Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Bills Should Fire Rex Ryan

           
          I'm usually not one to jump to harsh conclusions, but this time is different.  After losing today to the Eagles, the Bills have fallen to 6-7 and will have to win out just to match last years record.  That is just the surface though, once you remember the fact that the Bills could have beaten the Raiders, Chiefs and Texans last year and had the chance to be a 10 or 11 win team, you start to get even more mad.
           The Bills have a better roster than last year and a much easier schedule, yet are managing to get worse results.  The Bills got to play the two worst divisions in football this year, the NFC East and the AFC South.  Yet they have already lost to the Eagles, the Giants and the Jaguars, and barely squeaked past the Titans.  So even though the Bills remaining schedule does not look that daunting, that really does not seem to matter, and i would not be surprised one bit if they manage to only win one more game the rest of the way.
           It gets even worse when you consider a couple more things.  For one, it is not the offense that is the problem.  It has generally speaking been the defenses fault.  The Bills had a top 5 defense last year, and led the league in sacks.  Than you bring in a so called defensive guru who loves to blitz the quarterback and the defense gets worse, and the sack numbers go way down, that speaks to something.  I came into this season expecting a bad offense and a great defense, but it has been quite the opposite.  Tyrod Taylor has been the best QB the Bills have had in a while.  Sammy Watkins is starting to look like the guy we thought he would be and even Lesean Mccoy, until today, had looked pretty good.  The offense most of the time has been getting the job done, the defense has been a problem.
          You also have to take in account the lack of discipline this team has in also every aspect of the game.  The Bills had 15 penalties today.  15.  That is beyond bad.  They also came at horrific times, the amount of times the Bills had the Eagles in a third and long than jumped into the neutral zone and turned it into a third and short were way to many.  Than the opposite happened a bunch as well, with the Bills being in a third and short on offense but committing a false start and turning it into a third and long.  They had many plays called back for penalties, and continued to folly on special teams.
        But the most damning thing of all is the Jets themselves, the team Rex came from.  Well the Bills did beat them, the Jets sit at 8-5 and are squarely in the playoff race.  I know the Jets signed some people after last year, but we still cannot forgot how much of a disaster they were last year.  So Rex went from a team that was a disaster to a team with playoff hopes, and has turned those playoff hopes into a disaster, while that former disaster now has playoff hopes.  That speaks to something and that something is the coach.  Rob Ryan flamed out in the league and it looks like Rex may not be that far behind him.  Will the Bills fire Rex after just 1 season, i doubt it, but i would hope they would at least have a conversation about it.  And if you ask me, i think they should fire him.
         Also i don't want to hear the, we have a lot of injuries excuse.  Every team gets injuries, this is football, not shuffle board.  The best teams overcome those injuries.

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