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I won't be furious or elated with any hire, particularly if it's a coordinator. People on this board act like you simply have to look at where a particular coordinator's D or O ranked and the higher the ranking, the better the hire. Nobody has a clue how good a HC any of these guys will be and I'll be willing to give all of them a chance.

I wouldn't have in a normal situation, but with 4 min left, a D that can't stop anybody and a tie doing no good...you have to go for it, the season was on the line. To me, the decision came down to which is more likely: the O picking up a 4th and 3 or the D forcing a 3 and out. Whichever you thought was more likely was the call to make. Given how both units had played in the game up until that point I would have much more faith in the O than the D. Given how the game had gone the last thing the Bills wanted there was for the Miami O to get another opportunity vs. the pathetic Bills' D. But Rex has faith in his D, even if it isn't justified.

Sounds like you don't understand it's a bit more difficult with the Pats in the division. Houston wouldn't sniff the playoffs if they had to get 10 wins and capture a WC instead of winning the weakest division in football two years running. Houston went 5-1 in their division and 4-6 outside their division the last two years. Yeah, it has nothing to do with their division.

Put it in the end zone. Don't stall at the 30 yard line then blame the kicker. And the Bills offense had two chances in OT. Neither time did they get the job done. So much for this as a shining example of TTs clutch performance. Reminded me of the Seahawk game. Looked good the entire game but with the game on the line couldn't finish the job. TTs two best games if the season ended in losses when he had a chance to win it st the end. Win those two games and the Bills are playing this weekend and TT is on the roster next year. All that being said I lean towards bringing him back because they have nobody else who is better. But let's not sell this like TT is a clutch player, he isn't.

Particularly when the offense didn't finish the job vs. Miami. Put it in the end zone in OT and the game is over. TT played well overall, but using a game they lost as an example of his comeback abilities is pretty funny.

That's because they are a well coached team.

Since when is expecting to be treated fairly "owning the world?"

Would have needed the Titans to lose to Houston today which didn't happen.

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You think this stuff can be fixed by a single individual in a week?

Agreed. I have no ill will towards the guy. He seems like a genuinely decent human being, it appears he put in the hard work to try and improve...he just wasn't good at the QB position. The game was just too fast for him.

It wasn't just that Gillislee didn't jump on the ball once it was in the end zon but he ran forward to block when the ball was kicked deep to his half of the field. They weren't playing a single deep returner, wtf was he thinking? Then to further the blunder by thinking it was a touchback... Horrible individual effort and awareness but also speaks to how the players are just generally unprepared.

He looks better throwing the ball than anybody on the Bills.

He had them in the playoffs 4 out of the first 5 years. Then when he was hired by the Giants he did the exact same thing. I have no clue if the game has "passed him by" or if he's physically up to the task of taking on another HC job but, at the very least, the Bills should talk to him.

I'm guessing he would have gone 0/2 in the last game but he would have been there to speak with the press afterwards.

I'm assuming so.

Yeah, it sounds like they calculated the odds of them making the playoffs for 17 straight years, not missing them.

At the very least Lynn isn't calling for Jackson to run an end around on 2nd and 11 when driving for the winning score. So even if he calls that boneheaded play, at least it's Shady.

Beat the Dolphins and a team would have gotten in at 9-7.

Sorry to pick out one sentence of your entire post but I keep seeing this and I don't understand it. Why do people think Pettine did a good job with this D. So good, in fact, that he should be brought back? Everybody agrees Rex's defenses the past two years have been garbage. That garbage has been better than what Pettine did with the D in terms of scoring D. 2016 D - (Rex/Thurman) 23.2 (15th in NFL) 2015 D - (Rex/Thurman) 22.4 (15th) 2013 D (Pettine) - 24.2 ppg (20th) Pettine's D only looked good - in Bills fans' eyes - because they finally logged some sacks and it followed Wanstadt's horrible defense of 2012 (27.2 ppg, 26th in NFL)

They are changing coaches. I have no doubt that they'll want to get their new coach's input before they decide to pick up, or decline, the option. Not playing him has no bearing on whether he stays or not given the coaching change. There's just no point in the Bills backing themselves into a corner and having to pick up the option if he gets hurt. I don't think Cardale plays unless EJ gets hurt. It doesn't sound like they think he's ready and he'll only go in to prevent Taylor for needing to go in.

It should have been anybody other than a coach who reported to Ryan. Anybody in upper management would have fit the bill. Pegula, Whaley, Brandon, somebody should have had the sack to step up to the podium and answer the questions before Lynn went out there. Because like everybody else on earth they have a job to do on a daily basis and they can't wait until Monday to get to work. They'll ask anybody from the Bills organization any question regarding the football team - particularly ones that involve the recent firing of the HC - to anybody who steps up to answer questions. Not sure how anybody puts this on the media.

Because they'd rather have a quote than just speculate I just wish Whaley would have taken the podium on Tuesday to announce the firing and answer questions just so he didn't throw Lynn out there to face the sh*tstorm that was not of his creation.

Not sure why everybody can't read between the lines. The team doesn't fire Rex on the Monday after the game. He holds his regular Monday press conference and states Tyrod is the starter. The next day Rex is fired and its announced EJ is starting. Seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? Rex would be here one more week if he would have agreed to start EJ. He got fired now because he was going to go with TT despite it not being in the team's best long term interests due to the injury clause. Why do people need to hear Lynn say he was or wasn't part of the decison? We know he wasn't. We know why the decison was made. I wil say that I'm generally a supporter of Whaley as GM but is f'n weak as hell that he never spoke to the press about Rex's firing and then threw Lynn up there to take the hard questions. A guy who started the year as RB coach is left to take those questions? Really disappointed in ownership and management for handling it this way. If I'm a potential coaching candidate I look at that with raised eyebrows. That's the leadership this team has?

I don't know the alternative. Its a tough call. TT is likely good enough, if he is with a complete team, to help the Bills to the playoffs. The issue becomes,"at what cost?" At his current salary, yeah, Id take him until someone better comes along. But with his pay hike it becomes even more difficult to field a complete team. Suddenly you can't afford everybody else. The QB has to be able to make up for other team deficiencies in that case. Can TT do that? I haven't seen it on anywhere near a consistent basis yet. That being said, I don't have the answer to who else they could get who could do just as well for cheaper.