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Nobody's saying that, but what does McDermott have to gain by lying about this particular instance?

We don’t have to speculate. In his press conference yesterday McDermott said it was his decision and his decision alone to move on from Dorsey.

I haven’t read through this whole thread but you’d like to believe he’s under scrutiny at the very least. It feels like he’s been sucked into the defense and the rest of the phases have suffered as a result. Even though he’s been mostly successful at calling the defense, he probably should hand the role off and focus on fixing the morale and game preparation issues they’re facing. I don’t see him being fired this season even though I think it’d be for the best at this point. He might get the entire next season too, honestly.

“I haven’t seen Allen have a tantrum therefore he’s not a good QB” is right up there with the Bob from Cheektowaga WGR call ins. Congratulations.

He may have learned from this experience and been humbled. There was nothing pointing to Daboll being able to run a high flying pass offense when he got to the Bills, he had mediocre success at best in the NFL prior to working with Allen.

Yeah but Allen hurt their feelings. Checkmate.

I'd suggest you don't watch the Bills anymore then. Allen isn't going anywhere and on the verge of sounding rude I'm not sure you have a very strong grasp of the game anyways.

Are we just going to pretend that 2020,2021, and 2022 (injury not withstanding) Allen didn't exist? These are some of the most braindead takes I've heard in my life. You know what you could get for trading Allen with the current contract he has? There are like 23-26 teams out there jealous of what we have in Allen and would drop their QB in a heartbeat for him. You could ask for anything and likely get it. It's so absurd and disconnected from reality to come in and moan about the QB like the Bills have any trouble in that department at all. Allen is the most talented player the franchise has ever lucked into, and goofballs out here are pretending that Ken "I can't develop a route tree" Dorsey and Sean "I crumble quicker than anyone" McDermott are the real stars of the show. Give me a break.

Maybe they can live in team owned apartments too, and only shop at team owned stores.

Again, you’re making a leap of logic. Comfortable isn’t the same as “afraid to reprimand” like the other poster was suggesting.

McDermott, Beane, the whole lot would have already been fired if it wasn't for Allen. Imagine the last few seasons if they had Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold or Josh Rosen.

This is conjecture and completely unrelated to the original comment from McDermott. Maybe it’s true(I doubt it) but how you arrived there doesn’t make sense.

What a leap in logic. There was nothing said to indicate that at all.

McDermott on the radio right now giving his best non-answers about the coaching change. What a joke.

The logical head to call for next is McDermott anyways.

Yes, that all tracks too. I can't confirm/deny what I was told, but I am 100% sure that they are the sibling of a Bills player, it's definitely a game of telephone since the player isn't even on the offense, so take what you will from it.

So I had an interesting conversation with the sibling of a Bills player (on defense) during the preseason. They mentioned that Diggs was pissed because he didn't think the Bills were giving him an opportunity to hit his incentives in his contract with the plan on offense. That's why he and McD had it out. I don't know how true it is, but that's believable to me.

I don't understand how anyone is blaming the execution of the players for these losses as if there's no direct correlation between player success, playcalling, and game preparation during the week. The coaches are responsible for getting their players ready to play and execute the gameplan. The coaches are responsible for the gameplan. When one guy is making a blunder then it's on the player. When everyone is doing it then it is on the coaching.

So wrong. Scores are the biggest decider of games and Allen scores more than just about anyone in the league. Silly to focus on the bad when he's the entire offense.

Cover1 can do a much better job of showing it than I could describe, and I'd encourage you to check them out. Cover1 can do a much better job of showing it than I could describe, and I'd encourage you to check them out.

I can give the defense a pass because of the injuries. Frazier was bad. McDermott has been mostly good at calling the defense but he's just stinky garbage in the high pressure situations. It's why he harps on execution so much, because when you hang the game on his decision making it crumbles. Daboll was obviously way more important to this organization than most want to admit.

Allen literally has been the entire offense for multiple seasons, but yeah, totally, it's the coaching that's made him look good. This has to be one of the worst takes I've seen on here today.

The season has been like watching a car crash in slow motion. You hate to see it but you can't look away.

I'm not going to pretend that the players aren't without some blame here, but to me it's tiny in comparison to the coaching staff. A not insignificant amount of Dorsey's playcalls never worked, and he kept hammering those same calls every game! He was incapable of self-evaluating and saying "well this play hasn't worked for the guys on the field". Maybe the plays are awesome for a different set of players or a different QB, I don't know, but I do know that Josh has had similar interceptions for the past few games in a row and Dorsey would stubbornly go right back to them. It's beyond frustrating. Allen's "I'm executing the plays as called" is very telling.

The playcalling decisions were just as questionable as the scheme, maybe more so. It felt like Dorsey was picking them at random instead of trying to establish a gameflow.