Bills head coach Rex Ryan has had plenty to say about Buffalo’s offseason to date. Here are some highlights from his press conferences.
Rex Ryan’s opening statement following the loss to Oakland:
RR: It was clear that we weren’t consistent enough to win this game. We knew it was going to be a tough game. This is a good football team and that we could afford very few mistakes. We knew that going into it. We had too many errors. We obviously turned it over twice and we didn’t manage a turnover on defense. That was a big difference in the game I thought. We got on our heels and we never got off of them. That was defensively. That’s obviously a big disappointment for me.
Moving forward we’ve got four games and we know what has to happen in those four games for us to get where we want to go. We’re going to learn from this tape. We’ll study and get better in a hurry.
Q: What happened to allow them to score 29 unanswered points?
RR: It hasn’t happened a whole lot in my career, but it has happened before. Sometimes you feel that momentum shift and it just snowballed on us. Sometimes I think we lose confidence when we should be ... you can’t ever have that happen to you.
To their credit this team has done this a bunch. This is a heck of an offense. When you look at it, they have a lot of weapons and their quarterback is playing extremely well. A good offensive line and good running backs. We knew it was going to be tough. By no means am I trying to short that team. That team is a good football team. That’s been their M.O. almost the whole season. And we couldn’t make a play or a stop when we needed it.
Q: How much do you worry about your playoff chances
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Dak Prescott, Cowboys 6-2 • 235 pounds • 27 years old A solid starter who has a nice TD-INT ratio over his first five seasons (104-40), Prescott is an accurate thrower and very mobile. However, he’s coming off a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle, so it remains to be seen if this will impact his game moving forward.
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