In improving to 1-1, The Jets avoided a tremendous early season scare during the second quarter of a 37-31 victory over the Buffalo Bills (0-2) on Thursday night.
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Rex Ryan, the team’s second-year head coach, brought in his brother, Rob, during the off-season to help coach the Bills’ defence. Lynn has been a member of Ryan’s coaching staff dating to his days with the New York Jets.
After allowing only 13 points and 308 yards in last week’s loss at Baltimore, the Bills’ defense continued the inconsistency it displayed in Ryan’s first season as coach. In the season’s first two games under Roman, the Bills were just 6-of-23 on third down conversions and entered the red zone on only twice.
His offenses never finished worse than eighth in the league in rushing, and the Bills led the NFL in the category in his first season with the team past year. There has been a struggle on offense with the Bills only reaching the red zone twice in their first two games. Roman previously served as the San Francisco 49ers’ offensive coordinator from 2011 to “14”. His defense was absolutely torched by the Jets yesterday, although the offense’s ability to hold on to the ball certainly wasn’t helping matters.
However, it went down, though, misses the bigger point in that Ryan has been an abject failure as a defensive-minded coach since arriving in Buffalo. An average audience of 243,000 watching the Jets beat the Bills on Twitter viewed an average of 22 minutes of game action.
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“I don’t care”, Forte said when told he’s on pace for 450 touches. The series ended on a five yard touchdown pass from Fitzpatrick to Eric Decker.
“I had met with Greg (Roman) this morning and we agreed to part ways and I’m naming Anthony Lynn as our offensive coordinator”.
Ryan said the ball will find the hands of his playmakers more under Lynn. I think those conversations were the spark that led me here, but I think my body of work had a lot to do with it, too.
Ryan said he made the decision to fire Roman, then informed ownership of the decision. Afterall, the Bills did score 31 points Thursday night and still lost the game.
Looking ahead, the Bills have to focus as each game one-by-one if they want to have any chance of recovering after a sluggish 0-2 start.
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In Thursday’s loss to New York, Taylor hooked-up with Marquise Goodwin for an 84 yard touchdown pass – the longest TD strike at home in Bills history. The only bright side was safety Nickell Robey-Coleman returning Jalin Marshall’s fumble 36 yards for a touchdown to briefly put the Bills ahead 24-20.
