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Football is an emotional game. But running it is not an emotional business. The sign of people yelling Fire them all, clean house, etc. is just that - on emotion. The anyone but crowd.
If you want to run a business properly, you look several steps ahead. You better ask yourself who you are going to replace them with, what kind of chance you have in getting someone you like, etc., etc.
Nix, for example, you can list Troup, Wang, even Williams, Graham (though it is really not fair) as misses. I ask you, without the 16-48 records emotion, how many GMs in NFL misses first 3 round picks as often as Nix did? Is everyone else perfect?
Honestly, I did not see the Steelers do better than Nix the last 3 drafts. To me, under Nix, the philosophy has changed to more mainstream drafting: they like certain measurables, prototype bodies for positions, bigger size, and battle tested players. The result is average in drafting, maybe a little better than average actually.
Do I wish for a top 5 GM running in Buffalo? Certainly. But what are the chances you get one. You have people like Modrak running the show before, always trying to hit one of the rare ones (small sized, small school product etc.) and you wind up with a terrible talent level after so many years. The thing is Buffalo just needs to be average in drafting, the bad results over missing 13 years of playoff should allow the Bills to get better talent over time than most of the other teams. And that's how NFL draft suppose to work.
Nix may very well be gone next week. But I don't have a big problem of his talent acquisition record. I will accept an average GM and hopefully we hit a homerun once in a while.
Gailey on the other hand is clearly below average in my opinion. He's NOT the OC but he acted like one. Having this team with terrible defensive records despite consistent investment is clearly the fault of the HC, not the GM. If you are only interested in one side of the ball and want to be a HC, you either get yourself defensive coaching skills up really quick or you need a sharp eye for defensive coaching talent. Gailey has proven he's a giant failure on both. In hindsight, this maybe Nix's inexperience as a GM in hiring Gailey, not investigating enough in Gailey's defensive side skills before giving him the HC job.
If you want to run a business properly, you look several steps ahead. You better ask yourself who you are going to replace them with, what kind of chance you have in getting someone you like, etc., etc.
Nix, for example, you can list Troup, Wang, even Williams, Graham (though it is really not fair) as misses. I ask you, without the 16-48 records emotion, how many GMs in NFL misses first 3 round picks as often as Nix did? Is everyone else perfect?
Honestly, I did not see the Steelers do better than Nix the last 3 drafts. To me, under Nix, the philosophy has changed to more mainstream drafting: they like certain measurables, prototype bodies for positions, bigger size, and battle tested players. The result is average in drafting, maybe a little better than average actually.
Do I wish for a top 5 GM running in Buffalo? Certainly. But what are the chances you get one. You have people like Modrak running the show before, always trying to hit one of the rare ones (small sized, small school product etc.) and you wind up with a terrible talent level after so many years. The thing is Buffalo just needs to be average in drafting, the bad results over missing 13 years of playoff should allow the Bills to get better talent over time than most of the other teams. And that's how NFL draft suppose to work.
Nix may very well be gone next week. But I don't have a big problem of his talent acquisition record. I will accept an average GM and hopefully we hit a homerun once in a while.
Gailey on the other hand is clearly below average in my opinion. He's NOT the OC but he acted like one. Having this team with terrible defensive records despite consistent investment is clearly the fault of the HC, not the GM. If you are only interested in one side of the ball and want to be a HC, you either get yourself defensive coaching skills up really quick or you need a sharp eye for defensive coaching talent. Gailey has proven he's a giant failure on both. In hindsight, this maybe Nix's inexperience as a GM in hiring Gailey, not investigating enough in Gailey's defensive side skills before giving him the HC job.
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