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So Rex has been reading TBD - What about the D? Does he get a pass with no Shaq, Reggie or Dareus?

LOL. I was just adding that in to clarify that point. How he rated players vs. who was taken was not his call. It was not directed at you all!

Overall the quality of the game of football has been decreasing for quite sometime. Not only is QBing a seemingly lost art form, but tackling and blocking are awful now too - there are a myriad of reasons for this. Big play ability is entirely important. Trentative had zero big play ability and defenses take away the short checkdowns. There has to be a level of balance to keep the defense honest...

It's actually his "hmmmmmmm" tweet I am wondering about...

This is the best thread on this board. Bobby, K-9, No Saint, et al. - great info and insights!

He also wasn't the GM....

There was a recent ESPN article where Matt Ryan basically admitted that he can't read defenses and looks for open spots on the field and looks to throws the ball to those areas.... Not sure I necessarily feel bad for them either. The NFL did offer to help them find consultants and they turned them away...

Meh so I will say this - I really don't want anyone from the Pats* coming here. Can we hire Brian Cox as DC? Tom Brady as OC or any other a$shole we hate as fans?

Someone else said it best in another thread - we draft like it is fantasy football. We have entirely lost the ability to create a vision on what we want to be and where we want to go. Not to go back to our old glory days, but Polian and Levy built that. Once we canned BP, the vision was to sustain what we had and then Butler decided he was out and took everyone with him. From there we have been a rudderless ship lost in the ocean and drifting about in whatever direction the waves push us. This is what us as fans miss when the media and former players hammer this team. This is a perfect example: Greg Gabriel @greggabe The Bills are one of the most mismanaged, poorly coached teams in the NFL. I feel bad for the Pegula's This the precise reason you need to clean house with the people from the past who are still there. Some might be able to be saved, but some are now a product of a very bad process. The prudent and most painful move is to bring in people from other successful organizations who have this blueprint and help you replicate it here. This is painful because in order to move forward, you have to stop running the business the way you have in the past. Unfortunately the behavior patterns and the way everyone works is based on this flawed organization; sometimes you just have to move on from some of them. As you rebuild the football part of the organization, this is where you run into creating your vision as to who you want to be and crafting a plan on how to get there. Not many GMs of Exec VPs of Football Operations will want to keep the coach they inherit. You will lose some good people in the process, but you will also bring in other good people. It is a fact of organizational life and its okay. It will set us back a year maybe 2, but in the long run you are on the right path. Staying the course with where we are now will just yield more of the same for a much longer period of time. I actually give a thumbs up to Haslam (terrible owner) to shake the entire organization up to try something different; if he didn't I'm not sure anyone would take that job. Pegs had a chance when Marrone walked to do this and they didn't; as a fan I hope they are able to see this and do this when Rex is finally done. The sad thing is, is that I like Rex, with a better football organization above him, he might have been good for us...

What I like about this type of approach is exactly what you said - they can ease the transition to HC. I get that the "trend" is hiring the hot coordinator; the problem with that is these guys want to keep doing what got them the job in the first place. These HCs are generally willfully blind and fully rely on the other coordinator to handle their business; you see this with Rex, saw it what Chan, see it on other teams as well. What happens is the entire game management aspect of being an HC is tossed out the window; poor clock management and ultimately a myopic view of the entire game is what occurs. Good HCs are usually able to transition into that type of role and oversee the entire game plan and frequently meet with the coordinators on both sides of the ball...

You have been the breathe of fresh air to cut through this non-sense. We are all thankful for the work you do. Besides, what could possibly happen and 1BD? LOL That is what is maddening. Brandon is good at what he is supposed to do from the business aspect of things, Whaley IMO could be an excellent GM, but didn't have enough grooming from a good football guy here. The lack of a strong football side of the organization has hurt this team since they canned TD; it was never fixed under RW and still isn't fixed under Pegs. I should be careful how I say that; the lack of a top football guy creating the direction and setting the vision for that side of the org is missing...

Gus Bradley might be available....

^This. Luck is the classic case of a good player on an atrocious team; the Colts are a 1-2 win team without him. Great QBs can hide flaws, but no running game, no line, and a putrid D with so so WRs is not enough. Colts are wasting their Luck...

I don't know $hit anymore, not that I knew anything to begin with. All I know is everything is still a mess. jw needs to write a story and get it out there. Aside from us, everyone else still views this based off the original stories; that is all that is out there...

Wade would be the best coach since well...himself

Pretty much...

NFL Network ‏@nflnetwork 29s29 seconds ago UPDATE: @MikeGarafolo reporting Garoppolo suffered sprained AC joint in throwing shoulder. Hopeful for WK4 return.

We played defense on Thursday?

YardsPerPass.com ‏@YardsPerPass 11s12 seconds ago YardsPerPass.com Retweeted John Wawrow I'm all in on this as well John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 12s12 seconds ago Buffalo, NY And, to be clear, Roman's firing was Rex's decision. I now have absolutely no doubt.

YardsPerPass.com ‏@YardsPerPass 11s12 seconds ago YardsPerPass.com Retweeted John Wawrow I'm all in on this as well John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 12s12 seconds ago Buffalo, NY And, to be clear, Roman's firing was Rex's decision. I now have absolutely no doubt.

Yeah because we use Sammy Watkins so well...

No its fine and all good . I'm a bit past that now that everything else has happened. His pass rush presence was definitely felt and could have helped a bunch when we decided to no longer blitz. Overall yeah I agree - it is all bad

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Vic has been off an awful lot, his old contacts seem to be way off...

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