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Let's assume Rex is staying, what next?
Dr. K replied to Dragonborn10's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
What happens? . . . I stop caring. -
I thought it was a bad hire, mostly because it seemed to me obvious that Schwartz would have to leave and the defense change, when the problems with last year's team were more on the offensive side of the ball. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is my motto. And I remembered that this is the same thing that happened when the Bills hired Gregg Williams, who proceeded to dismantle a fine defense Wade Phillips had built up. Even if I liked Rex's personality (which I did not), the Bills had a good defense and lousy offense--so the Pegulas hired a HC whose supposed strength was defense? No
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Fire Rex. Yes, there are other problems, but the meltdown this season all comes down to him. The team right now is a trash fire and he's the reason. These same defensive players last season were able to do their jobs and succeed at them. Then Rex comes in with his bluster and his schemes and suddenly they all become incompetent? Suddenly they can't play ten snaps without a penalty? Hiring him was the worst decision the Pegulas have made, and until they undo it, the team is in the dumpster. You can tell yourself it's just a matter of getting rid of the players who don't fit his system or his personality, and replacing them with others, but Ryan shows manifest inadequacies as a game day coach and leader of the team. His squad is undisciplined, confused, hesitant, out of synch. His game prep is spotty at best. I do not see how it will get better--change the players and he'll still be the same man with the same bad habits, inability to change, unsuccessful methods and excuses. He must go.
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Bills @ Redskins: First Half Thread
Dr. K replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I am enjoying this more than I ever have a humiliating loss. After more than FIFTY years of following the Bills, I just don't care anymore. Not as long as this clown is the head coach. -
Bills @ Redskins: First Half Thread
Dr. K replied to TakeYouToTasker's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Fire Rex. -
Did this year just hurt more than the last 16?
Dr. K replied to 1st Ammendment NoMas's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't know. I can say I've seldom been unhappier with a head coach of the Bills and I don't expect ever to like this clown. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Just my opinion, but firing Whaley and keeping Rex would be disastrous. Brain dead. One of the worst moves ever. On the other hand, I would not be surprised if Whaley leaves on his own for a better situation. He's hog tied with having no power over Rex and he can probably see the writing on the wall as well as anyone. I expect him to be a long time successful GM, with titles on his record, somewhere, if not here. -
Have you experienced a championship as a fan of another team
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I went to grad school at the University of Kansas and lived in KC for five years 1977-82 and became a Royals fan. So I've had the pleasure of seeing KU win the NCAA basketball title in 1988 and 2008, and the Royals win the World Series in 1985 and this year. I also suffered with the Jayhawks losing the NCAA title game three times, including once to Syracuse. And seeing the Royals have one of the worst records in baseball from 1985 to 2013, missing the playoffs for 28 years. I also saw the Royal lose to the Phillies in the 1980 World Series, got to see them lose the crucial game 5 in person at Royals Stadium. 1982-83 was my first year teaching at NC State, and I saw all that craziness, that 6-game winning streak that took them to the title against Houston. I was at the bonfire in the Brickyard the night that Lorenzo Charles's dunk off Derrick Wittenberg's missed jumper won the game at the buzzer. Wittenberg was a student in my American Lit class. He earned a B. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The be all and end all of defense is points given up. The Bills are giving up almost a touchdown more per game than last year, even though their offense is better and not turning the ball over at a greater rate. Maybe the time of possession stats would better if the defense could stop somebody and get off the field. Maybe the Bills would face fewer drives if they didn't let their opponents score so readily. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
And the year before prognosticators were sure Schwartz's defense would decline from Pettine's because they lost Alonzo for the season and Jairus Byrd, who led the team in interceptions, to New Orleans. But they got better under Schwartz. You can't convince me the decline across the board in the Bills defense is solely because of injuries. They've been less than the 2014 squad since day one of this season. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I wish you would not paint with such a broad brush. I had plenty of misgivings about Rex and his system from the moment he was hired. I thought it was stupid to hire him and insure a change of D scheme when the D was not broken, the O was broken. I wanted them to hire an offensive-minded coach and keep Schwartz on, and I said it at the time. I even thought, idly, that the Bills would have been better off with Gailey as head coach and Schwartz as D coordinator, thought of course that was impossible. As I've already said several times, my instinct is not to change things for change's sake. We'll see how much any of us are willing to stay the course with Rex after another season or two. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I agree 100% with your post. But Big Cat is all in on Rex. We'll see how he does once he's purged the front seven and gets his own kind of players. I don't see how that is going to remedy the lack of accountability and discipline, and I am skeptical his defense next year is going to rise to the level of the defense he destroyed pretty much single handedly (with some help from injuries, to be sure). -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I agree. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Thank you finally for replying. I think what our disagreement comes down to is your statement that "The man knows what he's doing." From the evidence of what has happened on the field (I don't care much about his press conferences--he's great at press conferences, actually--very enjoyable and frank), from the disorganized and undisciplined play, from the number of personal fouls and inability of experienced, intelligent players to succeed in his system, I don't see it. I do want to reiterate that I have never been a fan who wants change for the sake of change--I have felt that, as a fan, I don't know everything and for the most part we ought to leave it to the professionals. But in this case I think the results, and the manner in which those results have come about, cast Ryan's competence into grave question. I'll also point out, as someone did above, that when Schwartz came in and instituted a completely new defensive system (which I was wary about, after Pettine's modicum of success the previous year) the team picked it up and played BETTER under him. He did not have to get rid of a third of the defense to get an improvement. A player like Bradham, who had looked ineffective in Pettine's defense, looked worlds better under Schwartz. Dareus came into his own. Mario looked great and people stopped crying about his salary. Kyle and Hughes had fine years. The rookie Brown looked like a steal in the draft. But now apparently we need to get rid of half to two-thirds of the front seven in order to get competent play. But that's getting down into the weeds, and it's clear at this point we will not agree. So we'll have to agree to disagree. If the Bills make it to 11-5 next season I will gladly come back here and say you were right. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yes, I pin (most) of the blame on Ryan. I have given reasons why I think it should fall on him. The best argument I have heard from you for keeping him is continuity. I agree that changing coaches and systems every other season is a bad practice and incompatible with winning teams. I also admit that, given what they have invested in him, the Pegulas are unlikely to switch at this point. But there are some things that trump continuity. I have not seen anything in this season and the lead-up to it, in Ryan's ways of dealing with the problems this team has shown and his habitual practices, that tells me we can expect better results from Ryan in the future. Are you simply unwilling to tell us what you have seen from him that causes you to feel otherwise? So again: What do you like about Rex Ryan? What has he shown this season that makes you confident he will do better next season. Do you believe that the Bills under him will ever be consistently good over a season, let alone five or ten years, the way the Pats or Steelers or Broncos have been? -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I asked you politely to share "what do you like about Rex Ryan? What has he shown this season that makes you confident he will do better next season. Do you believe that the Bills under him will ever be consistently good over a season, let alone five or ten years, the way the Pats or Steelers or Broncos have been?" Is it unreasonable for me to ask this? -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
You're probably right that they won't fire him. But I want to ask you honestly, with sincerity and no hostility, what do you like about Rex Ryan? What has he shown this season that makes you confident he will do better next season. Do you believe that the Bills under him will ever be consistently good over a season, let alone five or ten years, the way the Pats or Steelers or Broncos have been? -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Rex is on the right track, when he is the one responsible for those schemes and stupidity you complain about? I don't want wholesale change. Keep Roman, for instance. Keep the players who were fine on D the previous year. Let Whaley draft additional players and sign quality free agents, which he has shown he can do. Rex Ryan is the problem, not the solution. I want him out of Buffalo. -
Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Don't fire Whaley. Don't gut the roster of fine players just because they don't fit Rex's scheme. Fire Rex. -
If Rex is the coach? Maybe 8, maximum. Probably 6.
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Carucci doesn't expect any offseason changes...
Dr. K replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
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. Exactly. Continuity was destroyed the minute they hired this clown. Continuity is not a virtue when he's already proven his incompetence, his DETRIMENTAL influence on the team and players, in a single season. -
Do we blow it up? How does the "reload" look?
Dr. K replied to KRT88's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Agree about Whaley and Roman; very much disagree about Rex.
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You're probably right. That's why, for the first time in my 50 years of being a Bills fan, I actually want them to lose out, badly, in the hope the Pegulas might fire him if the team gets blown out in their last three games--especially the final home game against the Jets.
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You say this yet you want to keep Rex, who is solely responsible for putting the players in this situation? Do you imagine that he is going to change the habits of his whole career and let somebody else design the defense? As long as Rex is here he will be forcing his system. If he stays, there will be a fire sale on all the players who "don't fit." For one example, Dareus, who looked great in Schwartz's system, will look like a stiff. Mario will probably be axed. Bradham will be dumped. etc.