McDermott will scapegoat himself using injuries as an excuse

[BeastMaster]

He actually mentioned it in his post game, but said it wasn't an excuse. But by mentioning it, you are actually using it as an excuse. Don't even say anything about it...say no excuses and we didn't get it done.

 

While you can point to injuries in this game as a reason as to why they couldn't get it done, we have factual evidence that anytime a McDermott led team faces a top contender, they get pushed around and they have their way with his defense.

 

We also had maybe the worst fake punt decision ever in the playoffs that would have been the reason we lost if it wasn't for a miraculous play by Poyer.

 

If you don't think that KC out coached us by a wide margain in the second half, then you aren't using your brain. Spags adjusted and dared Brady to beat them with the passing game, and it worked. McDermotts defense came out and gave up a TD with zero resistance. 

 

We finally had the advantage yesterday being at home and playing a KC offense that wasn't very dangerous, and we blow it again.

 

When does it end? Where does it stop? 

 

The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 

 

There should be zero expectations for this team starting next season if we don't overhaul the coaching staff

[TheFunPolice]

what happened all the other times in the playoffs against KC and Cincy? 

 

If the answer is everyone on defense needs to be 100% healthy then forget about it. It's never going to happen. 

[Nextmanup]

McDermott's limited offensive strategy and philosophy will continue to hinder this team until he is gone as head coach.

 

It might take Pegula 5 more years to realize this.

 

 

Just now, TheFunPolice said:

what happened all the other times in the playoffs against KC and Cincy? 

 

If the answer is everyone on defense needs to be 100% healthy then forget about it. It's never going to happen. 

McDimwit's approach leaves a TINY margin for error.  It's why we have lost the big ones.  

 

Why not build an approach with a large margin for error?

 

 

 

[Dan Darragh]

He'll fire the ST coordinator and won't say a single meaningful word to the press (like always)

[SoonerBillsFan]

1 minute ago, Nextmanup said:

McDermott's limited offensive strategy and philosophy will continue to hinder this team until he is gone as head coach.

 

It might take Pegula 5 more years to realize this.

 

 

McDimwit's approach leaves a TINY margin for error.  It's why we have lost the big ones.  

 

Why not build an approach with a large margin for error?

 

 

 

Because Terry likes he is a good Christian man. Last time I checked, that has nothing to do with winning Football games. God doesn't care about Football (as Bills fans we know this all too well). 

[78thealltimegreat]

Have to remember he literally fired Dorsey right after the 12 men on the field debacle against the Broncos. Dude loves to pass the buck.

Sean “hey don’t look at me even though it starts with me” McDermott 

Edited January 22 by 78thealltimegreat

[Einstein]

2 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:

If the answer is everyone on defense needs to be 100% healthy then forget about it. It's never going to happen. 

 

True

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Just now, Nextmanup said:

McDermott's limited offensive strategy and philosophy will continue to hinder this team until he is gone as head coach.

 

It might take Pegula 5 more years to realize this.

 

 

Hinder? People need to focus. Why do people think hitting the easy button and firing the head coach will magically help us beat a dynasty team like KC?

 

It’s about the players. They come up short in the big moments vs KC. Not Allen, he steps up. It’s the other guys. They have to find someone other than Allen that steps up in the playoffs consistently. 

[uticaclub]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Hinder? People need to focus. Why do people think hitting the easy button and firing the head coach will magically help us beat a dynasty team like KC?

 

It’s about the players. They come up short in the big moments vs KC. Not Allen, he steps up. It’s the other guys. They have to find someone other than Allen that steps up in the playoffs consistently. 

Its not magically going to make us champions, but we have gotten as far as we can with McDermott. Enough is enough and its time for a change

[Alphadawg7]

Injuries were very much a factor.  There is no denying that.  
 

Doesn't mean it’s an excuse for McD, but it is factual that injuries hit us hard.  We still had opportunities to win the game so it’s not an excuse, but let’s not pretend the injuries didn’t impact us.  KC attacked and exploited our depleted LBs all game.  
 

 

 

[JimmyNoodles]

11 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Hinder? People need to focus. Why do people think hitting the easy button and firing the head coach will magically help us beat a dynasty team like KC?

 

It’s about the players. They come up short in the big moments vs KC. Not Allen, he steps up. It’s the other guys. They have to find someone other than Allen that steps up in the playoffs consistently. 

No offense, but who picks the players and coaches them?  It's organizational.  The players weren't the luck of the draw.  It's the team the Bills built.  

[RousseauRage]

14 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Hinder? People need to focus. Why do people think hitting the easy button and firing the head coach will magically help us beat a dynasty team like KC?

 

It’s about the players. They come up short in the big moments vs KC. Not Allen, he steps up. It’s the other guys. They have to find someone other than Allen that steps up in the playoffs consistently. 

Pretty much spot on. It's Allen too though. It seems like Brady was trying to protect him from one of his dumb INTs. Our only chance is to gamble that big plays outweigh his bonehead plays. Can't be so conservative.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

3 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

It’s not magically going to make us champions, but we have gotten as far as we can with McDermott. Enough is enough and its time for a change

Think about it. You want a coach that’s going to beat Mahomes in the playoffs. 
 

We’re only losing to ELITE QBs in the playoffs. I know that it’s not good enough but trying to find a coach that beats elite QBs in the playoffs is difficult. We’re right there with the Chiefs IMO we just have lacked what it takes to put them away. We can put 13 seconds on McDermott sure, but there’s a lot more to it. I don’t think new coaching gets us closer to beating KC than we are right now.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

5 minutes ago, JimmyNoodles said:

No offense, but who picks the players and coaches them?  It's organizational.  The players weren't the luck of the draw.  It's the team the Bills built.  

The management, coaches, and players we have are close as you can get to championship quality without winning one.

 

We’re missing 1-2 impact players to go with Allen that step up in the playoffs. I was so disappointed when Bernard went down because I was hoping he would be one of those players. Von was brought in to be one but blows out his knee. 
 

KC has Kelce and Chris Jones that step up for Mahomes every playoffs. Who does Allen have? That’s what we’re missing.

[Warcodered]

10 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

Injuries were very much a factor.  There is no denying that.  
 

Doesn't mean it’s an excuse for McD, but it is factual that injuries hit us hard.  We still had opportunities to win the game so it’s not an excuse, but let’s not pretend the injuries didn’t impact us.  KC attacked and exploited our depleted LBs all game.  
 

 

 

Thinking about it last night I think the injury situation doubly impacted McDermott both in a way he couldn't really help and in a way he definitely needed to be better in. Your teams injured so the scheme you're trying to run doesn't work like you want it sucks but it is what it is. Problem was it got in the way of something McDermott has been doing really well most of the season and especially on this late season run.

 

He's been doing a great job adjusting in game when the offense is getting the better of his scheme and finding a way to shut things down. This time though McDermott got stuck trying to find a way to get his original scheme to work with the broken pieces he had to work for way too long. He needed to move on and adjust much quicker, he seemingly did towards the end, and it was more effective, Mahomes still got things done I mean it's Mahomes, but we actually got a stop.

 

At least that's what it felt like.

[NewEra]

30 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:

what happened all the other times in the playoffs against KC and Cincy? 

 

If the answer is everyone on defense needs to be 100% healthy then forget about it. It's never going to happen. 

We don’t have to be 💯 healthy, we just need to be healthier than what we’ve been.  
 

Take away Milano and Tre- 30M+ in contracts. Our best defender and our original CB1-  We could’ve won without them.  Even if we just had Bernard out there, I think the game ends with a W.  Kelce was killing Klein.

In all, we lost 2 of our top 3 corners.  3 of our top 4 linebackers, a rotational DT and S.

 

take that away from KC and this game end differently.  How many players did they have starting that were on the couch 12 days ago?

 

The injuries aren’t the only reason we lost, but they impacted the outcome of the game.  

[JimmyNoodles]

9 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

The management, coaches, and players we have are close as you can get to championship quality without winning one.

 

We’re missing 1-2 impact players to go with Allen that step up in the playoffs. I was so disappointed when Bernard went down because I was hoping he would be one of those players. Von was brought in to be one but blows out his knee. 
 

KC has Kelce and Chris Jones that step up for Mahomes every playoffs. Who does Allen have? That’s what we’re missing.

Completely agree on the players.  We need more on both sides of the ball.  Also agree that we are "close" with championship quality coaches...but they are not.  Too many screw ups of all varieties.  Riding the same horse isn't going to make it faster.  Don't get me wrong, I like Beane and McD as people but too many mistakes by both at this point.  Got to rip the bandaid off.    

[BBFL]

44 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

McDimwit's approach leaves a TINY margin for error.  It's why we have lost the big ones.  

 

Why not build an approach with a large margin for error?

 

 

 

 

And how exactly do you go about doing that…?

[damj]

And fire the ST coordinator... But that needs to happen anyways 

[BBFL]

 

2 minutes ago, JimmyNoodles said:

Completely agree on the players.  We need more on both sides of the ball.  Also agree that we are "close" with championship quality coaches...but they are not.  Too many screw ups of all varieties.  Riding the same horse isn't going to make it faster.  Don't get me wrong, I like Beane and McD as people but too many mistakes by both at this point.  Got to rip the bandaid off.    

 

Yeah but that isn’t the actual issue. The actual issue comes down to scheme and adjustments. 
 

Spags over there completely shut us down. The only way you can’t shut down this team is when Josh is able to get the deep ball connecting. It’s a stretch that teams go to where they play a shell with everything in front and then collapse on it. 
 

If Sherfield or Diggs come down with any of those 4 deep shots that turned into drops/incompletions, I honestly think we win the game. KC are forced into a TD position again.