Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

So apparently for the week 17 changes, along with two opposing 4:30 games the rule about no televised game on opposite network when you're playing at home also goes away. The Bills are playing in Buffalo at 1:00, in other weeks Fox could not televise a game into the Buffalo market at 1:00, but this week they are along with every other home market of teams. Never picked up on that in past years.

I also think he'll be re-signed with Denver. If he were to hit FA, to me that sets off a red flag. If the team that sees him every day is willing to let him go, then maybe he's not as magical as he's made out to be. You could also make the argument that if the Bill's were to go after Osweiler, it may be fore the same reason, that they see too many flaws in TT that are not fixable. There may be flaws that once teams see more of Osweiler he'll regress. TT also has played more games so more to look at on him, both good and bad. The question for both of them is can they take the next step. For that reason I'd more likely stick with TT in that he know the offense. Improvements to the O-line and the defense overall, and he could likely pull a few more wins out by next season. Overall there are many things wrong with the Bills that need fixing more than changes and spending money at QB

Polien also got out of Buffalo before the big push in free agency started. Instead he left that mess to John Butler, who never met a player he didn't love and over-paid for many. Granted it kept the team strong through the late 90's, but then the bottom fell out fast.

I'm not against keeping Rex around for another year, but am against re-doing the roster to suit a one-trip pony coach. I suppose maybe that's not a fair statement in that we have no idea what Rex was stating privately. Maybe it's just his style to publicly state how they'll be the #1 D to try and build up their confidence, but behind closed doors talking about what changes they'll need to make. But if he truly told both DW and Terry that he's make this cast of players the #1 ranked defense then hold him too it and lets not make another bunch of changes

Why?? What exactly has HE done as oppsoed to the GM and others in the front office. He may be great, who knows, but how do you know who really were his choices? How do you know this guy didn't say, "You asked me to evaluate players: A, B, C, or D I did and I'd recommend they be picked in order of A, C, B, and wouldn't pick player D at all, and the GM then said well I like player D the best and picked him. That guy became a star and everyone is giving Wolf the credit. I realize it's not anywhere that simple, but really don't know what Wolf really has done himself compared to the rest of the team. And as was mentions having Favre and Rodgers makes anyone look good. He may be great, but who knows so I'd be reluctant to get rid of a guy like DW for an unknown considering IMO DW has done way more good than bad. You can blast him for his QB selections, but you can blast almost all of the teams in the league there too, ironically except for Green Bay

Were there really many injuries to the D in the first 5 or 6 weeks? All I recall was Aaron Williams being injured early in the season, but the defense was bad from the first game on. (at least they were consistent) So really can't completely buy the injury argument. To me the funny part about the Fred Jackson thing was everyone went nuts over; Fred was such an inspiration, belongs on the wall of fame, etc. In reality the only reason Fred was here so long and was the star was that the rest of the team was terrible for so long, so made him look real good.

we wouldn't need the NT or the 3-54 DE if Rex just used the players to their strengths

I wish there were a tool you could use to determine is the person just trolling or are they really that stupid. 1000+ posts, have to lean towards the stupid side. If they are just trolling still feel bad for the person that they need to do things like this to get attention and make themselves feel important

I can recall reading that his kid was coming in and that he was going to hire AJ Smith, another one who'd help run the team into the ground. Granted the articles could have all been 100% speculation based on Polians former moves Don't understand why anyone would want Schwartz as HC. Rex was a great coordinator too, and even has a better track record the Schwartz does as a HC, look how that worked out?

Wow, apparently their site doesn't have the same level of censorship as we have here with respect to naughty words.

I'm sure Rex was drooling at the thought of taking these great players and exposing them to his brilliant defense, they'd become the greats D-line in the history of football and likely he told Terry that too.

If I’m Terry Pegula, I hear the fans, many of the media, and other NFL folks I speak with stating I should dump Rex. But I also hear the people stating we need continuity and that does also make sense. When you’re filthy rich like I am, paying $20 plus mil to Rex doesn’t sound like much, but it’s still $20 mil. I could instead use it to buy that helicopter I was looking at last month! Likely I’m not going to get any offsets on his contract either as highly doubtful another team will sign him as a HC. If Rex is fired, think there’s a better chance he and his brother Rob show up next on the carnival circuit than getting close to another HC offer. I also don’t want it to look like I have no idea what I’m doing if I fire Rex after one season, both in how it affects others view of the team, i.e. potential coaches, players, etc. and for personal reasons, I’d rather not look like an idiot either, but could live with that if it helps the team. So maybe I call rex into my office next week and ask him, Rex what happened? Defense is a complete mess, hell even my son knows that, leading the league in penalties, no discipline, special teams is a disaster. Maybe that’s an easy one, we both agree on, can the ST coach, but what about the defense? It was a top five before your arrival, you told me they’d be #1, what went wrong? Why couldn’t you use these same players like they were used last season and they played great? Haven’t you ever heard, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Why am I hearing your defense was so complicated there was only one guy in NY who understood it, that’s not good!! Yes we had many injures, but other than Aaron Williams, really not many injuries the first 5 or 6 weeks defensively, and they were terrible from week one on. Here’s the one thing I’m NOT going to do Rex, I’m not getting rid of perfectly good players because you tell me they don’t fit your system, and sign new ones and get ourselves into salary cap hell again. If these players don’t fit your system, you should have told me that last year before I resigned Hughes and Darrius to extensions, or better yet before I hired you. So either you need to coach the bulk of these players and make a good team out of it or I’ll get someone who can. I’m not going down this rabbit hole with you, so you need to figure out how to dig yourself out with the tools I’ve given you, or I’ll drop a big rock right on the top of the hole and you’ll be buried forever, never to be heard from again. Please explain to me why exactly I’m paying Dennis Thurman a salary? What does he do besides yell at officials after the games over? He needs to be the second person you fire after Crossman. Quite frankly based on where we are right now, I’m not completely certain you can turn this around, but am willing to give you the chance. You need to hire a defense coordinator that knows how to coach these players to their strength, who can coach a “Wide Nine”. Someone like a Jim Schwartz though doubt he’d come back. Then again the reason he left was he felt if the D played well or better, you’d get all the credit and not him so staying wouldn’t help his career. Well the way things are now, if he came back and re-righted the ship, he’d get all the credit for turning the D around and you’d get none. I hired you to be the HC, not run the D so you need to hire a DC who will run the defense again best suited to their strengths and let him run it the way he wanted to. Then maybe you can concentrate on being the HC, as lord knows this team needs a good leader. Between the penalties, lack of discipline, comments to the press, they need someone. Maybe then you can concentrate on replays. So Rex, can you do this, hire a good DC and you do what is needed as the HC. If you don’t feel you’re able to tell me now, if you’re just some one trick pony and can’t do anything different than what I just saw, I’ll move on now. I’m not big on the press like you are, so I have no problem, letting you call a press conference and announcing to the world how you figured out these are the changes that you need to make, you can take all the credit, that’s fine. There are some other lesser changes needed that we can talk about tomorrow, so go home sleep on it and let me know if you think you can handle this….. I’m sure the argument would be Rex would never agree to this, but the way I see it, if TP fires Rex, he’s take some ridicule from some, but he’ll also earn praise from others for admitting his mistakes and moving on. For Rex getting canned after only one season could be brutal, he will be the brunt of all the off season jokes. At the NFL awards show, Rex will likely be front and center in the hosts 15 minute opening monologue . If he’s fired his career could be over or at best if he’s lucky he may get a DC position, but even that I’m not certain the way things have gone here in one dreadful season. So he may have little choice but to go along with Terry’s “suggestions” And last but certainly no least, if I’m Terry Pegula I’d announce that I’m going to give .0001% of my net worth to anyone on Two Bills Drive whom has over 10,000 posts!! And the author of this post too of course!

Um... I was joking!!

What really amazes me is that they did all this without Freddy!!! I can only imagine where they'd been with him!

You'd think Pegula himself and maybe in discussion with Whale at a very high level would have to ask long and hard, OK if we make moves like this and the team doesn't play any better, still lead the league in penalty's, no discipline etc, if at the end of next season I did want to fire Rex, how much would these moves set the team back in regards to flexibility moving forward. You'd likely be eating contracts at the expense of giving Rex the team he wants, now if you bring someone else in as coach, you could be looking at dumping even more. Is it better to bail out now before digging yourself such a deep hole, it could take even more years to dig out from. (rather fitting WRT Terry's comments about digging another well I suppose)

Is he even a good scout?? That may be pushing it! The other name he'd like push is AJ Smith who I'd also want to keep as far away as possible.

Cause he's a players coach, Rex would likely never do that.

Henderson struggled this whole season. If it turns out he lost weight, and was actually somewhat sick since September or so, that could explain his weak play. Assuming he's over the illness next season, I'd problem give him another year to see how he does. If he truly was healthy till maybe around Nov and and his play the first half is as good as he really is, then I'd imagine you need a replacement for him regardless of whether he can play or not.

Yes but the origina; post was talking about next year, 2016 season, so that's two years older

So what's your suggestion instead of TT? Certainly easy to find potential better choices than Rex. QB is a different story. Like it or not, the truth is just based on all the other teams also struggling at QB, finding someone better is not very likely for QB

Jim's system worked with the 2014 Bills. as was pointed out the D line is now 2 years older.

That's the biggest reason to run as far away and as fast as you can from Polian. Everything I've read his son is a disaster, but likely if you hire Bill you get he kid too. And not far behind will be AJ Smith another mess. And what makes you think Peyton knows anything about running a football team? This infatuation with big names amazes me!

More than likely "The Dude" is correct only because the odd are highly stacked in his favor. Look around the league, many more fail than succeed. I've said it many times, I'd gladly take a bet with all 32 teams that I'd state QB "X" is bad and will be gone in less than 3 years. If I made 32 bets like that one for each team I'd win more than I'd lose. That's the OP's problem we have a much better chance of replacing TT with an EJ type of talent than an Aaron Rodgers simply bast on league history.

Per Carucci's column today, he stated, "DW has one year left on his contract" I was surprised to see that as all along heard this was the final year?? Wondering which is correct, or did Carucci mean one year left as in this year?? I've also wondered what impact Rex may have in hiring of a new GM as am certain he wouldn't want to go down same path as what happened with him in NY

I'd agree with most of what you stated. Yeah he's no where near Rothlisberger, but neither are about 25 other #1 QB's on teams in the league. So we can draft someone in the 1st or 2nd round, but what makes you think he'll be any better and this by no means a knock on the Bills scouting and coaching. It's just reality as there are very few people that make the transition from college to the NFL very well. Everyone knocks EJ, but the real problem with him isn't so much his abilities as much as where he was picked. If the Bills had picked him in the 2nd or 3rd round, there wouldn't be nearly the hysteria over him, he still would have been just as bad, but no big deal, and you dump him. I bring him up only to point out there is a much better odds of getting someone of his capabilities than there are of getting another Aaron Rodgers. They just don't exist hardly ever. Is TT capable like Eli did today of bringing the team back from down 35-7, probably not, but the key is don't allow your defense to give up four TD's like the Bills did today. Assuming he improves somewhat, particularly on short passes and build a good team around TT he likely would be capable of winning. Unless you can get real lucky and get a Rodgers, but instead have one of these at the next level of talent, once these others rookie contract expires they will still get big $$ and then there isn't enough money left to build the team around him. As I read somewhere just last week in a comment about Brady, "He is able to make the players around him better" Well unless you get real lucky and get someone of his level, more likely you'll be dumping TT for another EJ.