Mr. WEO

Based on....what? "He fired special teams coach Heath Farwell, inferring he called for a deep kickoff in the notorious “13 seconds” game which helped the Chiefs tie it in regulation before winning in OT. However, a number of players “off the record” claimed it was McDermott who made the ill-fated call. Farwell was immediately hired to the same position in Jacksonville" "The decision to kick it out of the end zone is what it is. The truth is that the Bills still had more than a 90% win probability, according to NFL Next Gen Stats, as the Chiefs began their drive at their own 25-yard line with 13 seconds left." "Adversity reveals character in any field. Not only did McDermott insult the public by writing off 13 Seconds as an “execution” error. He never owned the defeat privately. He allowed it to linger, and that’s the danger with any trauma. There’s no way for anyone involved to move on unless it’s dealt with head-on. Unless the guilty party takes accountability. McDermott, as Go Long detailed, was the culprit. Yet when his decision to kick a touchback and his defense doomed Buffalo against the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round of the playoffs, there was zero accountability. To delusional proportions. One assistant coach remembers McDermott saying in the locker room that the offense scored too fast and left the Chiefs too much time." "McDermott used a time out before both of the Chiefs’ plays that set up the field goal. He said he wanted to get a look at what formation Andy Reid was using so he could better set up the defense. Whether you blame Frazier or McDermott, neither did a good enough job explaining to the players what they needed to do to avoid the big plays that followed. The first play was a short pass to Hill. Taron Johnson, Tremaine Edmunds, and Matt Milano gave the scariest player on the field a 15-yard cushion. Romo basically freaked out on the broadcast and circled all three players. The play call couldn’t have been worse." "Hill caught the ball at the 30 and wasn’t touched until he got to the 40-yard line. That’s 15 yards the Bills just gave to him, knowing the Chiefs had to operate their offense as quickly as possible after the snap. He was tackled after 19 total yards, setting up arguably the most perplexing play of the drive. McDermott said he used the second timeout for the same reason he used the first: To get information about how the Chiefs would line up. Travis Kelce was lined up next to left tackle Orlando Brown. Milano and Wallace gave him about an 8-yard cushion this time. Nobody touched Kelce coming off the line and he split the defenders on a seam route, and Mahomes delivered the biggest throw of the game. It went all the way down to the Bills’ 31-yard line." (lol--2 timeouts to see "how they would line up", two massive plays given up after McD's idiotic assessment of how the Chiefs "lined up"--but, yeah, it was the ST coach that blew that game!) Throw in Frazier's "year off" to rest, McD on his 4th OC, 3rd ST coordinator.....

why wouldn't he? no, but firing will be. Ask Heath Farwell you're welcome...

Who has time to complain about this? Go enjoy your families on the last holiday of the summer…

as typical, you’ve missed the point of the conversation you’ve stumbled into. why doesn’t continue to identify as the play caller? Did he suddenly feel he can’t handle that on game day? Why not continue to emulate HCs who call Defense (or Offense)and be the play caller?

not even close

Cant hire a guy you don’t interview

this again!! one really has to look past a very large forest to find this tree

I asked about the 53 man roster. PS doesn’t count as so few get called up. Picks Beane let go who ended up on other teams don’t count either because there’s no reason to believe many or all would not have been selected by other teams initially. see above, Pavlov’s dog..

how many are still on the roster

we never stopped! lol

such a lazy response: https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/website/Departments/Salary-Cap-Agent-Admin/2022-NFL-Personal-Conduct-Policy.pdf

it's not weird--it's the system that the Players and their union and the owners have, collectively, agreed to. tell them you think it's weird...maybe they will change everything.

NFL typically waits for the criminal case to be adjudicated. In Jones case, that resulted in no charges. Rice's case hasn't ended in any way. anyway, this same topic was just beaten to death in another thread:

I'm not sure who would do better in Miami right now, so I would rather the Fins have a guy like Daboll at the helm, than a sharp Offensive mind like McDaniel. Beating the Fins won't guarantee the the Division for the Bills.

I disagree with this part. Hiring a subordinate from within creates a totally different power dynamic between coach and coordinator. None of the inside guys would ever challenge McD. Especially on Defense. I can't imagine much of a degree of independence in play design and calling. Always waiting to get the hook.

Why is this a bad move? Bills extended McD (the first time) with 2 years left on his contract.

he'll never have to be locker mates with Milano..

he was heavily recruited...for Practice Squads? lol

lilmo is a legend

I think we all understand that. yet many of the words still ring true for each team, however.

Fangio was hired and let go as DC for 6 different teams before the Dolphins made it #7. McVay, Shanahan, Tomlin and McDermott were all coordinators hired from other teams, not from within. normally, I would not questions your expertise in the field of idiocy...

Well, obviously that's the wrong question. Should be "why didn't they hire him?" I'm "that guy"? It's hardly a unique position. From another thread on page one from today: https://defector.com/why-your-team-sucks-2024-buffalo-bills Look, this is Weird, right? The team’s previous defensive coordinator, Leslie Frazier, “took a year off” after a 13-3 season in 2022 and never came back. Brady is the fourth—fourth!—offensive coordinator of the McDermott tenure, and only one of his previous OCs, Brian Daboll, left for a head coaching job. Rick Dennison and Ken Dorsey were both dumpstered during/after playoff seasons, with Dorsey’s firing coming under especially dubious circumstances. How many head coaches get to hire this many coordinators? How many refuse to hire from outside the organization like this?! Maybe most interestingly, former special teams coordinator Heath Farwell left for the same job with the Jacksonville Jaguars after the 13 Seconds game. I can’t prove that this is because, say, hypothetically, McDermott overrode Farwell’s call for a squib kick and had Tyler Bass kick it deep, which then gave the Chiefs just enough time to send the game to overtime, thus creating conflict between Farwell and McDermott that could never be mended. Nobody will ever go on the record about such a thing, so I guess we’ll never know what happened! Aww, shucks! What I can say for sure is that a lot of Sean McDermott’s coordinators seem to leave or get fired at the exact moment people start calling for McDermott’s head. Honestly, good luck to Babich and Brady. If their boss forgets how many timeouts their opponent has—again (allegedly)—they might be called into his office on Monday morning. A little hyperbole there, but not much. You pretend like this hasn't come up here many times before.

I was dubious when I saw the byline. But this was pretty funny, well done.

no need to ask a question already answered. what is gained?

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