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Would you rather have the Bills get to playoffs 5 straight years and win 1 Super Bowl or get to playoffs 10 straight years and win 0 Super Bowls?

He won it with his 2nd team. John Madden in 1976 the only coach of 66 different ones to make his 1st Super Bowl appearance after season 7 with their 1st team.

John Fox was replaced in Denver after 3 seasons of 13-3, 13-3, 12-4. He had a .719 winning % as Bronco head coach overall, but was 3-4 in playoffs and was fired. Gary Kubrick came in the very next season in 2015 and Broncos won the Super Bowl.

A better Bronco example, John Fox. 13-3, 13-3, 12-4, fired. Very next season Gary Kubrick got them across the finish line winning 2015 Super Bowl.

There are lots of coaches in many leagues who were fired after good seasons and great track records. - Milwaukee Bucks just fired their coach who won them a Championship after getting them the #1 seed in this year playoffs but losing 1st rd. - Bayern Munich fired their coach mid season while in 1st place while in a 11 years straight of league Championships streak - Eagles have fired 2 coaches in the past 10 years that both had accomplished more then McD - Marty Schottenheimer (who many compare McD with) was fired after a 14-4 record but poor playoff performance - HOF coach Tony Dungy was fired from Bucs after making playoffs - Bruce Boudreau was fired right after winning the Presidents Trophy in NHL

Because you never know for 100% sure the new guy will be better, that can’t be the standard for change. It isn’t in people’s own lives, nor should it be in sports. If a coach is unsuccessful, or some some cases successful but as reached the peak of their ability then an organization may and should look for a new path.

So NO coach can now be fired unless the team has a replacement already that is “absolutely, positively, 100% be better?” When has that been the standard in any sport? No coach would EVER be fired if you have to have the “absolutely, positively, 100% be better“ guarantee because you could never guarantee that. Their are reasonable arguments one could make for McDermott not to be fired, the “absolutely, positively, 100% be better“ one is so stupid and definitely not one of them. - Rex Ryan who was .500 with Bills and had been to 2 AFC Championship Games with Jets. Was a certain DC from Panthers with no HC experience a “absolutely, positively, 100% better” choice? - 10 Super Bowl winning coaches have later been fired. Their replacements guaranteed to be better? - Of the 11 coaches who won their 1st Super Bowl in season 7 or later (where McD is now) did so after being fired from previous team. Having already been fired were they guaranteed to be better the who they replaced? - 3 NBA coaches were fired in last month who had won recent NBA Championships.

Of the 11 coaches who won their 1st Super Bowl season 7 or later, only 2 (Cowher, Madden) did so with their 1st team as Head Coach.

No coach/qb combo in NFL history won their 1st Super Bowl together after year 5 together, is the actual stat. I just looked it up again to be sure. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-coaches-and-qbs-should-divorce-after-five-years-of-not-winning/ Article a few years old but the stat still holds true currently.

The NBA had 3 head coaches fired in the last month that had won Championships. Bayern Munich, current 11 years in row winning league fired their coach mid season when they were again in 1st place. BTW history suggests the opposite of continuity in the NFL to win Super Bowl. No coach/QB combo has won a Super Bowl after 6th year together. In an offensive league, where offensive head coaches reach finals and win Super Bowls McD would literally be bucking current environment and historical data. Could he win Super Bowl with Bills, sure he could. History and data says he won’t. Seems many here are fine with good coach, with good record who flames out in playoffs.

I’m beginning to see a trend now for people defending McDermott to just say, “well who are you going to replace him with?” So as long as one can’t definitively provide a name that will guaranteed be better then McD he can just have his job forever? Not sure why NFL coaches have such a different standard than NFL players and coaches in other major sports leagues around the world.

How come no one has mentioned the Alabama ILB, projected mid 3rd and still available.

Disney made 28 billion in yearly profit in 2022. Yet, they are far from alone in big corporations making billions in profits yet are laying off employees. Make billions, yet what more, the American Way!!!

The schedule is insane, one of hardest I’ve ever seen. As of now I had them at 9 or 10, so 10.5 seems about right.

It’s a NetJet, which is the company Bills and tons of other companies use for charter. It could be chartered by the Bills are any of the thousands of other people, companies or organizations that use NetJets.

Spending roster spots, and big $$$ on special teams is not a wise allocation of resources in the long run. Having great special teams is not, nor will be the reason any team makes a deep playoff run. For example, cutting Isaiah Hodgins while keeping Kumerow because of special teams seems foolish. That said, keeping Taiwan Jones year after year for only special teams seems more foolish. Drafting a punter in any round is bad allocation of picks. Extending a punter for 3 years 7.5 million when you could get one that would be just as good for near league minimum. Any of this end of the world? No. But in a league that operates so close to the margins it seems to be a bad strategy if at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter that much to winning a Super Bowl.

Nice work, but the bigger point is does it matter? The Bills clearly emphasize special teams, why? Bills and Cowboys only 2 teams in playoffs final 8 teams in the top 10 special teams DOVA, and the Cowboys were 10th. Final 4 teams in playoffs special teams DOVA Eagles - 13th 49ers - 15th Bengals - 18th Chiefs - 19th Seems they keep focusing on a bad investment.

This ^^^^^^^ I too live in Denver. He finished season pretty well and you can definitely see the talent. But ask yourself why would an offensive coach like Peyton immediately try to trade a top 10 drafted, cost controlled WR? Because he is immature, has bad attitude and loves him some social media. Doesnt seem like a McDermott type of guy. Don’t see it.

I know my life has never been the same since I was 8 years old and an 18 year old drunk, recklessness driver T-Boned and killed my mother less than 2 minutes after dropping my sister and I at school in Rochester. My heart and life miss her every fu*king day.

The Chiefs after losing the Super Bowl to Bucs completely changed their whole offensive line. After Chiefs lost to the Bengals in AFC championship game made wholesale changed to their WRs including trading a top 5 WR and drafting and starting a 7th round RB.

Whats your standard? What’s the point if winning the Super Bowl is not the standard now with this QB and team?

An offensive Head Coach, as both participants in last 4 Super Bowls were offensive coaches. Ben Johnson Lions OC would do. No coach/qb combo in NFL history won their 1st Super Bowl together after year 5 together. Maybe MCD will be exception but history says they will need a new coach to win it.

What’s the quicker path to OC, Dorsey being fired or Super Bowl winning OC/Head Coach Doug Pederson being fired? This wasn’t about a quicker path to OC.

He would be fired for how he lost his last 4 playoff games. Blowing 16-0 lead at halftime in 1st playoff game, blown out by KC next season playoff, 13 seconds the next, and blown out at home in last season ending playoff game. Not to mention he is a defensive head coach in era of offensive coaches getting to and winning the Super Bowl. Winning Super Bowl is the goal right?

No team has ever started the same quarterback under the same head coach for more than five years and seen that duo win its first championship. If McDermott wins a Super Bowl with Allen this year in year 6 or beyond together, it will be the first time that it’s been done in history of NFL.