Tyler Dunne story on McDermott - 3 parts, 25 interviews, one damning conclusion

[Goin Breakdown]

1 hour ago, jethro_tull said:

Lots of assumptions masquerading as facts typical for the new world media approach.  

There isn't a coach alive (or person really) that such scrutiny wouldn't reveal flaws and perceived weaknesses in one's profession.  Even among tenured coaches like Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh and Pete Carroll.  

It takes an organization and a team to win.  A team that works together and rises above the imperfections of each individual by complementing each others strengths.  

Such a disgusting hit piece that isn't worth the electrons it is occupying in cyber space.  

Very well said. I can also almost guarantee that this piece would not have been written if the Bills were 11-2. It was in effort to smear a man's name and get his job taken from him. I get it. He isn't the greatest coach in the world. He makes really bad mistakes. So fire him because of that, not because we live in such a divisive time. We're all finger pointers and many of us need to point those fingers in a mirror. 

[hondo in seattle]

55 minutes ago, Rico said:

His career is in free-fall.

Buffalo News -> Bleacher Report -> Blog -> ???

 

The shame of it is that Dunne writes really good human-interest pieces on athletes.  He's got talent.  Sadly, he misused his writing skills on a hatchet job that told a very one-sided story.    

[Rico]

1 minute ago, hondo in seattle said:

 

The shame of it is that Dunne writes really good human-interest pieces on athletes.  He's got talent.  Sadly, he misused his writing skills on a hatchet job that told a very one-sided story.    

I hate human-interest stories.

[Wayne Arnold]

2 hours ago, Mister Defense said:

 

But the thing you miss is that crap is not a real piece of journalism, but a  only a 'man' with a vendetta, listing a slew of criticisms and then smushing these unrelated events together, connecting them (very, very poorly) to make the case against a man he hates. 

 

This person is not a journalist, any more than others with blogs are journalists, just a guy with his own site, charging others to pay for his 'work'.  No true Bills' fan will ever read this idiot's writing again.

 

He has no editor or fellow writers to give him feedback and such,to reign in his worst traits, as a newspaper/magazine/pro-online news organization would.

 

I cannot imagine any fan of the Bills accepting this muckraking as legitimate journalism. 
 

So glad it is now being held up across the country for what it is--trash.

 

You're way too emotional about it.

 

Unless you're related to McDermott, it's weird.

[GunnerBill]

8 hours ago, Peter said:

 

I cannot say for sure, but it is curious that he was about as aggressive a play caller at the end of the game as I recall seeing just a few days after some of the comments in the article.

 

I mean he called an aggressive game at the end vs Denver as well and it cost us the game. He called an aggressive defense all day vs Mac Jones and it allowed him to dink and dunk his way to a win. 

 

The games that McDermott as defensive coordinator has blown this year haven't been because he hasn't been aggressive enough. Quite the opposite. They are because he has been too aggressive.

[Mr. WEO]

10 hours ago, Warcodered said:

Hard to say he was able to be at the exact place and time he needed to be to land his block, which is a penalty, who's to say that still happens if he doesn't have all but his back foot in the neutral zone when he starts.

 

 

come on.  

[GunnerBill]

Whether Toney would, or wouldn't have made the play if he had remained onside is an absolute irrelevance. He was lined up in the neutral zone. Really obviously. I called it before the snap, the refs threw the flag immediately, everything that happened thereafter was a nullity. It didn't happen. We live history through reality not through alternative facts. 

[Bob Jones]

2 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

Whether Toney would, or wouldn't have made the play if he had remained onside is an absolute irrelevance. He was lined up in the neutral zone. Really obviously. I called it before the snap, the refs threw the flag immediately, everything that happened thereafter was a nullity. It didn't happen. We live history through reality not through alternative facts. 

Yesterday afternoon on ESPN, they showed that Toney had been lining up offside like that virtually all game, but they never called it....until that last drive. But like you said, the flag was thrown at the start of the play, so the ref had no idea it would be nullifying a TD.

[FireChans]

I interviewed 25 former players, coaches, and staff to talk about Mike Tomlin. Here’s my blog.

 

”He’s been riding that Super Bowl for over a decade. He’s very arrogant and it’s his way or the highway in that building.”

 

”If things go south, the first thing Tomlin will do is fire his OC. Of course, it can’t be his defenses’ fault.”

 

”He basically ignores the offense. The lockerroom doesn’t respect him, look at how the Antonio Brown and Le’veon Bell things turned out. He’s a poor leader.”

 

Subscribe to my blog to read more from these former staff members who clearly have no bias at all when talking about the guy who fired them.

[Rico]

1 minute ago, FireChans said:

I interviewed 25 former players, coaches, and staff to talk about Mike Tomlin. Here’s my blog.

 

”He’s been riding that Super Bowl for over a decade. He’s very arrogant and it’s his way or the highway in that building.”

 

”If things go south, the first thing Tomlin will do is fire his OC. Of course, it can’t be his defenses’ fault.”

 

”He basically ignores the offense. The lockerroom doesn’t respect him, look at how the Antonio Brown and Le’veon Bell things turned out. He’s a poor leader.”

 

Subscribe to my blog to read more from these former staff members who clearly have no bias at all when talking about the guy who fired them.

Good idea, maybe after he’s broke again.

[GunnerBill]

7 minutes ago, Rico said:

Good idea, maybe after he’s broke again.

 

'cept he only knows folks in Buffalo and Green Bay.... 

12 minutes ago, FireChans said:

I interviewed 25 former players, coaches, and staff to talk about Mike Tomlin. Here’s my blog.

 

”He’s been riding that Super Bowl for over a decade. He’s very arrogant and it’s his way or the highway in that building.”

 

”If things go south, the first thing Tomlin will do is fire his OC. Of course, it can’t be his defenses’ fault.”

 

”He basically ignores the offense. The lockerroom doesn’t respect him, look at how the Antonio Brown and Le’veon Bell things turned out. He’s a poor leader.”

 

Subscribe to my blog to read more from these former staff members who clearly have no bias at all when talking about the guy who fired them.

 

Is yours $8 a pop too?

[Rico]

1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

 

'cept he only knows folks in Buffalo and Green Bay.... 

 

Whaley knows people in Pittsburgh... and desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

17 minutes ago, FireChans said:

I interviewed 25 former players, coaches, and staff to talk about Mike Tomlin. Here’s my blog.

 

”He’s been riding that Super Bowl for over a decade. He’s very arrogant and it’s his way or the highway in that building.”

 

”If things go south, the first thing Tomlin will do is fire his OC. Of course, it can’t be his defenses’ fault.”

 

”He basically ignores the offense. The lockerroom doesn’t respect him, look at how the Antonio Brown and Le’veon Bell things turned out. He’s a poor leader.”

 

Subscribe to my blog to read more from these former staff members who clearly have no bias at all when talking about the guy who fired them.

Stop giving away so much of your 'content'.  It's bad business practice. 🤨😁

[Coach Tuesday]

10 hours ago, Rico said:

I hate human-interest stories.

That tracks.

[Peter]

4 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

I mean he called an aggressive game at the end vs Denver as well and it cost us the game. He called an aggressive defense all day vs Mac Jones and it allowed him to dink and dunk his way to a win. 

 

The games that McDermott as defensive coordinator has blown this year haven't been because he hasn't been aggressive enough. Quite the opposite. They are because he has been too aggressive.

 

1) He called one blitz after another at the end of the game. The article talked about McD being "paralyzed by fear late in games." Also, the article confirmed that he took over the play calling against KC at the end of the infamous "13 seconds" game.

 

2) As for games lost, we have lost many games this year because the defense gave up game losing drives (with McD calling the defense whether he called an aggressive game or not). If the defense was better at protecting leads (or as McD might say: playing complementary football), we would be sitting pretty  for the playoffs. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

Tyler who?

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, Peter said:

 

1) He called one blitz after another at the end of the game. The article talked about McD being "paralyzed by fear late in games." Also, the article confirmed that he took over the play calling against KC at the end of the infamous "13 seconds" game.

 

2) As for games lost, we have lost many games this year because the defense gave up game losing drives (with McD calling the defense whether he called an aggressive game or not). If the defense was better at protecting leads (or as McD might say: playing complementary football), we would be sitting pretty  for the playoffs. 

 

And on the critical 4th down he showed blitz and backed out. He definitely called a better drive at the end of the game than he has done other times this year but the problem with his play calling so far this season as DC has definitively NOT been a lack of aggression, whatever Tyler Dunne says. It has been too much aggression. In late game scenarios I always think the play is blitz early, simulate late - i.e. get it into the QBs head early in the drive that you are coming, but on the critical downs play coverage. Now obviously you can't be predictable but as a general rule that is the approach I think is most effective. McDermott has often been guilty of doing it the other way, simulating early and so the QB gets two or three looks at where you might come from and then actually blitzing late in drives. And it has hurt us. 

 

The defensive playcalling all season hasn't been good enough as far as I am concerned. Just not sure I think Sunday was a sign more aggression is the answer. 

[Coach Tuesday]

4 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

And on the critical 4th down he showed blitz and backed out. He definitely called a better drive at the end of the game than he has done other times this year but the problem with his play calling so far this season as DC has definitively NOT been a lack of aggression, whatever Tyler Dunne says. It has been too much aggression. In late game scenarios I always think the play is blitz early, simulate late - i.e. get it into the QBs head early in the drive that you are coming, but on the critical downs play coverage. Now obviously you can't be predictable but as a general rule that is the approach I think is most effective. McDermott has often been guilty of doing it the other way, simulating early and so the QB gets two or three looks at where you might come from and then actually blitzing late in drives. And it has hurt us. 

 

The defensive playcalling all season hasn't been good enough as far as I am concerned. Just not sure I think Sunday was a sign more aggression is the answer. 

From what I’ve read this week it sounds like they did a better job of preparing and practicing 2 minute defense last week, including the blitz choreography.

[Rico]

39 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

That tracks.

I remember a few years back, someone posted a thread on Off The Wall about Empathy... looked pretty popular, many pages long.

 

I never clicked on it, so I don't know if it was any good.

[Johnnyp566]

On 12/9/2023 at 3:46 PM, Turk71 said:

Imagine you are paid millions of dollars per year to run an organization and yet you are stupid enough to think the 9/11 hijackers are a great motivational example of teamwork?

  He shows it over and over on game days and this story just confirms it. How much proof that McD is an idiot do people need? 

 

An idiot who’s brought this team to the playoffs 5/6 years and turned a train wreck of a franchise around.. sounds like an idiot to me.