The Bills played a role in Pats Super Bowl flop

[JohnNord]

3 hours ago, stevewin said:

After the Brady announce PC, Beane was being interviewed and mentioned that they felt Jackson had just turned the corner before he got hurt.  Was thinking too much and not playing free - they felt the light went on for him and he immediately got injured

That’s kind of laughable.  It’s a classic Beane excuse to deflect for the real problem.

  
Jackson played really bad in the preseason and looked the same from the limited snaps he got before injury.  

[stevewin]

1 hour ago, JohnNord said:

That’s kind of laughable.  It’s a classic Beane excuse to deflect for the real problem.

  
Jackson played really bad in the preseason and looked the same from the limited snaps he got before injury.  

 

 

lol

[Beck Water]

6 hours ago, Coffeesforclosers said:

Yeah, I thought this thread was going to be about how McDermott played Vic Fangio's Cover 6 against Drake Maye and completely shut down the Pat's offense.

 

There's about a dozen online articles about how after that game, everyone starting playing Cover 6 against New England, regardless of whether it fit their scheme or not.

 

Maye turned into a pumpkin real fast, but the Pats D was just that good.

 

Does anyone know how much Cover 6 the Seahawks played against Maye?

[MJS]

Well, the Bills also provided the blueprint on how to play Maye in their second matchup that other teams used and followed, to some extent.

[ganesh]

6 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

It feels like he did this a lot... Lamar Jackson, Tua Tagovailoa, and Drake Maye come to mind.

Hell, even the blueprint for Mahomes, just couldn't do it on the playoff stage. 

These are big shoes to fill for Leonard.  

[Old Coot]

7 hours ago, Einstein said:

Way better coach than some posters give him credit for.

I thought favorable comments about McD were banned here.

[US Egg]

7 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Looks like someone read my response in the tired/wired thread 😂😂😂

What do you call thread deja vu?

[Strethor]

SEA was the team that played the most cover 6 leading up to that game, and they ended up running a lot of man blitzes and hybrid coverages. The NFL is a constantly moving chess board, the work of McD definitely played a roll in the rapid decrease of the Pats EPA after our second game and also was a major reason why they prepared for a defense they did not get much of. McDonald even found tells with each of the Pats OL and exploited them specifically with his blitzes. Different league of talent & coaching and execution 

Edited February 10 by Strethor

[SirAndrew]

7 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

It feels more and more like the Monday - Saturday label fits him very well. He may be one of the best in the game on those days, but probably trended closer to average with Sunday decision making. 

 

He's still a top 5-10 coach in the league. 

That’s where the issue is. McD could figure out QB’s like Drake Maye and Lamar with time, but he could never adjust in the moment. That’s why we got cooked in the playoffs by guys like Bo Nix, and Mahomes could never be stopped. Andy Reid adjusted but McD couldn’t keep up. 

Edited February 10 by SirAndrew

[Buffalo716]

Sean McDermott coverage scheme against Drake May in two regular season games put the blueprint on how to not let Drake may beat you 

 

Two games zero passing touchdowns for May versus the bills 

 

X NFL players were talking all week about the blueprint is there from Sean McDermott

[Iiiiiiiiive Got a Feeeelin]

9 hours ago, Einstein said:

McD completely figured Drake Maye out in our second game of the season and he put it on tape for the rest of the NFL.

 

Other teams have actually mentioned it.

Other than the Jests game he didnt look the same after our comeback win

[streetkings01]

9 hours ago, BearNorth said:

I wouldn't say completely, As I recall we got behind 0-21, and 7-24 - then Josh put on his cape at halftime.  Henderson also showed that McD's run defense continued to be a house of cards.

14/23 155 yards 1 INT …..that’s completely figured out to me.

Edited February 11 by streetkings01

[Big Turk]

5 hours ago, HappyDays said:

 

Seattle gave up 27, to an offense that scored 30.5 PPG. 27 ties the LOWEST we've held our opponents to in playoff losses since 2020. If we had held KC to 27 points in each of our matchups we'd be 2-2 against them and likely have a championship by now.

 

Nobody is asking for perfection or to shut down an elite offense. Hold them to around their average or slightly below. Basically just don't waste an offense that always over performs in the playoffs.

 

 

When you score 29, 30 and 36 points in 3 separate playoff games and you lose all of them, there is a serious problem. Especially when you have gone 51-5 in games where you score 28+ points in the regular season since 2020 and your 91% win rate was the best in NFL over that time.

[Nitro]

9 hours ago, Mod_Squad_Reject said:

This dude may have been hurting from the start, he never looked right last season.  Maybe he’s another draft flop I guess we’ll see

soon enough.

Calling a guy a flop when he was on the deepest position on the defense is a wee bit early.  Like to see the kid healthy and be able to show his stuff.

[Da webster guy]

14 hours ago, Einstein said:

McD completely figured Drake Maye out in our second game of the season and he put it on tape for the rest of the NFL.

 

Other teams have actually mentioned it.

 

Maybe.   But if you get pressure with four and drop seven no quarterback including Brady in his prime can get much going.

[Thurman#1]

18 hours ago, Brand J said:

The Bills third round pick, Landon Jackson, supposedly got the best of Campbell in their collegiate matchup, too. But that same guy couldn’t do anything in a McD defense. 

 

 

When injured the last half of the year. Yeah, he didn't do much early. Might have done better late, though, if he'd stayed healthy. That was a pretty common pattern in Buffalo among defensive draft picks the last few years.

 

Also might not have, but it was certainly possible.

[Thurman#1]

9 hours ago, Big Turk said:

 

When you score 29, 30 and 36 points in 3 separate playoff games and you lose all of them, there is a serious problem. Especially when you have gone 51-5 in games where you score 28+ points in the regular season since 2020 and your 91% win rate was the best in NFL over that time.

 

 

First, the Bills offense did not score 30 against Denver. They scored 36. It's just that six of those were points for Denver, not for us.

 

The Bills defense allowed 24 points.

 

Attempting to blame the Bills defense for those six points isn't just logically indefensible, it's morally bereft. With 16 seconds left in the half, the Bills have received the kickoff and are on their own 30. Allen scrambles, and then holds the ball fully extended, in only the fingers of one hand as he runs. Bonitto slaps his wrist and it's a fumble recovered by Denver on the Bills 32. Denver runs no offensive plays and kicks the field goal. How is the defense responsible for that debacle, which was the difference in the game? Should they have cheered louder from the sidelines? Buffalo gets the ball to start the 3rd quarter and Shakir and Dawkins let Bonitto hit Allen from the blind side, it's a fumble and Denver gets the ball at Buffalo's 17. The defense holds the Broncos to two yards on three plays and they kick a field goal from the 15. In what world is that the D's fault? 

 

Those six points meant that instead of it being 30-24 Buffalo at the end of regulation, it was instead 30-30.

 

And again, the other two of those games were against Kansas City, with the absolute best QB in the league at the time. Their Super Bowl championships show clearly that stopping them  back then was far far easier said than done.

 

 

[Thurman#1]

18 hours ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

A good coach that did an admiral job with a great roster

 

 

A great roster? This year? After Hoecht plays in about two games before injury, Oliver looks terrific in about two games and then is out, leaving the DL, well, let's just say "great" is overstating it just a hair.

 

Hairston spends most of the later part of the year injured and McDermott gets great play from the safeties till Poyer is out and Beane loses Ja'Marcus Ingram and have to play mostly Cam Lewis and a bit of Darnell Savage opposite Bishop in the Denver game? Great?

 

Were we great at LB?

 

Pretty good? Yeah, absolutely. Top seven or eight, especially before all the injuries? Yeah, very fair. But great? McD this year did a terrific job keeping things going through the injuries. And I don't see "great" as a word many would use to describe it, though we have some areas that were great or close, like QB, RB and OL.

[machine gun kelly]

One of McDs strengths is his ability to assess what tendencies young QBs possess, and then confuse the heck out of them.  Over the last 9 years, he’s done this time and time again to ether rookie QBs or in the second year.  What was more of a fluke was the first Pats game this year.

[Niagara Dude]

20 hours ago, Einstein said:

 

Yep.

 

Way better coach than some posters give him credit for.

He will make a great defensive cordinator some day. He was total late game playoff choker as HC. Too bad he could not find a way to slow down the great Bo Nix.  The reality is Maye started facing teams that had better defences.  We need to stop giving McDermott credit when his defences have giving up 33.3 points per game in Bills 6 playoff losses.  

 

He was a choker and Terry should have fired him after 13secs

19 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

It feels more and more like the Monday - Saturday label fits him very well. He may be one of the best in the game on those days, but probably trended closer to average with Sunday decision making. 

 

He's still a top 5-10 coach in the league. 

I say top 12-15 HC