SCBills

It’s not about “this loss” Its about the entire year, his entire tenure and the fact “this loss” happens regularly in big moments for this HC. McDermott has us at 6-6 with an elite QB, owner willing to spend anything it takes and an above average GM that used any resource we could to give McDermott adequate injury replacements for 2 of the 3 guys we lost for the season. Pretty sure most HC’s could achieve .500 with Allen, Diggs, Kincaid, Top 5 OL and a stable of pass rushers that form a top 5 pass rush.

McDermott does the same crap every big late drive. Off coverage, soft defense.. allow the team to coast up to midfield, hoping they make a mistake. Then he decides to play defense.. at which point, the opposing offense has a few first downs and rhythm.

Love Diggs, but he looks checked out. Hard not to read into his body language and usage/effort lately. Even after the TD, I thought it was incomplete because he reacted to it like someone kicked his dog. Going through the motions is what I’m seeing from him. And I don’t even necessarily mean that as a criticism. He’s playing for a HC he doesn’t believe in and knows can’t get the job done.

The Allen we saw today is the best QB in the NFL. Don’t say “but Mahomes”… don’t care - that version of Allen is better than anyone. His issue is consistency. Mahomes is more consistently good. Which is part of why they are playoff bound.. but also, he has the HC piece in place. We dont. Allen knows he has to be perfect in every big game, otherwise our HC can sabotage it for us. Allen threw one pick. One mistake on him. And we lost a one score game in OT.. because of our HC.

I’m going to say no, not on a macro level. However, it’s a really bad look to have Shawn Hochuli’s crew go into a game where a HC is 4-0 in their games, then proceed to call a game that draws national attention to the one side officiating. Nevermind that there is zero consistency. Keenan Allen had the same fumble we had in OT. His was ruled a fumble. In our game, incomplete pass.

“Both defenses were gassed” We ran like 90 something plays on them. They ran 2/3rds of that on us. I do agree with the rest of you post though… aside from the fumble that wasn’t a fumble but was a fumble in the Chargers/Ravens game.

Tell me what the point of having a defensive minded HC is when the star QB gives your team the lead, late, with the defense only needing one stop … not one, not two, but three times in 12 games and in all 3 games, we all knew they wouldn’t get that stop. It was actually 4 times, but one game they got a stop after letting a horrible offense drive the entire field because the refs didn’t call PI on us. My mistake McDermott, don’t want to leave that feather in the cap out for you. Tell me what the point of having a defensive minded HC is when you settle for a FG in overtime and and the second the 3rd down play fell incomplete, we all knew deep down that we lost the game.

It’s beyond obvious at this point. Without Josh Allen - McDermott is a culture guy whose culture unravels without winning and defensive guy, whose defenses rarely show up in big moments.

I honestly was in shock that he did that. For one, he was trying ice a clutch kicker rushing out there for a 59 yarder in bad weather. Instead they got to take their time and set up the kick operation. For two, if he makes it.. 20 seconds and two timeouts gives us a shot. Just wild how he keeps making a dumpster fire of situations late game.

This game should’ve put Josh Allen back into the league lead MVP race. Instead it’s just another epic Josh Allen performance that is undone by the coach and his defense.

McDermott had all his healthy starters today, which includes a 1 for 1 replacement of Tre White in Rasul Douglas and a suitable mitigation at DT with Linval Joseph. We’re really only down a LB at this point. I really don’t want to hear this excuse. Different players / Same McD bs.

THIS. Yea, we “had” injuries. Beane got McD Rasul Douglas and Linval Joseph mitigate the losses. McDermott is simply a choke artist. He turns into Brandon Staley when we play good teams.

**** McDermott GTFO of Buffalo

Because McDermott burned our timeouts.

Good thing we burned a TO so Allen doesn’t have a chance for our unclutch kicker

NE & DEN did it, why not PHI? What exactly is McDermott our HC for if his Defense can’t stop anything when it matters?

Fire McDermott into the sun. This dude and his defense are so unclutch.

At the end of the day, we need Josh Allen to be perfect to win games like this. The roster, the coaching, all a let down.

Everyone thank Tyler Bass for this being a game now. He’s a straight up liability. He and Martin have been a joke lately.

Honestly … how do we win this game against the refs?

Let’s goooo Great response to an absolutely atrocious start

You don’t bench Cook, but not for nothing … this is now two games this season that he’s KILLED us early in the game and completely changed early momentum.

You can’t have one quarter in of a huge game with a dropped TD followed by about 7 or 8 penalties taking points of the board for you and helping to give a TD to the opponent and not look back at a HC who never had his guys ready to play this year. Same self inflicted issues EVERY GAME