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Confirmation bias. It's how people have always been. Here's Sir Francis Bacon from 1620:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How have the Bills been after their Bye Week?
Low Positive replied to Kaenon's topic in The Stadium Wall
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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