There is a belief in Buffalo that many fine candidates for the GM job were passed over to bring in an octogenarian who badly wanted to get back into the game he walked away from in 1998. That may be true, but the fact is Levy’s final team finished 10-6 and lost an AFC wild-card playoff game to Miami on the road, 24-17.
Yep. We know this far too well.
The Bills have been in the playoffs once since, and that was the following season with essentially the same team Levy left behind. It’s been downhill ever since, despite the hiring of smart, energetic, young football men like Wade Phillips, Williams, Donahoe, Modrak and Mularkey, so why not try hiring a smart, old football man with a proven record of not only getting into the playoffs but winning once he got there?
Better the sharp old fox who has survived rather than the ones who barely avoid being eaten by the hounds.
Maybe it won’t work. Maybe it’s a last-gasp effort by an aging owner trying to relive the past rather than build for the future. But then again, what does Wilson have to lose? Football games? He’s lived through six years of that for following the conventional wisdom. Many of his critics in Buffalo the past month were praising his hiring of Donahoe five years ago. They were hailing the trade for Bledsoe when it happened and the arrival of Williams, who is once again a hot coaching commodity after doing a brilliant job with the Redskins’ defense the past two years.
The higher the stake, the larger the potential profit.
Yep. We know this far too well.
The Bills have been in the playoffs once since, and that was the following season with essentially the same team Levy left behind. It’s been downhill ever since, despite the hiring of smart, energetic, young football men like Wade Phillips, Williams, Donahoe, Modrak and Mularkey, so why not try hiring a smart, old football man with a proven record of not only getting into the playoffs but winning once he got there?
Better the sharp old fox who has survived rather than the ones who barely avoid being eaten by the hounds.
Maybe it won’t work. Maybe it’s a last-gasp effort by an aging owner trying to relive the past rather than build for the future. But then again, what does Wilson have to lose? Football games? He’s lived through six years of that for following the conventional wisdom. Many of his critics in Buffalo the past month were praising his hiring of Donahoe five years ago. They were hailing the trade for Bledsoe when it happened and the arrival of Williams, who is once again a hot coaching commodity after doing a brilliant job with the Redskins’ defense the past two years.
The higher the stake, the larger the potential profit.
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