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It all boils down to who is going to be available at 8 doesn't it? Ferguson is a no, and the next best player at a position of need will most likely be Ngata, at least so far. I think we will almost certainly go DT because it will fill one of two absolutely essential needs. There are a couple of good tight ends who would be tempting, but I think we go with Ngata at 8 or maybe trade down for an extra second round draft choice. I don't see any offensive tackles that would warrant a selection at 8.

Doesn't quite fit the Bill... Wanted...tired old white guys!

win-loss record during their tenure. That is the reason that TD and MM got fired. Believe me, if we had gotten nine or ten wins they would both be here. GM and coaching jobs can and do have a bottom line. If the players HATED Mularkey but we won the superbowl.....he'd stay.

Oh...the players liked him. I take it all back. Explains why we dump TD 31-45) for Jauron (35-46) I guesss its an incremental improvement.

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I had thought Ngata would be available for a while after the eighth pick when I suggested trading down. The gaggle of Defensive Tackles and Marcus Neil OT and others (including Leonard Pope as TE) at the bottom of that pool make trading down a real option. On the other hand there will probably be a whole new reassessment after the combine.

buffalo news. Jauron, a former NFL player, began his pro coaching career as the Bills' defensive backs coach in 1985 and has been a defensive coordinator with the Bears, Lions and Jacksonville Jaguars. Maybe he has the advantage of all he learned from Kay Stephenson.

hypothetical. You own the rights to a movie. A group of theater owners come to you and tell you they have a huge market for your movie and will pay you 10 percent of the revenue if they can have the exclusive license to play your movie in their market. Tom Golisano comes to you and says he will give you 10 percent of a much smaller market just to maintain that license in this smaller market. Your dad had some connection to the city, although he lived somewhere else...oh..let's say Detroit. You grew up in Detroit, have no connection with the city, and the press was not too nice to your dad in his waning days. In fact you believe the city's treatment of him kept him from getting into the Hall of Fame before he died. The difference in profit is very very significant if you go to the big market....which way do you go?

Bingo....I haven't been able to watch a whole NBA game in years.

Or his Detroit Lion Bio... As head coach, Jauron compiled a career coaching record of 35-46 (.432). Maybe a .432 winning record is fine for you..but I think we were pretty darn close to that this year. Might as well keep Mularkey and Donohoe.

Democrat and Chronicle: Bears in 1999-2003, posting a 35-46 record with one playoff appearance. That was in 2001 when the Bears, led by quarterback Jim Miller, running back Anthony Thomas and the NFL's No. 2 run defense, had five come-from-behind wins and a 13-3 record. Jauron was named NFL Coach of the Year. A Yale graduate who starred for eight years in the NFL as a defensive back for the Lions and Bengals, Jauron began his coaching career in Buffalo in 1985 under Kay Stephenson. He had a successful stint as defensive coordinator for the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars under Tom Coughlin from 1995 to 1998. Before that he worked nine seasons as defensive backs coach in Green Bay. I missed his great head coaching experience...enlighten me o great one?

Of course they could be moved. This is a business and if there is a way to make more money elsewhere, you better believe the RW estate will not hesitate a second to move. We are a small market, and there is no huge incentive to keep us here.

Let's see...a guy with a losing record as a head coach, trained under Kay Stephenson in Buffalo. Last coached as an assistant in DETROIT...and he's a front runer here?

Sounds like a right wing nazi ppp post!

Sherman is a safe bet for RW and ML. He has a track record and has a penchant for winning. It would not be a bad choice in my book, considering who else was being considered for the job. I think he would bring a lot of stability to the team and I think it wouldn't take him long to figure out that he needs to get linemen in a hurry.

I think Jamie is right. I think we have two absolutely imperative fixes to make...Defensive Tackle and Offensive left Tackle. We need (not imperative, but we are less than mediocre with existing staff) gaurd and tight end. Other than that we have a mediocre to moderately good team. The coaching sucked this year or we would have won 8 games. A good coach and minor fixes for this year and we could be 9-7. After this year we have a lot of holes at linebacker, safety, receiver and (maybe) quarterback and running back. I'm optimistic about Losman and McGahee. We could be okay next season if we do the right things. Hell I think if it weren't for Mularkey we could have won 8 games this year.

No fair. MacAdoo (my favorite pro) against Buffalo (Western New York) college athletes (Lanier and Murphy ...there must be others...any nominees?) McMillan and DeGregorio and Randy Smith (of Buff State...qualifies in both) would be contenders against Mac...but I'd still go with Mac. I vaguely remember a guy named Gar Heard who I thought was pretty good as well.

Murphy may or may not have been a molester (there are those who say the charges were filed only after Murphy received a settlement as a beneficiary from the mother instead of them). I'm not asking who were the nicest atheletes, but the most outstanding. I think Murphy qualifies. murphy

Giants defensive coordinator Tim Lewis, Jets defensive coordinator Donnie Henderson, Browns offensive coordinator Maurice Carthon, Colts assistant head coach Jim Caldwell and Bears defensive coordinator Ron Rivera. Kirk Firenz of Iowa, ike Shula of Alabama, Mike Leach of Texas Tech, George O'Leary of UCF (Georgia Tech, Minnesota Vikings) oleary Jimmy Johnson is a left field ex head coach as is Mike Tice When it comes to head coaches with pro head coaching experience they aren't generally looking. I don't remember seeing Bill Parcell's name on Monster Board when the Cowboys were looking.

Why this "bottom 5 money" thing? I suspect it is a result of Wade, Williams and Mularkey not being paid top dollar. The fact is none of them came with a resume that would have taken them out of the bottom third of head coaches. Levy and Wilson are not stupid men and they know the team probably needs a coach who can win and that coach may demand top dollar. I don't think money will be the issue as much as the disarray the team is in and the fact that the offensive line is worse than mediocre. Would you pay Haslett, Sherman or Jauron top dollar given their recent performance? No point in putting in a dollar to get a nickel song.

;I'm not optimistic if what is going on is that the circle of candidates is so limited and closed. The best candidates will be signed in the next 10 days from that group and we will be scrounging to get a not too bad leftover (haslett). I'd be trying to expand the pool of acceptable candidates. April is one example of creative expansion of the pool, and the universe of college coaches is another area where we should be looking. I have conducted searches for high level positions for the last 25 years, and one of the biggest mistakes is jumping to conclusions about candidates before you create a viable pool. I know many of us on the board (including me) are speculating about who might be best, but I hope the powers that be are being open-minded and trying to expand the pool beyond the usual suspects.

ferocious and nasty run blocker? Sounds like a plan to me!

Geez..Cheney as head coach...Why not? He'll probably have Halliburton running the concessions.

Does anyone else suspect that this may be a ploy to keep the book on the bestseller lists just a little bit longer?

I haven't heard any names of candidates that impress me enough to warrant flouting the rule, in letter or in spirit. Ted Cottrell should be interviewed as a serious candidate. He's coached more successfully than Haslett and some of the others being bandied about.