Couldn’t score 20 points with a 105 million dollar offense.
Arrogance/lack of accountability.
Inability to connect with players.
Inability to mold his scheme around his players. Little to no compromise to his scheme.
truly can’t think of any pros for Mcvisor
Bad decision maker, too full of himself
He got spoiled with a hall of fame coach and best of all time QB as a glorified offensive analyst. He rode that wave into multiple unsuccessful “real” coaching positions that weren’t managed by Bill. He admits on record he is terrible socially and with people (and this a team of people AND players). He is credited with “knowing football”, but unless you can pair that with the other numerous factors it takes to manage a team you are useless outside of an analyst position. He rode his hype and high into fucking the broncos (not mad) and the Raiders (mad) as a HC.
Dictator like and stubborn.
No Tom Brady = no Patriot Way
You pretty much hit the nail on the head, terrible leader, made it feel like work instead of letting the guys have fun, which wore down the morale and that compounded the frustration when they kept losing. Tack on the fact that he shit the bed with the Carr situation and had the bright idea of trying to fix it with Jimmy G, and then acting like a total beta male bitch when the team finally called him on his shit, and you have yourself a fired head coach that should have never been hired in the first place.
Edit: also, saying that they lost to the teams they should have shows that you didn’t watch the games, aside from the Buffalo game, the other teams were basically trying to give the game away (Steelers, Lions) and then you lay a colossal fucking egg by choosing to start Brian Hoyer against the bears. If you’re just looking at box scores, it doesn’t tell the whole story of just how fucking terrible he was. Terrible clock management, unaware playcalling in critical moments in games, forcing his oline and running game into a power scheme when they didn’t have the personnel, it’s just way more shit than what you’d see on the surface
He thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. He’s not humble. He doesn’t give enough respect.
In addition to being a complete fraud as an "offensive genius" you are correct that he is a thoroughly disrespectful person who threw all of his players under the bus before taking any responsibility for his poor coaching.
McD isn't just a terrible coach, he's a terrible human being.
This was Mcdaniels coaching style square peg in a round hole
Aside from likeability, he made strategically horrible play calls and time management decisions on numerous occasions through the past 2 seasons...he's not a good HC.
He loaded the team with a lot of washed up or useless guys because they were patriots: jimmy G, brandon Bolden, the new long snapper when we had a good one at the same price, Brian hoyer, Philip dorsett, chandler jones, Justin Herron, Jakob Johnson (he's not a good FB, we already HAD a good FB before mcdaniels...). We'll probably eat $100M in lost team money because of the players and coaches contracts that will be null after this season
He replaced Carr with an even worse Vet QB
Oh and he was a terrible leader
The Legend of Josh McDaniels is one where the outrage outpaces his actions, but at least for him words speak louder
Just an odd fella
His biggest flaws are that he is grating to most people, he's an egomaniac who refuses to concede when he is wrong, and he is a control freak who wants to be in charge of everything. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, and is still largely coaching the exact same way he did 15 years ago. He is also one of the worst talent evaluators who has ever been given GM duties in NFL history. Like almost every personnel decision he has ever made has been the opposite of what he should've done. All of this combines to create a guy who demands to have the ability to destroy your team, will stop at nothing to destroy your team, and then will blame everyone but himself while he is standing in the rubble of what was once your team.
He does things like not go for points at the end of halves while losing and kicking off the next half. Or kicking a FG down 8 in the red zone with 3 min left.
On top of his horrible personality and game management, he was an offensive head coach leading and calling the plays for an offense that couldn't score over 20 points in a single game this season. And he brought in Jimmy G and gave him a contract and the guy looked worse than most backups.
You know the option routes you see in madden or audibles? Yeah forget about it.
He couldn't adapt. It's why we would lose games we shouldn't. That's my main gripe. If it didn't go according to the exact plan it falls apart. Just what I noticed.
Players hated playing for him - and his methods didn't lead to winning, so it was basically a mutiny by the end
mcDaniels kept players in meetings longer and worked them harder than any team in the league... For no results. Players will buy in to hard work, but not if it doesn't go anywhere
He is a micromanager who routinely blamed the players for not executing, rather than look at his own game plans
He is famously petty and sensitive - and fell out with a lot of players for no good reason. Just like he was an asshole to Jay Cutler and others in Denver, he immediately fell out with Carr, Waller, Renfrow and others.
His play calling is just conservative and archaic. He hates allowing players any creativity, which is why he fell out with Renfrow and Carr in particular. Carr likes to change plays at the line based on what he sees, mcDaniels hated that
Famously, in the Seattle win last year, Carr audibled into a run that Jacobs broke for a long touchdown. McDaniels was mad he changed the play, not happy we scored a TD
He'd rather lose with his own guys than win with someone elses. Hence the insistence on downgrading to Jimmy G, who he overestimated how much he'd fit in his system, despite failing a physical
Ultimately, mcDaniels sucked all the joy and life out of this team. Which is why they celebrated like you've never seen when he got fired.
This guy started a rookie QB in week 4, started his boyfriend in the next 2 games, then started Brian Hoyer in week 7. When asked why he didn't go back to his rookie in week 6, he said "it's not the preseason anymore".
He decided to kick a FG down 8 points with 3 minutes left in the game using the reasoning "you need 2 possessions anyway".
Last season after choking away another game, he said "you can't win until you stop from losing".
Fuck this asshole.
He’s living off Bills success
He's a terrible leader and was super stubborn with his offensive scheme. Instead of scheming to his players strengths he tried to fit the players into his scheme, and also imported a bunch of ex patriots players to try to run the offense to his specs. He also never took accountability and constantly talked about how it was the players not executing rather than he also needed to improve.
