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This just about guarantees McDermott is a dead man walking. Dorsey had some boneheaded play calls for sure, but the overwhelming faults of this team have been related to preparation and execution - not playcalling. As we've seen week after week, guys have been open and the plays have been there, but mental mistakes have been our undoing drive after drive.

Fixed it for you.

"winning the close ones" is a laughable way to put it with losses against bottom feeding teams like the Broncos and Jets when we had to do just that and pull last second miracles required to win against even worse teams in the Giants and Patriots and even the Bucs. This team is just nowhere close to good. It's that simple. They aren't great at anything.

There's a coach on staff whose job it is to make sure the right amount of guys are out on each play.

We absolutely deserve this joke of a team.

We've got a first rounder we're likely cutting after 2 years. Don't throw stones inside a glass house.

Enjoy 0 super bowls with that kind of play.

I'll start blaming the OC when the QB hits the open WRs and we still can't win games. That hasn't been the case thus far this season.

he always has been

He's done. He was done before the season started and only was allowed to get on the field due to significant injury. It's clear that McD has a major problem with him because his play is not nearly bad enough to warrant his current position on the team. He'll likely be cut or traded for a 6th/7th in the offseason.

Christ. Your ridiculous takes never end. It's like debating a toddler.

maybe, but neither played during my lifetime.

During my lifetime (Odomes+) it was definitely Winfield as a player throughout his career, but you might have to give the nod to Clements as a Bill due to his additional year here.

I guess if you're going to take the line of "stats don't matter" then you can make up anything you want and act like it's true. Have fun with that and the zero super bowls your team will get.

How about him outcoaching and defeating Sean McDermott and Josh Allen with Zach Wilson? They are the 5th least penalized team in the league compared to the bills whoa re the most penalized Saleh has a 50% challenge success rate compared to McDermott's 25% rate - where McDermott is among the worst in the league Despite having a terrible offense, ball security has been good under Saleh as the Jets turn the ball over less than the Bills have in two of the last three years and less overall since he arrived. Of course the thing that coaches get judged the most on is winning, but it's kind of hard to do that when you don't have a QB, unless your name is Kyle Shanahan.

Both of those statements are untrue. The problem with the first part is that bad coaches get a pass for too long if the QB succeeds, and by succeeds I mean becomes a good/great player or performs well on their own. The team can still lose games and perform poorly as a unit, as tends to happen under a bad coach. Zach Wilson has been playing the best football of his career this year, so I'm not sure how you plan on framing your narrative that he's worse now than he was as a rookie. Now, he still isn't a good player, but maybe he can become a serviceable one.

Bad QB play, poor talent pipeline, and poor hiring decisions at coordinator Except he did it back to back. McDermott went once in 6 years.

He's had Joe Flacco, Zach Wilson and Mike White as his QBs during that time. He's far better than McDermott at team and gameday management.

When the bar is so low that the winningest team has never ever made a championship experience, the team is the problem, not the fans.

McDaniel is a hard yes as is Saleh, I'd also take everyone in your maybe category except Carroll and O'Connell and I'd strongly consider Ryans, though he is a rookie. for me that puts McD as my 15th choice, best case.

I don't know how you can't. You're taking McDermott over Reid, Shanahan, Siriani, McVay or Belichick?

Absolutely insane take. Best case scenario he's near the bottom of the top 15. there are 10 coaches I would take over him without hesitation and a good handful more that have a clear edge. When I look at coaches that are definitively worse than McD, it's a very short short list. There are a lot of first year head coaches that will probably end up better too.

When you have a top QB in what was an extremely weak division for the last few years, numbers will skew in your favor. Mike Smith has a higher career winning percentage than Bill Parcells, Kyle Shanahan, Doug Pederson, Jimmy Johnson, Marv Levy and a bunch of guys with gold jackets. If you ever watched his teams play, I think you'd know that had a lot more to do with Matt Ryan, Roddy White, Julio Jones and others than it did with his football acumen. P.S. He also has 5 more losses than Reid since 2020, and that isn't changing any time soon.

The difference, and the bit of critical importance, is in the why. Teams miss plays or struggle with situational assignments every week, even future Super Bowl champions. No one is disputing that. When teams and players struggle the same way, for the same reasons year over year that's not at all the same thing as KC barely escaping with a win against the Jets or Vikings or SF dropping two games in a row to big underdogs. When we get sent home in January (or earlier), you can pretend to be surprised or think we were just one or two plays away, but the story of what will happen this winter was started years ago and this chapter was written in the offseason both by the Bills' action and inaction.

It's simple: McDermott is in the bottom tier of mediocre coaches. He's a great culture and clubhouse guy, but he's a bad gameday coach and a poor talent evaluator. If he didn't have Josh Allen, he would have been out of a job years ago. I hope Ted Lasso pays him a residual because I'm fairly certain he's the inspiration for the title character.