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Apparently TD could lose a power struggle to a no name coach that has success. So then how does TD not hiring a "big time" head coach play into this exactly? It seems that success is the critical factor in the point you are making not how "big" the coach was coming in.

Plummer has been throwing off his back foot quite a bit tonight. He'll toss another INT in the second half that is going to cost them. GD I just don't trust Plummer.

So TD was trying to avoid success so he wouldn't lose another power struggle?

The #1 rip seems to be that the last two guys had no head coaching experience and then these same posters rip into TD for not hiring Weis, Lovie Smith, Lewis and Fox.

Reading comprehension is your friend. Don’t run away from him.

Let's all be blind followers. Good idea. Speaking of which, since you don't really understand the ins and outs of government (well, unless you've been a Congressman, Senator or President) you really shouldn't vote or have an opinion on policy.

At least the Dolphins had the good fortune of having Marino quit the job. The Bills have had no such luck thus far.

I'd rather be entertained during the season, not the off season. "Entertainment" during the off season generally equates to the same type of "entertainment" afforded by reality TV. That is to say I'm annoyed by it, not entertained.

I guess I'm just surrounded by a different atmosphere as I know plenty of people who are rabid about one of the teams (though you're right, not both). Also, 20% of 20 million people equals a lot more people than currently reside in Buffalo. It's hard to compare I suppose. In Buffalo the team lives in a fishbowl with most of the population peering in. It might be easier to hide in NYC, but even hidden there are a lot more people critical of the teams than in Buffalo.

I'm surprised Mularkey didn't run Shelton out into the flat to answer questions about his departure.

I'm sure he was told. The question is does he remember being told?

Neither of these guys were HIRED when they were that age. Regan was 77 when he left office, Greenspan 80. Both are younger than Marv is now when they LEFT the job. There's a reason. A NFL coaches job requires 15-18 hour work days (then again, so does a GMs). Can an 80 year old man put in those hours 10+ months a year? I'm not questioning Marv's mind, just his body.

I live in NYC as well. I'll give you the Yankees, when they're in season everything else is second fiddle. However from the middle to end of the NFL season football is the prime sport in the city uuntil it's teams are out of it. The Knicks don't really kick into gear until after the NFL season. Nobody was talking about the Knicks with the Giants in the playoffs.

You lost me here. How does Boom Boom Mancini (i.e. Ray Mancini) equal Pat Traves (whoever that is)?

I love the wording here: "Wilson lured Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy out of retirement to take over as GM." As if Marv wasn't begging somebody, anybody, to give him a high ranking job in the NFL for years. I'm sure it took a lot to "lure" him out of retirement.

That was Ray Mancini.

I still don't quite get how it takes Crennell years of running one of the best Ds in the league to get a shot at a HC position while Mangini is the hot candidate after one year at the same job. A year where the D was less than stellar to say the least.

Presumably they'll all see each other eight Sundays a year at the Ralph so it's not like they'll NEVER seen one another!

You might try arguing the matter with somebody who disagrees with you.

I guess you don't give the people employed by the various teams in the NFL much credit...or yourself too much. Scott simply said that there's some office gossip about Gray to illustrate the chaos that is currently OBD. If you've ever worked in any office you know that the ones which are poorly run have this type of stuff going on constantly. Nobody with any intelligence leads any credence to these outlandish office rumors but it does illustrate poor management. Yet you somehow think that you alone possess the brains that can somehow see through it all and the guys doing the hiring in the NFL might actually believe such gossip? Umm, sure, you're really smart for not believing office gossip! Perhaps you should go look up the definition of the word “libel” before you actually start using it in sentences.

I think it's the way it's shaking down and not what is happening that is disheartening. I didn't want TD gone just for the sake of firing him. I wanted him gone only if they hired a viable GM to replace him. IMO they didn't. With TD gone I thought they should have canned MM too, otherwise next year was pretty much a wasted season. If the team struggled Mularkey was likely gone (fairly or unfairly). Firing him at the same time as TD would have just cleaned the slate and allowed a fresh start. Now with Mularkey quitting a job he's likely never to get again, that doesn't speak well for the organization as a whole. It's embarrassing to think that a bad head coach who probably won't ever get another shot walks out the door instead of working with the current staff.

Thank God Mularkey played Holcomb so he coudl save his job.

Yeah, let's can Bobby April too!

Did I miss something? When did someone threaten to attack Mularkey or his family?

Belichick is considered the best coach in the league and his name isn't that big, it's only 8 letters by my count. We already had an 8 lettered coach and that didn't get the job done. Maybe it’s not the coaches name that matters after all?