In order to provide some continuity for this team, and particularly the offense, while still allowing for a HC change, I think Marrone is the only option. So I looked into the penalties by his 2014 Bills team to see if it was better than what Gus has this team doing, because over the last three weeks this has been our penalty count:

Colts - we had 13 penalties for 92 yards

Pats - we had 7 penalties for 114 yards

Miami - we had 9 penalties for 93 yards

(in the interest of full disclosure, against Carolina we had 3 penalties for 25 yards)

 

In 2015, we're on pace for 128 penalties for 1,296 yards

In 2014, we had a total of 73 penalties for 573 yards and

in 2013, we had a total of 96 penalties for 797 yards.

 

The 2014 Marrone-led Bills had 124 penalties for 1022 yards. They however, did finish 9-7 in their division. I don't know that Marrone as HC would be an improvement over Bradley.

 

Sloppy play reflects sloppy coaching. Yes, the refs throw some [BAD WORD REMOVED] flags, but the team needs to start overcoming that. They're their own biggest obstacle at this point.

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