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    What We Learned

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Here is the biggest thing we learned. The players do not want Lynn as the HC, they would have put up an all out effort if they had wanted him to get the job.

    That was obvious when they came up qkrh two fourth down stops inside the red zone.

    Sully: Bills' bozos leave Lynn to twist on his own

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    I'm not saying overall whether they should have or should not have. It's all opinion. My opinion I understand full well is not the majority nor is it the politically correct nor is it dependent on anyone else's opinion. You're just being a dick stating your opinion is fact. I could care less if the national media calls the Bills a dumpster fire. The national press is usually wrong. I think they didn't need to address it because no new information was going to be revealed so there was no reason for it.

     

    Noooooooooooooo. Him?

    The case against Gus Bradley for DC

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    At first, I thought he'd be an obvious choice to come in as DC and return our team to relevance.

     

    Upon closer review, I'm not sure that's the case.

     

    He had two great years in Seattle following two bad years. The Seattle defense never skipped a beat once he left, and actually got better, a lot better. Meanwhile, in Jacksonville, outside this year, his defenses there were pretty lousy too.

     

    Here's how his defenses have ranked (PTS/YDS):

     

    2009: 25/24

    2010: 27/27

    2011: 9/7

    2012: 4/1*

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    2013: 28/27

    2014: 26/26

    2015: 31/24

    2016: 26/4

     

    *since his departure from Seattle, their defenses have finished:

     

    2013: 1/1

    2014: 1/1

    2015: 1/2

    2016: 2/7

     

    Soooooooooooo, may be I'm missing something here, but from 10,000 feet, this doesn't look that great. Can somebody help me understand why he'd be a good pick?

     

    And if there's no good explanation, then may be we can not throw a **** fit if he's not hired. May be.

    Sully: Bills' bozos leave Lynn to twist on his own

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    oh my god, you are for russian-style propaganda, aren't you?

     

    if you really think it's stupid to ask a question because brother has decided he doesn't want to hear it, then you don't really want journalism.

     

    1a's "decision" was the choice to throw rex under the bus with those leaks. only a handful of people could have been involved in the decision-making process, so i'd love to see the look on whaley's face if he's asked about it point blank.

     

    and why would doug whaley have to answer a question about his drafting when they just fired a coach for not winning enough games? oh, geez...i don't know...you're right that's silly. he's management so he has to be infallible, i guess.

    You don't have a clue how the media and media relations work. I haven't offered a single clue as to how I think things SHOULD be. I only know--intimately--how things are. Take it or leave it. But it's clear that it's a topic you don't know much about.

    The only legit complaint about the press conference is that it was the wrong press conference for some of the questions posed and to whom they were posed. It was the weekly Wednesday coach's PC that serves to entertain questions relating to the upcoming game. Period.

     

    Berchtold should have done his job and clearly defines the parameters.

     

    The Bills should have made the only person who could fire Ryan, Pegula, available or at least made it clear that all questions relative to the firing would be addressed at the annual post season PC with Whaley, Pegula, Brando, whomever.

     

    And for all the media reports about how the Bills left Lynn out to dry, the media should own up to their complicity. They were the ones doing the hanging. By design. And it was completely unnecessary. Their unprofessionalism has cost them a ton of access, even created some animosity over the years and their bitterness about that comes to the fore at every opportunity.

     

    Is it any wonder their collective credibility is called into question?

    I know for a fact those perameters were set. To a certain extent it's the medias job to ignore them.

     

    In this case they did so to their own detriment, asking questions to a guy they KNEW didn't have the answers then whining about it is what this is all about.

    Sully: Bills' bozos leave Lynn to twist on his own

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by The Big Cat

    Not all GMs offer up boring palaver. The de facto GM of the Pats actually offers some pretty good stuff here at his most recent press conference. He often goes off on these types of tangents, and it can be pretty entertaining: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/12/29/belichick-tells-defensive-players-theyre-not-good-enough-for-offense/ .

    I'm with Jester 43's list, up above.

     

    1. Are you responsible for the leaks that started after the oakland game?

    Questions that won't get answered are stupid questions to ask when your job is to ask questions.

    1a. (when he inevitably stammers out his denial) Since only a tiny number of people could have been involved in that decision, who did it?

    I don't know what "that decision is" so I can't say what his response would/should have been to "it". But it doesn't seem to be getting at any information that wasn't already known.

    2. Why didn't anyone in the organization take questions after rex's firing?

    In this case he would have been so...but regardless, see no. 1

    3. Why was Anthony Lynn told to sit Tyrod.

    See no. 1

    4. Were you on board with Rex's hiring? His firing?

    We already know this answer, it's been reported on tirelessly and he's on record about it

    5. Do you think the Bills recent draft history has anything to do with the current record?

    Why would Doug Whaley have to rush to the microphone before week 17 to answer this?

    6. In retrospect, would you have done the Watkins deal? The Lawson deal?

    See above

    I don't see how having a press conference to answer these particular questions would have been fruitful. In fact, if they would have held a press conference to ask these questions, most of which aren't timely to the past week's events anyways, Sully's complaint column would have been about how nobody ever answers their stupid questions.

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