2020 Our Year For Sure

Yeah if his D can't lead the way then Rex' teams are in trouble. Its his own approach to OC hires, player personnel and game management that make it so. The design from the ground up is for the offense to 'do enough' to make a game of it and for the defense, the expected stronger unit, to win or lose. See his usage of 1st round picks with the Jets, now the top pick in two drafts has gone to D in Buffalo. What really grinds my geeuhs is the continued wasting of the end-of-half possession. I thought that would leave with Roman but I see it goes one step higher up the chain. All part of the plan.

Our top 3 draft picks all defensive players At the end of every first half we're more committed to running out the clock than scoring points We never think about going for it on 4th The defense is supposed to be carrying this team, that's our model.

Mills got killed today too.

He seems not to be a believer coming out of Rex's time in NJ. Keep proving em wrong Rexy

Yeah esiason was the one bringing up the QBs and questioning the Bills run. Simms was saying give credit to Rex for adapting and firing Roman and now their offense is better tailored to Tyrod's skillset. They were later asked which AFC team can beat new England and Irvin said Buffalo. Simms agreed Buffalo has a shot. Was complimentary to our boys the OP confused him with Boomer.

I feel like that Bengals game is a big one. I don't count the Bills out against NE* or Pittsburgh but I can't expect to get those games. @Cincinnati and @Oakland...two playoff contenders I perceive as right around our level. Those would be huge AFC wins if we could get em.

There's no question that he's going upfield quicker and more aggressively than last year. Anyone can see that, I think. He still bounces outside a bit too much in my humble opinion. I think skepticism is warranted any time an athlete who has done nothing but dominate their whole life at every level of competition always doing things one particular way, suddenly tries to make a fundamental shift in playing style. Do you see how fast he is hitting some of these holes? The difference is at times astonishing! Shady seems in the process of proving himself but even if he wins league MVP I'll happily continue to be skeptical in that kind of situation. Big time kudos to LeSean McCoy for openly acknowledging his failures of last season rather than living in denial as some among us did, and being able to make such an impressive (and productive!!) transition. I'm so grateful that the archaic Greg Roman is out of our lives and that along with Shady's renaissance, Clay has suddenly become a useful player again (Sammy where art thou!). I thought Shady was a talented player in a vacuum and more than once pointed out that there were 3 different wins last year we probably do not get without him. My thing was I just did not think he and Roman made sense together, and thought that mismatch of coach and player led to a lot of the shortcomings you've incisively pointed out over the last year. and Roman always seemed stuck in his ways, slow to adapt if ever. Kudos is due to Rex for pulling that trigger, I only wish he'd done it a few months sooner- we'd likely be 5-1 on the way to 6-1 right now had Coach Ryan taken my phone calls.

He actually can speak

Nothing but respect

Insightful post

I hope we are respectful. Good on McCoy for saying this.

Kudos

lol cant argue with that. He wanted to be the head man and to that end, it made a heck of a lot more sense at that time to tell the Pegulas "the only way you're getting this great defense back next year is to make me head coach" and give them something to think about, rather than "I'll be here no matter what" which makes it exceedingly easy for them to pass him over. Then once a coach is actually hired the whole picture for JS changes. I'm not a huge Schwartz guy mind you, its not easy to maintain 3-4 outstanding defensive linemen year after year.

That's what he said when the HC position was open and he was trying to convince them that he's the guy to lead the Bills to a championship. If he says at that time that he's willing to stay as DC then the Pegulas decision becomes very easy. Circumstances change. It's all conjecture.

Interesting thought, I'll be looking out for this. The league has been pushing the Rams hard.

Cool thread. Rex has those boys ballin out!

Only if Dan watches the games.

I kept waiting for them to break out the passing play. Maybe we should save it for the rematch.

I just went with what the video showed at the time. Enjoy the game you ray of sunshine

He was sticking up for his quarterback. The Bills started it. I think it's a good thing. We're an emotional team and maybe we can bring them down to our level. Edit oh just saw Yolos post.

Bring em down to our level! Well done DBs.

It is frustrating. I would've liked to see Anthony Lynn get a shot as a lot of the chirping after he took over centered around getting the ball to the playmakers.

I find the Watkins-Spiller comparisons absurd and don't understand why CJ continues to be labeled as 'high talent, high upside.' He went to the same system that made Reggie Bush look like a valuable asset and fell on his face and is now a midseason free agent. I don't see all this talent with CJ, I see a guy who is really fast and really quick with no power, no moves and no instinct. His elusiveness was incredibly overrated- when he was one on one with a defender in space he almost always was tackled or driven out of bounds. Fred Jackson was far more elusive than Spiller ever was. A waterbug who doesn't learn to block and can't make people miss is virtually useless even when fully healthy. Spiller is the TJ Graham of running backs, bringing no strong attributes to the table other than physical speed. The 2015 Chiefs game is a microcosm for Sammy's young career. He spent the first half burning double coverage to the tune of 6 catches for 158 yards and 2 TDs, and the Bills led at halftime on the road over an eventual playoff team. In the second half the Bills targeted him only once for zero catches and lost the game. If you want to make the case Sammy is as pedestrian as someone like Spiller who can't stay on an NFL roster you'll need more than raw reception and yardage numbers. Those numbers don't account for the Bills' refusal to throw him the ball against the Chiefs, their refusal to throw him the ball when he spends his afternoon roasting Darrelle Revis, or when he burns the Ravens all day (injury and all). Check out the A22's throughout this guy's career-- it turns out he eats the lunch of any cornerback who is put in front of him. He outclassed Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham and the rest of the league on a per-target basis. Its a dependent position and the Bills have done a sorry job of getting this phenomenal talent the rock and the A22 proves it. Its one of the main reasons Greg Roman now spends Sundays on his couch. I thought everyone knew this already but raw numbers simply do not tell the entire story in every single case. Please explain how a pedestrian talent is always open no matter what the defense does. I'm not talking about the injuries or the trade to get Watkins, only saying there's a canyon separating the ability levels of Watkins and Spiller.

I think the point is that the Bills are unlikely to get in without winning a tiebreaker which becomes more and more difficult to do with each out of conference win.

I can't believe it's going this well. Nicely reasoned 4merper4mer. Unfortunate that some Bills fans are too emotional to understand your salient point.