Man with No Name

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Arians and Gruden have both come out as disgusted about what happened. but they're not watching every game. feeling the flow. seeing where mistakes are made. This isn't "we're firing you because you're bad." It's "we have somebody really special, and we just need to see if there's a better fit." McDermott and Allen aren't soulmates. Bottom line. Maybe we'll find that guy for Allen, maybe not. but it needs to be tried.

i want to circle back to some comments about McDermott's treatment of his DCs and stripping them of power. Well, in the case of Babich, he absolutely needed to. But is the issue that McDermott is purposely not hiring STRONG leaders for that position, because he wants to completely dictate what's going on? I think it's clear that McDermott wants to be the HC and the DC. But with somebody who he trusts to delegate his vision to, as his ASSISTANT dc. Is that unfair? Is that different than what Andy Reid has going in KC?

Good chance they didn't ask josh about the decision. And that's because it's clear that Josh and McDermott just aren't that close. I never realized there was an issue with those two until it came out this year that they were now doing better with each other. Like Josh has learned to live with him and appreciate what's good about him. That's not the kind of relationship that needs an ask of whether Josh is okay with him going. It's implied. Just making inferences

there isn't any kind of conspiracy, but it's still a worry that just one man, Beane, kind of has 100% control right now. A worry, because I don't think anybody is certain that he's qualified to have that Howie Roseman type of power. hopefully we get a coach who is a strong leader with a strong voice. GOing for change is 100% reasonable right now. It's clear Beane is at least a little behind this, and has manipulated his way into having even more power, despite making several mistakes himself.

Hope he goes to Pittsburgh. I can root for him every time he isn't playing us. God bless.

well, he didn't actually have the title of GM, though he took over football operations when Marv Levy left his position of GM, which itself was a very undefined and non traditional handling of the gm role. I don't think Russ Brandon was ever anything close to a traditional NFL GM, or at least not the way we see the position now. He wasn't the guy doing Brandon Beane things. Levy didn't handle contracts (overdorf) or personnel decisisios (Jauron). I'd guess Tom Modrak was doing a lot of the GM things.

Beane and McDermott had all the power. there's not a world where both of them were gonna get axed. That's the nightmare scenario where Pegula is actually making the decisions. if we were gonna get rid of McD, this is what had to happen. Maybe if you're hiring a John Harbaugh, you can let him pick a gm or gm type. you're not gonna hire a joe brady or klint kubiak and allow them to make that decision.

He doesn't seem like the kind of guy to talk out of turn

i guess kubiak is getting all the credit for what Darnold et al have accomplished in Seattle. but apparently it's really all JSN!

sorry if this is a stupid question, or one that's already been answered, but what in the world is JSN?

i can see people having a bad reaction to the firing. if you're not living in like we are, you don't see it for what it is. It's not anybody saying McDermott isn't a good coach, or that he hasn't done a good job. it's the simple fact that you have to find out if there's a guy who is the right coach for Josh Allen. because mcd was not able to get over that hump. i will be disgusted if they hire Daboll.

My money is on Pittsburgh.

i hope he goes to cleveland so they can get rid of schwartz and send him our way

McD doesn't do a good enough job of coaching that stuff out of him. allen making a dumb play isn't independent of McDs coaching.