Reports: Bills headed to Minnesota to interview Frazier

I am completely happy with the Bills taking a few weeks to interview several candidates. I mean honestly 2-3 weeks (which is during the playoffs) won’t really change anything, so I am just glad to see they aren’t just rushing through this

keep the interviews coming! Buddy Nix is my new hero.

As Minnesota is currently in the midst of a bye week heading into their home divisional playoff game, any interview with Frazier must take place prior to this weekend, as he will be unable to interview for coaching positions again until after the Vikings are eliminated from the playoffs.

They are allowed a second interview during the bye week before the Super Bowl if Minnesota makes it that far. He just can’t be hired until after the Vikings are eliminated.

I think that Buddy Nix would prefer a candidate with head-coaching experience, he did not necessarily say NFL head-coaching experience. However, coaches with NFL HC experience aren’t exactly growing on trees and if he limits it to just coaches with previous HC experience we could overlook many good, qualified coaches in this world. Which is why I think they are taking their time and considering many candidates in varying positions around the league and beyond

Obviously Nix is someone who takes the bull by the horns. Hopefully he’s seeking a HC and coordinators that have the same approach. at any rate, it’s a refreshing departure for the Brandon/Wilson dart game.

He was put in a position where anyone could have had massive success IMO. I mean just look at the talent the Vikings have on defense. I mean that’s probably the most talented D in the league if you go on a position by position basis. I mean I know you cant knock a guy for succeeding with talented players,but I’m trying anyhow. Much rather have a guy like Zimmer who’s had success with a less talented defensive roster.

Just added to the post: Glazer tweets that Bills are flying out to MIN to conduct this interview.

Not another soft-coach like Dick Jauron to coach this soft football team. We need somebody capable of getting this soft, losing mentality out of this organisation, and Frazier being a soft-spoken man is not the answer imo. His defense has all the talent in the world, yet they’re always inconsistent and some of my friends in the Minnesota area are far from impressed with his work this season.
These following five are my favorites (in that order):

1) Bill Cowher (The ideal candidate for the job, as we all know)

2) Marty Schottenheimer (Terrific proven HC, who has long ties to Buddy)

3) Brian Billick (A proven winning HC with expertise in offense and with the ability of attracting good assistants)

4) Jim Harbaugh (Great young and yet relatively experienced offensive mind, who has done a great job with Stanford. His fiery nature fits the mold)

5) Russ Grimm (The blue-collar, toughnosed Grimm has the background to be a candidate for the job)

Leslie Frazier? great – now we’re going to hire a chick for our HC – well, hopefully she’s better than DJ & Co.

what’s that? oh……..

Here’s the list Bills fan from Denmark put up:
1) Bill Cowher (The ideal candidate for the job, as we all know)

2) Marty Schottenheimer (Terrific proven HC, who has long ties to Buddy)

3) Brian Billick (A proven winning HC with expertise in offense and with the ability of attracting good assistants)

4) Jim Harbaugh (Great young and yet relatively experienced offensive mind, who has done a great job with Stanford. His fiery nature fits the mold)

5) Russ Grimm (The blue-collar, tough nosed Grimm has the background to be a candidate for the job)

Here’s my thoughts:
Cowher wants the Dallas job. If he didn’t we would take him and he’d be the HC already. I have the feeling he’s going to end up sitting out until the Carolina job opens next year.

Schottenheimer (Have we actually interviewed him or is this talk?) He’d get us to the playoffs and as someone else said it’s Babysteps for the Bills right now.

Billick, I think this is who we end up with. Ralph wanted a Superbowl winning Coach and here’s one who probably wants the job.

Harbaugh, (He’s not there yet.) He will be but it’s easy to coach when you run your “shouldn’t been a Heisman winner” up and down the field. I’m sure Kelly would balk at this choice. When he was on ESPN Kelly criticized Harbaugh for not being tough enough. Apparently he isn’t that smart either because he confronted Kelly about it in a elevator and Harbaugh broke his hand hitting Kelly in the head. (And this was during the season when he was still playing.) You don’t mess with Mr. Kelly.

Grimm, I like this choice. He’s ready and he’s tough. “Jim Kelly tough.” I know we’ve been burned by hiring the next hot coordinator, but I prefer him over Frazier. (We need to chuck the Tampa 2 out the door anyway.)

Frazier is an improvement on Fewell. Coordinator-wise, we can’t do better than Fewell who is a hot DC commodity, gained valuable HC experience, knows the players, and has had success with these players. The main question that Fewell has to answer is how he plans to fix the offensive woes. I just don’t see how any other coordinator is better option. We can’t keep losing talent because we are so darn impatient.