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Staley is going to get fired soon, and rightfully so. Also Deshaun Watson was never a top QB. He was a stat machine on a bunch of bad teams. Those other examples are not so relevant. The game has changed.

So it was actually Frazier holding the defense back this whole time, and his hiatus is cover for McDermott stepping in and saving the day? That's pretty thin imo

Those guys didn't have a top QB.

Those coaches you mention all won a Super Bowl already tho. There's tons of precedent for longevity when you have the hardware. Andy Reid won his Super Bowl almost immediately after getting a top QB. And like you say the Eagles fired a Super Bowl winning coach and were back within 3 years. Taylor took the Bengals to a Super Bowl the first year he had a healthy roster w Burrow. McVay did it w/ Goff and then won one with Stafford. Shanahan does it with one of the worst and most injury plagued QB rooms in the league. I mean this isn't holding McDermott to some unattainable standard. He's undeniably behind the curve.

I don't think the gap you refer to is that big. In fact, if your expectation is the team reach the Super Bowl and they continually fall short, they have necessarily failed and the next logical step is to examine which members of the organization could be exchanged for better results.

It's not as if McDermott's slogan isn't 'championship quality', so I'm unsure why folks are surprised seeing him hoisted by his own petard.

I guess first of all I'd ask which player you are talking about

And the defense isn't.

The actual point is that as far as levels of offensive atrocities go, the Niners defense actually had an excuse to give up 31. And they still held the Eagles under 270 total yards and 5/15 on third down. The Niners defense did decently operating under much worse conditions than the Bills defense.

LMFAO at saying 'The niners defense gave up 31' and following that up with 'giving the atrocious offensive display a pass won't wash'

I don't think that's the indictment you think it is

We played a remarkable slate of bad quarterbacks that year iirc

That's how it read to me as well

If he told them he didn't want to come back they're not going to announce that it had been offered.

Or they offered one back then and he said no and they only announced it now.

No spin intended. Those are the three, I didn't remember whether the safeties coach had left or been fired.

No it wasn't. They let Joe Mixon and his 3.9ypc regular season go for 105 on 20 carries. They were never even close to winning that game.

It does when they don't want the guy back. Here it looks like they offered him a new contract and he declined.

So that's what, three coaches who have declined to return to the Bills staff this offseason?

Contrary to popular opinion Henry is not a 'power' back and imo would not be effective running behind the line as currently constructed He needs a couple uninterrupted steps to get momentum.

OP is employed in the public school system. The kind of service that these programs incentivize is something we should be supporting, not making folks feel badly about. How is this materially different from the GI bill or subsequent iterations

God forbid your average citizen take advantage of the tax code

@Johnny Hammerstickssorry for taking your thread off topic, it was not my intention sincere congratulations on your loan forgiveness 👍

I am neither a plumber nor a welder but I am fairly certain you don't make $100k/yr at either without significant apprenticeships, coursework, accreditations etc.

You can't raise them believing it and then not expect them to try. You also can't pretend that 'trades' aren't code spoken by people who don't understand manual labor. 'We need more welders and HVAC techs' is a rhetorical device, it's not meaningful.