2015 Buffalo Bills season
| 2015 Buffalo Bills season | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Rex Ryan |
| General manager | Doug Whaley |
| Owner | Terrence Pegula and Kim Pegula |
| Home field | Ralph Wilson Stadium |
| Results | |
| Record | 8–8 |
| Division place | 3rd AFC East |
| Playoff finish | Did not qualify |
| Pro Bowlers | RB LeSean McCoy QB Tyrod Taylor C Eric Wood OG Richie Incognito |
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The Buffalo Bills entered the 2015 season looking for a new head coach as Doug Marrone, who coached the two previous seasons, opted out of his contract on December 31, 2014, to take advantage of a contract loophole. On January 12, 2015, Rex Ryan, who previously spent the past six seasons coaching the division-rival New York Jets, leading them to two straight AFC Championship games in 2009 and 2010, signed a five-year, $27.5 million contract, being the franchise's 18th head coach and the fifth in the past seven years. Despite the bold prediction made by Ryan: "I'm not going to let our fans down. I am not going to do that. I know it's been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well, get ready, man, we're going. We are going." With a record of 8–8 in the regular season, the Bills were unable to make the playoffs in their first season with Ryan as head coach - making it the 16th straight season without a playoff appearance, which became the longest active in major professional sports after the Toronto Blue Jays broke their 22-year playoff drought on September 25, 2015. It was also the first full season under the ownership of Terrence Pegula and Kim Pegula (whom also own the Buffalo Sabres), having purchased the Bills partway through 2014 after the death of longtime owner Ralph Wilson in March at the age of 95. The Bills began their season with an open competition for the starting quarterback position after Kyle Orton, the starter for most of the 2014 campaign, retired during the off-season. Former back up quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, Tyrod Taylor, a free agent acquisition, won the competition over incumbent second-string quarterback, E.J. Manuel and trade acquisition Matt Cassel - whom the team later traded along with a 7th-round pick in 2017 to the Dallas Cowboys, in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick in 2017.
Notes
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
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