Bills propose rule change

Desperate teams should not have that month head start taken away from them..

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level playing field for jobs. Good for them. If Giants made this proposal it would look like we're trying to keep assistants.

at a big disadvantage.

HC candidates coaching in the SB get screwed a bit, and they're the guys bad teams likely want.

It's a couple of weeks in an otherwise quiet time of the season, I don't see that it hurts new coaches very much.

never really understood why there isn't a "league year" for coaches.

Would also be great if included GMs, so teams cant get a leg up on hiring the better candidates.

In comment 15166001 Big Blue '56 said:

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Desperate teams should not have that month head start taken away from them..

I completely disagree with this. IMO, there shouldn’t be a reward to teams that want to rush to be the first team to fire its HC so it can be the first in line for the newest flavor of month HC candidates.

In comment 15166099 UConn4523 said:

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never really understood why there isn't a "league year" for coaches.

+1 But this is too logical a proposal to go anywhere.

I'm surprised its being offered by a winning team. Under the current system, assistants on winning teams are penalized and held back while losing teams are hiring each other's retreads as soon as the regular season is over.

giving any team a competitive advantage. I don't know if this is the ultimate solution but coaches should not be out of the process because of a teams success.

expand to say not just hire, but interview. Alternatively, require interviews to be allowed for teams prepping for the Super Bowl. Kudos, Bills.

I feel like this is something that should have been done a long time ago.

where assistants could be signed but still finish out their playoff runs or am I misremembering?

The Super Bowl. This way everyone gets interviewed around the same time and a team can wait a week if they interviewed someone they liked from the Super Bowl teams.

Contact with another team's staff shoud not be allowed until the Monday after the Super Bowl

Terry & Kim Pegula have become the model , hipster owners of the NFL. They run with the cool kids . Therefore , we in Syracuse now get the Bills on the local FOX station , thereby preempting the Giants 4 times a year .

2. The Bills are advocating this precisely because they have a good team . They don’t want their playoff weeks disrupted by job interviews . If this recommendation takes root , utter chaos will prevail in the weeks following the Super Bowl . What is the typical off -season front-office and coaching staff turnover ? Maybe 20%. The teams looking won’t have their programs in place by the combine , were it a normal year .

What's the opposition to it aside from "we've always done it this other way"?