2020 Our Year For Sure

The rotation is great if you have the depth and the health (we did). Haynseworth --> Suh/Fairley --> Dareus/KW --> Fletcher Cox (9.5 sacks last year) He follows around the game's best pass rushing DTs and for good reason. He needs the interior rush as part of a top front 4 that consistently harasses without help, and doesn't do well if he doesn't have it. That flexibility and versatility I love in a coordinator (farell Mr. Roman, I wish you well in all your future endeavors) to approach the game in more than one way is missing. I like our last 3 defensive coaches like this 1. Pettine- versatile coach 2. Schwartz- rigid coach who inherited a perfect fit for his scheme 3. Rex- rigid coach who inherited a poor fit for his scheme

I'll stick with my 6-10. Always the optimist.

They're going to write that on Jim Schwartz' tombstone.

Are you sure the results are even going to be mediocre this year? I blame the coaching staff more than I do anyone else, don't get me wrong, but he still is the General Manager of the team. We don't know who lobbied to get McCoy in here on a big contract in a scheme that doesn't suit him, we don't know who wanted to run that power run scheme without aggressively pursuing the monster offensive line that made it work in San Francisco. Again I'm all about blaming Rex and Roman but are we sure as outsiders we can completely give Whaley a pass for these shortcomings? I could easily sit here and debate with people from either side. The Pegulas are privy to information that we aren't and I'm just going to hope whatever they decide to do works out, because either road is perfectly defensible imo.

I think both sides are defensible. You can say Whaley needs to go because he drafted an injured player in the 1st round in Lawson, the foolish Ragland trade, some failures at quarterback, the bad McCoy contract in a scheme that doesn't suit him, and of course the final W/L record. You can say Whaley needs to stay because he built a stacked roster that carried Marrone to 9-7, then Rex' coaching staff was unable to utilize the talent Whaley provided (best player on offense Watkins and best player on defense Dareus both severely miscast along with a host of others). This team has been poorly coached and still has been 'right there' at 9-7 and 8-8 the last two years. I've seen Yolo talk about how there are just a few teams who draft better than the field and a few who draft worse than the field and everybody else hits at about the same rate. I think also the respective talent levels are pretty close around the league with coaching that pulls the most out of that talent, and quarterback play often making the difference. I am not going to be upset either way. He's been able to acquire talented players and has been somewhat held back by coaching, but at the same time, he's been part of a losing effort and I won't begrudge the Pegulas one bit if they want to hit the F5 key on the whole operation. What this team really needs is a good front office structure, a good coaching staff, accountability and a quarterback.

Absolutely. I've said it before but last year Antonio Brown doubled Sammy's targets while Martavis Bryant also had more targets/game than Sammy did. This alone was a fire-able offense. We gave up two 1st rounders for an all-world WR, he lives up to the hype by leading the league in yards per target, and Roman was simply not capable of using him to the fullest because his passing game is disjointed and limited. I don't expect a drastic turnaround here but this talent can do a lot more than we've seen, so its interesting.

IF Anthony Lynn can do that on the fly you're going to see Tyrod's play improve. I'd also like to see them give the quarterback more freedom to command the offense, I never see him changing the play for some reason. How can it be that we're always in the right play no matter how the defense lines up? Also would like to see more short drags, slants, WR screens and other easy passes for RAC yards. Basic stuff to get the QB into the flow of the game and get the ball in Sammy's hands were inexplicably missing from Roman's supposedly massive playbook. Just make success as easy as possible and I think the players will respond.

Roman is the obvious choice if you're looking to tank. The only OC without a hurry up, who can't even call plays on time, wastes his most talented players in Watkins/Clay/McCoy, doesn't have a passing game befitting of modern football and has his quarterback playing below his capability. Yeah let's promote that guy...

Now we can go no huddle when the situation calls for it like every other team in the NFL.

Our passing game always went through the run last year, even with weapons who can win matchups. A one-track approach in a league that demands versatility.

Its not just you, I completely agree. Things he's already proven he can do are not getting done.

Rex is gone at the end of the season, that doesn't change Roman's poor performance.

They should have after the season ended but now they have no choice. The quarterback is so out of sorts he can't even hit easy throws anymore. How can we win like that?

Glad to hear it, so was I.

If he has the single best offensive line in the league then he might be decent. If not it'll look a lot like it did in Buffalo.

This is an excellent move!!! -Tyrod is better than he's playing right now. -We can't even run the ball when that is supposed to be Roman's driving force. -We can't perform the basic football function of hurrying up. -We can't avoid 3 and outs, can't possess the ball when that's supposed to be our strength. -He's never really coached a particularly good offense anyway, after like 6 years.

The stuff of nightmares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVuOux5WLM

The team has taken on the personality of the head coach, too. Body language is not good right now, it is not a team united for a common purpose.

I'll watch every game and root for the Bills to win, I'll never be a tanker, but maybe our incompetence leads to a high draft pick. Maybe in that way we can even be #1 at something.

Awesome

It was disgusting right from opening week last season, and had not changed by week 16 against Dallas. We are on the same page, I've unfortunately punched a lot of keys on that topic. That would be interesting, no doubt. In the same vein I'd like to hear Tyrod's unadulterated opinion of his coaching staff. He was visibly frustrated when we wasted the final minute against Dallas when we should have been attacking the endzone with urgency. The coaching staff doesn't know the basics of situational ball and it puts him in a difficult position.

Is Taylor the only quarterback in the league, rookies included, who cannot run a hurry-up offense? Much more likely its a symptom of Rex and Roman's time warp.

Not like we didn't see that kind of incompetence multiple times in similar situations last year.

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