Bills hire Chan Gailey

[Northern Wish]

According to FOX Sports Jay Glazer, long time NFL offensive coordinator Chan Gailey is the frontrunner to be Bills head coach.

Jay_Glazer: surprise candidate in buff. team secretly interviewed chan gailey last wk… barring a breakdown 2day, he’s the guy

There were reports of the Bills interviewing “stealth†candidates the past. Couple of weeks. Looks like Gailey was one of them.

WIKI Entry: Thomas Chandler Gailey, Jr. (born January 5, 1952, in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American football coach. He was formerly head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team and the Dallas Cowboys.

Gailey had previously served as offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins in 2000–01 when the Dolphins posted consecutive 11–5 records. He was on the Pittsburgh Steelers staff from 1994-97 when the Steelers won four straight AFC Central titles and played in one Super Bowl (XXX). He was offensive coordinator in 1997 when Pittsburgh ranked sixth in the NFL in total offense and seventh in scoring.[1] Gailey served as the offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2008 and three games of the 2009 pre-season before he was relieved of duties by Chiefs head coach Todd Haley. On January 19, 2010, Gailey was hired as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

[Guest Low Roller]

[Whitey]

The tumbleweed coming from Mr. Bulldog.

[Guest Low Roller]

It's about time I gave one back.

[Whitey]

Coaching was a problem, but the bigger issue to me, is the Bills' inability to draft impact players with their first few picks.

[Northern Wish]

I think we do ok at drafting them- OK only. Keeping them healthy and on the field definitely isn't our forte.....

[Booche]

I hate the fucking Bills but I have to post this.

In an era of 32-team leagues, championship hopes are slim for almost everybody. What you really want is belief.

This is what makes it so hard to be a fan of the Buffalo Bills or Oakland Raiders right now. It's not just the losing. It's that there is really no reason to believe.

The beauty of the NFL is that everybody gets to believe. Franchises go from 3-13 to 10-6. Teams with 6-7 records face "big games" with "playoff implications" that we watch because we're sheep.

But how can Buffalo fans believe? The Bills just hired a 70-year-old rookie general manager, who hired a 57-year-old retread coach, and together they are supposed to lead Buffalo past Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, past Rex Ryan and the Jets, past Bill Parcells' Dolphins. It's like watching your Uncle Ned run the Boston Marathon and hoping he can beat the Kenyans.

This is nothing against the 70-year-old rookie GM, Buddy Nix. When a man named Buddy gets his dream job at 70, you have to pull for him. And it's nothing against Chan Gailey, who got fired in Dallas, coached mediocre teams at Georgia Tech and ... well, OK, those are two things against Chan Gailey.

One of Gailey's big selling points is supposed to be that he thinks you can win without stars in the NFL, and the Bills don't have many stars, so -- PRESTO! -- we have a perfect match. If you're a Bills fan, how much tequila would you have to drink before you even begin to believe that? It's as if the Bills said, "You believe in Pillsbury crescent rolls, and we happen to have some Pillsbury crescent-roll dough, so let's open a fancy restaurant in Manhattan."

Gailey was fired by the Chiefs before last season started. The guy is so bad, he gets canned when he is going to suck. I'm kidding. The timing of Gailey's Kansas City firing was so ridiculous that the whole episode should not be held against him. But what in his career makes anybody think he will strike NFL gold at 57?

If you're a Bills fan, and the whole country makes fun of your city, and your team is best known for losing Super Bowls, and the best player in franchise history turns out to be ... O.J. Simpson, and your owner has decided the best way to keep your team in town is to have it play games in Toronto, and you're freezing to death ... I mean, I think you have lost more faith than Chan Gailey can restore.

The worst part of this plan is that the Bills have tried it already. A few years ago, they enlisted 80-year-old Marv Levy to run the team, and Levy then hired retread coach Dick Jauron, and shockingly, that didn't work out.

Could it work this time? Hey, anything is possible. In fact, I believe that is the new motto for the Raiders: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Raiders owner Al Davis is reportedly calling coaching candidates in a desperate attempt to show he still knows how to use a phone. Never mind that Davis still has a coach, Tom Cable.

These are strange days for Davis -- maybe the strangest of a strange and highly successful career. Davis was once the most feared man in football, a renegade who told the league to kiss his butt and had the team (and lawyers) to get away with it. Now he is a laughingstock, and he doesn't even seem to know it.

Perhaps Davis's overtures to Jim Harbaugh (according to ESPN's Adam Schefter) and Jim Fassel and Marc Trestman (according to the San Francisco Chronicle's David White) are part of an elaborate plan to turn the controversial Cable into a sympathetic figure. And if that's the case, then I must congratulate Mr. Davis on a remarkable effort. First he spent six years convincing the world he was incapable of executing an elaborate plan, and now he did it!

This is the time when Raiders fans wonder if they can remove that Raiders tattoo on their forehead. What do you believe in? Cable? He might get fired.

Do you pin your hopes on the coaches Davis is wooing?

The good ones won't come to Oakland anyway.

Right?

"Don't ever think you can't fill coaching jobs, even if they're bad," Buddy Nix said this week, as he introduced Chan Gailey. "Oakland gets a lot of calls. Don't say I said that."

Did you hear that, Al Davis? You're in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a 70-year-old rookie general manager is taking shots at you. I guess that is one reason for Bills fans to believe: one of these years, they'll get to play the Raiders.

[Northern Wish]

Its so true it hurts....

But I'll always Bill-ieve!