Coaching McDermott?

[Punching Bag]

1 hour ago, Freddie's Dead said:

McD needs anti-choking classes, desperately.

 

He would need more if he posted here.

[wvbillsfan]

The guy just needs to play about two months of Madden and he will be a clock managing master 

 

I’m being serious 

Lots of reps

[RaoulDuke79]

McDermott is a great holistic team building guy. He's a big picture guy. Hes taken this team fom 0 playoffs in 16 or 17 years to a consistent playoff team......His game management is piss poor. There needs to be someone on the sideline to tell him what to do. There have been more than enough times where he's either wasting timeouts or not using them at all. His clock management is bad. I'll give him credit about getting more aggressive overall and going for more 4th downs, the 4th and 1' last game not withstanding. 

[BuffaloBillyG]

1 hour ago, The Wiz said:

Craig T. Nelson

Are you kidding me? He was trash with the Orlando Breakers. 

[Victory Formation]

DISCLAIMER: I fully expect to be tarred and feathered for my opinion below, but it is what it is. Proceed with caution! ⚠️ 

In the spirit of this thread and in respects to @wagne591, I think if there ever were such a coach his name would be Bill O’Brien who is currently the OC/QB coach at Alabama. He was successful at PSU as a HC and he’s coached under both Belichick and Saban and he was the HC for the Texans for a number of years, but flamed out terribly as their GM, so I suppose he could tell McD about what not to do there. 
 

Ultimately however, O’Brien also has experience with the Erhardt-Perkins offense, which is what we’re currently running and that’s the offense that Josh is most familiar with.
 

Another good thing about O’Brien too is that he will not get any HC offers any time soon. So we essentially have a quality OC locked down for the foreseeable future and we will have stability on the offensive side of the ball. Meaning Josh Allen would have a permanent, high quality staff around him for the long term future giving us more continuity and less coaching turnover and who knows? Maybe Dorsey could stay on as our QB coach as well?

 

In the end, I value the experience of someone like O’Brien and he has a great pedigree. That wealth of knowledge is only going to make this team richer. McD would have an overly qualified “right hand man” on offense that he could lean on. Keep in mind that Buffalo is McDermott’s first head coaching job and a guy like O’Brien could kind of help McD learn and understand the nuances of being a HC.

 

Anyways, try not to rip into me too hard guys and I know for some of you that may be impossible, but I’m hearing that Belichick is going to target O’Brien as his OC if McDaniels goes to Nevada. So my idea can’t be that stupid. 🤡 

[Billl]

8 minutes ago, Victory Formation said:

DISCLAIMER: I fully expect to be tarred and feathered for my opinion below, but it is what it is. Proceed with caution! ⚠️ 

In the spirit of this thread and in respects to @wagne591, I think if there ever were such a coach his name would be Bill O’Brien who is currently the OC/QB coach at Alabama. He was successful at PSU as a HC and he’s coached under both Belichick and Saban and he was the HC for the Texans for a number of years, but flamed out terribly as their GM, so I suppose he could tell McD about what not to do there. 
 

Ultimately however, O’Brien also has experience with the Erhardt-Perkins offense, which is what we’re currently running and that’s the offense that Josh is most familiar with.
 

Another good thing about O’Brien too is that he will not get any HC offers any time soon. So we essentially have a quality OC locked down for the foreseeable future and we will have stability on the offensive side of the ball. Meaning Josh Allen would have a permanent, high quality staff around him for the long term future giving us more continuity and less coaching turnover and who knows? Maybe Dorsey could stay on as our QB coach as well?

 

In the end, I value the experience of someone like O’Brien and he has a great pedigree. That wealth of knowledge is only going to make this team richer. McD would have an overly qualified “right hand man” on offense that he could lean on. Keep in mind that Buffalo is McDermott’s first head coaching job and a guy like O’Brien could kind of help McD learn and understand the nuances of being a HC.

 

Anyways, try not to rip into me too hard guys and I know for some of you that may be impossible, but I’m hearing that Belichick is going to target O’Brien as his OC if McDaniels goes to Nevada. So my idea can’t be that stupid. 🤡 

If there’s one thing Bill O’Brien has experience with, it’s blowing leads in the playoffs to the Chiefs.  That 24-0 lead was a 28-24 deficit before halftime.  It literally collapsed an entire franchise.

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11 minutes ago, Billl said:

If there’s one thing Bill O’Brien has experience with, it’s blowing leads in the playoffs to the Chiefs.  That 24-0 lead was a 28-24 deficit before halftime.  It literally collapsed an entire franchise.

He would not be our HC, he would be our OC and what you’re talking about is completely irrelevant because that’s not the capacity in which we would be using him in.

[Alphadawg7]

Wait...this thread made it to two pages?  

 

Baby Jesus help us all.

[longtimebillsfan]

9 hours ago, Success said:

Quick - name a coach who hasn't made a big mistake.

 

Hackett. 

[JGMcD2]

9 hours ago, harryS said:

If some proprietary simulator can't be developed, then McD should just play Madden 8 hours a day to get the reps he needs.  The top 100 ranked Madden players in the world would run circles around him for gameday management.

The top ranked Madden players have their QBs take 15 yard drops and run the same 4 plays all game. Maybe we should do that too? 

[HOUSE]

There are lots of coaches that are pretty good at key moments and some freeze up under pressure. The same can be said in large corporations, Some CEOs are good but not great. McD clearly blew his chance...

 

Brandon Beane better address the situation soon without all the side stepping or he risks losing the team.

[Matt_In_NH]

Drill him everyday.  Lol

[Mr. WEO]

Send him to the D league (USFL) this spring and see if he can outcoach Jeff Fisher

[harryS]

1 hour ago, JGMcD2 said:

The top ranked Madden players have their QBs take 15 yard drops and run the same 4 plays all game. Maybe we should do that too? 

 

I was obviously referring to the situational football aspect, as that is where McDermott failed miserably.  Madden players can play like 20 games a day, so they run into 4th-down decisions, 13 seconds left decisions, etc at a much higher frequency than NFL coaches who only coach 17 games a year.

 

Like I said, it's why the young online poker players are the best in the world.  They just see so many more hands than the old-school guys who aren't 8-tabling online.

Madden is not my preference, btw.  I want the Pegulas to pay for a proprietary simulator software for situational gameday decision-making.

[T master]

All on the field are subject to learning & if they or anyone else thinks they are done learning or in some way think they know it all they are more foolish than they know ! 

 

Bill B given all his time & everything he has seen on the football field hasn't stopped learning sure he may be really really good & know a lot about the game but he can always learn something no matter how small that might be .

 

McD being the type of coach he has been to this point is still only in his 5th year of being a HC in the NFL and still has a lot to learn & i have confidence in th fact that he will watch this tape from this season & learn from it to bring more to his knowledge & coaching for the years to come & i hope it will be for a very long time as the Bills HC .

 

Because if he continues the way he is going Buffalo will 1 day have the Lombardi in their trophy case & that banner in the practice field walls along with the other championship banners that hang there ...