Lynn has been on head coach Rex Ryan’s coaching staff since 2009 with the New York Jets, and interviewed with the San Francisco 49ers this offseason for their head coaching position. I thought it was handled very professionally. His style of play is best suited for a run-first attack that opens up the deep ball, one that really isn’t seen in the National Football League aside from Roman-led offenses.
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Buffalo was 13th in offense and 12th in scoring in 2015, Roman’s first year on the job, while the defense was far more disappointing, finishing 19th in yards surrendered and 15th in points.
Ryan also wants to see top receiver Sammy Watkins catch the ball more often. Thursday night’s game wasn’t almost as close as the score indicated, and the Bills’ 0-2 start to the year feels particularly dark right now.
But the defense was atrocious a year ago, too, And the Bills still haven’t made the playoffs since Bill Clinton was in office. The Bills went 8-8 and missed the playoffs last season.
The Bills scored two touchdowns in the first 3:32 of the second half to take a 24-20 lead. However, Bills guard Richie Incognito has the faith in Lynn and the team to put up a good gameplan and focus on executing on offense.
Roman has had success building offenses around Taylor, Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick in his career as an offensive coordinator. Yet that unit rebounded enough Thursday to give the Bills a shot to win against the Jets, totaling 393 yards and opening up the field on two deep touchdown passes to Marquise Goodwin and Greg Salas. “Brandon Marshall told me he was going to kick my butt today and he was right, he did”.
What came as an even bigger surprise is how the team’s owners, Terry and Kim Pegula, handled the firing. It falls back to believing.
Roman was highly regarded by the Bills when he was hired. The Bills’ ownership was said to be in support of the move and in support of Rex Ryan to continue to coach the team as he sees fit.
On the other, maybe the Bills are giving Ryan one last chance to get things right – and if he can’t win with his guys, then he won’t be winning at all in Buffalo. He previously worked with Ryan when the two were assistants in Baltimore. Unfortunately for Rex, there wasn’t a third Ryan twin to hire on the coaching staff along with brother Rob.
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Roman schemed the players to get open in the passing attack, that’s on Taylor to identify and hit the players to keep the ball moving down the field. In March, defensive line coach Karl Dunbar was sacked and replaced by John Blake.
