Bills’ TNF Win over Jets Tells Tale of Rex Ryan’s Playoff Past and Future

November 13, 2015   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

Rex Ryan got his revenge against his former team Thursday night—by out-Jets-ing the New York Jets.
In doing so, Ryan's Buffalo Bills demonstrated that they have adopted the personality of their boisterous head coach. Run the ball. Play defense. Win the close one.
It's a philosophy that Ryan rode to a pair of AFC Championship Game appearances with Gang Green. The problem is, Ryan's Bills also have many of the same shortcomings of those Jets teams.
And while the 22-17 road win gets the Bills right back into the AFC wild-card hunt, it also showed that a postseason trip will be a short one.
Heading into Thursday night's AFC East showdown, some chucklehead here at Bleacher Report wrote that the Bills faced a tough road against the Jets' top-ranked run defense:
No team in the entire National Football League allows fewer yards per game on the ground than the Jets at 80.6. The team ranks first in weighted run defense per the advanced metrics at Football...

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