Good news for patriots. Up and coming bills are out of contention for 5 years.
Ryan style of defense does not win football games. It's a proven fact.
In a league where close games are the norm, Rex Ryan got an awful lot of credit for losing close games. After his 3-2 start with a very good top to bottom roster, he is 1-7 and oversaw the steep decline of his overall roster.
I don't know how DI sees him staying in the division a bad thing. If I thought he'd learn from his failures, I might be a bit more concerned because he is smart with a good football mind, just not a HC. But Ryan is so self absorbed with himself he is too egotistical to even contemplate his own weaknesses.
That's one of the hidden reasons for BB's success., He's so absorbed with winning and the challenge of the game, he probably has the smallest ego in the entire organization. What other coach wins a classic playoff game, and mentions several times how he has to coach better and essentially lays the blame for any failures directly at his own feet. He says it, because THAT's the way he truly feels. We look at the bad run defense, and complain, while he looks at it and sees what he could have to better prepare his team and gets pissed off at himself..
People forget that prior to the last 2 seasons, the Pats laid a long string of 30 burgers on Rex's defenses after the 2010 playoff loss. I don't doubt that once the OL rebuild is finished he won't start a new string,.
In the meantime its a plus for the division because Rex is so entertaining and a lightning rod. Its a plus because, despite the fact Rex will sell a lot of tickets for a couple of years, it will ensure that while the Bills may one day get to the playoffs (their overall talent is that good), there is little chance that THEY will be the team to supplant the Pats as masters of the division,.