Bills Can Save Fans From Brandon Beane's Malpractice With One Simple Move

Brandon Beane should person been nan 1 to go.

That was nan resounding connection sent by nan Buffalo Bills’ instrumentality guidelines aft nan squad fired longtime caput coach Sean McDermott connected Monday, days aft a disappointing playoff defeat.

Nonetheless, nan Bills’ embattled GM remains, and, to make matters worse for nan Buffalo faithful, nan statement promoted him, elevating his position to President of Football Operations on pinch his GM duties to nan daze of many, not only adjacent to nan squad but besides astir nan league.

With that said, location is 1 move nan Bills could still make that would prevention nan fanbase from much years of the team’s grounded GM pulling each of nan strings. 

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Make it happen

With his advancement to President of Football Ops., location is simply a flimsy chance nan move signals a imaginable promotion of an in-house campaigner aliases nan signing of an out-of-house prime to return complete arsenic nan team’s GM opening successful nan 2026 season. That would let Beane to afloat perpetrate to his caller position of President wrong nan statement while serving arsenic Team Owner Terry Pegula’s right-hand man connected each things football, without being arsenic progressive successful nan day-to-day decisions. In different words, it would spot him astatine nan macro level alternatively than nan micro level.

The Bills person a fewer names wrong nan statement they could quickly elevate to a GM role, including erstwhile Houston Texans GM and existent Bills adjunct wide head Brian Gaine. He is 1 of 2 adjunct GMs connected Buffalo’s staff, on pinch Terrance Gray, who nan squad promoted from Director of Player Personnel successful May of past year.

Gaine served arsenic Texans GM during a grounded stint during nan 2018 season. Gray has received interviews for GM jobs successful nan past and is known arsenic a ultimate talent evaluator.

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Also, pinch nan Bills group to bring successful a caller caput coach, it should beryllium considered that whoever nan squad settles connected for that position whitethorn want immoderate say in the GM he would activity alongside for nan adjacent nevertheless galore years. In fact, that would apt be a request if nan squad hopes to pull a apical extracurricular caput coaching candidate. If that is nan case, an extracurricular campaigner would beryllium much apt to return complete than either Gaine aliases Gray.

Somewhat of a precedent set

The Bills person antecedently enacted a scheme akin to that which would region Beane from his GM role.

When Pegula moved connected from erstwhile caput coach Rex Ryan and brought McDermott connected board, the Bills' then-GM, Doug Whaley, remained pinch nan squad done nan draught process earlier being fired. The Bills past signed Beane arsenic GM post-draft, and nan remainder is history.

So, while it's not nan aforesaid business arsenic nan 1 antecedently laid out, pinch Whaley being fired alternatively than promoted, spacing retired their decisions to relieve a caput coach and GM of their respective duties is thing nan Bills person done before.

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So, while it would beryllium somewhat of a astonishment if nan Bills announced Beane’s promotion only to supply him pinch somewhat little power complete unit decisions, crazier things person happened.

Beane is expected to speak to reporters this week, while it is chartless if Pegula will subordinate him. This business will beryllium worthy monitoring successful nan coming days and weeks, arsenic nan Bills are amid a monolithic transition for nan first clip successful astir a decade.

And now, Pegula will person to make a fewer decisions moving guardant that will person franchise-changing implications. He'd champion not screw it up.

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