FireChan

So good. Look at them play!

GET READY BECAUSE WE'RE GOING

Like tearing off a band-aid.

lol.

Blaming him for what?

Are you Doug Whaley?

Then why wouldn't we have seen Orton and Tyrod?

Yes, I am referring to the TC roster. That's how the process works in the NFL, with some rare exceptions. However, upon doing some more research, it does appear the "story" floating out there is that Whaley controls the 53 and Rex the 46 game day roster. So who knows? The last question is something to track. When Ryan was hired, the team announced that he'd report directly to owner Terry Pegula. Whaley has control over the 53-man roster and Ryan has control over the 46-man game-day roster. http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2015/11/jets_bills_rex_ryan_doug_marrone_sammy_watkins.html

I mean, that's assembling the 90. Not the 53. Coaches make the cuts, and do gameday rosters. I was responding to someone who thought Doug Whaley had control in regards to what QB started. Every report says he has no control in that say. Along with the fact that any GM controlling the 53 and the game day roster would mean the coaches basically have no control over anything, makes that very very unlikely.

Huh? You think the GM controls who starts on gameday, let alone the 53? What HC would even agree to that set up?

If Idzik wanted Geno to start, we wouldn't have seen Mike Vick at QB!

That's true. But Doug Whaley put him on the list of coaches he wanted.

Whaley doesn't control the 53.

He advised the Pegulas on hiring Rex.

Vic that bastard stirring the pot. Nothing ever came of this!

Lots of broken Whaley hearts in here.

Those people are morons.

That's why a top 10 QB turns everything around. Regimes come and go, talent comes and goes, and the perfect time to make a run comes and goes, but with 15 years of franchise QB play, you have a pretty big window.

Well, in fairness to that crowd, Rex has hired his first moderately competent OC in, well, 6 years. And he has produced some darn good defenses throughout most of his career. Rex will get the defense straightened out, IMO. The only problem (and it is a huge problem) is that Rex will get the D fixed by making personnel changes. The loss of our Pro-Bowl caliber 4-3 personnel will happen. Will we ever seen a defense the caliber of the 2014 season? I doubt it. But we will be decent to good again. Good enough to maintain a playoff and Superbowl window? That remains to be seen. The modern NFL doesn't allow for those windows to last long, no matter how good of a HC/DC we have. Our playmakers will age, or get figured out. We will lose FAs. Players that would be improvements to the team will be lost to FA. I see us backing into a playoff spot in the next 2 years, getting bounced, then suffering a couple 7-9/8-8/6-10 seasons, then another regime change in our future. Maybe that's progress. Maybe not. A step forward, 2 back, and then some side-stepping. A hallowed Bills tradition. Yes it will be better. Because we'll get rid of the players that don't fit, and hopefully find a few that do. We won't draft/sign 2 Pro-Bowlers. And maybe I have higher expectations, but a drop from #3 to #20 is unacceptable. Point blank.

Okay. When the offense struggled early in DM's tenure, folks said it was one year. I don't think it's too much to expect out of this defense to be good every single year. Do you?

Okay, that's true, RR found a way to get the offensive side of the ball right. But yet, it's not enough.

I really am. For once. I promise to not skew.

Best offense of his career! Hits just under .500! Explain how this supports any of your positions TBC. Please, I'm dying to hear it.

The linebackers are fine, just not in Ryan's scheme. Too bad he's not flexible, huh? The offense has been decent to good all year. The first year of "new scheme," hasn't seemed to stop them. Roman has one of them most complex playbooks in the NFL, FYI. In fact, with a brand new QB and less overall talent, Roman has done so much more than Rex, it's not even funny. Crossman was fine last year. You could make the argument that the ST players are different, but who cut those players? "Doug Marrone hang over effect?" Are we making things up now? Although, maybe I'd be feeling pretty bad too, if I was a Bills player and I knew I was in-store for at least 3 years of Rex Ryan losing and excuses and "taking the blame while also shifting blame," BS.