How many chances does McDermott have left?

[SoMAn]

The sentiment from a lot of responders to this inquiry seems to be that McDermott is on the bubble.  Y'all are delusional.  After 17 years with no playoff appearances, the Bills have played in 7, winning 3, and just barely losing 2. 

 

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get to a Superbowl, let alone win it?  When's the last time past winning coaches Pete Carroll, Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh, or Sean Payton got to the big game?  How many teams haven't been to a conference final in several years?  Dallas hasn't been in one since 1996. 

Miami hasn't won a conference title since 1985.

 

Other than good coaching and fundamentals, so many things have to fall into place: player attrition, health/injury, and sometimes a little luck. As we know too well, one win or loss can be the difference between home or away. 

 

The first couple years the Bills were in rebuild mode - jettisoning overpaid and under-productive players and bringing in a new platoon, including a rookie QB in 2018.

Because some of you expected the Bills to just waltz into the superbowl, you're disappointed or angered. Get over it.

 

By any measure of NFL coaching, McDermott has been damn successful and I expect Sean and Josh will bring a championship to Buffalo before it's all over.

[Igotbills]

The reason this is even a topic, is because of the last 13 seconds. This loss is 100% on McDermott. You just can’t make those decision he made in those 13 seconds. It’s because of what he has done so far for the organization  that without a doubt he should be here again next year. 
 

My point is, if he doesn’t learn and grow as an in game coach and we end up with a similar result where his decisions cost us another playoff game, I think we have to, At That Time,  at least consider a change.  
 

If this game was his first game with questionable in game decisions, this also isn’t even a topic. 

[Rock-A-Bye Beasley]

2 hours ago, BillMafia716ix said:

McDermott brought this franchise from the basement. Made the playoff his very first year with a ***** roster. He’s not going anywhere no time soon…

Allen brought the franchise back. McDermott had Dennison and Culley coaching the kid as a rookie and started peterman over him. 

[Mikey]

On 1/25/2022 at 12:24 PM, billsfan714 said:

And as someone who lived through those SB games, Marv never out coached any of his opponents.

Each and every Super Bowl Marv was out coached but he was our coach and we never turned our backs on him. There isn’t a perfect coach out there.

 

I remember Joe Gibbs bringing up after the loss to the NY Giants that the way they were daring us to run and how great Thurman Thomas was running in that game how he didn’t grasp why Marv only ran him 16 times and that he would’ve ran Thurman till the giants D we’re either forced to change their scheme or Thurman tongue fell out of his mouth. I also remember that we had enough time where we could’ve ran another quick play to gain a few yards before lining up for that field goal that Scott Norwood missed.

 

Against the Washington Redskins was it really a shock that they came out in the hurry up against us? Was it really a shock that Joe Gibbs coached his D to pressure Jim Kelly as much as they could? Marv sure seemed shocked.

 

The 4th and goal against Dallas Cowboys when Ken Norton jr. just grabs Kenneth Davis by the face mask and goes horizontal with him literally half the length of the goal line to stop him from getting the td and Marv doesn’t throw a fit? It’s was the most blatant face mask in the history of Super Bowl that wasn’t called that changed the course of the game at that point. That’s was one that Marv should’ve went crazy on.

 

The 2nd Super Bowl against Dallas Cowboys we were the most tired team in NFL. We’d played more games during that 4 year span than any other team  and yet Marv didn’t think to rotate all these young players in and out to change it up and let our starters get little rest here and there? Those young players were huge during the season and playoffs to get us there and were virtually abandoned when that Super Bowl Game was played. When Thurman Thomas refused to get back in the game why the heck didn’t Marv go over there to tell him “let it go it’s a tie game now and we can’t win without you so go back in now”

 

Big time out coached. Huge. But without Marv we don’t go to 4 Super Bowls. We don’t have the team we had. 
 

Also some perspective is that Andy Reid was regard as a perennial playoff choker for years and now look at what he’s done.

 

The point I’m making is that without McD and the work he’s done building this team we are probably not even sniffing playoffs right now. We don’t turn our back on him because we lost.
 

This wasn’t a “music city miracle” debacle. This wasn’t “wide right” what this game happened to be is a game for the ages that we lost. Both teams made the plays when they needed and KC happened to win the coin toss and our D came up short. Are there some mistakes? Of course there were. From both teams. If KC had lost their fans would be screaming at missed FG and their D giving up the lead in 4th quarter with 1:09 left in the game. They have a stout D as well that Josh dissected.

 

The reaction from our players after this game tells a lotparticularly from Josh Allen and it’s way different than some of our past playoff teams. Josh is taking accountability and the rest of the team is and I’m optimistic going forward.

[Helpmenow]

15 hours ago, reddogblitz said:

 

How many Super Bowls did the Chargers win again?

 

Seriously, you wanna follow the Chargers example?

Thanks to former bill AJ Smith