HappyDays Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 5 hours ago, Rigotz said: You realize that his defense held Tom Brady to 9 points in the first half... right? You also realize that our defense has like zero good players on it....right? He's a rookie head coach. Rookies make mistakes. By all accounts he has done great things for the team culture and defense in less than one season. I feel very good about the defense, but it’s going to take another offseason to make it truly playoff caliber. People don’t realize what McDermott inherited. We lost our entire secondary and in one offseason he rebuilt it. Poyer, Hyde, White, Gaines, and Johnson are a good foundation and it’s remarkable how well they’re playing as a unit in year one. Our front 7 needs to be rebuilt too. Hughes is the only definite starter next year, and you can throw in Milano too who is looking like an excellent 5th round pick. You can say the regime created their own problem by trading Dareus but that was necessary for the culture change and I believe they will fix that spot in free agency. Next season I expect a renaissance in our front 7 the same way our secondary had one this season. Offense I am more concerned about, but it’s looking more and more like Dennison was just a one-year place holder and they’ll be drafting a QB early next year. So that whole unit will be revamped too. Dawkins and Jones are developing pretty nicely. I didn’t have any expectations this year, it’s just too bad the early 5-2 start got my hopes up again. Being rational about it we have a great place to build from, now they just have to hit on a couple draft picks and make one big move in free agency (Star Lotulelei?) and we’ll be in playoff shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMF2006 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 That call cost us the game....fire everyone I think he was hoping they would change their mind on the intentional grounding non call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Angel Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 5 hours ago, The juice said: Too many times this year with blunders in and out of game. Yesterday, the terrible challenge when Brady’s knee hit with NO ONE touching him. Disgusting Well if you think we're gonna find a coach that doesn't make a questionable challenge I got some ocean front property for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackington Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I'm not a huge fan of McD but you gotta give him 3 years cuz they demolished this team for him. At least let them build it first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbomb Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 5 hours ago, The juice said: Too many times this year with blunders in and out of game. Yesterday, the terrible challenge when Brady’s knee hit with NO ONE touching him. Disgusting Let me guess, you think he should be fired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 5 hours ago, Scott7975 said: Fire everyone. Burn it down. Move the team to Mexico. Bring out the bulldozers, turn this place into a parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 4 hours ago, Jobot said: Disgree. I love the fact that he's never content. I think you stick with a guy that works as hard as he does so long as we keep seeing improvements. I honestly expected 40pts from the PATs. 24 pts from a team who's offense was so pitiful is a huge improvement compared the Jets/Sains/Chargers performances. ....sure he's been in the league BUT he's a rook HC.......NOT to expect mistakes is purely asinine (except in the hallowed halls of TBD)........hell look at the mistakes made by seasoned HC's......he'll need to get more acclimated to the big picture necessary for a HC......how many coordinators fail as HC's and end up right back in coordinator positions.......you're in charge on the ENTIRE sideline and not just you path (as in OC or DC) to get here.....what bugs me (at least on the surface) is that he seems to let Dennison and Frazier do their "thing" unimpeded....too many stretches of where things have gone sour (ie. 3 straight L's) where he needed to step in and call them to task......Castillo is a PRIME example....think Iacocca said, "lead, follow or get the hell outta the way"......he needs to lead..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan130 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 4 hours ago, CodeMonkey said: Yeah that one had me scratching my head as well. Even if his intention was just to give Peterman a couple more plays practice, it was the wrong move. This off season McCoach needs to get an analytics person to either teach him clock management and give him a cheat sheet he can go to during games, or have that analyst on a headset to help him do the smart thing and prevent him from doing the dumb thing during those situations. What baffles me is how bad coaches are with time management. Shouldn't it be pretty simple? Like I have better clock management playing Madden and I have never coached a Football game in my life. Maybe they just have so much on their plate, they don't think clearly on gameday. I just don't get it because it really should not be complicated at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeMonkey Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 25 minutes ago, billsfan11 said: What baffles me is how bad coaches are with time management. Shouldn't it be pretty simple? Like I have better clock management playing Madden and I have never coached a Football game in my life. Maybe they just have so much on their plate, they don't think clearly on gameday. I just don't get it because it really should not be complicated at all I think you hit on it. They have a lot to worry about in the heat of the moment and it's easy to make that mistake. That's why I like the idea of having someone on a headset to let him know what to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBillsFanSince1973 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 this is the way I look at it. I can not pass full judgement based off 12 games. blunders, mistakes, bad judgement comes with the learning process. hell, it started that way from infancy. you had to crawl before you could walk and fell many times picking up a bruise or two, then got back up. a learning process. this guys feet are still wet, he's taking his bruises. you want to chastise him for his failures that's your right to do so and even warranted yet final judgement or any talks of firing is way too premature in my opinion. this coming draft, the off season and the 2018 season one should be able to gain more leverage in judgement and at this point I can only say I hope he learns and develops in to a fine HC and the team looks to becoming a contender? I couldn't base it off this season, haven't seen enough yet. that and I realize this is a rebuild with a rookie HC to boot so it would be foolish of me to pass judgement at this juncture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDogg20 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 6 hours ago, The juice said: Too many times this year with blunders in and out of game. Yesterday, the terrible challenge when Brady’s knee hit with NO ONE touching him. Disgusting I didnt like the challenge either but I believe he was looking for a grounding call. You win some you lose some, gotta take chances especially when the Pats* pull their hustle to line bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW95 - JA17 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Trust me when I say had any other QB in the league done that, it would have been called Intentional Grounding. The play happened so fast I don't even think the refs knew what happened. But just another play in favor of Brady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Jobot said: I felt the same way at first, but he clearly was upset that they gave no explanation to why intentional grounding was not called. I didn’t realize it was still customary to explain that Brady and the Pats* have a different set of rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I can’t help but feel there’s more to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Bill_with_it said: This is complete and utter nonsense. That challenge was to hopefully get the refs to see the clear and ditinct intentional grounding. Ugh, let's hope that wasn't his idea, b/c no aspect of intentional grounding is reviewable. After the referee ruled about not being down by contact, McD seemed surprised, and gestured the "intentional grounding" gesture as if to say "That's not what I wanted to review!" Of course, the grounding can't be revised and McD comes across, again, as some type of glorified gym teacher idiot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bing Bong Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Chargers benching, giving the okay on the 4th and 1 fade to Zay (!!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobonators Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I believe in McD. My biggest concern for him long-term will be can he attach himself to a great offensive mind at OC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 minute ago, PetermanThrew5Picks said: Chargers benching, giving the okay on the 4th and 1 fade to Zay (!!!). I don’t think either of those are big deals. And the fade to Zay was probably not even a McDermott call. Nor was the Tyrod throw directly to the defender drive killing momentum deflating interception on the opening drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris66 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Wow, that's a short honeymoon. You guys are brutal. At least give him a couple drafts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jokeman Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 8 hours ago, The juice said: Too many times this year with blunders in and out of game. Yesterday, the terrible challenge when Brady’s knee hit with NO ONE touching him. Disgusting because that lost time out really hurt us when it counted most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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