My thoughts on the hire of Doug Marrone? Well, I'm trying my hardest not to have any yet.
Why? We've been down this road before. Many times. We've heard the same thing put so many different ways over the years. All of the incoming coaches at One Bills Drive have had some sort of success somewhere with some ideas that make us excited as fans.
I've devised a solution. I'm not going to make any evaluations of him as a coach until I see something from him.
I always liked Chan. I liked his mentality at first. I remember a reporter asking him "What did you say to Ryan Fitzpatrick after he threw that interception?" Gailey's answer was "Go out there and get us a touchdown on this next drive. That's a same thing I tell him after he throws a touchdown pass, too."
I liked that idea. He was even keel. He was football smart - or so it seemed.
Boy did this last season prove all of those things wrong! He outcoached himself. He tried so hard to be smart, he ended up being dumb. He constantly tried to do things to trick the other teams' defenses versus bringing our best plays and players to the field every down.
How is someone like Rian Lindell supposed to feel? I know he's "just the kicker," but you put him out there to try a 52 yarder, and then what? You pull him back to the sideline of course. No faith in him. Chan said after the game he had faith in the defense to make a stop after the punt. If you really trusted your defense, Chan, you'd trust them to make a stop if Rian misses the field goal, right?
Sorry, this turned into a rant about Chan. I still have so many thoughts about him time here in Buffalo.
Marrone, on the other hand, I'm going to wait to have thoughts about...
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