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    Fixing the Officiating

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    2 hours ago, st pete gogolak said:

    I’m not going to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but with all the money being bet on NFL games, the League HAS to do something to reduce the influence the officials have on game outcomes.  Obviously, it will never be reduced to zero, but there has to be a way to at least reduce their influence.  Here are my thoughts but very interested if anyone has a thought on this.

     

    Defensive PI.  Move from spot foul to 15 yards.  If “flagrant” PI becomes an issue, tinker with the rule the following year.  
     

    Illegal contact. Increase area for contact from 5 to 10 yards.  Eliminate ticky tack fouls. Contact has to be substantial and reduce receiver’s ability to contest for a catch.  The call on the Eagles last night in the second half gifting the Chiefs a first down was a travesty.  
     

    Defensive holding. Again, eliminate ticky tack foul.  Holding has to reduce receiver’s ability to contest for a catch. 
     

    Offensive holding. At least be consistent.

     

    Sick of refs determining outcomes.  Thoughts?

     

    Starting to think this is the root of the problem. Calls have gotten so bad I'm starting to wonder.

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    Bills fans are tough on coaches.!

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    6 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

    82 percent of people want the coach who ended a 17 year drought, and has been to the playoffs 5/6 years gone. 

     

    82 percent of people want the coach who ended a 17 year drought, and has choked in every meaningful game since he's been here gone

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    THE ROCKPILE REVIEW - On Scapegoats and Five and Five

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    8 hours ago, Cash said:


    It’s weird that the two military veterans were both comparing McD’s “accountability” to military structures, when we’re really talking about public statements in press conferences. Maybe I’m way off, but I don’t think the top brass does much in the way of explaining F-ups to the public when they happen. I was under the impression that that sort of accountability was mostly handled away from the public eye. We fans ARE the public eye. 
     

    I forgot to add my two cents about McDermott in my last post, so I’ll do it here. Number one thing for me: I don’t see how firing McD this week gets us into the playoffs this year. If/when we’re mathematically eliminated? Go for it. But as long as there’s a chance of us making a run, we need to maximize that chance. (With the caveat that if he’s lost the team a la Josh McDaniels and the Raiders, he has to go right away. None of us can know that from out here, though.)

     

    I wasn’t a McDermott fan from the start, but he generally won me over. @Shaw66 made some great arguments around McD’s leadership and ability to establish a winning culture. And I saw for myself an ability to learn from his mistakes. That’s extremely important to me, because everyone will make mistakes whether you like it or not. As much as I HATED it when he benched Tyrod for Peterman, I ultimately gained some respect for McD in the aftermath. Why? Because he admitted he made a mistake and apologized to the team, and course-corrected afterwards. There are other examples, but this post is long enough already. 
     

    With all that said, I think the blunder on Monday night hits the level of a fireable offense pretty much on its own. And to some extent, I think @GunnerBill is right that McD might have too much on his gameday plate. I wouldn’t mind it if he handed off defensive play calling to one of his assistants to let him be just a head coach during the game. 

     

    The Military is accountable to the public but that's not really the point I was making. In general there are a lot of analogies made between the military and football. It's a strategic game, it's violent, requires a lot of discipline and there is a hierarchy structure much like rank. After that I think the comparisons very from strained to completely stupid,  but I digress. 

    My point is simply about leadership. The best leaders I have ever been around or worked under make it clear through example that it all applies to them too. We are all under the same umbrella. McD has in fact made this his "brand". We are all accountable to each other. I have worked under this structure in practice and quite frankly when done sincerely these are the people you would lie down in traffic for. These are the people that stand up first even though they are in charge and say "THAT WAS ME, I screwed up, I will learn from it and it will not happen again". I cannot stress how hard it is to truly humble yourself that way but when your brand is "accountability" this is the only way it can work.

     

    The quickest way to lose the room is to be a hypocrite or seen as a hypocrite on this. The moment the "troops" see you carving out an exception for yourself, it's over. Your credibility is lost forever and can never bee fully restored. 

     

    IMO Sean crossed this line with 13 seconds and crossed it again this week. The damage is done. 

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    Is McD really a dictator?

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    1 hour ago, Chaos said:


    As insane as it sounds,  if the Bills don't advance to the Super Bowl this year, I think the Bills should either change the Head Coach or trade Allen to a team that can better use him.  He would generate quite a haul.  Except for McCafferty's age, the ideal trade for a retained Coach McDermott would be for Brock Purdy, Christian Mcafferty, one of the niners Linebackers and a couple of the extra second and third round draft picks the niners have stock piled. I think Shanahan would love the chance to coach a QB like Allen. 
     

    You had me to this point. Yes that sounds insane, like WTF could possibly bring a fan of an NFL team to say something this insane. It took us 20 years to find a QB and you want to trade him?

     

    I don't care if we change coaches every year till the end of time but you DO NOT TRADE A FRANCHISE QB in his prime.... ever.

    THE ROCKPILE REVIEW - On Scapegoats and Five and Five

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    8 hours ago, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:

    This is simply not true, I've heard HC McDermott now going on 2 press conferences with him stating that "all phases need to get better and it starts with me". He even said "the defense hasn't been perfect but they played their asses off today". You can listen to both his press conferences and he says those lines about himself and about coaching the defense in both of them so I'm not sure where you're getting that he doesn't hold himself accountable, he clearly does. I'm not for or against him right now, I'm in a wait and see approach but you're spewing facts that just aren't true, go listen to both those interviews entirely and you'll hear him say those exact lines and I'm not calling you out or anything, maybe you didn't hear the full press conference but it's in there.

    Those I see as platitudes. He’s hiding under “we all have to get better” he says it starts with me but when HE specifically screws up he hides from it. Subtly blames everyone else and tells the media it’s not the time to talk about it. 

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    THE ROCKPILE REVIEW - On Scapegoats and Five and Five

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    McD preaches “accountability”, it’s his brand. Funny thing there is whenever it seems like he needs to be accountable though he ducks responsibility (at least publicly). After 13 seconds it wasn’t time to talk about it. He wanted to keep it in house. He pulled the same line yesterday, it’s never time to talk about anything that reflects badly on him or his coaching. 
     

    “The process” is another thing. It doesn’t seem to apply to him. He is as bad a game day manager in year 6 as he was in year 1.  Timeouts, clock management, challenges etc. so learning from our mistakes is not for him. 
     

    Im not a football coach but I was a Marine. I know what leadership looks like. I would imagine watching him throw the offense under the bus to the press the last 2 days while praising his defense and even throwing in the injury’s to prop himself up goes over about as well as a screen door on a submarine. 
     

    I’ve lost faith and seen enough of his shtick personally. Ultimately it’s up to Terry but I don’t think we will get to the mountain top with him at the helm.  
     

     

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    My theory: McDermott never liked Daboll's high flying offense, but had to go along with it

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    1 hour ago, TheFunPolice said:

    I'm no fan of Dorsey, but I think what we're seeing is the type of offensive approach that McDermott has ALWAYS wanted. Not that he doesn't want points, but he wants "balance." 

     

    McD is a smart guy, a great defensive mind, but also an Alpha. This is HIS team. He has an idea of how to win. 

     

    The difference with Daboll was that he did it his way, throwing 10-15 times in a row to start games and having guys flying all over the place. Allen was a bulldozer. The offense was cranking.

     

    I think McDermott was uncomfortable with that approach and probably tried to get Daboll to change and that's the cause of the obvious tension between the 2 that got worse and worse until the end. At the end of the day, McDermott couldn't say too much because it was working and the team was winning and the players would have probably sided with Daboll if things blew up about it, so McDermott had to just go along with it.

     

    Why else would McD have such hard feelings about Daboll? And he does, we don't need to argue the blatantly obvious. 

     

    Obviously McD wants wins. Ultimately the HC gets the most credit, along with the QB. So it's a tense standoff. 

     

    If it came down to a "him or me" argument McD might not have been the owner's (or superstar QBs) choice when the offense is scoring at will and Allen is becoming a superstar and the team is winning "because of offense" (which also must have driven him crazy on some level). 

     

    It was also the defense that let the team down in 13 seconds. 

     

    As a HC, I can see how he might see it as Daboll trying to one up him. I could see him feeling disrespected, regardless of the outcome of it. He's the HC and it's supposed to be his program, but the OC was a big personality who was getting all sorts of credit for doing the opposite of what McD wanted. 

     

    What was McD going to do? Fire him? There would have been a mutiny. McD would have lost the locker room. 

     

    But now, Dorsey is just a guy and McDermott can put his stamp on the offense. Now offensive guys are frustrated, unhappy, and want their offense back, regardless of who is calling the plays. 

     

    That's the reason for the Diggs outbursts, Allen's malaise, and Florio's obnoxious "Jenga tower" articles after every Bills loss. 

     

    My theory anyway as to what is going on with the offense. I'm not sure how much it matters who the OC is. 

     

     

     

     

    I would take it step further and say in 2021 during the offensive lull I wonder if McD got his way. I could see Daboll telling him to pack sand toward the end of the year and opening things back up. Under this scenario not only did McD choke away our best shot at a SB in 30 years he damn near derailed the season. 

     

    They clearly hate each other, and in case it's not already obvious I am FIRMLY on team Daboll. I would have kept him and let McD walk. Would have been super controversial but worth it.  

     

    Bills @ Bengals postgame thread

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    39 minutes ago, May Day 10 said:

    Sal is unlistenable right now.  Siezes on 1 mis-step of each caller to discredit and dismiss entire (legitimate) criticisms.  Also has go-to points that indicate everything is ok like they were 7-6 once in 2021.

     

    Chris Brown was able to criticize this morning and he did not combust

     

    He is becoming John Murphy. I have wondered for a while if he can be impartial at all. He rides the team plane, as the sideline reporter the Bills help pay his mortgage. He gets short with anyone that isn't "it's gonna be fine". He just won't accept there are problems. 

    The Big Lie we were fed that McDermott is a disciplined, prepared, hard worker

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    1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

    Uh no.  Unprepared coaches don't have the highest winning percentage in the NFL since 2020.  Way too long of a sample size to not get exposed.  Honestly, just a silly(idiotic maybe even?) take.

     

    I don't love all the OP's points but this is terrible argument. He does in fact seem to keep making the same mistakes. I'm not hung up on team discipline but he doesn't seem to know how to close out tough games. Defensive TO's, 4th down management, TO management in general. I think he is a terrific head man during the week. He prepares his team well. His defense has been great for the most part. 

     

    He is a horrible game day coach. He makes the easy things hard. 

     

    Yes he has all the things listed above but if he was better at this stuff wouldn't it be even higher? We have never been the one seed. Great we won 12 games but needed to win 13. Usually those losses can be pinned back to an issue that was in the coaches control.  I fear we will never get there under him. It's tragic because we are so close, but he is consistently the weak link. 

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    Are people really that unhappy with our 4-2 Bills?

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    I have no time for fans that just can't see faults. If you can't see there are real issues I don't know what to tell you. All the stats you listed are down from the Miami game. If the goal is to be consistently better than average we are certainly on our way. But if you want to win a SB we need better. We can't keep pissing away our opportunities year in and year out. This window won't be open forever. 

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    Takeo Spikes was the legend of the game - and he didn’t like his free seat

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    1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said:

    Bills fans are actually ridiculous LOL

     

    This is literally a molehill that people are trying to turn into a mountain

     

    And yeah he was in a suite.. still a suite ... Not the upper northwest corner 300 of the upper deck

     

    This is literally nothing

     

     


    This has nothing to do with the fans. Spikes tweeted he left the game cuz his accommodations sucked. 
     

    From my perspective it’s bush league and make the Bills look inept. They make the east things look hard. Spikes is an “honored guest” and is put in a corner room with no view. It’s weird.

     

     

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