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Hiring Schwartz is hardly knee jerk. It makes considerable sense. But I understand the optics here. Right now we're looking like crap and the same old sad sack franchise. I really don't believe that's the case this time but this drama will make it more difficult in the short term to attract a top HC with so many other teams looking. Rightly or wrongly, people are going to see a starting quarterback, a head coach and a top respected consultant all decide to bail on Buffalo in a 48 hr period. TP's got his hands full.

Great resource. Thanks. Looking at the data, I say let's stay the course and follow the Seahawk formula. Let's get a competitive O without diminishing this elite D.

If Sully got under his skin tbat badly the NYC media will have him in the fetal position in a couple of months.

OP makes good points on hiring coaches from teams with great qb's. But w-s serious is correct. Our D has the championship stuff now. Don't blow it up.

I could live with it. He's tough, aggressive but not reckless and the players like him. The only caveat is no green or unproven OC's. He's not my first choice, but a solid OC and Schwartz looks good to me.

Before he bails on another team in two years. Count your fingers after shaking hands with this guy.

Sorry, having the right coaches that actually design plays for the talent they do have and not for the hypothetical of what "should" work is why Marrone failed this offense. Chan made a productive offense with less talent than DM and boy wonder Hackett did. Stupid decisions like not playing Urbik and putting Pears at guard cost us plenty. A 3 lame TE offense, bunch formations and wasting Sammy and CJ show these two were stubborn, clueless or both. Good riddance.

It wouldn't surprise me if they extended him for as least as long as his assistants were under contract. It would not surprise me at all if the idea that some changes in assistant coaches wasn't broached. DM is a pouter and now has a history of bailing on jobs once he has a modicum of success. In this case, he should give half of the $4 mil he is stealing to Jim Schwartz. We would have been 4 & 12 without Schwartz's D.

Well my first post of 2015 was in a "what about Wade Phillips" thread and #2 is in a Marty Schottenheimer thread. Pretty sorry beginning of the year by any measure.

Christ, why do I click on these threads...

Regardless, TP has to get a plan and get in motion fast. The optics can look bad and look bad in a hurry. We have players to resign and they need to see some stability. I do feel bad for the players who may have to start all over again with new coaches. Gets old.

So OP, what the Hell made you feel that way?

Not your average bear-coach!

Agree, it depends on the gravitas of the hire.

Eff the media,and eff Marrone. It's time for Pegula to pick his folks. Let's move on!

Nice that he can throw to stationary targets. Be better if he could hit a WR on a simple slant. He's inaccurate, indecisive and won't run during real games but lights it up at sports science. Great.

I clicked on this thread because I knew it couldn't really be about the ostensible subject...but it was. 3,000 posts you'd think I'd know better.

Media being media...it's been too quiet a black Monday for their liking. They want shock and awe on demand. Screw them. TP will move when he thinks it's the right time. I think if he really wanted to clean house he would not have let them all have a news conference today.

Well Lee Smith.... If Chandler was a better blocker I would agree 100% Right now I'd be all in on 2 guards and a QB ahead of worrying about Chandler. And not for nothing, center may be an issue.

Too bad EJ didn't go to Cuse.

Clearly we have different goals for the TE position on this team.

Dunno but I doubt it much it will be EJ. That's just a bust of a n off season.

Gee, that's just dandy. Well, Orton just re-worked his!

I've heard this said for the past few years. He's just not good enough. He's not a quality #1 pass catching TE and he's not a good enough blocker to be a #2 TE. Given our horrible OL, we may be stuck using him yet another year as we have too many holes to plug.

EJ should be in the competition but banking on equals a 6 & 10 season. He is a back-up at best and the Dougs both know it.