Here's a list of candidates for the Buffalo Bills' head coaching job.
It's based on who new General Manager Buddy Nix has worked with in the past, logical suspects and men who I hear are under consideration. They are listed in no particular order.
• Jim Harbaugh. The former NFL quarterback is a rising star in college coaching at Stanford. He has improved the Cardinal team each of his three seasons and this year posted an 8-6 record and a berth in the Sun Bowl.
Harbaugh, 46, just signed a three-year extension with the Cardinal through 2014. It would take an impressive selling job by Nix to get him to leave. His brother, John, coaches the Baltimore Ravens. His father, Jack, had a great career coaching at Western Kentucky.
• Ron Rivera. The defensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers was on the hot list of candidates a couple years ago after guiding Chicago's fierce defense to the Super Bowl in 2006. He has interviewed for the Dallas, Pittsburgh and Arizona head jobs, among others, in recent years. He's 47. He can coach the 4-3 or the 3-4 defense.
• Jim Haslett. The former Bills linebacker would love to return to Buffalo. He did a pretty good job in six seasons as head coach in New Orleans. He took the Saints from 3-13 to 10-6 and a playoff spot in 2000.
Haslett went .500 the next four years with pedestrian Aaron Brooks as his QB. Then he coached through a disastrous Hurricane Katrina season in 2005 and was fired. Haslett, 54, is better off if he has a strong GM who controls personnel.
It's based on who new General Manager Buddy Nix has worked with in the past, logical suspects and men who I hear are under consideration. They are listed in no particular order.
• Jim Harbaugh. The former NFL quarterback is a rising star in college coaching at Stanford. He has improved the Cardinal team each of his three seasons and this year posted an 8-6 record and a berth in the Sun Bowl.
Harbaugh, 46, just signed a three-year extension with the Cardinal through 2014. It would take an impressive selling job by Nix to get him to leave. His brother, John, coaches the Baltimore Ravens. His father, Jack, had a great career coaching at Western Kentucky.
• Ron Rivera. The defensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers was on the hot list of candidates a couple years ago after guiding Chicago's fierce defense to the Super Bowl in 2006. He has interviewed for the Dallas, Pittsburgh and Arizona head jobs, among others, in recent years. He's 47. He can coach the 4-3 or the 3-4 defense.
• Jim Haslett. The former Bills linebacker would love to return to Buffalo. He did a pretty good job in six seasons as head coach in New Orleans. He took the Saints from 3-13 to 10-6 and a playoff spot in 2000.
Haslett went .500 the next four years with pedestrian Aaron Brooks as his QB. Then he coached through a disastrous Hurricane Katrina season in 2005 and was fired. Haslett, 54, is better off if he has a strong GM who controls personnel.
Comment