PepeSilvia

For a guy who preaches accountability, MCD seems like a guy who is being very slippery and not taking accountability for his defense. “We held them to a field goal on the last drive and had a chance to go win it” sounds an awful lot like a guys defense that gave up 32 points to a team that hadn’t scored 30 all year, and feels like holding KC to a field goal is a win and placing the blame on the offense. Houston held them to 212 total yards the week before. Baltimore shut them out in the second half of the ‘23 afc championship. Cincinnati shut them out in the second half of the ‘21 afc championship, so it can be be done, MCD’s defense just can’t get it it done. Whether it be from a scheme standpoint of lack of top tier talent to get the job done. also, MCD saying Kincaid “needs to put on playing weight” sounds an awful lot like a guy trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. You don’t draft guys who don’t fit your scheme and force them into it. Embrace what the guy is, a slight framed receiving tight end not an in line blocker. If that’s what you wanted, you should have drafted a blocking tight end. it just sounds like an evasive approach to what the real issue is 8 years into this regime. A defense that fails time after time in big games. A coaching staff that fails and seems underprepared and tight in big games. A lack of top tier talent on both sides of the ball surrounding a once in a generation quarterback. first it was Leslie Frazier, then they had the overtime rules changed, then it was Ken Dorsey, now it’s the bad calls by the refs and his defense gave the offense a chance to win the game but it didn’t. He’s ran out of people to blame. edit: let’s not even discuss bringing back Smiley and that god awful special teams unit that seems unprepared every time it steps foot on the field

I’m actually tired of all the excuses. Blame the refs, blame Kincaid torn pcl, blame Josh’s’ broken hand, blame benford going out with concussion… how about we stop making excuses and just realize they weren’t good enough. The coaching staff wasn’t good enough. The players weren’t good enough. yes there were bad calls, play better and don’t leave it in the hands of the refs judgement calls. how about James cook only getting 4 carrries in the first half? How the defense giving up 32 points to a team that hadn’t scored 30 all year? theres plenty of blame to go around. With all that being said, they still got the ball back and 3 timeouts with a chance to go and win the game and they didn’t get it done. now bean is talking to the league about the referees? This is what losers do. Just like he had an overtime rule change because the top 5 defense couldn’t get a stop when it mattered. how many more times do you have to watch this defense and head coach fail in big games? There is more than enough proof over the years that in big moments of big games MCD and the defense come up short. accept you weren’t good enough from a coaching and personnel standpoint 8 years into this regime and there still isn’t a pass rush even after all the draft picks and free agent signings. The run defense is still terrible. There isn’t enough top tier talent on either side of the ball to surround your once in a generation quarterback.

Granted 3/4’s of the secondary was out as well as Milano (who surely wasn’t 100% before being out for todays game) but… The defense has given up chunks of yards all year but not many points. Now they’re giving up chunks of yards and points. If a team truly commits to running the ball against the Bills, they don’t have an answer for it, and it opens up so many other options. When they aren’t getting gashed by the run, they aren’t generating any pass rush, which leaves an already depleted secondary in a really bad spot. Bad teams can’t really expose that. Baltimore did it first. Then Houston, LA, Detroit and now New England. tjis is going to be a problem in the playoffs

okkk now. He was a very big part of Josh‘s growth from in year 3, to where he is now. Let’s not forget Josh was throwing 50 yard bombs to Robert Foster before the Bills traded for Diggs In hindsight, Minnesota won the trade in both the long term and the short term with the drafting of Justin Jefferson

Can’t wait to seen him diving at ankles, laying on his face staring up at someone catching/running for a first down or td. (tyreek hill eats his lunch) then putting his hands on his hips “damn”

The fact that Beane is so confident in saying “full confident Stef is a #1” is unsettling. he was “fully confident” in Gabe being a #2 as well. He seems to be a year behind on his evaluations of declining players.

Just like he “firmly believed” that Gabe Davis was a #2

Having said all that, the offense still had an opportunity to take the lead with under 2 mins left and they didn’t make enough plays. that’s the real story. They didn’t capitalize on the opportunities that were in front of them, again.

This game is a cataclysm of the last 6 years into one game. the highs, the lows, the still not being able to cover Travis Kelce, the still letting mahommes pirouette around and get a big first down or finding someone open downfield. Tyler bass didn’t lose this game. From the first snap mistakes were made from Diggs fumbling. To the last drive with Diggs dropping a huge pass, Josh fumbling with 5 mins left and then missing Shakir in the back of the end zone. this is another game of missed opportunities. Blame who you want. There’s plenty to go around

They deserved to lose. Too many mistakes. Too many penalties. Two missed fg’s. On the OT drive alone, there was a dropped pass for a first down, two wrong ran routes/miscommunications (one to win the game). McDermott has to go.

Also leads the league in turnovers since he came in. Tomato tomatoe

Yes.

Again I will ask…what do our defensive injuries have to do with the offense having 7 pts total, 54 minutes into 5 out of the last 6 games? Again I will ask…what do our defensive injuries have to do with the offense having 7 pts total, 54 minutes into 5 out of the last 6 games? Again I will ask…what do our defensive injuries have to do with the offense having 7 pts total, 54 minutes into 5 out of the last 6 games?

What do the injuries on defense have to do with the fact that the offense had 7 pts total with 54 minutes left in 4 of the last 5 games. take away their best game (Miami) and their worst game (pick any of the other 8 games) and that’s what they are. This isn’t just a this season problem. This started to show in the second half of last season. Even when healthy, this defense gets exposed by elite quarterbacks and plays well against average to below average quarterbacks. The roster even when healthy has holes and not enough impactful players that were drafted high.

think the root of the problem is that the roster isn’t as great as everyone thought it was. Besides Josh Allen and Diggs, defenses don’t have to game plan or fear anyone else. we don’t have any other receiving options (Kincaid may get there) besides Diggs. the zone defense was great for 5 years against average to below average teams. They have drafted high round, non-impactful pass rushers and in turn had to pay 140 million dollars to a 33 year old pass rusher to overcompensate. hyde and poyer are showing their age besides Matt Milano, who do offenses really game plan for?! whenever this zone defense faces elite quarterbacks it gets shredded. This is nothing new and has been exposed over and over and over again. Everyone keeps saying we’re stuck in the mud, I think we’re lacking high end talent