Albany,n.y.

I think he's the next Bo Levi Mitchell, the QB who Canadians wanted the Bills to sign before they drafted Josh. Good luck in the CFL Malik.

That was my 1st though. The winner of the coin toss has to choose the opponent's 1 yard line. Anything else is coaching malpractice, unless they can choose the 1 inch line.

From what I heard in the NY media, Flores was the top choice by one of the owners but once they hired Schoen he was free to hire who he wanted. Considering where Schoen came from the logical conclusion was either Daboll or Frazier. Here's something to consider. After Schoen was hired Dan Quinn, seeing the writing on the wall cancelled his interview with the Giants. IMO, Flores could have came to the same conclusion & also cancelled his interview. In fact, based on the Belichick texts, he could have easily reached the same conclusion as Quinn, but he went on with the interview & then went scorched earth when he didn't get the job.

Still the easiest way to get a job with the Bills is to have Carolina Panthers on your resume.

I know, I correctly predicted he'd join Daboll in NY in the who will Daboll take with him thread, but now the Bills have to bring someone in from outside & I'm not happy about it.

#@!%

But if they didn't go through the motions they would have been penalized like the time Matt Millen admitted that Mariucci was his choice before he had to interview minority candidates.

All the Giants were doing was complying with the rules the NFL set up. They should not be penalized for doing an interview the NFL forced them to do. On the other hand Ross is in BIG trouble.

I think the Rooney Rule in its current state just ended today with the Flores lawsuit. Teams will be afraid to conduct sham interviews for fear of being sued.

Flores point is he didn't tank and as a result was viewed as a difficult employee. It's all on the Dolphins owner.

This will hurt the Dolphins owner more than anything else. Alleged tanking & tampering won't go over well in the NFL office. Flores just went scorched earth & will never work in the NFL again.

Unless a team is promoting from within, they shouldn't draft a QB in the 1st round when they're about to fire the current GM. Unless the player is an instant hit the GM will want his own QB. That said, if the Bills were seriously in the QB market in 2017, they should have fired Whaley and hired Beane in January to give him time to pick a QB. Obviously the Bills were looking to the 2018 draft for their QB in 2017.

I'll start the bidding: $100.

We now know how this turned out-It was always Dorsey as the choice & the others were just window dressing. So in the end they were just wasting guys like Tee Martin's time. Maybe they can get Tee to lateral to QB coach if Tierney goes to NYG.

I think Webb will be an assistant QB coach either here or NYG. He won't step in as the QB coach in the beginning. I'd like to see Shea Tierney as the Bills QB coach, but I know he's a Daboll guy, so we'll see.

Here's my take: While there may be better choices than Dorsey, based on experience, Dorsey is at the head of the list for 1 main reason-Josh Allen, the most important player on the team, already has a relationship with Dorsey and Dorsey is Josh's top choice. So, whether you like it or not, a franchise QB has a lot of power in today's NFL. Just look at the messes in Houston & Green Bay because management did something the QB didn't like. So, the key is, does Dorsey want to stay with the Bills, or is he closer with Daboll and wants to go to the NYG? If he wants to be OC in Buffalo, the job is his. Bringing in other candidates is just a charade to comply with a rule. We've seen this before. Daboll was going to be the Giants HC as soon as Schoen was hired. The other candidates interviewed were never going to get the job. The rule would be better if it could be applied to teams that don't already have their guy picked out and are truly looking at all candidates fairly. So, if a team has only 1 coach who is going to be their choice no matter what, let them hire him and not waste other people's time. However, if a team feels the need to interview more than just their guy, then apply the Rooney Rule. Here's an example from before the Rooney Rule existed: From the time Bill Polian was named GM, one of his goals was to bring his mentor Marv Levy in to coach the Bills. It didn't take very long, and he didn't have to conduct any other interviews. In today's NFL Levy would have had to come in as only an interim coach during the season & then the Bills would have had to conduct some sham interviews before naming Marv the full time head coach. In that case Levy would have been the 1 & only serious candidate due to the close relationship between Polian & Levy from past teams where they worked together. The fact Marv was going to be Polian's coach ASAP can be seen in the 1986 Bills Media Guide under Polian's bio where there was an entire paragraph on the Levy/Polian football relationship while Hank Bullough was still the coach. In fact, in the 1987 media guide, they only changed a few words in that paragraph to reflect that Marv was now the Bills HC.

The only 1 of the 3 QBs mentioned whose reps were diminished was Rosen. Most 1st round busts played their way down the depth chart, they got plenty of reps until the team could see they were busts. They failed the organiztion, not the other way. As far as Rosen goes, he claims to have seen the error of his ways, but he was really bad when the Falcons put him in at garbage time. An example of someone who never got a chance was 2nd rounder Christian Hackenberg. He was so bad in practice & preseason games that he never played a down in his 2 years with the Jets. It was as if the Jets were afraid to put him in a game. He then ended up in the short-lived AAF and was as bad as his preseason Jets games & got benched before the league folded. Here's a good article from last November on Rosen. I actually had hopes he makes it after reading the article, but he almost certainly has no chance of ever fulfilling the promise that made him the 10th pick of the 2018 draft .https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32706881/josh-rosen-finds-peace-perspective-atlanta-mentor-rich-gannon This is the part that stands out why Rosen failed prior organizations: That Rosen is figuring this out now is also an admission of what he failed to do early in his career. Since he has been in Atlanta, he has said there are things he wishes he had done differently in his earlier stops. Some of that went into how he did -- and didn't -- prepare. Too often, he was concerned about what the other team might try to do -- sacrificing the time he needed to make sure he knew his team's own game plan well enough to be able to then use the nuances within it to solve what defenses might throw at him. The last two seasons, watching Tom Brady and then Ryan, helped show him the value in approaching that first. "I wasn't studying our game plan enough," Rosen said. "And here I've been doing that a bunch more and it just allows you to play really quick and operate and know your progression in your sleep. Like dream about those pass pictures.

The Bills are interviewing Tee Martin to comply with the Rooney rule. I'd ask him "Why were you drafted before Tom Brady?" and see how he responds under pressure.

Kingsbury talked up Rosen & Saleh talked up Darnold when they were introduced. Once they got in the building & reviewed the tapes & talked with people they sent these guys packing. Daboll will keep Jones around but I'd be shocked if he didn't bring in some competition for the starting job before camp.

He said it depends. My guess is if he gets Dorsey or someone else he knows & trusts, he'll let that OC call the plays. If he settles for someone else, it will probably be based on how comfortable he is with the guy.

I'm in the you can't ruin a QB group. So far, the only thing Jones & Darnold have been are coach killers, not the other way around. Darnold has ruined 2 coaches as has Jones, if Rhule didn't have such a long term expensive contract Darnold might already have another notch on his belt. Josh Rosen was never going to succeed. He himself admits that he didn't work hard enough early in his career. He mishandled himself, not the teams he was on who saw what they had in him quickly & bounced him. If by some miracle Rosen turns things around it will be because he now realizes he needs to apply himself, not because a coach came around who fixed him. Josh Allen on the other hand was the exact opposite of Rosen when he came into the NFL, working his butt off to get better. He would have succeeded with any team because he would have done what he has been doing, working with his own QB coach every offseason, along with the team's coaching staff. Now it's 6 coaches between Jones & Darnold and you're blaming the teams that drafted them. All 3 QBs you mentioned got their coach fired their rookie year. Thatis not a coincidence-it's on them, the coach killing trio.

I'm sure there are KC fans overracting too & are calling for the firing of Reid & all his assistants today. If you think the Bills coaches blew it, imagine if we had blown an 18 point lead including letting the clock run out at the end of the 1st half without putting any points on the board. I've already heard someone on WFAN say KC's 2nd half was the worst coaching he's ever seen. Imagine what they're saying on KC sports radio.

Daboll said in his press conference that if Graham doesn't get a head coaching job, he will be the Giants DC.

Chiefs & Rams to win & cover because I bet them.

Mark: Make sure he signs his contract and shows up for the press conference.