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I have never used that terminology for the Ravens or the Cowboys either. I don't really go in for attacking teams that win plenty but can't get over the hump in tournament play. Those teams are normally not far away and it is about finding the small modifications that you can try and use to get you there. Those modifications can be changing the coach or the General Manager. But I am just not persuaded that is the right lever to pull. Maybe I will get there. But I don't see it right now. There are, as I have said multiple times, three scenarios in which I am already clear I would fire McDermott: 1. The Bills missing the playoffs save for in a situation when they lose Josh Allen for a significant stretch. 2. The Bills losing a playoff game to a team they have a clear Quarterback advantage over (not a Mahomes, Burrow, Jackson). 3. Another clearly identifiable coaching blunder akin to 13 seconds. You can have one mulligan. You don't get two. Any of those 3 scenarios would convince me the coaching is the issue. I may get there in other scenarios too. But those are the 3 that are obviously identifiable.

there are 4 pages previously re-litigating a play that happened when Keon Coleman was still at FSU. Blaming me for taking this train off the tracks is deeply unfair.

If the Bengals ever do win a Super Bowl, the players better be okay with paying for their own rings.

It's so tough because the defensive roster has been built pretty specifically for McDermott's defensive scheme. Moving on from him would be a likely lost year the following season. Plus, you'd lose a lot of quality position coaches on both sides of the ball. The one scenario that would make sense to me is making Joe Brady the head coach if McDermott's defense underachieved in the playoffs again. Brady will be hired elsewhere next year if he repeats anything close to what he achieved last year so why not make the head coach him. Keeping Beane in place and most of the staff in place while either keeping Babich as DC or finding some other defensive coordinator that knows McD's scheme. That way Josh Allen would have more stability at the offensive coordinator position as opposed to a revolving door of offensive coordinators he's had up to this point in his career.

Cause they are trend setting, edge cutting innovators! LOL

All this when I said Cam Newton wasn't a good QB? Of the 53 man roster, no one else is good enough to win a Super Bowl except Josh Allen? What actually do you mean there? Like their talents aren't good enough to be on a Super Bowl winning team?

He might. Granted he's a bubble player but he's a special teamer, knows the system and we aren't overwhelmed with LB depth. They saw something in him that they didn't in Nick Morrow last year

Beautiful answer, but of course to green sky leftists they mean violent protests when they say peaceful protests.

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He reminds me of Herbert. Regular season puts up some great numbers and makes you go "hey he really could be a threat" ... and then the post season comes and he is trash and you go "oh yea nevermind".

I’m not against firing McD. It’s just a massive roll of the dice and we could end up much worse. We’re losing to one team every year (minus the bengals and there was much more to that loss than McD). We’re losing to a dynasty that is up there with the best in nfl history. They have the HoF QB, pass catcher, pass rusher + all time play callers on offense and defense. We aren’t losing to randoms every year. We’re losing to a dynasty in games where, if one play had played out differently, we would’ve won. while also being on the shite end of the cosmic stick. I would’ve been happy to fire McD to roll the dice on Ben Johnson. Well, we missed that opportunity. So who’s next? Which coach would be that guy worth rolling the dice on? To further discuss- start another thread sucks this is in the Keon Coleman thread- I’ll stop here. Sorry all, I tried to get it back on track but FC can’t stop, won’t stop. 😉

In my mind if he OR Coleman breaks out that could be a hell of a passing game

I've been stating this for years on this site. US citizens are completely ignorant of the industrialization and profiteering of the illegal immigration trade.

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TDS will simply not allow them to change course.... and it's glorious....MORE!!!

I feel like that's why his agent told him not to sign. They probably didn't even clarify what they mean by "default" so they could potentially pick any reason to say that he defaulted on his contract. It just sounds like something the Bengals would do.

RIP they're all leaving, one by one it seems. one thing all these musicians have done is left behind the greatest thing for one's soul. music, the music will live on.

Someone has to be first. I’m not saying I follow this closely, but when teams have been affected by intolerable player behavior and players were cut, teams have sued to get a portion of their guaranteed money back. Without knowing more than what’s in this thread, maybe they’re just trying to codify this upfront. If that’s the case then I am all for it. I don’t know what the meaning of default is in this scenario. If I knew that, it would clear things up.

I'm going to leave you all with this because it is far too off topic. The point of all of this is that we will not get unlimited chances with Josh Allen. He is 29 years old. Maybe he plays great for the next 10 or 15 years. Maybe its 5. Maybe its 3. We do not know. When it was 2020, I felt like we had a very long runway. Josh had arrived as an elite player (finishing second in MVP voting) the Bills had their best season since 1995, an AFCCG defeat to the defending Super Bowl champs, and our championship window was wide open. And now here we are, 5 years later. Same exact spot. Offensive and defensive cornerstones have come and gone. Same exact spot. 5 years of drafts and free agents. Same exact spot. Let's look at some of those constants through those 5 years. Josh Allen is excellent. He tends to perform very well, even in playoff defeats. We all agree with this. There is no meaningful way to try to improve on Josh Allen, and it would be foolhardy to even attempt. Injuries and bad luck are unable to be controlled. I am down for whatever voodoo or black magic or shamrock stuff you all would like to try. The other constants are the GM and the HC. The GM's personnel decisions have been discussed ad naseum, but there's room for improvement there, right? And finally we come to the finale, the head coach. The defensive head coach who seems to have his defense play one of the worst games of the year, EVERY YEAR, in the biggest game of the year (the last one). Constant. Consistency. If we weren't all Bills fans, we would all have a chuckle at this version of the Bills, who despite performing at a high level just about every regular season, collapse defensively EVERY SINGLE YEAR in the postseason. We usually reserve words like "chokers" or "frauds" for teams like the Ravens or the Cowboys, but honestly, we are kind of right there with them. Suffice it to say, there is one person employed by the Bills that I am 100% convinced is good enough to win a Superbowl and his name is Josh Allen. I'm not convinced anyone else is good enough. I am convinced that McD and Beane are good enough to make the playoffs and lose. That's what they have proven to me. I have no problem with anyone's faith alternatively, but that's what it is. And I have lost that faith. 0-4 will do that to you. I also wonder if some of the players have lost that faith as well. As far as individual players missing or injured each season, can anyone name all the starting DBs from the 2020 Buccaneers? I can't. What about the starting DBs from the 2021 Bengals? I can't. Do you know who was injured in the first Q of the 2023 Chiefs divisional round game? Their starting safety. Do you know who was traded in the 2024 offseason? The Chiefs best starting outside CB because they couldn't afford him. So miss me with the "we were down a starting safety 3 years ago which is really the reason the Chiefs had another elite offensive performance and ripped through McD's defense AGAIN." The whole point of a defensive coach, I thought, was to hold up their end of the bargain when paired with an elite offensive talent. Josh doesn't need an elite OC to be elite. But he does need support from the other side of the ball when he is pacing on the sideline. He hasn't gotten it. So now, coming off an offseason almost solely dedicated to the defensive side of the ball, what is stuff going to be if they get ripped through, again? "We just need a few more bounces or luck, we are so close" "(Insert player here) had a hamstring injury which is why the Chiefs averaged 9 yards per play" Same story, different day. It's gotten really freakin old. And I love the Bills. I even really like McD, I think he's a good coach. But I have officially had enough of running it back and not seeing an ROI on our defensive investment. Good luck to you all and I really do hope you are right. Because I know McD and Beane aren't going anywhere, so to me, they either get it done or we will never see ultimate victory in the Josh Allen era.