Bills hire Ed Reed

[DetDannyWilliams]

The Bills have hired long-time NFL safety, Ed Reed as an assistant defensive backs coach.

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[Night Train]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Future lock for Canton. The players will listen to him.

[Mahdi]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

No sarcastic remarks about this hire?

I like what Bills are doing so far this offseason.

[Turf]

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Maybe he can teach the CB's to turn around when the balls in the air, and that the WR's on 3rd and 7 will run approximately 7-8 yards down field and stop. Imagine THAT. Yeah..... that's some serious **** there.....

[ParanoidAndroid]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Hell. Put him on the field. He's probably still got more game than Duke freaking Williams.

[DynaPaul]

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I love it, who's gonna argue with him as a coach? The man has done it all.

[Mace]

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I love it, who's gonna argue with him as a coach? The man has done it all.

I will. Hire Jim Leonhard, teaching Ryan defenses for years as a player. Don't particularly remember Reed being known as a fount of training and guidance or patience, kind of remember him as impatient and selfish.

Like what makes Ed Reed a coach besides Rex Ryan ?

[Mr. Pink]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Another useless hire that would have never happened if Rex wasn't coach.

How can anyone excited about a guy who's never been a coach in high school or college, let alone the NFL? He did coach some flag football for 4 and 7 year olds though!

WHAT A RESUME!!!!!!! Give him a spot on an NFL coaching staff!

[Crisis]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Another useless hire that would have never happened if Rex wasn't coach.

How can anyone excited about a guy who's never been a coach in high school or college, let alone the NFL? He did coach some flag football for 4 and 7 year olds though!

WHAT A RESUME!!!!!!! Give him a spot on an NFL coaching staff!

People are excited because maybe the best FS of all time is an assistant coach on the defense? Is he really under qualified to be an ASSISTANT defensive back coach?

I mean, completely ignore the fact that he's never coached before because he was playing the game at literally the highest level. This isn't some random guy off the street with no coaching experience. He has to start somewhere. Joey Porter has a job on the Steelers staff, I wonder how many Steeler fans *****ed about that?

The people *****ing already are hilarious. Like you guys could name one assistant positional coach on this team before the hire.

[Oaf]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Hell. Put him on the field. He's probably still got more game than Duke freaking Williams.

I would put him in a game over Duke Williams with no hesitation.

Ed Reed played and can attest to Ryan's "system" too.

[YardRat]

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I agree with Mace. Leonhard would have been a better hire. But, Reed is the bigger name. If HOF cred really mattered, as opposed to just spreading Pegula's wealth amongst the buddies, Andre Reed would have been a full time hire instead of a token training camp gopher position.

[Night Train]

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A secondary full of black players will listen more to a future black HOF in Ed Reed over Rudy Leonard 10 out of 10 times. Welcome to reality.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Wasn't there a player (LB?) on our team that said that half the time they didn't understand the play call or the system or something? That at the time of the snap they were kind of looking around like they weren't sure what to do?

If that were the case, the problem directly lies on the coaches. They clearly either didn't explain the system or didn't explain it well enough for the players to understand. Maybe they recognized that as a problem and hired 2 guys who know Rex's defense as well as anybody to help out...his friggin' brother and a HOF safety who had some pretty solid seasons in Rex's system.

Anyone who was upset at the locker room leadership that went out the door with Fred Jackson should be happy with this hire.

[Guest]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Just another example of Rex Ryan once again relying on his past success of 15 years ago rather than evolving as a coach.

Rex has not had an original thought in terms of defensive strategy in over a decade.

All mouth and no brain.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

Re: Bills hire Ed Reed

Well you can say this much - Rex is all in on his defense system; no more compromises because we had success under a different system before. He's getting coaches who came from the same coaching tree. He's getting former players who know the intricacies of his system. So now every practice, every drill, every film room study is operated under the same concept, same approached required by his system.

Next, and the more difficult part, would be having the ideal players for his system. And this could take a couple years. Right now, no quality OLB on Bills roster who can do both coverage and pass rush that is perfect fit for his system (Lawson is the closest to that role, Mario is a misfit, Hughes - in my opinion - would be the X factor in Rex's defense who in 2015 showed effectiveness when asked to rush the passer from any of the front 7 positions).