Quote:Why would we grant permission to a division rival

Because you can't refuse a coach the opportunity to interview for a head job elsewhere, period. You can block position coaches from interviewing for coordinator jobs elsewhere, though it's considered bad form to do so, but you can't block an assistant coach from interviewing for a head job.

 

Quote:Doug Marrone "walked out of his team" after a 9-7 season. How can you call somebody with a winning record a bad coach?

Because he's a douche, everyone knows he's a douche, and his players hated him because he's a douche. He's a solid OL coach and coordinator, but there's a reason that even though players lamented the way he left Buffalo, there were very few (if any) tweets lamenting the fact that he was gone.

 

Quote:I'll ask again. If he's such a good coach then why was Blake the most sacked QB in the league?

Because his left tackle improved to merely average over the course of the year, his left guard was a turnstile, his center would look good one play then snap it eight feet over Blake's head the next, his right guard was a rookie and his right tackle was, while solid overall, inconsistent. I think solving the left guard and center positions and getting Linder back will more or less fix the OL, but the interior of the line was a mess most of the year, not because of his coaching, but because the players weren't there.

 

Quote:Interesting how Marrone is praised for going 9-7, yet Mularkey is berated for doing the exact same thing for the exact same franchise.  The icing on the cake being, neither did as much here as they did there.

And, ironically enough, they both quit in Buffalo.

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