Kirby Jackson Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said: I agree, the guy sleeping through meetings is not making decisions, but if he accepted a job with the title "General Manager" and chose to exercise his duties by snoozin' through meetings, he still "stops the buck" I don’t disagree. The point was that he was hired with a GM title but not GM responsibilities. He was there to be an ambassador. The thought was never “let Marv run football ops.” It was “let Marv be the face of football ops.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloRush Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 9 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said: I don’t disagree. The point was that he was hired with a GM title but not GM responsibilities. He was there to be an ambassador. The thought was never “let Marv run football ops.” It was “let Marv be the face of football ops.” Show me your verified documentation to any link that proves Marv was not the GM. I’m looking for facts from people who were there - not just rumor and innuendo. Like I said, I probably agree that he was just a figure head but I haven’t been able to find any concrete proof. Just a lot of speculation. Either was Marv owns these drafts whether he called the shots on not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Jackson Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 19 minutes ago, BuffaloRush said: Show me your verified documentation to any link that proves Marv was not the GM. I’m looking for facts from people who were there - not just rumor and innuendo. Like I said, I probably agree that he was just a figure head but I haven’t been able to find any concrete proof. Just a lot of speculation. Either was Marv owns these drafts whether he called the shots on not Look, you can take my word or not. I have (and had) a lot of connections over there. The majority of this board knows that. You can choose to believe what I am saying or not. It makes no difference to me but it is 100% the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihilarian Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Some of you can complain about a hall of fame Buffalo Bills coach who was asked by the owner to help him out as GM for a time. But, I gotta tell you that the org was a dysfunctional mess before Levy became GM and it stayed that way until recently when the Pegula's hired McD. Thankfully! Whaley was nothing more than Russ Brandon's "yes man" and so was Buddy Nix. Neither was really qualified to be an NFL GM. Nix, a 70-year-old retired chief scout hired to be the Bills GM. Whaley was the Steelers pro personnel coordinator before becoming Bills GM. Whaley's claim to fame was an inadvertent email with porn he sent to a Steelers assistant coach that was forwarded to a large number of high-level NFL employees including the NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell. Tom Donahoe was fired by the Steelers after he lost a power struggle with Bill Cowher. So what does Bills owner Ralph Wilson do? He not only hires Donahoe to be GM but he also steps down as team president and promotes ole Tom to take his place as team president. Donahoe did pretty good in his first draft and then swung a trade with NE for Drew Bledsoe in his second offseason. Donahoe even had the right idea to build a better line to protect Bledsoe but then he showed his ineptitude that got him fired from Pittsburgh by drafting Mike Williams #4 overall who was a bust at LT. This when future all-pro Bryant McKinnie went #7 to the Vikings. This was the first nail in his coffin. Hiring first time HC Gregg Williams as was another nail as was first time HC Mike Mularkey. After the 2005 season, the Tom Donahoe experiment was over and Wilson was back as team president. You know the team is screwed up when the marketing guy is listed as the GM for three years from 2008 to 2010. Arron Maybin was drafted during that time...does he own that pick? Time to stop living in the past with a thoroughly dysfunctional mess that was the old Buffalo Bills pre 2017. Think of it, the 2014 Buffalo Bills field one of the very best defenses in their history (#4 ranked) with Jim Schwartz as DC and what do they do? Let Schwartz leave and hire a head coach that hadn't had a winning season for five years. That same Jim Schwartz was the DC for the 2017 super bowl champs defense (#4 ranked). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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