The coaching carousel

[strato]

On 1/21/2026 at 12:28 PM, electro's horse said:

I meant with the office politics and having the ear of the owner.

he knifed Fox, got fired, somehow slunk back into the role after serving as an “advisor,” got the job back with a different owner, hired Matt Rhule before finally being sent to the glue factory.

fuging worm tongue poo 

Not intending any antagonism, I don’t know what you mean when saying he knifed Fox. 
Been a long time. What did he do to Fox? 

I used to really like Hurney but then he started trading future first round picks away. My red line you don’t cross. I was done with him at that point. 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by strato

[kungfoodude]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47706170/bills-interviewing-philip-rivers-coaching-job-sources-say

 

Shades of Jeff Saturday here. WTF is this???

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

26 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47706170/bills-interviewing-philip-rivers-coaching-job-sources-say

 

Shades of Jeff Saturday here. WTF is this???

With Josh Allen being part of the interview process, I actually think this has legs.

Daboll or promoting Joe Brady would be the smart play here.  But in a small market like Buffalo, hiring Rivers makes you national sports news for the entire offseason, and that's almost as important as winning. 

[frankw]

If the Bills are even remotely considering Rivers everyone in that front office needs a welfare check.

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

With Josh Allen being part of the interview process, I actually think this has legs.

Daboll or promoting Joe Brady would be the smart play here.  But in a small market like Buffalo, hiring Rivers makes you national sports news for the entire offseason, and that's almost as important as winning. 

I mean Rivers with no qualifications is probably better than the insane disaster that is Brian Daboll. 

Everything about their coaching search validates what Sabres fans have said about Pagula. That guy is an complete idiot.

[mrcompletely11]

3 minutes ago, frankw said:

If the Bills are even remotely considering Rivers everyone in that front office needs a welfare check.

going from High school to the pros would be incredibly easy

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I mean Rivers with no qualifications is probably better than the insane disaster that is Brian Daboll. 

Have to remember Daboll is credited with developing Josh Allen into what he is today as the Bills OC.  It's how he got the Giants job as they saw Daniel Jones as a Josh Allen in the making. Daboll took them to the playoffs in his first year in New York, then Jones couldn't stay healthy. 

Hard to walk away from or not have a soft spot in your heart for people who were part of you coming up.

Daboll would be a good football hire.  Rivers would be a great PR hire, and because Josh Allen can put the cape on when he wants, Rivers could fake his way to 12 wins with the right assistants around him. 

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Have to remember Daboll is credited with developing Josh Allen into what he is today as the Bills OC.  It's how he got the Giants job as they saw Daniel Jones as a Josh Allen in the making. Daboll took them to the playoffs in his first year in New York, then Jones couldn't stay healthy. 

Hard to walk away from or not have a soft spot in your heart for people who were part of you coming up.

Daboll would be a good football hire.  Rivers would be a great PR hire, and because Josh Allen can put the cape on when he wants, Rivers could fake his way to 12 wins with the right assistants around him. 

Daboll is an inansely bad HC. One of the worst in recent memory.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

11 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Daboll is an insanely bad HC. One of the worst in recent memory.

Sean McVay/Andy Reid/Kyle Shanahan wouldn't have done much better with this QB assortment....

Daniel Jones (always injured), Davis Webb, Tommy Devito, Tyrod Taylor, Drew Lock, Russell Wilson (the washed version) and Jameis Winston.

Daboll is a terrific X/O football coach.  If he gets the Bills job, he will succeed from a win loss perspective. Whether or not he gets them to a Super Bowl is TBD, and basically on how Allen plays.  

[frankw]

27 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

going from High school to the pros would be incredibly easy

I have no idea if he would pan out as an NFL coach I mean stranger things have happened. But if the argument that he could pan out is based on his NFL career my position is he has been comically overrated. To have had the hall of fame talent around him on the Chargers and only sniff one conference championship is pitiful.

[LinvilleGorge]

It's crazy how the Bils have gone from bein considered one of the more promising teams in the league to a complete and utter clown show within the course of a few days.

[mrcompletely11]

11 minutes ago, frankw said:

I have no idea if he would pan out as an NFL coach I mean stranger things have happened. But if the argument that he could pan out is based on his NFL career my position is he has been comically overrated. To have had the hall of fame talent around him on the Chargers and only sniff one conference championship is pitiful.

I was being sarcastic.  He would fail miserably as a nfl head coach