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Originally Posted by philcski
I just wish the Bills had waited 24 more hours to determine Jauron's fate now that Shanahan is available.
The NFL is a fickle sport, isn't it? The Broncos were a terrible team this year and he had them in position to make the playoffs. I don't really understand the firing.
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Bills never could have afforded Shanahan anyways. Would take him in a heartbeat but Ralph won't pay his head coaches more than $1-1.5 million a year and for that price you are only going to get the Dick Jauron/Mike Mularkey/Gregg Williams/Wade Phillips types. Schottenheimer would have been the only chance since he played his whole career for the Bills but I'm sure even he would have wanted $3 million a year.
Bills were an awful, awful team last year (30th offense, 31st defense) that played way over their heads to go 7-9 in a remarkable coaching job that Jauron never got enough credit for. This year they were about a 7-9 team (25th offense, 14th defense) that finished with exactly the record they should have. They are still young and have no important guys hitting free agency so can bring back the core, add some free agents, add some draft picks, and hope the players (and OC) can mature. Improve to top 20 in offense next year and top 10 in defense and it could be a solid 10 win season. A complete overhaul on such a young team would be foolish. If they were an aging team about to lose all their top players to free agency (like they were when Mularkey got canned), then it would make sense to start over.