Gruden Says No
November 20th, 2009 at 10:50 pm by Paul Peck under News 4 Buffalo Sports
Jon Gruden
As we reported Friday night, the Bills targeted Jon Gruden as their first choice to replace Dick Jauron. He turned them down, and decided to remain with ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Gruden signed a contract extension with ESPN this week.
Gruden’s rejection may be the first of many for the Bills. There are a number of reasons why the big name coaches may not view Buffalo as their best step back into football.
1. The Bills need a front office overhaul. 2. They are limited financially. 3. They have a hard time attracting free agents to our small city. 4. They have an owner who can be meddlesome. 5. They have no quarterback.
All of those reasons are enough to make any candidate think about taking a job here. Now some will consider it because they want to coach again, and there may not be many other openings. But much like Gruden, those with TV jobs may decide to stay off the sidelines until the right job opens up.
Good for the Bills for going after the big names like Gruden and Shanahan. Getting them to come here appears to be a much tougher job.
Paul…a recent article in Forbes magazine says that Miami adding Bill Parcells into their fold increased the teams value by $300 million. Couldn’t a Bill Cowher do the same for us? (Maybe not $300 mil, but more than what it would cost to get him here!?) Thoughts?
I would bet there were 1 or 2 other bottom teams that he turned down too. I don’t know why this comes as a shock to anyone…….
OK, can we stop reporting these stories outside of the Sports report??? Because the sports anchors are saying the same thing the news anchors are saying during the newscast. it’s redundant. Let’s leave the sports to the sports section and news to the news section of the telecast.