DrDawkinstein

The coaching talent pool has been almost completely drained over the last few years. Especially on the Offensive side. These teams are stretching to find bodies to fill out their staff.

Good.

Yeah I think even the talking heads have backed down on wondering why he isnt being hired. At this point, he's been through so many cycles folks are realizing there must be a reason there that is better off left alone.

Thought I saw a tweet that he's in consideration for the Raiders OC spot. Havent seen much else.

The only way I can justify a trade up for a WR is if it's in the 2nd round. Say a defensive guy we LOVE falls to us at 28. We may go defense there, and then I can see Beane moving up as high as he can in the 2nd to get whoever is still there.

Not worth risking an injury if his camp knows there is already interest from teams.

Gonna be a lot of upset people around here when Frazier lands a HC spot in 2025 and two 3rd round picks get sent to Seattle.

To that point, Al Holcomb has a Super Bowl ring 🤷‍♂️

All good points. One thing I'll mention on the other side, dilly-dallying around with a bunch of other candidates and even some big names from the outside, can easily drive your internal candidates to take those other jobs they were interviewed for. The Bills waste another week dealing with the schedules of big names and by the end of the week Babich lands in Green Bay and Brady takes the OC job in Atlanta, and then we don't even like the outside guys and we're left holding our puds. Something similar just happened to the Commanders. They dragged their feet on MacDonald waiting to see what Johnson was going to do, and by the time Johnson told them he was staying in Detroit and they called MacDonald back, MacDonald was already in Seattle. And now, Quinn.

Holcomb has coached at the Giants (SB winner), Cardinals, Browns, and Panthers all without McDermott. Outside of 5 years together in Carolina, Holcomb's 30 year coaching career has largely been without McDermott.

He was an external hire last year when we brought him on as an assistant, having previously been the Panthers DC. What does it matter a year later? Has anyone seen the candidates that are out there? Or lack there of? Raiders brought in Chip frickin Kelly to interview for OC this week.

This is my dad's famous saying. But he uses "frog".

Taking advantage of all the legal substances in Vancouver, then has to speak to the press as the NHL All Star Captain Full presser, poor Will Arnett

Love AVP as a Bill, but not scared of this at all.

This sounds exactly like the posts I see on finhaven.com!

The complete silence on Bienemy, even after moving out of Reid's shadow, and even after making Howell look good... is quite telling. I do wonder what exactly about him disqualifies him so completely from a HC opportunity. Is it really the baggage from Colorado? Is he really that big a prick in interviews? Baffling.

Or maybe a few hours up the 90? edit: As for the Ohio State job... previously I would have agreed with you. But seeing the coaches leaving CFB due to the new era of NIL, transfer portals, etc, I'm not sure college jobs have the allure they used to. Just saw the Boston College coach talk about leaving because college coaching isnt about recruiting and coaching anymore. It's become a fulltime fundraising job, begging boosters for money in order to buy a recruiting class. Doesnt sound like much fun.

I feel sorry for the Commanders fan.

Whenever I get too down about these playoff exits, I walk down the street to my Miami Dolphin Fan Neighbor's house and punch him in the stomach. At least we still own them.

I would. Just like Kincaid and Torrence (the latter having played EVERY offensive snap this year) this year. We will need immediate starter contributions from our first 3-4 defensive draft picks.

Nah. This year's exit was pretty much expected. At least for me. With the injuries and having to battle through elimination for the previous 6 weeks, plus having half a working coaching staff, I was pretty sure the Chiefs would kick it into "playoff mode" and roll through. Nothing will be worse than 13 seconds. I'm still not over it. Cant watch highlights from that game. And it has numbed me to any further playoff exits. 13 Seconds is now the representation of McDermott I expect to see in playoff games until he proves otherwise. With that, none of these losses hurt. Which is sad.

Couple different things at play: 1. The crazy Qonspiracy Theorists on social media and PPP who have ideas that are completely detached from reality 2. More common, and as @section122 pointed out yesterday, they only cut to her right after Kelce/Chiefs score or make a big play. So fans of the other team associate her with their team losing or having something bad happen. With the in-game emotions most of us go through, I can understand that a bit. But I would hope after the game ends we go back to being rational, reasonable people who have no reason to hate anyone.

I am so so sorry. My heart is with you, your children, and your family.

Haha, he'd be a Safety for us and likely take over Hyde's spot as well as be a monster that Babich/McD can move around and play a ton of different roles. Like Polamalu. Playing him at CB would be sand-bagging him and taking away so much of his potential to roam the field and make plays.

Our biggest injuries have been Hyde breaking his neck last year, Milano breaking his leg this year, and Tre White's bad luck on horrible turf surfaces. No training team is going to prevent broken bones, and I'm not sure what more they could have done for White. The rest of our injuries were just regular old football injuries and the cost of doing business. It sucks because for McD's first few years here (2017 to like 2021) the Bills were on the opposite end of the Injury spectrum and skated through with almost no major injuries. We've been VERY lucky in one area that I dont even want to mention at the risk of speaking it into existence. So I'll just say we've done better than Cincy with Burrow, and keep the prayer candles lit for our boy. hahaha, I love your "spend all early picks on WRs" crusade. But unfortunately, we are no longer in a place where the roster is stocked with vets and we can afford to draft developmental players. That was 2019-2022, but no longer. The fact that every Defensive player we draft will most likely have to start right away unfortunately knocks out your argument. We need to spend premium picks on the guys who will be playing a lot of snaps in 2024, not the guy who will come in as our 5th offensive option. (I am in favor of drafting a WR in the 1st)