I just find it so funny Bills fans have completely turned on McDermott “because he can’t get them over the hump”.
Bills have made the playoffs the last 5/6 years. Panthers haven’t had a winning record in that same time.
The Bills have won at least ten games each of their last four years. The Panthers haven’t even had back to back winning seasons in their entire history.
I don’t mean to wallow here, but it just makes me realize how hopeless this team has become. What I wouldn’t do as a Panthers fan to have a coach with half as many playoff berths. Maybe the Bills will do the dumbest thing possible and he could come back to Carolina. I would imagine there will be about ten other teams in line before the Panthers though.
McDermott needs to do two things, reign in his QB and cut out the cancer (diggs).
Very similar vibe with Reid’s last few seasons in Phi. Oh to be a .500 team worrying if our coach doesn’t have what it takes to “get us over the hump”. They would be lunatics to cut bait.
The bills have a competent GM, the Panthers not.
The bills have an elite QB, the panthers not(yet).
The bills have a no. 1 receiver. The Panthers not.
The bills bills have a good Running game. The panthers not.
The Panthers have Nicole Tepper. The Bills not
Yeah I’m wondering who they have in mind to get them further, like every playmaker on defense is hurt for them. McDermott can’t stop Allen from throwing 2 picks and the team fumbling twice
It’s a fire argument to make. I remember after 2013 playoffs calling to fire Ron. I said he’d never be a Super Bowl winning coach.
It’s like dating. If you aren’t dating to marry then you are just wasting everyone’s time.
What’s the point of keeping a coach if can’t win it all?
Bills have looked like they have regressed.
imagine having 5 wins
I think this post is the EXACT issue with most people’s opinion of coaching.
McDermott (and Staley) are the exact coaches that should have the most heat because they have a ton of talent and aren’t really sniffing the Super Bowl (the Bills have had a top 3ish roster the last few years and the closest they’ve gotten is a two-TD loss in conference championship). Talent is 75% of the equation. There hasn’t ever been a single coach that has consistently made a talentless team into a playoff contender, but there are plenty of coaches that ride the coattails of their talent and stay safe while underperforming the talent of the roster.
I don’t think you can accurately judge a coach (unless their players hate them and/or they kick their players) until the GM has built a roster that could win 8 games with Nicole Tepper as coach.
The order of importance in an organization goes: 1) GM, 2) QB (great QBs can win 6/7 games on their own, …big gap… 3) coach (great coaches can win an extra 3 games) …big gap… 4) everything else.
When a team is underperforming, look at the talent first. If it’s not there, it’s really hard to judge anything else. If it is there (Chargers and Bills) and you are consistently getting beat by teams of similar talent, then you look at coaches.
We were there too when we had mediocrity. Hard to remember I know
I’ll happily trade positions with them right now
As a Bills fan and Panthers fan, I think, from what I’ve seen in the Bills sub and Twitter Community, most fans don’t want McD to be fired. They just want a reason that the Bills are doing poorly this season and now that Dorsey has (rightfully) taken the blame, I think basically everyone is just waiting for results. The defense has been great despite losing multiple all-pro starters. The Bills are in every game, the offense just can’t find wins in the close games. They haven’t lost a game by 7 or more this season. The only other team that can say the same is the Eagles. The Bills could just as easily be 10-0.
Bills fans have become spoiled too. They were regularly dogshit for like 25 years before Beane and McDermott got there.
The worst part is that even if he did get fired, Tepper wouldn’t hire him.
He’s taken the hotshot college coach, he’s taken the coach that just got fired. This time he will almost definitely go for top coordinator.