Crosscheck wrote:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4949897
This guy says it best:
astrnomr [TotalFark] 2010-01-19 11:41:32 AM
I really don't understand all the online vitriol thrown at Chan Gailey so far. It was clear that none of the A-list coaches wanted the job, and even some of the B- and C-list candidates turned down requests to even interview. Gailey has been a successful head coach at both the NFL and college levels, and he has squeezed good numbers out of mediocre offensive players. He certainly can't make the Bills' offense any worse than it already was. He was Cowher's choice to take over at Pittsburgh, and reportedly would have been Cowher's OC/assistant if Cowher had taken a head coaching job somewhere. That's a pretty good endorsement.
The problem at this point is the owner, Ralph Wilson. Nobody wants to be an underpaid head coach with an underpaid coaching staff, a clueless front office, no money for finding the right free agents, and a scouting staff that can't tell the difference between a prospect and a suspect. (And in the case of Marshawn Lynch, I mean that quite literally. Marv Levy, GM at the time, said that he had researched Lynch's background and didn't think the character issues that had surfaced in college would still be a problem in the NFL.) Potential head coaches were avoiding 1 Bills Drive like it was the home of the plague.
This team is doomed as long as Ralph Wilson is still in charge of "The Greatest Team a Handful of Change Can Buy".
The Bills are the equivalent of an old, fat, bald guy. If he want a wife, she's gonna be fugly for sure, but everyone has to get some somehow. I guess Chan is our girl.