Gameday Eve Question: What Should McD Be Emphasizing To Josh?

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On 1/18/2025 at 9:18 PM, GoBills808 said:

'He (McDermott) is repeatedly described by coaches and former players as blind to the fact that he was gifted one of the best quarterbacks in the sport...'

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'...one longtime Bill with a front-row seat to the interactions between Allen and McDermott every day offered this analogy: “I might’ve gone on a date with your wife once or twice, and she would’ve called me a crazy son of a B word and dumped me in a day. You might’ve gone on a date with my wife and she might’ve said, ‘Man…’ That doesn’t mean that your wife or my wife is bad or me and you were bad. Sometimes, people don’t genuinely grow together.” McDermott and Allen may both be perfectly justified in how they approach this profession....but central to the Bills’ inability to get over the hump is this relationship, said this source with intimate knowledge of the team. It’s more absent, than toxic.'

 

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Teammates of Allen don’t think it’s much of a secret. One points out that McDermott and Allen are not exactly teaming up for commercials, or arm-in-arm in the Buffalo community, or yucking it up for candid videos on the team website.

 

They are not close.

 

“You can’t win championships like that,” said this source, who knows both well. “It doesn’t mean that anyone’s wrong.”

 

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I picture all this being truer when Daboll was here and a huge influence on young Josh.  McD was too risk averse and didn't see eyeball to eyeball with Daboll and Josh stubbornly clung to hero ball which Dabs rolled with.

 

Is McDermott chummy with any of the players on the team?  While he'll high five and support, he seems to maintain a coach-player separation.  He's no Dan Campbell to be sure.

 

Lastly, look how much Josh has bought into and emulated McDermott's philosophy.   "One game at a time", etc.  They say the same things at their press conferences.  By his maturity of play-style and philosophy, Josh has bought fully into McDermott's philosophy. 

 

I would bet their relationship has grown and is just fine now.

[hondo in seattle]

On 1/18/2025 at 6:18 PM, GoBills808 said:

'He (McDermott) is repeatedly described by coaches and former players as blind to the fact that he was gifted one of the best quarterbacks in the sport...'

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'...one longtime Bill with a front-row seat to the interactions between Allen and McDermott every day offered this analogy: “I might’ve gone on a date with your wife once or twice, and she would’ve called me a crazy son of a B word and dumped me in a day. You might’ve gone on a date with my wife and she might’ve said, ‘Man…’ That doesn’t mean that your wife or my wife is bad or me and you were bad. Sometimes, people don’t genuinely grow together.” McDermott and Allen may both be perfectly justified in how they approach this profession....but central to the Bills’ inability to get over the hump is this relationship, said this source with intimate knowledge of the team. It’s more absent, than toxic.'

 

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Teammates of Allen don’t think it’s much of a secret. One points out that McDermott and Allen are not exactly teaming up for commercials, or arm-in-arm in the Buffalo community, or yucking it up for candid videos on the team website.

 

They are not close.

 

“You can’t win championships like that,” said this source, who knows both well. “It doesn’t mean that anyone’s wrong.”

 

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Do you really believe Dunne painted an accurate picture of McDermott and his relationship with Josh Allen?   With his anonymous army of malcontents? 

 

Despite well-known published evidence to the contrary, I don't believe in Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster, or that the US was behind the 9/11 attacks.  And I don't believe in Tyler Dunne.  If you're so minded, you can find support for any wacky theory and construct a hit piece with real quotes on any public figure.  

 

I'm told there's a saying in India, "When a pickpocket walks down the street, all he sees is pockets."  When Dunne walks down the street, all he finds is crap about McD.  Science calls this confirmation bias. 

 

While I don't trust Dunne, I do trust Josh when he says he goes to McD's office a couple of times each week just to chat.  "Our relationship, honestly, has never been stronger."