Billick, Brian Schottenheimer expected to interview

Of the candidates the Bills are reportedly interested in (and who haven’t told Buffalo to piss off) I’d put these two way down on the list. And then maybe tear off the portion of the list with their names on it. And eat it.

I do want someone with experience, with a strong contingent at the coordinator positions. Billick does satisfy the experience portion better than many. I am perfectly fine with The Buddy Nix selection, in fact I think it is great. I honestly think we can stop talking about Bill Cowher almost immediately unless the Bills are going to play against him. The big splash I am looking for is still coming in the front office. We have a couple weeks to discuss coaching canidates, I am still focusing on this big splash. We are by-passing something right in front of us. That is Buddy Nix retired and we brought him back. The man is to valuable to be retired, hense the hiring to GM. I am thinking that the big splash will be the replacements of Modrak and Guy. Such as Telesco and or Gabriel. Telesco is not going any further in Indianapolis, Bill’s son is there. We could bring this guy in and get him comfy for the Promotion to GM in 3-5 years. With the background these people have covered and the foundation they can build. I still would be happy with a Jim Haslett at head coach.

Jim would jump at this job and Ralph is willing to see it through to his end. His experience around the League isn’t the brightest but not many have been there first time around. Buddy needs to get things in order before we can lure any kind of Bill Cowher here.

Why all the hate for Billick? We like to always blame him for not developing a quarterback, but we always give a free pass to everybody’s favorite Gm Ozzie Newsome and Eric De costa . Let us not forget these two were the one’s that drafted Kyle Bollier (bust) and signed free agents like Elvis Grbac. I don’t know if I want him to coach the Bills but i think he is a good prospect. Also he has shown he can get top of the line coordinators. Mike Nolan, Rex Ryan on Defense. Jim fassel on offense.

Billick, i can live with… Schottenheimer, really? the guy is an OC on a team with an awful offense, if we go for a OC for HC go after a team that plays good offense. I like Mike Martz for HC is we can’t get one of the big names

NO WAY to Schottenheimer.

I think Mike Martz will get an interview. Monday/Tuesday will be a big day.

I like the post. I would prefer someone who has had success no matter what the talent level is. Your right, he did not fix the offense in Baltimore, so I don’t have faith in him fixing our offense.
Schottenheimer, no way. Like people said, I’d prefer Martz over Schottenheimer.

he wouldnt be my first overall choice…..but he would be at the top of the available “proven” guys.

Or Martz, only way I would take Billick is if he has darn good OC i could believe in that he could bring with him, like if Kubiak got fired and would come as OC/assistant HC

He built a consistent winner in Baltimore and I blame the lack of offensive firepower on Ozzie Newsome’s baby, Kyle Boller simply not being an NFL QB. Baltimore’s offenses were never elite, but they did what they had to do. They ran the ball well and let their defense win a lot of games…I’d hire Billick in a heart beat; his resume of WINNING is something Buffalo needs at this point to make them credible again.

He would not be my first choice, but I don’t understand how people bash him for the offense in Baltimore. Yes, he partially might have had something to do with putting players in place (although that is more the GM), but look what he had to work with. I think quite the opposite; he did quite an admiral job. You don’t win a Super Bowl in spite of a specific part of your team: that makes absolutely no sense.

He had Trent Dilfer as a QB and knew enough to adjust from an air attack to pounding the football with Jamal Lewis.

Elvis Grbac was already a developed QB but flopped in Baltimore. Grbac was a WC QB and Billick runs a Coryall-type downfield passing attack.

Kyle Boller was just a bad draft pick. Newsome didn’t want to draft him, but Billick was impressed with his physical tools. He never panned out.

So, Billick had one QB to develop and didn’t. Boller was similar to Losman: big arm, great physical skills, but probably not NFL QB material mentally.

I’m kind of surprised at how evenly the poll is running between Billick and No Thanks To Both. There’s a lot more love in Billsnation for Billick than I would have guessed.

In fairness, his reputation was based on more than that one spectacular season. Some stats:
In seven seasons he had a top 7 offense four times and also a 11th ranked offense. Thats not bad. Even in Baltimore, his offenses weren’t always god awful. In nine seasons they scored under 300 points only twice. The Bills have done that five times in the last nine seasons.

One thing I would like to point out, and I think this was alluded to above, is that Billick has been pretty consistent in bringing talented coordinators. Rex Ryan, Marvin Lewis, Mike Nolan, and Mike Singletary all served on his staff.

I’m personally hoping that I’ll hear Mike Zimmer’s name mentioned if we’re going with a guy who has never been a head coach before. He did a great job in Dallas for multiple head coaches and is continuing to do a great job in Cincy.

And a stud DC comes here along with him, say Fox if he gets canned and no other job appears for him, but in that situation, give me Fox as HC LOOOOOOOOOONG before Billick

Belliceck had his first time as a head coach. I think Billick may take the challenge of going against Bellichek and run with it.

Maybe instead of hiring a HC, we could do like the WWE and have a different one every Sunday? I think that way some of you can be happy once in awhile :-)

Billick I get, he’s not horrible. But he’s an offensive bust in Baltimore. He head more than a few good QB prospects to develop and now all of them are out of the league. If we’re going to hire an offensive guy, I want it to be someone that can actually develop a QB.

As for B. Shotty, well lets just say that the apple that fell out of the tree was actually an orange. Brian is nowhere near the coach that his dad was, and shouldn’t even really be coaching in this league. But since he is coaching in this league, I’d much rather him stay the inept offensive coordinator of one of New York Jets then him be our Head Coach.

interesting blog at pro football talk about Tampa keeping Morris as their coach. If that happens and Carolina keeps Fox . Florio sums it up by saying Buffalo might be his only option.

but I must admit that Nix is being thorough, which is quite refreshing.

I really like what Nix had to say in his first interview and then it was re-iterated by Jim, that Buffalo is a very unique challenge and some guys might actually get turned on by it. Our fan base is really incredible and we support the Bills through thick and thin, we pack that stadium no matter what. There is a lot to like about this situation for Cowher and Wilson is willing to spend the money that it will take.

By being this thorough, Nix is giving himself some reference and some leverage. I think in the end we get our guy.

I’m not a fan of Billick, never have been. When a guy is considered a good offensive coach, you’d think that in nearly a decade as HC, he’d have been able to build a good O at some point. He never did. I also hate that he is an absolute egomaniac, or at least appears to be. I think he’d be one of those guys that rubs the fans the wrong way almost immediately.

I’d simply laugh if this team hired Schottenheimer. There couldn’t be a less appealing candidate unless they somehow convinced Jauron to re-interview. He’s a poor OC and it’s hard to believe the guy could even become an average head coach. It’s not impossible, but I’d hate to see Buffalo be the team that finds out.

They interview no one for the GM job and are going so far down the list into the potential HC ranks that they get to Billick and B Schottenheimer.