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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.

Why would he?

While it is true he wasn't the sole OC, a point which I've made myself in the past as Steve Ensminger was the run game coordinator, he was the passing game coordinator of an offense that broke college football records during LSU's National Championship season and was previously on Sean Payton's Saints staff when Brees was still in his prime. Your characterization of his time at LSU is kinda idiotic.

🤔You know… with a 17 game season… there is a way to do that in short order… wouldn’t THAT be something… we’d never have to hear about the damn ‘72 Dolphins and their annual champagne toast ever again.

I hope Tua gets a 10 yr, 500M fully guaranteed contract and that the Dolphins get as much value from it as the Browns got from Watson.

Beane lucked out... all this time I assumed it was the draft capital he acquired by trading players during the 2017 season and offseason, including trading their starting LT, Cordy Glenn, to the Bengals, with moving up to acquire a QB in mind... and now I find out it was purely by accident.

Well look at that, we've actually won 2 Super Bowls!! @Success, it looks like you can die a happy person!

Have you ever called somebody a pancake eating mother******? No... no... not unless I knew the guy really well. 🤣

We have 10 draft picks and they're not all going to make the team... we need to set a target of "x" number of receivers that we believe can be WR1 in the first round and make sure we get one (there were rumors floating around the board from "people in the know" that was the plan this past draft, but we weren't able to make the trade up before Addison, the last of that group, was off the board). Screw best player available at our draft position this draft, we NEED to get this fixed and since Diggs' contract ensures that he's here for the next few seasons, it needs to be through the draft.

I don't agree that, when we first got him, Diggs wasn't a difference maker or a player that could elevate the players around him. Beasely and John Brown looked a hell of a lot more dangerous with Diggs than they did the year before... and then Smoke dissipated, and the following year Diggs played with the fumes of Emmanuel Sanders and the last healthy bits of Beasely. I think at this point in his career he needs more talent around him to be able to take advantage of whatever he has left to give than what Davis, Harty, and Sherfield provide. We need a true WR1 to let Diggs assume the role of WR2 until we can free ourselves of his contract.

I dunno… there were times Davis played like a serious #2 💩

Promote him to DC/assistant HC

Doh!