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Message: [QUOTE="Statesman1, post: 1247429, member: 3507"] Fair enough, but many of the reasons you have given I could personally care less about in a coach of my team and don't really think it's a fair standard. I use the St. Doug moniker tongue in cheek, I don't think there are too many irreplaceable coaches, with the possible exception of Belichek, but even he was a middling coach until Brady arrived on scene. Misleads recruits and staff- very possibly true, but I'm not sure what the alternative is for a coach out interviewing. Is full disclosure appropriate to a perspective recruit or staffer? Seems naive because if you don't get that job you won't have a recruiting class to fall back on and as we have seen- people like to talk- especially ambitious coaches. Not sure there is a good way to handle this situation other than discretion. Seems to me paranoia is justified in this scenario. Not sure I can be upset with the guy as you noted for exercising his out clause, let alone going across the street to a divisional rival. No offense but Bills/Jets isn't quite on par with Duke/NC. Either way, as has been noted there are only 32 NFL gigs and if you want to start crossing off certain teams because of fan rivalry that seems naive to me. This is his profession, he's not a fan. Plus on some level St. Doug may even feel he was done wrong and might enjoy sticking it to the Bills. Can't fault him for that. Sounds like he has burned a few bridges. So? Pretty sure he's not coming back to Buffalo. We can debate who's fault that is and neither one of us will ever be right. There's always two sides and it seems like there is some entrenched interests at 1 Bills Drive that have their own, not the fans, interests at heart. It's quite likely Marrone is not well liked, but I can't kill a guy for defending his own self-interest. In case you hadn't noticed, they're trying to bury this guy in Buffalo. As for hating the media. So? Exhibit A- Belichek hates the media. Hasn't spoken to Peter King in years Exhibit B- Rex Ryan's great with the media. Care to pick one over the other? Which leaves us with the exit from both SU and the Bills- this is what drives the anti- Marrone sentiment imo. Nobody likes to be rejected but honestly this doesn't bother me either. Again, I can't fault anyone for bettering their situation in life, even if it hurts my team. This is their profession. We are the fans. We can afford to be emotional. Coaches must do their best to be dispassionate and objective. Its unfair to expect these guys to do anything other than fulfill their contractual obligations, they already kill themselves and neglect their families for our entertainment and their ambition. St. Doug is in Cleveland without the opt out so at the time, it was a good move for Buffalo to get their man and it gave Doug renumeration in the likely event of the sale of the team and mitigated one of the biggest negatives to the job at the time. [/QUOTE]

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