Chaos

Reid could not get over the hump without an elite QB. McDermott has not got over the hump with an elite QB.

If the information in this post is accurate, it is compelling, and is something the media should specifically be asking the Bills GM about.

I don't doubt this, but which teams?

Could we invite the next Sean McVay or Nick Siriani, or Zac Taylor instead?

Harbaugh hasn’t been relevent for a decade. mcVay went to the Super Bowl with two mid tier QBs in the last four years. My tiers are my opinion of “right now”. My primary evaluation is to look at each and ask “would this coach likely win a he Super Bowl given Mahomes or Allen as his QB”. It’s all opinion and speculation

Two case studies they don’t usually make it into the coaches discussion. Should Shula have been kept as coach doe Marinos entire career? And did Jerry Jones make the right decision to fire Tom Landry?

I don't exactly know what his game day coaching strengths are. But the team won 14 games.

I place a high level of importance on the post season. McDaniel as a rookie head coach went deep into his first playoff game against an experienced playoff team and one of the NFL's top 3 QBs, with a third string QB, and nearly prevailed. His first year turnaround before that was remarkable. As a game day coach in the three games against the Bills, I thought he called a better game than McDermott. Saleh gets his props for having a team that competed almost every week, without having any QB who appeared to be a legit NFL QB. If you think the QB deficiency is Saleh's fault, then he should be massively downgraded. I thought Daboll did a fine job, and probably should be ranked on the same tier as them. I edited my original post to reflect that.

He was hired in 2019, what are you talking about?

My personal opinion is that QB and HC compromise about 80% of the formula to win a championship. These are generally the two positions that allow the rest of the talent to produce at a higher level (or lower level) than they would otherwise achieve. It is a common exercise for people to group QBs into tiers. I think it is widely accepted that Allen, Burrows and Mahomes compromise the top tier of QBs and that everyone else is not at their level. I have not seen people group HCs in a similar manner. There seems to be an argument for Kyle Shanahan being the magic coach of 2023 making it to the championship game with a rookie 7th round draft pick at the helm. And his past success maybe justifies him being in the top tier. Seems like parsing HC's is harder than QBs. I think people separate Aaron Rodgers talent from the team failing to make the playoffs this year. I think people can develop opions about Tua or Deshone Watson independent of their teams success. Not sure it is easy to do the same with HCs. Pretty sure that Bill Belichek, the only current coach with more than one SB Ring, wasn't a doofus carried along by Tom Brady only, and that all of a sudden he sucks because he is saddled with Zac Jones. My take on the top tier is that it is 1A) Reid, Belichek, Shanahan and McVay 1B) Zac Taylor. Nick Siriani, Carroll, Harbaugh 2) McDermott, Pederson, Tomlin, Pederson, Vrabel, Lafleur 2B) Stefanski, Saleh, McDaniel, Daboll 3) Campbell everyone else below that. I am not at all sure my conclusions are correct. But I am curious what others think. I am much more interested overall on where our coaches stack up against the other teams, than how our coaches stack up against past Bills coaching staffs (arguably the lowest bar possible)

The ironic thing is that the complainers only need to exercise the self discipline to skip a thread. It is so easy to not read a thread.

Dawson Knox hard count was innovative.

Has the process completed? After two years of regressing, will we be reprocessed?

My expectation is that that Beane told the truth in his post season presser. We aren't as good as the Chiefs and Bengals, and their too many factors that will prevent him from improving the Bills to catch them. I think it is clear, that the coaching staff will be retained, and their will be roster turnover. The theme for the season will be that making the playoffs is a big accomplishment because of the roster turnover and that fans just need to give the coaches time to get the new players fully involved with the "process". Because we have Josh Allen we will make the playoffs. Because we have the current coaching staff we will exit the playoffs before the championship game. 2024 will be wash rinse and repeat. After we exit anyone complaining will scolded by the superior fans "surely you don't wan't Jones back"

Specific coaching question. Do the Bills seem more predictable than other teams? More importantly is there any statistical way to measure predictability?

The poster you responded too lacks clues. He seems to be dolphin fan who trolls this board.

I recommended that the raise season ticket prices next year. I think they will listen to that.

I agree, but one of those guys has $160 million contract and the other does not

Are you concerned that what happened to the Eagles bringing in Siriani will happen to the Bills?

If you watched the Chiefs / Bengals game and want to change your answer to coaching now, it is easy to do. Just click the show more options button and you can correct your vote.

this game seems to provide a lot of support for this view.

If KC Defense puts Burrows under the same amount of pressure the Bills did, and Mahomes plays like he has a bad ankle and Kelce plays like he is injured, the Bengals could roll over them.

NFL losing their marketing minds at the thought of Josh Johnson starting a Super Bowl. Refs have strict insturctions.

Posts on this forum should all be tagged with one of: talking about what it takes to be the champion what it takes to make the playoffs what it takes to be better than the buddy nix/doug whaley teams. These are three very different standards, and people seem to respond from their own perspective rather than try to under the perspective of the person they are responding too.

When are we "getting after it" in the first place? Doesn't that have to happen before you keep getting after it.