I for one thought the Bills would go 10-6 at the least with a playoff birth. Why?
Because I thought we would have the best D in the league, the best special teams in the league, a not great but better O-line then last year, Willis McGahee with a season under his belt ready to destroy the league, and a young mobile QB who would "manage" the offense ala Roethlisberger, not to mention, a great WR core, and a new tight end with speed, who probably would have made a difference had he been playing. I think most of us on this board thought the same thing. NOW, since none of that has really happened, we all want TD's head. But that is simply not realistic. How could anyone have foreseen this disaster of a defense especially. NO ONE.
Now some of you will say we should have re-signed PW, but letting him go was the right decision for the future of this team. A large cap hit for a guy on the wrong side of 30 is not the way to go.
And what about JJ. Also a good decision to let him go, he has been injured all season having played only 3 games. And not likely to come back.
Solutions: Gandy proved to be just as effective as JJ was, and TD picked him up off the street.
Ron Edwards: Who else was there in FA that would have been better than him. Not many. And when you consider he was playing next to Sam Adams he should be successful, and of course he's injured now.
All in all, TD is not to blame for the way this team is underachieving. He's made some good decisons some bad. Some great drafts some not so great. Either way not many of us predicted the season going like it has. No one has a crystal ball, not even TD.
Let's just hope this turns around against Carolina.
Because I thought we would have the best D in the league, the best special teams in the league, a not great but better O-line then last year, Willis McGahee with a season under his belt ready to destroy the league, and a young mobile QB who would "manage" the offense ala Roethlisberger, not to mention, a great WR core, and a new tight end with speed, who probably would have made a difference had he been playing. I think most of us on this board thought the same thing. NOW, since none of that has really happened, we all want TD's head. But that is simply not realistic. How could anyone have foreseen this disaster of a defense especially. NO ONE.
Now some of you will say we should have re-signed PW, but letting him go was the right decision for the future of this team. A large cap hit for a guy on the wrong side of 30 is not the way to go.
And what about JJ. Also a good decision to let him go, he has been injured all season having played only 3 games. And not likely to come back.
Solutions: Gandy proved to be just as effective as JJ was, and TD picked him up off the street.
Ron Edwards: Who else was there in FA that would have been better than him. Not many. And when you consider he was playing next to Sam Adams he should be successful, and of course he's injured now.
All in all, TD is not to blame for the way this team is underachieving. He's made some good decisons some bad. Some great drafts some not so great. Either way not many of us predicted the season going like it has. No one has a crystal ball, not even TD.
Let's just hope this turns around against Carolina.
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