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11 minutes ago, Billever76 said:

I put most of our successes on getting Josh Allen and feel he is the biggest reason of our turnaround..allen makes McDermott look allot better than he is imo

A franchise QB makes a coach look a lot better???

 

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10 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-nfl-coaching-hires-anthony-lynn-at-no-1-0ap3000000778807

 

Ranking from NFL. Com on all the coaching hires that year. Any guesses who's number 1? Hint: Not McVay OR Shanahan 

Now that is a slap in the face! Anthony Lynn and Doug Marrone both ahead of Sean McDermott!!

 

I thought the Anthony Lynn hire was stupid from the start. He had no experience. He went from a running backs coach to an interim coach for part of the year, to head coach. I always thought he would fail.

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3 minutes ago, MJS said:

Now that is a slap in the face! Anthony Lynn and Doug Marrone both ahead of Sean McDermott!!

 

I thought the Anthony Lynn hire was stupid from the start. He had no experience. He went from a running backs coach to an interim coach for part of the year, to head coach. I always thought he would fail.

Vance Joseph was 3 too!

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21 minutes ago, MJS said:

2017 was a pretty impressive year for coach hiring, actually. McDermott, McVay, and Shanahan.

Found an old NFL article ranking them....

 

1.)  Anthony Lynn

2.)  Sean McVay

3.)  Vance Joseph

4.)  Kyle Shanahan

5.)  Doug Marrone

 

6.)  Sean McDermott - It's unfair to rank McDermott this low, but someone has to bring up the rear. McDermott is well respected throughout the NFL, but he has the fewest tangible assets and perhaps the most difficult job of the new coaches.  

 

The Bills have high expectations and a flawed roster. The organization also has an entrenched GM in Doug Whaley who hasn't shown a great aptitude for finding talent. McDermott made his name as a defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers under a defensive-minded head coach in Ron Rivera, so it's difficult to tease out what his impact was. The Panthers' defense wasn't exactly a shutdown unit in his tenure, despite being well-coached. McDermott has been a defensive coordinator the last eight seasons between his time in Philadelphia and Carolina. Those defenses ranked in the top 10 in points allowed twice.

 

McDermott's offensive coordinator will be former Broncos OC Rick Dennison, a coach who was attached at the hip to Gary Kubiak for most of the last two decades. The Bills will likely be breaking in a new quarterback, one of many challenges for Dennison in the role. Perhaps McDermott and Dennison are NFL lifers who just needed this chance to show their value. They will have to be exceptional to excel in Buffalo, where they face an uphill task.

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2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:

Man.  Talk about a good decision.  Seven years later, four straight division titles.  Playoffs six times.  

 

After all those years of failure.  

 

Now we wait and see if he's a Marty Schottenheimer or a Andy Reid. Marty won 3 straight division titles and made the playoffs four years in a row out of five as the Browns head coach and made the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons with the Chiefs (who obviously were 2nd in the division to the Elway-led Broncos most years) and he didn't have a QB anywhere near like Josh Allen. 

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Posted
5 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Replacing Sexy Rexy and his brother Blubbo. Wizard Beane followed the next year.

 

 


No he didn’t… Beane followed 4 months later.  Not the next year.  He was drafting Josh Allen in 2018

3 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

Now we wait and see if he's a Marty Schottenheimer or an Andy Reid. Marty won 3 straight division titles and made the playoffs four years in a row out of five as the Browns head coach and made the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons with the Chiefs (who obviously were 2nd in the division to the Elway-led Broncos most years) and he didn't have a QB anywhere near like Josh Allen. 

FYI Marty is a really bad comparison… he has a post season record of 5-13 over the span of 18 seasons.

 

Sean McDermott is 4-5 in 6 seasons.  
 

So many McDermott will be on par with Marty is he never wins another post season game.  

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52 minutes ago, Strethor said:

Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers | January 22, 2007

John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens | January 19, 2008

Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs | January 7, 2013

Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bills | January 11, 2017

Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams | January 12, 2017

Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers | February 6, 2017

Matt LaFleur, Green Bay Packers | January 8, 2019

Zac Taylor, Cincinnati Bengals | February 9, 2019

Mike McCarthy, Dallas Cowboys | January 8, 2020

Kevin Stefanski, Cleveland Browns | January 13, 2020

 

This is a list of the longest tenured NFL coaches right now. McDermott's level of quality as a coach is rare.

Crazy that to get to the Super Bowl - we may need to beat all 3 coaches with a longer tenure than Mcdermott...

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5 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Replacing Sexy Rexy and his brother Blubbo. Wizard Beane followed the next year.

 

 

 

This is the full video:

 

 

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The one thing I give Sean credit for even in dark times he’s never lost the lockerroom.
The way the team rallied around him after that hitpiece article came out was something you don’t see too often especially with something as sensitive as 9-11. 

Man

Tomlin

likely Reid

Likely Harbaugh

likely Shannahan

To win a Super Bowl not too hard a task 

 

Posted
52 minutes ago, Billever76 said:

I put most of our successes on getting Josh Allen and feel he is the biggest reason of our turnaround..allen makes McDermott look allot better than he is imo

He did get the 2017 team into the playoffs though

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Posted
1 hour ago, stuvian said:

Let's hope Mrs Pegula is around for the next such photo 

 

There may not be another photo as McD will be here for a very long time.

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7 minutes ago, 17islongenough said:

He did get the 2017 team into the playoffs though

No, Boyd and Dalton got us in the playoffs just long enough to watch Tyrod put up a whopping 7 pts.  Other than ending the drought, that playoff season was a joke. 

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All I can say is we are damn fortunate that Beane and McDermott went for Josh Allen and got him, the rest is history, 

 

GO BILLS!!!

Posted
20 minutes ago, 17islongenough said:

He did get the 2017 team into the playoffs though

 

Yup.  When everyone thought they were tanking for Darnold.

Posted
3 hours ago, Steptide said:

Didn't read all the replys, but many didn't like this hire at the time. He was a younger jauron they said. 

 

Some of them are emulating wrong Josh posters and are still advocating getting rid of him.

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Interesting seeing Whaley in there and was that Russ Brandon in the background?

 

Neat seeing the arrival and now knowing what he’s done for this team.  I gotta say I was pretty hard on him before the winning streak and will eat a big bag of crow.  Glad he’s our coach!

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6 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Found an old NFL article ranking them....

 

1.)  Anthony Lynn

2.)  Sean McVay

3.)  Vance Joseph

4.)  Kyle Shanahan

5.)  Doug Marrone

 

6.)  Sean McDermott - It's unfair to rank McDermott this low, but someone has to bring up the rear. McDermott is well respected throughout the NFL, but he has the fewest tangible assets and perhaps the most difficult job of the new coaches.  

 

The Bills have high expectations and a flawed roster. The organization also has an entrenched GM in Doug Whaley who hasn't shown a great aptitude for finding talent. McDermott made his name as a defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers under a defensive-minded head coach in Ron Rivera, so it's difficult to tease out what his impact was. The Panthers' defense wasn't exactly a shutdown unit in his tenure, despite being well-coached. McDermott has been a defensive coordinator the last eight seasons between his time in Philadelphia and Carolina. Those defenses ranked in the top 10 in points allowed twice.

 

McDermott's offensive coordinator will be former Broncos OC Rick Dennison, a coach who was attached at the hip to Gary Kubiak for most of the last two decades. The Bills will likely be breaking in a new quarterback, one of many challenges for Dennison in the role. Perhaps McDermott and Dennison are NFL lifers who just needed this chance to show their value. They will have to be exceptional to excel in Buffalo, where they face an uphill task.

 

What all the columnists and predictors always miss is the most important asset for any Head Coach is leadership. Schems and strategies be damned. You have to stand in front of a group of professional athletes and lead. 

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Posted
8 hours ago, Warcodered said:

Writing seems kind of on the wall there for Whaley...the most powerful person in the organization after Ownership greets him in a long-sleeved Nike shirt surrounded by others greeting him in suits and ties.

Nike pays some stupid money for repping their brand? 🤔

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