The coaches need to build an environment that fosters this growth...and they don't! So you go ahead and put the whole basket on top of Allen's shoulders--which is exactly the way the coaching staff has it designed--and you will just be signing up for more and more of the same and the continued regression and struggle of Josh Allen.
My point is Josh Allen is a big asset and we need to protect it and maximize it's effectiveness. McDermott does neither of those things. If we want to be successful we need new coaching. Next year we will likely be sailing into the season with McDermott at the helm, Frazier leading the defense and Dorsey leading the offense. Not really up for it. Sorry, this staff is nice but they are never going to have the best team in the league there are too many problems with the way they do things. Players on this team are always going to be coddled and people-pleased and unable to grasp the humility and sacrifice it's going to take to win a championship. The team is going to continue to lack direction pointing to an identity in favor of allowing it to organically emerge.
It is an NFL season there isn't time for infinite timeless bull****. You basically have about half a year to prepare for the playoffs. Boom! It is over. Rinse and repeat.
The learning isn't taking place. The evolution isn't taking place. We knew there were problems inside on the team last season. It's just gotten worse. The team has gotten worse. What this coaching staff has focused on and gotten better at in the McDermott tenure is covering up their dysfunction. They were dysfunctional this last Sunday. They didn't just take a beat down. What we saw was total domination of our offensive and defensive philosophies. That is McDermott and it is going to be a problem that remains until we are willing to do something that gets us over that hump.
If we had Burrow then we have a shot to win that game. Burrow is a quick and decisive QB with extreme accuracy. Josh is a big play gun slinger whose going to force the ball and make plays happen that only he can. Against Cincy the shorter and decisive passing game would have gotten us in better positions.
I like Allen more overall, but we’ve seen games where we have to overcome his mentality to win. That’s why so many talk about hero ball in the gameday threads.
YardRat (01-24-2023)
This is how Allen has been coached. That is the piece that YardRat seems to be overlooking -- like Josh Allen is working in a box and what comes out is all Josh Allen. Not true. We saw a distinct change in Josh Allen during the season with this aggressive throw everything up downfield. That type of change comes when he is coached to change that way.
Coaching has to play apart of it. Someone has to get it through his head that bombing it on 3rd and 1 is not smart QB. Someone has to get him to understand that the easy throws are just as important as the big plays because there's a lot more of them. Ultimately he has to put into practice what they're telling him but coaching absolutely plays apart.
I think they've been to easy on him. We've heard him joke many times about being told to slide more but that not being his game. He probably thinks the same thing about the long passes. Kinda gives me the feeling he's been told he just wants to do it his way. He's starting to hear criticism now that he's not in Mahomes and Burrows league. That's probably the best thing for him. We know how much that drove him when colleges told him he wasn't good enough.
The playcalling didn't help. The game plan stunk. You'd think that after Miami, they'd have a plan for all out blitzes. They didn't. I didn't see one dump off to Singletary until the last 4 minutes when they were down by 17. I didn't see crossing routes. I don't think they ran one slant pattern.
I get what you are saying, and Josh will probably never be a short pass game manager type, but you have to help him out as the OC. You have to design plays to get the ball out of his hands quickly. Daboll was a master at that last year. He knew when Josh needed to be guided, and when to let him go. This year there was nobody to reign Josh in, and that is 100% on coaching.
For everyone praising Burrow. It's easy to dissect any defense if you have all day. If you want to win in this league, you have to pressure the QB. The Bills are terrible at it, and it showed the last half of the seasonish. They had a few good games where they got to young, terrible QBs, but when they faced offenses that got the ball out quickly, they stunk. Why? Because they A.) can't or refuse to play press coverage, B.) Don't get pressure at all.
Winning is not rocket science. Pressure the QB with your front 4. Cover most of the field, making it HARD for the QB. On offense, you have to have answers for said pressure, and make it easier on your QB. You can't just expect him to escape pressure and make miracle 30 yard throws on the run every time. The Bills did none of the above, and it showed on Sunday.
The Bills are totally one-dimensional. Josh Allen throwing downfield Josh Allen running the ball. All Josh Allen.
We don't challenge other teams this way. We don't threaten the field. WE don't threaten anything -- only Josh Allen has a chance to do that.
We're going to be watching the same thing next season and hear the same "we need to learn from this" doublespeak.
When Josh Allen is playing well they need to get him out there on the defense too!
CommissarSpartacus (01-24-2023)
The problem with this team is THE HEAD COACH.
He's a chicken.
We've had to live with his gutlessness for 5 years.
I don't care that he looks like a marine, he's a ****ing coward and can always be counted on to pussy out when the pressure is on.
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Easy for you to say but I bet if Josh got a new pilot's license and the FAA told him "good job, you don't need us anymore", you wouldn't want to be a passenger on the plane he was flying, too often.
Do you have other examples of players in sports who have had the rise that Josh has had and then still excelled with the lack of coaching/players/scheme?
When he punted that ball from the 40 Sunday I was done. He wouldn't have punted that ball during the regular season. And if they strategy is all Josh Allen then why the hell not be all Josh Allen?
McDermott is weak and a wishy washy people pleaser. There will always be some bully around to punch him in the face and ruin his day.
CommissarSpartacus (01-24-2023)