Fitzpatrick and Wood talking trash about Marrone

[extrahammer]

I don't listen to Eric Wood's podcast much, but I caught the most recent episode he had with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and they shared some old Doug Marrone stories, talked about how much of ***** he was. Wood said he was growing his hair out once and Marrone told him he looked like an idiot and to get it cut. Fitz also talked about his one meeting with Marrone in Buffalo right before he got cut. Said Marrone was hyping him up talking about how excited they were Fitz was already in Buffalo. Fitz said he never spoke to him again after that but did bump into him in an elevator this year. Wood shared another story about how after the loss to the Jaguars in the playoffs Marrone came up to him saying he would contact him about something they had never discussed before. Just seems to be a pattern of awkward encounters with Marrone every where. 

 

 

[EasternOHBillsFan]

13 minutes ago, extrahammer said:

I don't listen to Eric Wood's podcast much, but I caught the most recent episode he had with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and they shared some old Doug Marrone stories, talked about how much of ***** he was. Wood said he was growing his hair out once and Marrone told him he looked like an idiot and to get it cut. Fitz also talked about his one meeting with Marrone in Buffalo right before he got cut. Said Marrone was hyping him up talking about how excited they were Fitz was already in Buffalo. Fitz said he never spoke to him again after that but did bump into him in an elevator this year. Wood shared another story about how after the loss to the Jaguars in the playoffs Marrone came up to him saying he would contact him about something they had never discussed before. Just seems to be a pattern of awkward encounters with Marrone every where. 

 

Doug Marrone should have been named Doug Moron, because he was perhaps the worst coach the Bills have ever had personality wise since John Rauch. Gregg Williams gets an Honorable Mention.

[jimmy10]

I ran into Chris Brown at an event 4-5 years ago, we had some volunteer/non-profit stuff we do in common. I asked him if those “Coffee with the Coach” videos he did with Marrone were as awkward and uncomfortable as they appeared on the viewer’s end. He said they were worse, and internally they called them “Coffee with the Crotch.”

 

I also have a buddy who was a manager for Syracuse football and he has confirmed Marrone is a paranoid, unpleasant prick to deal with. 

[BillsPride12]

The absolute worst part about Moron was when he tried claiming himself as a Western New Yorker.  That guy was the biggest fraud ever.

[BarleyNY]

22 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

Doug Marrone should have been named Doug Moron, because he was perhaps the worst coach the Bills have ever had personality wise since John Rauch. Gregg Williams gets an Honorable Mention.

 

Wrex is on that podium. 

[Aussie Joe]

Moron… Wrecks …. Those days seem like light years ago  

[FireChans]

Doug Marrone was our second best drought coach behind McDermott. 
 

He didn’t like the loser media in Buffalo and who could blame him?

[SoMAn]

With that reputation, how was he not vetted by the Bills (and later The Jaguars) to be dismissed as a candidate? 

[Gugny]

How many games did the Bills lose under Marrone because we had too many players in the field?

[SirAndrew]

3 minutes ago, SoMAn said:

With that reputation, how was he not vetted by the Bills (and later The Jaguars) to be dismissed as a candidate? 

Russ Brandon. 

[EasternOHBillsFan]

5 minutes ago, FireChans said:

Doug Marrone was our second best drought coach behind McDermott. 
 

He didn’t like the loser media in Buffalo and who could blame him?

 

That's like praising the most mild case of syphilis before penicillin was discovered.

[Chicken Boo]

Marrone's face fits everything I've ever heard about him.  

[jimmy10]

15 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:

 

Wrex is on that podium. 

Say what you will about Rex and I’ll probably agree, but you can’t deny he was a far, far better personality than St. Dug. Maybe I’m biased as a loudmouth Irish guy myself, but Rex can be a funny, charismatic dude. Dug is just a lump. 

Edited January 20 by jimmy10

[Billschinatown]

5 minutes ago, jimmy10 said:

Say what you will about Rex and I’ll probably agree, but you can’t deny he was a far, far better personality than St. Dug. Maybe I’m biased as a loudmouth Irish guy myself, but Rex can be a funny, charismatic dude. Dug is just a lump. 

The truck was elite.

[FireChans]

22 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

That's like praising the most mild case of syphilis before penicillin was discovered.

There’s some folks that love Jauron and Rex still, I’ll praise mild syphilis over flesh eating gonorrhea all day every day. 

[EasternOHBillsFan]

3 minutes ago, FireChans said:

There’s some folks that love Jauron and Rex still, I’ll praise mild syphilis over flesh eating gonorrhea all day every day. 

 

WHO loves Jauron and Wrecks*?!! My God, that's IN-SANE  

 

*He is GREAT on Get Up when he does Sneaky Hembo... my favorite segment

Edited January 20 by EasternOHBillsFan

[FireChans]

1 minute ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

WHO loves Jauron and Wrecks?!! My God, that's IN-SANE  

Lots. It’s bizarre. 

[Beck Water]

39 minutes ago, jimmy10 said:

I ran into Chris Brown at an event 4-5 years ago, we had some volunteer/non-profit stuff we do in common. I asked him if those “Coffee with the Coach” videos he did with Marrone were as awkward and uncomfortable as they appeared on the viewer’s end. He said they were worse, and internally they called them “Coffee with the Crotch.”

 

I also have a buddy who was a manager for Syracuse football and he has confirmed Marrone is a paranoid, unpleasant prick to deal with. 

 

What reporter was it who wrote about being called into a 1:1 session with Marrone, at the cargo terminal or wherever it is that the Bills depart from just before their plane took off for an away game?  He described it as being mafioso-like where Marrone had two PR guys flanking him, standing - just a really weird story

 

*rummage rummage*

OK I found it. The story ran in 2016, it happened in 2013.  The reporter was Tim Graham.

 

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/marrone-week-the-full-story-of-doug-marrone-interrogating-a-reporter-at-an-airport-over/article_1fe2d3f4-931d-5002-8acc-a64cf1214680.html

 

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So the date is Dec. 28, 2013. That was the date of a meeting which I was called – I had been up late the night before working on my NFL Sunday story. And as you know, we work on similar timetables, my story that runs in NFL Sunday is due early Saturday so that people can edit and do the layout, paginate it, graphic design, a lot of that stuff is involved.

 

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So Friday night, I generally will pull an all-nighter, to the point where I generally go to bed at like 7 a.m., 8 a.m., maybe even 10 a.m., because I filed that story, they need it, and then I sleep. So I’m awakened by a phone call from the Sabres – or, the Bills – head communication director, Scott Berchtold......................It wasn’t early, but for me, I was awakened; 10 in the morning, 11, 12, somewhere in that range. And he says, Hey Tim, Coach would like to meet with you. We’ve been trying to reach out to you all morning but haven’t been able to get you. So, can you meet us down at the airport?....So I say, Sure, I’d be happy to go down there and meet you, where is it? Where’s your terminal?

 

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I get there and I am led to this area that is a break room for cargo handlers. This is like a blue-collar break room. There is a table in the middle of the room, there’s a sink, there’s a fridge, there’s like a couch area also where you can sit down, but it is pretty Spartan. It is a blue-collar, working man’s break room where you go in and you’re not there for fine dining, let’s put it that way.

So I’m led into this room by Scott Berchtold. Doug Marrone is sitting all by himself waiting for me. Like walking me into an interrogation. Because the table is in the middle of this dank, dimly lit room with concrete floors…

 

Scott Berchtold sits down behind Graham, so he's being sandwiched between Marrone and communications director, both wearing suits.

 

It turns out this is about stuff Graham tweeted, saying that Marrone will say things for effect (implying he's a liar).  But Marrone is taking time to set up a meeting with him before a game - when you would think his priority might be thinking about the opponent and the game, not interrogating a reporter about something he tweeted.

 

Many of us here have exposure to and opinions about Tim Graham and his style of tweeting, but the whole story was Super Weird.

[jimmy10]

21 minutes ago, Billschinatown said:

The truck was elite.

Dude, I saw that thing pushing like 90 on the thruway one Saturday when he was here. I think it lined up with a Clemson game in Syracuse or something. We were very excited to see it, it was like a crazed unicorn. 

[Beck Water]

41 minutes ago, FireChans said:

Doug Marrone was our second best drought coach behind McDermott. 
 

He didn’t like the loser media in Buffalo and who could blame him?

 

Um....since we broke the drought McDermott's first year as a Bills coach, how is he a "drought coach"?