MULARKEY DECISION FUELED BY STAFF CONCERNS
Speaking of the challenges of putting together a coaching staff, we're hearing that one of the big reasons for Mike Mularkey's decision to quit the job in Buffalo was his inability to find someone/anyone who was interested in replacing the various coaches who were recently fired by the Bills.
With openings at offensive coordinator, offensive line coach, defensive line coach, linebackers coach, and defensive backs coach, Mularkey was swinging and whiffing in his efforts to fill the jobs.
A big part of the problem is that Mularkey was seen as being under a one-year, playoffs-or-else mandate, and guys with other options aren't going to choose to uproot their families for what could be a twelve-month stay in Western New York. In fact, we've heard that some of the candidates didn't even return Mularkey's calls.
So maybe the "family considerations" Mularkey cited when quitting were accurate, after all. If he had stayed, he might have been forced to put the wife and kids to work on the defensive side of the ball.
