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Rex Ryan won't try to mix any defenses with his next season, bringing on his brother, Rob, and promising the full Ryan scheme in 2016.
That is a very plausible explanation of Bills D performance this year. Perhaps his attempt to keep Schwartz after he hired last year was sincere. But every even minded people know that the high risk attempt to merge two systems can be a complete genius to total failure.
We'll see pretty soon the Bills will jettison players that don't fit Rex's system but otherwise still solid players.
There was no need to 'merge' anything. It wasn't broke, he shouldn't have tried to 'fix' it.
What a ****ing moron. "Oh yeah, the reason we sucked balls this season is because I tried to run Schwartz's defense some of the time...so it's really his fault. This season, we're doing it my way."
****ing idiot.
Dave Wannstadt failed miserably because the league passed by his 20-year-old scheme. Both Rex and Rob failed because the league has passed by their 5-10 year-old scheme. The years for either don't really matter, the bottom line is they all are behind the times.
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Rex still hasn't realized the simplest facts. Most of the teams beat us by going no huddle, and we couldn't get our plays in or our players lined up. Until he addresses that I don't care what scheme he runs. I think he's totally unaware of this.
Lou Saban: You can get it done, you can get it done. And what’s more, you’ve gotta get it done.
Ryan didn't try and merge anything that I saw. He had linemen dropping into coverage from the start and it all goes from there.
What I'd hoped for, was for him to apply his use of DB's to some slight variant of Schwartz's wide 9. Ryan considers himself an innovator though he innovates nothing anymore, that's what an innovator or great defensive mind would have done. Not like I am, but it was so obvious even I could see it. I never did figure out what he was doing. I mean how could they pull off doing what they did to Brady in the 2nd NE game and not do that to anyone else ?
If Ryan was indeed incapable of innovation like he doesn't realize he's saying, then he just proved he's stubborn, inflexible, and hasn't learned anything via his own endlessly flapping lips.
Rex tried to incorporate the 4-3 style of defense that worked in 2014.
That is the least reported fact about the Bills defense in 2015.
Rex did try to use last year's defense to his advantage.
It didn't work this year because Schwartz's defense was easy to figure out for NFL offensive coordinators.
There was nothing complicated or complex about Jim Schwartz's system. Rex decided to use/implement some of the same schemes from the past, and the combo strategy failed miserably.
In that sense, Rex was too much of a players coach.
Instead of listening to himself, he bowed down to what the players wanted.
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