The Third Annual "Sean McDermott Is An Idiot" Blog
The past two years when I've written this blog, both on this AFC Championship weekend, the title has been "Sean McDermott is A Fucking Idiot"
and "I Wrote This Same Blog Exactly One Year Ago And It Applies Again: Sean McDermott Is A Fucking Idiot"
This year I felt like I needed to leave the fucking superlative out because I actually thought he coached a great game… up until the 4th quarter.
The Bills came out in the 2nd half and fucking POUNDED the ball.
For all the talk about the Kansas City rushing defense, it looked hopeless against James Cook. He was gashing them. Buffalo marched downfield and took the lead.
Getting the ball back up 1, with a chance to make it a two score game with under 10 minutes left, and step on the Chiefs throats, Buffalo abandoned that philosophy.
Nobody knows Conan.
Instead, it came down to a play that never should have occurred, and an opportunity for the league to make a call that swung things the Chiefs way.
I'm not going to beat a dead horse and turn this blog into something crucifying the league and the refs for once again letting the Chiefs off the hook with another massive and ridiculous call. Reags already did a great job doing that HERE.
(That third down spot was worse than the 4th down review in my opinion. This league and the officiating is comical.)
This blog is intended to point out just how awful Sean McDermott collapsed down the stretch and let his team down again.
First off- can somebody explain the thinking behind continuing to run that sorry excuse for the "tush push"?
It was an embarrassment compared to Philly's execution of it, and I honestly didn't think there could be a worse-looking QB sneak than TB12 (sorry Tom), but Josh Allen somehow does it. For as fast and agile as Allen is for his size once he gets moving, he is slow as shit off the snap. Running straight up with his center of gravity as high as it is also doesn't help things.
Yet McDermott, and Brady, kept running this play when the Bills needed a crucial conversion. And they kept running it left for some reason- behind Dion Dawkins. (Who didn't have his best game).
Secondly- with the chance to put the game away, and send your cursed franchise to the Super Bowl on the line, after establishing success with Cook and the run, how in the world does he start the drive on the bench for the first 5 plays?
It's like these coahes, (not just McDermott and Brady, but coaches league wide), have their brains melt when the pressure is on. All common sense and memory of what has been effective goes out the window and they default to factory settings.
Like a fucking screen pass to Amari Cooper on 3rd and long?
Watching a mismatch in coaching like we did once again today between Andy Reid, who is the best in the league, and McDermott, it's honestly amazing Buffalo hung in this like they did. It's even more incredible when you consider the fact the deck was stacked against them the way it was and the refs had their hands in the mix.
One of my best friends from college, Tony, is from Buffalo and lives and dies with the team. He went off in our group chat after the game. I told him I was going to be writing this blog once again and asked if there was anything a Bills diehard would want me to include. What he sent me was so perfect I had to copy and paste it in it's entirety.
Write the same thing you’ve written the last 3 years. It’s the same fucking story. McDermott is a defensive coach. His defense gets DECIMATED by the chiefs in the playoffs. You should just write “see last year’s article” and post a link. The guy’s a fucking loser. He’s a Jonny Try Hard who can get more out of a team than they’re capable of, but can’t fuck the prom queen. He’s the friend zone version of a coach. There’s your storyline. He can’t fuck. He buys her dinner and gifts, and watches as Andy Reid fucks the prom queen, and says “fumblerooski” while he does it. At least Dan Campbell goes down like a man. Our coach goes down like a sniffling pussy year after year. He doesn’t even carry a fucking play sheet on the sidelines. I understand if you don’t call plays, but shouldn’t you at least know what the fucking plays are so that you can step in and say, “Hey, let’s not run the tush push for the 10th time when their d-linemen weigh 330 lbs”? He’s a loser. And our GM is a loser who drafted Josh Allen and basically drafted dick after that. Guy has wasted numerous draft picks on d-linemen that weigh as much as you and year after year can’t get to the QB in the playoffs. Loser coach. Loser GM. Loser fucking franchise. Go Bills!
Poor Bills.
p.s. - I don't think there's a more deserving MVP this season than Josh Allen. Especially considering he took this team this far. A team this poorly coached, with only 1 other pro bowler on it, a few plays away from the Super Bowl is astouding. He should be proud of himself. That said, he stunk today. But he got zero help from his coaches. How on fucking Earth did Joe Brady not know Spagnoulo was bringing the house on this final play of the game? And McDermott? Do they only watch tape to pick up on players tendencies and not detect other coaches tendencies also? Probably. But you know Reid and Spagnoulo weren't going to let Josh Allen sit back with time to pick apart their tired D with the game and season on the line.
He trots out an empty backfield set, with no help for Allen, starts Shakir in motion right, then cuts him back left into the flat where he was WIDE FUCKING OPEN and probably would have scored if Allen had a half a second longer to see him.
Just horrible preparation, horrible decision making, horrible execution. All when it matters the most. Poor Buffalo.
P.p.s. - am I just a conspiracy theorist or did anybody else think it was awfully funny how Jim Nantz and the team on the radio call tonight all saw a flag fly out on that last incompletion Allen threw? A conspiracy theorist, not me, would argue the refs had a flag ready to call something had Allen completed that pass, but once they saw it was incomplete they picked it up. Interesting…
The radio broadcast saw it and even commented on it too-
Also, neither of these were called
P.p.s.- the Chiefs were offsides on that 4th down