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This story seems familiar. Can't you picture Saleh with "a handful of receipts" sitting in a chair face to face with the leaker, dropping f-bombs, with the VP of Communications for the Jets sitting directly behind him...

Players used to at least get a free trip to Hawaii out of it... who wants to go to Orlando.

Guess they just add that to the 8.5M Doug Pederson stole this season... Waddaya gonna do.

It is if you do it in a nasally voice and draw out all of the vooooooooweeeeeeels.

I suspect he will probably be brought up to speed calling the defense with the understanding that, at least initially, situationally McDermott will take the wheel.

I would like to see the Bills trade a tackling dummy to NE for Jones... even up, with the understanding that his value to the team is to let the DL kick him in the junk, nothing more, nothing less.

4 words… Damar Hamlin fake punt.

Not surprised. Given an offseason he may do well. I was hoping for someone more “out of the box” that made me think this season lit more of a fire under McDermott’s ass… oh well. 🤷‍♂️

I may be biased because he looks like Dexter, but I don’t mind Greg Olsen.

Was rooting for the Lions… until I realized I was jealous of their coaching. Seems like a lifetime ago the world was mocking them for the kneecap biting thing.

I don't think he's a terrible coach. I also don't think he's an upper echelon coach. I think he could win a SB with a stacked team and good luck on the injury front. I don't think he's an innovator that is going to scheme away deficiencies. I was disagreeing with a post about Belichick, Saban, and Reid not having signature coaching moments, if you will, and making the analogy that if there was ever a time for McDermott to show he could be that coach, it was with a defensively undermanned team against KC. Who knows, maybe he was saving it for after the Bills scored...

So Shakir as WR2 and Diggs as WR3? That has locker room distraction written all over it... In general, I get and agree with your point, though.

Exactly. He's the Beasley replacement. Diggs is the Brown/Sanders replacement. Still one missing.

Yes. DIggs. Too bad the WR1 isn't.

Hard for the DL to be a factor with wide open WRs and TEs running all over the field for Mahomes to throw to. Ya gotta give them a little time to work.

If you consider an edge rusher in this category, it was probably Miller before he blew his knee out.

I'm not going to go searching, but there are examples for all of those coaches. I will give you one that hits home re: Belichick the DC. Do you think the Giants were a better team than the Bills in SB XXV? There's no way that Giants team should have beaten the Bills... but for Belichick coming up with a defensive gameplan that confused the Bills for the duration of that game. Belichick gameplans to hide his team's deficiencies... or at least he used to. It's exactly what McDermott failed to do the other night against KC. He took an undermanned team and played his same old defense and watched it get smoked all night long. It was enevitable it was going to fail... I mean he actually tried to cover Kelsey with AJ Klein, FFS... the gameplan was to shorten the game on offense, keep it close and hope to pull it out on offense in the end. If the defense was destined to fail so spectacularly where would the harm have been in throwing a few wrinkles in to at least TRY to keep KC off balance. Was he afraid KC would score in 2 plahys instead of 3? If it didn't work the result would have been no different than what happened anyway. But nope, same old same old that he'd been doing all year. It was like watching the Levy era Bills with the mantra of "we'll just do what we do and out execute them"... completely ignoring the fact that the team on the other side of the ball was also a championship caliber team.

He has also had the benefit of an owner with deep pockets, which is something only Wrex Ryan had before him. I guess you forgot the "cash-to-cap" spending days and the "I refuse to spend money on a coaching staff" days of previous ownership during that drought. McDermott has done what he's done with a roster and staff that drought era coaches could only dream of.

Been there done that with the Rams.

I don’t know if Kingsbury is the right person, but I would prefer this approach. Bring in a successful OC who needs to rehab his image for his next HC shot. This team is too far along for on-the-job training.

I don’t think this is the Bills at all. I think this is a team and a culture and a locker room that could win a SB, I just think the coaching is not able to overcome major adversity. Big picture, I think McDermott could have coached the team we fielded on September 11, 2023 to a SB victory. I also think there are coaches that could have taken the team the Bills fielded against KC to a SB victory, as well, but I don’t think McDermott is one of them.

So you're backpedaling from coffee runner, to never called plays, to never called a full offense... but was the passing game coordinator, which is what I said to begin with. Maybe instead of continuing to guess about what his role was and making yourself look even less informed on Brady's time at LSU, you could accept it straight from the horse's mouth... https://247sports.com/college/lsu/longformarticle/lsu-tigers-football-national-championship-game-clemson-2020-new-orleans-steve-ensminger-interview-142080486/#1354787

Did you really just base your argument on kind words spoken at his retirement? I lived in NOLA and watched almost every TIgers game between 2017 and 2022. Ensminger was interim OC after Les Myles was fired, TE's coach in 2017, and was OC for the 2018 season. That offense, with Burrow, was not explosive. Burrow threw for 2800+ yds and 16 TDs. Because the passing game was so unimpressive, Ogeron went to Sean Payton and inquired about someone who could help implement a pro-style offense, and he recommended Joe Brady, who was widely regarded in the area as the reason Burrow threw for 5600+ yds and 60 TDs. Granted, he was throwing to Justin Jefferson and J'Marr Chase with Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Leonard Fournette in the backfield, and Randy Moss's son at TE, but he had the same weapons in 2018.