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Emergency episode: The Bills have fired Sean McDermott · Football Junkies podcast

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  Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news,
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  breaking news, folks. The Bills have fired Sean
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  McDermott. You already know how these episodes
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  go. No intro, no outro. We're just going to get
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  into the meat and potatoes of the situation.
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  So here's the statement from Terry Pagula, owner
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  of the Buffalo Bills, and I quote, Sean has done
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  an admirable job of leading our football team
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  for the past nine seasons, but I feel we are
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  in need of a new structure within our leadership
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  to give this organization the best opportunity
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  to take our team to the next level. We owe that
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  to our players and to Bills Mafia. Sean helped
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  change the mindset of this organization and was
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  instrumental in the Bills becoming a perennial
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  playoff team. I respect all the work, loyalty,
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  and attention to detail he showed for this team
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  and the community. I wish Sean, Jamie, and his
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  family all the best. Moving forward, Brandon
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  Bean will now serve as the president of football
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  operations and general manager of the Buffalo
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  Bills. Brandon will oversee all facets of our
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  football operation, including the oversight of
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  our coaching staff. I have full faith and have
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  witnessed Brandon's outstanding leadership style
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  and have confidence in his abilities to lead
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  our organization. Bean will be leading the search
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  for a new head coach and will be working directly
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  with Pagula and Peter Guelli, excuse me if I
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  butchered your last name, who will now serve
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  as president of business operations during the
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  interview and hiring process, end quote. So Sean
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  McDermott's overall record was 98 -50. His playoff
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  record is 8 -8. He won five consecutive divisional
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  titles and he was 0 -3 in playoff games that
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  went into overtime. Now, according to ESPN Research,
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  The Bills have won at least 10 regular season
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  games in seven consecutive seasons, which is
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  tied for fifth in the Super Bowl era since 1966.
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  However, they are the only team of those top
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  six to have not made an appearance in the Super
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  Bowl. The other teams, the Patriots, the 49ers,
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  the Chiefs, the Colts, and the Cowboys. We all
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  knew that the minute that that game was over,
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  somebody was going to get fired. It was either
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  going to be Brandon Bean, or it was going to
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  be Sean McDermott, Or it was going to be both.
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  Now, me personally, I would have chose both instead
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  of just one or the other, which I'll explain
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  in just a moment. But how is it that you lose
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  a game that you know you could have won in a
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  year where you're not facing Patrick Mahomes
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  or Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert?
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  That's unacceptable. The time for excuses is
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  out the window. It's either you're going to win
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  the big game or you're not. But you continue
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  to hit the same roadblock year after year after
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  year, and you have nobody to blame but yourself.
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  So how is it that the Patriots can go through
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  what they've gone through within the past few
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  years, get their act together, and now they look
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  like the Patriots of old, while you continue
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  to figure out how we're going to get to the Super
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  Bowl? And you can't say that this year was difficult,
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  because it wasn't. You literally had to go through
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  Trevor Lawrence, which you essentially just steamrolled
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  all the way into the end zone. You could have
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  beaten the Broncos had Josh Allen not turned
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  the ball over four times. So don't give me that
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  junk. I don't want to hear it from no Bills player.
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  I don't want to hear it from nobody that's getting
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  paychecks from the Bills, Darren Arlovsky. I
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  don't want to hear it from nobody this year.
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  Because this was the year for you to win, and
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  you didn't do it. Because of self -inflicted
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  wounds. It's not because of nobody else's fault.
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  It's not the ref's fault. It's not because of
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  the catch or the pick. It's none of that. It's
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  because you failed to meet expectations. When
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  you're not producing, you have to go. That's
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  just what it is. They gave you chance after chance
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  after chance after chance. You're in a weak division.
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  A division that has not gotten its act together
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  in I don't know how long. It's only been you
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  and the Patriots that have just been steamrolling
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  the division. And you mean to tell me you guys
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  still can't find a way to make it to the Super
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  Bowl? Are we serious? So Bills fans, don't just
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  say, oh, you guys are coming at us sideways.
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  You're only coming at the Bills like this. Oh,
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  no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have the
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  same energy for the Ravens fans. I have that
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  same energy for the Bengals fans. I have the
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  same energy for all of the other teams. Even
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  in the Patriots dynasty, there were still people
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  winning championships. Eli was winning championships.
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  Ben won a championship. Drew Brees won a championship.
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  What are we doing? Now I'm going to save the
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  rest because we have to talk about the game,
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  which that should be coming out fairly soon.
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  Just give me some time because I have to re -watch
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  the game and whatnot, okay? Now let's talk about
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  Brandon Bean. Mr. Bean. The Bean Man. How is
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  it that you're able to stay with this team, but
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  the head coach goes, even though you guys were
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  a package deal? So if you guys were a package
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  deal, then you guys should be getting fired together.
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  And the fact that you guys were able to give
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  him a promotion. A promotion? Really? And this
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  is the same smoke that I have with the other
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  GMs who still have their job right now. How is
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  it that Andrew Barron can trade away future picks
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  and give the worst contract in sports history
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  to Deshaun Watson, but still keep his job? How
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  is it that Joe Shane can let his star running
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  back go, but you're going to fight tooth and
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  nail to give a deal to your quarterback who benefited
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  off of Saquon Barkley being on the field? And
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  you're going to say, who's going to pay a running
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  back $12 million a year? But you keep your job.
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  What are we doing? Can somebody please answer
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  me? How is it that these guys are able to keep
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  their jobs when they haven't been doing well
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  in a production -based business? Can somebody
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  please explain to me? Please explain to me. But
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  here's the best part. When you compare the Bills
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  roster to the Texans, to the Patriots, to the
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  Broncos, even to the Jaguars before they faced
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  them, the Bills had the worst roster. And you
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  mean to tell me you're able to keep your job
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  when you should have done more for Josh Allen?
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  Are we serious? All Josh Allen had this year
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  was Khalir Shakir, Brandon Cooks, and James Cook.
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  That's it. Corlin Sutton, Marvin Mims, LeJuan
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  Humphrey, R .J. Harvey, Evan Ingram, Drake May
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  has Stephon Diggs, Mack Hollins, Keishon Boutier,
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  Hunter Henry, two really good running backs.
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  So the room for excuses on your poor drafting
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  methods is out the window. You have to start
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  giving Josh Allen weapons because at this point,
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  Josh Allen is going to want to leave. All you
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  did was just give him a rusty butter knife and
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  a twig and say, you know what? Make it work.
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  Now, when we talk about potential candidates
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  for this job, there's not a lot of options out
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  there. The options that are available are currently
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  finalists for other jobs. So the question is
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  this. What do the Bills do at this point? Do
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  you call the Steelers and maybe inquire about
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  Mike Tomlin? Do you inquire about Brian Dable?
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  Do you inquire about making Joe Brady your head
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  coach? Because at this point, you have a very
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  tough decision that you have to make moving forward.
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  So if I'm Brandon Bean, we're going in a meeting
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  room, no phones, no technology of any sort. We're
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  getting a whiteboard and we're hashing this thing
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  out. I don't care how long it takes. I don't
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  care how uncomfortable it gets. We need to hash
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  this thing out now. Because where you guys are
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  headed is a level of insanity that not even Cowboys
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  fans have even reached. It's time for you to
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  figure out what you're going to do moving forward.
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  Because what we have right here is not working.
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  And you have to ask yourself, if we make this
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  move, will it get us over the hump? If we hire
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  this person as our head coach, what is going
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  to be his identity? Is he going to use the players
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  that we have in a different way for better or
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  for worse? What moves can we do to get over this
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  hump? Who can get us over that hump? Do we have
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  the structure right now to support getting over
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  the hump? These are the uncomfortable conversations
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  that have to be asked every single day in order
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  for you guys to get an idea of what you guys
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  need to do to get to a championship. So if I'm
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  the Bills, I'm either choosing Joe Brady or Brian
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  Dable because both of them played a pivotal role
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  in developing Josh Allen. On top of that, if
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  you go after an offensive -minded head coach,
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  they might have an eye for talent that you don't
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  have. See, these are the type of things that
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  people don't talk about when choosing a head
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  coach. But these are the things that need to
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  be talked about in this moment. Because you already
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  have the franchise quarterback. All you have
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  to do is just build around him. If you make a
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  trade for maybe an A .J. Brown, for instance,
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  or maybe a Jalen Waddell, that's a good start
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  right there. You can no longer take these crazy
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  swings and think that you're not going to have
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  any backlash from it. Case in point, you guys
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  signing Von Miller to that crazy contract after
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  he only played a couple games with the Rams.
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  Granted, he played a pivotal role in the Rams
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  winning the Super Bowl, but that doesn't mean
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  that you give him this crazy contract. One more
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  thing I have to talk about then I'll end the
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  episode. Of all the vacancies that we have right
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  now, which one do you think is the best one?
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  Because me personally, I still believe it's the
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  Ravens. And the reason why I say that is because
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  you still have Lamar. You still have Derrick
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  Henry, Rashad Bateman, Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews,
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  Mike Green, Kyle Hamilton, Roquan Smith. But
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  when we look at the Bills job, however, you have
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  Josh Allen, James Cook, Khalir Shakir, Dawson
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  Knox, Gregory Russo, Landon Jackson, Deion Walker,
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  TJ Sanders. The point that I'm trying to make
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  is... Both teams are really good opportunities.
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  It's just a matter of what's your flavor. But
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  I guess we just have to wait and see what happens.
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  But I'm going to end this episode here. If you
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