OldTimeAFLGuy Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 1 hour ago, joesixpack said: Except when it comes to the one thing a qb needs to do: passing the ball. ...huh?...thought it was all the WRs' fault...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 10:00 PM, 26CornerBlitz said: You can thank him now, because McDermott made the call to bring him back in '17. Because there was none better out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted December 17, 2017 Author Share Posted December 17, 2017 2 minutes ago, ganesh said: Because there was none better out there. The UFA QB market was the dregs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87168 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 I love how every thread comes back to tyrod, when its origin was Rex's incompetence. a well documented characteristic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearLess Price Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 5:13 PM, 3rdand12 said: Can we name the rushers who embarrassed the Bills ? Ajayi Bell who was the third.. Stats be damned The reason Bills defense sucked was blown assignments due to poor communication. and then execution. and then they gave up so honestly. They kinda sucked. Yep. We did enough to win today tho. Tennessee lost. We gota shot at playoffs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol Dirty B Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 9 hours ago, JohnC said: He didn't set the franchise back---the Peulas did. That was an odd hire. What makes his hire even more perplexing is that he was a known quantity. His career was ignominiously ended in New York. At the time of his firing the team was in a state of disarray. Why didn't the Pegulas do their due diligence outside of the interview room where a huckster is able to shine? Do you think Polian would have endorsed him? Do you think that the substantive and dignified Levy would have endorsed such a shallow and obnoxious character? This stubborn stain on the organization that it is now desperately trying to clean up was brought on by the Pegulas. This hire went beyond being stupid. It was a zany hire that to this day is weighing on the organization. The billionaire Terry Pegula has a nose for finding gas fields. However, in this case he couldn't smell the over-powering and knee bending stench of a fraud that everyone else was aware of. I agree with a lot of this. The issue with the franchise has been ownership. Was happy they bought the team, but they have been awful in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Arnold Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 It's amazing how many people (national media) were shocked that Pegula fired Rex last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 12/17/2017 at 7:53 PM, FearLess Price said: Yep. We did enough to win today tho. Tennessee lost. We gota shot at playoffs YESSIREE !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call_Of_Ktulu Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 We need Mario Williams back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prickly Pete Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 8:01 AM, Mr. WEO said: I like how he describes Rex as a reigning over confusion and no adjustments......and then concludes Rex outsmarted himself. Yeah, that's what I was. Rex was too smart for his own good! I think you outsmarted yourself with this description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 12 hours ago, OJABBA said: I think you outsmarted yourself with this description. A moron, by definition, cannot "outsmart" himself. That term can only used in the context of an intelligent person making something overly complicated. In other words, a person would have to be smart in order to outsmart himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunPolice Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Rex went .500 here and only got 2 seasons. I don't think he did that badly. He wasn't good, either. I was a bit surprised that his defenses were so bad, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 2:23 PM, GoBills808 said: I mean, off the top my my head I can give you five teams that had worse defenses than the Bills last year and I don't think it's arguable. Browns, Colts, Niners, Saints, Falcons. I'd throw in the Dolphins, Packers, and Raiders for debate. There's just no way you can stand by DVOA's 28th. FWIW, we were 27th last year per FO's site. The 5 teams behind us were 28 Niners, 29 Colts, 30 Browns, 31 Saints, and 32 Lions. The 5 teams ahead of us were 26 Falcons, 25 Redskins, 24 Titans, 23 Bears, and 22 Raiders. Packers were 20th, Dolphins were 19. I'd say that adds validity to DVOA, honestly. 4 of the 5 you said were worse were ranked below us, and the 5th was 1 rank above us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave mcbride Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 12/16/2017 at 1:41 PM, C.Biscuit97 said: I hated Rex and glad he is gone. But last year's defense wasn't as rock bottom awful as some posters wanted to suggest. It was slightly below average. The defense was terrible last season. Look at these numbers. We beat a NE team starting a third string QB playing with a broken finger on his throwing hand, a terrible Rams offense (32nd in offensive DVOA), a bad SF offense (23rd in offensive DVOA), a bad Jags offense (27th in offensive DVOA) the freaking Browns minus their starting QB (29th in DVOA), and a Cincy team that lost their best player by far (AJ Green) on the first play from scrimmage. They played a fair number of bad offenses last year, but when they played competent offenses, they were destroyed. And they gave up 37 and 30 points to a Jets team that was 31st in offensive DVOA. Make no bones about it: they were HORRIBLE on defense last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 37 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said: A moron, by definition, cannot "outsmart" himself. That term can only used in the context of an intelligent person making something overly complicated. In other words, a person would have to be smart in order to outsmart himself. I don't think so. To "outsmart" yourself is a matter of context that pertains to that own person's level of intelligence not in the setting of how smart they are relative to others. In short it means to defeat yourself by being too clever by half. How you like that? One idiom to describe another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 36 minutes ago, Magox said: I don't think so. To "outsmart" yourself is a matter of context that pertains to that own person's level of intelligence not in the setting of how smart they are relative to others. In short it means to defeat yourself by being too clever by half. How you like that? One idiom to describe another. Nah. For that idiom to work, you have to be clever to start. Rex wasn't, as it turned out. He was a fraud/doofus. He was just as confused a HC as he was for the Jets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBills808 Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 2 hours ago, BuffaloHokie13 said: FWIW, we were 27th last year per FO's site. The 5 teams behind us were 28 Niners, 29 Colts, 30 Browns, 31 Saints, and 32 Lions. The 5 teams ahead of us were 26 Falcons, 25 Redskins, 24 Titans, 23 Bears, and 22 Raiders. Packers were 20th, Dolphins were 19. I'd say that adds validity to DVOA, honestly. 4 of the 5 you said were worse were ranked below us, and the 5th was 1 rank above us. Must have misread it. Thanks for the correction. Still don't care for the Falcons ahead of us in 2016, or DVOA in general, but maybe I'm being too critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginthepast Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 I was uneasy on the Rex hire after watching how bad those Jets teams were in the last 2 years of his tenure. The Bills game vs the Jets in Detroit was especially embarrassing. But like some people on here, I thought that Rex brought us some national credibility and possibly would attract players here that wouldn't have come normally. I also allowed myself to be swayed by the early Jets Rex who defeated the Pats in the playoffs. In the end, the disorganization that the Robey talks about happening was obvious for all to see. Constant penalties and boneheaded plays. The fact that Rex was swayed by the preacher on the sidelines to throw or not throw a challenge flag vs the Chiefs. Rex destroyed our superb D under Schwartz. I think you could argue that he destroyed Mario Williams career singlehandedly. Hiring his brother when he had failed so many places was just the last desperate move on Rex's part and exposed him as the fraud he was. All in all Rex was yet another completely forgettable coach in the drought era. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 (edited) Such a phony. I don’t care if he’s a leafs fan but he and rob went to all those Sabres games and walking around like super fans just to kiss up to Pegs Edited January 29, 2018 by YoloinOhio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 6 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said: Such a phony. I don’t care if he’s a leafs fan but he and rob went to all those Sabres games and walking around like super fans just to kiss up to Pegs So much for being all in! My favorite quote as I've mentioned here before he said was along the lines of "You'd have to kick me out of here and take me screaming but that's never gonna happen". It was right after the Jaguars game last year. A month later he went out quietly. It's all you need to know about the man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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