Simon

You guys are wasting keystrokes on that one.

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You may be correct; perhaps I should have added a qualifier such as "yet".

Or you may also find that using the word "political" has never gotten one post moved ever nor has it ever even come close to resulting in a banning.

I don't know what the draft numbers are either, but I rarely ever see the Ducks get "out-athleted". I suppose it could be a matter of their unreal tempo giving more an impression of speed than actually exists. And just to be clear, I really like Chip Kelly and the Ducks; I actually lived in Eugene for a year and have been in Autzen a couple times and will watch and root for them as much if not more than any other college team. What I don't like is the dynamic of one guy trying to manage a game and call an offense at the same time; especially when we've seen it fail up close so recently.

The man definitely has a face for radio!

Good call; forgot about him. But as much as I like Kelly (I would hump a Klondike Bar to have him here as the O-coordinator) I still think hiring him to wear two hats poses an unnecessary risk.

The difference is the kind of coaches and programs he'll be running up against. The levels of execution, skill and experience are going to be far beyond anything Kelly has ever seen in the PAC 10 and the tiniest mistakes are brutally answered by guys who know how to exploit them And I don't think I'm on board with the argument that the Ducks are regularly beating teams who have better athletes. At teh risk of sounding like an Eastern elitist, I am rarely ever impressed with Pac 10 football and those Oregon rosters strike me as being at the top of the heap talent-wise. Payton is the only one we've seen win a title doing it. Jim Harbaugh has won exactly one playoff game so far doing it. Rick Dennison calls most of the Texans offense with Kubiak checking off on calls in critical situations. And doing it as a D-coordinator is nowhere near as hard as doing it on the offensive side of the ball and even Belichik had the sense to stop trying to do it all at once. There's enough good candidates available to coach this team that I don't think the Bills have to take the significant risk of asking a guy whose never stepped on an NFL field to assume a responsibility that hardly anybody ever really succeeds with.

Those of you who want Chip Kelly hired should also take into consideration the fact that you just spent the last season of Bills football watching an experienced, veteran coach with an excellent grasp of offensive football struggle mightily to both manage a game and call an offense at the same time. You sure you want to go with that set-up again? Chip might be able to pull that off against the Washington Huskies of the world, but whether he can do it against the Washington Redskins is an entirely different matter. And you can count the guys who have been able to win a championship while simultaneously wearing both those hats in the modern NFL on approximately 1 finger. I don't like the dynamic any more than I like the dynamic of a coach also being responsible for player personnel. And while I admire the breathtaking speed at which Kelly's well-designed offenses execute, unless he wants to come here as just an Offensive co-ordinator, I think it would be a bad idea for the Bills to hire a guy and allow him to wear both the HC and OC hats again.

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I think it also gives these guys an opportunity to meet and get to know influential people who wouldn't typically be within their social circle. A sort of expansion of the Old Boys Network, if you will.

The guy in the picture is a former actor and martial artist named Jim Kelly

I heard that Thurman's big announcement was to reveal Jim had been killed by a Chinese opium lord on a secretive private island. Not really.......

When he got that big 3rd down sack with about 8-9 minutes left, I came right up off the coach with a big 'ol "Yeah Fletch!" and the kind of fist pump typically reserved for a September Bills game.

And I said nothing about nostalgia or emotional attachments. Just a suggestion that perhaps the haters could choose one of many other threads to spew their venom.

You can feel however you want. You can also take the hate for a good man to another thread or simply keep it to yourself.

Thanks for being a dick in a positive thread!

Agreed on all counts but Wannstedt was not Chan's hire.

His exits from Dallas and KC were both questionable decisions at best and I don't blame him for having some animosity. FWIW, I'm sure he wasn't referring to G'Tech.

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Every coach has a shelf life. And while I think Andy Reid is an excellent ball coach there's just so much stuff that has gone on over there that Reid's departure is as good for him as it is for the Eagles.

Yeah, I think it's time for the Bills to move in a different direction. Chan is not a bad football coach, but he's an awful fit for the Bills at this point in time and it really showed this year. My post was just to make a similar point to what I bolded in yours. That while it needs to be done, maybe the folks who are actually going to do it aren't drooling all over themselves from the excitement of getting to destroy a good man's dream.

Not everybody is as eager to fire good people from their jobs as you are.

Maybe it's premature, but I think it's time to start including this guy into greatest running back of all time conversations.