Buffalo Bills thoughts

-Who the hell is Curtis Modkins? Well, by reports, he’s your next offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. Yes, his resume is simply unremarkable, but I’m not going to kill the hiring. Mainly because the coordinator is going to be getting on the job training with Gailey calling the plays. However, I’m still not a big fan of Gailey being the boss-

-What the hell is taking the Bills so long to find assistant coaches? Look, I know that the Bills just hired their coach five days ago, but it’s not like they are fighting against other teams for assistants. There has only been two other job openings this offseason, both of them filled weeks ago, so it shouldn’t be an issue. They are also playing with fire by not having their coaching staff in place for the Senior Bowl. Hell, even Tom Cable is going to cover the bowl and he may be canned by halftime of the game. If Buddy Nix’s forte is all about drafting, shouldn’t you want a coaching staff in place to view prospects? If this is a sign at how slow this new regime is at filling spots, then look for them to hire John Guy’s replacement by July. As usual, the Bills are behind the 8 ball-

-I’ve been big on trying to find a defensive coordinator whose either been a former head coach or an established coordinator. However, with NFL coaches not losing as many jobs this season than years past, means that you can’t promote fired coaches as your coordinators. With that being said, I’m not exactly thrilled with what’s out there. What? You’re going to bring in Jim Bates? Sorry, but his last three coaching stops in Green Bay, Denver and Tampa Bay were disastrous. Jim Mora, Jr.? Eh, don’t really think his defenses cut it in San Fran or Seattle as a coordinator. Gunther Cunnigham? Sorry, but I don’t want a coordinator near my team that Trent Edwards scored four touchdowns against.

So what should the Bills do then? They should look at the top defenses in the NFL and promote their linebacker or secondary coaches to coordinator. I’ve been a big fan of the Jets defense. I love how they just blitz the crap out of the opponent and live be that philosophy. Sorry, but I’m over the whole “bend but don’t break defense” of the Bills. If I’m the Bills, I look at the Jets defensive coaching staff and see who they could steal from there.

Dennis Thurman, whose the secondary coach for the Jets and spent six seasons with the same job in Baltimore, is someone I’d like for the Bills to interview. During his Ravens tenure, the team led the NFL with 126 interceptions and 18 interception returns for touchdowns while he was coaching, among others, Ed Reed (34 INTs, 2002-07), Chris McAlister, Samari Rolle and Deion Sanders. Um, yeah…I think he deserves a promotion-

-I know the big question for the offseason is going to be what the Bills should do for a quarterback. I’m not a big fan of drafting young quarterbacks early in the draft because of it being such a big of a roll of the dice. However, I wouldn’t make a huge stink if the Bills decided to go that route, mainly because it has been done before with other teams. However, before all you Bills apologists have Joe Flacco and Mark Sanchez dancing in your heads (or in Details magazine), realize that those quarterbacks were successful because they were surrounded by all-world offensive lines and great defenses. Sorry, but the Bills don’t have either of those traits. I’m a bigger fan of trading or drafting a QB in the later rounds-