McDermott Coached his A$$ off Before and During the Ravens Game

[Buffalo Boy]

I’ve clearly been less than enthused with McD.

He absolutely gets an Atta Boy for yesterday. 
I said in the beginning of the game thread that we needed the D to get us a turnover or three….. and they did. 
On to KC

[T.E.]

He was on the precipice of another playoff choke job until that dropped 2PT conversion. Went insanely conservative in the 2nd half, showed zero trust in his best player, and, of course, his vaunted zone defense once again gave up a huge TD drive when we had to have a stop. Sorry, but he continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. 

[Big Turk]

50 minutes ago, leonbus23 said:

Not a huge deal, but the Bills were called for two penalties. One was declined.

 

And the accepted one was a phantom penalty that never happened.

[JerseyBills]

4 hours ago, jethro_tull said:

I have read about the incredible preparation Sean McDermott did for the Ravens game(studied every play by the Ravens this season). Going so far as to sign former Baltimore QB Anthony Brown to the practice squad to help the Bills prepare a defense for Lamar Jackson.  

The way the Bills countered the Ravens showed that they made some worthwhile corrections and that they were the most prepared team on the field.  The Bills were called for only one penalty for a total of 10 yards.  He also made the critical call to go for the three points when they were 4th and a long two yards from scoring after Josh lost yards on the 3rd down play.  Clock management was excellent and even the coin toss worked out well.  

Well done coach McD ! 

And the lone penalty was BS and probably cost at least 3 points 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 hours ago, T.E. said:

He was on the precipice of another playoff choke job until that dropped 2PT conversion. Went insanely conservative in the 2nd half, showed zero trust in his best player, and, of course, his vaunted zone defense once again gave up a huge TD drive when we had to have a stop. Sorry, but he continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. 

I keep hearing this insanely conservative/no trust thing about the offense and I don’t really see it personally.  Half the drives in the second half (not counting the final clincher) were killed by Josh himself or Josh/kincaid…there were only 4 total.  He threw a pretty bad ball to Kincaid on that first drive out of halftime, Kincaid probably could’ve bailed him out but Josh definitely could’ve thrown a better ball. 
 

the TE screen Josh definitely audibled into.  That leaves the back to back misses to cooper and shakir drive that looked like throwaways  so I’m not gonna count that against either the qb or coach and the goal line sequence that yea maybe you sneak twice if you’re cool with a butthole clencher 4th and long 1 sneak situation 😂. I think it’s fair to question that though sure.  
 

feels like tbd thinks we ran the ball every play or something in that second half and that’s definitely not the case, it was the same balance as always we just made a funky 3rd down audible decision and missed a huge second down throw that we needed to have.  I’ve gotta fact check myself on this but I don’t believe we ran twice on a series of downs all game. 

 

 

[Buffalo03]

2 hours ago, T.E. said:

He was on the precipice of another playoff choke job until that dropped 2PT conversion. Went insanely conservative in the 2nd half, showed zero trust in his best player, and, of course, his vaunted zone defense once again gave up a huge TD drive when we had to have a stop. Sorry, but he continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. 

I do agree that we were very conservative and it almost killed us but after rewatching on the NFL network just a little bit ago, the playcalling wasn't as bad as I thought, though it still could have been better. It was pretty much like a "kill them with a thousand papercuts" game plan. That offensive drive after Bernard knocked the ball loose from Andrews was very methodical. It died inside the 5 because it got way too conservative. But until the 5 yard line, it was actually executed quite well. We got yards in very small chunks. But it worked

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Buffalo03

[Mister Defense]

6 hours ago, jethro_tull said:

I have read about the incredible preparation Sean McDermott did for the Ravens game(studied every play by the Ravens this season). Going so far as to sign former Baltimore QB Anthony Brown to the practice squad to help the Bills prepare a defense for Lamar Jackson.  

The way the Bills countered the Ravens showed that they made some worthwhile corrections and that they were the most prepared team on the field.  The Bills were called for only one penalty for a total of 10 yards.  He also made the critical call to go for the three points when they were 4th and a long two yards from scoring after Josh lost yards on the 3rd down play.  Clock management was excellent and even the coin toss worked out well.  

Well done coach McD ! 

 

Great take, i had not heard about McD looking at every play of the Ravens, for example.

 

The Bills do not have the defensive talent of most of the top teams in the playoffs, such as Phili and KC, but they have a coach who can overcome the current shortcomings--and an offense that can do more than almost any in the league.

 

I cannot wait to see what happens when they re-load on defensive players in the off season, and prepare for another run at a (2nd?) championship.  If McD can do what he has been doing without great defensive talent, imagine what he can do when the Bills are fully loaded..