To me this again falls on Rex and coaching.
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“Everybody’s doing their own thing,” Talley said. “They’re supposed to be working together like five fingers on a glove. All of them. That’s what made us different because we could beat you on offense, we could beat you on defense, we could beat you with special teams. Right now, they aren’t really beating you any kind of way.
“There’s no pattern, no come-from-behind, there’s no... nothing.”
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“They play with an edge,” he said. “But they don’t know how to take care of each other’s back. From what I see, this group of guys, they go out as individuals.
“That lends to a great, great deal of harmony with a group of guys, if they know you’re willing to go fight for them. I don’t know if anybody’s ever sat down and told them that. I don’t think they even play in that manner. Everybody seems to be their own CEO of their own little company. We were CEO’s of our own company but we had one bigger company and that was the Buffalo Bills — and that was the company we looked out for. I don’t think that’s being done.
“That’s the only thing I see that they don’t have. Point blank, they don’t have a togetherness.”
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No, it wasn’t the ghastly 27-3 deficit Buffalo fell into. It was his flight back to the states. There were two players on his commercial flight and the two players, Talley said, didn’t acknowledge each other the entire time. Not a word. One sat in first class, one sat in coach.
To Talley, this trip signified a deeper problem.
“I was like, ‘Hmm. They don’t talk to each other, huh? OK,’” Talley said. “We didn’t give a care who it was. If two of us got on the plane — if it was me and Adam Lingner — we’re going to sit down and talk. We’ll say, ‘Hey, what did you think about the game?’ We’ll talk about what in the hell we have to do when we get back. Something. There’s no way in hell we’re going to be up in the air for nine hours on a damn plane reading a book. Nah.
“I have one of the buddies that I played with on the plane with me? Wow. I found that very, very strange.”
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