At least Rex had personality. Rex gave great post game pressers. Bowles just stands on the sidelines with a blank expression on his face.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/r...-job-as-soon-as-this-week-as-is-tyrod-taylor/ They are not looking to good today.
You know, you wanted to like Rex with his antics. Personally I enjoyed how well he got along with the players. On the other hand he is a frigging dunderhead. Bowles on the other hand is a dunderhead and there is zero to like about the guy. I mean I'd take an asshole coach that could coach over an affable dunderhead every single time but Bowels is neither, and a zombie.
We'll probably get to find out soon enough now that he's gonna get fired in Buffalo and Bowles is probably getting fired here, I could picture Woody pulling a Steinbrenner and bringing Rex back
I like Rex and I think he's a good NFL head coach. But he was only going to get one more chance as a head coach and he blew it by accepting a job with no QB on the roster (and most people said it at the time). He could have gotten a DC job anywhere in the league he wanted and waited for a good opportunity to open up ... but he didn't. He blew it. I wish he'd go be the head coach at Rutgers. He's tailor made to a successful college head coach; he'd be one of college football's best recruiters overnight.
Wasn't Rex bragging about how he wanted to bring Taylor to Jets, but the mean brass wouldn't let him? And no, he is not tailor made to be college HC. They pass in college even more than in pros, he'll be the instant laughing stock. However, he would make great color commentator on some 3- or 4- word network. He'll be fired within 2 months for breaking some political correctness rule, but he'd be worth watching.
I think Rex is getting the short end of the stick if he gets fired in Buffalo. Lost his #1 playmaker in Watkins for most of the season, starting tackle Cordy Glenn missing time &a playing injured all season along with losing their other tackle Seantrel Henderson to a 10 game suspension. He's also only had top draft pick Shaq Lawson for 6 games and second round Reggie Ragland gone for the season. Another franchise, like us, that should think about keeping the head coach around for continuity sake, especially since he's not a horrible head coach. Rumor has it on SNF in America or ESPN prime time (forget which one I saw it on), that they want to test our Anthony Lynn as an interim coach to see how the team responds before he likely gets another offer. Say what you want about Rex and company but they've been pretty competitive in all of their losses outside of the second New England game.
And this is why Buffalo would probably be smart to pull the plug on Rex. Continuity for continuity's sake makes no sense. Teams aren't unsuccessful because their coaches get fired; coaches get fired because their teams are unsuccessful. After 8 years there really isn't any mystery about who Rex is, and I just don't see any evidence that that is a Super Bowl champion coach.
There are many things that happen to teams through out the season, this is now 6 straight years for Rex that he has not led a team to the playoffs. The same things were said about Jeff Fisher with the Rams, bad QB situation, injuries...etc, at some point a bad HC is exactly that a bad HC.
True enough. They're just a pretty competitive team despite having no franchise quarterback. But I guess that's Rex's M.O. at this point in his career. Competitive teams that commit tons of penalties and dumb plays which will lose a team a game in close one's. I just don't see an extremely talented roster in Buffalo surrounding him. He's best suited to go be a defensive coordinator on a good team somewhere, or maybe he takes a year off and makes an absolute killing on a pregame show. That'd probably be good for his mental health at this point in his life.
The Jets and Bills (and Dolphins) are basically in the same boat. Do you keep firing coaches until you find one that turns you into an instant success? Throw the Browns out of this equation, because they are easily the dumbest franchise in the NFL. Every other division can give their coach a chance to prove themself. The AFCE teams are constantly trying to do anything to immediately surmount the Patriots. That is why our coaches get fired every two years. Nothing will change until Brady retires.
If you told me someone wrote this 4 years ago here I'd believe it. Just shows you he's learned nothing. That's from a Bills board yesterday
reports he has a fractured relationship with the front office???? everywhere the man goes that happens
Rex deserves no excuses, every team has injuries. Our Jets have looked like the worst team in the league at times, most of the players have already mailed it in, and miraculously we are only a game and a half behind Rex's Bills. They had a big home game yesterday in their element and they allowed Le'Veon Bell alone to outgain them.
Alabama over the last decade runs the exact same offense Rex would run if he could. It seems to work fine for them.
