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He’ll demand Josh Allen play TE as he has the most similar build and Kyle Allen will start at QB Thursday. Book it. /s

But why is he on the field in such condition? Or why don’t the coaches know? Or, if they do, why setup plays to the hurt guy two games in a row on critical 4th downs in the 4th quarter!?!? Infuriating.

See T Edmunds for reference Actually I don’t know if Edmunds is point or counterpoint to your argument. Physically gifted but often out of position. Not sure this is overpursuit, bad instincts or mental lapses.

I think he’s playing based on the strengths of his D. It shapes his whole philosophy. His D can’t play fast, it’s filled with old guys and slow guys. He rotates DL to combat this. He doesn’t want these old slow guys out there every 5 minutes so demands we perfect some sustained style of O. It worked great against the Raiders but sometimes you need to win shootouts. Against Miami he conceded this and won but they then went and f*cked with the program.

Can’t it be that he and they (staff & teammates) are genuinely unsure about what the hell is happening? They plan and practice all week thinking it’ll go their way and they get utterly stymied. Outcoached, outplanned, outplayed. They have no answers now so that uncertainty is going to show up as “disinterest” or deer in the headlights I think.

He’d bench RBs for fumbling just so an inferior guy can come in and do nothing to teach the first a lesson. But a guy like Knox who breaks these rules of fundamentals is trotted out there time and again to hurt this team. Same with OL. He’s defective at putting the team in winning situations.

Peterman brought something, it was just in favor of the other team most often.

Yes Brown said on WGR this AM he was benched in this and Giants game for Dodson.

The ball control style is being force fed to them by McD, who as a D guy doesn’t want his D on the field too frequently or for too long. Think about that Chiefs game. The O scored too fast too often leaving 13 sec on the clock for the D to then give it up. He took all the wrong lessons from that game and is trying to win tight ball control games vs shootouts. But how has that worked out the last 2 weeks? His D effectively gave up 2 game winners. Let your O put up 30+ guy and trust your guys on D to win games.

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Williams yesterday and v Giants. But that’s McD doing that. I don’t think he understands O enough to bench a guy unless they fumble. Pee Wee football type crap.

Blocking is the most teachable skill for a WR. Route running and catching, not so much.

Yeah but there was a stint mid-season where this happened for sure. It was like magic the O took off for a bit.

Philly has strong athletes at all positions

Remember when Greg Roman was OC and had a bad couple games so then came down from the booth (or went up I forget) to call plays and they started tearing it up again? Try that Dors.

Cahones

Not by chance the best teams have the best O and D lines very often.

Noice

This doesn’t breed confidence saying the same things over and over. Makes me think he doesn’t have actual answers and is just buying time. Hoping.

I think I’m agreeing with you but maybe not on the specific point

Of course he can’t but he still has a (major share of) responsibility. The team is a reflection of their coach(es). I heard the Poyer/Hyde postgame and they both parroted McD talking points. To say he’s responsible for only the half of the team he knows best will always shield him from honest criticism.

Opposing coaches know Cook isn’t going to win the Bills games so they give that sh*t up no problem. It’s bait that our dumb coaches take, keeping productive snaps out of the hands of the guy who can single handedly win games and that coaches fear. The run game is a mirage. Our coaches think it’s some saving Grace when it’s actually our Achilles heel. The key to stopping him is giving his snaps to RBs. Dudes team production is down like 8% this year. Guess where that production went?

The whole trying to get more balance by getting a running game going has worked but it also inexplicably monkey-wrenched the passing game.

That run by Cook where he was stopped then kept running and broke it, Dawkins and Morse were standing there downfield blocking no one looking surprised he broke it off. Literally watching their teammate working. He’d have scored if they went down and blocked through the whistle. I was fuming at that.

Why not? If this were a business and a manager’s team was constantly not executing their jobs, the manager would be responsible at least partially. He’s not putting his team in a position to win. A couple better executions we win this game, sure. But the problem is we should have blown the doors off this sorry team not squeaked by. He is responsible for that lack of preparation at all levels.