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Or, conversely you could get a Monken that (deserved or not) helped get Lamar an almost certain MVP. My personal problem isn't that they promote from within for the coordinator position. It's that when they have the opportunity to expand they take a hard pass. They aren't even open to the idea that there may be someone even better suited to help the team achieve the goal of a Super Bowl. Now, granted they may interview more candidates than are announced. And we don't know who was offered and declined. However it would be unusual for someone that interviews not to have their agent drop that nugget to a Schefty or Ian Rap. But the announced interview process of "internal, minority, minority...hire internal" for coordinator positions is a bit transparent. That said, I like the Babich hire. I don't mind the Brady hire. Both make sense. I like the youth movement. Even promoting West is a good step in getting younger on the coaching staff. But not taking the opportunity to sit down with some coaches from the outside seems like a missed opportunity.

I mean, I'm just making a joke because it is, in fact Groundhog Day. Yes, the Bills bring in people from outside. Often times into assistant roles (West and Holcomb are examples) and give them a year or two to acclimate to the "Buffalo Way". Fill the pipeline, promote from within. It's great for continuity as long as the process is worth continuing. The last 4 coordinator hires (Dorsey, Smiley, Brady and Babich) and well as many of the position coach hires, however have all been internal.

Jim Harbaugh John Harbaugh John Cougar Mellencamp Jimmy John's Tommy John..... Doesn't matter. Chargers will always find a way to Charger.

Welcome to Buffalo. Where the best man for the job is always already here.

Going strictly off Spotrac's projection Wilkins is projected at a 4 year $80M contract. Now they aren't gospel, of course but they get near the ballpark quite a bit. So, no Wilkins is not a likely option.

Keeping in mind it takes 2 sides to make a deal I'll rule out the following from returning: - Poona Ford - Sounded really unhappy to be here due to his usage. I don't think he's open to return. - Linval Joseph - Doesn't seem wanting to sign early and go through camp or early season games. A mercenary for hire at this stage. - Jordan Phillips - Openly considering retirement. - Leonard Floyd - Open to come back but following money. That's not something we have in abundance. Likey back- - Von Miller - Contract is almost immovable at this point. Just gotta hope the flashes we saw VERY late in the playoffs carry over. Of course a suspension that removes a chunk of his contract changes everything. - DaQuan Jones - I think his injury saves the Bills some money here. I don't think he sees what he may have otherwise on the open market and returns - Tim Settle - I think they like him and he knows the system. Shouldn't command much. Leaves AJE and Lawson. Lawson should be inexpensive and could be back. AJE could see a nice payday elsewhere.

You can also tell how highly Beane thinks of him when he's discussed Bates in the past. He's used the term "Steady Eddie" to describe him and these types of players are invaluable to a franchise. I think Bates on the whole is about the definition nof "league average". However, with the way OL play looks around the NFL (especially IOL) there is no doubt in my mind that Bates could start for a good number of teams. We are fortunate to have him.

Who exactly is "we all"? Look, I'm growing increasingly tired of the antics he's had at the end of the season for the last 2 years. But it's more a "grin and bear it" situation. - His cap and dead cap make it extremely EXTREMELY unlikely he's cut/traded - We don't have a replacement on the roster. And you can't just "go get a guy" like Higgins or Evans while at the same time taking the dead cap hit - Skill wise could he be in decline? Sure. But he's still a popular member of the locker room that showed week in and week out a lot of leadership on the sidelines. And oh by the way is still the best WR we have rostered BY A WIDE MARGIN. - He has more value to the Bills then any other team. For what it would take to logically move on from him it's doubtful that a team will part with what it takes. And what would that be? A high end day 2 pick? Plus a likely new contract? No one is giving that up for a guy faded down the stretch at his age. You're looking at a likely DHop situation. - Where is the rumor of him "not being super happy"? Post a link. Don't talk out of your ass. He's publicly said otherwise. Repeatedly. Like to the point where his main source of unhappiness may just stem from having to answer the question over and over and over and over.

I'm more interested as to which of their FAs they sign. Would LOVE Kyle Dugger to end up on the market and signed by Buffalo.

Rationale and excuses are two different things. Often which word is used tells more about the user than the circumstances. Positive vs negative outlooks and such. As I said above, I am not saying he should be retained. I'm actually wishing they go out and snag Chris Tabor for the role. However I don't see that happening. It sounded like Smiley would be back at the presser. The Bills have done their coaching assessment and have replaced the OC and DC. Sense would say if a change were to be made that we would be into ST by now. And it doesn't appear we are.

One thing I will say that I took away from McDermott's end of season presser that did make some amount of sense to me in regards to STs. Special Teams mainly consists of a bulk of players that are active on gamedays without a defined role. When there is injury to a starter it forces players that haven't practiced STs much to step into the role that is vacated. One good example of this is Taylor Rapp. Rapp has roles on most of the STs. Once he either had to fill in for Hyde or was injured and missing time it forced Damar Hamlin into his role on STs. There was a CLEAR dropoff from Rapp to Hamlin on the punt team as the person protector for example. Go back and look at the times we had pressure in on Martin quick and you'll notice Hamlin was in on almost all of them. During the season there really isn't time to do much coaching of the basics. You kind of have to adjust on the fly and hope for the best. And for the ST coach who you have is dependent on who is healthy through out the week. And there are times when a guy isn't ruled out until late in the week. So basically, Smiley wouldn't be set with who exactly his personal are until late in the week. And no, not everyone can just line up and cover kicks. By no means am I saying he should be retained or that our STs weren't at times this year completely awful. Just some insight into what the position has to adjust to and that there's more to it than many think. Lack of execution on Special Teams was bad on every level. From coaching (12 men on the field) to the players blowing their coverage (the PR opening week vs the Jets). Our kicker and punter both had some issues this year...but both also won in season awards for performance.

And the thing I see there is....he can't even really get credit for "assembling" that staff on offense. He got Shanahan. That was a good hire. However, Shanahan clearly brought the rest in as they pretty much traveled together (LaFleur an McDaniel) at that point.

Will he though? Let's say they go QB and take Maye. Quinn BETTER nail the OC pick. If he doesn't and the offense sputters and the first few years of Maye's career are spent with little development...Quinn's done. And if he does nail the OC pick and they do well....that OC is likely poached as a HC somewhere and they're left with hoping Quinn can nail 2 OC selections in a row. Tough spot.

Yes. And the only success he had was when he had an OC that happens to be coaching in the Super Bowl this year. A tad.... suspect. I really think if he was that good of a coaching hire there is no way Jerry wouldn't have opened up the checkbook to the point of Quinn yet again removing his name and "focusing on unfinished business" in Dallas instead of letting him go to a hated division rival. Maybe he did and Quinn wanted the ***** though. Who knows.

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Vrabel and Belichick officially bypassed by everyone. And yet ANOTHER defensive HC hired this cycle. Defense is BACK BAY-BEEEE

I think some team will jump in a vastly over pay for Higgins. Wouldn't shock me if it's the Jets, either. The defending off-season champs need to make a splash to get the NY media hype machine started. Watch them throw $30M AAV at him and ignore the OL again.

I'd go the other way, actually. I would say it's in his short term best interest to learn a couple years from Payton. But long term his next logical step would be as an OC. He would likely only be OC in name under Payton. And it's looking likely that the Broncos will be looking for some bridge QB like Jimmy G while they transition from Wilson to someone else. Not a very stable spot. However, here in Buffalo the last 2 OC openings were filled by the QB Coach. It's a pipeline to OC at this point. He's been in the QB room with Allen before and already has a relationship there. More than likely Joe Brady is our OC next year and MAYBE the year after...then it's on to a HC opportunity if successful and the unemployment line if not.

People seem to glaze over this fact. At the time I felt we would have beat Cincinnati. In retrospect after seeing the Bills matchup with the Bengals in 2 full games since I have absolutely no reason to believe they would have won that AFCCG.

I know he interviewed for the DC job, but Mike Caldwell has a lot of LB coach experience. Wouldn't be shocked if he's here in that role of something better doesn't come along.

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Yeah, Washington may be Dan Quinn...but it also wouldn't shock me if he pulls his name out. Not sure Jerry Jones is cool with losing his DC to Washington. He may throw Quinn another raise and Quinn waits until next year yet again If that happens, Aaron Glenn may get the job.

Couldn't disagree with this more. And I'm by far NOT a Carr fan. Rodgers caused a huge ripple in the Jets off-season that set everything in motion. Without Rodgers Hackett likely isn't the OC. Without Rodgers bringing in his buddies like Lazard, Cobb ect the Jets have more money to invest in their OL. Without going "all in for Aaron" they likely don't spend a dumb amount to bring in Dalvin Cook. Carr is the definition of mediocre on a good day. But I feel like it would have made the team the Jets were allowed to field better.

My feeling at the time and even more so now is that I can't blame Wilson at all, either. He already had a ton of bad film out there. Their season was going nowhere. Playing behind that line not only risks injury but also there isn't any hope of him playing better and is just going to hurt his chances of landing somewhere else even more. I don't think Wilson will ever be an elite starter. But he has flashed some talent. He was mismanaged from day 1 there. Of the 2 I can see him having a longer NFL career than Mac Jones.

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