It boggles my mind how stubborn and ignorant many football coaches are today. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or brain surgeon to see that Tyrod Taylor is not an accurate passer. Anyone who watched the Bills this year (and over the past three years) surely can see that Tyrod is not the kind of QB who can be relied upon to throw the ball into tight spaces. Why then, when faced with a gift offside penalty which gives you a first down and your opponent's one-yard line would you give him the "option" to throw the ball? Who in their right mind does something like this? Oops, it's Rick Denison, the genius offensive coordinator who has led this putrid offense to three measly second half points in the past SEVEN GAMES. That's right...it's not a misprint. In the past 14 quarters of football played by our beloved Buffalo Bills, the offense has one lousy field goal to show for it.
It is clear to anyone watching the games that other teams figure out Denison's offense by half-time at the latest, make necessary adjustments, and shut the Bills offense down for the rest of the game. Seven straight games that has happened. Even before this seven game blight, it was evident that Denison couldn't make in-game adjustments to the changes made by opposing defenses. garbage time TDs v the Jets and New Orleans were those games only second half scores also.
Part of this blame has to fall on McDermott. He hired Denison and gave him cart-Blanche to run the offense. He hired a guy who decided to "re-vamp" a very good running game (which, incidentally didn't need re-vamping) and install an offense which was exactly opposite the type of offense which would serve his QB. Instead of paying to Tyrod's strengths, it was the old "my way or the highway" approach we see time and time again with football coaches. We saw it with Rex (changing 4th ranked Defense from 4-3 to 3-4) and again with McDermott (changing 3-4 defense to 4-3 without having the horses to make it work against a team that can run and pass).
Part of this blame also has to fall on the Pegulas. They are the one's who defied logic to hire a first-time head coach and give him the power to hire a GM and make all personnel moves while at the same time keeping a lame-duck GM Whaley around to run the draft. Sheer stupidity.
Let's hope that McDermott is smart enough to see his mistakes (so far I have not seen him able to do that as he continues to claim that the Peterson move earlier in the year was the right move at the time). Good coaches admit their mistakes and move on from them. The Bills need to admit Tyrod is not the answer. The Bills need to admit that Denison is in way over his head. The Bills need to clean house on the offensive side of the ball and get a new QB and spend some of those acquired draft picks to help this new QB out. I don't have any idea if there will be a good QB available at pick 21. I do know that there should be a few FA QBs (Bradford, McCown, and others) who will be a major upgrade over Taylor.
