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6 years ago today, Doug Marrone opted out as Bills Head Coach


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1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

I was disappointed - I didn’t like him, but we went 9-7 and I was like why the eff is he quitting 

4 million reasons and backdoor understanding of being hired by the Jets (which they backed off due to player pressure)

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2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I was disappointed - I didn’t like him, but we went 9-7 and I was like why the eff is he quitting 

 

A lot of butt hurt on here about Marron3 and his quitting which I find funny.  I seem to recall that Marrone had wanted to be renewed/extended as he was on the last year of his contract but the Pegulas right so didn't want to budge?   If your only quarterback option for your last season is EJ Manuel and you had the option of jumping ship for another team while getting paid,  wouldn't you do it?

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Really it has been a slow but still steady and very much a championship team process. Need to grow. As really not a lot of teams get to grow. It seems like a two year window for coaches to get their act together. Really hope they can grow. Not just a great coach but a great person from what I hear.

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58 minutes ago, Hampton Josh fan said:

Thank goodness this self important jerk jumped ship because that laid the groundwork for Sean and the incredible ascension to league dominance. Marrone cancerized himself in Jax like he did here. He alienated players, fans and the sports media, with his humorless, knowitall approach. All Bills fans should be thankful to be rid of this gasbag. 

 

But we had to endure the two most embarrassing years of Bills fandom - the Ryan era. 

 

I'd have rather had the same record for two years but under Marrone than that embarrassment of a human leading this team. Hating and I use that word intentionally.... hating the man coaching your favourite team really makes it not fun.

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11 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

But we had to endure the two most embarrassing years of Bills fandom - the Ryan era. 

 

I'd have rather had the same record for two years but under Marrone than that embarrassment of a human leading this team. Hating and I use that word intentionally.... hating the man coaching your favourite team really makes it not

Rex was bad and we should have known we were going nowhere when he dragged his brother out of a bar bathroom to be on his staff. The one good thing he did was devastate Jets nation by knocking them out week 17, victimizing Fitz. That was his one accomplishment. 

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5 minutes ago, Hampton Josh fan said:

Rex was bad and we should have known we were going nowhere when he dragged his brother out of a bar bathroom to be on his staff. The one good thing he did was devastate Jets nation by knocking them out week 17, victimizing Fitz. That was his one accomplishment. 

 

The fat man was a disaster. Period.

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54 minutes ago, prissythecat said:

 

A lot of butt hurt on here about Marron3 and his quitting which I find funny.  I seem to recall that Marrone had wanted to be renewed/extended as he was on the last year of his contract but the Pegulas right so didn't want to budge?   If your only quarterback option for your last season is EJ Manuel and you had the option of jumping ship for another team while getting paid,  wouldn't you do it?

Definitely was not on the last year of his contract. He was hired in 2013 and had 2 years left. 

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2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

How'd they work out for you, Dougie?

 

TBH it worked out amazing for him. He was going to get fired in one more year here and would have probably had to settle for an assistant coaching job somewhere.

 

Somehow the guy has been a head coach ever since and that's pretty crazy. 

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When he was hired, I remember thinking, "this guy won the ***** Pinstripe Bowl!!! We got ourselves a real HC!!!"

 

Turned out that wasn't really the best litmus test.

 

In seriousness, Marrone was hired into just about the biggest dumpster fire in the NFL.  Inept ownership.  Inept front office.

 

Was he great?  No.  But when he left, the Bills had a winning record and a top defense.   I never blamed him for bailing with all of the uncertainty.  I think he did the best job he could being the head coach of a horribly managed team.

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2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

Definitely was not on the last year of his contract. He was hired in 2013 and had 2 years left. 


 

Ok. I didn’t remember  all the details correctly .  Nevertheless  , he was trying to extend at the point when he left.

 

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/12104824/doug-marrone-opts-contract-buffalo-bills

 

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5 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I don’t know if it seems like longer or like it was yesterday. It seems like a different world. 

 

One of the few things that I thought happened much longer ago. Feels like forever.

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I don't always compare other teams' fans with other bills fans, but when I got the notification he opted out, I partied like it was 1999. Then I saw that some fans were upset and I knew that we had some dumb fans among us too. All good though. We all want the same thing. 

 

In short, eff Doug Marrone. He was the antithesis of what we have now. Arrogant, stupid and dismissive. 

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9 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:

Thank god he did, but it was still a dick move.

 

Sometimes things just work out the way they are meant to be. We had suffered enough, he would never get it done and Rex was exposed as a poser pretty quickly. 

 

We now have possibly the best (or at least top 5) rosters and regimes in the NFL. This looks built to last. Every year 31 teams are disappointed at the end, but I like our chances this year and going forward. 

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Just now, Augie said:

 

Sometimes things just work out the way they are meant to be. We had suffered enough, he would never get it done and Rex was exposed as a poser pretty quickly. 

 

We now have possibly the best (or at least top 5) rosters and regimes in the NFL. This looks built to last. Every year 31 teams are disappointed at the end, but I like our chances this year and going forward. 

 

I mean...true.

 

I just ask myself: would McDermott walk out on this team? Can I ever envision him doing something like that?

 

I honestly don't, and we are much better off for it.

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2 hours ago, eball said:

Cared at the time and thought the MF was a quitter.  Understand the financial part of the deal but he’s a loser and always will be.

 

The place was still a dumpster fire though and his stock was at its height. He wanted Whaley gone and a GM that he approved of hired. While I am sure he went about it the wrong way because he is clearly a dick of a man if McDermott and Beane have taught us anything it is that organisational alignment wins. It wouldn't have won in the same with with Marrone because like his best bud Billy O down in Houston he'd have always wanted more and more power.... but the germ of that idea "in order to fully turn this around I need a GM I am more aligned with" was not wrong. 

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