HomeskillitMoorman

I've seen you post a few times about the "tournament" and it's supposed lack of real meaning...I guess I would ask you what you think what a Process that you trust is for then in general if not a championship. Is it for the best record? Because we haven't had that either. I'm just curious honestly. What's your barometer for the apex of success? Or is there not one?

I like Eric Wood but what a mountain of a leap here. You're still left with quite a bit of ugly baggage of Incognito even if you took away this whole incident.

He's had 8 years to build the defense and scheme that he wants. Why doesn't it take good defensive coaches anywhere close to that long to do that? And you're always going to have some injuries. McDermott has let us down in the biggest games in every single postseason. He and his side of the ball have never pulled their weight. It's fine if you like the guy, but it's the objective truth that his side of the ball has been a big letdown in his time here.

But it's not like saying that because Josh has played very well in the postseason, he's done his part. McDermott hasn't, his side of the ball has let us down in SIX straight postseasons.

I want to beat him though after how many times he's just destroyed us

I think that has to be shown on the field. He hasn't swallowed his pride to change anything to combat the Chiefs after all these years. I hope he is because we need drastic changes from what we've been doing defensively.

Didn't the D struggle for years in big games when we had Frazier and he kept him? Also ST were terrible in '23-'24 and he still kept Smiley.

Because the question that's being begged to be answered is what exactly is it that's a net positive that McDermott is bringing to the table here? If his side of the ball, his proficiency, has let us down tremendously 6 years in a row which it has...and he's not a good in-game manager...we have a major Head Coach problem that's standing in our way. The Chargers DID make a change, and rightfully so. We've started the see the benefit of that for them and I think that uptrend is going to continue. I'm sure Bengals fans share a lot of concerns over keeping their guy even though they have made it to a Super Bowl. I mean sure, you can count those if you want to. But why is our standard is to compare ourselves to the 2 absolute worst situations with very good to elite QB play rather than all of the other situations that are winning SB's? Or teams that probably could if their guy played anywhere close to as well as Josh overall has in the playoffs? McDermott has almost completely flushed the 20's of the best QB we've ever had because he can't put together a defense that can hold Mahomes under ridiculously gaudy numbers like completing 75% of his passes when this isn't happening for him against other top teams. Just an honest question...do you think McD's defense has not been the primary problem of why we haven't gotten to the Super Bowl yet?

Because it's not true that the high majority of people that want McD gone are holding him to some kind of perennial "Super Bowl or bust" standard for every individual season...they're talking about what's happened over and over again for the last 6 seasons. McDermott's a defensive coach whose defense has destroyed us in the playoffs for 6 seasons in a row. That's not even mentioning his below par game management. We're seeing just about every other team be able to contain the Chiefs offense in the playoffs, especially the ones who have faced them multiple times. McD's defense is the only one that consistently gets ran roughshod over by them. The Eagles in this game forced 6 punts and 3 turnovers...we probably have something like 6 punts TOTAL over FOUR playoff games against them and I believe just one or two turnovers. I think someone in an earlier post said we've never gotten them to punt more than 2 times in ANY of those games. Our QB in the playoffs has 33 TD's and 4 int's and it's a huge struggle for us just to get out of the Divisional Round. QB's that are doing much less are getting to and winning SB's. McDermott has had 8 years here to install a defense that can literally contribute at all in the playoffs and he still hasn't bothered to do it. We're going on a decade....how long does he need? 15 years? 20?

That's a really hyperbolic way to look at what argument is being made though because this is all a composite of the last 6 years. McDermott's side of the ball has let us down in 6 straight seasons. This year was just yet another in a long line. Let me ask you this...do you think any other team is having this same issue where an elite QB is playing very well in the playoffs and we still can't even get to a SB? Or even have this hard of a time getting past the Divisional? The Ravens haven't been to the big dance but they don't lose when Lamar plays really well in the playoffs...he just hasn't played very well in quite a few of them. There's no other team that is consistently losing with a top QB or really any QB in the playoffs that plays this well consistently. This has been a unique Buffalo Bills problem...what reason would you say is the cause of this?

Sure but he was able to keep his offense out of the way when they won, they weren't a massive liability preventing them from winning. McD's defense is letting Mahomes complete like 75% of his passes in the playoffs against him when he's not doing that against the rest of the league. It's not a Chiefs problem we have....it's a McDermott problem that we have.

I think it's more because if you look at the last 4 years, we've massively underperformed in the playoffs given what our elite QB has given us. Other top QB's aren't consistently losing these games they're playing very well in like we are. Our coach's side of the ball, defense, has let us down in the biggest games in 6 straight postseasons now. And yes this year it was to a team that pretty much had just a mediocre offense. It is a big problem when your defensive Head Coach is horrendous at coaching defense.

And his is with an elite QB. This is so sad.

Wow, I thought I had some of the darkest outlooks on this site. This makes me look like Chris Brown. At least you'll always have chicken riggies.

I agree with that...but at some point I think Josh will have enough of this. I don't think it will be until he demands a trade, I think it'll be when he goes into Terry's office and tells him he needs to fire this coach. Other top QB's don't consistently lose playoff game that they play really well in. It has to wear on him.