2020 Our Year For Sure

I made the same point over the offseason in arguing against drafting a WR in the early rounds, I get where you'e coming from. Your position is fair. My position is that I think we use our talent better now than we did under Roman. He left and McCoy turned back the clock 3 years, Woods and Clay became useful players, and Sunday even Goodwin had a day. We still haven't seen healthy Watkins sans Roman. Say what you will about Taylor but give him a Lee Evans-type and its a lethal deep ball combo. That can have further impact because it can keep the safeties back and create space for our strong running game.

Might be easier to get in the running if we weren't already down a 4th rounder.

Is there any dead money if we cut him?

Keep him + draft a QB I'm always against downgrading at quarterback when it is not necessary. Self inflicted wound

Yeah if his D can't lead the way then Rex' teams are in trouble. Its his own approach to OC hires, player personnel and game management that make it so. The design from the ground up is for the offense to 'do enough' to make a game of it and for the defense, the expected stronger unit, to win or lose. See his usage of 1st round picks with the Jets, now the top pick in two drafts has gone to D in Buffalo. What really grinds my geeuhs is the continued wasting of the end-of-half possession. I thought that would leave with Roman but I see it goes one step higher up the chain. All part of the plan.

Our top 3 draft picks all defensive players At the end of every first half we're more committed to running out the clock than scoring points We never think about going for it on 4th The defense is supposed to be carrying this team, that's our model.

Mills got killed today too.

He seems not to be a believer coming out of Rex's time in NJ. Keep proving em wrong Rexy

Yeah esiason was the one bringing up the QBs and questioning the Bills run. Simms was saying give credit to Rex for adapting and firing Roman and now their offense is better tailored to Tyrod's skillset. They were later asked which AFC team can beat new England and Irvin said Buffalo. Simms agreed Buffalo has a shot. Was complimentary to our boys the OP confused him with Boomer.

I feel like that Bengals game is a big one. I don't count the Bills out against NE* or Pittsburgh but I can't expect to get those games. @Cincinnati and @Oakland...two playoff contenders I perceive as right around our level. Those would be huge AFC wins if we could get em.

There's no question that he's going upfield quicker and more aggressively than last year. Anyone can see that, I think. He still bounces outside a bit too much in my humble opinion. I think skepticism is warranted any time an athlete who has done nothing but dominate their whole life at every level of competition always doing things one particular way, suddenly tries to make a fundamental shift in playing style. Do you see how fast he is hitting some of these holes? The difference is at times astonishing! Shady seems in the process of proving himself but even if he wins league MVP I'll happily continue to be skeptical in that kind of situation. Big time kudos to LeSean McCoy for openly acknowledging his failures of last season rather than living in denial as some among us did, and being able to make such an impressive (and productive!!) transition. I'm so grateful that the archaic Greg Roman is out of our lives and that along with Shady's renaissance, Clay has suddenly become a useful player again (Sammy where art thou!). I thought Shady was a talented player in a vacuum and more than once pointed out that there were 3 different wins last year we probably do not get without him. My thing was I just did not think he and Roman made sense together, and thought that mismatch of coach and player led to a lot of the shortcomings you've incisively pointed out over the last year. and Roman always seemed stuck in his ways, slow to adapt if ever. Kudos is due to Rex for pulling that trigger, I only wish he'd done it a few months sooner- we'd likely be 5-1 on the way to 6-1 right now had Coach Ryan taken my phone calls.

He actually can speak

Nothing but respect

Insightful post

I hope we are respectful. Good on McCoy for saying this.

Kudos

lol cant argue with that. He wanted to be the head man and to that end, it made a heck of a lot more sense at that time to tell the Pegulas "the only way you're getting this great defense back next year is to make me head coach" and give them something to think about, rather than "I'll be here no matter what" which makes it exceedingly easy for them to pass him over. Then once a coach is actually hired the whole picture for JS changes. I'm not a huge Schwartz guy mind you, its not easy to maintain 3-4 outstanding defensive linemen year after year.

That's what he said when the HC position was open and he was trying to convince them that he's the guy to lead the Bills to a championship. If he says at that time that he's willing to stay as DC then the Pegulas decision becomes very easy. Circumstances change. It's all conjecture.

Interesting thought, I'll be looking out for this. The league has been pushing the Rams hard.

Cool thread. Rex has those boys ballin out!

Only if Dan watches the games.

I kept waiting for them to break out the passing play. Maybe we should save it for the rematch.

I just went with what the video showed at the time. Enjoy the game you ray of sunshine

He was sticking up for his quarterback. The Bills started it. I think it's a good thing. We're an emotional team and maybe we can bring them down to our level. Edit oh just saw Yolos post.

Bring em down to our level! Well done DBs.