Michael Vick to Buffalo for a 6th round pick?

Per Rotoworld through ESPN:

Sources tell ESPN's Len Pasquarelli that the Bills will indeed consider Michael Vick for their starting quarterback job.
This confirms beat writer Allen Wilson's speculation earlier this week. New coach Chan Gailey likes mobile quarterbacks, and the Bills can't enter 2010 with Trent Edwards as their starter. The Bills would likely only have to give up a conditional sixth- or seventh-round pick to land Vick.

If he only would cost a 6th or 7th round pick how is this not already done?

Buffalo Bills quarterback of the future

by Steve

I have been chirping about a list of quarterbacks that I would rather trade for or sign or steal from another team rather than actually waste a first round pick on one for a while. The list is well over due and so here it is. The players listed on this list may or may not be available, they may or may not be good in the National Football League. Either way I would rather have any of these dudes start for the Buffalo Bills in 2010 than Clausen, Bradford, Colt McCoy or Tebow (assuming they would cost a first round pick) Fuck 'em the Bills have greater needs, and building a defense is more important than any of those players @ #9.

Michael Vick
He has question marks big time, but he is available and has been a winner in the National Football League. A second would be a lot to give up.

Donovan McNabb
More preferable than Vick but would probably cost at least a second. He could play another three years in the league basically guaranteed, what QB in this draft could you say that about? That means he is worth a second round pick, period point blank.

Kevin Kolb
Gonna be twenty-six going into this coming season. Yes a third QB from the Eagles that is how dire the Bills situation is. Wouldn't give more than a 4th which may or may not have been what the 'phins gave up for "pistol offense" Tyler Thigpen. 6'3 218, sounds good enough.

Brian Brohm
Already on the team, for some reason only played a game, fuck you Perry Fewell. I'll let him compete in training camp.

Trent Edwards
Again already on the team, might be completely washed up and useless or a fresh set of eyes could see something Jaurono didn't see. The fans may not buy it so it probably won't fly but he is invited to my camp.

Brady Quinn
He might be available, isn't Derek Anderson, and has only played 14 games. The Browns fucked him over sorta like the Bills did with Losman. The Browns probably aren't done with him but Mangini is a retard so who knows.

Kyle Orton
Never loved him but never hated him. Should be interesting to see what the Broncos do with him. He is a free agent but probably doesn't have huge demand on the open market. He was a major part of the Cutler deal and should be retained but it is tough seeing anyone sink a lot of money into him.

Jason Campbell
To be honest I hated this dude for like four years. He has been on a bad team the last two years and might be coming into his own. Again it could be interesting to see what Shanny and co. think of this dude before he hits the open market. He could be cheap but he wants to get paid too, I wouldn't commit long term.



Honorable Mention
Troy Smith, probably too small.
Tyler Thigpen, Dolphins just traded for him.
Billy Volek, still under contract with SD and 33
Charlie Batch, isn't good
David Carr FA try out?
Tarvaris Jackson late bloomer?
Chris Redman ugh maybe the draft is the way to go, he's 32
Alex Smith still has anothe year on his rookie $$$$$ deal
Matt Hasselback, could he be cut, could he be finished, could he have a few more years left?
Pike or Lefevour in a later round ala the 3rd or 4th to sit for a while?

Bills looking at Clancy Pendergast?

The Kansas City Chiefs will soon announce the departure of assistant coach Clancy Pendergast, a team source told Adam Teicher of the Kansas City Star.

Pendergast was the defensive coordinator last season coming from the Arizona Cardinals with Todd Haley.

Romeo Crennel was hired to coach the defense earlier this month lending plenty of speculation that Pendergast was on his way out. Haley indicated at the press conference introducing Crennel that the decision to stay or go would be up to Pendergast.

Teicher reports the decision for Pendergast to leave was "mutual" between the two sides.

Potential landing spots for Pendergast are unclear at the moment. He's been "relieved of his duties" from his last two defensive coordinator stints in as many years so I would be a bit surprised if he was anything more than a position coach in 2010.

However, Chan Gailey has hired multiple former Chiefs assistants in Buffalo and has also hinted at potentially running a 3-4 defense. Gailey and Pendergast worked together with the Dallas Cowboys.

Buffalo Sabres road trip failure

by Steve

The goals were lofty from the beginning. Lindy Ruff wanted ten points, I personally would have settled for seven or eight. Instead they got six and three of the six points came from Atlanta and the Islanders out of the seven game road trip.

Losses with zero points to Anaheim, San Jose and Vancouver were only decided by five goals total but they got out worked in the third period in all three contests. They hung around every game sans the Sharks game true, but the final result is all that matters.

Ryan Miller played like Ryan Miller of 08/09 not 09/10 which is disconcerting since the team flat out doesn't score enough. Stafford had three points in the six games he played, none in the final three. Derek Roy had three points in the seven games and none in the final four. MacCarthur had a total of three points also. Aren't these some of our leading scorers?

The road trip proved this team is good not great and not really that close to great. Even with a really good Ryan Miller this team doesn't stack up against the best in the league. There will be a few good opportunities for the team to prove themselves against the East in the next week. Their next four games come against the Devils, Bruins, Senators and Penguins. The Sabres have to win three of their next four or multiple trades need to come down the pike shortly.

Western United States and Canada, thanks for the rude wake up.

Ol Silver Fox choked

by Steve

Ol' Silver Fox choked big time. I thought it was 2007 all over again, Brent Fever err Brad Flavor/ Bret Favre slingin picks and throwing them at the worst possible time. What happen to just giving it to Adrian Peterson and being done with it? I didn't even have money on the Vikes, actually I got backdoored but WTF Bret, just run for 8 yards and boom you're in the Super Bowl. Now we have to watch the god damn bullshit Aints in the Superbowl? Lets go Colts

Buffalo Bills hire offensive coordinator

Per PFT:

Mike Jurecki of XTRA Sports 910 in Phoenix reports that Cardinals running backs coach Curtis Modkins will be taking the job.

Per Jurecki, the Bills requested permission to talk to Modkins and, after a couple days, the Cardinals agreed.

Gailey will call the plays in Buffalo.

Modkins spent 2008 in Kansas City with Gailey, as well as 2002 through 2007 at Georgia Tech, where Gailey served as head coach.

Throughout his various college stops, Modkins received plenty of experience in the NFL as he served three different NFL Minority Coaching Fellowships. His first stop was in 1997 with the Philadelphia Eagles under then head coach Ray Rhodes. Modkins then worked with the Dallas Cowboys in 1999 with Cowboys head coach Chan Gailey, whom he would later work with at Georgia Tech and Kansas City before working with the Pittsburgh Steelers, head coach Bill Cowher and offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt in 2005.

Dean Pees is 'in the mix' for Defensive Coordinator:

We do not know why Pees is no longer the shoe-in(for Denver's DC job). Who’s call was it? Either way, it seems Pees is in the mix for the DC spot in Buffalo, one that is still vacant. Maybe Pees is why new coach Chan Gailey said he is open to the 3-4 look.

Especially now that Denver is hiring someone else.


Also the Bills might be keeping a few coaches:

The departures of Studesville and Tolbert were not a surprise. And after it's all sorted out, there may be only a few members of Dick Jauron's staff that Gailey might keep: Defensive line coach Bob Sanders and defensive backs coach George Catavolos would seem to be obvious candidates.

Reaction to Chan Gailey

-Coast

I am not going to sit here and pretend I am an expert on Chan Gailey and his qualifications. I will say this though...I hate the hiring. I have been trying to convince myself to like it since Monday night and I am just as pissed off now as I was then. I was pissed off for days when we hired Dick Jauron and this feels like the same way. It was such a typical move by this pathetic franchise. Marty Schottenheimer "badly" wanted to come to Buffalo. Brian Billick allegedly was putting together a staff for the Bills job. We don't give either of these guys the time of day. Instead, we hire Chan F'in Gailey. Why Gailey over these other two? Well, I can think of one reason, money. It's always about money with this team and why would we think anything would ever change. Schottenheimer has had much more success as an NFL coach than Gailey, and don't give me this playoff failure garbage...Gailey has 0 wins as a playoff head coach also. Schottenheimer has a .613 winning percentage in his career, 200-126-1. Marty coached in the league for 21 years. You know how many losing seasons he has had? The same number of seasons Chan Gailey has as an NFL coach...2. Why pick Gailey over Billick? Billick has a super bowl ring and if I am not mistaken, he is an offensive minded coach. The only reason that jumps out at me, as usual, is MONEY.

How about all the success Gailey has had as a coach in the league though? He was offensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos in 1989 and 1990. The team actually won the AFC championship in 1989. The Broncos defense allowed 14.1 points per game in 1989, ranked 1st in the NFL. In 1990, with a defense that ranked 23rd in the league, Denver finished 5-11.

In 1996 and 1997, Gailey was offensive coordinator of the Steelers. The team went 10-6 in '96 with a defense ranked 4th in the NFL. His best job may have been in 1997 when a Kordell Stewart led offense ranked 7th in the league and the team finished 11-5. As Dallas head coach, Gailey had defenses that ranked 3rd and 5th in the league. They made the playoffs both years, but were only 8-8 in 1999.

After being fired by Dallas, Gailey took over Miami's offense for the 2000 and 2001 seasons. His defenses ranked 3rd and 11th in his two seasons there.

Gailey had a winning record at Georgia Tech. He made a bowl game in all 6 of his years there. He also went 0-6 vs. Georgia.

Gailey finally became offensive coordinator of Kansas City for the 2008 season and then got fired shortly before the 2009 season because him and Todd Haley had "philosophical differences."

What does all this mean? Probably nothing, except that everywhere Chan Gailey has been, he has had well above average if not great defenses. Unfortunately for him, and us as Bills fans, our defense is far from great or above average or even average. Chan has his hands full with no quarterback, no offensive line, no wide receiving core, no linebacking core, probably no respectable asisstant coaches and this year, he is going to have a much smaller fan base. I am predicting a lot of empty seats at One Bills Drive this year come October. There could be a 10,000 ticket drop in season ticket sales. People needed a bresh of fresh air, a fresh start. Instead we hired a GM from inside the organization so that he could be Russ Brandon's puppet and again allowed money to determine our head coach. I am not saying I would want Marty or Billick, but I would take either of them over Gailey.

Call me pessimistic if you want, but these are my opinions and feelings and I am sure a lot of Bills fans feel the same way.