The Big Cat

You mean like Gus Bradley?

Unless Lynn is the man on deck...

Posted it in two other threads. This is pretty big, given this guy's penchant for scoops: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/190647-new-chenelly-tweet-coughlin-an-option/page-7?do=findComment&comment=4169932

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/190647-new-chenelly-tweet-coughlin-an-option/page-7?do=findComment&comment=4169932

Joe Chenelly@jchenelly Rex Ryan was told at least a day, possibly days, before yesterday's #Bills game ownership feels it needs to move on at HC at end of season.

Bradford made the ballot for a reason...

Been saying since July 2015: all this team needs is a top 18 QB to be a contender. First? Hell no. Second? In a heartbeat. I don't see Dalton going anywhere. But I'd give this year's second and next year's third for him to be on our squad. See: Jones, Cardale Of course there is.

If he was running the Bills offense and only asked to throw <30 times/game, and had McCoy out of the backfield, Clay up the seam and Sammy out wide? Jesus. We'd have 11 wins by now.

Because our current crop of players are too talented to make a play when two of them converge on a 40 yard wounded duck? We gotta find the DC who runs the scheme who doesn't let the receiver catch it 90% of the time when this happens. I'll agree to that.

FOOTSTEPS FOOTSTEPS FOLLOWING HIS GRANDFATHER'S FOOTSTEPS!! OOOOOH!! FOOTSTEPS!!

If Rex is back--and I'm thinking more and more that he will be (so will Whaley, Russ, Dennis Thurman and pretty much everyone whose job that a portion of the fanbase wants on a pike)--they're going to go hard after a veteran QB while scouring the draft for another guy to develop. And I think they'll keep drafting a developmental guy until the veteran's wheels fall off, or until the young guy is ready to take over, whichever comes first. But, the gang will return if they win out, and 2017 will be the offseason of the QB.

Yeah, well, Preston Brown consistently overpurusing into a pile of blockers and d-lineman is something of a hindrance to the run D.

Folks will be predictably flippant in response to this point. They'll sarcastically say something about Rex needing 20 first rounders to run his defense. They like to pretend that dominant defenses exist in the NFL where great playmakers (regardless of where they were drafted) do not. The like to pretend that this is electronic football played in a vacuum and that all you have to do is tell your guys how to line up and the deed is done.

Let armchair scouts do their thing. Put yourself on record!

...this is suspiciously specific.

I know that. I was saying how it SHOULD be. Well, apparently all you need is an email address, an easy to remember hard to figure out password and access to a message board to understand that teams are built around their QB's. I'm not sure on what authority you're making the supposition that nobody in our FO has grasped this. Yep. We crush lesser teams. We don't have a good enough defense/QB combo to hang with the better ones. We'll draft anywhere from 14-19 this year, and that'll be that. Precisely who we are.

This is what frustrates me about this all this &#33;@#&#036;ery: Who drafted EJ? Was it Whaley was it Nix? Who got Orton? HC didn't seem to like it. Where'd Tyrod come from? Oh, he's Rex's guy. Well who hired Rex? Not Whaley. And the guy before him? Definitely a Russ Brandon hire. Or was it? NOBODY KNOWS If the Pegulas wanted to maintain continuity while acknowledging the growing unrest, they'd simply realign in a way that makes sense. I never liked the idea of the HC and GM both reporting to the owner. That's a recipe for disaster. Or, as has been the case (or so it seems from unnamed sources), it's a green light to pitch the other guy under the bus when things don't go right. No, enough. Stop all of this. Two people report into the Pegulas: Doug Whaley and Russ Brandon. Rex Ryan (and/or any future HC) reports directly to Doug Whaley. Nobody making football decisions reports to Russ Brandon. He can sit in on meetings, he should absolutely be looped in on football operations while he manages business operations in tandem, but let's set some very clear channels and reporting structure here. Otherwise, it's just an annual **** storm of who hired who, who wanted who to play quarterback, who's guy belongs to who, who's seeing eye to eye with whom, all of this NONSENSE.

Comic sans. Bold move.

We don't agree on much. But we're totally aligned here. The best part of the whole damn thing is when he unknowingly dismantles his entire analysis with this toss away line: "What all those teams have in common is a franchise quarterback who led them to Super Bowls." Yes, Tim. Good...and...? Yes? Nope, couldn't be botherer to put down his pitch fork to connect those dots.

Is this a post from 2009?

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No

We've lost seven games this year. I can only think of two (NE2/PITT) in which the defense put the offense in a bad spot. I can think of plenty of times when the inverse was true. So to put the rankings side by side without examining the effect of one on the other seems foolish. Plus, even when defenses put offenses in bad spots, the offense generally produces better stats as a result (garbage time). Noting these truths is very often misconstrued as a post which reads: the defense is good.