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Trouble is he's IS a "good" player. But that's likely his ceiling. Good. Fans have 2 categories for players. They are either awesome or trash. A roster needs role players and Hamlin is a good role player. I don't think he would ever be a Pro Bowl level talent but he is good enough to be on a roster. Look at it like this. There are 32 teams and I would estimate in total teams average 4 safeties per team. That's 128 players at the position league wide. There aren't 128 safeties better then Hamlin.

Tyler Dunne to Eric Washington right now:

First off... congratulations to Coach Washington. Better promote Babich now. Wonder if this brings Al Holcomb into a new role as well.

Votes were already made prior to the playoffs beginning. Not necessarily. There are a lot of teams that could use help at the S position. He's not a starter by any means, but he's good depth and can carve out a role on STs for a lot of squads. Heck, I would bet a substantial amount that if we cut him he's on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster within a week.

That part right there is my pet peeve when it comes to Brandon. This isn't the first time he's pinned the cap issues to the COVID year. And I'm sure there was at some point some truth behind it. I'm certain they had a long term financial plan that COVID tore down. But that happened years ago and it didn't JUST hit for the Buffalo Bills. 31 other teams were hit, too. And by now many if not most have adjusted. I'm sorry, but you can't cry that you're behind the sticks when it comes to salary cap because of the COVID season and also have been responsible for the Von Miller albatross off a contract since.

I'll go third party and roll with Phillip Rivers and Antonio Gates. At least I don't want to hit either of them with a truck.

Agree and I would think it's the most stable job of the 3. Daboll may be gone if the Giants flounder again. Miami...always a gamble with that ownership too. LaFluer seems to have some stable footing after making the playoffs.

Babich is getting red hot....

I see all your points as very valid and make perfect sense. We have seen McDermott travel both roads in his HC career when it comes to OC. We saw the journeyman in his first 2 hires (Dennison and Daboll). I would say one worked out better than the other. We saw him give a first timer with potential a shout in Dorsey (Something about last names that start with D) and that worked....until it fell apart. I don't mind interviewing a Thad Lewis. And if he's the guy for the job, so be it and I hope he's amazing. The only thing I really don't want is what happened last hire. We all knew Dorsey was going to be the guy. They met the bare minimum with 2 minority candidates (Tee Martin and Edgar Bennet) and handed the job to Dorsey. Through 2 interviews this time they seem to be following the same script. Now if in the coming days we get a few other various interviews will coaches of different levels I think it would speak to maybe them viewing Lewis as a bit more serious a contender. If it's yet another bare minimum search ending in Brady...then I think the debate could shift to them interviewing because he was willing to interview. Just my opinion.

Another one for Bobby....

Maybe they do. Maybe it would be a Ken Dorsey 2.0 hire with an inexperienced play caller struggling to grasp game flow. If hired, time will tell.

Not sure I would call Leftwich a success story. He kinda flamed out as soon as Arians was off the sidelines. Ryans is a good one. I'll give you that. Maybe it's just my own preference for an OC. We just came off the "New OC, never called plays" track in Dorsey. I'm not excited to start at the start of that again.

Pointing to McVay as the exception is like someone that uses Tom Brady as "the reason" 6th round draft picks are insanely valuable. Could Thad be special? Sure. Anything is possible. He could be some sort of wonder kid. But is that the guy you want running the offense on a team with Super Bowl goals? He ready to match up against the Spagnuolos and Anarumos of the NFL? Highly doubtful IMO.

IMO, not ones that have such little overall coaching experience.

You aren't wrong on Duce. The main thing he would be is experience in coaching and has from what I've seen always been a "players choice" type coach. That may not be enough, however it's free to look into. As for the above, all valid points. When it comes to interviews, we don't know what we don't know. I would say time will tell the tale. If it's a narrow net cast with 2 pretty green minority candidates announced and Joe Brady gets the job, I think it would be fair to think it wasn't a real OC search, though. The phone at OBD should be ringing pretty often at this point with OCs wanting to come. There shouldn't be a shortage of interviews. I just don't want them to meet the bare minimum here.

Fair point. However, Tomlin was also a coach in the NFL at various levels for 7 years before he took that interview. A bit more qualified and believable that he would be more than just a token interview. People often overlook that. The problem I have with this interview is that (at least to me) signifies that a real OC search is not about to happen. The job is Joe's. Just like it was Ken's in the last OC search. They are choosing comfortable over what may be better for the development and growth of the offense. There are plenty of minority candidates with better qualifications if they wanted to conduct a true search for OC. Perhaps ask for permission to interview EB? Duce Staley. This is a farce to meet a rule.

Yea, experience is not why he's being interviewed by multiple teams this off season. But he does "check a few boxes". It's a good chance for him to get his name out there for the future, but most people I think would agree he's not very qualified.

With the Bills already starting the OC search it tells me they have already likely conducted their review on the coaching staff. This would signal to me that Smiley is probably not being let go. Hoping I'm reading that wrong...just a gut feeling especially after McDermott's words about him at the Locker Clean out day presser. Though if they were to make a move (Panthers jokes aside) Tabor has been a pretty well thought of ST coach for a bit now.

No one wants Belichick anymore. I have Ben Johnson getting the Washington job. Then there's Seattle...and Quinn is possible there. POSSIBLY Vrabel. But I'm thinking Vrabel and Belichick are jobless. Hope Belichick goes on one of the Sunday AM pre shows. Would be hysterical.

He was coming off a 9 sack season and still available pretty late into FA. I don't expect that to change being a year older now. I'd say there is a chance we see him back on a one or two year deal a bit later in the FA cycle. A 2 year deal with a small pay bump makes sense.

I think he's got the Washington job waiting for him.

I really hope not. ST was atrocious at times this year.

Mr. Dunne, pleasure to see you here.

I think anyone that legitimately thinks the job isn't Brady's is fooling themselves. We will see a couple more candidates brought in to fill the Rooney Rule. Maybe one or two others to say "see it was a legit search" and the job will go to Brady.