If Frazier becomes the coach...

[Bone]

Hopefully he can bring some players with him? Ray Edwards,Cedric Griffith, Antoine Winfield?

[Mathja]

I posted this in another thread, but it quickly got lost --sorry for the repost, but i really think it belongs in this new thread.

After 10 years of losing and missing the playoffs, the Bills organizatioin has lost most of or all of the equity it had built with its fans. They have no more room to take chances.

So, while it's not always good to do something to appease the fans, in this case, I really think that has to be a consideration. The fans want the sweeping changes they thought they were promised.

Buddy Nix was not the GM hire they had hoped for -- just one of 3 guys they interviewed that were already part of an organization that has mastered the art of missing the playoffs.

Leslie Frazier is not the coach they are looking for either. He's too much like what they've already had. By most accounts, he's mild mannered like Dick Jauron and he runs the same Tampa 2 defense that has drawn the ire of Bills fans.

John Gruden and Mike Shanahan have already turned away overtures from the Bills. And, depending on who you listen to, so has Bill Cowher. To worsen matters, a coordinator has turned down the opportunity to interview and another has alluded to why it might not be the perfect situation. It seems that league officials and former coaches feel alot like Bills fans -- it's hard to want to be a part of the current situation.

Unfortunately, all of this brings with it a snowball type affect. What happens when Buffalo tries to plug a hole through free agency? Coaches don't want to be here and fans may or may not give up on this team. So, why would a player want to come to Buffalo?

The objective for Ralph Wilson is to find a coach that can eventually field a winner. But, an unproven coordinator will face an uphill battle. Even if Leslie Frazier were a better football coach than Bill Cowher in a parallel universe, how can he get past the obstacles he would face here? How can he lure good assistants? How could he lure good free agents? How can he quickly turn this thing around? He probably can't. Which means a few more years of losing. No playoff revenue for Ralph Wilson. A dwindling fanbase -- or at least fewer homegame sellouts.

This hire needs to be about getting the best football coach. But more importantly, it needs to be about getting someone that restores credibility to this franshise in an instant. Bill Cowher would do that. Coordinators would come here to work for him. Free agents would love the chance to play for him. The odds wouldn't be nearly as stacked against him as they would for any of the other candidates that have been speculated about (Gruden and Shanahan not included).

[justasportsfan]

He doesn't need to bring in Winfield. WE have good young cb's who did one hell of a job without a DL like Minny's to help them out. He needs to build a DL and lbers and it will make our db's even better.