[quote]ddot76 wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
This makes me chuckle when Ryan’s jets got their ass handed to them by Marrones bills this year. Ryan is what he is a DC with an HC title.
Certainly don’t understand why the Bowles hiring gets a C and Ryan gets a B. If anything Bowles is a true TBD
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As a Pats fan, the Ryan hiring wasn’t ideal. If I was a Bills fan, and I know a few given they’re the closest team to me, I’d feel pretty good about the hiring.
Their D-Line is top notch. You need only look at the fact that 3 of them were selected to the Pro Bowl. They get Kiki Alonso back, who IMO is just under the calibre of player a Luke Kuechly is. They had an OK secondary. Rex can do some damage with that, maybe pick up something for the secondary (although drafting DB’s has never been his strong point).
As Beans alluded to, if they can find a way to avg 20pt/g, they’re in the playoffs. Look at Arizona (19.4) and Detroit (20.1) this year. Both relied heavily on D and a positive give/take number with below average offenses.
Bowles for sure is a TBD. Solid DL to work with. He doesn’t have the secondary in NY that he had in AZ though and we’ll see what he and Chan Gailey can do on Offense.
Ultimately success for both comes down to how their QB, whomever it ends up being, performs. [/quote]
Depending on the stat system you wanna use, Buffalo’s D was as good / better than Arizona / Detroit this year. That’s how bad the offence was.
Defense #2:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamdef
Offense #26
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamoff
This is why I feel at best this is a lateral move (until he proves me wrong, and I hope he does). The whole thing is the upgrade from Pettine to Schwartz turned out to be huge. Didn’t give up an 80 yard touch down pass every fucking game, didn’t spend all game worrying about the D blowing it because Pettine is too busy jerking off with his blitz boner to look after the basics. Shit was night and day. In 2013 it was all blitz all the time. 2014 it was a hand ful a game, and STILL led the league in sacks. As a Bills fan I have concerns about a return to Ryan’s system, because I’ve seen one of his disciples already run it with this team, with the same players just 1 year ago.
Alonso will be back, and he’s real good, but he’s also kind of small to be a middle line backer, and unfortunatly from what I’ve seen he hasn’t been able to juice himself big while he’s been off with the ACL. Bradham and Brown aren’t on his level, but they’re also too good to ride the bench, and none is really a 3-4 OLB, so I don’t know what they’re gonna do there.
In the secondary Gilmore and McKelvin are both former 1st round draft picks and while they might not be Revis they’re still above average. Safety is the weak point, but the downgrade from losing Byrd to the Saints (or when he was hurt here) isn’t even that noticable, so I’d say those guys (Aaron Willions, and Searcy) aren’t too bad either (although they did run a lot of Nickle this year, with Corey Graham in, and Brandon Spikes on the bench on every passing down).
Now I did read an interview with Doug Whaley (Bills GM) today where someone asked him what kind of players Rex asked him for, and he basically told him just to draft the best available guys and he’ll put them where they need to be to be successful, rather than try to draft guys that fit a certain system, so that gives me hope, and if that turns out to be the case and not just bull shit, than right off the bat he’s better than Marrone was. It was also nice that those 2 guys share the same ideas in that department.
So long as they keep Ryan around for more than a year or 2 I’ll be happy. Too much coaching turn over on this team turns it into a constant rebuild.
For the Jets, Chan Gaily running an offense with Percy Harvin is gonna be hazardous. And if they pick up Spiller in free agency that offense will be flat out terrifying even with Geno under center.