I understand why Marrone would want an extension. Every coach in the NFL, shitty or not, wants an extension. That's a no brainer. You still havent answered my question of why the Pegulas should have given it to him and his incompetent OC. He hasn't proved anything yet. The prudent plan would be to wait until after year 3 to see what that brought.
If I were Pegula I wouldn't give it to him. He was 15-17 his first two years and no playoffs. To me that isn't deserving of an extension. Now if he would have gotten them into the playoffs next year then he would have deserved one.
I wouldn't have extended him either but now the Bills are in a potentially worse situation. They need to attract a head coach to an organization with no Qb and no first round pick. Finding a way to keep Marrone at least for another year would have been preferable, honestly. And he potentially could have gotten the Bills to the playoffs, who knows. Pegula may wind up regretting the decision to call Marrone's bluff.
S I think tacking on 2 years was appropriate. Looks like the Bills owners agreed with you and were considering bringing in their own coach. I'd have given him the 2 years after a good 2014. As for Schwartz. He was a mediocre HC. You can't give him the credit for basically a turnaround year. Your talent is a lot more on the D side like the Jets.
The Bills will be fine. They are still an attractive landing spot. You already have an elite defense and very good players on offense. All that's missing is a veteran QB. Keep in mind that if Orton started the year, the Bills would be in the playoffs. That's all you need - an Orton type player. You can find one in free agency such as a Shaun Hill, Mark Sanchez, etc. Hell, EJ Manuel went 2-2 this year with wins over Miami and Chicago. Last year he beat Carolina and Baltimore. You may even be able to make him into a viable "game manager" for one year as a stop-gap. He wasn't that much worse than Orton. Maybe he learned a thing or two riding the pine last year. There's also the trade route as well. The Bills should be fine.
Good article here: You can take the boy out of The Bronx, but you can’t take The Bronx out of the boy, and the Jets should go get Doug Marrone, the former head coach of the Bills and one of their own once, to succeed Rex Ryan. Marrone is a tough, fearless, blue-collar football guy with nerve who has a chance to be a young Tom Coughlin, and not only because they share a connection with Syracuse University. “Marrone is a spitting image of him,” Giants rookie defensive tackle Jay Bromley, who played at Syracuse under Marrone, told NJ.com over the summer. “There are a bunch of rules and stuff, but you don’t pay any attention to it. If you do the right things, you don’t ever run across anything where you are doing anything wrong.” Marrone, with uncertainty surrounding new Bills owner Terry Pegula, opted out of his contract on New Year’s Eve, and the wheels began turning immediately inside the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Hiring a head coach before a general manager isn’t the ideal way to go — unless you believe you have the right head coach (Pete Carroll/John Schneider, Andy Reid/John Dorsey). Marrone not only knows the AFC East, he has proven to be a no-nonsense disciplinarian who isn’t afraid to make the tough decisions. Unlike Ryan, who would not — or could not — bench Geno Smith early enough, Marrone yanked EJ Manuel after only four games and nearly made the playoffs with journeyman Kyle Orton, who just retired. And Manuel was the Bills’ No. 1 draft pick in 2013, ahead of Smith, the Jets’ second-round pick. Marrone’s strong leadership during the blizzard that crippled Buffalo and forced the postponed Jets-Bills game to move to Detroit on a Monday night was exemplary. When the Giants and Bills met in the Hall of Fame game, Marrone gushed about his admiration for Coughlin. “He helped me out quite a bit when I was the head coach at Syracuse,” Marrone said. “We’ve always had a good relationship, and I think the common denominator is that we both went to school there, and we’re in this profession together. “I have a lot of respect for him. I’ve always followed him, always admired the work that he’s done, and like I said before, we used to meet once a year. I’d go and talk to him and he helped me out quite a bit.” When Marrone was hired by then-GM Buddy Nix, former Jets center Kevin Mawae, who played when Marrone was Jets offensive line coach under Herm Edwards from 2002 to 2006, gave the Buffalo News a glowing recommendation. “I’ve had four great offensive line coaches, and he’s definitely one of them,” Mawae said. “Buffalo’s lucky to have him. The one thing I always appreciated about Doug is he played the game. He played in college at a high level, played in the NFL. That gave him a perspective that a lot of times coaches don’t have. Players appreciate that.” Marrone built Saints coach Sean Payton’s Super Bowl champion offensive line. “To be close to him and see what he went through as a head coach was obviously very helpful,” Marrone told SI.com. Marrone always has been indebted to his coach at Syracuse, Dick MacPherson. “Doug is a good coach,” Coughlin said in an interview not long after the Bills hired Marrone. “We’ve watched him closely when he was at Syracuse. He’s very serious, very smart. Syracuse is going to miss Doug Marrone, no doubt.” So are the Bills. The press conferences won’t be anywhere near as entertaining as Ryan’s. Marrone, secretive with injuries, is all football, all the time. Has been from Lehman High School, to watering the football fields at SUNY Cortland when he was tight ends coach, all the way to now. And that’s not a bad thing at all. http://nypost.com/2015/01/01/why-bronxs-doug-marrone-would-be-a-perfect-fit-for-the-jets/
"and NEARLY made the playoffs...." with a journeyman, who just retired. What about this decision was successful? He benched his first-rounder and STILL DIDN'T WIN ENOUGH in the short term to make the playoffs. And now his short-term answer just retired and the first rounder lost valuable playing time that could have helped season him. And, of course, he quit on the team.
He's the new Bill Belichick truthfully the man needs a certain amount of control to bring his image to life, whether its wins us the Lombardi or not is another question If he does come I hope we get Pepper Johnson as our DC and Marc Trestman/Aaron Kromer to design the offense
"@Cnimbley: Source: If #Jets hire Marrone before hiring a GM Marrone will have a say in who the new GM is."
He has the support of former Jets. http://nypost.com/2015/01/03/curtis-martin-kevin-mawae-rave-about-jets-coaching-favorite/ Puts in time with the practice squad guys? There's a concept.
That's just silly. The HC's job is to win games. He owes it to the other players to win as many and go as far as possible during the season. In our situation, it makes sense to play what may be your future (Geno) to gain him experience, as we were out of any play-off hopes.
I know a lot of people will cringe at that but I think it is a good thing. it seems they're making it a priority to get a coach and gm that will work well together and have a cohesive plan. whoever it ends up being it sounds like it will be a better marriage than with recent past gm coach combos.
