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Wow, that’s kinda frightening. So, we have the entire history of the NFL weighted against us. If you believe in that sort of thing. Thankfully I don’t. Still, fascinating.

I know some people like to compare the present to the past. By this time in Marv Levy’s tenure (6th full season as Head Coach of the Bills), he was on his way to his 3rd Super Bowl appearance.

Is there any amount of time that would make you want to move on? For example, if we get to year 10 of McDermott and we still haven’t played in a Super Bowl (but are still getting to the playoffs), is that good enough for you? How about 15 years? At that point, Allen’s career would be close to over and wasted. 20 years? Are you okay with a perpetual “good enough” situation or is there a limit to your patience?

It was an analogy, not a 1:1 comparison.

The Chicago police crime map seems to disagree with you. For those new to crime maps, red means “watch out!”

When I started my business, I just wanted to earn an extra $1000 per month to support my family. That’s all I craved. Then $3000 months came and it was gold. We celebrated them. Cried (happy tears) over them. Suddenly $1000 months weren’t as amazing. Then we hit $7000 months and $3000 didn’t seem as great anymore. Then we hit $15000 months and $7000 was an afterthought. Then we hit $30000 months and $15000 months were disappointing. etc Imagine if I had gotten to $1000 - my original goal - and decided “this is good enough”. An entire company wouldn’t exist in the way that it does today. Employees with families to feed wouldn’t have their job. Etc. It is okay to adjust expectations when you reach higher success. It is okay to say “great job on reaching the original goal, but we need you to reach a higher goal now”.

5 head coaches were hired the year that McDermott was. 2 have been to a Super Bowl. 1 has been to multiple Super Bowls and won a Super Bowl. 3 Have been fired (one of those fired had a winning record and a playoff win). And 1 is McDermott.

The idea that we waited 17 years for only playoff appearances almost seems sadder than not getting there at all.

Daboll got a head coaching job by being in Buffalo…

Perhaps I misinterpreted your post. It sounded like you were saying that coaching in Buffalo doesn’t lead to head coaching jobs.

Yeah i’m not sure you want to go gallivanting around Detroit.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Josina Anderson of CBS Sports spoke to an NFL source who expressed concern that the Bills may not even be able to fly out of Buffalo. “Snow is coming down hard right now,” the source told Anderson. “I don’t know what’s the contingency if everyone can’t make it to the airport or we can’t fly out.”

Signs do point to Daboll wanting out. Flores lawsuit mentions that Daboll wanted out of Buffalo, even if it wasn’t for a head coach job. In other words, he would consider a lateral job move.

For Gabe, I would say it’s less a lack of involvement and more an issue of him dropping pass after pass. He has to have close to a dozen drops.

Seems pretty simple to me. Klein probably wasn’t willing to take a pay cut so we released him. Here is McDermott talking about it:

Correct.

McDermott made a comment that Klein left by his own choice. Interesting.

I agree with you on the taunting. That’s a bit much and those things you mentioned that he said simply didn’t need to come out. Not sure you hate the “us” or “we” part though. They’re literally a member of the organization.

True. But I am a little surprised they didn’t leave yesterday night or this morning. Just so they could get 1 more practice in.

Well said. I had these concerns even as we were racking up wins. Poor coaching decisions were happening even in blowout games, but they were overshadowed by the fact that our roster was so much better than the opponent, so it didn’t matter. The problem with ignoring those poor coaching decisions during wins is that you will eventually face teams that have a roster that is closer in talent to yours than the teams you beat. In those games, coaching matters. A lot. From dropping linebackers too far back on 3rd and 18 against Houston in OT in the playoffs, to keeping Phillips and Liuget on the field (our two worst run stoppers at the time) as the Texans ran over and over and over again in that second half drive. To even calling a run play with 30 seconds left in the first half, at the 23 yard line, with no timeouts, instead of going for the endzone (what!?). To not having your secondary coached to knock the ball down in the Fail Murray in Arizona, and then two years later to not have your secondary (or at least Cam Lewis) know to knock the ball down on 4th and 18 instead of trying to intercept it. Then there was the MNF game where Belichick outcoached McDermott in every facet, including McDermott wasting a needed timeout on a ball spot (those almost never work). And all the way to the famous example of not squibb kicking against KC and playing 15 yards off Kelce and not defending the middle of the field. And all those times over the years where McDermott would be thinking about challenging a play so he called timeout first. Why!? Just throw the challenge flag! You potentially lose a timeout either way! I haven’t seen him do that this year, which is nice. Maybe he learned. There are just so so so many examples of places where we flat out would have several more wins if coaching was better.

Couldn’t practice Wednesday due to not enough players and couldn’t practice today due to weather. They travel tomorrow. 1 practice before a big game is unfortunate.

Minus the taunting, Van did all of those things. He was a big homer. And I loved it. It is “we”. He is part of the teams staff. His paycheck says “Buffalo Bills”. “Touchdown! Andre Reed for the touchdown! It is bedlam! It is pandemonium! It is fandemonium! It is… fantastic!” (all while screaming it) .

Last time we played in Detroit over 56,000 people showed up. Maybe we will even sell out this time.

Reid has taken 3 seperate QB’s to the Championship game. Thats an insane feat. He has also been to 7 Championship games.