Casey D

That is what John Wawrow is reprting as well. So it may still get done, but not yet.

You are correct. Only source of this story is Schefter--everything else repeats it. JW says no deal .. he is the tiebreaker right now.

Story is incorrect. He was LB coach last year with Dolphins. He's been DC at UF for less than a month...CD

And of course you'll never know the answer to that...

Good point. The Bills have drafted some good players. Last year, Woods Levitre and Byrd look like good picks. The problem seems to be in the first pick we have. And when we pick a Maybin or McKelvin or Whitner, it may be a failing at the top to pull the trigger on the right guy, not the failure of the scouts. With Jauron gone, and Nix and Gailey in charge, perhaps the decision making at the top, i.e, sifting through the raw talent evaluations and making good decisions on who to take, will improve. Stated differently, I don't think we really know if Modrak sucks or his rep has been tarnished by the ultimate decision makers.

Why?

Why do you feel this way? Re-tread? Of realistic candidates, who would you want?

I can't say I'm thrilled. I am willing to give it a chance and not reject it out of hand given Gailey's body of work and endorsements... CD

Thanks.

And you are very cynical. We just disagree... cd

LOL!

Just reporting facts. But why mess up your ravings with facts.

No, Gailey. There are several reports on that, including a pittsburgh Post-Gazette article from January 2007. He is good friends with Cowher apparently...CD

I admit that on first look, this made me ill. But googling this guy, maybe it is not so crazy. Cowher wanted him to follow him as head coach when he left Pittsburgh. Apparently when Cowher was putting together a staff recently, he asked Gailey to be his OC. Gailey was praised for his work in KC with Tyler Thigpen. Fans in KC were pis$ed when Haley fired him last year. He is generally regarded as a bright and innovative offensive mind. He has several years of head coaching experience and consistently won. Made the playoffs both years with the Cowboys. Other than the media saying someone is good or bad, I don't know enough to judge. I guess I'd rather have a hot name like Frazier or Grimm, but I have no basis to know how this will turn out. I am not excited by this, but I'll give it a chance--what choice do I have...CD

Right!

No he isn't, he really is not. He is a good smart guy who knows his limitations, but also has RW's trust. He is an executive again, and out of any football role by choice, because he knows the organization needed a football guy to improve the team so he has something he can market. He makes RW a better owner, notwithstanding what you may believe.

Well said...CD

This is America. Communism has failed. It's RW's property, he has no obligation to sell anything because it suits you. Perhaps you should make him an offer he cannot refuse, if you have the money.

Let's see who is the next coach before reaching the conclusions you do.

Untrue. Nix is the GM and Guy will not be renewed in May.

Baltimore fans are happy Billick is gone. Harbaugh took a 3-13 team under Billick and has made two straight playoff appearances. Ozzie Newsome built this team and he is almost Polian like in what he does, Billick benefited mightily from that. And Billick is a very smug, irritating personality...CD

Thanks. As for other reactions about how everything sucks and we need an entire housecleaning, well that is not going to happen. The only way for this franchise to be a top destination would be to have a first rate stadium. Buffalo--the people of Greater Buffalo-- cannot afford that, so if you are waiting for this team to be Dallas, Washington, NE or Philly is terms of being desireable, then you'll have to wait until the team moves to LA or Toronto. This team needs to be luckier than most to have a chance to win the SB given the new economics of the NFL. We need to hit most everything right, coach, picks, etc. to have a chance. That is the nature of a franchise in Buffalo, which will only get worse if the NFL goes to a MLB revenue sharing type system... CD

I understand, but they don't want Billick for a variety of reasons. They won't interview someone they won't hire.

As with others on the Board, I grow weary of the hyperventilating over the coaching search. Now I read Jerry Sullivan today and he sounds like my first wife. Notiwthstanding all the whining, the Bills are trying to do exactly what most fans want in their coaching search. First, the Bills hired a "real" GM. Is he the only guy they could have hired, who knows? Who knows if GM candidates were more interested in the Bills than hot coaching candidates given the Bills situation. But we got a real football guy, so we have to see what he does. Hopefully better than Donahoe, the big name guy we got last time. Now, on to the coaching search. The Bills are in a hole as a team given their record over the past 10 years, the QB situation, the labor situation, the ownership uncertainty, and a city that is perpetually in an economic hole with a fourth rate stadium from a revenue perspective. OK, we are not the most desireable coaching job in 2010--what a shock. The only way to get more desireable when you've hit bottom is to get to work and change things. The Bills are doing that, and we are the only coaching job right now, which is a lucky break. Now, the Bills have set their coaching sites very high despite their situation. Would you want them to do less? They have not been trolling at the bar at closing time looking for anyone with a pulse. Cowher, Shanahan, Gruden, Harbaugh, Leslie Frazier, Brian S., Russ G.--these are the cream of the crop in terms of what is out there. If you ask out Jessica Biel, Heidi Klum and Scarlett Johanssen and score only one date, have you failed? It's not like the Bills have been courting the Three Stooges. Some folks want a Billick or Fassel, mostly to hire someone now so they can reduce their blood pressure. Obviously, the Bills don't want these guys--they are selective too(there, I said it). I live in Washington, and when Billick's name comes up as a possible candidate for the Bills, sports talk folks down here think it's a joke. "Good luck with that" they say. His rep down here is that he is an arrogant and difficult person whose success is mixed despite the SB ring. Not wanting him is not crazy, it's a reasonable judgment. That's why these guys are unemployed. If the Bills end up with a guy like Frazier, and for all we know the Bills have told him he's the guy, we will have landed a top prospect as a coach. Given the Bills situation, that is a very good outcome--the best you could hope for given where this franchise is right now. The fact we don't get to tell three other pretty girls we won't date them may make us feel less special, but at the end of the day we only need one good coaching prospect. And the Bills seem intent on getting one. The rest of the media firestorm is just BS, designed to fill air time and internet pages... CD

To make room for Lynch