Marshall avoided serious injury after a scary-looking knee twist Thursday night when Buffalo cornerback Stephon Gilmore brought him down by the facemask in the second quarter of the Jets’ 37-31 win.
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Roman could not be reached for comment Friday.
The Buffalo Bills have started their 2016 season off in a disastrous way, to say the least.
The duo ranked first in receptions and touchdowns last season while ranking second in receiving yards. As a dual threat quarterback, I’ve always believed that putting too much faith in his arm will be a teams downfall, especially if they abandon their run game.
The Bills apparently felt it was time to move on from Roman after an 0-2 start, and decided t0 promote Lynn as the team’s new offensive coordinator.
Bills are hiring asst HC/RB coach Anthony Lynn as their new OC, per source. The Bills only gained 160 yards on offense against Baltimore while scoring seven points, but rebounded against the Jets by gaining 393 yards and scoring 31 points, but that wasn’t enough to save Roman. But they rebounded nicely against the Jets. “I should have, I was occupied doing something with the defense”, Bowles said.
Instead of addressing any of these issues, which Rex is responsible for, he turned on a member of his staff who was responsible for one of the only good parts of the Bills game.
While the first hammer to fall came on Roman, don’t be surprised if we see a few other Bills coaches, including potentially the Ryan brothers, over the next few weeks of the 2016 National Football League season.
Roman joined Rex Ryan’s staff a year ago after running the San Francisco 49ers’ offense the previous four seasons. He coordinated the San Francisco 49ers’ offense from 2011-14 under Jim Harbaugh and was with Harbaugh in the same capacity at Stanford. “His schemes were very successful in college, and they’ve also been very successful on the pro level”. Ryan should be on thin ice in Buffalo, and the release of Roman is a desperation attempt to make it look like some action was taken.
Strickland was previously a women’s assistant at Gillette (Wyo.) College. The defensive seemed to have improved by drafting Alabama national champion and standout Reggie Ragland in the offseason as well as the hire of Rex’s brother, Rob Ryan, as defensive coordinator. “I messed with him”. “To see him on the ground, in pain, I knew something was wrong”. The quarterbacks he’s worked with included Andrew Luck, Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, and Tyrod Taylor. Fitzpatrick notoriously lacks the arm strength to deliver on deep throws; a year ago, per Pro Football Focus, Fitzpatrick completed just 21 passes in which he threw the ball more than 20 yards in the air.
Was Greg Roman to blame for that and the rest of Buffalo’s early season struggles? “He’s a smart guy, X and O’s guy. But it’s also been a lot fun”.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick, who quarterbacked the Bills from 2009 through 2012, finally solved a Rex Ryan-coached defense by throwing for 374 yards and one touchdown as the Jets got some revenge on the Bills for the 22-17 loss that knocked them out of the playoffs on January 3.
