Ed_Formerly_of_Roch
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So what I'm reading here is the local media folks who have some real internal connections to the front office folks for the team are saying McD will be back, but he national media who lack that, plus all the arm chair GM posters here who want him gone all say he'll be gone. Think I got that right.
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5 hours ago, Herc11 said:
Absolutely agree. Hope that douche bag is banned from the sidelines. Philly fans are hailing him as a hero.
Also, I wanted the Chiefs to lose, but that no-call PI at the end of the game was so damn blatant and obvious. Thank God the announcers and the retired ref didn't let it go and discussed how bad of a no call it really was
To a point I can let that one go as officials never want to throw a flag in the last few seconds of game on PI and give the team a play from the 1 yard line. Defenses kind of know that so will play a little rougher too. I'm sure at some point KC defense took advantage of that too so again don't feel bad about it.
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On 12/2/2023 at 12:13 PM, Limeaid said:
I guess I I need to get a TV which supports it.
I knew already Rick Eisen was on noon-3 PM but I see most of that on YouTube.
Or get a Roku. One thing good about Roku is they seem to pride themselves on having just about every TV app known to mankind.
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I think Beane tends to draft based on potential, often taking younger players that will need more time to develop. Some players develop faster others longer and some never or at least not to the level they were drafted at. Think that's the one downside of drafting based on potential, a bigger risk that they don't develop. Players like Allen, Edmunds, Epenesa, Knox, Brown to name a handful all fit that bill and took some time and have become good to decent players. Of all them Allen was the one who developed much faster and better than anyone ever expected.
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1 hour ago, Gregg said:
George Young
OK, I was thinking it was him.
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Recall a long time ago, back in early 80's Giants were a complete mess and at the owners request, brought in a retired ex GM front office person to help them figure things out. From that they turned things around and became a dominant team over the next 15 to 20 years. Can't recall the name who was brought in??
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4 hours ago, BarleyNY said:
My only decision is whether I'd wait until the off-season to make a change at HC. I think today would be better as it would give the team a chance to win this season, but McDermott has gotten rid of every coordinator with the experience to become interim HC. If I thought that Joe Brady was up to it I'd pull the trigger now, but I doubt that is the case. So it is likely I'd have to wait until the offseason to find my new HC. I'd let him decide what to do at GM.
Didn't the rules change a couple years back that you can interview other teams coaches between week 17 and 18, the final week? If so I'd consider making the change then to take advantage. That's assuming we are out of the playoffs. If that rule isn't true then I'd wait till the end of the season.
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5 hours ago, DrBob806 said:
I think it was Donovan McNabb, after Philly & the BenGals tied.
Hating tOSU & scUM. Interesting.
Well I kind of hate the entire big 10 or should I say Big 15 or so.
Was it McNabb or Vick, I was also thinking it was in Philly
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3 hours ago, JohnNord said:
Terry has a horrendous track record of hiring leaders.
Take a look at the long list of Sabres coaches that he hired and fired. Granato is the most successful one and he doesn’t have a .500 record.
Then look how Terry has fired almost all of his upper management since buying the Bills and Sabres.
He is not good as a sports owner. The only thing he’s done well is let Beane and McDermott run the show
All true, but even "better owners" haven't had much better success either. Certainly having Allen on the roster makes things easier for a new coach coming in.
Question to is what is better to hire an up and coming coordinator who has never been a HC, or a college HC as he at least has head coaching experience. Maybe the ideal would be a coordinator who at one time was a HC or a college HC who use to be an NFL coordinator. But even then have to ask why isn't he still a HC?
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1 hour ago, Chaos said:
Games should just end with a tie. Alternatively, just add 10 minutes to clock, and play from where things are at the end of the fourth quarter. Teams in a tie game will have to take that into account when making clock management decisions.
1 hour ago, DrBob806 said:I hate both Ohio St and Michigan, so Saturday in the game was thinking a tie would have been nice as would tend to screw them both. Then I remembered they changed the rules in college, no more ties.
Can't recall anymore who it was but do remember the one NFL player, think it was QB was shocked that games could end up in a tie.
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2 hours ago, PBF81 said:
Yeah, all valid stuff.
There are always risks, but consider, how many teams in NFL history have abjectly flopped while having a great QB? Not a very good QB, but a great one.
Thinking that we'd go back to our 6-10(11) or 7-9(10) days, with Allen at QB, and assuming that we devote our draft resources to building around Allen, is almost inconceivable.
I'm sure there are a few, but how many as gifted as Allen? Seems as if the low side of any such move would be about where we are now, so looking at it that way, it doesn't seem as if there is in fact much risk.
I mean which coach could take this team and not get 10-7 from it as long as Allen's under center, and, assuming not making horrendous coaching blunders repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I would add another twist in my interview process. I'd offer a 5-year contract with a 2-year review (probationary period let's call it)
One has to believe that many coaches would give their left nut to merely have a chance at coaching a QB like Allen, I don't think that would be a problem or an impediment to finding a coach. If after that two-season review, it's determined that the offense, given whatever tools it had during those two seasons, wasn't optimized, then amicably part ways. If it has been, and if Pegula and the fans are satisfied, then execute the extension.
Time for some creativity.
I nominate Dick Jauron and Chan Gailey for the task!
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3 minutes ago, DeltaDigital said:
ah, i stand corrected, but WHY give him another 30 seconds to get his head straight. so dumb.
Yeah but look at what happened in the Denver game. Watched another game over the weekend, (may have been a college game) team lined up for FG just before ball was snapped, TO called, still snapped the ball kicker kicked it and made FG for practice. Now kicks the 2nd one for real and misses so never know. Granted in this case TO was called way prior.
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7 minutes ago, DeltaDigital said:
cool, ill bite.
Yet again, mcdork gives the opposing team a free time out with the clock running during a mayday situation where the FG kicker and special teams have to RUSH onto the field and execute in a hurry up manner.
This particular inexcusable time out was the aforementioned situation PLUS 60 EFFING YARDS ON WET GRASS.
instead, mcdipshit decides to let them casually setup and because this franchise is wretched and cursed, of COURSE dude makes it with a linedrive curveball through the uprights.bills lose, in horrific fashion, for the 11th time during such circumstances under mcdermotts reign of ######ation.
If you're talking about he FG at the end, believe the clock was already stopped.
While I'm not absolving McD of all the issues, posts like this are comical in that people who call themselves fans and post all these facts, didn't even know the clock was stopped.
Do wonder about all the holding calls on both offense and defense. Some of them by all players not just the Bills are so obvious, why are they doing it. Is it that the players all know, officials allow holding, but just never sure how far they will allow it. And varies so much from crew to crew and even play to play as to what the allowed level is at the moment.
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12 hours ago, PBF81 said:
In fairness to Pegula, Allen wasn't on the team back then.
We were struggling to find a QB, and going with someone focused on D was not necessarily a bad move. I'd question why McD, but otherwise it was a different situation.
Now we know what we have Allen, and the next coach should be carefully interviewed to see what they'd do with Allen and the offense, not a defense that keeps choking in the biggest of situations.
What is Pegula's fault and what was stupid and unwise, was extending McBeane without first seeing how at least the first half of this season played out.
From a fan perspective the nice thing about that is that it doesn't impact the cap, it's purely money out of Pegula's pocket, which frankly, he deserves for being stupid enough to extend McBeane when there was no need to before seeing how our first half played out.
Certainly having a QB of Allen's capability, makes the range of error much larger in who you might choose, though that's kind of what we have now too. McD has made the playoffs and had a significant winning record in 5 of the 6 (maybe 7) years he's been here Certainly would go for an offensive minded coach, person may be great with the X's and O's but doesn't always translate to being a good HC. So there is still a risk.
The other question then is who's going to do the interviewing. Assuming Pegula keeps Beane, likely would fall on him. In fairness to him, he's never hired a HC before, likely never even interviewed one. Maybe he participated in the process when the Panthers fired Rivera and hired the next guy?? If you also axed Beane, makes it even tougher. Makes it tricky and a crap shoot to some level on who you hire. I suppose Pegula could talk to his good buddy JJ for advise.
Also have to wonder a bit if Pegula's major focus these days is taking care of his wife and may not want to deal with any of this and keep McD around for another year with promises from him of major staff and roster changes.
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Good news is they are mostly all young except Morse so should/could be around for awhile. Not sure too if replacing Morse with Bates would be much of a drop either if Morse were to retire or they made big changes in off season and let Morse go for cap reasons.
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10 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
I will probably get flamed for this thread, but here goes - can we have a real conversation about Diggs' drop off this year? He has not been his usual special self since the London game. He's dropped a bunch of passes recently and now has two INTs on the year that were ripped out of his hands. I miss the days when Diggs was putting CBs like Marshon Lattimore and Jalen Ramsey on skates. This year he is getting locked down pretty easily by true #1 CBs.
I mean just to be clear Diggs is far from our biggest problem on offense, but when the ancillary weapons are so below average you really need your #1 guy to be at the top of the elite tier and Diggs just hasn't been that guy this year. I worry that he is reaching that age where WRs start to hit a wall, and once it starts it can get bad fast.
Flame away.
7 minutes ago, Steptide said:Imo it's only really been the last 2 games. His stats are still at the top. Taking him out on 3rd downs is baffling though
Yeah I'd agree too, it's not been a season long thing,. more just past few games. Agree too don't understand why they took him out. Admittedly I didn't see what he did on the play prior, maybe he just ran 50 yards downfield??
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Did Bass struggle last season? don't recall it? Was thinking could it be the holder?
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1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:
McDermott is absolutely not the answer. He’s a loser that always loses. If McDermott is fired, it’ll be one of the most desirable jobs available. If you were Terry Pegula, who would you hire?
I’m in record that I’d fire McDermott in the morning and hand Brady the keys. I’d give him a 6 week audition. If it doesn’t work, I’d probably hire Bobby Slowik. Ben Johnson would be my 2nd option.
This is the exact reason why I wouldn't fire McD now. Too often when teams make an in-season fire and bring in an interim guy, the change helps and the team wins. But rarely is that guy ever the real answer. But now you're caught up by the fact this guy did win a few games and team looked better and you hire him, most often ends up being a mistake.
For that reason if you're going to fire him, I'd wait till year end to do so, then you have a choice of anyone you want. And as you said it is a desirable spot.
At this point too, team needs to do more than get a new HC, need to replace a number of players, both safeties, a CB, sign Jones or another run stopping DT, WR#2 and maybe #3? maybe a center. If you hire Brady, likely much of the coaching staff will stay intact too and less likely to make larger changes that are needed for the long term..
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5 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
I’m not opposed to firing McD. I’m just worried more about Pegula replacing him with someone better
Really not in any way an indictment on Pegula. 75% of the coaches that are hired never make it beyond their 1st contract. So Pegula would just join a long list of other owners that are not able to predict the future and hire the wrong guy.
So yes a likely better than 50/50 he hires the wrong guy, but that's just normal in the NFL
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Have to wonder if Torrence sticking his arm up right before the snap is causing Brown to be real close to jumping early. IMO there's been a few plays where was borderline whether they could have called Brown for jumping.
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16 minutes ago, Ray Stonada said:
Loving Brady switching out Harty for Isabella. If something’s not working, try something else!
Wonder is that on Brady or is that a McD choice? I'm sure they both talked, but which one initially had the idea?
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On 11/25/2023 at 8:07 AM, strive_for_five_guy said:
Correct. He’s on IR, can be activated anytime after missing 4 games, whenever he’s ready. Same with other guys on the list, like Damien Harris or Daquan Jones.Agree! The difference being from everything I read, Elam's injury was relatively minor compared to some of these others. White, Doyle, and Hines, all season ending. Milano, Jones, and Harris has a likely small chance of coming back this year.
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9 hours ago, djp14150 said:
back thrn coins got you live action entertainment in a slightly different form at good time Charlie’s…So do they too have slots for debit cards today?
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55 minutes ago, BBFL said:
Surprising to see Mahomes with only 9. Thought he’d be on par with Josh given the MVP accolades.
I'm more surprised that a kicker has 19!
Which WR prospect will the Bengals screw us out of?
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So the good news is one mock I just read, believe it was in the Athletic have the Bengals taking an O-lineman, the bad news is they also have the Bills taking lineman, believe it was an OT from Iowa.