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Jamie Mueller Carwell Gardener Butch Rolle Cliff Hicks Chris Hale Julius Dawkins Byron Franklin Donald Wilson Lucious Sanford Eugene Marve Derrick Burroughs And my boy, Rob Riddick.

The Bills will trade out of 9 and pick up an extra 2nd rounder.

I agree. And I say the Bills should move quickly on a different candidate. Cowher is a good coach, but there are others. Then on the other hand all of these "sources" and reports could be total BS. Journalism has gone down hill. Everybody is a blogger who blogs news from other bloggers and who the hell knows what's true. Coach Sal is the only person who had it right from the start. So maybe Cowher is interested in the gig and maybe all of these "sources' close to him are negotiating tactics. TB, Carolina, Houston and Chicago aren't possibilities right now. Unless TB lied to Morris.

Ozzie must have thought Boller would be good too since he's the GM that drafted him. Billick is a good coach. There's people on here saying Cowher took too long to win a SB like it's a given teams/coaches will even get to a SB. Billick has won more games than he's lost. Has coached teams into the playoffs and has coached a team to a SB win. He's good enough for what the Bills need. Unless you would prefer Jauron come back or some other coach with a losing pedigree.

Who knows what the true story is? The truth of it is we will know relatively quickly on Cowher one way or the other. Fewell will interview for the gig and that will satisfy the Rooney rule. Now how quickly the Bills start interviewing other candidates will tell the tale. If another candidate interviews on Tomorrow or Wednesday Cowher's a no go. If we haven't heard of the Bills interviewing anyone else for the next couple days Cowher was/is in play.

Can't do a list like this now. Depends on who the coach is. He might want to keep all of the ones mentioned for cutting.

Doubt it. Holmgren wants to run that west coast philosophy. That's not Cowher's system.

Child please...

No everybody didn't know about Lee Evans extension. TO? You don't give a **** because it doesn't suit your case. But it doesn't negate the fact that Sal was on it first. He must have some good sources. Cowher had a chance to confirm a meeting. He has said "no comment." So wake up and smell the coffee. All he had to do was say he never met with them. I'm not saying he's going to take the gig, but it's obvious they had contact; which Sal reported first. Now Mort and the rest report it too. Give Sal his props.

Coach Sal broke news of the Bills meeting with Cowher in the first place. Not ESPN. Not Vic Carucci. Not Peter King. Nothing hilarious about Sal. His info. is usually dead on. Was in Lee Evans extension. Was in T.O. signing. Was about Cowher meeting with the Bills. Just sayin'.

I hear you, but again, he has a ring. He must have done a lot right. He knows what it takes to get to and win the ultimate game. He has experience. He adapts to his personnel. He has charisma. He has a pulse on the sidelines. He has had success at the highest level. I will take all of that over whoever the hot coordinator is this year or a middling, experienced coach like Haslett or a college coach jumping to the pros. He would bring the Bills much needed credibility in the professional football world. The Bills currently have reality and perception problems on and off the field. The on field product has been terrible and misled by bad coaching. Billick is a good answer to that. Off the field the Bills are abused by national media outlets and it feeds into a bad perception of the organization/city. Billick solves that too. No one in the national media will see the Bills hiring him as anything but a strong and positive step forward. It will make Nix look good.

Fans have to get over this type of thing. Belichick got bum rushed for the 4th and 2 call in Indy. Some calls go your way and others don't. And for all of those talking about him developing a QB he didn't draft the QB's for B-more. Ozzie Newsome did. And all of us would have taken him as GM. He put Dilfer in a position to win or at least not lose. He adapted to his personnel. That's good coaching. So what if it was a defensive dominated team? He's still the HC. You think Marvin Lewis was doing what he wanted to do without input from Billick? No. He ran his game plans past the HC just like the OC would. Billick is a good coach and would be good for the Bills.

They ran the ball down our throats twice. Don't 4get they have a rookie QB.

Least prepared in what way? He had the Jets and Chiefs in the playoffs too. He wasn't all bad. The last year in KC Carl Perterson got rid of everybody so they can start rebuilding. Edwards had clock management issues, but not prepared? I didn't see that.

You want a good HC? Would you rather have Fox than Haslett, Fassel, Whatever coordinator? And it would depend on the price. I'm not talking high picks. I'm talking 5 or later. You would want me in charge. Jauron would have never been the coach because he would not even have been interviewed.

Go hard for Cowher and Marty over this weekend. If neither bites by Monday morning Nix should be on the phone to John Fox's agent and try to get him out of Carolina. It would probably take a couple draft picks to get him since he's already under contract, but so be it. He's well respected. Runs tough, running teams that play defense and he uses a down the field passing attack. And he's an experienced head coach, the thing Nix mentioned as being important to him. If not, go after Billick and I would take Martz over Haslett or Fassel.

He wasn't that great of a head coach at all. He's a good coordinator. But that's two different jobs entirely.

This is the worst argument against a coach I have seen. Schottenheimer has a better record than most. He's turned programs around at four different stops. He has coached in Championship games. His teams play tough, play hard, run the ball violently and play riotous defense. What's not to like about that? Who cares what age it is. This ain't an effing MTV reality BS show. This is football. Mularkey and Williams were good and young and sorry azz coaches. You want Jauron back? He's not that old; only in his 50's (Like Shanahan and Cowher and Billick are). How do you like that option? Russ Brandon is in his mid-40's; want him back running the football side? He could be great being as he's so young and all. I'm in my 30's, but this age-ism is ass backwards. Worry about the type of job a person will do instead of the job you think they will do based on their appearance or age. We aren't looking for models on sunday we are looking for winners. As much as we complain about Mr. Wilson, with some good reason, he's an old man who's 25,000 dollar investment is now worth over 900 million dollars and that doesn't include wealth from his other businesses. Sounds like a winner to me. Lets get real arguments against whoever the coach is when they actually hire a coach.

We don't know what we have at WR. None of the young receivers have gotten much of a chance. They might surprise you with a coach who has enough sense to give them reps. Jauron was an effing idiot. At the very least Hardy should have been a red zone target last season before he got injured. He catches the game winner at J-ville then you never see him in the red zone again. Stevie has a nice looking Monday night game against the Browns then back to the inactive list for him. We can draft a good OT in April or a QB or both. Or trade for a young QB to compete. Or get a FA OT or a tackle we already have can be coached better and will play better. False start and other dumb penalties to the level the Bills have them is ALL ON THE COACH and how he prepares his players. We could use a dominant MLB and move Poz to the OLB or if they go 3-4 keep him inside with Mitchell and get a dominant OLB. The draft will tell a lot, but the coaches they get will too. I believe this team has more talent than we think. With a HC and staff that has a clue.

Don't worry about how old Nix is. See how old his assistant GM's are. They will be the one's groomed to replace him when it's time. Nix is just one guy. This is about who he surrounds himself with and who the coach is and who the coach brings in to be his assistants. Not about one guy. Hold on and wait and see.

L.A. only has one major daily that anyone pays attention to.

Give Maybin time. Immediate gratification is rare. And because other rookies did great this season doesn't mean it will happen next season. NFL is about consistency. You don't know what Maybin will turn out to be or Orakpo and Cushing. The Bills coaching leaves a lot to be desired. Lets see how most of the young talent on this roster does with a legitimate head coach.

Doesn't make it not true. Nix, the coach and the organization have to execute.

WTF does his age have to do with anything? Does he know what he's doing that's all that matters. If you are under 50 and know more than Buddy Nix about football at any level put in your resume to get a gig in the league. Do you know more than Buddy Nix about football?

Would rather draft OL in 1st. And LB in 2nd. And trade a mid-round pick for a young QB to compete with Brohm and whoever else.