Pro Football Hall
of Famer Bill Polian feels as though the Buffalo Bills made several difficult, but well-timed decisions in the 2024 offseason.
Few know more about how to build a successful football team in Western New York than Bill Polian.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame-inducted executive served as the general manager of the Buffalo Bills from 1986–1992, constructing a team that would appear in four straight Super Bowls from 1990–1993. He won two NFL Executive of the Year Awards throughout his time in Buffalo, the squads he constructed being almost universally viewed as some of, if not the, best in franchise history.
Polian would be let go by the Bills after the 1992 season (before their fourth Super Bowl appearance, though the team still had his stamp on it); he would ultimately be hired to helm the expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995, leading the team to a Super Bowl appearance in its second year before leaving to become the general manager and president of the Indianapolis Colts, overseeing the team from 1998–2011 and taking them to a Super Bowl XLI victory.
The longtime NFL executive is objectively one of the strongest in its history, an architect with a decorated mantel who was just a few bounces away from going down as one of the most successful general managers in league history. He’s excelled in the post before, and thus, one should listen when he praises an incumbent NFL decision-maker.
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