dave mcbride

Just as an fyi, McDermott's 2013 Panthers D had 60 sacks: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/car/2013.htm.

This is a terrible take, seriously. The Bills have a new OC and you should suspend judgment until you actually know what’s going on. You honestly should delete your posts in this thread because they’re that bad.

Maybe he should be taking blame for the end-of-game debacle? https://theathletic.com/5066747/2023/11/16/bills-mayday-field-goal-12-men-penalty-sean-mcdermott/. There is zero reason that the Bills should have done a fire-drill change of personnel like Denver did, and this article stresses that. Just keep your base defense out there and eliminate the risk of a personnel snafu. That's on McDermott as much as the ST coach. 'The Athletic talked to two recently out-of-the-game special teams coordinators and three other current NFL staffers who work closely with coaching decisions, and all five agreed that an NFL team should not sub out their existing defense for the field goal block defense when they are operating in a “mayday” field goal situation. There’s not enough time to guarantee a clean substitution (under two minutes, the officials don’t stand over the ball to allow a man-for-man substitution) and the chances of blocking a field goal are miniscule. “Defensively, we would never substitute an opponent’s mayday situation for the exact reason (of) what happened the other night,” said Mike Priefer, longtime special teams coordinator for four NFL teams, most recently the Cleveland Browns. Over the past five seasons, just 2.2 percent of all field goal attempts have been blocked across the NFL (86 of 3,925), and it’s been even less common with the game on the line. Over the same span, just 1.8 percent of all potential game-tying/go-ahead field goal attempts in the fourth quarter or overtime have been blocked (7 of 392). Buffalo has actually had better-than-average results on this play. The Bills have blocked 2.7 percent of all opponent field goal attempts under head coach Sean McDermott, the seventh-highest rate across the NFL since his first season in 2017. That includes 7.1 percent of potential game-tying/go-ahead attempts in the fourth quarter or OT by their opponents (1 of 14). But that’s still not enough reward to risk a more likely and unnecessary result: Having too many men on the field. “You don’t want to give them a second chance,” Priefer said. “Whatever 11 is on the field, in a mayday situation, nickel or dime, keep them out there and make sure you don’t have more than six on the line of scrimmage on one side of the center or the other, and make sure you come off the edge.”'

Not wading into your argument here, but the throw that should have resulted in a pick early on (the defender didn't get his second foot in bounds) was an equally terrible throw/decision. The Bills were LUCKY the defender didn't seem to know how to do a basic foot drag (probably because he's a LB and not a DB).

I fear he may be letting his "agent" do the talking: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/trevon-diggs-has-more-to-say-about-stefon-diggs-josh-allen-and-the-bills.

Look at where Brady went to college and where he got his coaching start: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BradJo0.htm.

It’s also stupid.

Why the F is Shakir returning that? Wtf??? And of course it leads to an injury.

Mostert has a few fumbles but McDaniel moves on to the next play because he realizes fumbles are an occupational hazard. Cook fumbles for the first time this season and Belichick-like, McDermott thinks it’s wiser to rule out of fear and punish talented players if the errors are fumbles as opposed to dropped passes.

Fair point, but there is so much parity that you just never know.

Fair enough! Meanwhile, I hope he reaches his incentives tonight!

Meh. Ed Oliver is hardly Cicero, so I don't expect much on the public speaking front. I don't take any of this stuff seriously. He wants to make money and he wants to sack quarterbacks. All ok with me.

Why would anyone have an issue with Ed Oliver wanting to reach an incentive by actually getting more sacks? That seems like the most straightforwardly positive-for-the-team individual incentive I can think of. If he gets sacks, the opponent is likely to score fewer points.

They’re both pretty good players. The Bills used up 4 years of a running back and let him move on, which all smart teams do. Cook is pretty good too. It’s all fine. Motor was terrific today, and I was quite happy for him. He seems like a good team player and a good person.

My big takeaway today : this league is so week-to-week and there is SO much parity.

Nice with the crude personal insults! I am truly impressed! I am even more impressed by the fact that you are accusing me of this despite my never having said one positive thing about Belichick. I was simply pointing out that the record you claimed for 2008 was not in fact correct given the faulty way the NFL accounts for QB wins. I meant nothing more and nothing less. More seriously, calling people d**k riders is extraordinarily juvenile. Not cool.

I did read what you wrote. You said he went 10-5 that season, and I presumed you were using the ridiculous NFL qb victory accounting system that gives a qb victory to matt cassel in the Bills’ 2014 opener because they ran a trick play where tyrod taylor split wide. Cassel didn’t play another play. Anyway, using common sense accounting, he went 11-5 sans Brady in 2008.

11-5 in 2008. Brady went out of that game in the first quarter; cassel played the vast majority of the game.

They need a qb, full stop. Do NOT overthink this. That’s what bad teams do.

maye, williams, penix, and nix are all better prospects than jones.

Assuming you guys have a high pick, you pretty much HAVE to take a QB. It'd be crazy not to. It's a good QB draft, and if they're top five, they'll have a shot at one.

outside of that bills game, he has looked like this all season. Any internal pressure and he starts looking down to either run or take a sack (usually the latter). He crumbles. He is a bad qb.

Mac Jones is TERRIBLE — a sack magnet. He just crumbles in the pocket. How did the Bills freaking lose to THIS offense??