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The onside kick is such a disadvantage for the kicking team. They have to go the full 10 yards while the receiving team gets to stand a yard away from the 10 yard mark. I hate it

Wrong

I was being sarcastic

Fake fans. Where were they all before 1996?

First rounders are good. 2nd rounders have been better. Cook and O'Cyrus Torrence being 2 of them

Yep. Winners overcome 4 defensive starters being out and having players that started the year as 3rd stringers playing late in preseason games starting in playoff games. And having a teammate die on the field a couple weeks earlier. They do it all the time

I also would as well

Exactly. Rypien was terrible after that Super Bowl. It makes me mad that he beat us after seeing how bad he was after that

And Multiple other Championship games as well. He had multiple playoff seasons with Alex Smith. I don't know many coaches that could have done that. I also could argue Joe Gibbs is top 2. He won 3 Super Bowls with Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien

Andy Reid is the best ever in my opinion. He did a lot more with average QBs before Mahomes than Belichick ever did without Brady. Plus, Reid himself is now going to his 5th Super Bowl and has already won 2 and could get a 3rd. I don't think there is a better coach than him

Lol. You think I got nothing. The comparison to Schottenheimer that you did is basically showing some form of hate. We all know that a Schottenheimer comparison isn't a good thing. Yes, SOME of what McDermott has done in playoff games is coaching and I have acknowledged that. I brought up 13 seconds which was inexcusable and the Championship game when we clearly weren't ready. But people are putting the Loss to the Bengals last year 2 weeks after Lamar almost dies and their head not being in the right spot as part of it as well as an injury depleted defense trying to stop Mahomes with 2nd and 3rd stringers. Yes, they are losses but they aren't in the same category

He definitely may have. We don't know. My point is I know of 4 Schottenheimer losses, the drive, the fumble, Lynn Elliott missing the field goal in the closing seconds to beat the Colts in 95 to play the Steelers in the Championship game, the Marlon McCree game. Those all look bad on Schottenheimer and he gets ridiculed for it. Imagine if McDermott got to the championship game or divisional every year and lost but every time it was a missed kick by his kicker in the closing seconds, a fumble by James Cook at the goal line, an INT by one of our defensive backs that instead of going down chooses not to and fumbles and the other team recovers. The narrative of him would still be "he can't win the big one". The McDermott hate at times is ridiculous

I never said that they were really equal but a playoff win is STILL a playoff win. Should we have lost to Mason Rudolph because it wasn't Mahomes? As if beating Rudolph somehow doesn't really mean anything? And who the hell knows what we do with a healthy defense last week. No Benford, No Bernard. Rasul not at 100% that makes a difference also. It's not necessarily an excuse but it was part of it. If he had a fully healthy defense and still lost then I think the criticism is more valid. And you are probably one of the "every team has injuries" guy. How many have 3 or 4 to big name players on one side of the ball. Again, as I said about Schottenheimer. A couple of McDermott's losses have been bad luck. This year with injuries, last year the Damar thing which took a lot out of the team. There are no excuses for 13 seconds or the Championship game. But it's not ALL coaching

My God. Itt's not a Marvin Lewis comparison. You are the one that said "McDermott's playoff wins are only against bottoms seeds". That was you, right? I said a playoff win is a playoff win And when I made the Marvin Lewis example showing that he never won a playoff game no matter who it was you said "pretend that if you want". What I'm trying to say to you is...what do you think Marvin Lewis's response would be if someone asked him if he would have liked at least one playoff win against a 5th or 6th seed, I guarantee he would have have gladly taken it. McDermott already has a bunch. That means something. A playoff win is a playoff win. I think it's great that you devalue any playoff win, though.

Ok. And again, I just gave a perfect example of a coach that went 0-7 in the playoffs who had home games as the 1 seed at times losing to 6 seed and 5 seed teams and you're response is "pretend that if you want". Those 4th, 5th, 6th seeds are better than Marvin Lewis did and they are still playoff wins. You may hate that but it's the truth

And another thing, Schottenheimer just had terrible luck in a few of them. John Elway had probably the greatest drive of all time against them. The next year Ernest Byner fumbles running into the end zone. His last game coaching in San Diego, Marlon McCree picked off Brady in the final minutes, tried to run the ball back and fumbled and the Patriots recovered. There's even video on Marty Schottenheimer's "A Football Life" when it shows him in warm ups of that game telling McCree "if you make a play to seal it, just go down. Don't risk it". McCree tried to run it back anyway. He gets unfairly criticized. Some coaches get the bounces. Some don't.

But you compared it to Schottenheimer in Cleveland. Playoff wins are playoff wins. I don't care who they are against. Marvin Lewis went 0-7 in the playoffs. It didn't matter what seed the Bengals were. The Bengals lost to 6 seeds a few times

Can we all shut up about Kelce losing a step. Lmao. It's comical

It's not the same situation. McDermott has already surpassed Schottenheimer in my opinion. Schottenheimer coached 23 playoff games and only won 5. McDermott has coached 11 and his already won 5. He has already had better playoff success than Schottenheimer. It's not the same thing. It feels more like early Tom Coughlin. A guy that had a lot of success with the Jaguars and then had to wait another 4 years with the Giants before finally getting to and winning his first Super Bowl.

McDermott playoff record 5-6 Schottenheimer playoff record 5-18 You might want to think about who you're referring to as Schottenheimer

If I was able to watch the Patriots 8 straight years in the Championship game without throwing up once. I should be able to get through this game without even a tummy ache so yeah, I'll be watching

And to be fair, the contract up until Von's injury made it seem like he was worth every penny. It only looks bad now because of what happened to Von with his injury. Did Beane overpay for him? You can still make that argument but people should have an understanding of why he did it. It's not like Von was coming off a 2 sack season. He was coming off a 9 sack season and had 8 before he went down in the 2022 season

According to the poster that I commented on, his decisions in 2018 when we didn't really have much to play with from the previous regime, he is saying that that still affects our cap situation today. And that's why we still have cap issues. We have cap issues from guys signed in the last couple years, like Von Miller and Dawson Knox but I completely understand why he gave Von the contract he did at the time and the way Von played up until Thanksgiving last season when we got hurt, it looked like it paid off. It only looks bad now because of what has transpired since the injury. The Knox contract I don't understand. But I feel like he has known what he has doing since the beginning and has had a great plan. It's why we have been successful for the last 6 years. The guy was in Carolina for 17 years and worked his way up the ranks and is one of the best GMs in the business now. Saying that he has been slow to grasp things and he is just figuring it out like the other guy did is just flat out wrong

Ok. Yeah, but that contract has been off the books for how long? 3 years? Why are we talking about that in 2024? And was Star really THAT terrible?

What big contracts did he sign players to in 2018? I know Trent Murphy was a bad signing but guys like Robert Foster, Chris Ivory and all that didn't cost a ton of money and I don't think he restructured that much back then. It wasn't until after 2020 that he started to really do that. And that was 6 years ago. You're really gonna blame our cap problem from a situation 6 years ago? That team wasn't good enough to be handing out restructures and big contracts so unless you can show some examples, I have no clue what you're talking about. He had bad cintracts that carried over from the previous regime. You just sound like a Beane hater. His second year as a GM, he made moves to get us in the playoffs and has done it consistently since. You make it sound like it was a gradual process years in the making and he is just now starting to get it. Are you kidding me?