Wow MM is a whining bitch

[dave mcbride]

Dude - it cost 3 picks to acquire Losman, that we could have used on 3 different players.

 

give up your  lame spin control.

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they gave up a second and a fifth to get him. it's pretty freaking simple.

[GG]

 

they gave up a second and a fifth to get him. it's pretty freaking simple.

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Plus, a first in '05.

 

It's a game of interpreting the trade, and both sides are right

 

Bills give up 3 picks 2nd, 5th, & 1st to obtain 1 pick - 1st. The net picks given up is 2.

[Kultarr]

Let me get this straight: you read a story that was largely conjecture, and now you're looking for implied quotes. You're layering conjecture on top of conjecture.

 

What we do KNOW:

 

1. Mularkey initially stated he would continue as the head coach.

2. Later, Mularkey fired a number of his assistants.

3. Levy came in as GM, and hinted he had head coaching aspirations. Ralph Wilson put him in his place AFTER Mularkey had resigned.

4. Mularkey quit a few days after firing those assistants.

 

Without trying to overthink things, let's see what possible reasons for quitting emerge from these facts:

 

Possibility 1: Mularkey couldn't hire new assistants. Given the timing of his resignation, this emerges as a strong possibility. With a new GM, it may be that most assistants felt Mularkey was on a one-year job interview. The man interviewing him wanted Mularkey's job. If you were an assistant, would you want to be a part of that situation, on a team with little talent?

 

Possibility 2: Mularkey had come to realize Levy's head coaching aspirations, and felt this would cause him not to get a fair shake. Granted, it wasn't until after Mularkey quit that Levy said anything publicly. But if Levy was saying things publicly late in the week, maybe he'd made hints to Mularkey behind closed doors earlier.

 

Possibility 3: In discussing the team's player selection strategy, Levy might have said that Mularkey would no longer be getting players specially suited to his kind of system; but instead would be getting more generic players. If Levy indeed said this, it would make it clear that Mularkey was halfway out the door. The comment might also have made him afraid he wouldn't have the tools to do the job this upcoming season.

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Another pair of possibilities involve the new "structure". By "structure", I read decision making processes. The word from the old guys is that they wanted to do away with the "one man show" business and put back in a "concensus system" similar to what worked in the past. So,

 

4) Perhaps MM did not like this concensus thing and felt he was suddenly thrown into the deep end of the pool without his water wings.

 

5) Perhaps MM felt this was all just rot and that he was an outsider watching a new set of decision makers assume control while his input was ignored. (We do know that his input was at least asked for because RW had a meeting with MM to see what the coach felt had to be done.)