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Throwback to Another Horrible McDermott Decision


Cheektavegas Charlie

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That game was a perfect example of what many people (including me) have said all along about McD. We have the talent on this team to win despite him! The worst part of all these heartbreaking losses of the past 3 years is that even when McD made a really bad in game decision, we still had the chance (in many instances, but not all) for someone to step up and make a play to decide the outcome in our favor. Philly was just the latest example. But in many of these losses the opposite has happened and we have collapsed and given the game away. In the end the players have to step up, bad coaching management or not and win these close games!

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1 hour ago, Charles Romes said:

Whatever McDermott tries is wrong. He is normally too lax in crunch time and it blows up in his face. When he tries to be aggressive it also blows up in his face. Vikings in ‘22 going for 7 when up by 10. Deep shots v the Jets week 1 with the lead, all out blitz to try to close out the broncos results in game-losing PI. 

Not necessarily the wrong decisions, however the play call.  Sure call a blitz, but how is the defender so flatfooted and no situational awareness (that's not on the coaching)? 

 

I remember the Vikings call, but it was a lousy play call (and was an int too returned some 40 yards).  That was the play where you have a trick play, up-tempo snap,  or funky alignment so the defense is guessing.   

 

Against the Jets, why was it deep pass after deep pass.

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1 hour ago, Juice_32 said:

I’m envious of your memory, maybe I have too many kids or something. I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night.

Huh - I'm 60 years old and this game - and the way a miracle catch by a journeyman WR  saved the season and covered McD's ass for a brutal choke job on his part - was the first thing I think of when I think of his gameday failings.  13s in KC too, obviously, but the Snow game hosting Indy was really inescapable in how bad McD could be.

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16 minutes ago, BobChalmers said:

Huh - I'm 60 years old and this game - and the way a miracle catch by a journeyman WR  saved the season and covered McD's ass for a brutal choke job on his part - was the first thing I think of when I think of his gameday failings.  13s in KC too, obviously, but the Snow game hosting Indy was really inescapable in how bad McD could be.

60 too and remember screaming at my TV at the stupidity of that punt.  

 

As stupid as McD was for starting Peterman, at that time little did I know his ineptitude when it came to game day decisions.  This was a portent of things to come.

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McD never trusted or helped Allen in the draft or during games. Always drafting high on defense year after and never on WR and OL. But every time the Bills win is because of a ***** unicorn we have as QB. And every time Bills lose is because of McDummy and his overpriced defense. 

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16 hours ago, Cheektavegas Charlie said:

Back in 2017, in McDermott’s first year, we played the colts very late in the season in a game we basically needed to win to have any chance at making the playoffs. This was the memorable snow bowl game. Well during this game, with 4:13 seconds left in overtime, McDermott punted on 4th and 1 on the Colts 41 yard line. This game ending in a tie would have all but sunk our chances of ending the drought. Of course we got the ball back on our own 30 with about 2 minutes left, Joe Webb threw the long pass to Deonte Thompson, and then McCoy broke the long Td run, but regardless of that miraculous outcome, the decision to punt there was TERRIBLE. His bad decisions get magnified in big games when we lose, but people easily forget all the other really bad ones when we win. I don’t want a coach who punts 3 times on 4th and short on the opponents side of the field like McDermott did against the Bucs. If Mike Evans turns around we lose that game, and if Joe Webb, Deonte Thompson, and Shady McCoy didn’t pull out an incredibly unlikely win against the Colts in 2017, the drought would have gone on even longer.

 

LOL this was supposed to be the “mic drop” post from @Cheektowaga Chad

 

Didn’t work out that way, eh Chad 😂😂😂

 

If you want to be critical of McDermott’s

game time decision, you can do better than the snow game.  

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16 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:

Yeah … that was a bad call… perhaps we can cut him the slightest of slack on that one given his inexperience at the time…

 

No such leeway now however…not in Josh Allen prime years.,.


That was bad even for an inexperienced head coach though. He’s always been incredibly unprepared. 

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So the lesson McDermott learned from that Colts game is that he made the right call by punting on 4th and 1.  After all, the Bills got the ball back and scored to win the game. 

 

The problem with that lesson is that most games aren't snow games, and usually defenses are a lot more tired than offenses are.  So usually if you get the ball late in the game your chances of scoring are much better than at other times.  Usually, in the situation with the Colts game, the opponent will take your punt and keep the ball the rest of the game.  

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2 hours ago, Utah John said:

So the lesson McDermott learned from that Colts game is that he made the right call by punting on 4th and 1.  After all, the Bills got the ball back and scored to win the game. 

 

The problem with that lesson is that most games aren't snow games, and usually defenses are a lot more tired than offenses are.  So usually if you get the ball late in the game your chances of scoring are much better than at other times.  Usually, in the situation with the Colts game, the opponent will take your punt and keep the ball the rest of the game.  

Actually now that my memory was jogged, I remember too afterwards Indy's punter got off a great punt that had the Bills back at their 35 yard line or so, meaning they lost 25 yards and in the exchange and it took a miraculous catch on third down on a long pass to get them into fg range (no given in the snow).  

 

McD did everything wrong and somehow they pulled it out when Andy Dalton vaulted them into the playoffs.

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6 hours ago, Juice_32 said:

I’m envious of your memory, maybe I have too many kids or something. I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night.

Me, 'm trying to remember the first playoff game against the Chiefs. I recall vaguely that McDermott punted on our 4th and short when we really needed to score and went for a field goal at least once in a game we needed touchdowns. Yes, Allen was a little out of sorts that game, but McDermott made sure to take away the slim chance they had to win it, by being uber-aggressive. You don't always want to be aggressive, obviously, but McDermott's judgment is way off. 

 

It's like, to him, close losses are worth as much as wins. 

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