We don’t know who they have talked to. They may well have done a video conference interview with Jim Harbaugh, for example, as a way of keeping the event secret. Beyond that, you can be sure Buddy Nix has been on the phone constantly calling contacts around the league to check up on various candidates. Anyone who has done a lot of hiring knows that you should NEVER rely primarily on the job interview in making your decision. That’s the best way to make a big mistake. What you should do is conduct a lot of research on your candidates by talking to people who know them and can tell you how they handle themselves in the normal course of action (i.e., not on the unusual occasion of a job interview). Perhaps the combination of his research on Frazier and the four hours he spent with him on Thursday has convinced Buddy Nix that Frazier is “the man.” But it’s also possible that what he has heard about young Schottenheimer or Harbaugh or Russ Grimm or someone else has made that person the “clubhouse leader.”

And of course the Bills are taking their time in part because the candidates they are looking at are mostly working for teams who are involved with postseason play. We couldn’t offer them a job now even if we wanted to. Beyond that it’s clear that they are continuing to wait out Bill Cowher, hoping that he will see that the Bills are indeed his only opportunity if he wants to return to coaching next year (Cowher, for his part, is probably keeping his eye on the situation in Carolina to see how things break with John Fox).

In short, a lot is happening that we can’t see. So far as I can tell they seem to be handling this search very well, and I can’t imagine any reason why we would want them to rush into a bad decision. We all need to be patient.

I’m really starting to get annoyed with this process! If it’s NOT Cowher, then I wish SOMEONE other than some reporter looking for attention or some dumb blogger could tell us flat out “look people, Cowher does not want to coach here, we are NOT getting him, pleave move on”. It’s increasingly frustrating holding on to false hope simply because the fact that no one is giving us any kind of credible info allows that window of hope to stay open, no matter how unrealistic iy may actually be in reality!. But even if no Cowher, I can’t for the life of me understand why Brian Billick or Marty has not as much gotten a phone call! (if what we are hearing is true!)

I’ll just say this now: I do NOT want Frazier! I don’t want a whole offseason of “he could be this, he could be that” and people trying to justify that he will be any different than any other Coordinator they’ve hired for cheap, having no HC experience!. He may be ok, but after the past DECADE, do we really have the luxury anymore of waiting to find out???!! Ralph AND Buddy BOTH said at Buddy’s hiring that they want someone with EXPERIENCE! Well SO DO THE FANS! If they back down on THIS, and hire another scrub DC as our HC, then Buddy’s lost all his cred with me already, and I’ll just assume that any talk of “commitment to winning” is a lie as well. I have been a Bills die hard my entire life, but I’m on fumes! I’ve never seen any team in professional sports run this poorly for this long. Really no point in keeping the team here if they are only gonna torture the loyal fans with more mismanagement, bad decisions, and continue our reputation as the laughing stock of the NFL.

Fewell and Frazier were interviewed. Fewell is close to impossible, unless the team pulls another “Wilson” by doing the “hiring from within” stunt. If Frazier is not the guy, then it can only be those who doesn’t require an interview. Which leaves us with Cowher and Marty Schott. And if Cowher is not the guy, then the only remaining logical assumption is ……

Why aren’t the Bills in on John Fox if he’s really available? I think I’d take him over just about every available coach besides Cowher. We give Fox the long term deal he’s looking for, Cowher goes to Carolina where he wants to be. Seems to work for everyone.

Or Nix could simply be playing it cool and going ahead with his search while leaving the door open for Cowher. That’s a win-win situation for the Bills.

scheffer said there’s as much chance of Cowher coaching Buff as there is for HIMScheffer) to coach there. Not encouraging. The “sleeper” is not one person. “it could be Garrett, B Schott”. In short, they don’t know.

Brian Shott and Jason Garrett as I recall.