PFT: Harbaugh a candidate for Bills job

Nix – stealth. Cowher – Stealth. Harbaugh – Stealth.

The Buffalo Ninjas

The more candidates that “pop” up, the less likely Billick or Cowher or Shottenheimer are coming this way. Just when you think the Bills actually know whats going on.

I like what Harbaugh could do with the QB and I think he was there when Trent was there as well so I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. But I think recent news has shown just because you’re a good college coach, it doesn’t always transfer to the pros (I’ll abstain from making a list). Would he come as an OC? Probably not after interviewing for the HC position.

Yay! Where’s norcal to celebrate?

will shell out $5-6 million for Cowher, and don’t think any coach is worth that amount. REgardless, I still think that you need a good G.M. that can draft well, especially with a small market team.

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I honestly dont think he’s going anywhere……Theres really no reason to leave Stanford for Buffalo……..He’s the MAN there…….he doesnt really have to answer to anyone and he gets to do whatever he wants…..he has TOTAL control of the program there. I think he wants to win the Pac-10 before he picks up and leaves…..

Just from the way I hear him talk in interviews about the job there at Stanford and what he wants to do……..

But money does indeed talk……right now he’s gonna be making about 1.25 mil a year at Stanford……so he would have to get a significant raise I think to leave the program.

the only coach to beat Pete Carrol’s Trojans at their house the last 5 years………and he did it TWICE.

Outisde of Cowher and Marty, Harbaugh is a close third on my list.

After that, the excitment level drops considerably.

This is good news to me!

I like Harbaugh, but how much of our support for him is for what he did at stanford, and how much is because his brother is a good football coach? Im just not sure he’s earned the right to be in the discussion. 17-20 as a D-1A head coach? Call me in 3 years.

He’s no Jimmy Johnson. Also apparently contract extensions by NCAA schools aren’t really worth the paper there printed on are they.

in the Dick Jauron is Fired thread, and I maintain that he would be my top choice for the position. If we’re looking at a long-term success option and building from the ground up, Harbaugh, in my opinion is the correct option. He’s young, fiery, and has a (admittedly limited and short) history of turning teams from losers to winners (or, at least, above mediocrity). I know everyone uses this example, but I think he could be our Mike Tomlin. It’s a different situation because the Steelers weren’t perennial losers like the Bills are, but with the comparisons I just mean that he’s a young coach with an identity that he can bring to the table and sustain for years to come.

As soon as I mentioned Jimmy H. before, I got shot down with people saying that he’s going to take an extension to stay at Stanford. While I’m not denying that it’s unlikely he will come to Buffalo, because I still think it qualifies as such, he’s now on the top of my list as far as candidates that have been mentioned to have ties with us.

New List:

Harbaugh
Bill Cowher
Marty Schotty
Leslie Frazier
Brian Schotty
Perry Fewell

if he ships Marshawn back to the Bay (Raiders) for Michael Bush

Or if he brings Toby Gerhardt with him

And my main reason is the track records that college coaches have when jumping to the pro’s. He may be the exception to the rule but were not the franchise who can gamble on him.

hes always been my first choice.

Teams that need a head coach
1. Buffalo
2. Bucs (Maybe)
3. Dallas (Maybe)

If anyone really wants to coach in the NFL, we currently are the ONLY team who is officially looking for a new coach

and think he’d make a great HC for the Bills. However, my biggest concern is regarding his ability to attract top notch coordinators and assistants to accompany him. Doubtful that he’s developed a lot of NFL coaching personnel connections while coaching college ball. Maybe he’d rely on Buddy Nix to find his assistants, I’d be o.k. with that.

behind what I said. I sure wish I could find where I wrote that about a month ago. I said that if we couldn’t get the likes of a Bill Cowher that we should go for a young, up and coming coach by the name of Jim Harbaugh. I loved his fire as a player and I love it even more as a coach. Thats what our guys need in my opinion.

I have little to nop faith in the decision making in this orginization right now and the Nix hiring did not help

of the names rumored, i want marty shottenheimer.

would be great. Marty’s the ideal but it’s just not happening, eh?

…. they have given the Buffalo Bills a new prototype “Stealth Interviewing Coaches Keg” (SICK) that will allow all sub-par coaching candidates like Harbaugh the ability to drink beer and teletransport to Detroit, interview with Ralph, not get selected, and transport back to where they came from without us ever knowing.
That would be great.
Harbaugh has not even been an O-coordinator in the NFL and would fail miserably as a head coach due to lack of experience.
Plus, since we swept out the entire coaching staff, he does not have the connections or “tree” like Billick (or any other coach in the NFL) to hire quality assistants.
NO!