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I'm with you. 30-16 looks a lot better on paper.

Here's the play: Shavers takes a full 4 seconds after the snap to work open enough to where he can even get his head around. Against cover 0 that's not gonna get it done. This is a play where if you had an X you could trust to get open the right side of the field would be an automatic read. Miami sent cover 0 and dared one of our receivers to get open quickly. Shockingly they won that bet.

I don't think it's bad as you say. We're a coaching staff and one legit WR away from being a Super Bowl contender. There are some obvious cuts to make next offseason that will get our cap in decent shape. Not going to be easy as can be for the next guys in charge but they start out with Allen and a solid foundation on both sides of the ball.

Defenses are sitting on our short routes. That part falls on Brady. We must have called mesh 10,000 times this year. The fact that we only have short routes on the menu falls on the WR room.

I would summarize McDermott's failings as a head coach as "he doesn't step outside his comfort zone." The coordinator hires are emblematic of his leadership. He is so focused on rewarding process versus rewarding results. Babich and Dorsey and Brady were already in the building and "proved themselves" at least in his eyes so they automatically got the jobs. He could have hired Klint Kubiak if he wanted to. He could have hired Lou Anarumo or Brian Flores. But those are people he doesn't know personally and he wasn't willing to step outside his comfort zone. And there's absolutely no reason to give McDermott more swings. He keeps hiring people that feed into his worst instincts or don't have the power to stand up to him. So cut off the head or you're wasting your time.

Vrabel has the Pats as #1 seed contenders in year one, with a 2nd year QB who was still a question mark coming into the season. Mike McDonald took over a team QB'd by Geno Smith and has them as Super Bowl contenders in year two. I don't know why so many fans are worried that firing McDermott means we lose the rest of Allen's 30s. You're talking at most about a one season turnaround.

I've said it in a couple other threads, Klint Kubiak gives us our best opportunity to get Allen his Super Bowl run and eventually establish the next chapter after him. Look at what he did with Derek Carr in New Orleans before his career ending injury, and what he's doing now with Sam Darnold. He'd inject a whole new mindset into the organization - build an offense around Allen that can steamroll opponents and run up the score. He tells his head coach "get me Rashid Shaheed" and they get him. Because he knows what wins in today's NFL. He's the next Sean McVay, Ben Johnson, etc. Hire him next year or someone else will and God help us if it's Miami.

Maybe now we can stop making annual threads about how "quietly" or "secretly" good our WR room is.

Yeah he was the last one, 15 years ago and he had a lot of NFL experience before USC. But hey I'm not picky. I just want new voices in the building before it's too late.

I respect your opinion and would take that option over McDermott next year, personally though I'm not big on hiring a college coach. Very different jobs IMO. It's been a long time since that worked out for an NFL franchise.

"You get to coach Josh Allen for the first 5+ years of your tenure" is the easiest sales pitch of all time. We can choose literally anybody we want to. Vrabel who is a New England guy absolutely would have chosen us over them last year if we had given him the option.

This list except I've now moved Kubiak to #1.

Well on that note I'm hoping that Highmark being empty in January will be the trigger for him. With a new stadium opening it's good timing to make a change and an easy sale to the fanbase. I don't have a ton of faith but I'm hoping the ruthless billionaire shows up.

For real with this? He dragged Ryan Tannehill and a dumb GM to an AFCCG and in a separate year to a #1 seed. That's much much more impressive than anything McDermott has done with Josh Allen. I'm shocked anybody on here is still trying to downplay Vrabel's head coaching acumen. He was the obvious hire for us to make last year but we didn't pull the trigger. Can't afford to make a similar mistake this coming offseason. Allen's career is dwindling away.

He's going to be a head coach next year for sure. Would he rather get his shot in Miami starting over from scratch, or get his shot with Josh Allen and a team that just needs some tweaking? It's a no brainer for both sides, all we have to do is give him his headset.

My names last year were Vrabel and Johnson, in that order. I feel pretty good about those call outs right now. Next year it's Klint Kubiak at #1 for me. I've previously said I'd prefer a retread who doesn't have to learn on the job but Kubiak seems like the next Sean McVay-esque wunderkind. I'd also take Stefanski if he's fired and there's even a couple defensive minded retreads I'd take, hopefully with the right OC.

To be fair Curtis Samuel was wide open on that one 3rd and long play. Only took him 15 seconds to separate

Couldn't disagree more with this mindset. Look at what Klint Kubiak is doing in Seattle. I am not going to accept another offseason of "it could be worse." It really couldn't be!! 6 points in the part of the game that mattered against an awful Miami defense, with Josh Allen at QB. Anything is an improvement at this point and we'll have our pick of the litter.

Absolutely. Failing to develop a top tier passing offense with Josh Allen at QB is a historically bad error of team building.

For real? I can respect people on here having different opinions but this is just factually wrong, sorry. We objectively spend less on the position that any other team.

Five years ago... That's an eternity in NFL terms. Since then their "big move" has been trading down twice and then taking Coleman at the top of the 2nd. Oh well. I've made my peace that a championship isn't happening this year. My only fear is that Pegula won't do what's necessary.

Wasn't it Tom Pelisserro that reported it?

Metcalf was available for a 2nd. The report today was that we could have had Waddle for our 2026 1st. Sorry Augie but I don't want to hear the excuses. McDermott and Beane don't value the position.

Sure but he wasn't the savior. We need a lot more. The season is lost because Beane didn't even try to make the room better.

Meh. I don't miss Mack Hollins. There were legit WR moves to be made but McDermott needed his toys and he got them.