detectivekimble Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Reich was selling real estate here in Charlotte as of 2006. Sounds like a perfect fit.... This made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32EBoozer Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Reich is scheduled for an interview. Look for the Jets to reach out to Brian Kelly soon, if Doug Marrone isn't hired in the next couple of days. Leave Brian Kelly alone. I'm a ND fan and I don't want him to leave. Best coach we've had since Parsegan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Reich was selling real estate here in Charlotte as of 2006. Sounds like a perfect fit.... And Kurt Warner was stocking grocery shelves before winning a Bowl with the Rams..LOL But I wouldn't want him either.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detectivekimble Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 What's your thoughts on Rex getting the Atlanta job? Him and Teryl Austin the favorites? Arthur Blank likes Rex. I don't think Rex wants to do TV. So that's probably Rex's job to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Leave Brian Kelly alone. I'm a ND fan and I don't want him to leave. Best coach we've had since Parsegan. You must have been thrilled when Rick Mirer was a Jet.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Leave Brian Kelly alone. I'm a ND fan and I don't want him to leave. Best coach we've had since Parsegan. Seriously? Didn't Devine and Holtz win national championships? Kelly can't even beat Northwestern. At home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Arthur Blank likes Rex. I don't think Rex wants to do TV. So that's probably Rex's job to lose. Rex is pretty good at losing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Arthur Blank likes Rex. I don't think Rex wants to do TV. So that's probably Rex's job to lose. Rex is a very likeable guy his problem is he acts and coaches like a fan.. While I will miss Rex and his press conferences he should have been gone with Tanny.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTL Jet Fan Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Unless I'm mistaken a GM candidate should be able to leave his team once the Jets have decided to hire him. Unlike a HC candidate they are not linked to how long their team is in the playoffs. So if we like Kirchner we should be able to put him in place next week. I would then assume we would wait until SEA is done in the playoffs then we would bring in Quinn. Personally I hope both Kirchner & Quinn hit home runs in their interviews this weekend I am with you KRL I would like us to hire Kirchner & Quinn. I am not that impressed with Marrone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Which franchise did Marrone drive into the ground? Have to agree with you. He left his last two places in much better shape than when he got there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detectivekimble Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Seriously? Didn't Devine and Holtz win national championships? Kelly can't even beat Northwestern. At home. I think Kelly could be a good NFL coach. He's a legit hardass. Not one of these wannabe disciplinarians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNdsk9xh4g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embrace the Suck Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Not saying that Marrone is the guy I want but: Out of the 4 times they (Rex and Marrone) matched up Marrone is apparently 3-1 and those wins were by 20+ points. Says a lot to me about the ability to call games and coach. The Bills have been in much worse shape over the last decade than the team that Rex took over. Yeah, the Bills shot their load on E.J. who to this point is a bust, and yet the Bills were 9-7 this year. Not to say Marrone should be the guy but he seems able to out coach Rex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Have to agree with you. He left his last two places in much better shape than when he got there. In that case lets hire a maid.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Not saying that Marrone is the guy I want but: Out of the 4 times they (Rex and Marrone) matched up Marrone is apparently 3-1 and those wins were by 20+ points. Says a lot to me about the ability to call games and coach. The Bills have been in much worse shape over the last decade than the team that Rex took over. Yeah, the Bills shot their load on E.J. who to this point is a bust, and yet the Bills were 9-7 this year. Not to say Marrone should be the guy but he seems able to out coach Rex. Especially when he got good play from Orton which Rex didn't get from Geno/Vick.. Even EJ had 2 more tds then picks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southparkcpa Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 And Kurt Warner was stocking grocery shelves before winning a Bowl with the Rams..LOL But I wouldn't want him either.. Can I get you Warners address so you can go fellate him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage69 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Can I get you Warners address so you can go fellate him? You were killing a guy working out of football and I simply said it doesn't make you a loser or a bad person.. I could say your sophomoric sexual reference is beneath you, however after seeing your posts for years only whale sh-t may be beneath you and that's just a maybe.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southparkcpa Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 You were killing a guy working out of football and I simply said it doesn't make you a loser or a bad person.. I could say your sophomoric sexual reference is beneath you, however after seeing your posts for years only whale sh-t may be beneath you and that's just a maybe.. That's hilarious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Lonelyhearts Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 May I ask, from what type of source (media side? Agent side?) did you hear this from? Head voices. I mean, how do you see Kelly's redass routine playing to a bunch of millionaires? Nobody is hiring Brian Kelly to coach pro football. Good grief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Micheal Kay on the air defending his childhood buddy Doug Marrone. Pissed off about the media attacking him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg3 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Micheal Kay on the air defending his childhood buddy Doug Marrone. Pissed off about the media attacking him. Maybe Michael is ready to wave our FIREMANISH towel in front of those YES cameras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I am with you KRL I would like us to hire Kirchner & Quinn. I am not that impressed with Marrone. kirchner has a great background. woudl prefer an offensive coach. marrone and maccagnan would be very disappointing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56mehl56 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Leave Brian Kelly alone. I'm a ND fan and I don't want him to leave. Best coach we've had since Parsegan. Yes, please keep him , I don't want him anywhere near the Jets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Head voices. I mean, how do you see Kelly's redass routine playing to a bunch of millionaires? Nobody is hiring Brian Kelly to coach pro football. Good grief. Yeah, he's never been one of those guys that I've thought would be an NFL coach. Seems to be in a perfect spot for a man of his talents and limitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangrene Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Maiorana: Why Doug Marrone walked away from the Bills What's Doug's destination? After saying sayonara to the Buffalo Bills on New Year's Eve, where will ex-head coach Doug Marrone end up? There are currently five other head coaching vacancies in the NFL. Sal Maiorana ranks where he thinks Marrone could land. 1 New Jersey 2 Chicago 3 Atlanta 4 San Francisco 5 Oakland Sal Maiorana D&C Sports Sal Maiorana, Staff writer 3 p.m. EST January 2, 2015 (Photo: Harry Scull Jr./ / AP) Story Highlights Doug Marrone produced a 15-17 record and no playoff appearances in two years with Buffalo. Marrone was denied a two-year contract extension by team owner Terry Pegula. He has already lined up job interviews with the Jets, Bears, and Falcons. 980 CONNECT 181 TWEET 6 LINKEDIN 25 COMMENTEMAILMORE In the aftermath of Buffalo's asterisk-tagged season-ending victory over the half-Patriots Sunday, the last thing I thought I'd be doing on the inaugural day of 2015 was writing about an ex-Bills head coach. I figured a 9-7 record, Buffalo's first winning season since 2004 — with one of those victories against the Green Bay Packers plus that win over New England, even though it lacked luster because Bill Belichick treated it like a preseason game — was more than enough to prevent Doug Marrone from getting the axe from new owner Terry Pegula. Full steam ahead, I thought. Find a quarterback, improve the offensive line, do your best to keep this excellent defense together, and if all that happened, there was no reason to believe Marrone's Bills couldn't finally end their interminable absence from the playoffs in 2015. And then Marrone quit. Pulled the rip cord on his golden $4 million parachute and bolted Buffalo before the bubbly began flowing on New Years Eve. Echoing center Eric Wood's tweet that night, I sure didn't see that coming. Now, it's chaos at One Bills Drive as reports throughout New Year's Day indicated just how disenchanted Marrone was while working for the Bills. How did this happen? Simple: Greed, insecurity and thin skin. Video: Why did Marrone opt out? Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone exercised his option to leave the franchise. As was the case for many fans, Marrone frustrated me with his in-game management — the silly punts on fourth-and-short from the plus side of the 50-yard-line, his unimaginative offense that he entrusted to his in-over-his-head coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, and his inability to get anything out of the offensive line which was supposed to be his specialty. I didn't think he was a bad coach, just one who needed to be more aggressive in his approach. I liked Marrone more as a guy than I did as a coach and I never had a problem with him personally. Sure, he irritated me with his insistence on not reading off the list of injuries at his pressers, and he wasn't always the best guy to quote for a story because he had a habit of rambling off course and never really answering your question. But I liked him. He was occasionally a curmudgeon (believe me, it takes one to know one), but he could also be engaging and fun to chat with off the record. He always touts his pride about being a New Yorker (even if he was a down-stater), and though he was making $4 million a year, there was a certain blue-collar persona to him. Well, I like him and his starchy white collar a little less today than I did Sunday after the Patriots game. Bills head coach Doug Marrone during the second half against the Green Bay Packers. (Photo: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports) Let's cut right to the chase: He took the money and ran. And then he apparently spit on the organization on the way out the door, reportedly speaking to Bill Polian and telling him the franchise was in disrepair, which seems to have dissuaded Polian from rejoining the Bills. The incredible opt-out clause that Marrone's agent, Jimmy Sexton, somehow convinced the Bills' hierarchy to agree to when they hired him in 2013 revealed Marrone to be just like almost every other guy who works in the world of professional sports. They love to say it isn't about the money, but it's always about the money. Always. And power doesn't hurt, either. All that talk of family, and team, and continuity, and doing what's best for the Buffalo Bills? Marrone did what was best for Marrone. Though, perhaps unintentionally, he did what was best for the Bills by leaving. In the three days he had to wield his clear-cut leverage before the opt-out clause expired Wednesday at midnight, Marrone must have looked like an Olympic fencer whooshing his sabre at owner Terry Pegula knowing no matter what, he was still getting $4 million free and clear. Sources say what he specifically asked for was a two-year contract extension for himself, and extensions for his coaching staff so that the assistants were all on the same cycle. They were off kilter because he had to bring in several new coaches in 2014 after Mike Pettine took several of his guys to Cleveland last year. Marrone's NFL record is 15-17, yet he was asking Pegula for a hefty raise, an additional two years at a cost of $8 million. Pegula said no to it all. DEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE Doug Marrone out as Bills head coach Upon hearing that, Marrone's insecurity kicked in. One source said he was uncomfortable about the prospect of a new football czar being hired to oversee the operation. Marrone is maniacal about the details — remember, it took the Bills four days of interviewing before he agreed to come aboard because he was so nit-picky about everything. The uncertainty of what the future held, whether he could get along with that man personally as well as professionally, and how much control he'd have over the roster really weighed on him. According to reports, Polian was seriously considering returning to Buffalo until speaking to Marrone. Polian told the Buffalo News Thursday that once Marrone and Kyle Orton left, the job changed and it went from being "fun" to being a "heavy lift" which did not interest him at the age of 72. DEMOCRATANDCHRONICLE Roth: Some sports news hit hard in 2014 The final element to Marrone's departure apparently was his own inability to not let criticism bother him. It came to light that he was tired of the negativity emanating from the local media and fans about his job performance, as if that's something new in the NFL, or unique to Buffalo. He felt he was too frequently taken to task about his decision making, and apparently the criticism had begun to upset his wife and children, too. As I remember, that was one of the reasons Mike Mularkey gave when he quit the Bills after the 2005 season. All I can say is good luck in New York, where it is rumored Marrone may end up as coach of the Jets. If the western New York media got under his skin, what's going to happen in Gotham? Gregg Williams, Mularkey, Dick Jauron, Perry Fewell, Chan Gailey, and now Marrone; Buffalo's coaches since Wade Phillips was stupidly fired in 2000 by Ralph Wilson despite a 29-19 record and two playoff appearances in three years. Bills coaches since Marv Levy Only one coach, Wade Phillips, has had a record above .500 with the Bills since Marv Levy retired in 1997 with a 112-70 record. Doug Marrone was 15-17 in two years with the Bills. Wins Losses Phillips Williams Mularkey Jauron Gailey Marrone 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 * Perry Fewell coached 7 games in 2009 and went 3-4. Who's next on the carousel? Frank Reich? Rex Ryan? Bill Cowher? Adam Gase? Dan Quinn? Some college coach? Whoever it is, there's no grace period. The fans have had it. This team is close to being a consistent winner, and if it gets just competent quarterback play in 2015, it should make the playoffs. Pegula has more money than the majority of the NFL owners. He can hire anyone he wants. Let's hope the Bills finally get it right. MAIORANA@DemocratandChronicle.com Twitter.com/@salmaiorana Polian won't join Bills According to a report in The Buffalo News Thursday afternoon, Bill Polian has decided not to rejoin the Buffalo Bills. The man who built the Bills into perennial Super Bowl participants in the 1990s, and later lorded over a dynasty in Indianapolis with Peyton Manning that produced one Super Bowl victory, was considering returning to Buffalo in a mentoring/consulting role. However, he told the News once veteran quarterback Kyle Orton retired Monday, leaving EJ Manuel as the best option at the position, and then coach Doug Marrone opted out of his contract Wednesday, the job no longer was attractive. "So the job, from my perspective, changed," Polian told Vic Carucci. "It went from a mentoring and advising role, which would have been fun, to a real heavy lift — hire a new coach, hire a staff, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. The bottom line is the job description changed pretty dramatically and the most important thing is that it would have required a really long commitment to a new coach, who deserved a long commitment that I wasn't prepared to make. And that wouldn't have been fair to the organization or to whomever their new coach was. The coach is going to want to know that you're going to be there for a reasonably long time." Of course, Friday it could all change given this uproarious situation. Last weekend Polian vehemently denied he was going to take a job with the Bills, and then a few days later, he admitted he was being courted by owner Terry Pegula and seemed ready to accept a position. Thursday was a busy day on the rumor mill. Marrone reportedly has already secured head coach interviews with the Jets, Bears and Falcons. The Jets job is particularly interesting to him as he is a native New Yorker and worked for the Jets from 2002-05 as offensive line coach. A source confirmed to me Thursday that Marrone decided to exercise his opt-out clause in his contract because Pegula would not grant him a contract extension, and he was uncomfortable with the uncertainty of the front office situation moving forward. Also, Marrone had grown tired of being criticized by media and fans regarding his coaching style and philosophy. — Sal Maiorana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 some of you guys really suck at posting articles on forums. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FidelioJet Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 "Also, Marrone had grown tired of being criticized by media and fans regarding his coaching style and philosophy." If that quote is true - and who knows.... But it would be insane to hire him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly12 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Doug Marrone is not the answer here wake up Woody Johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg3 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Doug Marrone is not the answer here wake up Woody Johnson Who IS your answer,JW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Marrone decided to exercise his opt-out clause in his contract because Pegula would not grant him a contract extension, and he was uncomfortable with the uncertainty of the front office situation moving forward. THE BASTARD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dierking Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I can't imagine that any coach would struggle working for Pegula. His purse strings certainly will not be tight. He donated $102 million for the Penn State Ice Arena named after him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I can't imagine that any coach would struggle working for Pegula. His purse strings certainly will not be tight. He donated $102 million for the Penn State Ice Arena named after him. I think the fear was that Pegula would use that money to go get Gruden or Cowher at the first opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 why do the bills writers keep trying to tag marrone as thin skinned ? changes in ownership scares the coaching staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlife33 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 why do the bills writers keep trying to tag marrone as thin skinned ? changes in ownership scares the coaching staff I think the whole "think skinned" angle is bullsh*t. Everything I heard about the guy before he opted out was he was a tough couch and demanded the most out of his players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 why do the bills writers keep trying to tag marrone as thin skinned ? changes in ownership scares the coaching staff I used to live up there. The Bills beat reporters cover the team like its a local college. In their game recaps, they refer to players by their first names, ("Sammy had an 18-yard catch"), etc. If Marrone tried that standoffish Bronx sh*t up there, they were going to paint him as an a$$hole. In all of the complaint pieces written about him, they cite that he wouldn't read them the daily injury report, as if that sh*t isn't available on every Vegas gambling website in creation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bman Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Marrone opted out b/c he wasn't given a 2 year extension, and, b/c somehow now he can collect two paychecks! Hire Marrone. Him and his agent are the smartest guys in the world. What would you do? Stay in Buffalo for 4 million or leave that hellhole and make 8 - 9 million combined next year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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