Mikie2times

That would be an awful look for McBeane seeing that we brought in no competition and concerns have been logical all offseason.

It's not like last year with a new offensive coordinator was the first of it with him. He has Josh Allen and a fat a$$ contract so I don't know. Maybe too much to expect him to fight until the end? How hard you work doesn't always mean instant gratification or any gratification for that matter. It seems like Diggs uses work ethic as a shield to be a prick. He's also not the first highly competitive person that lost a game or several games and had to come back and get after it. If his attitude in those moments is to get a fresh start he is going to keep finding himself in those moments.

Is this the first time we have made history for not winning a Super Bowl?

Would you expect these hot takes to reveal as much if he was?

Wright started for awhile in a great era but was a weakness in many regards. I found even Sam Adams time here to be more memorable if nothing else for his pick six against Brady. Any list that does not include Ted and Pat as the top two DT's is not a good list IMO. That was a special pairing and one of the more formidable tandems of the era.

I didn't exactly the say the guy was a legend. Allens best seasons happened when he was here. That has to stand for something.

I thought the offense was fairly creative and Allen played his best ball under him. But not a topic I would die on the hill for.

I don't think we should do things like subtract games out just better bracket the context. A higher % of Allen's playoff games have occurred in the wild card round vs any other QB being discussed here. Burrow 2 of 7 are wild card Jackson 2 of 6 are wild card Mahomes 2 of 18 are wild card Allen 5 of 10 are wild card I posted the stats for the divisional round or later upthread. Not perfect, but better. Jackson is clearly the last one at the table for this. Allen and Burrow is more of a preference in what you want. Mahomes has been better than all of them especially considering his work is so heavily based on even later than the divisional round.

Daboll seemed to do a good job. The book is certainly still out with Dorsey and Brady. To say either of those guys is good or bad is a crap shoot. They have less years being an OC than Reid does as HC of KC and Allen's improvisation has been a huge % of our offense.

McD carried Reids belongings in KC until he eventually got a shot to coach as an assistant with Jim Johnson. He has literally no offensive experience in his career and played defense in college. This isn't a multi skilled defensive coach like Belichick who spent years learning both sides of the ball. He is a defensive coach and a great leader. Speaking of which you have a really good defensive coach in Spags. Arguably better than McD at least as far as the X' and O's are concerned and ironically another guy McD learned from in his time in Philadelphia. Given Reids playoff record before and after Mahomes I'm inclined to agree Mahomes is a much bigger reason for the success they have had. But with that Reid is most certainly one of the better minds in the NFL when it comes to offense. His history says as much and his performance on that side of the ball in his career does as well. He also has that excellent defensive mind in Spags that allows him to focus on the side of the ball thats most impactful to Mahomes. I'm not the guy in this thread arguing that Allen is on the same level as Mahomes. But if you want a guy in the thread to argue who is gotten more competent coaching I would be happy to fill that role. It's Mahomes and it's not by a small margin.

I can't find the play you're talking about but if I could I would say we need six on that drive. You will probably say Mahomes doesn't always get six. Then I will say show me a time he only got three with a minute + on the clock. If he gets three regulation is over. Josh missed multiple plays on that drive and it almost didn't happen with the fumble. So however you want to debate that play the drive failed and it was most certainly the biggest of the season. So we can say McD sucks and it's true, the injuries were heavy and that's true, but at the end of the day Allen had a chance to win the game and it didn't happen.

I loved watching Reggie Bush at USC along with Michael Vick at Virginia Tech. Obviously Barry was pretty amazing to watch at the NFL level. All three of these guys could just do things nobody else could.

Those championship courses can be pretty exhausting

What does that make us?

Awsome read. Older article. Gives you some history on McD all of which is very positive. But you see how clearly McD was an understudy of Reid, Johnson, even Spags. How well Reid knew Johnson. Given what we have seen from his mentors it's just hard to envision Sean getting ahead of those guys when everything is on the line. He's likely a much better leader but he loses the X's and O's. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2339679/2021/01/23/sean-mcdermott-buffalo-bills-andy-reid-eagles-panthers/

Rushing stats are in yellow

These are the stats from the divisional round or later. It's per game averages for comparison. Lamar is certainly last in this conversation. After that you can make an argument for Burrow or Allen then Mahomes.

We are 3-7 vs Mahomes and Burrow and 0-4 in the playoffs. If our defense performed at even an average level compared to every team who has faced Mahomes or Burrow in the playoffs we would have been to multiple AFC championships. KC and the Bengals have done whatever they want offensively and we have no reason to expect that will change. Further, all we are even discussing is getting past the divisional round. Forget about the two more games required to actually do what we want to see done. If you want to ignore this and just focus on the regular season championships so be it. Wish I could but it's obvious we aren't seeing this defense change in the postseason.

If everybody thinks you're a sleeper are you no longer sleeping?

Allens very nature demands that more is put on his back. He isn't going to sit in the pocket and use conventional weapons in the same way others would. Allen will always carry a team individually with his style of play. Perhaps nobody plays that style as well as him. That aspect will also be his detriment at times. Montana didn't carry his team like that nor did Brady. Not the way Allen does. They operated in a systematic way that allowed the rest of the offense to help with the lifting. It gave them incredible consistency in what they did. Nobody can really carry a team like Josh does and achieve the consistency they had. The two players are just different. Nobody is like Josh. It's almost pointless to ever think you could just sub Allen out into another team and have any clue what will happen. WIll Josh use the weapons in similar ways? Who knows. They're both elite and I expect both to be in the hall of fame.

So the choice is to gaslight yourself?

The Dolphins? The team that can't beat anybody over .500?

Why does the XFL have a better replay system then the NFL? Not to mention the transparency. You hear the microphones on the refs. You hear what is being discussed on replay reviews. It's faster.

It's very difficult to evaluate our pass blocking with Allen. He leaves the pocket so quickly. A lot of people say look! He avoided a sack! But he's bailing early in many situations because he trusts what he can do with his legs and in a broken play more than hanging in the pocket. Most QB's don't even get to make that choice. Given our improvement YoY it stands to reason the line was much better.