Will He Reinvent Himself: Coach Sean McDermott

[thenorthremembers]

1 hour ago, Mikie2times said:

I would like to see a game in February before I die with our Hall of Fame QB. Do you see more or less reason to think our annual post season defensive debacle will occur this year?  It's all but assured just like it's all but assured his fan club will proclaim every starter wasn't healthy as a reason to justify his negligence.  

 

Just depends on who your whipping boy is.   The defense may have been to blame in 2020, and 2021 yes.  But, 2019 was on the Hall of Fame QB, in 2022 the offense scored 10 points, and last year they missed a field goal.   Its not an annual defensive debacle, thats revisionist history.    The Super Bowl is hard to win.   Especially when your hall of fame QB is playing in the time and conference of a better hall of fame QB.    I will never justify 13 seconds, but to constantly bang the McDermott sucks drum is asinine.    There is more to the teams failures than just McDermott.   Just like there is more to this teams triumphs than just Josh Allen. 

[SoCal Deek]

3 hours ago, JohnNord said:

Someone needs to let the Christmas spirit into their negative frozen Buffalo heart

My heart isn’t frozen. It’s closer to 70 degrees here in SoCal. 😎

[Mikie2times]

8 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

 

Just depends on who your whipping boy is.   The defense may have been to blame in 2020, and 2021 yes.  But, 2019 was on the Hall of Fame QB, in 2022 the offense scored 10 points, and last year they missed a field goal.   Its not an annual defensive debacle, thats revisionist history.    The Super Bowl is hard to win.   Especially when your hall of fame QB is playing in the time and conference of a better hall of fame QB.    I will never justify 13 seconds, but to constantly bang the McDermott sucks drum is asinine.    There is more to the teams failures than just McDermott.   Just like there is more to this teams triumphs than just Josh Allen. 

Just because the offense didn’t deliver at times does not take away from the horrific and consistently putrid playoff performances which have been discussed to nauseous levels. If you’re of the side that doesn’t agree they have been as awful as some of us feel so be it. We are fielding the 26th ranked EPA defense since week 8. It’s the worst iteration in the McD era. It’s is a finesse defense built outside in and now it can’t even defend the pass. Josh will have to drop multiple 40 point games to have any chance. So happy we have a good culture. 

4 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

My heart isn’t frozen. It’s closer to 70 degrees here in SoCal. 😎

Pretty nice day

[Aesop]

Anyone who knows me, knows what I am about to say, so I wont say it. Heres the hint..snows blard.

Edited 15 hours ago by Aesop

[BeastMaster]

2 hours ago, thenorthremembers said:

 

I guess my real question is what does he need a pass for?  Having a top ten defense five of eight years?  Or having a .659 winning percentage as a head coach?    I am not going back over the entire injury history, but if you cant admit the Bills defense has been bit by the injury bug the last two seasons, I dont know what to tell you.     The truth is posters like you have a personal issue with McDermott despite him being a very good coach.    

This is ridiculous 

 

It's completely within reason to have issues with McDermott and the defensive side of the ball wilting every postseason being he's a defensive minded coach that made his mark as a DC

 

His winning percentage has more to do with Josh freaking Allen than him or his defense, and his top ten defense in 5 out of 8 years means little when they get completely manhandled when the games become do or die

 

Good coach? Sure. Great coach. No. Josh hasn't even made a championship game despite putting up absurd numbers in numerous playoff games, and that is on McDermott and that defense you are so high on

 

Claiming anyone who believes this as someone that has a personal issue with McDermott is a bad take, dude

[JohnNord]

23 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

 

Just depends on who your whipping boy is.   The defense may have been to blame in 2020, and 2021 yes.  But, 2019 was on the Hall of Fame QB, in 2022 the offense scored 10 points, and last year they missed a field goal.   Its not an annual defensive debacle, thats revisionist history.    The Super Bowl is hard to win.   Especially when your hall of fame QB is playing in the time and conference of a better hall of fame QB.    I will never justify 13 seconds, but to constantly bang the McDermott sucks drum is asinine.    There is more to the teams failures than just McDermott.   Just like there is more to this teams triumphs than just Josh Allen. 

Finally a logical well-balanced take

[JerseyBills]

11 hours ago, SunDSolar said:

I didn't read but our defensive scheme doesn't match with having the best player in football.

 

Our defense bend, don't break(been breaking lately) style keeps Josh Allen off the field for long periods of time.

 

A team with a brain and running game in the playoffs is going to be a BIG problem

what scheme do you prefer???

 

Bills are 12-3, not 3 - 12 sir

[ghostwriter]

I don’t know if reinvent is the right word or not, but at some point McD needs to move away from using undersized DL and LBs. Put a couple hogs in the middle of that DL and we’ll be fine.

[SoonerBillsFan]

14 minutes ago, BeastMaster said:

This is ridiculous 

 

It's completely within reason to have issues with McDermott and the defensive side of the ball wilting every postseason being he's a defensive minded coach that made his mark as a DC

 

His winning percentage has more to do with Josh freaking Allen than him or his defense, and his top ten defense in 5 out of 8 years means little when they get completely manhandled when the games become do or die

 

Good coach? Sure. Great coach. No. Josh hasn't even made a championship game despite putting up absurd numbers in numerous playoff games, and that is on McDermott and that defense you are so high on

 

Claiming anyone who believes this as someone that has a personal issue with McDermott is a bad take, dude

Thank you.  No Allen and McDermott would have been fired already.

[Mango]

I’m a very regular Reddit user. But when it comes to both football and hockey I’ve found Reddit to be the absolute worst place to discuss the Bills and Sabres.
 

Easily the worst takes by the most stubborn posters who clearly aren’t watching many if any games outside of their own teams, nor or they actually curious about anything at all. 
 

Worth noting that the general hockey and NFL subreddits are better than the Bills and Sabres subs. 
 

EDIT: To the OP. Paragraphs are your friend on message boards. 

Edited 15 hours ago by Mango

[Doc Brown]

26 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

Just because the offense didn’t deliver at times does not take away from the horrific and consistently putrid playoff performances which have been discussed to nauseous levels. If you’re of the side that doesn’t agree they have been as awful as some of us feel so be it. We are fielding the 26th ranked EPA defense since week 8. It’s the worst iteration in the McD era. It’s is a finesse defense built outside in and now it can’t even defend the pass. Josh will have to drop multiple 40 point games to have any chance. So happy we have a good culture. 

Maybe defense is trying a new tactic of being bad during the regular season and turning it on in the playoffs?  The best thing I can say about this defense this year is they've been very good at creating turnovers.  Hopefully that carries over to the playoffs.  Also, this is pry the first time since 2021 when we'll enter the playoffs regularly healthy on both sides of the ball.  

[LABILLBACKER]

50 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:

 

Just depends on who your whipping boy is.   The defense may have been to blame in 2020, and 2021 yes.  But, 2019 was on the Hall of Fame QB, in 2022 the offense scored 10 points, and last year they missed a field goal.   Its not an annual defensive debacle, thats revisionist history.    The Super Bowl is hard to win.   Especially when your hall of fame QB is playing in the time and conference of a better hall of fame QB.    I will never justify 13 seconds, but to constantly bang the McDermott sucks drum is asinine.    There is more to the teams failures than just McDermott.   Just like there is more to this teams triumphs than just Josh Allen. 

You're absolutely right. There's blame to go around on both sides. 2022 was such an emotional meltdown,  I can't really blame either side. But over 10 playoff games since 2019, the Bills have given up 248 pts.  That's almost 25 pts per game. 

2019- Careless Josh

2020/2021- Defensive meltdowns

2022-Chaos & emotional exhaustion 

2023- ST & Diggs Drama

2024- ????

[LABILLBACKER]

18 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Maybe defense is trying a new tactic of being bad during the regular season and turning it on in the playoffs?  The best thing I can say about this defense this year is they've been very good at creating turnovers.  Hopefully that carries over to the playoffs.  Also, this is pry the first time since 2021 when we'll enter the playoffs regularly healthy on both sides of the ball.  

I'd be down for that...they have generated turnovers this year. 

[SunDSolar]

7 hours ago, JerseyBills said:

what scheme do you prefer???

 

Bills are 12-3, not 3 - 12 sir

 

Thank you Josh

[BananaB]

12 hours ago, JerseyBills said:

what scheme do you prefer???

 

Bills are 12-3, not 3 - 12 sir

What’s our playoff record? In the road to the Super Bowl that’s really what matters most. 

Bills have one of the best teams in the league, a lot of it has to do with the guy taking the snaps. Getting to the playoffs is a standard now, and has been for a few years. What you do in the playoffs, that what counts.

 

Last year the Bills O was on the field for close to 40 minutes against the Chiefs. Scored the most points in the playoffs against their D, but D was trash all game. People worry about the missed FG, the Bills still had timeouts in their pocket at the end to get another possession but the D folded again as usual. 
 

Against Bengals, they are down 14-0 before they even blinked their eye. In bad weather. Seems every time they play the Bengals they walk down the field for two easy TDs  on first two drives.

 

13 second game. Nothing really has to be said here.  Let’s be honest, how many turnovers, sacks and points has this team accumulated over 3 games against the Chiefs in playoffs. How want INTs? Numbers probably pretty pathetic everybody wants to forget. 
 

Against the Texans, not the Os finest moment but we had a 17 point lead heading into half. And a long ***** screen play crushed them in OT. 
 

The scheme is soft and better teams light it up. That why the playoff record doesn’t match the regular season record. 
 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by BananaB

[Augie]

22 hours ago, TH3 said:

Doesn’t Beane do the drafting?

 

Correct, Beane is in charge of the draft, and McD is in charge of creating paragraphs. Damn him! 

[JerseyBills]

4 hours ago, SunDSolar said:

 

Thank you Josh

It's Mr Allen to you sir

[DeltaDigital]

11 hours ago, BeastMaster said:

This is ridiculous 

 

It's completely within reason to have issues with McDermott and the defensive side of the ball wilting every postseason being he's a defensive minded coach that made his mark as a DC

 

His winning percentage has more to do with Josh freaking Allen than him or his defense, and his top ten defense in 5 out of 8 years means little when they get completely manhandled when the games become do or die

 

Good coach? Sure. Great coach. No. Josh hasn't even made a championship game despite putting up absurd numbers in numerous playoff games, and that is on McDermott and that defense you are so high on

 

Claiming anyone who believes this as someone that has a personal issue with McDermott is a bad take, dude

these people aint ready for that conversation. Theyd rather sit an entire off season... AGAIN and wonder how (INSERT RUNNING BACK) went for 281 yards in the divisional game, while celebrating the Bills division title streak. *UP THE STANDARDS PEOPLE* Josh Allen WILL be defeated by two things. Mcdope's Defense in the playoffs and Father Time. Dude's getting Schottenheimered and it's a crime. 

[JohnNord]

14 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Maybe Sean will be visited tomorrow night by the 3 ghosts of Defense. 

The 3 Ghosts of Defense:

 

@Mikie2times

@LABILLBACKER

@SoCal Deek

[Augie]

17 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

Let me try this again! It makes zero difference whether you’all think the Bills defense has averaged out to ‘good’ across the regular season. The ONLY thing that matters is can they win in the playoffs against better QBs (especially in the AFC) while the refs are calling fewer penalties.

 

Answer: no, they can’t ….we've seen how this movie ends year after year 

 

You’ve seen the outcome of this year’s playoff games? You should take that knowledge with you to Vegas! 

 

Personally, I’ll have to wait and see.