If Anyone Cares What I Think ...
I believe Ralph Wilson made the right move in firing/letting go Tom Donohoe as general manager/president of the Buffalo Bills, and I believe that Mike Mularkey resigning as coach will help the team. But that is in the past; what now concerns us, with Marv Levy now the new general manager, is who the next coach will be.
For starters, I am NOT excited over the possibility of Jim Haslett being the Bills' new coach. He was a great linebacker for the Bills and a good position coach, but for the most part he has been a failure or, to be kind, a mediocrity, as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Why would we need to bring a failure/mediocrity here, when we had two of that kind of coach before in Gregg Williams and Mularkey?
Mike Sherman has had success and failure as Green Bay's coach, and I would prefer him if the choice was of Sherman and Haslett. He has looked quite fondly on Buffalo quarterback J.P. Losman, certainly had success with Brett Favre leading the Packers and knows what it takes to be a success to a certain level in football. Also, selfishly, with Val being a former Wisconsin resident and longtime, ARDENT Green Bay fan, maybe, just maybe this, along with University of Wisconsin alumni Lee Evans and Jim Leonhard on the Bill's roster, she would not hold the Bills with such disdain and laugh at them so often, deserving as it may be. Now, if the Bills don't hire a person with former head coaching experience, I think former Bills defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell would be a good choice.
And to those who believe that Mularkey should not bear the responsibility of bad personnel choices made by Donohoe, remember, one quality a good coach must have is to develop and deploy the players he or she has to the best of his or her ability to bring the best out in the players. This means to motivate and use player he or she may not be keen on and to properly use the talented players on the roster. I don't feel Mularkey did so.
For starters, I am NOT excited over the possibility of Jim Haslett being the Bills' new coach. He was a great linebacker for the Bills and a good position coach, but for the most part he has been a failure or, to be kind, a mediocrity, as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Why would we need to bring a failure/mediocrity here, when we had two of that kind of coach before in Gregg Williams and Mularkey?
Mike Sherman has had success and failure as Green Bay's coach, and I would prefer him if the choice was of Sherman and Haslett. He has looked quite fondly on Buffalo quarterback J.P. Losman, certainly had success with Brett Favre leading the Packers and knows what it takes to be a success to a certain level in football. Also, selfishly, with Val being a former Wisconsin resident and longtime, ARDENT Green Bay fan, maybe, just maybe this, along with University of Wisconsin alumni Lee Evans and Jim Leonhard on the Bill's roster, she would not hold the Bills with such disdain and laugh at them so often, deserving as it may be. Now, if the Bills don't hire a person with former head coaching experience, I think former Bills defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell would be a good choice.
And to those who believe that Mularkey should not bear the responsibility of bad personnel choices made by Donohoe, remember, one quality a good coach must have is to develop and deploy the players he or she has to the best of his or her ability to bring the best out in the players. This means to motivate and use player he or she may not be keen on and to properly use the talented players on the roster. I don't feel Mularkey did so.
posted by val at 5:50 PM
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This kind of thing is almost always a crapshoot. Mike Shanahan was decidedly below average when he was head coach of the Raiders; but with his second team, the Broncos, he's been great. And Bill Belichick was barely a five-hundred coach until injury to Drew Bledsoe forced him to put Tom Brady in, and the rest is history. Even Marv Levy was only "average" with Kansas City, and look what he did here.
Yeah, and sadly, Kelly, the Bills have really hit on some crap in recent coaching hirings. I did not get a good feeling from what Haslett did and didn't do as coach of the Saints, mainly this season; that situation, unexpected as it was, needed a coach to firmly take over. But after a good, emotional season-opening win, things continued to be rougher than normal for the Saints. Maybe a change of scenery would help Haslett, especially a city where he played and is fondly remembered. But I just don't think he has what the Bills need. Of course, I'd love to have Barry Alvarez give Buffalo a try, but I'll settle for Mike Sherman.
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