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He did not go to the Broncos after being the Raiders HC. He left twice. This is a fantasy that he was on the staff and promoted. He was very similar to the situation had the Bills hired Daboll. Not at all comparable to the Brady hire.

He left for 3 seasons. This is a much better comparison if we had hired Daboll.

He's wrong then.

Mike Shanahan was not an inside promotion hire.

Josh Allen masked a lot of issues with our scheme. The lack of WR production isn't the only issue with the offense last year. Aside from the philosophy (throwing the ball short of the sticks frequently on third downs), Brady never seemed to elevate players or focus on their strengths. We had multiple speedy receivers, but he didn't so much as dare line them up on the outside and run deep patterns to take the top off the defense. He just... ran gadget plays and small flat passes that never worked. The run game was our strength this year, and everyone in the building attributes that to Kromer (who retired). Our pass protection and passing offense took a huge step back.

Kincaid is not really built like a tight end. Is it possible that it's really no more than that?

You can always get a WR (which Beane HAS DONE), you can't change your entire defensive philosophy.

Another person responded and said essentially what I would have said. McDermott was in love with guys who already knew his system. Blaming Beane for AJ Klein and Dane Jackson feels like a reach to justify your argument. As for the blaming the turnovers in the Denver game, I laid out the scenario for you. Josh overcame the turnovers and took the lead back. At that point he needed a stop from his defense ONE TIME in the playoffs, and they still couldn't get it done. It's a terrible hill to do on to highlight the turnovers. We know that's atypical of Josh Allen in the playoffs. It's being cherry picked by McDermott defenders to avoid looking in the mirror about how ineffective his defense was when it mattered most in the playoffs.

I think Pegula attempted to convey that he expects the team to perform better and have higher expectations, but ultimately he did a poor job articulating that. Pegula really struggled to control the narrative there.

I was expecting to learn more from the press conference, but here are my takeaways: Pegula is still terrible at public speaking. He is inarticulate and does not think of the consequences from his words I was hoping Beane was a part of the decision. It's a little scary knowing that Pegula made this rogue decision I don't understand why Beane isn't the one hiring the coach. The committee included too many non-football minds. People are going to overreact to the Keon Coleman stuff. Pegula was speaking out of school there and it forced Beane into damage control I don't love this CEO head coach criteria. Sounds like they would have wanted Harbaugh if you take them at face value I think Beane didn't get an opportunity to answer some of the tougher questions fans wanted to ask him Pegula seemed to contradict himself frequently. He mentioned 13 seconds and the playoff wall, but still made it sound like a gut decision I think they were awful at conveying how much of the draft and personnel decisions were McDermott's fault. They were dancing around it and it sounded like an awkward scapegoat excuse. I thought it wasn't the time to try and clarify who was responsible for who. Glad Beane took accountability for the picks. Overall, I just feel like it reinforced my sentiment that Pegula is fairly incompetent as a sports owner and I'm thankful we have someone, Beane even, to help right this ship.

I was a little confused by that part of the press conference. Pegula is extremely inarticulate. He simultaneously said the look of the guys in the room after the loss is why he made the decision to fire McDermott AND that we hit a playoff wall. He brought up 13 seconds at some point. I think he knew that the players were doubting if they could actually win it all, and he couldn't figure out a way to say that in a way that didn't seem like he was plotting. But, to your point, he did seem to factor in Josh crying and that is pretty incredible. I think everyone in that room knew it was time. They were crying because they thought they let their coach down, but as we look at it from a few steps back, he likely let them down.

This is a well rounded reply without any of that mouth breathing. Ultimately I don't believe the WR stuff really cost the team. At the press conference it was clear that the direction of the offense was to get bigger, and if that was their directive, they achieved that. I don't love it. It's not my preference. I like how the Rams are built. Attack downfield and use talented receivers to set the tempo of your offense. You need elite separators to make that work. That was not the offensive system or what was asked of Beane and they were 2nd and 4th in scoring offense the last two years. Objectively, that's the goal with the offense, to score the most points.

How are you expecting me to react to Joe Brady not willing to interview for the job?

You realize that McDermott's defense failed, right? You accept that I assume, right? He failed, objectively, to make a Superbowl appearance with Josh Allen as his QB and running HIS DEFENSE. Assuming we can come to that agreement, now I ask you, to OBJECTIVELY, point to where Beane failed to that degree. Objectively. Not with your opinion in spite of the contrary evidence (see: offense still top 5). I am not even remotely saying Brandon Beane is the best GM or anything of the sort, I'm just laughing at all the unoriginal fans who 12 months ago would proclaim him to be "Big Baller Beane" have now, based on a radio interview, completely flipped in spite of all available evidence. All I get when I push on this topic, is a list of WRs. A list of WRs that we did in fact succeed with, again, scoring 30 points on the road in a playoff game against a top defense coming off a bye.

And why would he squirm? They made multiple in-season attempts to remedy the situation with the leverage they had and it resulted in scoring 30 points in a road playoff game against a 1 seed with a top defense off the bye.