billsfan1959

Shouldn't it be "Turn that smile upside down?"

My response was to the use of NE (and Belichick) as an example of coaching being more important than talent acquisition. Bill Belichick over 9 seasons as a head coach (Cle and NE) without Tom Brady as his starting QB: Career: 68-76 overall regular season record 1-2 playoff record Cleveland (5 seasons): 36-44 regular season record (Cle) 1-1 playoff record NE (4 seasons): 33-32 regular season 0-1 playoff record and the worse loss of his playoff career Tom Brady without Belichick as his coach (2 seasons): 24-9 regular season record 5-1 playoff record, including a SB win

When your example of talent acquisition not being as important as coaching involves the talent acquisition of Tom Brady, it is not a very good example.

The reason it doesn't exist is because you cannot statistically quantify all of the variables that truly measure "talent" and how that talent might manifest on the field in any given situation. You cannot reduce human behavior to strictly measurable numbers in order to predict outcome.

That certainly hasn't stopped you from blaming coaching and the front office. But, here is an idea. Why don't you spend your time in a more constructive manner by developing the statistical models, formulas, and techniques by which you can determine what raw data should be collected, and how to most effectively analyze that data, to create a standard, accurate way of measuring talent. Until then, follow your own advice and stop looking to place blame....

It is whatever he needs at the moment. Intellectual honesty and consistency are not his strong suits...

The problem with threads like this and posters like you is that you don't actually want honest dialogue. You tell people you want to to take the subjectivity out of an evaluation that is primarily, or at least to a large degree, subjective; and demand pure objectivity when you are one of the least objective posters here. In the end, you seem to want neither subjective nor objective dialogue, but, instead, seem to be primarily interested in emotional rants, across posts and threads, where you feel compelled to let everyone know how angry you are that this team didn't give you what you wanted, and who you think should be blamed - and, ultimately - who should pay for how you feel. And when a poster dares to disagree with you, you become aggressive and question that posters' passion for this team, desire to win, or just the poster's level of "fandom" in general."

Whew! For a minute I thought this was going to be another Bean and McDermott suck thread....

Like a preschool in the afternoon when half the kids missed their naps...

So, you're too lazy to go back to any number of other threads you started to post this, but you feel the Mods can waste their time doing it for you?

Well, at least now he is apologizing in his thread title for what he is about to post... Baby steps...

As long as Josh Allen stays healthy and they keep good offensive talent around him, the window will be open for a long time...

Between the two of them, they would have every local hotel completely booked on Valentines Day...

Watson is 26 (6 years younger than Wilson) and an undeniable talent. If he survives his legal issues and actually plays for the Seahawks, it could end up being a great reboot for both Watson and the Seahawks

Deshaun + masseuse = potential unwanted baby

I am with you. Build to be competetive every year, particularly when you have a generational talent at QB. Anyone who has paid any attention to Bean since his arrival understands that he is never going to mortgage the future for the short term.

On this we do agree, my friend. I believe Allen is the best QB in the game with the potential to be one of the best who ever played the game. In addition, I love who this kid is as a person. Cheers

There seems to be so much dislike for Rodgers that I don't know what to believe and what not to believe in regard to what is written or reported about him. And, to be honest, I don't care about any of it unless it affects the team in the locker room and his/their play on the field. I don't see where it has. To me, he is an MVP caliber QB who, in spite of the team's strange insistence on not spending high draft choices or free agency money on surround him with top caliber offensive talent, is capable any given year of leading his team to a SB.

He's led his team to the playoffs eleven times He's won a Super Bowl He's still playing at an elite level, winning over 80% of his games the last three years and winning the MVP award the last two years And if we didn't have Josh Allen, my guess is you would have been clamoring to trade for him....

And Peyton Manning was 7-13 in the playoffs outside his two Super Bowl winning years... What's your point?

He's a top 3 QB in this league. Period.

I think that fake FG pass by Bojo was in 2018 (unless there is a more recent one I am not recalling at the moment) and predates Farwell. I don't recall the specifics of the blocked kick by the Steelers and the blocked punt by the Patriots, in regard to whether they were issues with coaching, execution by players, etc. Part of McDermott's job is to try to distinguish between mistakes, fixable issues, and instances of, as you say, "off with his head." We may never know what actually happened with the kickoff in question, although, Farwell moving on might provide some insight. I believe McDermott is a man of loyalty and second chances if he believes they are warranted - maybe to his own (and the team's) detriment at times. But I also think, those are traits that earn him the respect his players appear to have for him. Perhaps Farwell was one of those instances. Perhaps not. However, until I see some evidence that Farwell was so incompetent that he couldn't be trusted to relay the play to his players, I will continue to say that McDermott's sole responsibility in this instance was to ensure what he wanted was conveyed to Farwell. From that point forward, it was Farwell's responsibility to convery it to the players. In the end, whenever human beings are involved, there is the potential for mistakes to happen, even in critical moments and even by the best trained and prepared individuals. That the coaches and players understand what happened, how it happened, accept responsibility and accountability (where apprpriate), and learn from it is what I am primarily concerned with. Based on what I have observed of the front office, the coaching staff, and the players on this team over the last five years, I am confident that all those things have occurred / will occur.

1. Absolutely, McDermott is about systems and details. And that is what they work on all year long: basic, fundamental details. They do that precisely so that he doesn't have to monitor such things during games and, in particular, during critical moments. That is when you are supposed to perform how you practice and train. His job in that moment was to ensure Farwell understood what he wanted. After that, it is the sole responsibility of Farwell to ensure it is conveyed to the players. 2. How in the world can you hold McDermott responsible for failing "to recognize that he had a problem with his coordinator" if that problem had never happened before?

You left out winning 70% of their games with him over his career, and over 80% of their games the last three years....

If this is, in fact, the scenario that happened, the responsibility goes squarely on Farwell. Period. As you say, it is a fundamental aspect of coaching and a head coach is not going to monitor simple, fundamental procedures on the part of assistant coaches - even in that particular circumstance - without some reason to believe Farwell couldn't handle such a basic responsibility. If Farwell had a history of demonstrating he couldn't carry out basic, fundamental responsibilities, then I would agree that McDermott should be held accountable for keeping such a coach on the team. But there is no evidence of that. Absent such evidence there is no reason for McDermott to ensure that Farwell got the message to his kicker or, for that matter, to even give it a secong thought. McDermott certainly has his culpability in what happened at the end of regulation and in overtime (as do other coaches and players); however, in the scenario you laid out, he is not the one who should bear the blame.