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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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1 hour ago, Back2Buff said:
Am I the only one that doesn't want Brady? I was fine with giving him an opportunity, but the passing game was really bad under him. Like it takes a special coordinator to see that big of a drop off in Diggs. Brady's only solution to Diggs was screen passes. Is that the coordinator you want?
He was fired in Carolina.
He gets way too much credit for that LSU offense. He wasn't even the sole OC. He was so new in the position, my guess he was more of a coffee runner at LSU.
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.
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1 hour ago, Low Positive said:
He doesn't really care about a ring. He wants 20 more wins to pass Shula.
🤔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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, ProcessImproverMan said:
Beane lucked out that the Bills acquired enough draft capital to move up to grab Allen very early in the draft as without doing so, we would have been in similar mediocrity.
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.
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7 hours ago, pennstate10 said:
I actually consider Kelly to be a Super Bowl winning QB.
he did exactly what Brady did to win his first Super Bowl.
Guided his team to a game winning FG in the last minute of the game.
Not his fault that the kicker failed.
33 minutes ago, chongli said:Well, ok, if that's the case, then Buffalo won the SB in 2021. It's not Josh's fault 13-sconds occurred. If we had beaten KC, then most agree Buffalo would have beaten Cincy and then the Rams.
See how that works?
36 minutes ago, Success said:Honestly, I'm in the "one before I die" crowd. I'm sure when we win one, I'll want more - but just one will bury all of the demons. Then, it will just be about enjoyment.
I'm sure of that.
I think Allen gets one in the next few years, and who knows - maybe another when he's in his 30's. And that's fantastic. Brady changed a lot of perspectives on this. All of a sudden, unless you have a dynasty or get a bunch of titles, it's insufficient.
But for this fan, 1 is just fine.
Well look at that, we've actually won 2 Super Bowls!! @Success, it looks like you can die a happy person!
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22 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
I've always liked him just because of this reaction video. It's funny how he has such a tough time with how their draft board looked.
Have you ever called somebody a pancake eating mother******?
No... no... not unless I knew the guy really well. 🤣
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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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, Warcodered said:
Brady did what worked and that was the run game a lot of the time, why because for the longest time we've murdered teams with the intermediate passing game and they don't want to let us do that to them anymore plus Diggs was clearly dealing with something, and we did not have a serious #2 to force the issue.
I dunno… there were times Davis played like a serious #2 💩
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2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
They's have to promote him and give him play calling responsibility.
Promote him to DC/assistant HC
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9 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
0-3 when it mattersDoh!
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38 minutes ago, Beast said:
So, you’re saying Harbaugh is way better than Reid….because McDermott is3-40-3 against him when it matters.FIFY.
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I think they should name a DC/assistant HC. If McDermott is going to call the defense, then, if it hasn't already been done, have someone designated to be looking at/assisting him with the big picture when he's otherwise occupied on game day. Maybe it could be someone with better in-game instincts.
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That article has a clip with an end zone viewpoint of Diggs dropping that pass. What the hell was he doing? He pulls up, turns inside and jumps for the ball, which he still should have caught, when if he keeps running and turns outside the ball would be right over his outside shoulder. Granted, I’m sure it was a B word to track, but when you’re one of the highest paid WRs in the league you’d think you could handle a throw that your QB basically dropped in the bucket if you play it right.
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🤔 I’m wondering if replying to this thread with the middle finger emoji will get me banned…
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8 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:
Did we watch the same game? yes, they had two 3 and outs. But the offense was very much clicking going into the 2 minute warning. After that, it was Allen gunning it to Shakir for a killshot rather than taking the easy check down to Diggs. Allen rolling right and not seeing the open guys (they highlighted it in the broadcast) and then a missed FG. I can't blame Brady for that, especially after creaming the Chiefs on TOP.
The defense was a skeleton crew. I'm sure the gameplan was to keep it within a score and bleed the clock on offense from the opening kickoff. When KC's defense adjusted and it became tough sledding on the ground they had to loosen it up by taking shots downfield. I have no complaints about the offensive gameplan yesterday. Improbable as it was to succeed against the Chiefs with the defense as undermanned as it was, it almost worked.
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What is McDermott’s Magnum Opus?
in The Stadium Wall
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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.