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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    4 minutes ago, mjt328 said:


    Some coaches are good at building culture, shaping a locker room and creating year by year consistency.   But they just don’t have what it takes to finish the job and win a championship.

     

    McDermott may be a good coach.  He may even be a great coach.  But at some point, you can’t just ignore the playoff failures.  Defense is supposed to be what he brings to the table.  The road to the Super Bowl goes through the same guys every season (Mahomes, Jackson, Burrow).  If he can’t figure out how to slow down those guys, we are just spinning our wheels.

     

    A lot of Bills fans are so terrified of possibly going back to the old drought days… they would be content stay in this cycle the rest of Josh Allen’s career.

    This is exactly how I feel. Great man and coach. But at some point if this continues we have to make a change. I am rooting for him though and would absolutely loved to be proven wrong.  

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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    4 minutes ago, RoscoeParrish said:


    Agreed. But I don’t think the D needs to be elite to get to Nola, especially if the offense keeps humming. That’s the strength of this team. Average defense with our offense playing well is the recipe I think. 

    Totally agree with you. If the bills can keep Henry to 100 yds rushing and maybe 24 points scored I would be thrilled. But I hope they don’t drop 40 on us behind 200 yds rushing. 

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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    1 minute ago, appoo said:

    If you think the bills defense failed against the chiefs this past season, that’s a you issue and not a McDermott issue

    Yeah you’re right. Fake punts at your 30 yd line in the 3rd quarter with demar Hamlin in a 3 point game. However it does have the same common denominator doesn’t  it? However the defense and McDermott play calling in crucial moments are separate issues. So fair enough. 

    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    10 minutes ago, RoscoeParrish said:


    So he has to have an elite defensive performance against arguably the highest powered offense in the league (Baltimore) and one of the greatest QBs and HC/OCs in NFL history (KC), in order to exercise his demons?

    If you want to get to the Super Bowl. Yes.  Isn’t that the goal? Isn’t Sean’s claim to fame being a defensive genius? Well let’s see it then. Because the past few years against the “big boys”, it’s been severely lacking. 

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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    1 minute ago, Fetou said:

    "Struggle" is a bordering on propaganda. We could have played a roster out of a nursing home and had the same success slowing down Joe Burrow. There wasn't a defense at all.

     

    No other contender has had such a lack of competitiveness on one side of the ball. We would have crushed the Chiefs last year with Baltimore's defensive performance against them and Josh's offensive performance. Multiple score victory.

     

    The Bills are healthy this year on defense for the first time in recent memory. Let's have some optimism that we will see a competitive defense against an absolutely elite offense under a great coach, but trying to erase the history of how McDermott defenses have stacked up in the playoffs after a wild card win over the Broncos is just foolishness

    Exactly

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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    Just now, RoscoeParrish said:


    Can’t get to the divisional round without winning the wild card. Defense was elite today. Defense has not played well in the past wild card games. Can you accept it?

    Of course. And I can’t disagree with your points posted above.  However let’s pump the brakes and see how the defense plays next week before we start declaring that McDermott has exercised the demons. 

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    Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

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    Just now, RoscoeParrish said:


    The narrative is his defense is horrific in playoff games.
     

    Was today not a playoff game?

     

    Can we only criticize McD when his defense plays poorly?  Then make excuses and rationalize the weakness of the opponent when his defense plays well?

     

    You conveniently leave out the abysmal divisional round losses.  Genius.  Most people who have voiced their displeasure take issue with the proverbial divisional round losses. Don’t get it twisted. A win next weekend would go a long way in silencing his detractors. 

    Random talking head says something about the Bills

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    4 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    I eyerolled the post you are quoting because the guy he was responding to wasn't saying they were perfectly satisfied with Sean or even that they wanted Sean to stay. They might do, I don't know, but that was not what they were saying. They were just saying he is nowhere no matter what happens in these playoffs. So it did not justify the response it got. 

    You don’t have to explain yourself to me.  It’s all good. I wasn’t referring to you anyways. 😂 

    Random talking head says something about the Bills

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    1 minute ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

    I think he has to show improvement. Whatever that means….it all depends on the circumstances of how they lose (if they were to lose), and when. 
    I think you’ve gotta get past the divisional. This team has only been to one AFC championship game and that was when we clearly were not ready for it in 2020-2021. 

    That is a fair and accurate assessment. 

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    Random talking head says something about the Bills

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    13 minutes ago, Gregg said:

     

    They lose on WC weekend then the pitchforks and knives will be out in full force to replace Sean from Bills Mafia. But the only opinion that matters is Terry's, and he likes Sean as his HC.

    Well hopefully it won’t come to that.  It would be amazing to see the bills and McDermott smoke everyone on the way to a Super Bowl victory.  I just can’t shake some of McDermotts blunders in a winner take all scenario playoff game with time running out. 

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    5 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

    So you're perfectly satisfied with Sean?  His playoff defenses have been spectacular.  His in game management without a question is Belichickian.  He's safe for the next several years because Terry promised him perpetual job security. Super Bowls are over-rated anyway. It's all about the regular season bling.  

    Love the sarcasm. And for all the eyerolls, sometimes the truth hurts. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge these shortcomings is not being honest with themselves. 

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    6 hours ago, NeverOutNick said:

    That’s sad to think McD gets a free pass regardless of outcome. Sure hope Josh is playing in that stadium no matter what happens too

    Unreal isn’t it. Denver comes in scores on last drive because our defense can’t stop them and a bone headed McDermott play call or timeout and we lose. But hey it’s all good. We had a great season.  Regular season champs again. 

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    McDermott Post Game Presser

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    2 minutes ago, vincec said:

    It’s not an enigma at all. McDermott is good at organizational leadership and team building but bad at game day management.

    Well you would think someone with those traits, would exhibit good judgment and mathematical skills at the end of games.  Team organization and building appear to be much more difficult than simply managing a clock properly. Football 101 for anyone who has watched football. Much less played it their entire lives. 

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    4 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

    If you told me we were going to score 42 pts and Josh has 6 tds I'd probably say we win 99% of the time. Today I witnessed how incredibly vulnerable our defense is. 

    Add 0 turnovers. The record is 245-0. Well until yesterday anyways. Couple that with 13 seconds.  McDermott is an enigma. Does virtually everything right as a coach on so many levels and then blows it all away in the final two minutes of close critical games. 

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    McDermott Post Game Presser

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    3 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

    Thanks Nostradamus.  Should a TO been called?  No.  But if Josh had not liked the call, he could have just spiked it instead of running the play.  McD didn’t call the play, it was either Brady or Josh that decided to run it.  
     

    As for the TO and onside kick, for that to be the wrong decision you have to assume that our D would have held them.  I think it’s a pretty safe assumption we would not have.  Mcvay would have known one first down wins the game, so he would have had his entire list of plays available vs.  just running it 3 times.  We hadn’t stopped Stanford all day long.  

    I’m not disagreeing with your point about stopping them. But here again it is irrelevant who called the play, as McDermott alone chose to call the time out.  McDermott has exercised poor judgment time and time again at critical junctures at the end of games. Especially in the playoffs. It doesn’t take some prophetic insight to know this will likely rear its ugly head come playoffs. The last 6 years have proven that. I’m not sure why anyone would think otherwise at this point.

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    1 minute ago, Stretch said:

    I don’t get the complete doom and gloom about losing the 1 seed.  The Bills just now have to win next week.  Tough job, but they have the talent to do it.  And KC can lose every single week they play.  I know it hasn’t happened yet, but it still just as likely.

    It’s not about losing the number 1 seed. It’s about not learning from past mistakes. Come playoff time once again the bills will lose in the same fashion. All while our qb plays one of the best games in nfl history. That is the doom and gloom my friend. For the love of Christ how many times have we seen this movie.

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