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Guess they just add that to the 8.5M Doug Pederson stole this season... Waddaya gonna do.
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2 hours ago, Buffalo Boy said:
It’s not whining if it’s true🤷♂️
It is if you do it in a nasally voice and draw out all of the vooooooooweeeeeeels.
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11 minutes ago, Rigotz said:
This is sneaky huge news.
He was interviewed for Defensive Coordinator on several teams that have an OFFENSIVE specialized head coach.
It was not a given that he took the job with the Bills. One might argue he could showcase his talents better as a play caller and eventual head coach on one of those coaching staffs. He must have loved it in Buffalo or got a great offer.
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.
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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.
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13 minutes ago, Arkady Renko said:
McDermott is actually one of the smarter coaches now about 4th down.
4 words… Damar Hamlin fake punt.
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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. 🤷♂️
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46 minutes ago, Maine-iac said:
Faith No More
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I may be biased because he looks like Dexter, but I don’t mind Greg Olsen.
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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.
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4 minutes ago, msw2112 said:
This plan actually worked. The offense had the ball on the 27 yard line with 2 1/2 minutes and timeouts. The plan gave the team a chance to win, despite the depleted defense. Unfortunately, the offense was not able to covert.
I'm getting really tired of the piling on McDermott. The guy may not be the 2nd coming of Vince Lombardi, and yes, maybe the Bills need a fresh voice to help get the team over the hump in the playoffs. But the idea that McDemott is a complete incompetent and horrible coach is ridiculous. The guy has had a lot of success with the Bills. Other teams have great QBs and have not performed as well as McDermott's Bills have. For a recent example, how have the Chargers done with Justin Herbert? How many Super Bowls did Don Shula win with Hall of Famer Dan Marino? McDermott may not be the best coach in the business, but he's not a horrible coach. McDermott has won 4 division titles and 5 playoff games. He got a team with very limited talent to the playoffs before Josh Allen arrived. He somehow managed to get a 6-6 team that was left for dead to win 5 straight games, including the final game on the road against its biggest rival to win the division and then win a playoff game.
There may be better coaches out there than McDermott, and maybe the Bills would be better off with one of them, but the idea that he's a terrible coach is a fallacy.
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...
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Just now, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Beasley was the #2 WR on the team, the slot WR can be the #2.
Who ever takes Gabe’s spot on the field is probably the 4th option next year.
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.
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3 minutes ago, Bruffalo said:
He has the makings of a star slot receiver. We still need a 1A/B to push Diggs down to 1/B or 2.
Exactly. He's the Beasley replacement. Diggs is the Brown/Sanders replacement. Still one missing.
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Yes. DIggs. Too bad the WR1 isn't.
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50 minutes ago, Rich Stadium Original said:
I think most would agree that to increase your odds of going to and winning a Superbowl you need a franchise quarterback.
But I think what is often overlooked is the importance of that game changing defensive lineman that is so effective he disrupts games and has to be planned around...and can help close out a tight game in crunch time. I think all four of the remaining teams have one...and then I got to thinking, who was the last lineman for the Bills you could describe that way? Oliver showed flashes throughout the season, but was a ghost in the last playoff game. Was it Kyle Williams?...Jerry Hughes in his prime?
Having a player like that won't win you playoff games by himself, but it certainly seems to be a key ingredient.
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.
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If you consider an edge rusher in this category, it was probably Miller before he blew his knee out.
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14 hours ago, JimBob2232 said:
Uh...What are Billichecks. What are Reids. What are Sabans. There are no best single moments in coaching. Its establishing a culture, and many other things that cant boil down to a "coaching moment"
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.
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1 hour ago, Nuncha said:
He has been a winning coach since he's been here. I guess you forgot how horrible we were before that. My work here is done.
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.
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17 hours ago, Gregg said:
Try and win a Super Bowl.
Been there done that with the Rams.
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19 hours ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:
I believe I also saw the Bills haven't lost by more than 1 score since 2021.
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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.
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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.
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Just now, Back2Buff said:
Read this article and it sounds awfully familiar to what we seen in Buffalo in the few weeks.
A lot of people forget that he wasn't the offensive coordinator at LSU, he was the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach, thus meaning he has never had full control of an offense before. Looking back on it, you could argue that those star players that he had at LSU were the sole reason he earned an opportunity with Rhule and the Panthers in the first place. Sometimes players make a coach look better than he really is.
https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/gm-report/a-look-at-why-the-joe-brady-experiment-failed
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...
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1 hour ago, Back2Buff said:
Ensminger was way more than the run game coordinator, he was the OC before Brady got there. He was the one doing all the play calling for LSU.
He commanded the explosive offensive attack in 2019 that resulted in several school records and a national championship.
From a coaching standpoint, he’s the best. From game-planning to play-calling, Steve was outstanding. He developed our players on the field and he helped mold them into young men off the field. I can’t thank Steve enough for his loyalty and his willingness to do whatever was asked of him.”
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.
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Why would he?
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Josh Allen not in Pro Bowl because of Pebble Beach tee time, Minshew going as alternate
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Players used to at least get a free trip to Hawaii out of it... who wants to go to Orlando.