
FireChans
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McDermott traded or moved off a bunch of them in the 2017 season. It was a big thing. the point was that an entire draft class being on the team/stashed on the PS/stashed on IR the same year they were drafted is no feather in the cap of any GM. It’s usually how it goes lol. I’m keeping him. We will have folks who will say it was just injuries and bad luck that held them back. Next question
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Shakir, Benford, Cook and Bernard: Who Gets a Contract Extension?
FireChans replied to NoName's topic in The Stadium Wall
This was a big reason why folks thought the Spencer Brown extension was early. Beane needed a W on the roster. I’m okay with not rushing to get Benford extended or not. Okay with Bernard. agree moving on from Cook/Shakir makes the most sense. -
Drought brain is incurable my man. These folks think McD is all that stands between us and 20 more years of darkness. They probably were afraid to trade Tyrod and draft Josh. “what if it sets us back from scoring 3 points in the WC round?” they cried.
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If you had your way, we’d probably still be winning 6 games a year with Rex afraid to do worse and never have McD or Beane at all.
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Drought brain. ”Give Chan/Rex/Jauron/Greggggg more time! At least we are winning 7 or 6 games instead of 2-3. What if the next coach is worse?” That’s because fans still don’t realize that what ended the Pats dynasty was not them losing Belichick, but losing Brady. Really bizarre stuff.
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One game because McD coached us to 6-6 at the midpoint. or was that not his fault too
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why? isn’t McD kind of at fault for starting out 6-6?
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So wait, you don’t even think McDermott is the biggest reason we make the playoffs every year but somehow losing him means we wouldn’t make the playoffs anymore? Um
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Okay fair enough. Are you of the opinion that without McD, the Bills would’ve lost the division to the Dolphins this year?
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Peter is still a Rex > McD guy deep down. Bless his heart.
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Elam is lucky he’s a late first. If he was top 15, he would in the argument for sure
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The defense wasn’t even that good this year. Outside the top 10, and their efficiency numbers were legit terrible. Was there a game this season we won only because of masterful McD defensive coaching? What if McD says no, I’m not hiring a top defensive coordinator.
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I know you wrote all of this and it was hard work. the obvious point to “there’s no guarantee that they could do it here” is that there’s also no guarantee McDermott can get his defense right against the Chiefs. Maybe less so because he’s already tried and failed multiple times. Not only that, but to say “there’s no guarantee Fangio could do it here” then somehow use McDermott’s stats from Carolina/Philly while holding Fangio’s record against him in Denver when he had no QB seems inherently unfair. There was no guarantee that Fangio would turn around the Eagles defense when they hired him. He now has a Super Bowl ring. No guarantee though. There was no guarantee firing John Fox and hiring Gary Kubiak would get the Broncos a ring. Of course, they won one. But no guarantee. That’s all fine. If you think McDermott is all that holds us back from being terrible again, I get not wanting to move on. Personally if McD retired tomorrow, I doubt our SB chances take all that much of a hit. I would bet we still win 11 or more games, still cruise to an AFCE title and guaranteed top 4 seed. That’s me. Which is why I don’t think keeping him to fail against the Chiefs and get to 0-9 in the playoffs before we give up makes a whole lot of sense.
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Its why Marrone cut Tashard Choice's ass @Gugny
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So do you think McD vs (insert coach here) is the difference between being back in the drought, 6 wins every year and winning 11-13 games?
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Um, I don't think losing 1 or 2 games is going to cost us the AFCE. We clinched it like week 11 this year.
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They literally existed. Vic Fangio was out there, he just made KC play their worst offensive game in 3 years. Ben Johnson was available. He was the hottest offensive coach on the market and turned Jared Goff into an MVP candidate. Bill Belichick was available, he’s beaten KC in the playoffs. Lou Anarumo was available, he’s beaten KC in the playoffs. I’m really confused at this argument. I think McD is a top 10 coach. I think that’s very fair. He’s very good at a lot of things, and I’m personally very thankful for him being largely responsible for changing the culture and turning the entire franchise around. I think he came into Buffalo with a very tall task and him and Beane changed the cultural inertia of being losers and obviously hit on a future HoF QB. I think a lot of HC’s could not have accomplished that. That being said, we don’t really need that anymore. the goal is to win. The culture is changed. If McD got fired and Joe Brady took over, I really really really don’t think the Bills would go back to 6-11 every season and miss the playoffs for 17 straight years. I don’t think anyone does. Do you? I think McD would get a job instantly. But to get over the hump, coordinator/scheme changes work. We just watched it with the Eagles. Two years ago, they got lit up by KC in the SB. They turned into one of the worst defenses a year later and were an early playoff exit. The next season, drafted some good rookies, hired a new DC and were an excellent defense all year and completely destroyed the Chiefs in the SB. We just saw it happen. I think it’s more likely that if the Bills get a new rookie class and a new DC/scheme, they are better vs KC in the postseason vs keeping the McD defense with a new rookie class. He’s had what, 5 attempts at that? Same result, every time.
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Am I going crazy or was McDermott .500 through 8 weeks just a season ago and had to pull a rabbit out of his hat to get the team to 11-6? not saying it was bad, but is that really an upper echelon of regular season success that is difficult to replicate with the best QB in football?
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I think the goal with a new coach wouldn’t be to go 16-1 or 17-0 but to not lose to KC in the playoffs again.