Sisyphean Bills

The "bonus" firing of his brother speaks volumes. Particularly when a general housecleaning could happen in just a few days.

What came out of Pegulas own mouth was that Doug Whaley was the one who conducted the football part of the interview. He was the guy and all those eggs were in his basket. The "football part" would seem to be an important piece of hiring a head football coach to me. People can parse and nuance that anyway they want, obviously. Also, FWIW, when hiring middle or upper-middle managers, regardless of the business, it is common for the candidate to meet and talk with the management chain-of-command. It's not necessarily a decision made by one person on the team overruling everyone else in the room as some sort of supreme dictator. The word is consensus.

It makes sense. If one chooses the certain point of view.

I have my suspicions.

And the chance of that actually happening are ... what?

Is Whaley still pushing EJM? Whaley might not get the chance to select the next head coach.

You're slicing it far too thin. Whaley was deeply, over his head deeply, involved in these hires. You're kidding yourself if you think anything else.

Are the Bills the Browns now? Playing the games to intentionally lose? Wow. Just, wow.

How many GMs get to hire 3 coaches in 5 years? Not many, that's for damn sure.

What's Murph smoking?

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Hmm. That probably rules him out then.

Yeah. The Bills sideline looks like a coaching conference. Having 105 assistant coaches might be a few too many.

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Sammy making plays really helps the offense.

I do like Tom Coughlin. Judy Coughlin likes living in Jacksonville. Coughlin is a hands-on sort of HC. Makes me wonder how interested he would be in the "Doug's in charge of the 53, coach is in charge of the 46" operation. Maybe he'd be ok with that, but he might also want full control of his roster.

Ditto.

No one in particular. It would be very Bills-ian to have Whaley gut the roster yet again and start trying to find new players for polar opposite systems. Fits well with the weathervane identity.

So what you are saying is that a guy Whaley wanted to keep, who left for more money, and is now being benched is somehow an example of Whaley's drafting and team building prowess?

It would make a certain sense to bring in a coach who wants to install a Mike McCarthy style offense and a Tampa-2 defense.

Fills some time on NFL Network.

Hunh? No one said Graham's article was about critical thinking. Ad hominem attacking the author and/or his sources is a lack of critical thinking. It's a argumentative fallacy. It proves nothing and isn't persuasive in the least. The above line is a fiction. The data didn't break down rosters based on partitioning out "regimes" within all the organizations.

Interesting. I thought I read a sports article in a newspaper, not a peer-reviewed research paper. Nor did it feel like sitting in the jury box to evaluate a legal case on attorney likability. I agree that there is a shot-gun blast of nuggets of information presented in the article. Not all of the nuggets are conclusive nor absolute. What is clear from very title is the article will critique GM Whaley's job performance. I didn't find it at all surprising that the text had a critical tone. As yet another failed season closes, the topic of evaluating this organization, what it does and doesn't do to continue to come up short repeatedly, seems perfectly germane. Failure leads to criticism. Success to kudos. But agendas are about positioning failures as successes and successes as failures.

Exactly. The "narrative" that the Bills are an exceptionally unsuccessful is a statistical reality. It's inarguable by objective measure. Accepting that reality and then asking "Why?" may be viewed as engaged in constructive thinking. Accepting that things aren't being done well, trying to figure out what other successful franchises do and how it is markedly different shows a path forward and orienting towards positive change. Or it can be framed as the worst, the actions of a terrible clown. There one may define success by squelching criticism and replacing it with enthusiastic cheering.

Regardless of the job—it could be dog-catcher—if management knows a guy isn't working out and has made the decision to move on, then the best course forward for everyone is to execute that decision. The Bills save no money here. They aren't doing Rex a solid by this. Dumping him now or in 10 days wouldn't change that they hired a well-known name coach and only gave him two years. It doesn't wipe the egg off their faces. It just comes off as ... amateur.