Ronin Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 Sounds like Pegula hasn't done enough to keep some semblance of control of this team. Either we're going to skyrocket this season, ... [awkward pause] ..., or the management and other control of this team are on the cusp of completely unraveling. Everyone can make their guess at which it will be. Here's a hint though, if the former, then it should have happened last season.
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 (edited) Aaron, In looking back at the thread I want to apologize to everyone as I did not read the WHOLE thread " The implication is that Rex is now "all in" meaning that if he is going to go down then he is going to go down "his way". "His way" means that Rex is going to surround himself with people who believe in him as a HC and in his defensive philosophy. He has added Ed Reed and vet DC Rob Ryan already, which fortifies that thought. He has also let guys like star player DE Mar. Williams fly the coup because they were not "all in". He seems seriously pissed at Mario for the way that he behaved last year. ESPN seemed to think that if push comes to shove that the Ryans will stick together (they are very close after all) and overtake Whaley if need be in order to stay employed with the Bills and then eventually usher in THEIR choice for the new Bills' GM job" This is the part of the thread that I was commenting on....meaning that if Rex was going to go down....he was going to do it "his way" and was gonna surround himself with people that believe in him. Bringing in his brother....bringing in his former players as coaches that were respected. I apologize for not catching the reference to "overtaking" Whaley at the end of the post. Although I really dont see the disconnect with Rex and Whaley the way there was with Whaley and Marrone. Thanks for clearing that up brudda. I completely agree with your last point in bold above. Edited May 28, 2016 by Aaron
DC Tom Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 Sounds like Pegula hasn't done enough to keep some semblance of control of this team. Either we're going to skyrocket this season, ... [awkward pause] ..., or the management and other control of this team are on the cusp of completely unraveling. Everyone can make their guess at which it will be. Here's a hint though, if the former, then it should have happened last season. Pegula's management style is to hire people and let them do their job, until they prove they can't. That's what he's doing. It's also what he did with the Sabres.
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 You know which. In all honesty I'm not sure what it is you're saying.
Buffalo Barbarian Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 I was curious about this, so I looked it up. Harbaugh got the Michigan job on 12/29 and Maroon quit on 12/31. great ruin the whole thing for me lol. I do remember saying on here back then that we should hire him anyway, oh well maybe next time. Can you seriously not see that Rex Ryan BEGAN the rebuild? Stop with the "no buffalo bill can ever do wrong," bull **** and get your head out of the sand. When a HC dismantles an already successful defense, insists upon putting the success of the offense on a !@#$ing career backup, then stabs his GM's back ..... Well, my friend - that's a !@#$ing rebuild. How did he stab Whaley in the back? (serious question) The more I hear about the Ryan Brothers, the less optimistic I am for the '16 season... Perhaps we should just wait to see what these two (jagoffs)- come up with?... -No point in getting bummed out before training camp even starts. this how I feel about it too, we have all season to be miserable no use making our championships (offseason) bad too.
Kelly the Dog Posted May 28, 2016 Posted May 28, 2016 Pegula's management style is to hire people and let them do their job, until they prove they can't. That's what he's doing. It's also what he did with the Sabres. That's exactly right. He's a little more shrewd and nasty than his public persona but you nailed it. If either Rex or Whaley succeed in his eyes, he will be loyal to them. He really doesn't like the negativity of the press and I doubt very much that sways him at all.
Coach Tuesday Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 So this gets my vote for worst thread of all time.
Gugny Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 So this gets my vote for worst thread of all time. Back stabber.
dpberr Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 This season will either be the best season we've all experienced since 1999 or the very worst. I suppose we can look forward to it being magnanimous either way.
Coach Tuesday Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 (edited) Back stabber. A TSW pillow fight over a slanted interpretation of a second-hand report about a reference to an article which already has its own thread. It's like Inception, only stupid. Edited May 29, 2016 by Coach Tuesday
Buffalo Barbarian Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 (edited) This season will either be the best season we've all experienced since 1999 or the very worst. I suppose we can look forward to it being magnanimous either way. or we could be average again. If there was a championship for being mediocre we would have won 13 out 15 yrs Edited May 29, 2016 by Buffalo Barbarian
iinii Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 So this gets my vote for worst thread of all time. With ten more pages to go, it is already the worst?
Hapless Bills Fan Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 I think people are making up stories. Rex and Doug seem to get along just fine. This is kind of like Vic's supposed source who said that the Pegulas issued an ultimatum. One does not have to have an inside source (as Vic's said he had) to know that an ultimatum is not the Pegulas' style. This is complete BS in my opinion.Yes, it was. If memory serves me correctly, it was even discredited by one of Vic's colleagues at TBN (either Ty Dunne or TG) Ty Dunne reported that there was no ultimatum, that several sources who know the Pegulas well said that is foreign to their style. It wouldn't be unheard-of for one of two men who genuinely get along well to back-stab the other in order to save his hide, but it seems to me one of two things will happen: 1) Rex and Rob and the Bills win. Yea! No reason to back-stab anyone 2) Rex and Rob and the Bills lose. In that instance, do they really have the clout to get Whaley fired? How good is Bowles if he couldn't get by such a crap coach as Rex? He beats him once and the Jets make the playoffs. So much on the line and he can't win one against a guy you'd fire? You'd take him? Actually, what I'd like to take is the well-prepared, motivated disciplined Rex-coach team that faced the Jets twice last season. They looked sharp and they got the job done. The problem is, we don't seem able to get him for the other 14 games.
atlbillsfan1975 Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 I hate to be a naysayer. I'm really trying to find a hint of optimism. But reading that just made me feel like this team is going to be a 4-win team (after 17 weeks, not 4). I don't see this as good news. At all. Do you ever?
Dopey Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 I'd love to visit an alternate universe where Todd Bowles coaches the Bills and missed the playoffs because his team couldn't beat an allegedly inferior Jets team twice. I'd love to read the TSW comments in that universe. It would have been a hell of a lot better than the crap we got last season from Rex.
Maury Ballstein Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 It would have been a hell of a lot better than the crap we got last season from Rex. Todd Bowles the goat !! Lost to Hoyer and Tyrod twice. Crown him
Fixxxer Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 or we could be average again. If there was a championship for being mediocre we would have won 13 out 15 yrs hey, we're the best at something.....
BarleyNY Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 Pegula's management style is to hire people and let them do their job, until they prove they can't. That's what he's doing. It's also what he did with the Sabres. Lol. Doesn't everyone who hires someone to run something keep them in that position until they think they can't do the job? Is there an NFL owner somewhere who likes to leave a GM or HC in place long after they lose confidence in them? Todd Bowles the goat !! Lost to Hoyer and Tyrod twice. Crown him Yeah. Rex was disappointing for sure, but Bowles was awful. He was particularly terrible at game management.
PromoTheRobot Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 (edited) It would have been a hell of a lot better than the crap we got last season from Rex.What was our reaction to going 9-7 but missing the playoffs by losing to the Steelers third stringers? Edited May 29, 2016 by PromoTheRobot
4merper4mer Posted May 29, 2016 Posted May 29, 2016 What was our reaction to going 9-7 but missing the playoffs by losing to the Steelers third stringers? I, for one, stopped excusing Rian Lindell for spelling his name that stupid way.
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