Bills PR team working overtime for Sean

[Dan Darragh]

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/with-next-win-sean-mcdemott-will-be-sixth-coach-with-100-in-first-nine-seasons

 

Dumbest article ever, trying to cement Sean's place in the "pantheon" of great coaches.

 

What the person who wrote this doesn't know (why would they?) is that the NFL season was only 12 games until 1960 (Paul Brown's era) and was only 14 games from 1961-1977.  The 17th game was only added in 2021, which the PR team apparently knew.   And until the Superbowl era (1967) there were no playoffs, just a championship game between the two conference winners.  So Paul Brown would have coached no more than 13 games in any season.  In Sean's era, it would be 20 games assuming he went to a Superbowl, which he would have done if he was properly one of the 6 greatest coaches ever.

 

[BillsFanForever19]

12 minutes ago, Dan Darragh said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/with-next-win-sean-mcdemott-will-be-sixth-coach-with-100-in-first-nine-seasons

 

Dumbest article ever, trying to cement Sean's place in the "pantheon" of great coaches.

 

What the person who wrote this doesn't know (why would they?) is that the NFL season was only 12 games until 1960 (Paul Brown's era) and was only 14 games from 1961-1977.  The 17th game was only added in 2021, which the PR team apparently knew.   And until the Superbowl era (1967) there were no playoffs, just a championship game between the two conference winners.  So Paul Brown would have coached no more than 13 games in any season.  In Sean's era, it would be 20 games assuming he went to a Superbowl, which he would have done if he was properly one of the 6 greatest coaches ever.

 

 

If it's such a nothing stat - than why isn't there more coaches in the modern era who can make the claim?

 

I get having issues with McDermott as a coach. But complaining that Mike Florio is reporting on a stat that puts him in rare air is kind of ridiculous. As is the idea that the Bills PR team is "working overtime" for this article. I highly doubt this is information that needed to be fed to Florio. This is the kind of stuff he reports on the daily.

[GunnerBill]

47 minutes ago, Dan Darragh said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/with-next-win-sean-mcdemott-will-be-sixth-coach-with-100-in-first-nine-seasons

 

Dumbest article ever, trying to cement Sean's place in the "pantheon" of great coaches.

 

 

 

If it was trying to do that it would indeed be a dumb article. But it isn't.