The Buffalo Bills fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and named Joe Brady the interim replacement. On today’s episode, Joe Marino provides his immediate reaction to the news and discusses the path forward. Key talking points include the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott, Joe Brady, Ken Dorsey, Josh Allen, Stefon Diggs, Gabe Davis, Dalton Kincaid, James Cook, Von Miller and more!
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49 Comments
You play on Sunday the way you practice Monday thru Saturday.
McD said as much when he said "sometimes things go unnoticed outside the margins but they are important as is taking pride in doing things the right way."
Translation: Dorsey allowed sloppy practice habits that carried over to games.
Benching Cook was a bad look. Allen needs some real tough love. After an interception,tell him to sit down for a series or two. I’m sure he feels bad for every turnover,but,that just isn’t always enough,sometimes. Maybe the backup qb won’t throw an interception. I can’t see this team making the playoffs. Can Kyle Allen screw it up any worse. Who knows—they may win a game. Let’s see what happens.
Why didnt Brady work with josh while he was qb coach
I would like to know that are they going to sit GDavis because he is not doing a thing out there for the team he is no number two WR are they going to let any of the other players to go out there and play mike
If the Bills end up lets say 6-11 or 7-10, i would just blow up the coaching staff and bring in new people. It might be good to fire Beane too. Going back to the Tremaine Edmunds defection to Chicago, Beane and McDermott should have been very diligent to bring in a replacement. They could have had Lavonte David. Lets go back to the Von Miller Signing. That WAS a waste of money. Im sorry, but it seems like McD and Beane are stubborn and arrogant. I now believe that both individuals have run their course and its time for change.
I don’t see how the quarterback coach who has been coaching a quarterback who is regressing and making huge decision mistakes and leads in interceptions is the guy to take over an offense that has talent but needs leadership and a skilled offensive coordinator. Isn’t there anyone out there that has experience and could come in? This feels like Sean McDermott hiring a person he’s familiar with rather than finding an experienced OC.
I might add that the Bills need to draft another QB. At the very least during the off season, bring in a veteran QB to push Josh Allen. This move may wake him up and force him to play more consistent.
Bills 3 win streak were all 1:00 games
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Dorsey gets canned, but not Smiley and possibly McDermott?
Sure the players suck and they blame the coach that's ridiculous That's why I don't watch and I don't care about the bills they're bunch of losers anyways
It really comes down to the turn overs and offensive execution, and it has finally caught up to them.
The Bills just couldn't let this floundering mess continue. Like every business if your employees are a rabble then management must be changed. The O need a fresh start and new leadership.
Dorsey is somewhat a scapegoat. In the meantime, Allen continues to choke, toss short passes, and interceptions ever since his arm injury. Hard to have a good Offense when your QB keeps working against you.
Sorry Joe 🐬👆
2nd place in the division isnt that bad lol
Good move but the root cause is McDermott and he will be next. He did a good job bringing the Bills back from irrelevance, is a very good defensive coordinator, but he isn’t the head coach needed to win the Super Bowl. When the pressure is on he makes blunder after blunder. Time for a change.
CDXCV! Go Bills!
How many interceptions did Dorsey throw? How many fumbles?
Dorsey was not a bad OC, but he lacked an understanding of the pieces already on his chest board. He wants to make a plan without personal considerations. This is why we can't make it consistent.
Sad state of affairs all around. Feels like this is just the first domino to fall.
Trust the process or adjust the process?
When the Bills' talented offense makes so many widespread execution errors, yeah it's the coach.
In 10 years they'll look back & see how McDermott, a defensive minded HC who stole all the $ & assets for his defense while leaving the O with crumbs, was the teams problem, he's not Good enough at all, it's time for change, should've been gone after 13 seconds, 12 men on the field & giving a 33 yr old Von Miller 125 mill should be plenty to be fired.. AfC has passed the Bills by while they're at the side of the road changing a flat.. McDermotts peaked, he's not good enough & Dorsey isn't the turnover fumble machine Allen is, he's to blame & so is management by neglecting the Offense Gabe Davis sux 🍆 & this is what they get for not building around their teams sole relevance which is Allen & the O not McMidget & the D.. get em all out, blow it up & start over before its too late.. get Diggs tf outa here too if possible, send his whiney Diva ass to play with his brother so he can be 1 & done every year there too
Bring in fournette
This team is woefully under prepared to play many of the games I've seen this year…even some of the games they've won….THAT'S ON THE HEAD COACH!
I’d wager the amount of shutgun and play action against the broncos has more to do with doubling down on what Allen feels “comfortable with” rather than it being Dorsey’s preferred ratio. Allen runs the building and each week more pressure mounted to defer to Allen and go with what he wants.
Joe do you have an email we can send questions and comments to? I don’t have the app formerly called twitter and I can’t do the text chain.
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Too much Shotgun? Your trash QB got the OC axed. Exactly the "fall guy".
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The current coaching staff has run it's course. The players do not trust them and there is no belief that these are the guys who can take this team to the next level. The Allen, Dorsey McDermott triangle was broken…. irrevocably so. Diggs new this from the beginning. Who is to blame, who knows….All I know is that Allen is the only one who is hard to replace.
Thank you for this content. I really appreciate it. God bless!
How does Brady cut down on the turnovers?
Yup bills should be at least 8-2 right now, you can now stick a fork in them . They are done this year. Unless they go 5-2 it's over. 10-7 may get in a 6 seed tops, but this team couldn"t make any noise anyway so they are what they are a mediocre football team. Too bad
Unbelievable. Lost some respect as firing him was wrong. I have no respect for making someone a scapegoat. Most of the issues were not on him. He’s not throwing the picks, fumbling the balls, ignoring open guys and forcing passes into triple coverage, etc.
What about Sean’s game plan to blitz the Bengals the entire game when JB kills the blitz? It didn’t work.
Was the offense bad, yeah. We have a couple players not doing well and one that needs to pull his head out of you know where.
We were playing against the worst run defense in the league and our passing game should have been focused around Kincaid because the were bottom 10 in the league in that area. But Mcdermitt is responsible as well. The special teams coordinator should have got the boot first though.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter who the OC is if josh keeps turnover the ball…we're not going anywhere..plain and simple JOSH HAS TO BE BETTER!!!🤷♂️
Brian Schottenheimer for HC!!! McDummy has lost the team in its entirety… 12 men on the field on a critical play???? GOODBYE, SEAN.
I think you need to give McDermott time to right the ship. After the 4th Super Bowl loss, the Bills pulled the trigger on key position firings. They didn’t have to worry about losing any more Super Bowls. They didn’t make the playoffs for 19 years, when McDermott became the coach. Hasn’t missed the playoffs yet… slow your roll guys.
The bills get better when they get a offensive minded HC. Until then if Josh doesn’t play perfectly during backyard football they will be bad.
They need to run K gun. It worked every time for a TD this season.
Josh Allen is turner waiting to happen
You all forgot what life was like the bills before McDermott became your head coach
Dorsey was responsible for 12 men on the field?
Brady was scapegoated out of carolina
At LSU brady made burrow and the recievers throw over 1000 passes over the summer and they had to log there progress. I wonder if he does the same thing after season if he stays on.
Brady is a disciples of Sean payton
Feel like the writing was on the wall the moment he had that melt down in the booth last year. Can’t handle the pressure
LSU was amazing that year but the best college football team I’ve ever seen was that 2001 Miami Hurricane squad. Portis, Davenport, McGahee, Frank Gore, Shockey, Winslow, Andre Johnson. Unstoppable offense led by quarterback… (sigh)