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Report: Bills GM Doug Whaley cut Fred Jackson without ownership approval

Kevin Hoffman / USA TODAY Sports

The power structure of each organization is different, but it's safe to say the final call on all decisions goes to the owner. In Buffalo, it seems, general manager Doug Whaley may have circumvented that chain of command.

The decision to cut longtime Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson was a unilateral move made by Whaley, according to sources of Tim Graham of The Buffalo News.

The move seems to indicate that Whaley made the decision either without the knowledge or without the approval of ownership, something that rarely happens in high-profile decisions like this. Where head coach Rex Ryan fits into all of this is unknown.

Jackson, himself, doesn't appear to be a fan of Whaley.

"There's only one person in that organization that I haven't gotten honesty from," Jackson said, according to Bucky Gleason of The Buffalo News, "and that was him (Whaley)."

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