Buffalo Bills HC Chan Gailey Approval Poll: March 2012

Right. I take him as the coaching half of the CHIX team, which is taking on the tremendously difficult job of reinstating OBD as an actual professional NFL organization. It’s more than just coaching the team on the field. It’s helping staff and train and lead the organization to put the right processes in place and to do things the right way. Not an easy task in Ralph’s deeply dysfunctional organization. But they’re trying and I give them all the credit in the world for doing so.

Go Bills.

Man I hope, I believe they are too but we shall see.

Damn, you stole my line! :).

“I don’t always drink, but when I do, I drink Nix Koolaid. Stay thirsty, my Bills fans” (surely you are used to being thirsty)

You want him to be open-minded about where to play Merriman and you think he is too stuck and as evidence you cite moving guys into different positions.

IMO he would lose a lot of credibility claiming Merriman was gonna play OLB in a 4-3. It’s a much bigger jump than say, Spencer Johnson as DE/OLB — a move you didn’t like.

I strongly disagree with that. I think he has strong beliefs about things. This stuff about being too stuck in their ways, as in him and Buddy Nix, and that it is because they are older has got to stop. It is just a cop out. I think that you, and some other people, don’t agree with some of things that they are doing so you attribute it to that. I think that is just wrong in my opinion. And I think the other people that have attributed that same thing to them are wrong also. Did they make the change regarding Trent Edwards? Yes they did. I think if Dick Jauron was the coach at the time that he would have kept Trent on the roster and we would have been flopping back and forth between QBs all of that year. They have been decisive in the past but they also stick to basic principles that they believe in. For Buddy Nix that means that you build mostly through the draft and that draft picks are worth gold. (And by the way, Whaley believes the same thing and he is not old.) For Chan that means letting players know where they stand and trying different combinations to see what works best. If it doesn’t work, he scraps it generally.

the reason Merriman is pencilled in at RE is because he is the only true 43 RE on the roster, unless they sign a top FA it is his job to lose, and at Lb there is Sheppard, Barnett and probably Morrison as starters with Mckillop, Batten, Moats, Eddins, White as backups, all 3 might also compete at RE

4-3 and Fitz. I feel those are both pretty clear at this point

So we judge him more harshly the worse the state of things outside his control?

You think he should punt in enemy territory and kick field goals when trailing? My impression is he is going for it in these scenarios. Fourth and long and trailing at the opponents 30 seems to be a go for it every time. Not Jauronian, very much something I’ve noticed with Gailey.