he's five years into a special career and has yet to make it
to a Super Bowl, two straight years of not getting back to
the conference Championship Game coach. Sean, McDermott
meeting with reporters
on Monday was asked about offensive coordinator Ken
dorsey's first year as offensive coordinator,
obviously and potential changes to the staff. Have a listen
to Shah McDermott.
There's first year for everyone, and I thought door
Syria. I did some good things and then
there's some things that he can learn from as well. And
I know this when you're when you're committed to a cause and
you work hard at things and and you put your your put the team
first that you know, you learn from you, learn from
experiences and
and so like, like all of us we have to learn from the, from
the experience. Yeah, I'm not going to get into in the staff
right now. Jay, I just obviously, you know,
not even 24 hours
past yesterday's game. So I'm just,
like I said, finish with the, with the exit interviews with
the players and and we met as a team.
Sounds a lot. Like some things we heard last week from
coaches, who eventually would move on from coordinators. I've
heard some Rumblings maybe Leslie. Frazier, the defensive
coordinator is going to be the scapegoat
for the collapse season.
I can't imagine Ken Dorsey being fired after one year, but
who knows that look, Chris
under under normal circumstances, there was
nothing normal about the Buffalo Bills season. That's
right. If this was just,
you know, a year
of failed expectations Stations
without the snowstorm and to marham and everything else that
kind of made that community and the team even more
tightly forged together, right? I'd wonder if ownership would
would want to make big changes come to the conclusion. We've
talked about this that,
you know, and McDermott said after the game, we just keep
knocking on the door at some point. The,
the team decides ownership decides, they want someone else
doing the knocking that you've taken this as far as we can.
We've decided you're not the one who's going to kick in
the door.
We need someone else to do it. Whether that's coach, where
that's GM, whatever the case may be, but the flaws in that
team,
continue to exist
in plain sight. And the question is at what point will
ownership, do anything about it or is good enough? Just good
enough, is it good enough
to be Division champion
to be in the playoffs, to get the divisional round? And not
kicking that door for some teams? It is for some teams it
isn't. It's going to be interesting to see especially
We after 2023 because the pressure is only going to be
greater
and I think Hot Seat, Tom arrives
next year, regardless of what happens with the staff this
year and it sounds like something could happen higher
up. I think next year is the year where, where things could
go sideways, if the bills don't have a better outcome than
they had in 2022?
I don't disagree that. You know, there's more of
a spotlight on them coming into this year. You're writing to
2023 agreed.
I hear what you're saying. You know, it's he can only be
the bridesmaid so many times right before. I feel like an owner
will get frustrated, I get that but I don't think we're here or
there to make any changes. I don't look at it
you know again like you said it right damn. Nobody went through
more this year than the Buffalo Bills and that was the thing
with like I was certainly in question of like, was that
going to be a moment that propels them
or are they going to be so emotionally exhausted from it?
They just can't push forward. It feels like that's kind of
what happened to a degree.
Also, you know,
man. I mean, they, I know it's not that It easy to get to
the conference Championship and get two Super Bowls there right
there on the cusp.
You know, yeah, they were there two years ago last year
on the. Yeah, they messed up
end of the game situation and let the Chiefs score and went
into overtime and they lost. But they've been in
the conversation from one of the best teams in football. And
I don't think you,
you know, disrupt that formula as of right now,
my big thing with the bills and like we talked about a little
yesterday they just there's There's got to be more Sizzle
on the football team.
When you look at the teams that are left, right?
Buffalo does not have the high-end elite players. And
the team is that the teams that are left on offense. It's Alan and
digs
on defense without Von Miller.
I'm not sure. There's a blue chip player on the defense
and I'm not I'd respect. And you know, I love the Buffalo
Bills
but that to me is where I go wait The Bangles.
Wait, it's Not only Jamar Chase, it's t Higgins, and it's
Joe Mixon,
and it's Tyler boy, who would be the number two receiver
Buffalo. And he's the number three receiver for, you know,
the Cincinnati Bengals.
And then it's hey, we can only have to rush 3 and we get
pressure. There's no Marquis offense of lineman on
the bills. You know,
the secondary there's no shutdown corner,
there's no Marquis safety right now
and all the linebackers are good. We know that. But then
I think when you compare that to the 49ers,
Or the Cowboys or the Eagles, or the Chiefs are The Bangles.
It's not in the same Stratosphere in my opinion. And
that's something that I think they got to address this year
as just getting a few, guys that can make plays
outside. The realm of the Playbook, it can't always be
the coaches having to deliver.
There's a lot of positives. They just need a little in that
department in my opinion.
John Elway
early 2015, when he surprisingly fired John Fox
after a divisional round loss. He said I think if there is one
thing that you would like to have and you want to feel at
least in the last game you want to feel like you go out kicking
and screaming when you're right there and I think two years in
a row, it didn't feel like we went out kicking and screaming
because the fact of the way, we played our last game, you know
that.
And what did he do? He fired.
John Fox hired. Gary Kubiak and won a Super Bowl, right? The
next year. And he and That's just a recent example of
a dynamic that has played out time and again, right? There's
a danger in getting close to many
times because eventually ownerships going to say
you're not the one
to kick in the door
and
I'm sorry. But that think that's why there was just
a sense that the bills were kind of feeling the weight of
the pressure back in August because they knew they knew.
And they understand at some point ownership is going to say,
we got Josh Allen, we need better results. We need people
who are going to get us to better. her results with Josh,
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