Former quarterback that used two average quarterbacks to get to the Superbowl. Offensive minded. Wins wherever he goes. Gives his defenses seriously tough attitudes. I don’t care one bit about what’s going on with him right now. It’s happened everywhere at every level. Michigan was just more creative. Opinions?
For OC? He wouldn’t take the interview.
It’s way to early to discuss firing Sean McDermott. McDermott is not getting fired if Buffalo misses the playoffs this year, with 3 very good defensive players injured for the year in White, Milano and Jones, and other injuries like TE Knox, RB’s Harris & Hines, CB Elam and back up OT Doyle.
If Bufflao missed the playoffs in back to back years then I think you would rightfully discuss firing McDermott and Terry Pegula would have a discussion with GM Beane if he would stay as the GM if they fired HC McDermott. But we are talking about hypothetical scenario’s and this season isn’t even finished yet and Buffalo isn’t mathematically eliminated from the playoffs and no team has clinched playoff seeds yet.
Stop it.
I think that all the “fire McDermott” trope is very knee jerk and shows that we aren’t the fan base I thought we were. The Bills have been exciting to watch and a top tier team for the past few years. All of that was under Sean McDermott. So, let’s take a damn breath and stop making the dream of a Super Bowl win more important than the team and the culture that has been (mostly successfully) built. I have read so much crap here and elsewhere about firing McDermott, benching Allen, dumping any number of expensive players and this whole cacophony of bullshit is about a bunch of people who are so fixated on a trophy that they seem to have forgotten why and how they’ve enjoyed being fans of this team for years when they were awful. Being a Bills fan is about being a scrappy underdog in a city that shouldn’t have an NFL team on paper. It’s about sitting in rain and snow, tailgating in conditions that would have lesser fans staying under a blanket in their living rooms. It’s about being a family, a community that comes together when things are tough and being at our best through it. Something had to be done, no doubt. It was done. Sean McDermott had to fire one of his best friends. It probably tore a hole through him. Maybe, just maybe, we ought to try and pick the man and the team up, brush him off, and cheer him on to whatever end comes to this season. Football is great entertainment. It’s about friends and family and spending some Sundays away from reality. When you start to quantity your enjoyment around a win at all costs mentality, you start to play into the vary money ball bullshit that would have seen our team moved to another city years ago. Right now we still have a salvageable season, a stud QB, great talent on both sides of the ball, a coach that helped put it all together, and a gleaming new stadium being constructed. The window is not closed because there isn’t a fucking window with this team.