HappyDays

Yeah there is nothing but bad things to say about McDermott in this one. His side of the ball was abysmal. The special teams run by the coach he hand selected had multiple critical failures. There were several game management decisions that he utterly botched. You could say McDermott single handedly ruined a historic QB performance. Something he has now done twice in his career.

But also the extra 3rd down play gave them 40 more seconds to run off the clock which absolutely mattered at the end. If the Bills had managed the end of the game appropriately we wouldn't have even needed to onside kick. We would have had all 3 timeouts and like 1:40 left after we scored our final TD. Our decisions in the final minutes turned a winnable game into a certain loss.

Luckily this is the first time ever under McDermott that a special teams communication error at the end has led to us losing a close game despite a historic QB performance.

Turns out we had 9 players on the field:

Holy hell there were like 10 different massive coaching failures that happened in the last 4 minutes of this game.

I'm listening now and I'm in shock! Genuinely thought he was going to come up to the podium and say "this loss is on me", instead he's actually saying that they did what they thought was the best course of action. In his opening statement he says "I wish we had run the ball with our RBs more". He has no clue what even caused this loss. Wow.

McDermott talking now. Part of his opening statement - "I would have liked to see us run the ball a bit more with our RBs." And now he is trying to defend the end of game timeout saying "we thought that was our best course of action." Please get him out of here! I'd be fine even if it happened tomorrow and Brady took over. My jaw is on the floor with this press conference.

Yeah unfortunately Allen's legacy rests on the whims of a single billionaire. I don't know, maybe if Allen himself gets fed up enough he'll call a meeting with Terry but he doesn't strike me as the type.

Do you really believe this? You think some of us get a sick satisfaction out of watching the greatest player in Bills history lose games like this because of his coach? I'm mortified right now. Any confidence I had that McDermott had finally figured out his close game problems has completely evaporated. I now feel like I'm just waiting for the inevitable heartbreaking close playoff loss caused by poor coaching decisions at the end. I don't want to feel like this. I want Josh to have the coach that he deserves.

Even putting aside the multiple all-time brain farts, you can't have a defensive head coach and end up with a historically embarrassing result like this. It just can't happen.

I really want to like McDermott. He got the stink out of OBD which was a Herculean effort and I will always appreciate him for that. But he can't execute in the critical moments that Super Bowl winners need to execute in multiple times over the course of their run. 13 seconds is the most talked about moment but there have been a dozen like it over the years. At some point we just have to accept it is a fatal flaw and he will never overcome it.

Someone asked him at the presser if he made an audible and he said "no I did my best to execute the play that was called." Of course because he's Josh he took the blame for not getting into the endzone there but yeah I could tell he was a bit bothered about it all. How many times can he watch his own greatness be erased by horrendous coaching before he decides to continue his career elsewhere?

I think our QB literally broke records tonight and we lost the game. I think our head coach's side of the ball stunk out loud. I think our head coach made an unjustifiable decision to take a 4th and 7 off the board (for multiple reasons). I think our head coach's unbelievable decision to call a TO at the end cost us even a small chance of winning. You're alone on this one man. Everybody saw the game. Everybody has seen something like the end of this game a dozen times under McDermott. It's over. He isn't going to suddenly figure it out after 8 years. He was the guy to get us moving uphill, he is absolutely not the guy to get us over the mountain. He cannot be allowed to continue to waste an all time great QB.

He's already wasted Allen's career. At this point it's about salvaging his legacy by getting a coach here that can get him a Super Bowl before he retires. It's too late for him to be the GOAT but he can still go down in history. But the clock is ticking

It's not about this game. It's about a pattern of horrid almost unbelievable coaching moments near the end of close games. We laugh when Matt Eberflus and Antonio Pierce's teams fail in these moments, but our coach is no better. If you can't see that, I don't know what else to say.

Okay I guess we'll just wait until the Bills get to play 3 cupcake teams in a row to win the Super Bowl. McDermott's specialty is beating teams like that by 20 points

0-6 against 1-4 seeds in the playoffs

I just can't imagine us ever winning 3-4 consecutive playoff games under this coach. We are not going to win those games by two scores. McDermott is going to have to make situational coaching decisions in critical moments in close games and he is maybe the WORST coach in the league in those moments, certainly out of all the contenders at least. I just can't get over a 6 TD performance ending in a loss because our head coach lost his head on two separate occasions. While his defense got trampled all game long.

It really isn't. A FG by the Rams there meant nothing and their offense has been picking up chunk. 100% you take 4th and 7 and let them kick the FG. McDermott butchered the game and an otherworldly QB performance, I'm sorry but that's what happened.

Well Sean McDermott personally developed Josh Allen into that QB, apparently, so he gets a lifetime pass.

Are you still sure about this coaching staff? Lot of horrid moments from them down the stretch here, yeah?

Had them at 4th and 7 where a FG doesn't really change anything and he turned it down. I really don't get it. Like really, how is it 7 years in and he can't do the simple things right? All the culture and leadership in the world don't matter if you can't coach the critical moments in close games. Because those moments are what win Super Bowls.

Of course. There is no NFL defense untalented enough to give up 44 points without some help from the coaches.

I take back what I said earlier. He hasn't earned a chance next year no matter what happens in the playoffs this year. I mean it's up to Pegula so it's not like it matters what I think. But the critical coaching failures at the end of close games just never stop. We have by far the best QB in the NFL and our coach lets him down constantly. I can't watch it anymore.

Yes and also more time was taken off the clock because of the extra play. McDermott continues to make coaching errors in critical high leverage moments in close gamegames. 8 years and he hasn't gotten any better and once again he ruins an MVP performance from his QB.