Bills set to hire Chan Gailey

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Jay Glazer of Fox Sports wrote that the Bills will announce within the next 24-48 hours the hiring of Chan Gailey as Buffalo's new head coach.

Gailey, 58, is a run-first, offensive minded mind who brings NFL head coach experience with him, having coached the Dallas Cowboys.

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This is unbelievable...how many more terrible hirings will the Bills put themselves through before Ralph Wilson ends up dead? Phillips, Williams, Mularkey, Jaron...Gailey!?! Gailey can't solve to Bills problems, matter of fact, I think he was horrible in Dallas. He won a Super Bowl but who's team did he inherit and who was playing for him? I can name 3 hall of famers right off the top of my head.

If I am the Bills, I am going after an old school, no non-sense guy with a proven track record. Would Marty Schottenheimer not make a ton of sense for this team? Why keep dicking around with guys who have no head coaching or horrible head coaching experience?

 

[footballplaya52]

:headsmack:

 

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The Buffalo Bills have hired former Dallas Cowboys and Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey as their new coach, a team source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

The team announced it would hold a news conference at its facility in Orchard Park, N.Y. at 2 p.m. ET.

The Bills are said to be impressed with how Gailey has brought teams to the playoffs with quarterbacks such as Mike Tomczak, Kordell Stewart and Jay Fiedler. In fact, Bill Cowher -- whom the Bills had been courting to replace the fired Dick Jauron -- highly recommended Gailey to the Bills.

Cowher planned to make Gailey his assistant head coach/offensive coordinator if he came back. Gailey has coached in four Super Bowls and has had his teams go to the playoffs in 11 of his 15 NFL seasons.

Gailey was coach of the Cowboys in 1998-99, following Barry Switzer, reaching the playoffs in both seasons but failing to win a playoff game. He coached Georgia Tech from 2002 through 2007 and led the Yellow Jackets to a bowl game in all six seasons at the helm.

He would be the fifth coach hired by the Bills in the last 10 years.

Gailey has also worked as an offensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs, who hired him in 2008 and relieved him of his duties after three preseason games in 2009.

When one candidate after another backed out, the Bills kept turning back to Gailey at Cowher's recommendation.

The Bills had sought out or interviewed Cowher, Mike Shanahan, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier and New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. The team also interviewed its former defensive coordinator, Perry Fewell, who took over as interim coach after Jauron was fired midway through the season.

Fewell took a job as the New York Giants' defensive coordinator.

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Done deal, will be announced today. Nothing for the City of Buffalo to get excited about.

 

[Mooche]

Yikes. Another head-scratcher for the Bills... getting real use to it now.

 

[cruzg24]

I think the Bills were heavily courting Cowher and were going to make Gailey an assistant to go along with him and they realized they werent going to get Cowher, so they decided to go after Gailey because he "made sense."