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Dan Reeves is interested in joining Gailey in Buffalo
Posted by Mike Florio on January 21, 2010 8:33 PM ET
As one of his greatest victories – the 1998 NFC title game – comes back into focus, former Broncos and Falcons head coach Dan Reeves is thinking about a possible comeback.In Buffalo.
In an interview with WIVB-TV, Reeves has not ruled out the possibility of joining Gailey’s staff.
“He hasn’t reached out to me,” Reeves said, via Chris Brown of BuffaloBills.com, “but I coached him in Little League and he might give me a chance. He might come back and try to see if I could help him out. . . . I tell you, if I could help Chan Gailey out, I would certainly be interested in that.”
Last year, Reeves nearly joined the Cowboys, but talks broke down when owner Jerry Jones supposedly tried to place a minimum hours requirement in Reeves’ contract. He also interviewed for the offensive coordinator position in San Francisco last January.Reeves last coached in 2003, with the Falcons.
His potential arrival in Buffalo would make even more interesting the nascent flirtation between the Buffalo media and quarterback Mike Vick, whom Reeves drafted nearly nine years ago.
But there might be some lingering friction between Reeves and Vick. Last July, Reeves said that he had tried to reach out to Vick, but that Vick’s camp ignored the overtures. In response, a source close to Vick told us that Reeves had not attempted to contact Vick’s representatives.
So stay tuned. As Gailey builds out his staff, there’s a chance that Reeves will make his return to the NFL after a six-year absence.
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Finally, Bills leak details about coaching search
Posted by Mike Florio on January 22, 2010 8:30 AM ET
Thursday morning, we criticized the Bills for not doing a better job of leaking to the media the truth about their coaching search. Absent off-the-record input from the franchise, a perception arose that: (1) no one wanted the job; and (2) the Bills didn’t know what in the hell they were doing.As is turns out, John Murphy of WIVB, who handles the play-by-play duties for the team’s radio broadcast, laid out very early on Thursday some of the details regarding the search.
Per the report, the Bills had two lists – “viable” candidates and “reach” candidates.
Murphy reports that Chan Gailey topped the list of the viable candidates, and that other viable candidates were Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, Cardinals offensive line coach Russ Grimm, Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier, and Chargers defensive coordinator Ron Rivera.
The reaches included Bill Cowher, Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, and Jim Harbaugh.
Curiously omitted from either list was Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, who reportedly turned down a chance to interview for the job, and former Ravens coach Brian Billick, who still wants to know why he wasn’t considered.
I will be disappointed when the games are blacked out thoug, ive never been a huge fan of going to the games.