Casey D

I agree with you and Bucky that Reich seems like the right guy at the right time. I am hopeful he could be our John Harbaugh.

Exactly. Good coaches like good QBs are hard to find and can come from most anywhere. Few of the very good head coaches were great when they were hired... you take a chance and hope for the best. Reich is the kind of human being that inspires confidence.

I guess it is how far you want to go back. From 2006-2013 his record was 48-64 with only one 10 win season-- the rest single digits. You are correct, he did fairly well from 2000-2005, but that is ten years ago since he had any real success. And I live in DC and he was an absolute disaster here-- a joke.

I generally agree. To equate the Watkins trade with somehow having something to do with lacking a quality QB is just specious. You can criticize the trade as giving up too much and you can complain that the Bills have had not had a quality QB in 20 years, but those are largely mutually exclusive and to conflate them is irrational.

Totally, he was a disaster and to blame everything on Snyder is just wrong. From a 2nd for an over the hill McNabb to ruining RG III, I don't get this idea. He was also mediocre for several years in Denver before being canned, he has been nothing since the century changed. No wonder Sully thinks this is a great idea. This will put the Bills back a decade.

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Amazing. It must be because Detroit hosted our home game. Why not just award the game to the Cowboys.

How about Sid Luckman-- great offensive mind.

Really good stuff and post. Thanks, this was quite enlightening... CD

So what do we have putting all the pieces together? Pegula inherits a bit of a mess when he buys the team in October. The coach and GM don't get along, and Brandon seems caught in the middle. I'm a nice guy, and don't believe that this much tension is good in any organization. We need to all be pulling on the same oar--what do I do. My first instinct is to find a reliable person with experience to figure this mess out for me. I'll get Polian--like I got Lafontaine. That's the ticket. But then I begin to understand that Polian was a divisive figure himself when at the Bills. And he really does not want to work that hard at this point. But stil, he is a legend and I really like legends. Then Marrone makes a power play, and that pis@es me off. Eff him. And I begin to understand further that maybe Marrone is a big factor is all the strife in the organization. Polian starts to get cold feet because somehow he likes Marrone. We mutually agree for our own reasons that this isn't working out. Lafontaine did not work out-- hmm, maybe I should not do the same thing Through all this, I come to the conclusion that I like Doug Whaley. He is solid and dependable, maybe I should trust him like that Murray guy who is doing a nice job as GM with the Sabres. I like Russ too, he's been with me for a while now. But I can't let these two go off on their own because I will be toast in the media and they were a part of the dysfunction, if not necessarily the cause. Let's work hand in hand to find a new coach together. In the foxhole together and all that. We will either bond or not. But at the end of the day if we don't bond, at least I will know I have a coach I can work with moving forward. And given I don't have a czar and the exigencies require me to find a coach ASAP, I have no better alternative than to do this myself with the help of the guys I trust the most. Kim, Russ Doug let's gas up the plane and find us a coach. Someone who will help calm the waters and get us a Super Bowl. Let's move.

Nix was GM in early 2013 when Marrone was picked. Whaley was still the AGM.

The idea was to make Polian-- or someone-- be the same thing on the football side as Brandon NOW is to the business side. Notwithstanding whether you agree with such a structure, that is what they have in mind. Pretty simple.

This is exactly right.

I agree, but it really does not make sense for him to feel that way. He was brought on by a coach who is now gone, and paid by owners who did not own the team when he was hired. He did extremely well last year as DC, but his 5 year record as a head coach is decidedly mixed. He deserves consideration for the job for sure, but I don't want a knee jerk give him the HC job just to keep the D on track approach. His performance last year is a factor, but short sighted to hire soley on that basis, in my opinion, if you think a better long term guy is out there.

Feel exactly the same way.

Excellent!

Ice Ice baby...

Sounds great. And where exactly do we get that and how much will it cost?

Nice analysis. At the end of the day we got the guy we craved and overpaid a tad to get him. Sort of like with Mario. The ballbusters like Sullivan who claim the trade was an outrage for the Bills simply are making noise.

Your concerns seem dated to me. We have new owners, everything will be different. Our current football side is not even 2 years in place, the preceeding 12 years is meaningless. The deep cut-- old ownership-- is gone. Unless you think all the Bills problems since forever are on RB, then I don't get the point.

It could be, but we don't know that. If they want to do that that is great, but my primary concerns lie where indicated.

Totally agree.

I saw that too. That's exactly the kind of thing you need to know for sure in developing an improvement plan.

Say it's Bill Polian. What should he focus on? To me, he primarily needs to breakdown and totally analyze the offense, to determine where the problems lie. Everyone here has their opinions, it's Hackett, it's Orton, it's the line, it's the young receivers, it's the old or unproductive backs. As a fan, it is impossible for me to know the right answers. For example, In the Oakland game, we ran for 13 yards and people lay that on the play calling and say we should have run more. But to me, the Oakland D-line was overwhelming the Bills O-line making running near impossible. Which is it? Or say the insufficient targeting of Sammy. Is that the play calling, play design, QB play or Sammy not getting open enough? I honestly don't know the answer. Some expert needs to break that all down, come up with solutions and have the team execute it as best possible, i.e., if QB play is the main problem, sell the ranch to make an improvement. If QB is a tertiary problem, and the biggest thing is say line play and the coordinator, fix that and don't sell the ranch for a QB. This team is close. With this defense, we don't need an A offense to compete, a B offense would be good enough. And we have some playmakers, we just need to address the biggest problems aggressively.

The 19th overall pick--- Whaley mortgaged the future of this team for years giving that away... fool...