Jimmy Harris 69 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Making assumptions about Beane’s plan of action based on the presser is wrong -headed. A coach must be hired, that coach will assemble a staff, the staff with have likes and dislikes in terms of offensive and defensive philosophy. Those philosophies will affect roster decisions, especially concerning current Bills. Many will likely go because: nobody will run Sean’s defense, and nobody will run Brady’s offense; except Brady himself. The defense of the roster was all about complaints directed at Beane’s work, and backing the assertion that he has done well over time. There are a lot of good players on this roster. Nobody will clean house, nor will they stand pat. trust the process. 1 Quote
Comebackkid Posted January 23 Posted January 23 8 hours ago, kkim0904 said: During the Regular season, NO. We had so much problems with injuries and weakness in WR, LB and DL position. Against Denver, we were much better than Denver. Our offense crushed their number 1 defense. its been stated that #1 D didnt have to perform against many high powered offenses Quote
steven50 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 The only thing that press conference taught me was that as much as I like Pegula for keeping the Bills in Buffalo and as much as I respect his business acumen for building the empire he has, he shouldn't be doing press conferences. He has zero politicking skills in him. From throwing Coleman under the bus when the guy is still on the team to all the times Beane tried to walk Pegula's statements back the only thing that could have made that worse was him being drunk at the podium. He sounded more like an angry teenager that just broke up with a girlfriend then a billionaire running billion dollar business's and it didn't take me a day to come to that conclusion. My jaw was dropped through the entire interview. By him acting like that we lost any chance of getting any old established coach. Local Fans can fan but if you cant admit the rest of the NFL world is looking at us like "WTF is going on in Buffalo?????" your not paying attention. Like most people on the board I was ready for change, that said McDermont came here and changed the entire culture of the team, ended a historic drought and did more with less (roster wise) then any Bills coach in my lifetime. Giving dude his props at the press conference would have been the classy way to handle things. Fingers crossed that some hungry young gun that wants to coach Josh can make it happen because that's all we will get now. Quote
Ray Stonada Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Re: the roster versus coaching: Someone posted the stats of the Bills playoff defense's points given up per drive, versus the worst team in the NFL for each McDermott year. Our playoff D was worse than the worst team in the league each year! Does anyone remember where this was posted? I can't find it anymore... did I dream it? Quote
zow2 Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Someone posted snippets from an insider article about the firing. The part that struck me is that no one could walk in a group meeting with McDermott or start training camp or whatever...without seeing him and thinking this is the guy that oversaw 13 seconds... and other playoff failures. It's hard to wash that off and start over every season and do the same things leading to the same result. They've had some nice playoff seeding over the years, they should have at minumum a Super Bowl appearance. Not having a Conference Championship with those teams is a fail. They had to move on and get a different skillset and different voice in the room. Clearly the players have been good, but the coaching not good enough. For me, I'd fire him solely on being 0-8 in OT games (0-3 in playoffs OT's). That's coaching failure. Quote
boater Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Fans often overvalue their own team. It is human nature. Many Bills fans overvalue their team. God knows Beane is overvaluing the roster. He suffers from the Ikea Effect: Quote The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias where individuals overvalue items they partially or wholly created, often valuing their own labor-intensive, self-assembled products significantly higher than alternatives. This phenomenon stems from a psychological need to feel competent, as effort directly boosts personal attachment and perceived value When compared to other NFL teams, the roster is about 60 percentile. That is not a championship roster. 1 Quote
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