NFL News Breaking: McDermott fired

patchick said:

To me it’s not just including a player in the process, it’s including exactly ONE player. Yes, we all know that a star QB is a precious commodity. But it’s still a team game, and a public pronouncement like this that Allen is separate from the rest of the rabble on the roster seems like a bad locker room move.

I’m curious, if a team asked serious HC candidates to sit down with the team captains as a group to get a players’ perspective on their leadership and vision, what would you all think?

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Tunescribe said:

Unheard of and just as bad if not worse than only giving the star QB a say. First and foremost, team captains aren't the same every year and the head coach determines the process by which they're chosen. (Remember that Vrabel, for instance, cut/traded last year's team captains under Mayo. Captains/top players in one coach's system can be expendable jags in another.)

The head coach is a deciding factor in all players' livelihoods -- how they play and practice, who gets a contract extension, benched, traded, IR'd, suspended, etc., etc. He's the ultimate authority and can't be beholden to any player or small group of players. Also, players can't possibly know how a coach's system/philosophy might work to their benefit or detriment until they experience it under him and assistant coaches.

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patchick said:

I hear you, and I agree with the basic issue but I think a group of team leaders would be marginally better than a QB diva system. The flip side of a coach being beholden to the players is the players feeling invested in the coach’s success and rallying the locker room behind him.

Watching late-stage Aaron Rodgers has convinced me that a QB who holds himself above and apart from his teammates is a death knell.

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Report: Bills have reached consensus on Bill Belichick​

reflexblue said:

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759

Report: Bills have reached consensus on Bill Belichick​

And it appears to be No

MSN

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BUSTAMOVE said:

Rivers will have the same problem Mayo had
No NFL coaching experience and a very limited coaching tree

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JoeSixPat said:

I'd actually love to see Rivers as an NFL HC - but seeing as the Bills should want someone with playoff and ideally SB coaching success, he's not their guy.

But yes - he needs to come in as a QB coach at the very least. Look at Vrabel's pedigree. He learned how to coach by watching BB yes - but did his time at Ohio State and with the Texans as an assistant.

Heck even Mayo was an assistant for 4 seasons

I'll be shocked if the Bills don't take a step back next season. I have no idea who they can get with credibility and a proven track record.

Heck - let Josh Allen be Player Coach - that'd probably turn out better than whatever they're contemplating now. Mike McCarthy would have been their best bet but they lost him to the Steelers.

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BUSTAMOVE said:

I think Rivers is having a HC interview but with the Bills intention to hire him as a QB coach like the Pats did with Thomas Brown

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Hammer of Thor said:

Certainly possible. Reportedly he’s taken himself out of consideration for the HC position, but there’s no report about anything else.

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captain stone said:

Looks like Josh er I mean the Bills have found his er I mean their man...

Hope this doesn't end-up the same way when Tragic Johnson got Paul Westhead fired...

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BUSTAMOVE said:

I don't know if he will be offered the QB coach job. I just don’t think he had any shot at the HC position. Might have been picking his brain or if he wowed them a coaching position

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