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 New England:
RR: All right. Obviously you know we weren’t good enough. The better team won today without question. We made way too many mistakes, mistakes we haven’t made all season and against a guy like (Tom) Brady, he makes you pay any time you have a mistake and we knew that going in and he was true to form, but we didn’t deserve to win by any stretch. The Patriots deserved it and they won the game, without question.
Q: Was that the most discouraging thing? Because it looked like last year in terms of mistakes and just not being smart.
RR: I guess it was similar, I don’t know. It was without question frustrating. You get them backed way up on the 3rd-and-long and we blow a coverage that ... it’s just 10 guys playing one thing and somebody else playing something else. And even if you’re not singing out of the same hymnal, it looks bad and sounds bad and everything else.
Q: Was that the (Chris) Hogan play, the touchdown, that you’re referring to right now?
RR: Yeah, we just ... obviously we blew an assignment and they executed the play and so, you know, bad result.
Q: You said on Monday that if you lose this game, it doesn’t break your season but hopefully it isn’t something you worry about. You said you hope you don’t have to worry about it.
This story is from the November 20,2016 edition of Bills Digest.
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