Coach Tuesday

Fire him today.

The first down bomb to a well-covered, vertically-challenged Deonte Harty just broke me. That was it for me with Dorsey. I don’t expect others to share my opinion and that’s fine, I’m just one fan. But that playcall at that time in that situation, with the game flow going like it was going (Bills needing to monetize every possession) showed me forever that Ken Dorsey lacks the strategic acumen to be a good OC.

This entire front office: Beane, McDermott - have criminally under-emphasized offense and as a result their window has closed. It’s gone, over, done. It’s time to clean house.

The Bengals have better coaches, better players, better luck.

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DHop worth every penny of the contract Beane didn’t want to give him.

The OP is declaring it a “good week” - sure, but shouldn’t the actual game this week count? Agree with the strategy (though speedy playmakers on offense should be right up there in terms of positional investment) - they have just been really bad at the evaluations and contracts. Just an incredible run of bad decisions: Star, Butler, Jordan Phillips, Settle, Addison, we could keep going with the overpaid scrubs they have brought in.

I think with all due respect the true measuring stick comes on Sunday night. Let’s see how Beane’s roster stacks up against the team that demolished last year’s version in the playoffs.

This is the weekly pregame thread and some of y'all be wrestling with each other in the dirt. C'mon.

33-9

This is kind of obvious though. I would think it's assumed that if a trade happened it would have BB's buy-in, and Harris would be writing him a market-setting extension check.

Will never understand you uniform dorks.

He absolutely can and should start over Jackson, who doesn't seem to like tackling in run support.

That's what I'm saying. And then volunteer that information to the rest of us, just announcing to the world that your football takes are basically worthless.

LOL the folks posting "Who?" and "Never heard of him!" - do you all watch other teams ever? This guy can play.

Wow they have Bosa and Young off the edges. Damn.

Bills fans every trade deadline...

Right but a coach can help his team get looser or tighter, depending on what is needed. From today's Athletic - thought this was interesting feedback from some unnamed executives about McDermott: Injuries to all three levels of a once-dominant Buffalo defense make clear what the Bills could use as the trade deadline approaches. They could use a corner, a linebacker, perhaps a defensive tackle. That is the simple part of the evaluation. A more existential question: Why does this team appear to be perpetually under stress? Nothing seems to come easy. The Bills often appear tight. I think we’re going to find out over the remainder of this season and beyond whether the Bills’ very good, very successful head coach, Sean McDermott, is a great one. The intensity McDermott shows on the sideline and in general is part of his nature. It’s part of his success. Is it what the Bills need right now, as they try to cut back on the stress points? Does McDermott have another gear? These thoughts came to mind while watching the third and fourth quarters end during the Bills’ 24-18 victory against Tampa Bay on Thursday night. When everyone expected Buffalo to let the third-quarter game clock expire, the Bills hurriedly snapped the ball and took a sack. The fourth quarter turned into a fire drill: a killer penalty, a ball bouncing off a helmet into Mike Evans’ grasp for a late Bucs touchdown, a Hail Mary that Tampa Bay had a shot at converting. Just another week for the Bills. They entered the season set on showcasing a more circumspect Josh Allen, only to have him suffer four turnovers on national TV against the rival Jets. They had a home game moved to London, and when they got there, the Jacksonville Jaguars had already been there for two weeks. The Bills never had a chance, losing big. Much has been written about some of the bigger-picture stressors in Buffalo. The final 13 seconds at Kansas City in the playoffs were rough. Team owner Kim Pegula’s debilitating heart attack and safety Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest fall into another category. These would be difficult things for any coach to navigate. “I just think that team has been through a lot,” an exec said. “They remind me of a team that won it twice and is trying to do it again, like they are barely hanging on.” It’ll be fascinating to see McDermott, who counts Andy Reid among his mentors, lead his team from here. Only Kansas City, New Orleans and Baltimore have as many regular-season victories as Buffalo has since McDermott became the Bills’ coach in 2017. “Some of these guys like Doug Pederson look relaxed in the games, going for it on fourth down, running Philly Special when their quarterback suggests it, and the team can play accordingly,” a veteran coach said. “You want them to play opportunistically and loose. Kansas City looks like they have fun. They are running ring-around-the-rosey. Buffalo does look like they play tight in some of the big situations.”

Williams would do little to help the team this year.

I will settle for forcing a punt, something I am not sure McD’s defense is capable of against Burrow.

It does if you watched the game. One TD pass was dropped. Mahomes was running around extending plays but had nobody to throw it to.

No receiving options besides Kelce

Ankou’s release from the bottom of the Falcons’ roster being celebrated by an entire fan message board is without a doubt the greatest thing that has happened in his career and he likely doesn’t even know about it.

I just want him to be better prepared before the ball is snapped. That’s all I’m asking. I prepare very hard for my job even though I am pretty good on the fly.