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I hate them because I think we would have multiple SB trips without them. Why not hate them

Who do you think would be better than McDermott? Remember 2 things: 1) McDermott is the only coach with no prior NFL(AFL) coaching experience who has ever been successful in Buffalo. 2)No coach has ever won another Super Bowl with a different team. So unless you can come up with a candidate who has HC experience who has never won a Super Bowl, you're likely getting a guy who is a downgrade from McDermott. Just about anyone you come up with is a crap-shoot. I prefer to stick with McDermott as long as he has the locker room. The only way I would fire him would be if he lost the players, something that has not happened yet. You fire McDermott, you might just end up with someone like this guy:

I think this is how it ends "gracefully":

Isn't Buffalo Joe still Buffalo Joe, though?

So extra taxes on almost everything are just no big deal

I just want all the defensive investments from this offseason to mean something when it matters. If it's same old same old in the playoffs this year, then what was the point? With all that investment and a defensive head coach, we really should expect a top 5 defense.

Atlanta thought so. We got a #1 pick for Price.

People think this is the question at hand but it really isn't. If prolonged success / consistency are most important you, McDermott isn't going to be beat. The question is can he elevate us to a Super Bowl. Nobody knows that. Lesser coaches have elevated teams to a Super Bowl. Doug Pederson is an example, but history is littered with them. In such a move you aren't targeting better. You're targeting different. Then you're counting on your MVP quarterback to bring the consistency and longer term winning. Which he will. Either way, McD isn't going anywhere. Super Bowl or not, probably ever. It would take something off the radar.

Based on how Pine is judging home runs (guys who were universally seen as elite around the league) I would say Beane/McD drafted 3 home runs during their time here….. josh allen tre White (no longer elite) Matt Milano (no longer elite) if Jimbo takes the next step, he could be added to this list. I don’t think Benford will get the home run status due to his lack of interceptions.

Yeah, I'd consider both Bayer and Gosnell. Long shots, but with the injuries they both have a shot at the PS.

Nick Wright's comments really hit me this morning. He showed a list of the 30 QBs in NFL history with 6+ playoff wins. 29 of them have appeared in a Super Bowl. 1 has not, and it's Josh Allen. He also showed the list of head coaches with 6+ playoff wins to never make a Super Bowl. It's just McDermott and Chuck Knox. That's it. I have to be honest...it gave me pause. It made me think. I'm not sure how many more "lose to the Chiefs by 3 points in a divisional round or AFCCG" game I can take. At some point, as hard as it is to contemplate, a head coach change would have to be considered. The problem, as I see it, is I'm not so sure I have faith in Pegula and co to pick an upgrade at head coach, let alone one that gets along as synergetically with Brandon Beane. I'm firmly somewhere in between "one or two more years of playoff exits in KC should mean the axe for McD" and "Be careful what you wish for, look at the Sabres". Ugh.

You know, it was Nickell Robey-Coleman who committed that egregious PI against the Saints that was never called...maybe this was just the NFL's way of fixing that wrong?

The WR from VA Tech, Gosnell.

The was one of the all-time great calls.

C Jacob Bayer (61) and OT Chase Lundt (77) are two candidates for that designation. Will be watching them tomorrow.

It all depends. Context is important. If it’s like the divisional round loss to KC, which was a masterpiece by McD given the injuries, then yes. If our 1s get creamed by their 2s because Mahomes, Rice, etc. are out, then maybe it falls into the “disaster” category.

For Finding: Catturd shlit posting like he always does, while simultaneously reminding you of old news. Now that's what I call reliable. Enjoy!

I was testing you. https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/10/16/6985297/jerry-hughes-penalty-bills-patriots-2014

My daughter bought a pack of stickers and gave me the Eagles sticker. After tearing it into a million pieces, I gently explained to her as much as I love the NFL, I am predisposed to dislike every other team on a spectrum. Tier 1 - Hatred: These teams, their fans, their families, their pets, their churches, anything associated with them are despised, their mere mention raising my already elevated blood pressure. When completing a task that requires extraordinary effort, I think of these teams, channel the anger, and push through. Watching these teams lose (barring some strange scenario requiring a win) brings joy comparable to a Bills victory. Cowboys (I decided in the early 90s that the Cowboys were to be hated for the rest of eternity. Still unsure if I hate the Cowboys more than I love the Bills) Dolphins (there will forever be a special place in my cold, black heart for these clowns. The current iteration with Hill and McDaniel makes the hate even more delicious) Patriots (they could lose the rest of their games from now until the end of the NFL and it would still never be enough) Jets (with any other team other than this one and the Browns, sympathy might lessen the hate a little bit. But their owner and fans make it so easy to continue as is) Chiefs (hatred shared with most of NFL fandom, apparently) Ravens (Just a dirty team... having been punched in the face by these guys, always a little triggered when we face them) Bengals (Forever riding their recent Super Bowl appearance, punch in the face kind of cocky, lead by their smarmy QB. The goodwill from backdooring us to the playoffs is long gone)

Every year there seems to be a little known player or 2 (usually a UDFA or a camp invitee) who the make the team or have a great camp and make their way on to the PS. Last year it was Buffalo Joe and Shavers. Admittedly, I haven’t focused on the camp news, but it seems two WRs have impressed. Anyone else?

Your reasoning is why I have been good with keeping McD until now. However, I think I've reached the point where we would have to try anything different if the outcome remains the same. Could we take a step back with someone unproven? Yes. But we would also know that we can't take a step forward with McD, so you have to rip that band aid.

I have it on very good authority, that McDermott is absolutely loved by Terry Pegula He isn't going anywhere.

That was Jerry Hughes