Another disaster by McDs defense in the playoffs

[Fetou]

1 minute ago, appoo said:

Also, Apparently Sean McDermott is the only coach to have his defense struggle with Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow 

"Struggle" is a bordering on propaganda. We could have played a roster out of a nursing home and had the same success slowing down Joe Burrow. There wasn't a defense at all.

 

No other contender has had such a lack of competitiveness on one side of the ball. We would have crushed the Chiefs last year with Baltimore's defensive performance against them and Josh's offensive performance. Multiple score victory.

 

The Bills are healthy this year on defense for the first time in recent memory. Let's have some optimism that we will see a competitive defense against an absolutely elite offense under a great coach, but trying to erase the history of how McDermott defenses have stacked up in the playoffs after a wild card win over the Broncos is just foolishness

[<bills4life>]

1 minute ago, Fetou said:

"Struggle" is a bordering on propaganda. We could have played a roster out of a nursing home and had the same success slowing down Joe Burrow. There wasn't a defense at all.

 

No other contender has had such a lack of competitiveness on one side of the ball. We would have crushed the Chiefs last year with Baltimore's defensive performance against them and Josh's offensive performance. Multiple score victory.

 

The Bills are healthy this year on defense for the first time in recent memory. Let's have some optimism that we will see a competitive defense against an absolutely elite offense under a great coach, but trying to erase the history of how McDermott defenses have stacked up in the playoffs after a wild card win over the Broncos is just foolishness

Exactly

[RoscoeParrish]

14 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

That doesn’t come until the divisional round.

Go look up the wild card games from 2021 and 2023. 

[K-9]

8 minutes ago, Fetou said:

I mean Skylar Thompson did give them a significant challenge at one point lol

Once again, it was the gift-wrapped turnovers that made it a close game. Skylar Thompson didn’t do much at all let alone put up a challenge.

[Nelius]

This is the equivalent of making a shaky bet and cashing out 2 dollars down in the first quarter 

[Doc]

10 minutes ago, Fetou said:

I mean Skylar Thompson did give them a significant challenge at one point lol

 

His 220 yards, 1 TD and 2 INTs didn't.  It was mostly the Bills giving the game away.

[appoo]

1 minute ago, Fetou said:

"Struggle" is a bordering on propaganda. We could have played a roster out of a nursing home and had the same success slowing down Joe Burrow. There wasn't a defense at all.

 

No other contender has had such a lack of competitiveness on one side of the ball. We would have crushed the Chiefs last year with Baltimore's defensive performance against them and Josh's offensive performance. Multiple score victory.

 

The Bills are healthy this year on defense for the first time in recent memory. Let's have some optimism that we will see a competitive defense against an absolutely elite offense under a great coach, but trying to erase the history of how McDermott defenses have stacked up in the playoffs after a wild card win over the Broncos is just foolishness

the bills literally a walking MASH unit against cinncy and were bad on both sides of the ball that game with an exhausted team.

 

I think my problem with this stuff is yall forget there’s another team out there. Joe Burrow - in that game - had Tee Higgins, Chase, one of the best slots in the league really good RB and a. Good TE…and again a future hall of fame QB.

 

But your expectation is for Sean McDermott to stop that offense? With bunch of backups? 
 

Or stop Mahomes and Andy Reid and Travis Kelce and Tyreke hill when they go GOAT mode?

 

And ACTUALLY containing Mahomes and Andy reid while literally pulling dudes off the street to start at linebacker?

 

Its combination of hugely unfair expectations, refusing to see the larger story, and then not even appreciating what happens in a game.  
 

Like last year the Bills D put Allen in a position to win at the end. 

[RoscoeParrish]

8 minutes ago, <bills4life> said:

Of course. And I can’t disagree with your points posted above.  However let’s pump the brakes and see how the defense plays next week before we start declaring that McDermott has exercised the demons. 

So he has to have an elite defensive performance against arguably the highest powered offense in the league (Baltimore) and one of the greatest QBs and HC/OCs in NFL history (KC), in order to exercise his demons?

Edited 6 hours ago by RoscoeParrish

[appoo]

Getting this current roster to 14 wins is some hall of fame *****. They are easily outplaying their talent level this season and this man continues to get attacked and fired by fans.

 

You can give him the Andy Reid/Mike Tomlin lifetime contract at this point IMO

[Simon]

9 minutes ago, Fetou said:

The Bills are healthy this year on defense for the first time in recent memory............but trying to erase the history of how McDermott defenses have stacked up in the playoffs

 

These two adjacent sentences go together like peanut butter and ketchup.

[H2o]

1 minute ago, appoo said:

Getting this current roster to 14 wins is some hall of fame *****. They are easily outplaying their talent level this season and this man continues to get attacked and fired by fans.

 

You can give him the Andy Reid/Mike Tomlin lifetime contract at this point IMO

This guy says hi. 

[Nelius]

Is this like a calculated Reddit onslaught? People really feel this way after wrecking Denver? Fetou you can’t be real 

[hondo in seattle]

Let's say there's once you reach this level, every game is more or less a 50-50 proposition.  

 

At this point, there's roughly a 12% chance that the Bills win the Lombardi.  If the 88% probability happens and the Bills don't win it all, McD will be blamed regardless of what goes wrong.  

[Jerome007]

35 minutes ago, gobills404 said:

I don’t think anyone has ever complained about McD against rookie QBs. Kind of a weird victory lap to be taking.

Some "fans" complain about McD all the time, so why not. And that rookie QB was let down by his receivers. They dropped so many passes. Thankfully ha ha but Nix played better than the rest of his team. 

[Fetou]

1 minute ago, Simon said:

 

These two adjacent sentences go together like peanut butter and ketchup.

You mean like celebrating that he is over the hump against a rookie QB instead of our actual competition? Extremely premature and immature by the OP here. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Fetou

[appoo]

Just now, H2o said:

This guy says hi. 

And? He doesn’t design the offense and he doesn’t create the offensive philosophy.  Having an MVP talented QB does not guarantee 14 wins.  
 

plus that defense doesn’t have a single blue chipper that you’d expect to push into the first all pro team year in year out.  Yet when healthy they’ve been effective this season 

[RoscoeParrish]

3 minutes ago, H2o said:

This guy says hi. 

We win today without him. Because of the ELITE defense. 

Edited 6 hours ago by RoscoeParrish

[Nelius]

Just now, Fetou said:

You mean like celebrating that he is over the hump against a rookie QB? Extremely premature and immature by the OP here. 

A rookie QB that many prematurely crowned… that was thoroughly dominated 

 

if this is about McD he earned points this game. Tiny amount of points for the biggest doubters, but still points 

[appoo]

2 minutes ago, Fetou said:

You mean like celebrating that he is over the hump against a rookie QB? Extremely premature and immature by the OP here. 

He’s already over and well beyond the hump. There is no hump to overcome.

 

Hes proven himself to be a great coach. You measure NFL coaches on longevity of success more so random luck with injuries and how they do against Hall of Fame talent in single games 

[Fetou]

Just now, Nelius said:

A rookie QB that many prematurely crowned… that was thoroughly dominated 

 

if this is about McD he earned points this game. Tiny amount of points for the biggest doubters, but still points 

It was a great game by the defense today for sure. The Broncos aren't trash, they just aren't quite enough to override multiple years of playoff history for this team just yet.