{"id":1839,"date":"2016-09-16T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:34:22","slug":"buffalo-bills-fire-offensive-coordinator-greg-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/09\/16\/buffalo-bills-fire-offensive-coordinator-greg-roman\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Buffalo Bills Fire Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/buffalobills.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buffalo Bills<\/strong><\/a> appear to be in implosion mode.<\/p>\n<p>After a 37-31 loss to the <strong>New York Jets<\/strong> on the first <strong>Thursday Night Football<\/strong> telecast of the season, the franchise decided to make a coaching staff shakeup. They gave offensive coordinator <strong>Greg Roman<\/strong> his walking papers on Friday, as first reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ESPN<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adamschefter\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Adam Schefter<\/strong><\/a>. Roman was the highest paid assistant coach on offense in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Buffalo Bills firing OC Greg Roman, per league sources. Roman was NFL&#39;s top paid OC.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/776833453501190144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Buffalo Bills Fire Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman<\/h2>\n<p>Schefter also reported that assistant head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LynnAn00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Lynn<\/a><\/strong> is expected to take over offensive coordinator duties. Lynn has been a mainstay of Bills head coach <strong>Rex Ryan<\/strong>&#8216;s staff ever since he took the Jets&#8217; head coaching job in 2009. He was a running backs coach with the Jets and\u00a0had a similar responsibility in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after two disjointed games on offense at times on the part of the Bills. In their 13-7 Week One loss to the <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimoreravens.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Baltimore Ravens<\/strong><\/a>, Buffalo managed a paltry 160 yards of total offense. This included quarterback <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TaylTy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyrod Taylor<\/a><\/strong> throwing for just 111 yards and finishing with a quarterback rating of 79.9.<\/p>\n<p>A week later in their home opener, the team looked much improved on that side of the football. Taylor had 297 yards passing and three touchdowns, including scores of 84 and 71 yards. But the Bills struggled to sustain drives, as evidenced by the fact the Jets had twice as much time of possession.<\/p>\n<p>Roman was brought in by Ryan on January 12,2015 immediately after his hiring as Bills head coach. The 44-year-old had formerly been offensive coordinator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sf49ers.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>San Francisco 49ers<\/strong><\/a> for the previous four seasons. His second season in that capacity saw the Niners make a run to <strong>Super Bowl XLVII<\/strong>, where they fell to the Baltimore Ravens 34-31.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are back in action on Sunday, September 25th when they welcome the <a href=\"http:\/\/azcardinals.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arizona Cardinals<\/strong><\/a> to <strong>New Era Field<\/strong>. The game kicks off at 1 PM ET and will be televised on <strong>FOX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 491px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/490522262\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 120.977597% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/490522262?et=wwmPu5n-Q69p36w_6CMjuQ&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=cY8BudaKONMbjZz64_u-pBnlTZe8h_laALATEp1v6Ks=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"491\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills made a shock change to their coaching staff on Friday, parting ways with offensive coordinator Greg Roman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,36],"tags":[177,61,568,40,569,52,570],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-bills","category-nfl-news","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-football","tag-greg-roman","tag-nfl","tag-rex-ryan","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-tyrod-taylor"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}