JustHewIt

Oh cool, I can't wait for the only person to ever have 40+ TDs in four straight years, while leading a top 5 offense, while averaging 12 wins a year, to stop being "quite inconsistent." As soon as we get that meanie QB coach in here to rough him up a bit he'll surely go for 6000 yards and 60 TDs every year! Are there some real world examples of this whole hard-nosed yeller vs. friend thing that you all seem so fixated on? Are you referring to Daboll? Josh didn't have any more success under Daboll than we did this or last year, going by your metric of "who's playing next Sunday." We're not playing next Sunday because our D-Line is underwhelming, the middle of our defense was gutted by injuries, and our safeties aren't impact players anymore. So we gave up 9 yards a play to the best quarterback/play caller in the league and lost. Of course there's room for improvement everywhere, but this thread is about the (silly and reductive) notion that our QB coach's personality is a serious concern, and that Josh doesn't work or improve because he doesn't have someone in his ear screaming "DON'T THROW AN INTERCEPTION MAN!!!!!!!!!!" Maybe it's time to just accept and be happy that he's always going to be a 45 TD/17 Turnover guy, and he'll never reach this pinnacle of perfection that everyone wants. And you know what? That's plus his current rate of playoff production is plenty to help win a title.

Well, I figure 5-7 coaches get fired every year, plus 31 other currently employed coaches. McDermott has more wins, playoff appearances, playoff wins, and divisions titles than any of them except Andy Reid since 2017. And if not for Reid, he'd probably have a Super Bowl appearance or two. So, to me that's successful, there's more to success than winning the Super Bowl. But, agree to disagree I guess.

It's almost as if a bunch of fans were judging and thinking they could read a person off a bunch of intentionally bland press conferences, rather than his body of work, which is more successful than 98 percent of the coaches in the past seven years with a locker room that constantly raves about how together they are year in and year out.

Why? Is there something wrong with our quarterback that needs tough love? I thought he played pretty damn well after he got out from under whatever Dorsey was coaching him to do.

No idea what the answer is but I agree. I was watching a YouTube video the other day of the JA's first 200 touchdowns, and it was striking how easy we used to make the red zone look under Daboll in a way we don't really seem to see anymore

This. If the boys can use it and come out as the more physical team, then the game is going to be a lot of fun for us The chiefs part is most annoying to me though....as if we didn't put up the "perfect game" two years ago when it was like zero degrees in the playoffs

Agree. Plus I'm sure we have staff prepping for KC already, while KC has to keep two teams on their radar

All the crybabies would have had us throwing in the towel at 6-6 and firing everyone. And they would have missed out on one of the great division titles in our franchise history

This is great post, this is what message boards (and pub sports talk) are all about You play him. If the wild card matchup was more favorable, maybe it's a thought. But the path as the 2 seed is SO much easier...Pitt/ind/hou at home round one, plus one of KC and MIA goes out immediately (they both know us better than anyone), that's massive. Then another home game, avoiding the ravens in round two Then if the ravens lose, we stay home for the CG. Come on now.

Like, I respect what you guys are saying and that these close games against lesser teams don't feel great. But what specifically do you feel our defense did wrong? The other poster said to hold them to 170 yards. That would be 2.61 yards per play. Seems a bit unreasonable to me. This is still an NFL offense with a system that has been super productive over the years. Do other teams look at our banged up defense and say "They're missing three all pros, two other pro bowlers, their best linebacker is running around with a banged up ankle, and their 100 million dollar pass rusher is useless. Why didn't we score 50 pts!!!!" Perhaps their backups and young players aren't god awful? What do you actually know about their third string center?

Did they? They had 273 yards on 65 plays, took five sacks, and kicked a bunch of field goals thanks in part to great drive starts after turnovers. That yards per play would rank at the bottom of the league, looking at season long averages

I really want to crap all over the negative ninnies who gave been ruining this message board all season, but instead, shout out to all the real fans that have stuck by this team to this point. I hope you're enjoying the hell out of one of the great wins of the Josh era. I know my victory scotch is tasting amazing right now

I can't believe how many people were in other threads this week saying that McD is a fraud, he's not genuine, the team doesn't support him. Gimme a break. This team is motivated and pissed off, and is completely together. Y'all should get on board. It could be special.

Believe it or not, I can think you guys put way too much stock in the media and overreact AND agree McD has sucked late in games AND think that he's a hell of a lot more accomplished than 90 percent of NFL coaches and be willing to support him to work through our current situation. The social media police can't even do anything about it.

If you only judged bill belichick off his press conferences, you'd probably come to the conclusion that he was a insecure douche bag loser also. The idea that press conferences reflect the success of day to day operations of an NFL team is the problem. I get it, that's all fans have to cling to and dopa-hits from posting on social media and having your opinions validated feels good. But it still doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's media, it's embellished and twisted and slanted and manipulated, in both directions