Assistant (to the) Head Coach Brandon Staley

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Those Bills teams were really good. I think they could win a SB today. They had one of the best QBs of his era (Jim Kelly), a great RB (Thurman Thomas), one of the greatest edge rushers of all time (Bruce Smith) and a solid team from top to bottom. It was their misfortune to be great during the era when the NFC had super teams like the Niners, Giants and Cowboys.

One of the best games i ever attended was the 1992 game between the Bills and 49ers. It was a total shootout between Kelly and Young with the Bills winning 34-31. I think there was only one punt and that happened late in the game. Something like 1000 yards between the 2 teams. That was far more rare than it is in today's offense/pass happy era.

No, that game had no punts at all.

I think it was just a lot of scoring and turnovers, but wild stuff for sure.

The Bills winning that game lends the idea that a 3peat was not guaranteed whatsoever had we gotten past the Giants in '90 (maybe even with Montana). With just a week between games that year, would've been hard.

Bill Belichick came up with the game plan of his life for the Giants to win that game, and they barely did and easily could've lost. The Bills had the ball for 19 minutes and scored 19 points......just worked out they got lucky the Bills couldn't get a closer field goal at the end (and I forgot the reason why that happened).

Redskins were just a DVOA force (supposedly top 3 of all time), and the Cowboys were just a monster.

1990 the Bills were an offensive juggernaut that IMO could've beaten any team in the NFC....even '91 Washington or those Cowboy teams, but by those particular years the drop off was such they weren't quite the same (in part because in '90 that K Gun offense was catching people by surprise).

Back to Brandon Staley.....

Here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned so far........he game plans well against KC and has ....(wait for it)........actually beaten them! Twice....2020 and 2021...and more often than not keeps it close when he doesn't win.

So mentally, he's gotten over the hump.

If this season (and possibly future seasons as well) are going to mean anything for true Super Bowl aspirations, we have to beat the Chiefs this year at home. No excuses......none.

We do that.........and maybe it will finally happen. We just can't keep losing to this f**king team..........I'm tired of it. They're my new Seattle Seahawks.....

We can't even lose to Seattle when we play subpar to them now (which is great, but comical compared to pre Purdy era)....

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Back to Brandon Staley.....

Here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned so far........he game plans well against KC and has ....(wait for it)........actually beaten them! Twice....2020 and 2021

I looked at those two wins. The first was the last game of 2020 season with Chad Henne starting and playing the entire game for KC. Hard to make any conclusions from that game at all.

The second was a game where he did coach the team to a win against Cheifs when Mahomes was actually playing QB. Chiefs committed four turnovers in that game, including two fumbles lost while Chargers had zero.

Didn't the Chargers almost beat us a few seasons ago with him as HC? Gonna guess Jimmy G gave it away a few times?

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Back to Brandon Staley.....

Here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned so far........he game plans well against KC and has ....(wait for it)........actually beaten them! Twice....2020 and 2021...and more often than not keeps it close when he doesn't win.

So mentally, he's gotten over the hump.

If this season (and possibly future seasons as well) are going to mean anything for true Super Bowl aspirations, we have to beat the Chiefs this year at home. No excuses......none.

We do that.........and maybe it will finally happen. We just can't keep losing to this f**king team..........I'm tired of it. They're my new Seattle Seahawks.....

We can't even lose to Seattle when we play subpar to them now (which is great, but comical compared to pre Purdy era)....

Beating the Chiefs st home will mean nothing to me.

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Back to Brandon Staley.....

Here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned so far........he game plans well against KC and has ....(wait for it)........actually beaten them! Twice....2020 and 2021...and more often than not keeps it close when he doesn't win.

So mentally, he's gotten over the hump.

If this season (and possibly future seasons as well) are going to mean anything for true Super Bowl aspirations, we have to beat the Chiefs this year at home. No excuses......none.

We do that.........and maybe it will finally happen. We just can't keep losing to this f**king team..........I'm tired of it. They're my new Seattle Seahawks.....

We can't even lose to Seattle when we play subpar to them now (which is great, but comical compared to pre Purdy era)....

Two things Staley can bring to the meeting room is coverage ideas and ideas on how to beat his own (Fangio) front7 defensive scheme. Staley may not be a leader of men but he has impressed Fangio enough for Fangio to bring him around his coaching stops (CHI, DEN), and impressed Kyle enough for a gig.
I did not want him as a DC because it would have meant a scheme change, but as an assistant to Kyle he could provide a lot.

So we now have two Kyle's, one on each side who can't coach themselves out of a wet paper bag.😆🫣

Originally posted by lamontb:

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Back to Brandon Staley.....

Here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned so far........he game plans well against KC and has ....(wait for it)........actually beaten them! Twice....2020 and 2021...and more often than not keeps it close when he doesn't win.

So mentally, he's gotten over the hump.

If this season (and possibly future seasons as well) are going to mean anything for true Super Bowl aspirations, we have to beat the Chiefs this year at home. No excuses......none.

We do that.........and maybe it will finally happen. We just can't keep losing to this f**king team..........I'm tired of it. They're my new Seattle Seahawks.....

We can't even lose to Seattle when we play subpar to them now (which is great, but comical compared to pre Purdy era)....

Beating the Chiefs st home will mean nothing to me.

Not saying beating them will cleanse our souls, however, until we actually beat them in anything but a preseason game, it becomes very hard to get over the mental hump of beating them in a Super Bowl.

Philly beat them in KC this year. Got lucky maybe, but still beat them......it's our turn now.

Not really sure what his role was in getting beat up against career backups in Minnesota

Did he have anything to do w/this debacle or is it all on KS?

Originally posted by LasVegasWally:
Did he have anything to do w/this debacle or is it all on KS?

If he's an assistant head coach... he is supposed to assist the Head Coach on Head Coaching situations.... like say..f**king calling a timeout when your LBer is one on one with a pass catching TE on the outside revealing man to man to an experienced QB like Stafford.

Staley...

People are all focused on Sorenson who probably deserves blame, but people need to be talking about Brandon Staley!! The chargers defenses were complete ass under him and they had some good players. The focus needs to be zeroed in on Staley and what his impact has been on this defense. I don't think there's a coincidence with our defense being awful these last two games, and having hired Staley who's chargers defense were complete trash. He needs to go

Originally posted by pwillis52beasty:
People are all focused on Sorenson who probably deserves blame, but people need to be talking about Brandon Staley!! The chargers defenses were complete ass under him and they had some good players. The focus needs to be zeroed in on Staley and what his impact has been on this defense. I don't think there's a coincidence with our defense being awful these last two games, and having hired Staley who's chargers defense were complete trash. He needs to go

Fire him too. No time to wait around to see.

Another mistake. Though I am guessing out of my ass. Should have thrown Sorensen into the deep end without dead-weight Staley.

Originally posted by 49erKing:
Another mistake. Though I am guessing out of my ass. Should have thrown Sorensen into the deep end without dead-weight Staley.

A common criticism of Staley's defenses with the Chargers was that they were far too complex, resulting in confusion and busts. I suspect his influence is what's causing so many miscues in the secondary. He shouldn't be with the team next year.