Sound_n_Fury

I always thought his mouth looked like a light socket. Oh, wait....

All ESPN does is scan the morning newspaper websites...and there's nothing on the D&C that I can see: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/p...n?Category=NEWS

Sounds like Wade Philips, redux. And WTF, is Clayton hiding under a table in the room or something?

It's their "diversity" interview, IMO.

Nothing on the D&C website...

Florio too! Shocking!!

Not with the salary cap, they aren't.

Hey, we're an equal opportunity kind of place... Besides, it's more fun than actually working.

Gotta love Easterbrook, he's the funniest writer in the NFL....

Agreed. I have yet to hear JP make any remark that suggests he a "me first" kind of guy. He kept his mouth shut so he wouldn't be a distraction. Pretty smart move.

Mike Williams would've for a pedicure and a waxing...

He bought some tickets from Mike Tice...

Heir apparent to Gibbs...

I agree. TD has shot his wad here. But it wouldn't surprise me for a minute if he succeeds bigtime at whatever job he takes next (Scotty Bowman comes to mind). And I believe he honestly tried to build a winner here. If anything, he was too aggressive, always swinging for the fences rather than trying to beat out doubles. We applauded many (most?) of his moves at the time (remember how WGR ran that promo of the WM pick over and over and over...), yet today most of us would cross the steet if we saw him coming. Another sad moment in Bills history, unfortunately.

Wow, that's some hot rumor....

Nope, he doesn't have to beg for forgiveness. Just point out that "sh-- happens," plans and people don't always work out, and that applies to owners, GMs, coaches, players, media, me, you....and columnists for the BN. Instead, we get shoot-from-the-hip, which way the wind is blowing commentary that lacks perspective and would be right at home coming from the 8th grade boys locker room. Often spiced with more than a dash of personal venom directed toward his targets and, IMO, a large portion of his readers. "Be honest and stop the [vitriol], then things might actually start to turn around."

More like telling the woman she looks great today so he can get into her jeans, then calling her a lard ass to his buddies down at the bar afterward....

You're on a roll today. Couldn't agree more. Sully was a big proponent of hiring TD, and even gave RW a hard time about taking so long to pull the trigger. Then, when he's called out on this point on his radio gig a few weeks ago, he meekly says he has a "right to change my mind." Yet nowhere do we ever see this mea culpa in any of his columns. Nope, 'ol Jerry knows that whatever he wrote in the past is now landfill and he can safely blow with the wind, whichever direction makes him look the most intelligent...

"Mike Williams boxing up his millons and heading out of Buffalo for the last time..."

FUG 'em.

Isn't that what they did when they hired TD. He was the star GM candidate available when he was hired: Jerry Sullivan - January 11, 2001: Ralph Wilson wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to relinquish most of his customary NFL duties and spend the rest of his career kicking back in the owner's box. All you need to do is examine the title he bestowed on his new hire, Tom Donahoe: president and general manager. For the first 40 years of the Bills' existence, Wilson was the only president. None of the general managers who ran his football operation over the years had the dual title of team president. Not Bill Polian. Not Pat McGroder or John Butler. Wilson is conceding that he lacks the energy to remain as involved in the NFL as he used to be. You can't blame the man. He's 82 years old, and it was time for him to loosen his control of the team and to give an unprecedented level of power to a football man he could trust. He could not have found a better available man than Donahoe, who is respected throughout the NFL and was widely perceived as the best personnel man on the NFL market when Wilson abruptly fired Butler three weeks ago. Wilson took his time doing it. He left Donahoe hanging for more than a week while deciding what to do with Wade Phillips. As recently as Tuesday, Donahoe talked with new Lions President Matt Millen about hooking on with Detroit's staff. It looked as if the best man might slip away from Buffalo. But Wilson got him in the end, and for that he should be commended. You might call it luck, but he has a way of digging up quality GMs. He hired and fired two of the best in Polian and Butler, and he was fortunate that a man of Donahoe's reputation was available when he went looking again. Donahoe is universally admired around the league as a football man. Like Polian and Butler, he is a scout at heart, most comfortable walking the sidelines at some college all-star game, looking for some overlooked prospect. He has never worked anywhere other than Pittsburgh, his hometown. He probably would have remained with the Steelers for life if it weren't for the power struggle with head coach Bill Cowher that led to Donahoe's departure last January. Donahoe has always insisted that money wasn't an important consideration for him. People who know him say it's genuine. He could have gone to Seattle for big money after the Steelers reached the Super Bowl, but he turned it down. He had numerous feelers (New Orleans, Miami and New England) shortly after leaving the Steelers. Detroit and the Jets were interested before Wilson signed him. The expansion Houston franchise talked with him. But he held out for the right job. Donahoe is said to be a devoted family man, and Buffalo was reasonably close to Pittsburgh. It's a Rust Belt city with a blue-collar ethos and abiding affection for its football team. Donahoe was once described as having a great reverence for the Pittsburgh community. People close to him have told him Buffalo would be a perfect fit. "You can't go wrong with the guy," said one league source. Larry Felser - January 7, 2001: Wilson has never enjoyed himself more as an owner than the last 14 seasons during the Bills' golden era. It would be sad to see him soil his own football nest in his golden years. He can still avoid this fate. He should hire the best GM candidate available, which is Donahoe. Maybe Donahoe would cost more than Ralph wants to pay a GM. But there is a new appreciation for that job as the most valuable on any franchise.

I think Bills Babe recently started that clock back up....

That's the point of having of TSW. Who needs Warren Buffet's rag to be the arbiter of the "truth," especially when it's from Sully's perspective? Maybe that's why the News circulation figures are dropping like a stone (our booming economy has something to do with that as well, unfortunately )

Amen.

The old group of scouts are either in San Diego with AJ Smith or retired....