Buffalo Bills confirm Rex Ryan, Doug Whaley will stay
Rex Ryan had expectations as big as every Bills fan for this season, if not bigger. But a Steelers loss, coupled with a Jets overtime win against the New England Patriots, now has the Steelers on the outside looking in and needing that helping hand. “We are just going to have to win our game and hope that everything falls in line”. He has faced Buffalo twice since then, but both times at home, winning with Houston last season and losing with the Jets on November 12. 5 Jets under a new coach and with good old Ryan Fitzpatrick behind center, can guarantee a playoff spot by beating the Bills, and my guess is they will. If they lose, they can still get in if the Steelers fall to the Browns.
Ryan, who spent six years as head coach of the New York Jets, is known for being outlandish and preposterous. The whispers of failure from Buffalo have grown to a rumble, coming straight out of the Bills locker room. There are good feelings in here.
“We had to come together”, Pace said, “or the ship was gonna sink”. Fumbles were also an issue in this for NY, as the Bills dominated the turnover battle 0-4 in this instance.
“Yeah, I truly thought that game was going to set up that, ‘Hey, this one’s win and in, ‘” Ryan said.
“You look at the impact your words have in a negative light, I guess”. Of course, they remain a work in progress and we will need to see some progress in 2016 if Rex Ryan wants to keep his job beyond that. He has brash, and the results seldom have played out his predictions.
A lot of Buffalo Bills fans were hoping to see the back of Rex Ryan, on the back of an extremely disappointing season.
Williams has become expendable because his contract is deemed to be too expensive, and also because he has struggled to make the transition to the defensive system introduced this year by Ryan.
“The part about making the boasts and all that, maybe I’ve learned that maybe it’s not the smartest thing”, Ryan said Wednesday. “But, you know, I get it. That’s just me”. It would be an entire offseason of hearing about it. This can not happen for the psyche of Jets fans. “My heart was in the right place”. Nah but you know, I think it’s…I mean that’s probably the truth. He considers Ryan a friend, but at the same time won’t be calling him leading up to the game against the Jets this Sunday.
“The Jets are one victory from ushering Fitzpatrick into his first playoffs; his 104 starts are the second-most for a quarterback (after Archie Manning, with 139) never to make the postseason since the 1970 merger, according to the Elias Sports Bureau”. The Jets lost the past three on the road by 21, 23 and 35 points. They had just botched a punt snap on their last possession, and momentum was clearly in favor of the Jets. “These guys play hard, man, and they prepare”.
And it’s an approach that comes from the top.
Quaterback Brian Hoyer, who missed the last two weeks due to a concussion, returns just in time for the possible playoff run.
“I’ll be excited if we win on Sunday”, he said.