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Today the Bills will overcome the Chiefs, the refs, and McDermott and win by 10+ It's going to look like last week's Philly SF game.

Bills 32 Chiefs 21

From the sounds of it we basically have Michael Scott at HC. Awkward, cringe worthy, sometimes petty but at the end of the day not a bad guy. The employees at Dunder Mufflin didn't hate Michael, but they did a lot of eye rolling and laughing, with the occasional "no Michael, no!" During staff meetings. They still sold paper. And there were the Dwights who worshipped Michael. Life imitating art.

Here we goooooooo!

It just dawned on me after rewatching McDermott's media after this story broke. If a guy is so clueless that he would plan to use the 9/11 highjackers as an example of teamwork then it's not crazy to think that he was totally unaware of the level of animosity that apparently exists toward him in former coaches and players he's worked with. Maybe he's truly shocked. These are people he worked with every day.

We're going to demolish the Chiefs. I said it before, and I think with all this McDermott stuff the team will be ready to take their frustrations out on someone. There is ZERO chance we lose this game. Our backs are against the wall, the entire sports media is ridiculing the coach, and this is a must win. Also, the Chiefs are just not that good this season. Why they let Hill go is beyond me. Their WR drop every other pass

I've actually enjoyed seeing all of the former coaches, former players, and current players who are outraged over this and have come out to defend McDermott rather than let this fester.

I understand the sentiment about McDermott being a good person. One has to wonder why so many people would be looking to hurt him and his reputation, that being the case. I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but Frank Reich was a walking disaster in Indy. Nobody listened to him or respected him as HC. It was like there was a substitute teacher there. He had to go. But Reich the human? You don't see guys eager to line up and take shots, even though it was a mess. He tried, he just wasn't good at the job. That's no reason to tear the guy apart. That's why you don't see these long stories about other coaches. This isn't normal. So why McDermott?

Thank you! This line of "well, every coach has a parade of people eager to destroy him" is total BS. I mentioned it yesterday, but everyone knows why some players didn't like Belichick. He can be a grumpy miserable guy, and will demand absolute adherence to his methods. You only get a multiple part series when someone is trying to portray themselves as something they are not. What would Belichick's be? He's like a grumpy old uncle and loves to embarrass players during film sessions for screwing up, most of all Tom Brady? Wow, you don't say! Football players and coaches can handle that stuff because it's fact. You missed a block here. You made a bad read. Etc.

I'm also open for the first time ever to actually believing that Buffalo sports teams are cursed. If there was one man who you would never in a million years expect to become the subject of national ridicule for something off the field it's Sean McDermott.

After processing this for a day, I've come to these conclusions. First, I'm truly shocked. McDermott is now a trending meme for using the perpetuators of one of the nation's greatest tragedies to make some clumsy point about leadership. People are dunking on McDermott the person, not the anti-clutch HC. Nobody saw that coming. This entire episode sort of shatters the façade of an in control, serious leader, which is really McDermott's greatest strength. Turns out players are trying not to laugh at him while he makes his incredibly dumb speeches, and now he and the Bills are a national laughingstock. All that said, none of this matters, because we have Josh Allen and he will lead the team to enough wins to keep McDermott employed. We are basically the Norv Turner/ Phillip Rivers Chargers teams. Great QB who has to play with an anchor at HC. That's my prediction for Allen's career. I have zero hope that ownership figures it out and gets Allen an offensive minded HC while he is still in his prime. We're just going to have to overcome McDermott to win. He's apparently an insecure, Michael Scott type who means well but makes speeches that make him look like a clown, freezes in big moments, has to get all of the credit and none of the blame, and wants to hamstring Josh Allen's game. But he's not getting fired. The owner loves him and he has had enough success here W/L wise, and will continue to as long as Allen is here. And he will never live this down. It's been 20+ years, but a lot of people still have raw emotions about 9/11. This is the only team that actually plays in NY State, and I would expect a less than warm welcome for Sean the next time the Bills play at Met Life. I do expect the team to make the playoffs, which will of course be used as a reason to keep McDermott. Eventually the issues with Diggs only end one way: him off the team. Then we have to fill the WR spot in rounds 5-7, because we'll draft a DB or LB in rounds 1-3 who McDermott won't play next season because he's not a veteran player. Rinse and repeat.

Steelers are done. They'll continue to lose from here on out.

Needed 2 yards and threw it deep No wonder guys like Brady dominated this league. Most teams play dumb.

Lol Trubisky's passes are so off target

Well, when the other team has an offense that struggles to get a first down it could work

The teams ahead of us are bad and won't win consistently

My God refs are such a joke

Offense looks so hard for these teams

We play there every season. That reception will be ugly

Does Harbaugh even coach games anymore? He seems to be suspended for most of the year every season.

Imagine if this story came out right before week 1 this season. McDermott would not have been safe in that stadium.

It has to be tough to know that so many people that worked or played here see McDermott as a well meaning awkward doofus. Definitely not the calm, detail oriented leader he wants to portray. That's almost the worst part.

I'm not surprised about the "culture" stuff and blaming people and lack of accountability. We've all either said it before or heard it anyway. I AM a bit shocked at the notion of McDermott as a bumbling clown, players trying not to laugh while he speaks. I was under the impression that he had that messaging part down, and was just difficult to work with or something and froze in big moments. I didn't imagine once that he would be standing up there blabbering about 9/11 or the woman who downed in the river by Niagara Falls while they players were like "at least he means well" like he's grandpa who didn't take his meds.

Leslie Frazier is another situation. Totally bizarre, no real answer as to what happened. It's a pattern.

Well, apparently some did for this article. Also, honeymoon period. Things were newer and going better, and maybe the players at the time just said WTF? to themselves and mocked him behind his back but chalked it up to him being an awkward weirdo who meant well. That's basically what the Dunn article says. Regardless of the motivation behind revealing it, if he said it, he said it.