silvermike

I gotta say: Leslie being a girlie name ended with this dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Groves

Kent Hull - the only center the team has had in the past 30 years: Trey Teague? Geoff Hangartener? Billy Conaty? Who were these guys?

Terrell Owens.

It's not like they just post all the questions that come in. If they get a Bills question and don't want to answer it, they won't. I think he really had a conflict.

PROBABILITY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!

It sends the message to Bobby April that he's free to pursue other opportunities in case the new coach is bringing in his own special teams guy. He still gets paid, and he could still ignore other offers and try to come back. But you don't put together a staff for your new coach, you let him do it. And as a courtesy to your old staff, you give them a chance to lock down other jobs rather than ride the wave.

McDermott is interesting. He's been a disciple of Jim Johnson, who was one of the great defensive minds before he passed. I'm not really on board with the young-coaches trend (Mangini, McDaniels, Morris), but he seems like a worthy risk.

Not bad: I'd bump Youboty up to a C (he's had flashes of being a decent player), give Kyle Williams a full A, and Brad Butler a B+. Those are legit late-round finds, about as good as you can expect to do. Ellison should drop to a C.

Near-certain to be back next year: Wood, Levitre, Butler, Jackson, Evans, Williams, Posluszny, McKelvin, McGee, Florence, Byrd. Likely to be back: Hardy, Johnson, Lynch, Schobel, Kelsay, Denney, Stroud, Mitchell, Corner, Whitner, Wilson, Scott. That's off the top of my head - anyone else is a tossup.

If the Giants win the Super Bowl with Dick Jauron at DC and Kevin Gilbride at OC, I'm going to stab my eyes out and become a soccer fan.

Haslett built the Saints? What part of acquiring Drew Brees did he mastermind?

Redskins can't hire Cowher and Shannahan.

Knocking out Miami by beating New England. Three cheers for the Texans!

He did get a bevy of assistants hired for HC jobs - maybe he has an eye for defensive coaching talent, at least?

Step 1: Acquire really good defense tackles Step 2: Acquire really good defensive ends Step 3: Use them to rush the passer Step 4: Use them to stop the run Step 5: Decide how many linebackers you want behind them. It's not the scheme, it's the talent.

I've got one: he was put on injured reserve today. Anybody got a second one? Because I've never heard of him before.

Nix would prefer an experienced coach, but Rivera is on the due diligence list. He's a coordinator who has had major success, and has a real shot to be a winner.

He's interesting, but i'm guessing the price will be high.

The best I can say for this move is this: Imagine it happened a year ago today. Nobody would be complaining at all. Now, we just have to hope the stench of failure didn't rub off on Nix.

If you've got some other candidate for CEO, I'd be interested in hearing it - but Russ Brandon somehow managed to sell a whole bunch of jerseys and a whole bunch of season tickets with no talent on the field. He'll continue to do that from the CEO position. Brandon takes decisions away from Ralph. Nix is in charge of Sundays.

Not according to Marty, as it turns out: http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/12/31/marty-scho...-with-coaching/ Coaches lie and change their minds, but that sounds definitive. Keep an eye out for his son, though, to be pried from NY, or maybe SD DC Ron Rivera, who has had good defenses in San Diego and Chicago.

Well, it's still Ralph's money. But I'm guessing that Brandon will be running the team for the time being - if Nix messes up, Russ will be the one to fire him.

I'd be happy with that. Especially if he puts together a strong staff.

Bulger will be 33 next season. If he comes over for a 6th round pick or something, and is a placeholder while we develop Pike or somebody, then whatever, I'm fine with that. But he's not going to get us over any kind of hill. Jason Campbell is the other interesting option, but man, I keep thinking he's better than he is. He's rarely looked good.

a.) Vick is unlikeable and won't sell tickets - he'll turn away more fans than he'll bring in because of the dogfighting AND b.) the fact that he isn't a very good quarterback. Not clear if he ever was, but he surely isn't now. Even his rushing stats are crummy in Philly.