Fired Bills assistants with Panther Connections

[LinvilleGorge]

23 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Assuming it was his call (which we'll never know; nor does it really matter).

As mentioned, I believe we can do better.

A lot goes back to Igo's suggestion that assistants could be shuffled though.  Haven't seen that happen yet.

If it does, I'd sacrifice hiring Castillo and keep Matsko if it also meant we brought Steve Wilks back and jettisoned Richard Rodgers. That's easily the weakest spot on the coaching staff right now.

Yes, absolutely. Rodgers has to go. Rivera's buddy has sucked in every role he has occupied and Ron just keeps moving him to different roles in an effort to avoid firing him like he should. I hope we can keep Washington as the DL coach. I'd hate to lose a good DL coach because his boss set him up to fail by putting him into a role he was either incapable of filling or at least wasn't ready to fill.

[Mr. Scot]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Yes, absolutely. Rodgers has to go. Rivera's buddy has sucked in every role he has occupied and Ron just keeps moving him to different roles in an effort to avoid foliring him like he should. I hope we can keep Washington as the DL coach. I'd hate to lose a good DL coach because his boss set him up to fail by putting him into a role he was either incapable of filling or at least wasn't ready to fill.

So you also don't believe firing Jeff Imamura was the answer to our secondary issues?

Speaking of, you know another old Rivera colleague who's out there looking for work right now?

Steve Spagnuolo.  Also worked with Rivera in Philly as a secondary coach.

Only issue there is Spagnuolo seems to think he's better than just a position coach, but hey, it's better than being unemployed. 

[top dawg]

1 hour ago, RumHam said:

Yeah let's go back to trash we let go. Great idea.

Did you even read?

[top dawg]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Pretty much always have.  I think most of the guys who performed well on our line were already established. As far as who we can say Matsko has developed, it's a short list, and for each guy that you can credit him for (Norwell, for example) there's a flipside (Silatolu).

But even accepting that Matsko has done okay, Castillo has a rep for being one of the best in the league.  He and Russ Grimm were always among the guys fighting for that title before Grimm retired.

I've wished Castillo were on staff for years. I also wished for Norv Turner, and that turned out pretty good too.

Matsko was in that "best in the league" conversation also. 

You gotta have something to work with. 

[top dawg]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Or just do a better job of managing what we have (i.e. not putting guys like Clark and Newhouse at LT above Taylor Moton).

Each position on the O-line is not an island. I pretty much learned that from someone here earlier this year that offered metrics to prove that Clark was actually worse on the right side as I recall. Anyway, you have to look at not only the skill of each individual player, but how they will impact and fit within the chemistry of the entire unit.

[Mr. Scot]

Speaking of personnel...

 

[top dawg]

11 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Speaking of personnel...

 

Sounds like Beane learned a lot from his old boss.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Sounds like Beane learned a lot from his old boss.

If you wanna go that route, Beane spent a lot more time under Hurney than he did Gettleman.

[top dawg]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

If you wanna go that route, Beane spent a lot more time under Hurney than he did Gettleman.

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