Most Aggressive Coaches of 2024

[Einstein's Dog]

6 minutes ago, Mat68 said:

Context and game flow matters.  All the time or never is incredibly stupid.  Kick the Fg to go up 8 won the game.  Second half punts.  Make the team who has been turning the ball over go the long way to score.  Gotta luck at what happens if you don't make it.  Think Mcdermott coached his best game.  End of game, end of half.  Go or no go calls.   

To your point, I was extremely pleased that McDermott sent out Bass to go up 8 with under three to play.  It is almost against the new aggressive McDermott philosophy.

[Shaw66]

3 hours ago, Logic said:

I agree with both replies thus far.

Still, sadly, I fear the "McDermott is too conservative" nonsense will stick around for years to come, even though it's been proven again and again to be outdated nonsense.

This goes to the point that is obvious but many fans refuse to see.  Players AND coaches improve year to year.  Players stop improving after a while because although their mental skills continue to grow, their bodies begin to slow down.  For coaches, if they're good at what they do, they keep getting better.  This is particularly true for McDermott because he consciously has committed to continuous improvement. That's what the growth mindset is about. 

 

So, McDermott may have been too conservative in earlier years, but he is a continuous learner.  He has learned that by preparing his team the right way, he can be rewarded by being aggressive.  

 

The people who want to boot McDermott don't understand that he's a better coach today than he was five years ago, and he'll be still better five years from now. 

[NewEra]

45 minutes ago, T.E. said:

If someone is making $8MM a year to coach football, he shouldn't need to burn valuable timeouts because he can't think two plays ahead, which is exactly what happened on the Bills last scoring drive pn Sunday. 

Misery loves company-  go over to the ravens board 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 hour ago, T.E. said:

He treats the playoffs differently from the regular season in this regard. I mean, he was clearly terrified of letting the best QB in the league throw the football during the entire second half two days ago.

People are not remembering this correctly imo…the ‘vibe’ of the second half doesn’t really match what actually happened.. the second half ended up being somewhere in the 15 passes vs 13 runs ish range assuming I’m counting correctly and a lot of that was skewed by 5 straight runs leading up to/during the goal line sequence which if I’m understanding correctly people wanted runs still just sneaks instead of that shotgun run on the final play.

 

Outside of that it was throws for the vast majority of the second half, we just shot ourselves in the foot throwing the ball in a few big spots 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan