dave mcbride

There are threads on this. He bounced around because he was always very good and teams in SB contention traded a lot to get him. The Pats, in need of a real outside receiver (rookie Malcolm Mitchell had a career ending injury in the playoffs), traded a first round pick for him in 2017 and made the SB that year. In 2018, the Rams, looking to upgrade from Sammy Watkins, traded a first round pick and made the SB that year. In 2020, he was traded to a Texans team coming off a great 2019 season for a second round pick. In 2023, he was traded to a 12-5 Cowboys team for multiple day 3 picks, and they went 12-5 again with him.

Huh? The call had already been made!!!

They weren't calling PI all freaking game until the very end. Gotta end the delay in the start time for the SF-Seattle game. It was blatant PI, and selling it wouldn't have helped.

Didn't put two and two together there. I remember that claim against Pegula now.

Surprised Brian Flores isn't on this list.

This was my immediate reaction on Monday. The promotion verbiage is just that -- verbiage.

I'm not saying I agree with it! But I do think it's good fodder for discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6986804/2026/01/20/athletic-football-show-bills-new-coach/ Key passage (I like the Tannehill metaphor, btw): According to rumbles around the league, the Bills feel that man needs to be offensive-minded, which McDermott was not. It’s common practice for a team to swing to the other side of the stylistic spectrum when changing head coaches, but in this case, Mays believes the Bills would be better served focusing on defense. “I feel like when I’m dealing with an elite quarterback, like an MVP-caliber, top-three quarterback, it changes my opinion about what you need to seek out with the coaching staff. I always go back to this: Winning in the NFL is winning with Ryan Tannehill. If your quarterback is Ryan Tannehill, I think it’s really important to make sure that you have an elite play caller, and it’s easiest to have an elite play caller when you have an offensive coach,” he said. “When you have Josh Allen, I think it frees you up a little bit. I don’t think you necessarily have to ascribe to that thinking. And so this idea that ‘The defensive guy didn’t work, so we have to go with an offensive guy,’ I understand why that happens in most situations. I don’t think it has to happen here.” It’s especially hazardous in a hiring cycle that features very few bona fide offensive gurus. Locking in on coaches from that side of the ball could leave you without a strong leader on either side if the hire doesn’t work out. “They’ve proven they can have elite offense and score 27-plus points a game with Brian Daboll. They did it with Ken Dorsey for a while. Now they’ve done it with Joe Brady. Those guys aren’t bad play callers, but I don’t think that they’re of the level of Ben Johnson or Sean McVay or anything like that,” Klassen said. “You can kind of be able to pick in that middle tier of play caller and still get elite offense when you have Josh Allen. I feel like now that they’re going to scuttle that in favor of getting an offensive head coach and then maybe having to cycle through defensive guys, I feel like that’s tough.”

Hey! I like McDaniel.

Honestly, I think that narrative changed a couple of years ago, not withstanding the fawning around Beane’s appearances on Pat MacAfee’s show. But who knows? I personally think we were stuck in a Chcuck Knox time loop with McDermott, so I’m hoping for the best.

This seems like an excellent hire.

They gave up *TWO* TDs on plays involving just-called-up scrubs (savage and dane jackson) at the very ends of each half, with each being in island coverage vs receivers better than them in deep-but-makeable TD pass chances. Payton and pass coordinator Davis Webb jumped both times IMMEDIATELY after they came in and utterly exploited the weakness. If you have dane jackson for one freaking play and aren’t playing umbrella coverage in the red zone, you are asking to lose. He sucks.

Yeah, definitely, I got that, but the earlier story still tells us a lot about their relationship and makes me wonder about Beane’s involvement in the earlier piece — something I hadn’t thought about before until I saw the fawning language in the piece.

“Credited to him” — as I said, you are smarter and better than that. Of course, the one at halftime was insane, but if you’re looking for reasons to fire mcdermott, calling that play with 14 seconds and no TOs is a reason. Allen should have been told to take a knee all the way. That is on Mcdermott.

It is hilariously blatant propaganda and an attempt by the writer to further ingratiate himself with management sources instead of player/coach sources. That’s his bread and butter (and, frankly, meal ticket) so chalk it up to how he plans to continue to make a living.

This literally sounds like the prose in the last couple of pages of 1984. Mind you, I have an open mind about all of this, but if Dunne thinks this is persuasive writing, he should ply his trade with Kim Jong Il.