The fact that if he can get a winning season/playoffs the first/second season will make him the second coming of Christ in Buffalo and that Russ has the salesman way of focusing on the good things and making the bad things not so bad alone would make me consider taking the job. When you factor in everything else, I see it as one of the more attractive places to get a new HC job this season
I would have considered the newly added bolded, underlined, and italicized under negative miscellaneous also.