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Our coach was bad, but he didn't throw another INT making it 8 straight games, miss multiple wide open receivers, take dumb penalties that gave the other team life or drop passes right in his hands. The whole team is playing poorly, which yes is a coaching problem, but not one that would be fixed this season if he were fired today.

It's a massive nothingburger. dude got a slap on the wrist from the Big 10 and will be back after next week. I'd be shocked if this impacts his future with the school at all.

We wouldn't beat KC or Dallas with that effort for certain. Philly played like ass the first half. We should have put up 18 more points based on the opportunities we were handed, but we couldn't close. We won't get that lucky the next two weeks. I expect the better McD in Miami to learn from his previous mistakes and give us a much tougher game unless it ends up being meaningless for them.

The Bills team we saw yesterday probably loses 3/5. If there's a bet that I can make that they lose 2/5+, let me know because I'm very interested.

Not at all. The university and his coaches are behind him and he'll be competing for a National Championship soon.

Harbaugh? Why on earth would he leave his dream job where he'll have a ticket for life to work for the Bills where he'll be on a short leash from day 1.

He could not throw a costly int every single game. He could go through his progressions to find the open man instead of holding the ball too long, throwing the ball away, or chucking a ball into multiple coverage. He could throw balls so that his players don't constantly have to lose their stride to catch them.

What a bunch of losers.

McD is the only coach of a team with Super Bowl dreams that would kneel there. What a loser decision.

There's the Hollywood we all know. Can't throw into double and triple coverage all game and not get bit eventually.

Is this for real? I haven't seen a guy as chronically afraid of 50 yard FGs since the 1980s

Who else is having fun?

Probably, but at least you'd have a chance. It was a guarantee that Kincaid wasn't getting 9 yards there.

Allen is such a clown. Shakiir about to be completely open and he throws a 1 yard out.

Good call on Campbell, but Harbaugh is no worse than #2 this year. I disagree that it's a lateral move. Both Tomlin and Harbaugh are a full tier above McDermott. McD isn't even in Schottenheimer territory. His gameday coaching is just flat out terrible. He's propped up by a great roster, including a top-flight QB and they seem to run a cohesive clubhouse. There isn't a single thing about him that's innovative though, and ultimately that's what you need to win it all.

I'm not sure how you're slotting him ahead of Jackson, Tua, Stroud, Prescott, or Wilson based on this year. They are all performing significantly better. You also have Hurts, Mahomes and Goff right there too.

Just checking, but you'd prefer 1 Super Bowl win to 0 right? It's quite interesting you're gunning for Harbaugh so hard when he's probably going to get Coach of the Year and his team will probably get the #1 seed.

I think so, and I'd say almost certainly if this coaching staff sticks around. We've seen him play a couple of perfect games and we've also seen multi-week stretches of him being really bad to the point of being the reason we lose games. That inconsistency of scorching hot to ice cold is what defines Josh Allen as a player. I had hoped that the staff was coaching him to maybe not burn as hot but also never be cooler than "warm". Unfortunately, I don't think he's capable of it, and I chalk it up to football IQ. I don't think he processes the game well enough in real time to be able to go through progressions or effectively hot route to pick apart a defense. Instead, we're going to have to live with the Hollywood version where he holds the ball for 5 seconds and has to stiff arm Maxx Crosby, hurdle Kevin Byard or drop a 65 yard pass on a dime to a double covered receiver in order to win big games. That reliance on high variance play has and will continue to be the main reason he doesn't win Super Bowls. He can do all the hard things that no one else can do, but he can do shockingly few of the things even backup QBs can do. If the stars align just right, or he gets an OC that can channel his limitations and exploit his strengths, he has the talent to win it all, but I don't see him leading a dynasty and I don't see him being an elite QB in his mid-late 30s as his athleticism fades.

Our record says there are a lot of teams we won't beat. I have zero expectation that this team can beat KC, Baltimore or Jacksonville in the playoffs. I think we could definitely lose to the Texans and Dolphins. The Bengals with Burrow would have been a lock to beat us. If by some miracle we get through all of that, the Cowboys, Eagles, Lions and 49ers would completely dismantle us. I've watched dozens of games this year. Pretending we are Super Bowl contenders with all the strength in the league this year is completely delusional.

I blamed Leslie because the Bengals were down 3 starting offensive lineman and not only did we get 0 pass rush (1 sack for 2 yards - coverage sack if memory serves), but we didn't even scheme for it. Leslie never schemed to his opponents weaknesses and never exploited them in game. It was just nickel tampa-2 all day every day. Now, is it McDermott that's actually the cause behind that? Maybe, because we do the same ***** on offense. I've routinely watched us not exploit defensive injuries or inefficiencies year after year go back to the beginning of his tenure.

You're conveniently leaving out the part where he's a Super Bowl champion. He has the track record and the DNA to replicate it at any time. That's while he's still there. He's succeeded without top tier talent ont he offensive side of the ball. McDermott has failed given every opportunity. Form my perspective he doesn't have the DNA. He's already shown us his peak. They aren't remotely similar situations, even when you try to time slice it in the best possible way to support a different narrative. It's pretty clear to me, and their teams, that Harbaugh and Tomlin aren't holding their teams back from winning another Super Bowl, but I'm convinced that McDermott is.

That's called a guess, not a theory.

meh. Blue on white is better.

I'd rather not make it this year. We aren't a threat to win the Super Bowl, so I'd rather have the draft capital to see if a new coach and a couple high profile rookies can be the difference.

I don't think you remember who Joe Flacco was. He was elite for a half of one year, which is when he won the Super Bowl. After starting out poorly, we went on a tear to end the season and was the hottest player of the playoffs. He had one other good year in 2016 but otherwise was never near that level again. He had a very Matt Shaub-esque career, imo. As for the current state of things, the ravens are playing well and appear to be the best team in football right now. You could have made a case for firing Harbaugh during the Flacco slump years, but since Lamar got there he has a COTY award and 4 out of 5 years has a playoff appearance (soon to be 5/6), despite having a QB who's missed roughly a a quarter of each played season due to injury. Winning a Super Bowl gets you a lot of rope, but it doesn't mean you can't hang yourself with it. Again, I don't think Harbaugh is a the top of top coaches, but like Tomlin I think he's markedly better than McDermott. I'll never prefer a Defensive coach, unless your name is Bill Belichick, in an offensive league though. Even then, maybe his time has come too.