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Bills Fire Rex Ryan: Updated Information, Opinions, and Response
Following a 34-31 overtime loss to the Miami Dolphins in Week 16, the Buffalo Bills fell to 7-8 on the season. As a result, head coach Rex Ryan was let go on Tuesday.
The Bills stated Anthony Lynn, their offensive coordinator, will take over as head coach in Week 17 and used Twitter to confirm Ryan’s firing. The team also announced that Rob Ryan, the assistant head coach, had been dismissed of his duties.
In a statement regarding the firings, Terry Pegula, the owner of the Bills, wished Ryan well.
The Bills said that general manager Doug Whaley will oversee the search for Ryan’s successor.
According to MMQB’s Albert Breer, Whaley said on Monday that he wasn’t consulted regarding Ryan’s termination. According to Nick Veronica of the Buffalo News, Whaley stated that he hasn’t questioned why Ryan wasn’t kept on.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Ryan concluded that his termination was “inevitable” and chose not to wait a week to face termination. According to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, “many players” learned of Ryan’s dismissal when the Bills made the announcement on Twitter.
According to Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News, Whaley campaigned for Lynn to succeed him after persuading Pegula to break up with Ryan. On December 11, Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com revealed that the friendship between Whaley and Ryan was causing problems for the company:
The Bills standout Marcell Dareus stated, “I like Rex personally,” according to Josina Anderson of ESPN. “I dislike witnessing someone fired. I also believe that everyone’s employment is at jeopardy. Now that everyone is vying for the same slots, something needs to change.
Ryan was recruited by the Bills in January 2015, and his presence was expected to revitalize a squad that had been an AFC East also-ran since the turn of the century.
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Despite fielding a potent offense with a star-studded triad of Tyrod Taylor, LeSean McCoy, and Sammy Watkins, the Bills failed to show much improvement in 2015.
The Bills’ defense placed 15th and 19th in the same categories at the end of the season, despite the team finishing 12th in points and 13th in total yardage. These mediocre results were especially concerning because, in 2014, the Bills, led by head coach Doug Marrone, finished fourth in terms of points and yards allowed.
At the beginning of the 2016 season, Buffalo was still having problems.
While the Bills’ lackluster offensive showing in Week 1 against the Baltimore Ravens was worrisome in and of itself, a defensive meltdown against the New York Jets in Week 2 further cemented the belief that Ryan hadn’t gone far enough in rebuilding the team.
And although Buffalo bounced back from a 0-2 start with four straight victories, three straight defeats from Weeks 7-9 dashed any hope that had begun to surface during October.
After two victories over the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals in Weeks 11 and 12, Buffalo’s situation somewhat improved, but in the last two weeks of the postseason hunt, back-to-back defeats to the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers placed Buffalo into the losing position.
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After taking the Jets to back-to-back AFC Championship Games in his first two seasons as head coach, Ryan has now missed the playoffs in each of his last six seasons, counting 2016. Meanwhile, the Bills continue to yearn for their first postseason experience since 1999.
It would be shocking to see the 54-year-old turn around and quickly land another head coaching position given how his tenure with the Bills and Jets ended. Ryan’s tenure in Buffalo was tainted by inconsistent performance across the board, and he had no history of continuous success in New York.
Nonetheless, it wouldn’t be shocking to see Ryan attract interest from clubs in need of scheme and mentality overhauls as a defensive coordinator on the free market. Ryan is still considered one of the league’s more aggressive defensive coordinators, and in due course, he might use his successful coordinator tenure as a launching pad for another head coaching position.
