Bills Hire Gailey

The Buffalo Bills have hired Chan Gailey as their head coach. Gailey was fired last year a week before the season as the offensive coordinator of the Chiefs. Gailey is a good coach but people complain about his conservative play calling. The Bills were looking for an offensive minded coach. Gailey did a nice job in Dallas with an aging Super Bowl team. Jerry Jones even admits Gailey did a good job there but he did not give him a chance. Hopefully Gailey will get a chance in Buffalo.

Many people turned down interviewing for the Buffalo job which is a sad situation. None of them said why but many speculate these reasons:

1. No one knows where Buffalo will be in two years. They have been linked to moving to Toronto or Los Angeles. No coach would want to move a family to Buffalo and then in a year or two move elsewhere.

2. The uncertainty of owner Ralph Wilson. Wilson is 90 years old and around NFL circles is known to be a vocal owner. Coaches do not like that and it turned some of them off.

3. Some of the hotter coaches that were asked to interview are currently with playoff teams and feel something special is happening with their team and do not want to leave before they can fulfill one of their dreams.

4. The talent level in Buffalo is not that great and it will be a rebuilding job there. Coaches see that they get two maybe three years to rebuild and usually are fired before they can complete the job and some see that happening in Buffalo.

5. As Elisabeth Hasselbeck said on NFL Live yesterday some people might not of wanted to go there because of the weather.

Now no one will know why people did not want the Buffalo job but as I said before Buffalo is a great place for football. They have a strong fan base and avid fans. Unfortunately Buffalo has been hit hard by this economy and the team has not been playing well so it leads to not as many season tickets and the likelihood of a team relocating. I hope this team can bounce back and Northeast New York can keep their team. The history in Buffalo (OJ Simpson, the '90's Bills) is too rich for them to move but this may not be in sentimental hands and come down to money. I am not one for relocation but if this move were to happen this is one I can understand.