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Not good enough for all-pro team either

Yeah, I think Lamar Jackson's performance in a couple of games that the Ravens won ices the deal for him.

Exactly.

He helped the Dolphins defense improve from 24th overall, to 22nd overall I will grant that Fangio dealt with significant injuries to major players on defense towards the end of the season. But for contrast, the Bills dealt with significant injuries at all levels of defense starting Game 4, and the defense dropped from #2 to #4

From what's come out, I'm not sure I'd want to be a defensive coach for Brian Daboll either. But the reality is there are only 32 of these jobs in the world, so guys seem to talk themselves into accepting opportunities that are not ideal (Pettine with the Cleveland Browns etc)

I was just thinking this. I would tend to believe there would be a "positive" to an offer to stay here as DC - don't relocate the kids, don't start over with new people - but McDermott better choose quickly I looked it up, and I don't think we do. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-compensatory-picks-for-minority-coaches-and-executives-explained

I threw up a little in my mouth at your 2nd tier. But IMHO we need to be all-in in the draft AND sign a reasonable vet.

I think Diggs is getting the crap beaten out of him because by the middle of the season it's clear that the Bills offense is primarily Diggs and Josh Allen.

The thigh bone connected to the knee bone It's hard to get to Mahomes if he's got easy shots available.

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.