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Dave Goldberg |
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11/27/2009 12:28 PM |
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The Buffalo Bills need a savior. Or at least Ralph Wilson thinks so.
Mike Shanahan is not the man. At least not at $10 million a year or anything close to it. Anyone who gets that kind of money will get control over personnel with it. And to put it bluntly, Shanahan isn't very good at that.
That Wilson is interested in Shanahan isn't surprising. Owners in all sports often go gaga over coaches or executives who have championships and Shanahan has two Super Bowl titles as a coach.
But they came in 1997 and 1998 when John Elway was his quarterback and Elway retired after the second one. From then until the end of the 2008 season, when Shanny was fired, he was 1-4 in the playoffs after Elway. And in his last three seasons, he was 24-24, not much worse than the Bills have been. The problem: Shanahan was the personnel guru too and he wasn't very good at it, especially on defense, where he kept running reject defensive linemen through his team _ a lot of them Cleveland Browns rejects who already had failed |