Billsflyer12

You have to be kidding me!!! Your post is sarcasm right? They have watched 5 of last 7 Super Bowl winners score 31 or more points, and then decided to double down on freaking defense with an elite QB on the roster!

Having a defensive head coach in a offensive/QB era is a real problem in 2 ways. 1). Continuity on offense. If OC is good he is hired elsewhere, if OC is bad he is eventually fired. Hired or fired is bad for QB and offensive consistency. The QB and a OC Head Coach is the stability in this current young gun QB era that works the best. 7 of final 8 in this year’s playoffs were this setup. 2). HOF QB Steve Young talked about this recently and it was fascinating. Basically he said having a defensive coach as head coach was a problem for the offense because his natural or maybe even unconscious traits are to make decisions that protect their defense. I had never thought of it like this. For me in playoffs you definitely see McDermott defaulting to this thinking, much to the detriment of the offense and team in general. His game management decisions, either punt/go, FG/go or timeouts for example lean heavily toward protecting the defense. His natural instincts in pressure moments are to trust a stop more than trust Josh to get 2 or 6 yds on 4th. Sean is a good coach and likely a better man. It’s just how he fits into this era and with how our team is built.

Having a defensive head coach in a offensive/QB era is a real problem in 2 ways. 1). Continuity on offense. If OC is good he is hired elsewhere, if OC is bad he is fired. Hired or fired is bad for QB and offensive consistency. 2). HOF QB Steve Young talked about this recently and it was fascinating. Basically he said having a defensive coach as head coach was a problem for the offense because his natural or maybe even unconscious traits are to make decisions that protect their defense. I had never thought of it like this. For me in playoffs you definitely see McDermott defaulting to this thinking, much to the detriment of the offense and team in general. His game management decisions, either punt/go, FG/go or timeouts for example lean heavily toward protecting the defense. His natural instincts in pressure moments are to trust a stop more than trust Josh to get 2 or 6 yds on 4th. That’s a huge problem for me. This doesn’t make Sean a bad coach, or bad leader. It makes him a bad fit for this team and this era.

As someone who lived in Texas for a number of years I can attest to this. My property taxes were more in Texas on a 180,000 house are more than now in Colorado on a house 3 times that. No state income tax is a marketing tool, states always get their $$$$.

Then bolted for a lateral job on a team with a HC as OC?

They won’t.

If he saw a lack of opportunity here in Buffalo why would he would move laterally to a team with a HC as OC? This seems as if Sean didn’t want him back or maybe he just wanted same job with an offensive minded coach, in warm weather and with no state tax.

So then you tell me, how do you define successful drafting? Im not really sure what your point is here. You defending or criticizing Beane?

Von signing is a product of poor drafting after he used 4 top 2 round picks on DL with almost nothing to show for it. He also drafted a 3rd round special teams linebacker who doesn’t fit the defensive scheme, and all the while ignoring OL and WR in top 3 rounds! The BEST one can say about his drafts are that they are maybe average.

Do you consider this season a successful one? What should the standard be for a successful season for this team?

Is this defense Fraziers’ or McDermotts’? Are the drafts Beanes’ or McDermotts’? Is he good at Player development? What on the field is he good at?

Elway was an awful GM, but we wasn’t involved in this. The current GM is just as awful though. He traded 2 1st, 2 2nds, 3 players for Russ and then gave him the worst contract in NFL history 2 years before he was even due for an extention. Just brutal

Chiefs 20 of last 22 picks have contributed.

Except McDermmit won’t play them their rookie year, so minimum 2 years till they could help even if he killed it this draft.

4 and 6, down 7 on the road, in opponents territory and a coach goes for it throwing to their best WR even though he is double teamed? What? No way. And they convert and score? What? Crazy. Yes coaching is biggest problem.

The standard now is the Super Bowl, nothing less could and should be considered a success. That’s life of NFL top 5 teams.

Bigger question with Reich is would McD hire someone who would be such a possible threat to his own job security.

The second he talked early in his career of faith, family and football I knew we would have lots of good guys and no Super Bowls under his tenure.

I agree that this team will never win Super Bowl with MCD as their head coach. He doesn’t match the big moments and this era. Yet, they arent going to do s**t. They all will be back.

Last year was our year. Coaches blew that too.

Simple question.

Beane or McD, I don’t care who but they have: 1). Drafted 4 DLmen in the top 60 picks and all at best haven’t lived up to their draft spot, mostly just bad. 2). Have not drafted a single OL in first 2 rounds the last 3 drafts. The one they did was 2019 Cody Ford, ugh. Think maybe OL better use Of Boogie Basham pick? 3). Have not drafted a single WR in 1st 3 rounds of draft. 4). 2021 draft ? Oofffff! This ALL starts at top with both Beane and Sean. Beane likely overrated, and McDermott is the Doug Collins of NFL coaches.

The have won 6 also when losing turnover battle. If Josh just takes that snap in Vikings game they are 7-2 when losing turnover battle. I think this is the point some are making. The can’t lose the “turnover battle” and win games take is just a lazy. Turnovers are a undesired change of possession, as are punts, missed field goals, failed 4th down conversion, on sides kick and end of half’ and games. It all has context. When, where and how also matter. The “you can make data say whatever you want” crowd also misses point. Data and it’s analysis can and will be wrong. The whole point isn’t to be 100% correct, it’s a tool to increase the probability of successful outcome. Would we all prefer Josh and Bills to not turn ball over or at least less? Of course. But to say it’s then end all on success or failure is lazy and just not true.