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Nope, we're only going to have 1 QB on the roster next year - it's EJ or Bust!

Whaley said he wants the coach to "continue to develop Manuel", no where does that say "Whaley is telling candidates that they most ONLY work with EJ Manuel". TBD, making mountains out of molehills since 1992...

If I were that kid I would have only played for weed, not money...

Let me help with the following explanation: :facepalm: o_O

Waste of time? Heck I interviewed like 10 people for an Associate position last year. If I were interviewing guys for my multi-million dollar Head Coach position I'm pretty sure I would interview as many quality candidates as possible! And even if they don't have knowledge of our roster or team, they do have different philosophies that would be interesting to hear, when you're asking about OC / DC positions you might hear the same name pop up several times (which is probably saying something about that guy), they might give you an outside perspective of the Bills organization as a whole, plus just the "industry contacts" they're making show this is time well spent!

Get R Done Buddy!

Here are about 14 pages discussing this: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/175113-caruccis-update-on-coaching-search/ Just to save you the time of making arguments

Based on what? Not sure it's a shocker that the GM wants the new coach to try and develop the QB they drafted in the first round two years ago! I'd still be surprised if we don't see at least a couple more guys in here (vet and a rook)...

The latest on a few more names they're going to interview this week: http://bills.buffalonews.com/2015/01/06/bills-interview-least-4-coach-candidates-end-week/ Surprised there's not 5 threads freaking on the "developing Manuel" line...

Decades!

I was going to add "cue Mojo", buuuuuut...

Yup, one of our our best run defenders (and all around Defensive players this year) goes out and we can't stop the run. Must be the coach...

All I know for sure is that If it's not the Bills, then our new owners are in over their heads and moving WAY too slow and if it is the Bills our new owners are jumping in WAY too fast and are incompetent. Mark it down now...

They should be in Indy RIGHT NOW interviewing Hue at halftime! What's wrong with these people!?!

They're all over this at the Buffalo News: My only question is what the hell is on the hard drive the guy dropped into Terry's bag!?!

Hue for me, though I can live w Schwartz depending on who he brings in to run the O...

“He is the definition of average,” said a Buffalo source. - now THERE'S a quote for ya

I like the resume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue_Jackson His O, with Schwartz's D could be nice...

True and he admitted as much, he definitely wasn't speaking as an "insider". I think just a combo of his perspective on the situation (watching from Cleveland) and what he's been hearing since back in Buffalo. Good guy, glad he's back covering the Bills - especially because he's on Sirius all the time and always talks Bills

Well, boom, there you go - gracias BTW, Whaley has the worst Wiki page ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Whaley

Just that it was a reach, certainly not a sure thing. If it works, they look great, if not they're most likely out of a job, so swing for the fences... Pretty interesting day, lots of talk about coach's power grabs over GMs.

Vic is on Sirius this afternoon (along with Dan Leberfeld), they started with a lot of Bills, Jets, Marrone talk... Carucci said Marrone got the out clause because the group that was in charge (Whaley, Brandon, et. al.) knew Ralph was in poor health and wanted to swing for the fences and get their guy. Marrone has a savvy vet agent who realized the situation and was able to negotiate hard. He also said Cleveland was offering Marrone more money, so the Bills countered with the clause. Pretty much as reported here He also said that Marrone and Whaley were not on the same page personnel-wise and went so far as to say Whaley was reckless with the drafting of EJ, the trade for Sammy, etc. Leberfeld on the other hand said that while he thinks Marrone should be a candidate for the Jets job to basically stop the process to just hire him is crazy!

I felt the same way - of course the other three hours was a circular conversion on how we're already botching the process because we're moving too fast, too slow, interviewing "the same guys that the other teams with opening are", that we're not flying the Pegulacopter to see the hot college coaches. Oy. I forgot to mention, TWICE in the interview Clayton said that Whaley came from Seattle's organization so he's familiar with both of those asst. coaches. Um, ok?

Clayton was on with Schopp and The Bulldog last night and talked about Polian, there were a few interesting points... He said Polian was going to come in to run the ENTIRE football operation, he said that he would have brought AJ Smith in (though I didn't catch if he said as GM or Pro Personnel) - basically he would have been running the show on the Football side. Where it got interesting was one of the GR guys brought up that when he changed his mind (after Marrone left) Polian backed off from the job because he didn't want the "heavy lifting" (presumably of a coaching search). They pointed out that it just seems odd that a coaching search would be too much heavy lifting, but running the entire football ops wouldn't be. I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in between on this whole Polian thing, it's all a power play in the NFL! I think we dodged a bullet on this one, but that all depends on who we bring in as the next coach!

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