What does "Complementary Football" mean in Bills Coachspeak?

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2 minutes ago, Rew said:

Sure, you can call it blaming others or call it accountability.  It's a team game, and players need to both have talent and perform in their job.  Isn't it literally McD's job to evaluate and call out when others aren't doing their job?

 

Saying "we didn't play complementary football" might be somewhat a McD thing, but many coaches, including Superbowl winning ones, have put a similar emphasis on "do your job", "do your 1/11th", or many other variants of the phrase.  It's not hard to understand, but every team struggles with getting all players to embody this on every play.

 

If you want to turn this into a McD critique, start a thread discussing why (or if) we have consistent gap discipline problems spanning multiple seasons.  While in the short term (single game evaluations) it is problems with players, a macro problem like this would be either a talent (gm) or coaching (DC/HC) problem.

It seems like it is the head coaches job to align the units. Anyone can say " you score a td" "you get a three and out" "pin them inside the 10" "don't miss the fg"
I see all of the "complementary failures" to be head coaching failures.  McDermott thinks he calls a perfect game, and everything is an execution problem. Guy will will never be a closer.