Bills General Manager Brandon Beane says trading for wide receiver Amari Cooper this week may not be the last move his team makes in its quest to bring a Vince Lombardi Trophy to Buffalo this season.
If they don’t win this year, I think both have to go.
How much do they have to win for your standards? Would losing in the AFC Championship be good enough?
They got to get there and be competitive. Otherwise I think coach will have to go at the very least. McDermott and his staff haven’t brought fresh ideas and schemes to the league. Every year we see KC do something different every year. Cinci when they were going to superbowl brought different looks to offense and defense like how to defend Mahomes which Beane copied. Unless you can be creative to give your team an edge run of the mill offense and defense will not take you over the top.
I’m not really sure why Buffalo hasn’t been able to break the glass ceiling and become a top team. They’ve been good for quite awhile, and the fans seem to be getting tired of it. The coach always feels like a scapegoat. It’s easier to replace the coach than to replace the players. But you have to accept that there is like a 50/50 chance the team gets worse with a new coach. McDermott might be the thing holding them together.
When good teams get impatient like this, it’s often a disaster. I’m reminded of college sports where a fanbase gets frustrated because the coach is such a great recruiter but is perceived at being bad at coaching. Tons of good but ultimately disappointing seasons isn’t good enough for the fans. So they fire the coach, the team no longer recruits like it did, and becomes irrelevant.
I hope they get Hassan Reddick
