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If They keep Whaley, they better be hiring a very strong personality with a vision for building the team because Whaley has not shown any clear vision for building this team. He has found talent for sure but it is evident there is no clear direction here.

1. Giving up next year's first for Watkins is looking short sighted. 2. No QB answer after 2 years. 3. Marrone is bust. 4. OL is terrible. 5. Most of the players on defense are not his draft picks I like Whaley as a talent evaluator, but as a team builder, he has not been a slam dunk. It's not hard to poke holes in the job he's done. And the idea that he finds the talent and the coach coaches them is very antiquated. Best teams in this era have synergy from top to bottom. This team is the exact opposite. This is all on Brandon though. He created this whole mess. And it may just take a clean sweep to fix it. And Whaley is a casualty, then so be it.

They need to bring in someone to run and structure the football department. Maybe that's a big time HC like Gruden, Harbaugh, or Malzhan. Maybe it's a strong GM, but I'm not sure of the candidates there. But a strong football person needs to be hired to set the vision of the team and enact a strategy going forward. They currently lack any real direction and it's quite obvious. Other great teams have had a clear distinct voice in charge. Belichek in NE. Carroll in SEA. Ozzie Newsome in BAL. And so on. Then you fill in the front office/coaching positions around him with other talented people that want to come and work here because they believe in the overall vision and structure of the organization. Honestly, with willing ownership, this is not that hard.

No credible football manager has run the team since 1998. The end.

Middle of year 2 and they are nowhere.

This. They are just looking for an excuse IMO.

The problem is they fired Donahoe and hired a worse GM.

Do you want to wait 6-8 years for that improvement? Free agency and the nature of front office turnover have made that just completely infeasible. EJ may have some success at some point in his career but it won't be here.

One is 33. The other has been injured every year he's been in the league. The odds were high.

Bills also went out to California to interview Harbaugh before we hired Gailey.

Bye Doug Marrone.

This. Belichek came up with the blueprint and it was essentially over for Flutiemania. Although it would die a slow death. The following year the Bills did have the best defense I've ever seen them have(sorry too young for 65 but I don't see how that era is relevant in discussing games from the late 90s). People had the Bills as dark horse Super Bowl contenders. Like it or not, Johnson made plays at the end of that game to give us the win and they just Buffaloed it. Look up the the second half of the season. They were winning in spite of Flutie, then the offense looks the best it has all year against Indy(who were 13-2), and Ralph makes the call to go to Johnson(or so it is said). 14 years ago and it's still more interesting to talk about Flutie-Johnson than anything that has happened since.

Forget coaches. The Bills need modern NFL management structure before we go plucking a coach from college(which I like btw). I'm convinced Marrone is reacting to the clown show that is the front office over there.

So not involved that he interviewed Sammy Watkins before the draft and flat out told him that he was going to get him. So not involved that he was behind hiring Marrone.

The Bills are now owned by the 4th wealthiest owner in the NFL. That doesn't mean we are going to become the new Cowboys or Dolphins and start buying up FAs but it does mean we are not scraping the bottom of the barrel in the front office anymore. Look at the owner Pegula most often cites as a big influence, Bob Kraft. He went out and got Bill Belichek to run his football department. Stole him away from the Jets actually. Was there risk with him at the time? Sure. But he was clearly the best defensive mind of his time, had experience running a team, and had a plan. The rest is history with them. Look at Paul Allen with the Seahawks. He takes over and sinks tons of money into free agents but soon realized that it didn't matter because he had Dennis Erickson as his HC and bad personnel people. So he hires Holmgren to run everything football and he builds them into a Super Bowl team. Then when Holmgren loses it and his handpicked successor Mora Jr doesn't impress, he blows it up again and hands the reigns to Pete Carroll and now you have the Seahawks, who are the class of the NFL. I would expect Pegula to want to do the same here.

Those guys all proved they could coach in the first place.

This is simply not true, but whatever.

Greg Roman had 1 year experience when they went to Colin Kap as the QB. You should probably take him off the list.

If the Bills let Nix run the draft months before he "retired" that is asinine. But it would be par for the course of the consistent dysfunction that has been going on in that front office since the late 90s.

Whaley has been far from awesome in the GM role. He's missed on the most important position in the game. And he's had two off-seasons to find 1 guard who can play and he's missed there as well. TE depth anyone? What about not even interviewing Mike McCoy for HC job? Or should I say cancelling their interview with McCoy so they could hire Marrone. How bout the top 10 pick we gave up in next year's draft? I like Whaley, but I would not say he has been awesome as a GM. But then again when your following the Nix/Brandon/Levy era, I guess the bar is set pretty low.

Pegula would be the 4th wealthiest NFL owner and is very "dug in" right now in Buffalo. How anyone can beat him out as far as being best for the area is beyond me? Any other ownership group would be underwhelming IMO.

It would seem that they want the highest possible bid from a group who will be committed to the Buffalo region. Whoever emerged as the best candidate to keep the team here long term, the trust would want to maximize THAT bid. This is still a major business transaction and if whoever ends up getting the team is miffed that the trust tried to bleed them for a couple hundred million more, then they probably don't belong in this game.

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That's fine as most of the top soccer teams in Europe will be playing in a European Super League consisting of most if not all of the premier soccer clubs throughout Europe. There is simply too much money to be made and the financial pressure on teams like Arsenal, ManU, Chelsea, etc will be too great to stay in the EPL. As far as a London NFL team goes, it would be a money maker for sure, which, contrary to popular opinion, would be good for small market teams. And it would most likely be an expansion team. And people have already commented on how travel/taxes would be a non issue as the team's HQ would be based somewhere on the East Coast and they would be only be playing their games in London.

I'm not sure he is saying anything out of line.