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You'll never get one because he doesn't know. Just like he doesn't know what he did wrong at the end of this one. He's completely clueless. This argument is so dense though. How does that change McD's coaching blunder? I agree it probably wouldn't have happened....but your Head Coach should be putting the team in the best possible position to succeed. That timeout did not do that. And we've see him do that soooo many times in his career here, including the playoffs where it's cost us big. 13 seconds if I have to remind you. It's a huge problem that this guy has never put in an honest day's work into improving himself as a coach. Game management isn't some kind of inherent talent....it's just all about preparation. And he's never wanted to put in the work for preparation. Probably not...but that doesn't change that the end of the game was completely butchered. Using the timeout was a horrendous coaching decision whether or not we could have gotten the stop. As a Head Coach, you have to at least do the best you can to give your team that chance.

Sure...but that doesn't change that the head coach should be putting the team in the best possible position to win. If we use our downs to throw there and score and the Rams have the ball with our 3 timeouts in tact and they get a 1st down to end it...OK....from a management perspective he would have put the team in position for success, they just couldn't get it done. I don't know if that's what you're saying, but I've heard quite a few of those responses of "who cares, we weren't going to get the stop anyway"....when that may be true but it doesn't erase the fact that McD has absolutely no idea what he's doing as a game manager. Yup, he was unprepared from Day 1 when he took over and that's never changed The guy has cost a generational QB almost his entire 20's and he hasn't learned a thing in 8 years as a coach. He's completely botched 2 end of game scenarios this season alone. He's done it multiple times in the playoffs. His side of the ball has been given an incredible amount of resources from the beginning only to get gashed in every single big game. The high majority of coaches could just make the playoffs with Josh Allen every season. This guy has a top 2 QB...some would argue the best...and has lost in the Divisional Round 3 years in a row. I think it was you who mentioned Ron Rivera as a joke earlier in the thread...even he made it to a Super Bowl with Cam Newton while our guy can't get out of Round 2.

Did you think the horrendous penalty accept and then playing prevent to put them in almost exactly the same position and take time off the clock was smart? Was using the timeout so the only way we could get the ball back was an onside kick an intelligent decision? Was having 9 men on the field on the last play just a stroke of genius that we just can't comprehend? Was this all just a complete masterclass in coaching that should be the model that the rest of the coaches in the league strive to one day reach? Totally untrue. Keeping. your timeouts there is something that even newbie Madden players know. Also, let's say some of the fans remained unaware....does that all of a sudden not make it a blunder? The mental gymnastics some of you play to try to deflect from McD is unreal. If you actually look at most of the posts, the people that are ragging on McD are making football points. The people that are deflecting are throwing personal shade at those people, not actually talking about what happened. Probably because you know there is no defense for it.

How many end of the game blunders do you have to see? Houston and last night were just this season alone. There's countless botched scenarios and the fact that his side of the ball comes up so short in every single postseason. That could be true...but it doesn't change the fact that it was incredibly poorly managed. McD didn't even give them the shot to make the comeback. Same thing happened in Tennessee a couple years ago. McD and his staff have never learned anything from their mistakes, they just make the same ones over and over again.

What side of the ball is McD's specialty? Who hired the DC?

I mean everyone did. People who are even just casual football viewers were miffed at it. We have the worst HC in the league and it's not even close to be honest.

Who hired Smiley and retained him? Who oversees the whole team?

None of it makes any sense. He's a total clown that has no idea what he's doing in year 8. Almost a decade. It's wild that it feels like 50% of the board doesn't find this alarming.

Nothing makes sense

Who hired Babich? Who decided he was prepared to call the defense? What side of the ball does McD specialize in? Does the Head Coach not have the power to change anything or take over if needed or make adjustments? A lot of you played this same exact game with Frazier, who McD is the one who hired him and kept him for years and had the power to change anything he wanted.

Not super hard to predict there would be no actual response to those pretty simple questions

What side of the ball is McD’s speciality? Who hired the coordinator to run that D that you’re admitting was a problem? Who is the Head Coach that has the power to change or take over anything he doesn’t like during a game? Or a season?

It’s McD’s side of the ball. And he chose Babich. And McD as a Head Coach has the power to change anything or take over anything he wants. How does this not fall on McD? This is the same game so many of you played with Frazier. Who hired and kept him? It’s on McD. It always has been.

No, it’s crazy how people who don’t know the first thing about football will defend an indefensible management of the game. Please tell us how that was a brilliant timeout and that we were so lucky to have someone of his caliber on the sideline there. The guy has done absolutely nothing to improve himself as a coach for 8 years. Had never put in a single days work to better himself as a game manager and you want to call other people idiots for pointing out him calling a timeout that a 10 year old wouldn’t have. Get over yourself.

It’s unreal. Literally kids that play Madden wouldn’t call timeout there. I don’t even think Matt Eberflus would have.

This is so dense. The call by the coach was a disaster in it of itself, there is literally no defending it, which is why you won’t. He cost us with 23 seconds and he’s going to do it again in the playoffs. You could literally see it on Josh’s face. He knew it was over as soon as McD called the most amateur timeout of the season.

No. I never have any faith that McD’s side of the ball will come up with a big stop at the end of a game.

McD made a rookie mistake in year 8 of his career. That’s generous too, I don’t think even most rookies would have called timeout there. How long does he need to stop botching games like that? A decade? Two decades???

Did you actually watch what happened there? Did you see the timeout that literally directly cost us any shot at a comeback?

I’ll love watching how people will defend this

As it should when he has #17. That's rightfully the expectation. Plenty of coaches could have "successful" regular seasons with that level of a QB.

No. McD's side of the ball has failed us in literally every single postseason, along with his game management. Literally every single one. Since going to the AFC title game 4 years ago we've had 3 straight Division Round exits with a generational QB. He has wildly underperformed with what he's had to work with. He's been given a tremendous amount of resources for his side of the ball and a QB on the other side who has with the exception of one game delivered consistently over the years only to NEVER, ever come up big in big moments or games. It has to change in January for that sentiment to go away as many have said, it's that simple. Regular season "success" with at worst the 2nd best QB in the league and a generational talent just doesn't mean much. Potentially wasting his entire 20's with no Super Bowl because of the incredibly lackluster support in January from his side of the ball and game management responsibilities would be a massive problem and disappointment. I don't understand the faction of people who are saying we've had "too much success" to let him go. 3 straight Divisional Round exits with a guy you should be in the SB conversation with every year? One of those exits which directly featured his personal own massive meltdown that cost it for us? I don't get it.

I’m there, I love going to CA! I spend most of my time there in San Diego, that may be why. I’ll just drive up the couple hours that morning for the game. Pumped!

I was there, OK

I saw thar, most expensive game I’ve seen this year.