Mister Defense

Jerry? Jerry Jones?? I was at that game and yes, it was pretty devastating. But only an absolute moron would have said after it, "Time to fire Marv!" And I am being very kind in my name calling as this is a family forum. Sounds like you would run your NFL team like ol' Jerry, ordering the team to take the next step... and creating a fiasco of a 'team', every man for himself, no one trusting anyone... and all players, coaches, employees always looking over their shoulders. Is that the kind of owner you would be? Fan of ol' Jerry, I assume, as he makes it clear what he thinks of his players and coaches in almost every interview, whether he is outwardly (misconstrued as) positive or negative. It is all negative and undermines the foundation of his team. I love you all, such a great team, so you better win it all now!--every man for himself!

Nuts! Was really hoping this extremely over hyped poor defensive coach, hyped almost like Russel Wilson was during that awful trade, was coaching at a possible AFC contender. When is the last time his defense played a good or excellent team in an important game and came through, and did not crumble? Yet he was mentioned again and again as a top tier head coach possibility! Makes no sense. Has not won a big game in years and seems to be clueless as to in game adjustments. Poor Washington! Hopefully he is one and done and brought in as the DC for an AFC East team next year.

I agree with your positive assessment--I think they will improve slightly next year, just enough to get them over the hump..

How dare you go after this sleezeball, as a small handful of his followers are clearly on this board!? He is their hero, the idiot who has zero journalistic integrity, who lets his hate guide his every word on the Bills. Oh no, we are doomed!!!! Such a sharp, intelligent take, loaded with good information, specifics.

Somewhat disappointed as McDermott did one of the best jobs I have ever seen coaching the defense this year. I wanted to see how dominant they could be when healthy next year. Hopefully he works very closely with Babich this off season and during the 2024 season, implementing much of the defensive philosophy that has made the Bills one of the best defenses over the last 5 years. Wow, that is an extremely high percentage of certainty!! What facts or inside information do you have to back this up, specifically?

No one was stopping Mahomes two years ago, and no one was stopping Allen. Two very good defenses became almost irrelevant because of the generational talent at quarterback. This year, the d line was trying to compensate for the dramatic injuries in the secondary and linebackers and came up short. McDermott coached this defense into a top five defense this year, an almost miraculous achievement. Don't let your irrational hate of him not allow you to see things as they actually are... The good news is that Bean and the Pegulas also have enough sense to not let the haters influence them on McDermott in any way. Can you imagine if they were as hysterical and irrational as the haters!?

They were playing their 4th and 5th linebackers, including a player all but retired a few weeks ago and not on the team. Their secondary was just as banged up. I am pretty sure Douglas would not have played if not a playoff game. They were significantly short handed yet again this season, and this time, against the defending NFL champions. To not acknowledge that is comically poor, negligent 'analysis'. Invalidates all you say. No way do they mess with this line next year! To get rid of Morse would be extremely irresponsible for a team with some significant needs. No way.

Even with his very good first half of year, and likely even better year next year, I doubt Brady would be ready to be a head coach after next season. Maybe after a few superb years, but for now he is the best guy for the job. Dorsey as a head coach!! Almost surreal that he would think this, but almost no chance of that now, unless it is a middle school or pee wee team in desperate need. I think he would be a great Gatorade boy, however, the kind of non thinking, menial task he could excel at. With a lot of practice and significant monitoring and assistance.

Frazier's defenses were the best overall in the league during his tenure in Buffalo--what Bills' fans can possibly think he would not make a huge positive difference for the fish's defense?

Did you watch some of the Chargers' games this year? Moore may end up being a consistently good OC one day, but his offenses don't look so hot to me. Was also not a fan of the lose-to-good-teams Dallas non-physical offense of last year. I prefer the physical, run like hell, diverse approach we saw from Brady, and this off season he will make it into his/their own... Maybe Moore for an assistant coach of QB coach. He may not get another OC job for a bit after this year.

You are kidding right, that you think Dorsey was doing just as well as Brady did--or better-? The only way someone can be so ignorant of the fact that Brady led a far superior offense was if they did not watch football AD, after Dorsey. Like Josh said, "It had to be done."

Great news for the Bills! Brady took a declining, dysfunctional offense, one not scoring much in the first half, repeatedly forcing them to dig themselves out of holes, and where almost no players were rising to their potential, and overnight turned it into an efficient, diverse, more physical, run heavy offense capable moving the ball and scoring against any team. A dramatic turnaround, and in the middle of the season, when all of Dorsey's awful and incompetent habits were well ingrained and becoming the status quo. This spring and summer I hope he works very closely with Josh, Stef, Cook, Shakir... the line, and the tight ends to create the best offense in the league. If McDermott stays on as DC for one more year, and I think he will, the Bills may have two of the best coordinators in all of football.

So you don't think he did a good job coaching the defense this year?

We know who this guy is voting for in the next election, his role model, Lol! Probably has his face on all of his pillowcases.

Yup, thank God that the Pegulas and Bean have a brain in their heads and know when they have a superb head coach.

Thanks for the great data and analysis. I told people for the last year that he reminded me of Andre Reed, smooth, with great hands and excellent route running. And he trained with Moulds this past summer. I have been calling for much more of Shakir since last year and feel it is one the best examples of why Dorsey was so bad at his job--it was crystal clear that the guy needed to get more touches. See how he does and go from there. But he only started to use him when the public pressure on him mounted. The Bills could often not even get first downs, let alone score. Shakir is the kind of player who could have helped to get the team in gear, get drives going, but he was ignored. Unforgivable, as the season was slipping away.. They will get a great #1 in the draft, have Diggs #2, and Shakir in the slot++ How good that group could be depends on how good of a player they get in the draft. But I think that will be a superb trio. It should have happened this past year as they clearly needed a better starting wide out.

This is a great example of what I said in my post about the OP. Yup, he was out-coached this year in two games, and one was the first Pats game. Yes, that is true, that that one game was not his best game, outmatched by the greatest coach of all time. See what I mean? They take one tiny piece and use that, or a few of those, to scream for years that McDermott is a bad coach, ignoring the huge amount of varied evidence that he is an excellent coach. Ignorance of the worst kind--will full ignorance And the other thing they do? They call him silly, immature idiotic names (see above), as if they were in 4th grade. Who does that? I think it is pretty clear who most of them worship politically, as they follow his lead in the way they attack and their supreme immaturity.

How can you not do what you say above if you just irrationally hate the guy, and likely, just hate winners or successful people? Because that is exactly what they, the haters of McD, do--'did you see that one play where he didn't call a time out when I think he needed too!!!!!! Fire him now!!!" or, for Josh, pointing to 1-2 plays of his in a game and saying,"See that!! Josh is the problem!! Trade for Zak!!!!' As what I bolded above is exactly how they (the irrational haters) operate, which, ironically, means it is the opposite of real evidence and logic guiding them, despite the OP's implication that he is directed by that and the those who understand just how good of coach we have (the vast, vast majority of Bills' fans) are not. So to answer your question, that is exactly what they do, how they operate. So his post makes sense, as that is how they see things. McDermott could have won the SB this year and do you have any doubt that they would start in with their hate as soon as the next season began or sooner? Of course they would have--and will... They can likely thank their lucky stars that the real world--and their own bosses (hopefully) have a more rational way of looking at things.

obviously so many to choose from for any with even a partial brain, but... Just this year, realizing he made a horrible choice in Dorsey and firing him in the middle of the season, knowing Dorsey was incapable, and clearly listening to his QB and players on this move. Saved the season, became what they were destined to be this year, one of the top teams in the league. Went from 6-6 to 7-1, an almost miraculous turn around. And taking a defense missing some of its best players at every level and somehow making it into not just a passable defense, but molding it into a championship level one. If a g good coach's primary goal is to win by moving his players to their maximum potential, then he may be the best in the league right now based on the evidence from this year alone, a remarkable achievement. After seeing what he did this year there is no current head NFL coach I would rather have for next year.

Hoping Tua is paid like a king, with the biggest contract ever--he deserves it! And then, less money the other fish for years... He is soo scary, has McDermott's number obviously, and deserves at least 45-50 million a year, guaranteed. But Jerry is old and afraid of dying before he gets a his non-Jimmy (never going to happen) SB victory, so will likely pay ol' Zak @ 50 million a year. Yikes. Sad, as I think Jerry has to know that Zak is incapable of winning a big game, let alone the Super Bowl.

No thanks to the ones in bold. Every time I watched Evans this year he was dropping balls and such. Last thing this team needs is a one year, aging, inconsistent #@--rather have Davis back. Higgins seems to be a media darling but had an off year. Injury riddled year, maybe, but no thanks. Two in the draft and the best free agent available, a guy with a very high percentage catch rate--which of these has that? Randall Cobb! Yikes on that.

After his masterful job of coaching the injury riddled defense to be one of the best in the NFL, it almost seems inevitable that he will do that again next year too. Next year, from day one, we will have a top 3 D coordinator, what seems to be an excellent, dynamic OC, and one of the best head coaches in the NFL. I cannot wait for the season to start!

Nice, will add the competition in the AFC and, most importantly, to the AFC West. And puts an end to the tiny fraction of Bills' fans who want our coach fired and Harbaugh to replace him.

The great news for the Bills and their true fans is that the Pegulas and Beane seem to feel the same way--one of the top head coaches and defensive coordinators in the NFL, and he clearly took yet another step forward this year. He did one of the top coaching jobs in the league this year by almost any standard.

You have some of the most interestingly worded posts on this board! Very consistent in their quality. Heck no, as many feel like I do--lucky --and happy--that we have one of the top coaches in the NFL and will likely be a championship contender as long as he is here. And win several Super Bowls, if not the 8 Josh predicted! How many teams in the NFL can say that?