Wayne Arnold
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It sorta does. They took a step backwards and got rid of the best coach we've had in a decade.
I guess that's where we differ. Marrone is no better than any of the other stooges that we've had as HC over the last 15 years.
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The Pegulas refused to extend his staff. They played hardball and called his bluff. And here we are, head coachless again, with $30M pissed away for nothing.
Why would they?
Just because they made the wrong hire in Rex doesn't mean they should have kissed Marrone's butt.
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I agree with that. But the point was, if you're going to let Schwartz run his defense, which was the premise of the post I responded to, and you have a suspect offense, the last guy in the NFL you are going to hire is Rex Ryan.
I think the original poster was speaking from Rex's perspective after he was already hired. The smart thing for him to do was to just let Schwartz run his defense. But obviously that was never going to happen because football coaches.
I think the Hue and Schwartz thing that WHaley was advocating would have worked a lot better
It is important to note that was the rumor of WHaley's first choice......had the pegs listened to him? Who knows where wew ould be right now
I really think this is why Whaley has the driver's keys to the head coach this time.
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Please doug and everyone give non answers twitter will be great entertainment from a bunch of professionals.
You spelled crybabies wrong.
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But they hired him to run the defense. It certainly wasn't because of his prowess at running an offense, or in game decisions.
Giving the Pegula's the benefit of the doubt, they knew they had a good thing on defense and wanted someone who could sustain success on that side of the ball for the long-term. Schwartz was only the DC and was getting HC interest. Why they didn't just promote Schwartz we'll never know, and I'm sure Kim and Terry have been kicking themselves for falling for Rex's schtick ever since. I guess Schwartz didn't tell good jokes like Rex did in his interview.
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Woods didn't enjoy playing with EJ.
I can't imagine why n---oh, EJ no!!!
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There would have been zero reason to hire Rex Ryan if he was going to do that. You would have been 100x better off hiring Hue Jackson or Frank Reich and let Schwartz do his thing.
But they didn't hire Rex because the defensive system needed to change.
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Add respect of players and experience in time/game management, and you hit the nail on the head. (Enter: Frank Reich, Coughlin, Matt Patricia for example).
How do you know Reich and Patricia are good at time/game management?
this is where Rex failed. He should have respected the job that Schwartz did on Defense and let him run with it, instead of demanding the players to adapt to his style. Had Rex given up his ego and let the coordinators do their job, we'd be talking two straight years of playoffs and Rex as King of Buffalo instead of another jackass clown that needs to be chased out with a pitchfork.
Absolutely.
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And why so many coordinators make poor ones.
You go from basically being in charge of your group of guys to being in charge of EVERYTHING. Totally different skill sets. Head Coach is busy putting out fires a lot of the time and has to see the big picture of what needs to be accomplished while a coordinator is kind of self-contained in their own world...
It's not any wonder so many good coordinators make poor head coaches, it's a totally different skill set and one I think teams need to be looking for instead of how good did this guy rank on offense or defense.
What they accomplished as coordinators is largely irrelevant to the bigger picture of how they will handle the much more in depth responsibility of being a head coach.
So if they're to ignore coordinator accomplishments, what kind of qualities should a GM be looking for in a head coach?
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Rex was clueless on defense and had a chaplain making his game time decisions. Give Marrone Shady and Tyrod instead of Orton, EJ and dead Fred and we may have seen a different offense.
Possible. But regardless, Marrone was a headcase who quit. He wasn't "forced out."
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Is there any doubt, today of all days, we'd all be better off with another year or 2 of Marrone+Schwartz?
Yes, there is plenty of doubt. The defense would be much better but the offense would still suck. It's a wash.
Rex had to go but let's not look back at Marrone with rose-colored glasses. His game management decisions made Rex look like a genius. And he was an offensive-minded head coach who was absolutely clueless at constructing a productive NFL offense.
I'm not the biggest Whaley fan but he helped build that Top 5 defense before Rex arrived. And he helped build back-to-back Top 10 efficient offenses. So he might actually be doing something right, no?
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Buffalo had 443 pass attempts (lowest in the league). passing yardage ranked 31 (second lowest in league) = makes perfect sense
The top ranked passing yardage team = Saints had 624 passing attempts compared to the Bills 443
Wouldn't you say that is a huge difference?
The Saints threw the ball 40% more times than Buffalo to achieve that top ranking in passing yards.
Tampa Bay who is ranked 15th in total passing yards (about average) threw the ball 100 more times than Buffalo did. 100 more freaking passes.
You are much better judging quarterbacks on quarterback centric stats like completion percentages and yards per attempt passing. Those give you a more accurate picture.
Efficiency is so much more important than total yards. As to those who continue using total yardage, I don't know if that's due to laziness, ignorance, or stupidity.
Passer Rating - 17th
Yards per Attempt - 21st
ANY/A - 20th
Interception Percentage - 7th
Touchdown Percentage - 20th
DVOA - 14th
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Is there anything funnier than watching a local sports writer explain how pro sports owners are bozos?
If only these owners held the real key to success: sitting in a cubicle eating leftover holiday fruitcake while sipping lukewarm coffee from a recycled, washed-out Hortons cup while typing judgmental thoughts about people he could never, ever come to understand.
If only local sports writers were in charge..then and only then would the world be beautiful.
He appeals to the lowest common denominator in Western New York.
Sully is dead on.
Like this guy.
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Come on Wayne. You're going to be there right with the rest of us no matter who QB is. The Bills are your addiction. They are your heroin. Stick the needle in and get your fix brother.
If they release Taylor and expect to replace his value with *insert name of unaccomplished tall white quarterback here* and/or some shot-in-the-dark draft pick then I will not be renewing and I will find another hobby.
We all have our breaking points.
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Thanks for saving our Bills.
We will express our gratitude by crapping on you year after year.
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Has anyone heard of any good reason why Cardale is not starting this weekend to see what we have in him?
Maybe they don't want to show fans how bad he is.
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Losing AW killed the defense. Why losing one specific player had such an impact on Rex's defense is beyond me.
You and me both. Aaron Williams is not a Hall of Fame talent. It's not an excuse for Rex's poor D.
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A different spin says a top half passing attack with this defense gets an 11-5 record.
Just because TT may have been the best here since Flutie doesn't mean he is a good QB. He's just the best of a bad bunch.
I don't think it would be difficult at all to improve the passing attack with a different QB.
This historic rushing attack should have made things so easy for Tyrod to get massive amount of yards and points yet it was so painful to watch the passing offense struggle so mightily week in and week out, then watch the All 22 each week have WR running free EVERYWHERE all game. Any QB who can read a defense would have flourished on this team this year and Buffalo had the one guy who couldn't. Go figure, he was Rex hand picked guy, did Rex do anything right?
A Top 5 passing attack combined with this rushing attack would have obliterated NFL offense records. People have lost their minds. Taylor is a very good young quarterback who played in a run-first system. And that run-first system worked and he was a big part of it. Was he perfect throwing the ball this year? No. There was a lot of factors that contributed, but in the end he finished 17th in the NFL in passer rating after finishing 8th a year ago. That's far from terrible.
I would put the odds of finding an upgrade over Taylor in one offseason at about 5%. If the Pegula's and Whaley are willing to gamble with those odds then good luck - I'm not going to support it by renewing my season tickets.
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Those caps way to high for a BU.
If the option is picked up he is the starter until they can financially move on which could be after 2018 but likely after 2019
The odds are very small that someone would beat him out even if he was making $15 per hour.
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And if they are not interested lost all your leverage and now its even less
Its a gamble on both parts really
It's not a gamble for Taylor. Top 10 PFF grade in his first two seasons as starter for a perennial loser. Top 10 offense both years (first time in over a decade). Top 10 passer rating in 2015, 17th this season. 7th QBR in 2015, 11th in 2016.
Not every GM is as incompetent and dense as Doug Whaley.
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Yes we could've also not given him a $6M raise this year and a ludicrous $27.5M option next year if we want to keep him. Unfortunately, the guy who gave him that assinine deal is out looking for our new HC.
Why is it so crazy to think the quarterback who had the 8th highest passer rating in 2015 and currently the 17th highest and has led the Bills to the 8th rated offense in the league this season would deserve a salary with a cap hit that is only 20th in the league among quarterbacks?
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Awful White QBs @AwfulWhiteQBs 6h
ARI, CAR, NE, NO are the only teams in the NFL who've scored more offensive TDs than the Bills during the Tyrod Taylor era.
He's terrible tho!
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I think it's a combination of the wacky weed and and the hunger it likely causes...I know I've written this a million times on this board...But when Dareus came out he was a lean 319 lb monster...He showed up at his first camp huge and has never got close to that 319 again...If the kid would get serious about diet and nutrition he would literally be unstoppable...
Then the coaching staff probably shouldn't have told him he should be a 350 pound anchor nose tackle who occupies blockers. They thought he was Damon Harrison. That's not who he is.
Leak source - It must be Brandon
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Obviously the leak is someone close to Whaley. Always puts him in a good light while whoever the coach is is to blame. But it has backfired on him because the fans don't buy it - they know both are to blame.
Brandon isn't the leak. The leak is one of Tim Graham's sources and Graham obliterates Brandon at least once a week.