dave mcbride

I think most of us here like McDermott. He’s a good coach. That said, he has some tics and flaws and isn’t perfect. I always thought Marrone was a solid coach when he was here. I didn’t want to see him leave.

Very fair point, although the Bills got hardly anything for him ( outside of a cash dump).

I looked at them all. Check out his performance for Jax, which comprised over half the season last year, and also look at his performance this season. Also, there was this game: https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-refocused-jacksonville-jaguars-10-buffalo-bills-3

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but Dareus is a straight-up good player. He has played quite well for Jax, actually. I get why the Bills traded him, and when you compare the results with his presence on the team and what followed his departure, it's pretty much a wash. My larger point is that sometimes, a culture needs to tolerate a few dissenters/wild men who happen to be extremely talented. Ask Al Davis and Parcells (who flat out said that Lawrence Taylor could follow a different set of rules because of his talent). Christ, Jim Schwartz has dealt with these sorts of guys his entire coaching career and has always gotten through to them (Dareus, Suh, Haynesworth, and now Michael Bennett, who looks like he's going to lose it every game). Basically, you've gotta gamble a little with unruly talent. That's an issue facing McDermott because the number of choirboys who are really effing good at positions like DT, DE, and WR is pretty small. Don't get me wrong -- when it comes to defense, McDermott clearly knows what he's doing (as does Schwartz). Not sure of your point here. Dareus was pretty good last year and in 2014 was arguably the best DT in the league. He was ridiculously misused by Ryan.

Thanks for linking! That said, @Kelly the Dog should have included this metaphor given the theater-heavy theme and its appropriateness given the circumstances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol.

Darby was arguably the best player on the field against the Giants last week. He's pretty good. https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/2018/10/17/eagles-cb-ronald-darby-named-to-pro-football-focus-week-6-nfl-team-of-the-week/

It would be interesting, but the larger issue when passing judgment on this sort of thing is that Peterman wasn't who they thought he was either. I question their acumen in this area.

Believe me, I'm not expecting much.

I agree with ScottLaw here. It's unwise to judge a QB playing against vanilla preseason defenses. Didn't we learn this lesson with Rob Johnson? McCarron has actually been OK in real NFL games (6 TDs to 2 INTs and a 66.4 completion rate in 4 games in 2015).

Who were the Bills wideouts again last year? And which wideouts were actually healthy in 2016? Stop digging. Anderson is trash who had one good season over a decade ago in a 15-year career. He’s simply a likely better option than Peterman at the moment.

Suggests to me that Allen's elbow was hurt going into the game and that the Texans knew he was hurt. McDermott is really pissed about this, both now and during the game itself.

Anderson is actually better than Taylor in every single significant category except for QB rating, total QBR, completion percentage, yards per attempt, won-loss record, rushing yards, rushing yards per attempt, TD percentage per throw, (lower) INT percentage per throw, rushing TDs, (lower number of) fumbles and fumbles lost, PFR's Player Average Value (AV), and PFR's QB+ rating system.

Thanks!

I'm sure he's still a much better option for tackling the interceptors.

If James "I'll mix it up on the field in my street clothes" Trapp can be a Bills team chaplain, why not Nate??

Because there was no push in the middle and QBs always stepped up just out of his grasp. It was infuriating but not his fault.. That's why the brought in Star, who has been doing the job this season.

I deleted the game (because of course!). Anyone have a clip?

He played well in 2014 in backup duty, and it wasn't that long ago. So there is that! https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AndeDe00/gamelog/2014/

Au contraire. I thought Hughes was lights out last season. He had a ridiculous number of pressures.

Also, Jerry Hughes' 90.5 rating as a pass rusher makes him the third best pass rusher in the league according to their metric (behind Aaron Donald and Fletcher Cox).

I'm hardly an Anderson fan, but he did perform pretty well in sub duty in 2014: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCaA.00/gamelog/2015/.

The thing is, maybe teams should cast a jaundiced eye in preseason toward QB play. Rob Johnson was a HOF preseason player. It is simply not the same because the scheming is vanilla, which matters supremely for judging the QB position. It's on the coaches to successfully assess that. McCarron is not great, but he has performed decently in real-game situations (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCaA.00/gamelog/2015/ ). He's a guy who can get you to 2-2 over a 4-game NFL stretch. Peterman is a guy with the yips who is simply terrible. Here were the other options. Most were probably better than Peterman: http://walterfootball.com/freeagents2018QB.php.

Yup, and Adam Wainwright is the cautionary tale of continuing to play with the partial tear. That said, Wainwright was lights out when he came back.

That times story is great. Here it is again: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/sports/baseball/debate-grows-over-how-to-protect-young-pitching-arms.html my son’s arm is fine and rest worked.

PS - rest does NOT fix a tear. The question is to risk it and keep playing. Fyi, my son (now a freshamn college pitcher) had a ucl sprain last fall (stretch, not tear) and his surgeon operates on yankee players. We got the lowdown about what tears mean.