Malazan

because it's a deal in 'principle'...meaning they have agreed to terms, but are putting it to paper and working out details

more options is always a good thing

Anyone the Bills hired was going to get this treatment. Cowher and Gruden included.

I went to OSU and I LOVE Urban Meyer, but they played in an incredibly weak conference this year and struggled against teams with a lot less talent. It's also a program that wasn't in 'shambles'. They had a lot of talent, but the NCAA sanctions caused instability.

because...that is the only candidate the Bills would hire. The cheapest. I have one final thing I want you to consider. This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor.

So you're saying because Baltimore, the Patriots, Steelers, Green Bay aren't interested in hiring him as HC that he's a bad choice? Only teams looking for a HC...interview head coaching candidates.

This isn't a question. He's the Bills head coach. I'm not sure how to make this more clear to you until they have the press conference.

Can this be automatically made the top post of every thread create don TBD?

List the examples in the NFL of a the organization reporting a deal being agreed to in principle and the candidate going another way versus the times the candidate joined. I guess you have no idea.

I don't think we have any idea of the relationship there beyond Payton called the plays.

Oh, great, so he can't evaluate talent either!

I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility, but the team passed on him as coach. It could be hard to swallow and take the DC position. Could he work with Marrone? There's a lot of questions that I think make it...difficult to get him here as DC.

An exception proves the rule? It's not impossible, but it's quite rare in the NFL. I removed the other part of your post because it didn't seem relevant to the NFL. Not sure how many wall street brokers are coaching in College or the NFL.

I wanted Lovie as well, but two points that make me think about this hire are an article from Don Banks about Andy Reid: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130104/andy-reid/index.html History isn't on Lovie's side either. I still wanted him, but it's an interesting point. The other point made was that a lot of 'hot' college coaches come from big time programs that get better players than their competition. Kelly, for example, get big time players and Oregon was no slouch before he got there. Marrone took crap and had some success.

That story was very early this morning and since then Russ has confirmed that they have a deal in principle. Time stamped from this morning in the article itself.

Just let him run with it. No need to rain on his parade. He'll eventually run into a wall and knock himself out.

The staff was relieved of duties. They are free to pursue other jobs, but are still under contract with the Bills.

So he's not out fielding other offers. He's agreed to a deal in 'principle' with the Bills. It's almost never heard of that a guy renegs at that point. Russ Brandon did correct it. So you're totally wrong on your post. Perhaps you should pay more attention.

He is Brandon's buddy?

Out of touch. They have a deal in 'principle' which means the lawyers are checking the language and then it will be signed.

How in the hell do people believe this was a marketing hire? The 'marketing' hire would have been chip kelly. Bills fans, every decisions you don't agree with is not a marketing move.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8818276/cleveland-browns-reboot-search-chip-kelly-oregon-ducks-sources

I'm no sure why anyone wants to laugh at them about it either. They're trying to turn their team around.

I anted Lovie too, but this article makes some good points: http://sportsillustr...d/?sct=uk_wr_a1 Retreads tend not to replicate their success. When you say right mind, do you mean just half of it?

i think you're selling him short. It could be both.