re: Jerod Mayo hired by NE as head coach.

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Vrabel wouldn't have been a retread in a traditional sense,

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He is by definition a retread. Don’t get me wrong, he was my second favorite choice behind Mayo if we went “internal” for the replacement. The negatives to Vrabel are the same negatives that BB had the last few years. Good coaching failed by a bad roster exasperated by stubborn old coaching thought .

I also wasn’t very excited about the prospect of our new rookie QB going out there and running Authur smiths. But we’ll see if Mayos choice is better.

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coordinator for a couple of years and Mayo who shared that duty with Steve. We shall see, but I have a nasty feeling we are just going to internally promote a GM and continue down Bills path without Bill.

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It’s basically the new template for HCs. Young guys under established systems with fresh ideas and processes

And I feel good about it not being that situation because the local media/internal sources the last few weeks have been dropping these hit pieces on Mayo, which tells me those old guard guys wanted Vrabel to continue to dog and pony show. I think Vrabel is much more of a risk if you’re concerned about things being the same old thing. He’s brash but he’s also pretty conservative outside of a 2point conversion here or there and still runs and offense that would make Bo Schembelcker cream his pants


As much hand wringing this board does about retread hires and the same guys getting cycled through, it’s funny to see that fall right through when a team doesn’t just pick a name off the top of the obvious coaching name pile