The Big Cat
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preston brown getting dragged all over theh field...per usual
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You know it can be both, right? The defense doesn't get a pass because the QB sucks.
sure, we can wish and hope and pray that the defense scores points and is a top 5, all-time defense.
or we can we wish and hope and pray that our QB is adequate.
it's both. sure. in the sense that it's split about 70.30
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you guys still want to debate whether the QB is single handledly taking wins off the sheet? really?
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AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU THROW THE BALL TO YOUR RECEIVERS
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Merry Christmas. I'm stealing that for a signature
It's me who should be wishing YOU a merry christmas!
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Tyrod and his 54 passing yards continue to put the "unanswered" into "unanswered points."
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the !@#$ is jerry hughes doing?
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looks like most of you plan to stop watching this game since you've decided it's over and not worth your time.
right?
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players make plays
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Currently, 27th against the run tells me that Ryan's defense is not only bad, it's embarrassingly bad. 31st in rushing TD's allowed.
At this point, I don't know what new head coach I want to see in Buffalo an offensive or defensive minded guy. Perhaps another special teams guy like Marv or Harbaugh.
A barista could put too much cream in your coffee and you'd blame it on Rex's defense.
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But all the evidence in my post was factual, to the best of my knowledge, and the analysis fits the data presented, refuting your assertions.
"Measurably false" means that you have clear evidence of it being false, specific and factual things you can point to that refute my claims.
What is that evidence--what was "measurably false"?
Or, is that statement too just like the post I was commenting on, simply made up, based on nothing more than your own opinion, though stated as fact?
If it is "measurably false", then please tell me and the others reading this what that measure is; point to the things in my post that are false and provide evidence as you explain why they are. (That is what I did as I explained the problems with your post.) Thank you.
By which measurement is the Bills' defense 19th?
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As clear, rational, and well supported as the post that I was responding to.
Yikes.
You expected a rational response to an argument that was measurably false?
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It's simple TBC was a huge defender of Rex D........he's been proven wrong by two seasons where the defense cost the team greatly........now he's trying to say that Rex failing was only natural because the D was bad 6 years ago.
Rex isn't a miracle worker ya' know.
Sure, the coaching on the offensive side of the ball can take a very flawed unit and score at a top 10 clip....injuries be damned........ but you can't expect Rex to coach a defense up...........or in lieu of that.....ya' know.......run a scheme that suit's the personnel.
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Seriously? You made me show up here at 6 to talk with *this* clown? --both of them
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Who DOES know why you bother?
There really isn't a lot of nuance to this argument but you insist on trying to generate some.
"Ok so you don't buy the heat maps........how about 3 and outs? 3 and outs have to prove I'm right".
And you didn't even check to see if there was any statistical correlation. And of course, there wasn't.
So then it was the "back to back 3 and outs"...........as if any team that has a lot of 3 and outs doesn't string a bunch of them together.
You got NOTHING and yet you keep coming back with more angles of the same bullish*t.
Entirely false. Up and down, completely 100% false.
But sure.
THIS ^
The over exaggeration of how good the defense was before Rex is mind blowing. Its like all the foolish people who still think FitzCrapTrick should still be our QB.
Our Defense compiled sack and INT stats, but overall it was a bend and hope it don't break. It was one of those defenses that would get your hopes up and then not come through in the key moments of games it needed to. Now people go back and look at stats and think it was some elite defense that Rex broke. No one on this board was running around hyping them up to be elite, in fact, the shout box and threads were filled with whining and complaining week after week. Now all of a sudden there is this perception that we were elite and now we are not.
The vocal minority that opposes this truth is precisely that.
Let me say that I personally do not think the 2014 defense was 'great', and I was simply pointing to the faulty logic of the poster. But it is clear that Big Cat is just as illogical and that his lack of facts, and faulty analysis, is another example of those supporting Ryan not having much to back up their position.
The 2014 defense was very good, consistent and, for most teams, posed significant problems on offense. They looked they were on the verge of greatness.
But Big Cat bizarrely implies that that the 2014 defense was a fluke, a one year thing, and that it followed a "WAS BAD" defense the year before, 2013.
But, like so much in the above post. the facts do not back up the analysis.
The two years before Rex Ryan took over:
- The Bills were ranked 10th in defense in 2013
- The Bills were ranked 4th in defense in 2014
- In 2015, Ryan's first year they were ranked 15th
- This year, with two years under his belt, a fully implemented Ryan defense, and his brother as his assistant coach, the Bills are 19th
So, the implications in his post are completely off--the defense has clearly declined, and clearly is worse this year than last, and dramatically less effective than in 2014, a shell of its former self.
And 2014 was not a 'magical' fluke defense, but one improving on many positive things from the previous year, 2013, that was not the "BAD DEFENSE" Big Cat painted it as in order to support a failing coach.
Hence, Ryan took a very good defense and has made it much worse; worse last year, and worse this year than last year. So much worse than when he arrived, a defense he said himself underperformed when it was 4th in the league. They are 19th this year, and regressing as the year progresses.
Those defensive numbers are the facts. Pretty clear ones, I think, so bizarre how someone could just throw those out the window and come up with
their own made up facts and the faulty analysis that almost always accompanies such bad information.
I can only hope that those at One Bills Drive are using legitimate information and solid analysis of it to make this important decision. If so, Rex Ryan is done, and there is almost no gray area as to why this is needed.
TL;DR
But seriously, whatever you say.
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Like your brick wall to the "3 and out in bunches" theory that was proven to be complete bull ****?
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Stopped reading after this line because I wasn't in the mood for fiction.
Thank you for being a voice of reason.
There are some truly special people here. Not sure why I bother.
Seeing you have the same retarded arguments with the same people confirms my sanity!!
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Rex !@#$ed up all the good that came from the 2014 defense.
Is that better?
So long as we're also counting all the good that didn't' come from it:
- 2 healthy/reliable safeties
- A non-useless Mario Williams
- A healthy Kyle Williams
Those sorts of things. But you've been a brick wall to these truths, so I guess it's a fools errand getting you to understand them now.
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Your habit of assuming I don't understand your point, just because it's almost always built on a faulty premise at best is even more tiring.
Especially when it's a straw man about a "legacy" defense. Not only have I never heard that phrase before you, I have never seen a single post intimate that the last 5 years of Buffalo Bills football have had anything resembling consistently solid defenses.
So the point is, all the people who never made the point you're attacking are wrong. Coolio.
k, bye
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Context of the 2010 defense, with 1 player of 11 (or 13-15 if talking about key contributors) and 4 DC's ago, having ANYTHING to do with our expectations in 2016?
Are you one of those dudes who gets mad when they hold the last 20 years of futility against the current Bills and the organization today?
Keep it relevant, homie.
your habit of reading 3/4 of a post so you can find something to key in on and B word about is getting really old.
read the whole thing, if you still don't get it, look within.
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What does the 2010 defense have to do with the 2016 defense, pray tell? Kyle is the only player the same.
context alludes you, per usual
just looking for an argument, per usual
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So, the fact that he fu***** up a "great D" is overridden, somehow, by the fact that the Bills have their own "#1 pick next year" in the draft and that other coaches were so bad that you yelled at the TV, but don't yell at Ryan? Zero, and I mean nothing at all, except the not yelling at the TV idea, to in any way back up "the team will improve with consistency".
The Bills have been consistently weak, underachieving, so wouldn't we expect more of that , and more of Ryan fu***** up a "great D"?
You want consistency like this?
Makes no sense at all.
There's that "great D" talk again.
To recap:
2010: horrible defense
2011: horrible defense
2012: historically horrible defense
2013: below average defense
2014: very good defense
2015: average/below average defense
2016: average/above average defense
This notion that Rex Ryan dismantled some kind of legacy defense is extremely misleading.
Credit be to Schwartz for his one magical year (in which virtually nobody got injured and they wilted when it mattered most, but still).
Rex Ryan did not "ruin" a "great defense." He took a defense that WAS BAD then over performed for a season and has since been middling to good.
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Huh? There's been reports of disconnect, disorganization etc far before Pegula and his cronies got here. Unless there was a Ralph Wilson Sports and Entertainment group I missed, I fail to see how they felt in competition with the Bills pre-2014.
"Why not" is hardly a sufficient motive.
There's also a matter of what they accomplish. They discredit the team, sure. What happens after that? Pegula sells the team and runs away crying? Buys TBN and fires them all? Pays off Graham and Skurski to write propaganda?
Thanks
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Pretty simple. Pegs had a golden opportunity after taking over to clean house and truly begin a new era. That didn't happen, nothing has changed, the same assclowns are still running the team. Each and every one of these 'critical' reporters sees thru all the BS at OBD, and is doing the right thing by calling them out. It may seem to some that it's getting more heated, but that's to be expected, Ralph's trash just gets more and more indefensible with every year of failure and no apparent accountability at all.The end game would be for Pegs to finally completely drain the swamp of all these chumps and losers. No doubt there will be some beautiful, glorious, and positive columns the day that starts to happen.
This is an interesting take, to say the least 😬
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I think I'm with you on this, but I'm not certain. I mean, from my own experience and standpoint, when the Bills win I'm much more likely to click on all the News articles, to see all the good stuff. When they lose, I'll check out one or two to justify my misery, but other than that, I prefer to stay away.
In other words, for me: more wins, more clicks. I'm more interested in the positive than the negative, at least when it comes to my sports teams.
Yep, absolutely!
We get about 500 downloads to our podcast when the Bills win. About 350 when they lose. I have the heat maps to show the patterns.
What possibly could be their end game?
As detailed in the OP: to discredit the brand that's putting forth a product in direct competition with theirs. Reports are of turmoil, disconnect, disorganization, backstabbing, etc.
On the flipside: what's the consequence? The Bills won't revoke their credentials. At least not in this decade.
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