Billsfan1972

Do you think 95% of football fans who are not Buffalo Bills fans know anything about McDermott or how this organization is run? Outside the Bills, what do I know in any detail about other coaches? Very little. I do not live & die and neither do fans. What the knowledgeable football fan knows (and not talking casual), is that the Bills have underachieved and went from one of the SB favourites to their season that could be sunk come Sunday. The only other team approaching that ineptitude this year (and they have no fans and have had minimal playoff success) is the LA Chargers. Casual fans all know Josh Allen and they are wondering why they are 6-6. This article was needed and is a national story and yep a lot of us here simply are happy to see additional context provided.

All he cares about is defense??? Wow I'm gobsmacked.😜

Why wouldn't it be McDermott has been singing the praises of what a great defense it has been all year while throwing the offense under the bus.

If you think they are trying to win for McD and because all this came out, you're wrong. They just want to win was all I was saying. You don't think Diggs wants 150 yards receiving, Allen 350 yards passing and that the D doesn't want 2 ints and 5 sacks?

While we all think easily should have been 2-3 minimum, I'm just going with 12 men and the Bills would be 7-5

No we won't. The Bills will be out there trying to win. Now if they go down 20 and turtle, that's another story.😜🤣 Did you post this so you can come back Monday and say "I told you so" What actually would be funny and apropo is if everything goes right and somehow they do win a game that comes down to the final defensive side of the ball.

Behind paywall, but just googled and ESPN has Sherfield quoted (7 catches 53 yards on the season). I guess that counts as Offense. BTW I am sure 100% will say they are behind him, because they do want to win tomorrow. That is what the team should say and do.

Well Hyde supports him!!!! Yes interesting that not one player on offense has said anything. Diggs has been in a snit all season and I haven't read a single post in those threads, but how many there "Blamed McD"? Again if there is no playoffs sure we'll hear a lot more, but I said from day one that Dorsey I'm 100% sure had to do things on O McD's way and that was an issue.

I think probably you should back away from the keyboard because you are becoming more and more unhinged. Every single person wanted the Bills to win a Super Bowl when McDermott was hired.. 99% of us still want that. I have no idea what you are reading into any post to think otherwise. The article for the most part just puts into print what many of us have been voicing for a while and some stories that none of us had heard before.

Again melodramatic????? Like 90% of fans, I had absolutely no idea who McD was when hired and frankly didn't care (unless stories came out of him being a wife beater, a criminal, low character.....). You see I'm just a fan who watches on Sunday (and am here way too much). Do I care about the combines & the draft? Very little. I disappear when the season is over and return when the Bills have played their first game and will give opinions when I think I have something to add (or get off my chest). As said midway through year one, McD started to rub me the wrong way. I did not like the term "Process", I don't like when religion creeps into coaching and is brought up and then he started Peterman. I had already seen the offense disappear and yep I attributed it to McD. I have been lambasted for saying that I think Allen should have been fast-tracked and the fact the Bills went 48 games without a 300 yard passing game showed how little McD understood about where football is (and is going) and something no other coach would/could do. 2017-2019 the Bills did fine in one score games and it was basically a byproduct of the offense being held back (playing not to lose and no chance of ever coming back). Remember 2021 and all the close losses and a 7-6 record after losing to TB? Five of the losses was <7 points. Just rambling, but yup never was a fan of McD and boy do I wish he proved me wrong (as do 98% of the people here).

I should be the first in line cheering, but read my posts & the Bills winning the SB is all I want. No fan wants the Bills to lose. As I've said win 9 in a row McD and you'll be more then welcomed back with open arms and while we will complain at blunders during the year, few will call for your head in 2024. What the article did was confirm what many of us have thought. Quit being so melodramatic.

I listened to the King interview and yes it was melodramatic. Within the interview was McD's apology and guess what? It was as some others said, not sincere & more "I got caught, so better apologize and cover my a$$". And then using not once, but twice "I lost someone Very close". If you did, then you of all people should understand how wrong to use it as motivation in a speech to your team. We are on a merry-go-round. This year there is no doubt at all his coaching has held the team back. The late game meltdowns are one thing, but again my main concern is what he has done with the offense and how he affected Josh Allen. Him shouting at Allen after an interception as opposed to having a conversation says a lot about him. As not a fan I saw it as McD upset his defense is back on the field. Would really bothered me is just how much influence he has had on the offense this year and game planning that side of the ball.

Even if they won just one game (pick Jets, Denver, NE or Philly all lost in the last two minutes or OT), never mind Jax or Cincy & the Bills are in much better shape.

Maybe because some of us have had enough of McD and didn't buy a lot of what he said from day one and have seen results on the field and then his response afterwards to think it is phony or disingenuous? Now that does not mean at all that McDermott doesn't mean well, did not handle the Hamlin situation wonderfully and does not want to win. As fans though regardless it has been a tough year and yep a lot of vitriol is directed at McD, and this article encapsulated what many here have thought, particularly about his handling of the offense. Heck it barely scratched the surface of how the Bills are 6-6 and that there is no doubt that McD's Defense has not made the stop when needed late in games.

The broken record comes just as loud from the McD camp.

Too much a friend, he had to go....

Perform because you are embarrassed that you are 6-6 and are better then that and you still owe KC. I certainly if the Bills win, won't think they "Did it for McD". I am sure he has some loyal supporters who will think that way, but I'm sure it is not unanimous.

Know the player and how to react. I guess with Dorsey in the Pressbox it was McDermott's responsibility to scream at his "Franchise" QB? I thought the Offense was Dorsey's responsibility? I bet McD was screaming at him for not playing "Complementary Football" and putting "his" defense back on the field.🤣

If this from Part 3 doesn't piss you off about McD..... Then I guess nothing will..... There are two distinct versions of Josh Allen this 2023 season. One is fun. One takes off on the run — “The crowd loves it!” Al Michaels professes — and holds the football over the goal line while staring down a Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback. All at full speed. This version gets a Cincinnati Bengals safety to leave his feet with a pump fake, points, laughs and runs in for a TD. Flag ‘n fine, be damned. Meanwhile, Sean McDermott, spits on the turf and purses his lips. Fifteen yards lost on a kickoff likely means more to the Buffalo Bills head coach than any momentum gained by his backyard quarterback rediscovering himself. This version, at rain-slopped Philadelphia, rams through Reed Blankenship at the goal line, chucks the ball against the backstop and — flanked by teammates — swaggers right into the teeth of those trash-talking Eagles fans as if welcoming a dark-alley fight. The TD launched a tour de force for the quarterback: 420 total yards, four touchdowns. “No. 17 is just a different bird,” said one friend and former pro teammate. “He’s wired different. He’s not like most of these quarterbacks. He wants to make dick jokes and run into people.” If Buffalonians could create the quarterback they’ve always desired in a lab, it’s exactly this. But then, there’s the other Allen. The pale, stupefied, knockoff version who trudges to the sideline after an interception vs. Denver with McDermott screaming in his ear. Unlike his boss, Allen does not come remotely close to assigning blame. Doesn’t embarrass receivers on national TV. Doesn’t snipe into earholes on the sidelines. Doesn’t kindly remind the public what McDermott said back in March when, in truth, it’s fully within his rights to alert your attention to these trainwreck comments. When, in reality, this is everything a former Bills assistant coach meant when he said this team is forced to “overcome the head coach.” Everything a former teammate meant by McDermott serving as a drop of “poison.” A smart coach does everything in his power to accentuate the first version of Allen. Realize you’ve been gifted a Marvel character at the most important position in sports and let him fly. Then, there’s McDermott sitting down with NFL Network last March. He made it abundantly clear that Allen needed to siphon these sorts of plays out of his game. “I don’t think that that’s a healthy way to play quarterback in this league,” said McDermott, in a video posted by the team. “It’s really undefeated that things are going to happen when you play that style, that brand of football. So, we’ve got to get that adjusted. It’s never going to go completely away but it has to get to where it’s workable. I don’t want to take his personality away from him as far as that goes. His signature. But there needs to be an adjustment in that style of play.” Manually warping the “style” of your most valuable commodity should’ve slotted in as the 2,789th item on the Bills’ offseason agenda. But this was no surprise.

In part 3 confirms exactly what many of us think McD has done with Josh Allen. He's made him a shell of himself and made him second-guess everything and frankly has no idea who he has. Yep complementary football at it's finest. Funny some of us have been saying this for a long time.

This wasn't off the cuff comment made in a bar after a couple of drinks to friends. This was a well thought out speech he gave to his players. If you can't see the big difference, what more can I say?

He's inferred it numerous times this year, while heaping praise on his defense. Where have you been?

Except you forget according to McD it's all the offenses fault.🤣

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/ty-dunne-sean-mcdermott-josh-allen-9-11/ Per Dunne, McDermott at times appeared “jealous” of the relationships between his players and his assistant coaches. One example: Chad Hall played wide receiver, was much closer in age and — clearly — has a gift for managing egos in his room. The Bills receivers loved Hall so much that they bought him a truck for Christmas in 2020. An objectively touching moment that Isaiah McKenzie shared via Instagram. In the dark, in the rain, you see Stefon Diggs and Andre Roberts lead Hall out to the driveway with a beanie over the coach’s eyes. On the audio, Cole Beasley says that this was originally Gabe Davis’ idea and that they all chipped in. It’s impossible for any sane person to watch this heartwarming video and not feel happy for Hall. Obviously, this coach had made a profound impact on those receivers’ lives — why anyone gets into coaching in the first place. But Sean McDermott? Oh boy. Sean McDermott was not pleased. One source described this as “a dark day at One Bills Drive.” Not only was the head coach pissed that players were gathering as a group during Covid, McDermott told his staff he pays them to be a coach. Not a friend. Other coaches could not believe his cold response. They had never seen anything like this in their careers.

Lamar was brought up. What was funny is how upset Orlovsky was & he didn't get a chance to rebut. McD too probably has cost Allen a # more TDs. Now what too was missing Turnovers by other QB's and that this year the difference is only 3-4.