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Maybe we are making this more complicated than it really is, very likely could be the other WRs can't catch consistent enough. Feed me the ball even more and let me carry us. Pissed that josh is not just finding ways to feed him even more. I'm also certain that he has to be "pissed" about Moving towards more structured routes instead of free lancing. Better for the team and worse for him.

ML football has terrible takes and I would not place much faith or waste time with much of what comes from that twitter handle. You should see their qb rankings...lol

Lol go for it big guy

Nice post

The wr room was definitely upgraded overall. I'm still not sold on RT and Gabe. I really thought Saffold had 1 to 2 years left. I am concerned about play design on the offensive side of the ball and our ability to adjust when defensive coordinators take away what we do best. My hope is with an offense with less free lancing and more designated routes, it helps us from being predictable. The IOL honestly should be improved with replacing the walking stiffs we have had in there

So what helps set those teams apart when the talent closes? Now how do you feel about us?

I think you nailed it. The skill levels are equivalent enough to compete, the emotional and mental aspects and coaching is what the difference makers will be (along with a lucky bounce or 3 along the way)

That's an interesting stat, not 1 HC l/QB combo after 6 years...wow

That certainly increased the odds to signs pointing he was on his way out. It is also very unlikely that the person from the Giants was the only one who knew this. A reasonable assumption is that it was widely known in league circles.

I'm too lazy to dig up all this times in the past few seasons that McD said we need more balance, he talked to Daboll etc over the years. It was perfectly apparent that they didn't see eye to eye and had different visions of the offense. I am sure of some searched this board there will be plenty of topics oflver the past couple years on it. It certainly did feel like at some point Daboll was leaving for an HC job or even when his contract expired. I suppose it even could have been Frazier like and stepping away. Equating unhappiness in your job in real industries and having it known vs in a professional league with a handful of people, word travels fast. I'm fairly certain most assistants and most coordinators know who is happy and who is not. Just like teams know which UFAs are leaving and which will re-sign with their team.

I may not agree with all your posts, but this sums this board up perfectly most of the time...

Nothing, I pulled up some stuff from his 13 second article in the diggs thread about how some in the organization were touring of McD back then, he preaches accountiblity, but didn't hold himself too it. Coaches who left wouldn't comment on their relationship with him, but would rather day it to his face, he controls all communication including what the media reports via Twitter and crap like that. There was a comment from someone that well he was good at BN, but now that he is on his own, he has to run his businesses. Now you have Adam Schien wondering this very topic and Mike Silver starting to join this parade...

Dumping an HC to promote a coordinator you might lose does not often work out in the NFL. Sean Payton honestly was the one who made the most sense. Sean's seat is warm this year, another playoff meltdown will ratchet the heat up substantially from the fans, the media and I will make the jump to say some players as well. Either you think Ty Dunne went from solid reporter at the BN to now a guy who just chases clicks since he owns his own thing and no longer is trust worthy all of a sudden (I don't understand that train of thought) or there is some smoke out there that the masses want to be blind to. I'm not a homer, but I'm not a entire pessimist either.

I'm not a daboll fan boy either, he had real stinkers as well. Something happens to this team in the middle part of the year, every year where it's real hard for the offense and then one of the units collapses in the playoffs. To me I just see that as an inability to quickly adjust when the defense figures or how to stop us and a mental aspect where we struggle in big spots...

Not trying to flood this thread with BS, but also not trying to write a paper citing sources for a journal publication. I think there are just some things we may have long since forgotten and moved on from that still may be hitting Diggs and this team that has been passed on...

We did have this gem from jw back on November as well, and posters beat him off the board

Callers into WGR and even us posting on here, hold no water. There are those who are unhappy and want everyone gone and there are those who will always be homers. With the Conservative game plan against KC AFCCG, the 13 seconds meltdown people were already wondering if he could get us over the hump. The handling of Hamlin was a big positive. These are all fair points, I'm just thinking through recollections from the past year or 2. Sometimes where there is smoke there is fire, sometimes there isn't. For Diggs to hold a grudge for 5 months that ended up in a heated argument with a player who wants to win and wants to know what's holding us back? Sean seemed pissed yesterday and walked it back today. It feels like the blowup was directed towards Sean... https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/chad-halls-departure-from-buffalo-bills-to-jaguars-remains-a-bit-of-a-mystery/article_8b3a69c4-b7c4-11ed-96ef-1bbc1284637a.html Hall’s contract with the Bills had expired, although left unanswered is whether the team made an effort to retain him – or Hall simply was ready to move on. McDermott’s answer when asked about Hall’s departure did little to clear that part up. “Happy for Chad and his family. You know, what I can tell you is he did a good job for us this past season and the years since he's been with us,” McDermott said. “We're happy for him as he moves forward to Jacksonville. Sometimes things come up in terms of business decisions and everything on the coaching side of things. You wish you could keep everybody, but it's hard to do.” It’s the second consecutive season the Bills have lost an assistant coach to the Jaguars. Last year, former Bills special teams coordinator Heath Farwell also made a lateral move to the Jaguars.

Not disagreeing with the Hamlin situation, but that doesn't erase anything else that has happened. It was known in the league circles Daboll wanted out, the weird way we moved on from Frazier, Chad Hall leaves for a lateral position, ST coordinator from 13 seconds leaves for a lateral position - not to mention all of the assistants Daboll took with him - who knows how they decided on who to let go and who not to.

Sean overruled the ST coordinator on the squib - do you really think he wasn't in on the defensive call? He was talking into his headset... This year I was sitting with players families 9 rows up on the 25 yardline and saw Sean calling plays after Cincy scored their 2nd TD. After they scored McD was actually coaching up the Defense on the sideline with Frazier just standing there holding the play sheet doing nothing.

It's not the squib kick itself - it is everything surrounding it... The assistants who have voluntarily left for lateral positions with other teams (Farwell, Chad Hall) or the strange Frazier move (I was in favor of), or even the report last year that Daboll wanted out regardless if he got an HC job or not. Lack of accountability to players but yet demanding it from them. Once 2022 people within OBD were voicing displeasure regarding him. When one is asked what it’s like to work with him as a boss, he chooses not to answer. “If I have anything bad to say, I’d rather say it to his face. Read into that as you may.”

I'm not sure anymore that it is that much on Doresy anymore. I just posted a Ty Dunne article on the 13 minutes as I started to dig a little more and think about things, I recalled that this was a good insight into how the 2022 team was with players speaking anonymously. I am thinking now, it may be a McD issue.

It's been on this board, it has been on call-ins to WGR that Sean's seat is getting hotter. We wonder why Chad Hall left? I figured I would go back and pull up this gem from Ty Dunne about 13 seconds - it talks about about Heath Farwell our ST coordinator, McDermott Displeasure and Diggs is in it as well. I highlighted and underscored the main points. I really wonder if... https://www.golongtd.com/p/it-was-a-bad-bad-situation Only, he did not. He held a generic, “We’ll grow from this”-themed address. The position coaches met with their players, then with the personnel department for year-end summaries on each player and… goodbye. Have a nice offseason. That’s it. Nothing was shared openly amongst players and coaches alike. Everything ended very “abruptly,” one team source said. Many were left wanting more. “You preach accountability,” one player said. “But you don’t practice it.” “What I’ve been told by many players on the team,” one veteran said, “and some special teams players, is our special team coordinator Heath Farwell, that’s his job, right? He’s aware of the situation. He has studied that. So, he tells McDermott to kick the squib. And McDermott said to kick the ball out of the field. So then, Farwell is arguing the case for why we should kick the squib. But then also you’ve got special teams on the other side and he has to get them together and give them their pep talk and play call and what they’re trying to do. He’s on the other side and telling them to do that, and then he runs down and goes back and in the midst of all this confusion, the kicker didn’t get the information that he needed to kick the squib. So that’s what happened. They get out there and didn’t kick the squib. “It was a bad, bad situation.” “He was telling them how to line up for the squib,” this player said. “And I guess McDermott had the last say and I don’t know if McDermott translated that to Heath because Heath was prepared for the squib in his mind and McDermott was like, ‘Kick it out.’” One player was a bit more diplomatic, citing a “miscommunication.” “I’m never one to point fingers,” he said. “It’s nobody’s fault, but I think everybody knows what should’ve been called and it wasn’t.” Farwell is no longer in Buffalo. He resigned and is now the special teams coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Players said he was unhappy in Buffalo and left on his own accord. They repeat that he was trying to do the right thing in that kickoff moment and deserves no scorn. Frazier calls the defense but obviously McDermott wasn’t exactly ordering a popcorn from a vendor in Section 120 through those two timeouts. He’s clearly an active participant and, if he didn’t intervene to make sure his defense was positioned to disrupt KC’s speed, he should have. Probably no coach in the NFL has been thinking about how to stop Mahomes, Hill and Kelce more these last years and… that was the grand reveal? In the AFC Championship one year prior, McDermott coached scared by kicking chip-shot field goals. That side of him reared its ugly head again — the Bills killed two possessions in this shootout by punting on fourth and 4 and fourth and 1. But this time around, he discovered a new way to coach scared. As one source familiar with the inner-workings of the team puts it, nothing of importance at One Bills Drive happens without McDermott’s approval. He’s aware of everything, right down to what reporters are tweeting during a punt period at practice. Thus, this does not compute. How does this same micromanager freeze up when the season is on the line? With everything on the line… …with a chance to host a conference championship… “…you fold,” one defensive player said, despondently. “You fold.” “Emotions were up in the air,” one veteran said. “Everybody was angry and upset and Stefon Diggs was having an argument with a defensive player — just saying that he was upset with the call — and then Jerry (Hughes) stepped in. There was a big uproar and people were about to throw hands. (McDermott) comes in and says if you’re about to blame anyone for what happened, you should blame him. But that was the only time that he took accountability. There was no public accountability after that. In our exit meetings and interviews, he never really highlighted that as well. He never broke down why we didn’t kick the squib. It was like a ‘Thank you for an amazing year. You guys are great. We’ll see what happens next year.’” McDermott has cycled through a lot of assistant coaches over his five years in charge. When one is asked what it’s like to work with him as a boss, he chooses not to answer. “If I have anything bad to say, I’d rather say it to his face. Read into that as you may.” Added one player: “I didn’t notice it (during the season) because everybody was flying the Buffalo flag and teamwork and family and stuff like that but, once the season was over, a lot of people were being more vocal within the organization of their displeasure toward Sean McDermott. That was so surprising for me

Things got bad, hence the out of character McD presser yesterday vs his always "say nothing" pressers.