Bills coach

I'm not sure why I thought of this now, but as a Bills fan, couldn't just have brought back Wade Phillips as coach? In retrospect, his record with the Bills really wasn't that bad. Never finished below .500 and got us in the playoffs two out of three years. Now, I know he received a lot of heat for not wearing a headset on the sidelines, but, he was old school, and there's something to be said about that. One thing about Wade's teams with Buffalo, they'd beat the crap out of you, even if we didn't do so great on them new-fangled things like special teams. I know I've gone on record several times as being a Wade supporter, even when he was being drummed out of Buffalo. Well, I think the results have spoken for themselves. Wade has had some success as D-Coordinator in San Diego, and has even interviewed for some head coach jobs. Why didn't Buffalo interview him. Wasn't he Marv's hand-picked successor in the late 1990s? Has Marv soured on him as well? If so, why?

I guess Dick Jauren will be alright. He's an egghead (Yale Grad), like Levy, and at least both have the reputation of being classy guys...

Oh yeah, one more thing on Wade. And Cowher and Belichick and many other coaches for that matter. If Rob Johnson never got hurt, would Wade have had any success at all? After all, he picked Johnson over Flutie and Johnson stunk. Johnson got hurt, Flutie came in and directed the Bills offense to the playoffs twice. Granted, the defense was the backbone of those teams, but Flutie was a huge upgrade from Johnson and pretty much made the offense mediocre enough to win some games. So, maybe Wade wasn't so smart after all. But, what if Maddox never gets hurt last year? Is Roethlesburger still the starter that leads the Steelers to the Super Bowl? And what if Bledsoe had stayed healthy. Does Brady ever get a shot?

Just some food for thought.

Ralph