Mark Gaughn of the Buffalo News reported Saturday night that Mike Shanahan has taken himself out of consideration for the Buffalo Bills head coaching job. According to the report, a league sourced told Gaughn that Shanahan notified the Bills more than a week ago there wouldn’t be a need for a second meeting.
Shanahan, who went 154-103 with a pair of Super Bowls during his career, is 15th on the NFL’s all-time list winning list among head coaches. He’s strongly rumored to be the leading candidate for the imminent Washington Redskins vacancy. The fact the Redskins recently hired Bruce Allen, who is close to Shanahan is adding fuel to the fire.
Besides Shanahan, the Bills were rumored to contact Jon Gruden about their head coaching job. Gruden told them he wasn’t interested in returning to coaching this season.
The Bills conclude their season against Indianapolis next Sunday and it’s likely they’ll begin the process of finding a permanent head coach in place of interim Perry Fewell.
The way the Sabres performed in the first period at home, it appeared they may have had seconds, even thirds at the Christmas dinner table. They didn’t deserve to win Friday night, and in the end they didn’t. Quite frankly, the team was lucky to come away with a point after losing in a shootout to the Ottawa Senators, 3-2.
Alexei Kovalev and Mike Fisher were able to beat Ryan Miller cleanly after neither team could win the game in the first 65 minutes.
The fact the Sabres made it extra minutes the way they played the first period is a mini post-Christmas miracle. Buffalo slept walk through the first period in not registering a single shot on goal for the game’s first 17:34. It was their only shot on net before heading to the locker room.
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The Buffalo Bills could potentially have another hole to fill in 2010. Star defensive end Aaron Schobel told a pair of Associated Press reporters following practice today that he will at least consider retirement when this season ends.
According to John Wawrow’s AP report, Schobel says he’s not sure what he’s going to do.
“”I don’t know my future really, what I’m going to do,” Schobel told two reporters, including The Associated Press”
Schobel still has three more years left on his deal after this season. His 75 career sacks is second in franchise history behind only Bruce Smith.
Schobel 32, fears that he’s slowing down in his ninth NFL season, according to the AP report. Stats show otherwise. He leads the team with seven sacks.
After missing the past three games with an adnominal injury following getting hit by a puck, Buffalo Sabres winger Thomas Vanek is set to return the lineup tonight. He’ll be needed as the Sabres host the Ottawa Senators tonight at the HSBC Arena, a team that has handled Buffalo twice already this season. Game time is 7pm.
“I can still feel it,” Vanek told Sabres.com. “But this is as good as I’ve felt in a week, so it’s a good sign for me.”
Vanek will be skating on a line with Derek Roy and Jochen Hecht. Roy has been the hottest Sabre offensively of late, with 12 points in his last 13 games.
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Aaron Maybin is an easy target. The 11th overall pick can do nothing right.
He held out of training camp. He barely ever sees the field. He is twicked away effortlessly by offensive tackles. Multiple times, he celebrated wildly after a ho-hum tackle. He got locked in the attic. His Christmas tree set on fire. His boss subscribed him to the Jelly of the Month Club.
OK, maybe not the last three. But, wow, Maybin sure has become Buffalo’s own Clark Griswold. To many, he resembles $17.6 million down the drain — a wasted pick that will set the Bills back for years. You know, like Mike Williams. Only thinner.
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I’ve been saving this one for a few days, because this story hasn’t gotten a ton of attention, and because I wanted to take a day or two to sink my teeth into the idea and formulate an opinion in that fashion.
This past Monday – the day after the Buffalo Bills’ 17-10 loss to the New England Patriots – Bills Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas did his “Extra Point” show on WGR 550, just as he’s done every week this season. This past week’s edition, however, was quite easily his most interesting version yet. Why? Because Thurman mentioned his desire to play a part in Buffalo’s upcoming re-building process, and his having already talked to COO Russ Brandon about it. WGR has the full details here (as well as the audio), but these Thomas quotes are particularly noteworthy:
Continue reading ‘Does Thurman Thomas want into Buffalo’s front office?’
Even though the Bills were anything but great last week against the Patriots, I’ve created a little bit of “greatness” for you. This greatness is also known as Mac’n'Cheese’n'Beer. Well, honestly, I can’t really say that I *created* anything.
As you may have read skipped over in last week’s post, I greatly prided my career in Unemployment. Well, I found another way to live off the system–Focus Groups. So now I’m taking advantage of marketing agencies, along with the government. Anyway, I was sitting in an hour-long focus group this Wednesday (for $125) in which the topic was Science, so I’ve been feeling a little experimental.
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On the same day that I was lamenting UB’s slow motion run towards a full coaching staff Football Scoop is reporting that another Cincinnati coach is going to join Quinn at UB. Bill Inge is coming to UB to become our new linebackers coach. If true I’d be rather surprised that a BCS level positional coach is taking a ‘lateral’ move to a mid major.
