MJS

Wow, if it is true that Dorsey has been groomed to be the next OC when Daboll leaves, that would suck. But this is what happens to the best teams. Coaches get poached. Players get overpaid in free agency. You have to overcome losing coaches and players and keep the ball rolling. It's why drafting and developing talent is so important. Hope Leslie Frasier and Brian Daboll get a real shot this year. They deserve it.

Bates is on the team because McDermott likes him. McDermott has built a perennially contending team. Maybe stop talking badly about the best coach we have had since March Levy. I wonder what the goal was there...

This is the worst finalist list I have ever seen.

I know he is a fan favorite, but he is a practice squad player. And no other team claimed him this season or last season. So, maybe Bills fans are reading too much into his one game performance.

Wow, 3 of 4 from the AFC East. What a sportsmanship powerhouse!

Bills in Space! A new hit Sci-Fi sitcom!

He can do better than SNL. He's actually funny.

It's a pretty small sample size for McKenzie. Only 23 targets on the year, and up until last game a lot of those were those tap passes that are basically runs. Not trying to take anything away from him. He did great and I want to see him more. But it stands to reason that if he gets more involved and runs more traditional routes, that number might come down a bit.

I agree completely. I really thought that was a great defense. I just think it is quite a different scheme from Sean McDermott's. Leslie basically runs McDermott's defense, so I'm sure McDermott would bring in someone, or promote someone from within, to do the same thing.

The game was already basically won at that point. I would have gone for the INT as well. The only iffy thing was it didn't leave a ton of room to kneel it down. Oh well. I'm glad he got an INT. These guys work hard and deserve to get the individual stats sometimes.

Falcons trying to get intel on the Bills?

I don't think McDermott would change the defense that much.

It's hard to know if he is easily upgradeable or not. He has barely played. He could turn out to be a strong starter one day, or maybe he has reached his ceiling as a backup already. We just don't know. I personally have always liked what I have seen from him and I want to see more.

Passer rating also takes into account yards per attempt and TD's per attempt, so it does account for just checking it down all game. Trent Edwards has a career rating of 75.5 which not good. I think that accurately reflects him.

Oh, I think passer rating does a decent job. It's problem is it doesn't take into account running, so dual threat QB's aren't properly accounted for. I'm assuming that's why QBR was initially created, but they did it all wrong. But yeah, you have to take into account a lot of different things when judging a QB, and QBR is not one of those. Passer rating is, though. As for the two performances mentioned, Burrow had a passer rating of 143.2, which is insanely good. Wilson had an 89.6, which is decent, but does undersell his rushing. I think that more accurately reflects their respective performances.

That's just not true at all. If you win, you keep your job. If you lose, you lose your job. Whether or not you are entertaining, or a good interview, or have a sense of humor, or anything else is irrelevant. For a coach, it is only about winning. That's the only thing that will save their job. All those things you said are literally the LEAST important thing about their job. Yeah, some coaches are more personable, and that's nice. Good for them. I like that McDermott answers questions and isn't a jerk to the media, but McDermott knows that being a nice guy in interviews is not his job and will never save his job. He knows it comes down to building a winning team and winning football games. Period. As for Belichick? Yeah, I don't like him. His interviews are stupid. But I respect him as a winning coach, all cheating scandals aside. And he will have a job in New England, or for almost any other team in the NFL, for as long as he wants because of what he has accomplished on the field, regardless of his bad interviews.

Officiating has been inconsistent for years. It's not any worse this year than it has been. In fact, just a couple years ago we couldn't even get the catch rule right. Catches that were obvious catches were being overruled. Challenging pass interference a couple years ago was the biggest joke of officiating I have ever seen. So maybe if I felt officiating was different now I could entertain this idea, but it's not. You just have recency bias.

Yes, but Allen needs to take a page out of Brady's book. Allen tries to look for a hole. Brady just lowers his head and shoulders and plows his way through without looking or hesitating.

Football, in general, might be about entertainment, but the head coache's job is not to entertain, it is to produce a winning team. A head coach should never have entertainment on their mind at all. Many of them are tough interviews, actually. They do it because they are forced to. They drank the Kool aid. All we've been hearing over the past couple of months is how great Mac Jones is and how great Bill Belichick is, and how the Patriots might be the best team in the league. Reality is a hard pill to swallow.

What's crazy is that the Patriots AND the Dolphins both have 7 game win streaks this season. Dolphins could potentially add even more to their streak. The Bills and Dolphins both lost to the Jaguars. Maybe the Patriots will follow suit. That would be funny.

The exact same thing could be said of the Dolphins, though. If the Pats get an early lead, the Dolphins don't have the horses on offense to bring them back. Should be an interesting game. They are similar teams except the Dolphins have a bad oline while the Pats have a good oline. Dolphins have better receivers, though.

Miami has a weak offense. That game could easily go either way.

I could see oline or receiver being drafted in the first round next year. I'd love to have another highly drafted CB to pair with White, but I realize that is defense.

I also had no confidence in them because they were bad and had no talent.

It's horrible. It's not fine at all.