McDermott Winner of 36th Earle “Greasy” Neale Award as the Most Outstanding Coach in pro football

[FLFan]

8 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

well, we all are still looking.....

 

plus, I would love to have Josh "surrounded" by the skill position "parts" "cheap" ownership has surrounded Burrow with (Chase, Higgins, Brown, Gesicki)

Well I guess you would like the Bills to be picking at the top of the draft because they suck.  That’s how the Bengals did it.  They have paid Burrow but not Higgins and he is likely gone.  They have yet to pay Chase and I guess we will see.  Gesicki is a JAG who was cheap and has been around without much success until he got to play with Burrow.  Not exactly a major investment.  Brown? Really?  
 

the Bengals are a notoriously cheap organization.  There is no way they keep both Higgins and Chase, and by the way, Hendrickson is only under contract one more year as well. As for Taylor, why do you think the Bengals start so poorly every year? Poor coaching and leadership perhaps? 

7 hours ago, eball said:

Great, another "fire McDermott" thread.

 

Sometimes I wish that people would get their wish and then see  the franchise crash back to mediocrity, but I love the Bills too much to really want that.  

[DrDawkinstein]

21 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:

There's a certain flavor of Bills fan (you know who you are!), who give credit to Josh when we win and assign blame to McDermott when we lose.

And that's fine.  But it's almost as if we don't have 52 other players, and Sean doesn't do anything to contribute to our wins, and Josh never contributes to our losses, and Beane has nothing to do with any of it.  

 

 

Well, that is because there are numerous examples of Josh taking the game in his own hands, going off script, and doing what it takes to win. The most recent example is the 4th down throw to Ty Johnson. Sure, McD had to make/go along with the decision to go for it on 4th down, but he even stated in his post-game that the pass wasnt the play they called but "he trusts Josh" (read: to save his ass). Whenever the ball is in our hands at the end of the game, Josh comes through with a big play to score. Like the improvised 4th down run against KC this year, and going all the way back to 13 seconds in 2021.

 

Conversely, whenever the team needs to rely on the Defense to get a stop and end the game, they fail. McD has no answers as a "defensive guru". Additionally, there are numerous examples of McD dropping the ball at the end of the game as a HC. Whether through poor clock management, or major blunders where the team was clearly not prepared. Big example would be the Broncos game last year. We let a hapless Russell Wilson drive on us and get into FG range, and then double-blow it by having 12 men on the field, allowing them to move even closer and re-kick after missing the first one.

 

I've given McD a ton of credit in post-game threads this season regarding having the entire team ready to play physically, and having a good game plan put together. And will always do so. I'm not a blindly biased hater.

 

But in clutch moments, when we need to rely on one of them directly, one always comes through and performs and one always lets us down.

16 hours ago, FLFan said:

Sometimes I wish that people would get their wish and then see  the franchise crash back to mediocrity, but I love the Bills too much to really want that.  

 

Nearly impossible given the state of the rest of the division and us having Josh. Regardless of who is coaching, our floor for the next 3-5 years is Division Champ.