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I think that the last 3 or 4 years of Roethlisberger's career, he was a shadow of himself, so add a few more years to that laughable QB room. The problem hasn't been that the Steelers' were "too good" to be in a position to draft a QB; it's that Steelers' management has been unwilling to spend the resources necessary to acquire a decent QB since they drafted Roethlisberger. They have never traded up to draft a first round QB in the 2000s. I don't know if they tried to trade for Stafford or Goff or if they went sniffing around to acquire Mayfield or Darnold by trade or free agency. I'm not sure who runs player personnel for the Steelers, but whoever it is has failed miserably.

I think a big factor in any HC's success is the organization which hires him, and that may skew the results because poor organizations swap out their coaches every few years whereas good organizations only show up once or twice in a decade. Poor organizations can make even good coaches look bad. I think the Bills are perfect example of this. Between 2010 and 2018, under Russ Brandon's regime, the Bills were a poor organization which put maximizing profits above winning football games. During that time, the Bills HC's were: Chan Gailey (3 seasons), Doug Marrone (2 seasons), Rex Ryan (1+ seasons), Anthony Lynn (<1), and Sean McDermott (2017-2018). Pegula fired Brandon and put Beane in charge after the 2018 draft, and the Bills organization reset its priorities. If Brandon had stayed the boss of the Bills, it's likely that McDermott would have been long gone.

I disagree. McDermott got the Bills to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor and much less talent than they have on the current roster. Furthermore, you are assuming that Allen is the only reason the Bills are a playoff team, which is total bull manure. The Bills have a better roster than many Bills fans are willing to admit. The Bills were in the market for a QB in 2018. If they didn't take Allen because the Jests took him or Denver took him, they might have taken Darnold or Jackson. Maybe in a better organization, even Josh Rosen might have become a decent starter. Would Allen have become Allen if the Jests had drafted him? My guess is that he would not. Nobody knows what would have been, but McDermott has been a much better HC than you think.

Your chances of success increase because an experienced HC actually has the skillset to be a HC. A coordinator may or may not.

Your take is absurd. Not only is McDermott not getting "canned" if the Bills lose to the Broncos in their own house, but why are you assuming that he would want "total franchise control"? He seems to have no problem working in collaboration with Beane. Is there any actual evidence that McD wants "total franchise control" with the Bills or that he would want that elsewhere? With Roman gone, Jim Harbaugh has a significantly better chance at coaching longevity with the Chargers as long as he hires a competent OC. The Giants already tried that with Daboll who was a "hot" offensive coordinator a few years ago. As is so often the case, good/great OCs (or DCs) don't necessarly turn out to be particularly good HCs, especially in their first HC gigs. Coordinators and head coaches require very different skill sets. If Harbaugh hires good coordinators there's no reason to think that he won't succeed with the Giants.

Jerry is the problem with the Cowboys today, and has been the problem since he fired Jimmy Johnson.

It was reported on tv this morning that Harbaugh was bringing in Todd Monken as his OC. That's good for Jaxson Dart. What "demeaning outcomes"? The NFL doesn't require teams hire minority HCs; it just requires them to interview minority candidates for HC openings (which has now been expanded to coordinators). It simply opened the interview process to candidates who weren't part of the NFL's old boy network. Harbaugh was the last candidate the Giants interviewed, which enabled them to hire him immediately.

Herbert is doomed with Harbaugh as his HC. He's a great passer with escapability, but he's not a running QB. He took a beating this season between Roman trying to make him into a "dual threat" and no OL and, by the end of the season, no running game.

Well, if my aunt had the right equipment, she would be my uncle.

John Harbaugh, late of the Baltimore Ravens, says "Hi".

I don't know if it's something about the Chargers or if it's genetic fault in the Harbaugh brothers, but Jordan Herbert has been cursed in his pro football life. The Chargers have had so much talent and so little success, especially in the post season, over the last quarter century, it's simply amazing. Different GMs, different coaches, different players ... they just fail in big games. Check their records. Even changing cities hasn't significantly changed the Chargers failings, so it wasn't the water in SD, either. Jim Harbaugh seems to be following the precedent of his older brother, John, with his teams coming up small in big games. Injuries to the OL is part of the problem this season, but trying to turn Herbert into a dual threat QB was a bigger mistake. That's squarely on Jim Harbaugh who hired Greg Roman as his OC. Roman really likes dual threat QBs (Colin Kaepernick, Lamar Jackson). Herbert isn't that. He's a mobile QB much like Aaron Rogers -- a great passer who runs in select situations. Between playing behind a bad OL and running too frequently, Herbert has had the crap beat out of him this season. We all saw how beat up Allen got yesterday, but that's been how badly Herbert's been beat up all season long. If he was on another team with an OC who designed an offense better suited to his skills, Herbert might very well be a top echelon QB. I doubt he becomes that with the Chargers.

Yes, it is. It's called overthinking the situation ... or maybe outsmarting yourself. The Bills didn't milk the clock as they intended because when they had 4th and inches at the Jax 11, they lined up for a tush push -- and the Bills OL, most notably O'Cyrus Torrence, carried Allen for 10 yards down to the 1 yard line. Allen scored on the next play because Jax let the Bills score. That's why there was 1:05 left on the clock.

No big deal. I'm a big fan of having a seriously dangerous running game with a RB who can break a big play from anywhere, any time.

McDermott's teams play significantly better than the sum of their parts. The Bills continued to try to run the ball because they wanted to make play action passes possible. On one of Allen's long passes in the second half -- I think it was Cooks' long catch when he was all by himself -- you could see all the Jags defenders move toward Cook after Josh's fake. The Bills defense had been getting better as the season ran down, and they started the playoffs far better than they were early in the season. I think that the Bills D is also one of the best second half defenses, and they stepped up today. Again.

Try again. Mahomes played 14 games and didn't sit out until after the middle of December. He led the Chiefs to a 6-8 record and was mathematically eliminated before Reid sat him. Burrow didn't play most of the season, but 2025 was the third year in a row that the Bengals have missed the playoffs. Lamar Jackson needed to beat the hapless Stillers to make the playoffs. He played well in that game but his teammates did what the Ravens have done what they have done in critical games for the last five years or so: blew a second half lead and lose. They also lost to the Bills when Lamar was healthy both last season in the playoffs and in this year's season opener because of key mistake at critical times. So, it takes more than just a great QB to have a successful team. As would almost all NFL teams with franchise QBs and a great RB.