Wayne Arnold

The holier-than-thou BS while you dab away your tears needs to stop. No one is attacking McDermott the human being or judging his ability to be a husband, father, friend, community member, etc.. This is all about the Buffalo Bills and how their coach is falling short. That's it. The sensitivity from some of you shocks me.

Staley has only been a head coach for two seasons man. McDermott is on his 7th. Sheesh. And Herbert - while good - isn't the player that Josh Allen is.

Or like a McDermott/Allen situation.

I'm sure Dunne had been working on this longer than the time the "McDermott's job is safe" statements came out but the timing of release makes sense to me.

It was the perfect time to release it. If McDermott is the man for this job - one to lead this franchise to its first Super Bowl win - then an article with a few negative quotes is not going to distract him or the team and they'll be fine. If he's as bad as many think, Dunne's article will help lead this team down into the dumps and the fan pressure will (hopefully) require Pegula to make a change in January.

The purpose of a journalist is to highlight important perspectives. There are many with the perspective that Sean McDermott is bad at his job. Dunne wrote this highlighting that perspective. You can call it whatever you want - "hit piece" "agenda" "poor journalism" etc. but it doesn't change the fact that many people believe McDermott stinks and there's plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. The public received the viewpoint recently that McDermott's job is very safe regardless of the poor job he's doing on the field. Dunne's work is the response to that.

Dick Jauron went to Yale. To think McDermott is smarter than him is hilarious. Jauron also once went 13-3 with some guy named Jim Miller as his quarterback. Chan Gailey would have set NFL offensive records that wouldn't be touched for 30 years with a player like Josh Allen as his QB. You can guarantee anything you want - doesn't make it true. But the evidence is overwhelming: McDermott is a meathead who gets too nervous at the end of games to lead an NFL team. I'm sorry if that makes you emotional.

I'll say it again - articles like these are required when a head coach is not getting the job done and an article comes out with sources close to Pegula saying there's no chance he gets fired after the season. If falling short on the field ("game management, decision making, whether some of the core principles of his defense are really sustainable under the modern salary cap") isn't going to result in changes then we have to go a different route. Maybe Pegula is now getting the message. We're not going to allow Josh Allen to play his career here in Buffalo without lifting the Lombardi Trophy.

None of those coaches had a player like Josh Allen as their quarterback. Pieces like this are what happens when a head coach is not getting the job done and an article comes out saying there's no chance he gets fired after the season. If falling short on the field isn't going to result in changes then we have to go a different route.

Why are those the only options? There are more talented coaches in this sport than at any time in history. And we have one of the greatest players on the planet in his prime in the most important position in sports. We have our pick of the litter. We've never in this position before. TAKE ADVANTAGE.

He's a loser for doing his job? And doing it well enough to cause this much heat?

Rich and powerful people ruin everything good in the world.

Pegula isn't going to fire McDermott because of x's and o's. He's not smart enough to do that. He'll only fire McDermott if the public pressure is too much to overcome. Articles like this helps with that. Keep em comin.

I find some of the backlash from this article hilarious. You have Bills fans who support McDermott simply because they think the guy who replaces him might be worse. *gasp* Some people are scared of their own shadow. It's truly pathetic. Once McDermott is finally let go there will be a line past Big Tree Road of the most talented coaches in the country salivating at the chance of coaching an NFL team with Josh Allen as its quarterback. To think that there are more than a handful of knuckle-dragging Bills fans who think we can't do better than Sean McDermott is mind-boggling.

Hang in there bro.

You're likely very right. But somehow I'm pretty shocked that Von is still on the team this week. I assumed he was done for the season and then probably his career.

I can't believe how badly the Bills the defense played against the Patriots. Gotta be the worst defensive performance of McDermott's tenure.

You called these three things (from @Bob Jones ) speculation: 1. Apparently, sometime during the melee, she started recording on her phone and then put it in her pocket, so that recording will take precedence over what they both say now. 2. Also, there's the matter of the cops seeing injuries on her body shortly after the fight. 3. And in Texas, it doesn't matter if the victim does not want to cooperate, they can & will prosecute the case if they feel that they have enough evidence. By definition, these things are not speculation. I'm keeping up just fine, thanks.

When did I say that? Two of those three things are up to the players involved in the chaotic game of the American justice system - and then you never know what Goodell and the NFL will want to do. My point is that there's a difference between speculation ("he said, she said") and police reports / recorded 911 calls.

Except it's not a "he said, she said" situation. There's way more evidence than that. Police reports and record 911 calls are not speculation. They are evidence of a crime.

No. The magic is gone every time they lose a playoff game in devastating fashion. Nothing to do with Miller.

What's my narrative? Let's get into it...

Yes. It happens quite often. This is an open-and-shut case. And this didn't just come out of left field - just look at their history. I don't have a narrative.

We know what happened. It's documented. And not rocket science.