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Thank you for clarifying this.

It's easy to hindsight someone, which is what Warner is doing here. There are no questions Josh makes dumb decisions sometimes. Throwing late and back across his body to the middle of the field to a double-covered player is a dumb decision. There are times Warner's criticisms of Josh are justified, no question. Throwing a deep shot to our best WR in search of a "game changer" when there was something short open, is not necessarily a "dumb move". If he makes it, no one is going to be saying "damned, that was a high risk dumb throw!".

You won't. Among other reasons, the team has no business publicizing personal medical information outside the requirements laid down by the NFL during the season. When these sort of things come out, it's usually a friend/teammate or "insider" who "spills the tea". Like when Fitz was playing with broken ribs and Stevie Johnson couldn't stand the criticism Fitz was taking, and revealed the injury after the season. Graded out by whom?

I'm actually a (not so) secret Larry Bird addict. When I'm feeling "down" I like to look up an old Larry Bird highlight reel on Youtube and feast my eyeballs. Which is a little weird since I'm not really an NBA fan at all. But do what you gotta do to keep yourself positive! Bird was unquestionably a great player. If I'm not mistaken, Bird spent 3 years as an NBA coach and took a team that had been vacillating between losing the EC finals and losing in the 1st round, to....losing the EC finals twice and losing the finals once. After which they went back to vacillating between losing the EC finals and losing in the first round. Guess I'm not sure why one would look to Larry Bird as an authority on how to manage a championship Football team?

The point is, McDermott never did to Frazier what the post we're responding to by @NeverOutNick suggested: "I don’t understand how at the very least we couldn’t have told Sean McDermott hey we’re going to explore other options at head coach in the next few weeks. We are not firing you unless we find someone we think will maximize Josh Allens talents and get us to a Super Bowl more than you can." As @WhoTom pointed out, that would be a disaster in a romantic relationship. "Hi Sugarlips! I have full confidence in you as the (man, woman, whatever) who can rock my world and light up my life, so I'm not breaking up with you - but I'm going to explore other options, and if I think I've found someone better, YOU'RE GONE!" A romantic partner with any self respect would "Nope!" out of there so fast they'd leave skidmarks, and rightfully so. Pretty much the same for a high-profile job like McDermott. Support him....or fire him. There is no "we'll look around and upgrade if we can, otherwise we have full confidence in your abilities to lead the team" option. And McDermott never did anything like that to Frazier.

Meaning no offense, but I'm asking Bull. Diggs was literally 48th, 67th, and 72nd in several categories some regard as important. He was also tied for 6th in a category most would prefer to see lower.

Interacting with the press is actually a requirement for NFL players - remember "I'm just here so I don't get fined?" It is literally part of a player's job to deal with the press. They don't have to do it all the time or any time, but it's literally part of the job Diggs gets paid an average annual salary of $24M to do. I can write the same about Bass - "There is nothing to say. The kick went wide right. Would have liked to make the kick." Or Josh - "There is nothing to say. The pass to Shakir was short. Would have liked to make the pass." They're leaders on the team, they know it's part of the job and expected, they Cowboyed up and talked to the press as their job requires.

Please define "near the top of the league" - top 10? top 15? 67th? 48th? 72nd? Which I guess raises the question "what do you mean by everything"?

Guys, Come On. I don't have the coaches film to watch, and I'm not the coverage expert that some here are. But I can pick at some strategy and guess at others. It's not just not that simple. The Chiefs played 47 plays. They hit big plays on what, 7? 8 plays? Of which one was a Mahomes run, one was Edwards-Helaire, a couple were MVS and Rashee Rice. Two were to Kelce, plus a short pass TD. Maybe their problem is McDermott told them "we won't let Kelce beat us and here's how" so CEH, Rice, MVS and Patty did? The name of the game is also to understand the coverage rules, and try to manipulate the play to force advantageous coverage on Kelce.

Er..... are you trying to say Detroit always plays as though they're trying to run through a wall? 🤔

When did McDermott ever tell Frazier he was going to actively seek other potential DC’s and keep Frazier only if there wasn’t an upgrade?

I agree not Rd 1 or 2

This is pretty much where I am. And I live in Missouri!

That's only a sixpack plus a bourbon chaser by my reckoning?

Fair.

It's not just "you can't tell the press that". McDermott as head coach literally has "fate control" of all the assistant coaches. It is literally on him, no one else, to fire an assistant coach. Every offensive player in the building could file into his office and stand there looking at him like a pack of Furbys after presenting a notorized petition signed by seven witnesses in red ink, and it's still McDermott's decision whether or not to use his authority and make that choice, because he is the man with the authority (fate control) So even if the above happened, if McDermott says "it was my decision", he's not telling even a bit of a lie.

I calculate that as a BAC of 0.14 Not fatal, but don't read that post and drive.

I double dog dare ya to try it!

IMHO, McDermott should promote him to DC

Unfortunately, Spags has already had 2 shots as a HC (3 years with the St Louis Rams, then 1/4 of the season with the Giants) and at 64 and a defensive coordinator, even a very successful one - he doesn't fit the HC profile most teams hiring a HC are looking for.

Oh, gosh, we disagree then. He's shown some improvement but going into his 4th year, you want to extend him? Where's someone who knows more OL play than I do to comment on this?

Yeah, I haven't listened through the whole interview yet, but this is the first time I've listened to a Brandon Beane interview and done that sort of "blink and headshake" reaction a couple of times. How do you know you'll be able to count on Von to be what you need him to be next year? Oh we expect him to continue to improve, Von Miller is "trending up". Diggs is a No. 1 WR because Brandon Beane believes that he is. Maybe Beane has sounded this delulu all along and I haven't really processed it before because his delusions were at less critical positions, I dunno.

I kind of hope for his sake, that he does. Between the neck surgery last season and then being out a lot with "neck" or "stinger" this season, I feel he's one wrong landing or wrong hit away from permanent disability. Do you honestly feel Spencer Brown is good enough in pass protection at RT?

I'll partially correct you with regard to what Diggs said in his press conference. He said that he did NOT talk to his brother about it. He said that his brother was speaking as a fan. He also said he wants to retire a Bill: That pretty much seems like refuting it, without perhaps wanting to come out and say "my brother don't know what he's talking about" To recap what Diggs said around training camp:

Turning this around - the man is 30 years old and a Captain on the team. OK, he couldn't handle it after the loss, but 24 hrs afterwards, on locker cleanout day, he can't manage to face the press with a few phrases the PR people could help him craft if he asked, without "twitter fodder"? Sorry, I don't buy the exculpation that Stefon is just somehow so super more emotional and pissed about losing that he just can't fulfil his NFL-mandated media responsibilities. If we're trying to say that Stefon somehow hates losing or is more emotional about it than Josh or Bass, I think that's balogna. It reminds me of Tom Brady running off the field without shaking hands because supposedly he so super specially hates losing more than anyone else he just can't be a good sport.