The Frankish Reich

Oh man. Lewis led with his head and took the brunt of tbat

Sometimes those free agent signings don’t pay off right away!

Only because Nix is showing abilities that age well.

The kid’s good. I’m not sure he would t go first overall in a draft do-over

Reid Ferguson makes a play!

And since his rookie year. He’s a beast now!

I think we could get a 2nd for Cook!

I thought pulling the runner was illegal, Dion

Kids, Nix is for real.

Joe B. on McD being an introvert got me thinking. Aren't some of the great coaches introverts? For every Parcells there's a Belichick. For every Jimmy Johnson a Tom Landry. So maybe I wasn't entirely correct when I said McD is an introvert succeeding in a world of extroverts?

Leroy Hoard!

Apologies if its already been said a few (or a dozen) times in this thread: New coach, same old Chargers.

If McD is ever fired/not renewed, he will be signed up somewhere else within 48 hours. Folks, we're lucky we finally chose Mr. Right.

Still the funniest thread ever.

As a pose to what?

Right. Maybe Beilein was just a guy in his contact list who bothered to respond.

If you read the article, you'll see that he has come to terms with who he is: an introvert, in a job that is usually the home of extroverts. And he's found a way to be very successful, particularly now that the team seems to understand him and to put in the hard work as a team playing for him.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6047900/2025/01/10/bills-coach-sean-mcdermott-playoffs/?source=freeweeklyemail&campaign=602288&userId=12924261 A really nice deep dive into a reserved man not given to over sharing. And really well-written. We often treat our reporters as scoop-and-tweet machines. When Joe B. gets a chance to stretch out here, he shows he's in the top rank of sports writers. (Sorry, no non-paywall link, but you guys know the workarounds. Better yet, just subscribe!) McDermott insists his “goofy dad” ways have always been in there. “I was a class clown when I was younger, believe it or not,” McDermott said. In third grade, teachers would send a note home every Friday, updating his parents on his weekly progress. In sixth grade, for various reasons, including being a class clown, McDermott was held back a year in school. But that sense of humor, although it wasn’t necessarily dormant during his first seven years as head coach, he wasn’t going out of his way to display it like he has this season. It would come out here or there, like when he winked after using the term “process” in a news conference his first two years, almost in a self-deprecating way. But to a grand degree, McDermott had been buttoned up until now. Many have voiced a feeling, as unquantifiable as it is, that this year’s Bills team is different than the ones they have had over the last five years of playoff losses. And that very well may be true. However, NFL teams often channel the energy of the head coach leading them. And if something is different about this year’s Bills team, it might be because something is different about Sean McDermott. The coach who arrived in 2017 touted process, culture, a growth mindset, a desire to have supreme attention to every detail and a borderline robotic work ethic. In his early years in Buffalo, he ran what some described as a “military-ish” program. That coach is still in there, carrying all those same beliefs, but perhaps not in the same form. Even in media settings, McDermott appears more relaxed and forthcoming than ever before.

It'll be someone with a big pick off Nix. As Nix gets more comfortable, he's taking more risks. So ... Rapp.

Worth taking a minute to remember the days when I thought we'd never have this kind of stability and success. We owe the Pegulas/Beane/McDermott big time.

Long snapper: how on earth would you decide? Did Ferguson have a single bad snap this year? Did anyone beat him and block a kick? Let the Reid Ferguson Gets No Respect bandwagon begin!

Lay off the Diet Root Beer! You do know that some of that crap has caffeine added, right?

Ouch. Actually, I like Orlando Tim. I appreciate his comments on education, etc. I just think he needs to get out more in the virtual world. Staying in the alt right echosphere is damaging, as is staying in the lib-prog echosphere. Understood. When I say "ignorance" I mean "you were probably unaware of the long history here." And it is a long, long history of major wildfires once or twice a decade, some of which consumed a lot more acreage than the current one. The main difference now: there's a whole lot more development to destroy. Was it wise to rebuild and then expand development after each and every time this has happened?

Well ... Storm Drain Eco Terrorist!