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It is interesting. As a kid I loved basketball, football, and lacrosse but I also played those because my friends did. I remember the wrestling coach was like actively trying to recruit guys because he didn’t even have enough. It’s probably because it just doesn’t look that cool to the average person, not trying to knock it or anything. I wish McD had that type of killer instinct in this game though.

It's insane that people do that and try to lift the accountability off the Head Coach. As if Frazier went completely rogue in that game. I wouldn't want Frazier back but the problem obviously lies much deeper here than what he was.

A defensive coach whose defense let them down consistently in big games and isn’t a good in-game manager. I do feel bad for them for some reason… It’s kind of like if we fired McD and brought in Quinn himself. There’s really no difference.

Dude this is stupid to be honest. Do I think the league can influence refs? Sure. But players and coaches and staff are not tanking games to "follow a script". There are players and coaches that depend on evaluations of their play for the next personal contracts and careers, etc. On many of the lower levels, there are people that are not even being paid a lot. And guys who get cut, are fringe NFL players. Players/athletes/celebrities will endorse just about anything for money. This is nothing new. They take multi-million dollar endorsements from companies that put little kids to work in sweatshops. How is that not even worse than what Kelce's endorsing? The Patriots had many seasons where they looked ordinary during a good chunk of the regular season and turned it up at the end and postseason. So many times they went through the same thing where people said they were done and finished. Were the Bills losing on purpose so they could script an end of the season run? And the big one...celebrity endorsements for political office have NEVER been impactful. People historically do not vote for a candidate in any office because of what celebrities preach. Joe Rogan, who has a gazillion followers, backed a Libertarian last election and Bernie the election before....what did that do? Right-wing people to me are an embarrassment to real conspiracy theorists who actually theorize about something that makes some kind of sense in any kind of way. The motives themselves here don't even add up to begin with.

Isn't this the idiot who got fired from numerous places, including a Conservative media group, for plagiarism? He also went to some Right-Wing nutjob event and told women they should all be stay at home moms. You should develop some standards from who you're getting brainwashed by.

Far and away Beane's best moment here. He did something that was relatively unpopular and stuck to his convictions. You couldn't have found a more perfect fit for Buffalo. And I won't pretend I knew that then.

No shame required. I think it’s a positive that you can admit it.

Smart. They're waiting for a better opportunity in '25... Although with new ownership in DC, if they're willing to be hands-off and let a coach build their own program, that should be an enticing job for a young coach. I wonder if there's some trepidation with their new ownership or if guys like Slowik and Johnson feel like they can get a job with a franchise QB already in tow next year.

Absolutely I don't, I agree with that. The difference is I think it's worth risking being an early exit playoff team for the chance to possibly take the next step, even if that risk entails the possibility of losing being a 1 win in January team.

I think that is a standards thing though, the logic of "I'd rather have a Divisional Round appearance type of team than to take a risk to reach the next level, because we could be worse". And that's fine, but the standards part still rings true. But if you're happy with that, I think you do have the right coach leading this team for you.

It isn't. That's happened 3 years in a row and people want the man in charge of it back. McD's side of the ball has let us down in every single big game. The part of football that he was supposed to bring his proficiency in. He's also been a horrible in-game manager and has never put in the work to improve himself as one. He has gotten some world class performances from his QB in the playoffs, with really just 1 legitimate stinker in which his defense was also bad, and can never hold up his end of the bargain. He contributed heavily to the biggest meltdown in Bills history with 13 seconds. Yes, the standards are incredibly low to want this guy back. It's either people feel that these seasons have been huge accomplishments or they like him personally more than the team's possible success. If you consider it a disappointment when his side of the ball and Head Coaching duties have largely been responsible for those disappointments...why would you want him back? Especially when he hasn't exhibited any improvement as a coach or even an intention to improve as one? And if you don't consider it to be a disappointment...then isn't that the standard you see as being fit? And do you believe the team has gotten better with these constant early exits since the apex in 20-21? I think these are all fair questions that lead to that sentiment. Yes! Keep up this string of disappointments and he should be forced to sit through another year of Marvel movies.

Well played!

Haha, this pretty much ended the thread

You absolutely are entitled, no argument there

In what way? I'm open to hearing how what any of what I said is wrong or untrue.

When did I say that? I literally made a post about how Celebrity endorsements don't impact elections at all and that nobody needs to care about Taylor Swift. The post I made that you're replying to was in response to someone who said people who don't have kids should have no say in the future of the country.

That's a fair point. I think that could happen with the demand of young OC's with playcalling experience even if we don't win big here.

Yeah I don't understand the flex. I don't think finishing Top 8 is something other teams who have elite QB's on their team see as a success story.

Right. I believe two things can be true at the same time, and I don't know how anyone could say McD doesn't tense up in big moments. He's had a cavalcade of postseason and big game blunders here.

Which part? I'm happy to discuss it.

I don't think it's possible to be more narrow-minded than this. First off, someone in their 30's could have 50-70 more years left on this planet. They could also have nephews, nieces, have students they've taught, children of friends, or even just flat out care about the next generation of people. What about people that are "evolutionary dead-end"'s that can't have children? What about people whose children have passed away or have children that don't want children? All of these people should be left without an opinion or say? And parents that are deadbeats or even just bad at what they do, using your logic, should? I'm in the middle politically because I don't like either party but it's nonsense like this that reminds of me why I could never be a Conservative.

Unfortunately I think the standards with the owner and half the fanbase are so low, that I’m not even sure another massive postseason disappointment gets McD Cannes. Terry and a lot of fans feel that simply a Divisional Round exit with an elite QB is a huge accomplishment. It’s happened 3 years in a row and they want more of it. I think if it was somewhere else, this could be a good analysis of the situation by Brady. Here, I’m not so sure. I guess if the offense is solid he probably feels he could still get hired away.

Yes, yes, and more yes. It's not even on the offensive side that people excuse McD for, they did it for years with Frasier. Frasier was carrying out McD's strategy and philosophy. If McD didn't like it at any point during all of those years, he could have fired him. There has been one constant problem in our postseason disappointments, and anyone being objective can see it.

Yeah, I definitely think Brady was better than Dorsey...but he wasn't great. He might be the best guy to get a season to install his offense...but a real search and welcoming of different ideas would have been the right way to go.