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We will draft one of the following at 8: T Luke Joeckel DE/OLB Barkaveious Mingo OLB Jarvis Jones NT Jonathan Hankins QB Matt Barkley CB Dee Milliner DE/OLB Damontre Moore Nassib will not shoot up to the top 10. He will be there in round 2 or 3. They will not over-draft a QB, and at no point have they said that they will over draft for one. They have proven that they stick to there board. They will, however, trade up for one they like.

Well, they ran a pro-style offense at Syracuse and he's been around pro offenses since he was a teenager and was in the NFL for a few years so I think the answer to your question is yes.

chip kelly has never called plays against NFL defenses either, but everyone had a huge boner for him. Atacking defenses is the same in college as it is in the pros.

what is the obsession with kevin greene?

I think that going from Syracuse OC to Buffalo Bills QB coach would be a promotion and a pay raise. And you're right in that if he has intentions of furthering his career this would put him on a faster track to being an NFL OC than staying in college. Not to mention the fact that Syracuse will be transitioning to a new coach and to a new conference next season. I would be all for this if he is brought on to coach QBs. And I really wouldn't mind if he is in fact named the OC as think his a bright young offensive mind that we should be willing to cultivate. P.S. Bring Tyrone Wheatley to coach RBs and Rob Moore to coach WRs with you.

Don't know if I like Nassib that much after watching this, maybe in the 2nd round. But I could see Alex Smith having some success running an offense like this.

I agree completely. I actually meant to say i don't want to be married to the 43, but i don't want to be married to any base defense. I want gameplanners and strategists as our coordinators moving forward and guys who are going to adapt to our weekly opponents. I really think this job would be attractive to Pettine. We have some versatile lineman who can play a variety of positions in the front 7, and we a nice young potential #1 corner in Gilmore.

I don't want to be married to the 3-4, and i don't think the Bills are. I would much prefer a Hybrid Front defense which we do have some of the personnel for. Mario can play any position in the front 7. Mark Anderson flourished in a system like this with the Pats last year. Marcell can play any position on the DL, but could serve well in a role similar to Vince Wilfork in NE. Kyle Williams is your penetrating DT on pass downs, can play DE in some fronts. Carrington is a versatile DL, can play DE in a 3 man line or DT in a 4 man line. We would need to add LBs, but we would need them whether we switch to a 34 base or stay with the 43 base. My point is that the defense was so bad last year and the years before NOT because of our base scheme (and actually the defense was statistically better when we ran a 34 base), but because of the philosophy of the Defensive Coordinator. I doesn't matter what defense we run as long as we are more aggressive and have better gameplans.

Jets ran alot of 43 defense this year. And they ran alot of 43/46 at Baltimore. They do use 3/4 as the base.

This guy just left USC and reports are that he wants back in to the NFL. He is old at 72 but his record speaks for itself and he has defended alot of the college style offenses the last 4 years. This guy is a heavy weight at DC and would mesh well with our defensive personnel. He also isn't just a Tampon-2 guy. He uses that as his base defense in the secondary, but mixes alot of blitz packages and different defensive lines looks. He is also a guy who could pull in alot of quality defensive assistants into the mix and set us up with a core defensive philosophy which this team has been missing since Wade Phillips.

His coordinators from Syracuse are both talented guys. I would hope he brings them.

MONEY!!! If the Bills have a high profile guy they like, they need to make him the highest paid coach in the league. They are not an attractive destination. They need to start paying well above market value for these guys if they want to play with the big boys, and make no mistake Cleveland is now one of the big boys.

I think we all know how this ends. He's not coming here. End of story. The Bills are wasting there time here. They should be focusing on Jay Gruden, Marc Trestman, and Mike McCoy. At least McCoy is talking to them.

This is huge in terms of him transitioning to NFL. For everyone saying that he won't come to Buffalo, he coaches at Oregon, not USC, not Notre Dame, not Alabama. The size of the market will not be a factor IMO. Showing him the willingness to win will be.

Says he already has an offensive staff in place if hired. Curious to know who is on that staff. Could be a major selling point for him if he has experienced people on it.

If I'm the Bills, I'm interviewing everyone and anyone to spread the word that things are different here.

I want to be the team that hires Hue Jackson as an assistant, not as the Head Coach.

They have not spent money on coaching staff like other teams. This has much more to do with who is guiding certain important decisions with regards to the team. Namely, the head coach. In the past two hires, it was widely known that Ralph was much more comfortable with a HC with prior HC experience even if this meant a lesser "talented" candidate. In fact, Dick Jauron was on the Bills radar going all the way back to when they hired Mularkey. It is no coincidence that he was hired the next time we had an opening. Same thing with Gailey. The Bills, re: Ralph, wanted a guy with prior HC experience and who had an offensive background, not necessarily the most talented coaching candidate. To think Ralph Wilson was not involved in what is essentially the most important hiring decision an NFL franchise will make is ludicrous. He was the driving force behind Marv as GM, Jauron as HC, Jauron having a say in personnel (Aaron Maybin), Buddy Nix as GM, and Gailey as HC.

please no. defensive version of chan gailey.

I'll find it very funny if this statement is about patience and support for Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey

I think Nix has drafted some good players and brought in some good FAs, both marquee and under-the-radar. He has done a good job retaining some of our talented players. But he is also VP of Football Operations. His main responsibility is TEAM BUILDING. Solid player acquisition devoid of a general direction of the team does not make a good GM. If you are in Nix's position, knowing what a good player looks like should be second nature. He has done a terrible job of giving this team ANY identity whatsoever. He cannot defer this to Chan Gailey because Gailey is not that kind of administrator type of coach. The strikes against Nix are well documented on this site. He should go or be re-assigned. He is not a terrible football man but he is not a front office leader, which is what we need most.

You can't pick out the two guys who seem to be exceptions to the rule to prove your point. Mike Shanahan was fired from the Raiders for reasons that have nothing to do with his coaching ability. The truth is he got less than two years with Raiders and his firing is widely viewed as a huge mistake and one of the all-time ego-driven blunders of Al Davis. Bill Belicheck was fired from Cleveland because Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore and basically cleaned house. He re-built a terrible Browns team in the early 90's before modern free agency and had them in the playoffs in 3 years and won a wild card game against the Patriots. The following year the Browns were talked about as a team that could win the Super Bowl. Modell announced that the team was moving to Baltimore and it basically ended the Browns season at the midpoint. The "Belicheck is a failed HC" myth is not one grounded in reality and I would challenge you to find any articles from that time or the time of his hiring in New England that labeled him as a "re-tread" or "failure." Both of these guys were not fired from there jobs because they were viewed as bad coaches and didn't produce wins over a period of time. You need to look at the circumstances surrounding their firing to get a sense of what you are getting as a coach. Their is a difference between getting fired because you didn't produce enough wins over a certain period of time and getting fired because of things happening behind the scenes, just as there is a difference for getting fired because you could get your team to the next level (a la Tom Coughlin with the Jaguars or Tony Dungy with the Bucs). No one considered Tom Coughlin or Tony Dungy failed head coaches because they were fired from there jobs. If you really look at it, you have two kinds of HCs that are successful on their 2nd team: 1. A guy who has displayed the clear ability to handle the job well and be successful(i.e multiple division titles, Super Bowl app, several playoff years). Examples include Tom Coughlin, Dick Vermeil, Bill Belicheck, Tony Dungy, Marv Levy, Chuck Knox, Bill Parcells, Marty Schottenheimer, Don Shula, Mike Holmgren. Guys who fall into this category that were not successful with their 2nd team include Sam Wyche, Jimmy Johnson(kind of a grey area), Dennis Green. These guys tend to be out of work for a little or no time before they are picked back up by another team. Guys who IMO who can be successful with their 2nd team: Jeff Fisher, Andy Reid(if he gets fired), Brian Billick 2. A guy who displayed coaching talent before his first job, was unsuccessful in that job but was not a complete and utter failure, and (this is most important) who went on to something great in another position(albeit in college or as a coordinator) between his first and second job. Examples include Mike Shanahan, Pete Carroll. Guys who fit this mold but failed in there 2nd job: Ray Rhodes, Dom Capers, Dennis Erickson. Guys who IMO can be successful if given a 2nd chance: Josh McDaniels, Nick Saban, Jim Caldwell, Rex Ryan(if fired)

Actually, Jim Harbaugh was an offensive assistant in 2002 and QB coach in 2003. His QB coach in 2002, the year he won the MVP was Marc Trestman. Man, must be nice to be able to assemble a talented coaching staff. Edit: Actually, Trestman was also the OC in 2002 so he may have been QB coach in name only and in fact may have deferred much of the QB coaching to Harbaugh. My point is more about the quality of coaches you need to be a good team.

Jimmy Haslem III, who just purchased the Browns for $1B(or became majority owner anyway) is ranked 360th on Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, with a net worth of $1.2B Robert Rich Jr. is 190th on that list with a net worth of $2.4B. He is 71. He is a vocal supporter of Buffalo sports and has owned the Bisons since '83. I do not have any knowledge of whether or not he has publicly stated an interest in buying the team, but based on the way he has lived his life and his love for Buffalo sports, I find it extremely hard to believe that he would not be interested in purchasing a majority stake in owning the Bills. Just sell the damn team to him already. It should have happened years ago.

we need to run a something out of the 43 base defense. Our d lineman are all built for that and we have no LBs who can play in the 3-4. Not to mention that most of league plays the 34 and is looking for the same personnel. The time to switch to the 34 was 10 years ago just like the time to switch to the Tampa 2 was about 15 years ago. Can't be behind the curve with your defensive scheme because the special players you need to run them at an elite level are few and far between. We just need to be a more aggressive 43 defense. Something similar to what the Seahawks run. We already have alot of the personnel for it and the 43 Under scheme has not taken off across the league like the 34 has recently.