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Confirmation bias. It's how people have always been. Here's Sir Francis Bacon from 1620:

This story and the Von Miller situation are such huge distractions that there is no way that this team will pull it together. I can hear them taking sides in the locker room from here in Cincinnati.

Dunne was very close with Doug Whaley and Isiah Mckenzie, two people who McDermott essentially fired. I don't think that he's being professional here. And here's his tweet from 6 hours ago on Bills' press credentials. He implies here that he got them taken away when he left B/R to write on his own with no editorial control.

Sure, but now it's going to look like Pegula fired him because Dunne wrote a hit piece on him. Who's going to want to coach here if all it takes is some blogger with no editorial constraints writing a nasty post about you? I'm sure that if someone wanted to do it, you could write a thing like this about most NFL coaches. I am sure Brandon Staley is thanking his lucky stars that he never had a GM fired who was besties with a reporter/blogger or that he didn't cut a WR who had a vengeful blogger as a podcast co-host.

I would agree, but sports bloggers without the restraints of an editor are hardly journalists. Half of the stuff in this thing would have been cut by an editor at ESPN or SI because so much of it is Dunne adding his opinions and anger about the team to the actual quotes. He's more like a fan with access to players in this case.

Other teams give Dunne press passes and the Bills don't. He talks about that all the time. Also, you know that most of the info came from Lil' Dirty. He really seems to be pissed that the Bills cut him and Dunne used to co-host his podcast when he was in Buffalo.

This thread could be used in a psychology class to teach confirmation bias.

This is a really bad look for the entire organization. There is nothing positive in this for the Buffalo Bills or Buffalo Bills fans.

Interesting. That reflects well on Chad. Never burn bridges, and no comment remains anonymous.

This is just piling on. But Florio also has an ax to grind with Bills and McDermott. I'm sure why.

I can. I used to teach college classes. Even if you plan a lecture, some strange things can come out of your mouth if you stray from the plan even a little bit. I never said anything that tone-deaf, but there are some lectures that I wish I could go back and edit.

It was a hit piece and seems personal. Dunne has a history of working at the Buffalo News and at B/R as a Bills beat writer. He even co-hosed a summer 2019 episode of One Bills Live. Then he left that the go out on his own, selling stories on Substack. The Bills have a policy of not issuing press credentials to "new media" outlets so Dunne lost his access to the team that he used to cover. Hence him spending probably months gathering interviews to take down McDermott. It's personal, as it was for every player and coach that he interviewed. He also did this to Aaron Rodgers a few years ago, FWIW.

If I was an NFL coach, I would never send my kids to the local public high school. Being the coach's kid in HS is like being a high-profile prisoner. Dudes are going to try to take you down to score points on the yard.

Yeah, the league HATES us /s

There's blood in the water and they have hours of content to fill. Trust me. McAfee and Cowherd will get at least 2 segments on this tomorrow. Dunne will be the hottest interview for a few days. It's just how the content machine works.

He could have used D-Day or making a Hollywood movie. All of the horrible things that have happened in human history took planning and coordination. The Nazis kept meticulous records and ran their evil enterprise with machine-like precision. Doesn't mean that you should use it as a positive example of teamwork making the dream work.

17. Boogie Basham 18. Roger Saffold 19. Duke Williams 20. Duke Johnson (signed and never got a shot off the PS) 21. Star 22. Vernon Butler 23. Mario Addison 24. Jerry Hughes 25. Matt Breida That seems like a good guess. But some of the players might go back a bit further. How about some of the less stinging stuff coming from a guy like Kyle Williams? Maybe Edmonds?

Some of this stuff every team goes through, but you only find out about it if you live in town and/or closely follow the team.

I don't want to derail this dumpster fire of a thread, but I don't know what to do about the Sabres. I don't live in town anymore. Is there anybody else with local connections with enough money to buy the team and not move them?

I'm trying to come up with the 25 sources. Here's what i've got: Daboll Chad Hall Heath Farwell Jon Feliciano Quinton Spain Cole Beasley Devin Singletary Leslie Frasier John Brown Bobby Johnson Lil' Dirty Zach Moss Ken Dorsey Cody Ford Bobby Hart Levi Wallace

I don't know about that. You mentioned in another thread that you're an Isles fan so you may not be aware of this, but I remember back when he first bought the Sabres, Pegula got into it with Bucky Gleason. It got personal, with Gleason having his media access removed because he wrote stories critical of the way that the team was being run. At that time, Gleason was the main beat writer for the only local newspaper. Pegula doesn't like the press putting him under a microscope. He's too used to being surrounded by yes men. BTW, Pegula used all of his local influence to get Gleason blackballed from Buffalo sports media. Bucky is now a real estate agent.

Because the Bills won't give Tyler Dune media access.

This story feels like a personal grudge that Dunne released at the worst time to inflict maximum possible damage. BTW, after this, Pegula will never fire McDermott. He simply wouldn't give Dunne the satisfaction. It seems to be personal for both of them, and we all have to suffer the consequences. For those of you reading all of this with satisfaction, because you've been proven right on the Internet, I hope that you enjoy a return to being a dysfunctional organization that makes players cry after being drafted. Between Von Miller and this story, this has been one of the worst weeks in Buffalo Bills history and they didn't even play a game.

All head coaches are control freaks. It's part of the job description.

This bit from Jeff Saturday about what he walked into in Indianapolis doesn't seem to reflect highly on Frank Reich as a head coach. It appears that he completely lost control of the organization