of McNabb, however it also sounds like Reid isn't to keen on that idea, so maybe you dump Reid just to start over with Kolb. Things may be gettign stale in the city of brotherly love. The last one is New England. Win or lose I doubt BB would be fired, but wouldn't shock me to see him walk away either. He may be reaching burnout. I'm sure he realizes the team is in decline, so maybe decides it's a good time to step away while his legacy is still intact. Will see what happens next week.

At the time when he hired JJ, getting full control by these coaches wasn't as much in demand. Now it is. Plus JJ had no NFL experience, so couldn't command to much pull

It may be good timing but not allowed. Coaching changes are not allowed to be announced during the weekends of playoff games. The reasoning is they want all the attention on the games, not other things. Hey I don't make the rules, the NFL does.

I wonder at the end of the 2010 season if teams would fire their coach if desired, but not hire a new one until CBA is settled? They could all agree to it as a group. Can't claim collusion as no union involved with the coaches.