DrDawkinstein
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9 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Ken Dorsey was a proven legit QB coach who worked with Allen for a few seasons. How was he the wrong hire? I get it didn't work out, but in no way was there obvious warning signs.
Joe Brady was a bit different. BIG TIME college experience, some OC experience. Again, what huge signs were there that Brady would be a bad hire? The fact he'd been fired before? That will eliminate a large amount of prospects from the pool.
Bobby Babs - The saying around here was "everything he touches turns to gold." Remember? Everyone loved that hire after he had a multiple, legitimate outstanding seasons as a positional coach. Learn the ropes under McD, who is a great defensive coach.
Ya'll are acting like these are 3rd rate hires from the Cleveland Browns.
I would love for anyone, someone, to find a quote from McD where he says he wants to be a run first, conservative passing game. Especially considering 2 of his last 3 OCs were highly aggressive in the passing game.
Dorsey was NOT a proven anything. He was FIRED from QB coach in Carolina and sat home without a job for 2 years before McD brought him into Buffalo. He was a huge question mark and had a short leash when he managed to land the OC job.
Any positive stuff on Babich was just team PR on hyping up McD's protege.
They were both "first timers" in their jobs while proven and known quantities were available. But McD cant handle strong, proven coordinators (as proven by how both Dabol and Frazier ended up).
As for the McD quote, it doesnt take much to dig up plenty of interviews where he talks about it. He doesnt exactly quote "run first, conservative passing game", but he absolutely alludes to it by talking about the run game, being balanced, etc, etc.
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4 minutes ago, BigPappy said:
I know we have drafted small in the past 4 or 5 years. But the injury issues have been going on a lot longer than that. I'll admit, my memory isn't great when it comes to this stuff, but I remember us having these injury issues back to the Juron day's. Were we drafting guys on the small side then too?
I agree with what you're saying about technique and attack angles. I guess the question begs, is that a player issue where they are not applying what they learn during the games, or is it that the coaching staff isn't teaching good technique? Maybe a bit of both? If it's a coaching issue, then maybe McDermott is the issue and he can't or doesn't know how to pick good teaching coaches. Also, your point is well taken with corallating poor technique to injuries. It makes perfect sense and in the back of my mind, i knew this, but for whatever reason, it never really registered.I'm pretty sure we had league record LOW injuries McD's first few years. I seem to remember thinking in 2020 and 2021 how lucky we were to be one of the most healthy teams through the season and going into the playoffs. But that was before we loaded the team with smaller draft picks too.
As for technique, it's a bit of both, but I blame more of it on the coaching because all these players managed to be so good in High School that they made College programs, and so good in college that they got drafted into the NFL, so I cant believe that they never knew how to tackle previously, or somehow forgot. I think something is wrong with the scheme and messaging that has guys out of place and taking bad angles and using bad technique.
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1 minute ago, Yobogoya! said:
True that’s a fair call that Brady actually had some experience beforehand, but he’s executing an offense that looks like McDermott’s ideal concept so I think he’s “process” enough to consider as part of this train of thought.At this point, yes. When he took over the reins from Dorsey he got to call more of what he wanted, and even to begin last year. But much like neutering Josh, McD has managed to neuter Brady too so he fits his conservative, complementary philosophy (aka "dont expose my defense")
Bunch of Eunuchs running this show.
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Brady was technically an outsider. He just happened to be on staff to promote. But wouldve been the top name to go get at the time.
Point stands on Dorsey and Babich tho. They are/were both McDermott home-grown from scratch coaching assistants that McD mentored and groomed for years to get them ready to be Coordinators. Babich especially. Shows how good he is at that...
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2 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
Milano is our lightest and shortest.
Crazy because he looks much bigger than Bernard and Williams out there.
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2 hours ago, Chandler#81 said:
I’m throwing the towel in 🤷♂️
You look better in a bikini than I wouldve guess.
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30 minutes ago, Gregg said:
I am 100% confident that the Jets will go to New England this Thursday night and get a win
Vrabel wont let that happen. That's a McDermott thing.
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17 minutes ago, BigPappy said:
This!! 100% this! It seems every year we have injury issues, and severe ones at that. And they seem to almost always be primarily on defense. Can someone explain that to me please? I know all teams have injuries, but the Bills and a only a few other teams seem to have it year in and year out. At this point, you can't call it an injury bug. It's more like an epidemic.
We draft small on Defense. Ed is small even if he's strong. Milano is small and he's our biggest LB.
Plus, our lack of technique on open-field angles and lack of technique on tackling opens us up to injuries instead of being the ones to deliver the shot.
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No, Hard Knocks is the least of our worries. We could use some more hard knocks instead of never tackling in practice.
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8 hours ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Have you watched the NFL ever?
It happens all the time.
Yes, there are other bad coaches in the nfl. So what? You're agreeing McD is no better than any of them?
Overlooking the Dolphins shouldnt even be part of our discussion as it should never, NEVER happen.
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Just now, Chaos said:
He and his wife have lots of ties to California. Josh won't badmouth anyone or blame anyone else. But this season has stopped being fun for him, and if next season is not fun, he will start considering options.
His brand new 6-year contract just started. So his options are slim outside of directly pushing Terry for a regime change. Which I'm for.
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Just now, transplantbillsfan said:
This game doesn't mean much to me except it unfortunately demonstrates that the staff was actively overlooking Miami.
Fireable offense in itself.
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1 hour ago, Chaos said:
Do you honestly think McDermott does not provide the main insight into the team needs
Agreed, and why I'd be willing to keep Beane (or even prefer it) if we could move on from McD.
The HC is always very influential in who gets drafted. Maybe not down to specific guys, but McD and the staff are OBVIOUSLY guiding Beane on things like smaller LBs that can cover, and whatever else fits his schemes.
Heck, Whaley's best ability was to constantly shift the type of guys he was drafting to fit the ever changing needs of our coaching carousel.
If moving on from McD means cutting Beane too, then at this point, fine. But I'd like to see what he'd do with a different influence. Someone Offensive minded, riding him harder for actual WRs and playmakers.
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45 minutes ago, Big Turk said:
This team has gotten away with just showing up in these games and winning for too long that it's hard to break the habit that now they actually have to prepare properly and play well this year.
They aren't good enough right now to get away with that.
Too lackadaisical. Too cocky. Too arrogant.
I think you just found the closest thing we have to an "identity". Unfortunately.
1 hour ago, Boatdrinks said:That’s on our overrated players , not the coach. These aren’t 12 year olds. They shouldn't need extra motivating when they have a chance to crush a division rival and set themselves up to defend their title.
If it were 1 or 2 star players, then that's on the individual players.
When it's the entire team in all 3 phases, that's on the coaching.
No one is asking for "extra" motivation. But if they show up this flat and unprepared to play against a division rival then something is wrong in the building.
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2 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
I honestly think Beane and McD believed Josh could continue to work miracles with the group they put around him orake up for it by focusing on the defense.
It has been a spectacular failure of team building.
Just now, GoBills808 said:oh i guarantee that's what they thought
Brady never won a SB when they had Moss and Welker. When they were winning SBs, the Pats had guys like Deion Branch, Troy Brown and Julian Edelman and Chris Hogan.
But they had great coaching to go along with it.
Not to say we couldnt use better WRs, or that it isnt a factor. But winning without them has been done before.
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4 minutes ago, Dan Darragh said:
How is it nobody mentioned the loss to the Vikings? Or the loss to the Jets when Rodgers went down in the first possession?
Neither of those were as bad.
The Vikings was a hard fought game and we were in it the whole time. The Jets was a bummer, but we bounced back from that season opener as there was still time.
Today was rock bottom of a downward spiraling trend.
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3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
As long as you own it if the name you like ends up being the wrong guy I’m all for it if you’ve got a name you like.
You’re not guaranteed to get the one decent name that’s available just because you fired your coach either keep in mind. If the defense is as bad as people are thinking it is kubiak might look somewhere else with a better cap situation to turn over the roster then you get stuck with a McCarthy or kliff Kingsbury type
I dont disagree that the coaching prospects are worse this year than they were a few years ago (with Harbaugh, Payton, and Vrabel available).
But I do disagree that we cant make a change. (Terry WONT, but we still could and should)
Just now, HappyDays said:My names last year were Vrabel and Johnson, in that order. I feel pretty good about those call outs right now.
Next year it's Klint Kubiak at #1 for me. I've previously said I'd prefer a retread who doesn't have to learn on the job but Kubiak seems like the next Sean McVay-esque wunderkind. I'd also take Stefanski if he's fired and there's even a couple defensive minded retreads I'd take, hopefully with the right OC.
I like Kubiak too.
Gotta be an Offensive HC and an old, "former HC" DC. Seems to be the formula for success.
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1 hour ago, The Jokeman said:
A scheme that held to Miami to 23 points. If the offense plays it's usually 29 PPG we're winning.
Probably should have waited until the end of the game for this.
29 still wouldnt have done it.
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Just now, MasterStrategist said:
Lol loser post.
You think McD literally tells Beane and his staff who to draft? Beane and his scouts are horrendous.
Defense gave up 23. Offense with 6...yeah I put that on lack of O talent, specifically WRs...that been obvious.
You clearly have an agenda against MCd. Outsiders and smart football folks, and not your wife with her college sports background, will tell you Sean is a very good coach.
He's a good coach at making a bad team good.
He simply cant make a good team great.
Time to go. (Years too late)
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Vrabel owns McD and now the AFC East for as long as he's in NE.
It was a nice run... to no where.
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Absolute garbage.
You cant convince me McD still has the locker room. His message is obviously stale, and/or the players finally figured out that he aint it and his schemes suck.
Time to go.
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1 hour ago, dpberr said:
Flying an aging fleet with a *very* constrained parts supply chain and a dwindling pool of mechanics familiar with its complicated systems caught up to UPS.
I've never understood why UPS and FedEx keep flying these planes. There have to be plenty of used twin-jet planes to buy.
What costs more? Cleaning up this mess that is probably insured in a number of ways, or proactively spending the capital to replace an entire fleet of jets?
The knew the risks, and I'm sure had these costs analyzed and baked in.
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2 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
Then why make the decision?
Because no one in this situation knows what they are doing.
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This is how you build from within..
in The Stadium Wall
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Arthur Smith sucks and they should know that.
As for defense, if McD was serious about winning a SB and being a pure HC, he wouldve jumped on the chance of bringing in Brian Flores 2 years ago, or Jeff Ulbrich this year. It isnt a mystery or rocket surgery to find good DCs. But McD wants a yes-man to run his out-dated, soft scheme.
Sure theres a chance he picks wrong on an outside hire, but at least theyre trying to get the best instead of just Peter Principling a bunch of no-name first timers to stroke his ego of building his own coaching tree.