Mike in Horseheads
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Hey... Maybe the reason the Bills have hired a LB coach without announcing a DC is because its a assistant on the Colts or Saints. Since Gregg Williams had such a positive experience with Ralph and all I'm sure hes giving great references for the Bills.
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I'd like to be an ILB coach. One, maybe two employees, and I'd get 100K+, never get hit, and could sell used cars in the off-season.
LOL... here's how times have changed, years ago Elmira was the O's AA team. Earl Weaver was manager here for a few years and met his wife. Became the O's manager in 1969 but still came back here with her in the off season and sold cars for Elmira Chrysler Plymouth!
...Now days they all make too much $$$ and don't have to bother with dealing with the simple people unless they get paid.
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With all this Georgia Tech influx will the Bills be renamed to be the Rambling "Weck"??? Sorry just had to throw that out...
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Old Giffer another good ole boy from the colle ge ranks. I just don`t know what to think.
Can' you hear it now, "Lets go out and win one for the Giffer"
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Our coaches have great first names..
That must be Russ Brandons doings, marketing ploy!
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..written on a napkin.That was stolen from The Holiday Inn Bar....
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Give Pees a chance.
John Lennon!
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God I hate Wikipedia.
This basically assures me that he won't be coming here.
Yupper..the kiddies are playing with the computer again.
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I love how "the media" is somehow a problem with the bills. Apparently the fans still want smoke blown up their asses?
Right. It's the media's fault we can't draft in the first round, won't do a legitimate search for a real gm or can't attract a successful coach. How dare those idiots be critical of the owner! In fact, how dare they report or even opine on anything that isn't pure roses and sunshine.
Some culture we live in- when in doubt, bash a reporter.
I really didn't mean it that way, I just like some life shown for once at OBD, beats the Jauron drone....
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This link makes me wonder....
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Just curious what people think about Nix. When he introduced Gailey he was a bumbling fool that didn't even know how many coaches the Bills have had. A 70 year old goofball. So progressive! Typical Bills.
...I thought he was a riot at the press conference! Say what you want but nice to see somebody rattle some chains back at the media. If Buddy and Chan can get some asst quality coaches like Reeves in here I will have my bad attitude about them tempered.
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Trade Trentette for a 5th or 6th rounder.
I take that in a second but the only team dumb enough to do that is Oakland and since they are "stacked with quality QB's" there is no roster spot for a long bal throwing stud like Trenty..
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..."and Chan...who's Chan? Charlie Chan??? What's he doing on our payroll?"
..and Buddy...who's Buddy? Buddy Ebsen?? With Buddy Ebsen, Superman and Charlie Chan on this cast I don't know why we can't win a Oscar!
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No goddamnit dagnabbitt, the sheriff is a .......
CLANG! ... lol
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The sheriff is near!
LOL... Russ Brandon staring as "Headley Lamarr".... "not Headley, its Heady"
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Sorry if this has been asked before but, what are the terms of Chan Gaileys deal? I guess since hes also the OC its "three and out" like the offense and previous HCs have been? I do wish him well but hes up against odds not seen since the new sheriff rode into Rockridge in "Blazing Saddles"!
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I know, it's been done. But if I didn't do it, someone else would have!
Thanks I needed that!
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Time to move on, it is what it is..... Go Sabres, and on to the FA and draft. Come summer waiting for the 1st preseason game....
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I asked Mort via Twitter if the Bills turned him down:
mortreport
@MattKabel He definitely did not turn down Bills. He wasn't offered. And league rules wouldn't allow that to happen but they wanted HC experience
On the Dan Patrick show Peter king indicated that he thinks Tony Dungey may have had something to do with Fraizer shying away.
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He's an arrogant little punk and I just can't stand the sight of him. He reports things that anyone can deduce. It's like a weatherman in Florida predicting it will be hazy, hot and humid in July. I don't care if he can predict the exact date and time that the Bills name their coach. I just don't like the guy.
I agree... when he went to ESPN he just became another Disney Dwarf. He forgot what he used to do and became a shill for the network.
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It seems pretty clear that no one ever went broke underestimating the competence of Mr. Ralph and the FO as far as HC hiring. However, on the face of it, it seems quite unlikely that the Bills would even interview Harbaugh given the marketplace for HCs and his less than mid-flight resume (not only is he not at the level of folks like Shanahan and even Cowher the Bills reportedly either talked to or flirted with, but he does not even have the resume of the DCs the Bills have interviewed (Frazier interview is publicly acknowledged) or flirted with (Grimm and Schottenheimer have publicly refused).
It seems pretty far out simply that the Bills somehow interviewed Harbaugh and it remained below the radar and simply flat out ridiculous that they made him an HC offer (either with this surprising interview or even more oddly without an interview) which he then turned down.
Has anyone remotely confirmed this notiopn.
These clowns, Schefter, Mortensen, Clayton, Florio and Casserly are all falling over themselves to one up each other. We can bet soon that Adam Schefter is reporting that John Clayton knows what Mort had for lunch.
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Let's just assme for a minute that the various reports out there are true, and that Shanny, Cowher, Rivera, Weiss, Schotty Jr. and Sr., Harbaugh, and now Frazier have said "thanks but no thanks" to the Bills, leaving them almost completely out of viable options to fill their head coaching vacancy. Should the rest of the League sit tight while one of its storied franchises just whithers on the vine and slowly dies? Can the League even do anything at this point? You would think that Goodell, an activist Commissioner if there ever was one (not to mention a WNY alumn), might consider geting involved, at least behind-the-scenes, to assist with this situation before it becomes a full-fledged trainwreck. I'm sure the other owners don't care too much about a small market team in a dying region, but it has to be at least a bit of an embarassment to the League and also a concern that the competitiveness of the game is threatened if one of its franchise can't fill its coaching vacancy. Perhaps the League could push Ralph to change his management style, or to publicly announce an ownership transition/contingency plan to assure potential candidates. SOMETHING has to be done if these reports are true. If I was another owner, I'd be half amused and half incensed by this. Small market or not, every other owner has some financial interest in the Bills' success, at least in the short-term before they move. Just a thought.
I still believe in the conspiracy theory that the league and Ralphie want to destroy the fan base so they can say look at the lousy attendance and say nobody cares and move the team to Toronto or LA.
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Right up front here, I am not one of the multitude of (idiotic) Ralph bashers, but this sounds like a different verse to the same song. Levy hires Jauron (against Ralph's wishes) and now Nix is looking at (potentially) hiring another re-tread never was because he is enamored with Gailey's considerable football acumen. First Levy falls prey to the "smart" but bad track record guy, is Nix next??????? If true, grab your ankles...
I guess I missed something because I never heard that Levy hired Dickhead over Ralphies wishes...
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Here is what Peter King wrote this morning regarding the labor talks (we better enjoy next season):
If the past few days, I've spoken to sources on both sides of the labor talks, and I've come to the conclusion that it'll be an upset if there isn't a work stoppage that either delays or cancels the 2011 season. Many of us in the media have speculated about the chances for a lockout and predicted one is coming, but the total lack of progress over the nut issue in 11 bargaining sessions tells me unless there's a sea-change by one side or the other, you'd better savor the 2010 season because it could be the last football we see for a while.
At the core of the problem is ownership's demand for players to bear an equal part of the cost for stadium construction, debt service and upkeep -- and the players saying it's not their problem. In NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith's recent e-mail to player representatives, he startled player leaders by saying ownership wanted to cut player compensation by 18 percent per year in the new CBA.
I thought the 18 percent number might be an exaggeration, a scare tactic to get players' attention. It's not. The owners, one management source said, have asked that the players' pool of revenue against which the salary cap is calculated be reduced by 18 percent.
The players' response, a union source told me, is that they're not prepared to take a penny, or a percentage point, less. While Smith, in his letter to players, didn't dismiss the possibility of negotiating on the issue, he wrote that there has been no compelling information presented to players to justify such a major reduction in what players make.
You wonder what 18 percent means. So did I. The management source said the owners want $1 billion a year credited to ownership and not subject to being part of the pie that the players divide. "There's obviously been an enormous shift from public financing of stadiums to private funding,'' the management source said. "Those costs are not recognized in the current CBA, and we feel that has to change.''
The league has beat this drum for several years. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some give-and-take in the owners' demands, because this is collective bargaining, but I would be surprised if the owners drop this as a demand altogether. They're just too dug-in on it.
But from the players' perspective, it's got to be a tough sell to union leaders. Imagine Smith going into a union meeting at a team and telling the players that the average compensation to the men in this room is about $1.8 million this year in salary and bonus payments, and explaining to them in a time of bountiful success for the NFL, each of the players is going to have to take, on average, a $324,000 pay cut. The players will never go for that, absent the owners being able to prove they're losing money in a time of unparalleled wealth in the league.
At some point, serious talks will start, with each side compromising. But I can't see the two sides bridging this chasm anytime soon.
See Ralphies not dumb, he just doesn't want to pay a coach during the lockout. Russ will handle it for 2010.
Are we looking at someone on the Colts/Saints?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Assuming Grego will discourage any coaches from leaving the Saints for the Bills that would leave the Colts coaches:
http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=coaches
...Maybe Pete Metzellers and Frank Reich will come over with one of the defensive coaches.