Dr. K

I've been a fan of this team since 1966. I'm very close to concluding that Rex Ryan may be the worst coach this team has ever had, if you measure badness by the distance between his reputation when he was hired and the fundamentally abysmal way he has handled every part of his job except PR and press conferences. By far, and without rival that I can remember, except maybe Gregg Williams.

I wrote this last December 15th: My desire to see Rex fired has nothing to do with the 15-year drought. Normally, as you may see from my posts over the years, I am quite a patient fan. I've never been one to say "blow it up" after one bad season. But with Rex it's different. Hiring him, I suspected from the start, meant already blowing up the successful defense that Schwartz had put together with the talented players Whaley had assembled. I could see from the start that he was not Whaley's guy (though Whaley had to sign onto the choice and make the best of it) which was evident from the peculiar organizational structure with Rex and Whaley reporting separately to the Pegulas instead of Rex serving under the general manager as most other teams do. I did not care for his personality, his arrogance, his aggressive blockheadedness, his mediocre record with the Jets. The Bills under Marone blew his team to bits in both games last year. All the orgasms that Bills fans had over his hire left me cold. And Rex proved worse than I feared. I'd thought, well, he has great talent to work with; maybe he can maintain the defense's strength. Nope. He did not put the players into a position to succeed, instead he forced his system onto them even if their talents (like Mario's, and Dareus's, and Bradham's) did not suit the scheme. So now they have to get new players, and Dareus is going to either end up playing mediocre at nose tackle or playing great for some other team. His game management skills are weak at best. The lack of discipline on the team is appalling. The penalties--despite hotheads like Hughes, these same players did not commit anywhere near as many last season. It's left me furious at the Pegulas for hiring this clown, and in despair at the thought they will keep him on (and maybe fire Whaley instead). As I say, I have never had this reaction to any other coach the Bills have hired (and I've been a fan since the mid-1960s) with the possible exception of Gregg Williams, another man who was a legend in his own mind. I don't want to blow up the roster. I want to blow up Sexy Rexy and his freakin' pickup truck and sky diving and teeth whitener so that we can get somebody running this team who has a chance of making it better.

I said at the time that Rex was the wrong hire. I said at the time they should have either promoted Schwartz or hired a qualified OC as head coach with the proviso he would keep Schwartz. The defense was not broken, but by hiring Rex it was a foregone conclusion that he would try to "fix" it--and you saw the result Thursday night. I lay this whole mess at the feet of the Pegulas, for hiring Rex. Whaley did not want to hire him. Yet every yahoo on this board was having orgasms over the Rex hire.

His hiring Rex was the epitome of a knee-jerk reaction! The guy comes in for an interview and they are worried about letting him get out of the room before they sign him.

Pegs is the one responsible for hiring Rex. Whaley didn't want him. The Pegulas are part of the problem, not the solution.

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I'm looking for 0-4 and Rex out the door.

I agree. Hiring Rex was a fatal unforced error, and I lay it directly at the feet of the Pegulas.

Tyrod is not the answer. He cannot use the middle of the field, is terribly inaccurate, holds the ball too long. There is no rhythm to his passing game. Yes, he can throw the long ball. But the interception was a terrible underthrow.

The Pegulas hired sexy Rexy when they had a top-four defense. Terrible decision. They are part of the problem.

This team is headed for a top five draft choice. I'm thinking 4-12 is the absolute best they can do. Taylor is not the answer at QB. Two terrible games. So long.

There's your Rex Ryan Bills team.

You are living in a fantasy world. Look at that game and tell me the Bills are not an undisciplined, poorly coached team. Also, the Bills were NOT a heavily penalized team in the last six or eight years before Ryan showed up.

PENALTIES. Can the Bills under Ryan play disciplined football and not throw the game away on stupid penalties? They may have improved in other areas, but I am skeptical about seeing any improvement there.

Bills: some number of points Ravens: some other number of points

Von Braun aimed at the stars . . . and hit London.

This looks exactly like a Bills season to me. I can already feel the deflation of the loss to Jacksonville in the middle of that seven-game slide, and the meaningless playing out of the string in those last three wins.

I haven't been in the conversation, but I see EJ as starting for some other team than the Bills in 2020.

We'll see.

Taylor is superior to EJ but EJ will start and play credibly for some other team after he leaves the Bills.

The guy needs to quite football before he ends up in a powered wheelchair.

No optimism until Ryan is on a plane out of town.

Hate hate hate with the fury of a thousand suns. Here's the basic fact: I hate him more than I hate Donald Trump, and you know how I feel about Donald Trump.

You are missing the point. The documentary is about race in America as much as it is about OJ. OJ is, in the view of the documentary, as much a product of the racial geography in the U.S., and its history, as he is a great athlete and individual spousal abuser. OJ is at the center, but the story radiates outward from him. All those other people and incidents are part of this bigger story. To complain that they spend too much time talking about racial politics is to totally miss the boat. That's, in my opinion, why this documentary is so much greater than the usual jock biography.