In the wake of another disappointing playoff exit, the Bills are making a change on the sidelines. Sean McDermott is out, as first reported by Tom Pelissero, Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo of NFL Network. 
General manager Brandon Beane will remain in place, Rapoport adds. He will help lead the search for McDermott’s replacement. Buffalo has now become the 10th team in the NFL to make a head coaching change during the 2026 offseason. The rest of the Bills’ staff was being informed of the news when it broke, per The Exhibit’s Josina Anderson.
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McDermott arrived in Buffalo in 2017. His tenure has been defined in large part by sustained success in the regular season, with the Bills reaching the playoffs all but once and posting double-digit wins in each of the past seven years. Despite the availability and high level of play produced by quarterback Josh Allen, however, McDermott’s teams have yet to break through in the postseason. The franchise will look to do so with a new voice on the sidelines.
Allen and McDermott have won a total of eight playoff games together. That is the most in NFL history by a HC-QB tandem which has failed to reach a Super Bowl (h/t WFAA’s Ed Werder). A path to ending that streak of shortcomings appeared to exist during this year’s playoffs in particular, with Patrick Mahomes‘ Chiefs, Lamar Jackson‘s Ravens and Joe Burrow‘s Bengals all missing the tournament. Nevertheless, an overtime loss in Denver on Saturday marked another loss in the divisional round for the Bills.
A turnover-filled performance on Allen’s part was a major factor in this year’s Buffalo exit. Overall, though, underwhelming showings on defense were seen on multiple postseason occasions over the years during McDermott’s Buffalo tenure. Given his background as a defensive coordinator, that increasingly became a talking point with respect to McDermott’s job security. A firing in this case adds further to the noteworthy changing of the guard when it comes to multiple AFC teams known for stability.
Today’s McDermott news does not entirely come as a surprise, however. Entering the wild-card round, the Bills and Packers were named as potential John Harbaugh suitors. Green Bay wound up reaching an extension agreement with Matt LaFleur recently, but Buffalo has elected to take the alternative route. Harbaugh has already made his decision, officially taking on the Giants’ HC gig this past weekend. Kevin Stefanski is also off the board, since he is now with the Falcons.
Buffalo now joins the list of destinations for HC candidates. With Allen and a core of players attached to long-term extensions (signed, in many cases, last offseason), the Bills will no doubt be seen as one of the more attractive landing spots for staffers. Once a hire is made, Allen will begin the process of adapting to a new head coach for the first time in his career.
After their run of four straight Super Bowl losses under Marv Levy, sustained success proved difficult to attain for the Bills. Seven different full-time head coaches were in place until McDermott’s hire. His arrival helped spark a run which included five consecutive AFC East titles. Overall, McDermott posted a record of 98-50 in the regular season and 8-8 in the playoffs.
Beane, like McDermott, worked with the Panthers before coming to the Bills nine years ago. His tenure has overlapped with many of the team’s best accomplishments in recent memory, sparked of course by the decision to draft Allen in 2018. Beane has drawn criticism for elements of his roster-building approach, though, and in 2025 in particular his actions (or lack thereof) at the receiver position were a main talking point. Nonetheless, Buffalo has opted for stability in the front office moving forward.
Lengthy HC tenures in Baltimore (Harbaugh) and Pittsburgh (Mike Tomlin) recently came to an end. With McDermott now out as well, the AFC will look far different on the sidelines when the 2026 season kicks off. Meanwhile, McDermott’s next move will become one of the top storylines around the league as the coaching landscape takes shape.
Good, about time. There was always going to be a pretty firm ceiling with this guy.
Be careful what you ask for…Beane is the mastermind of this roster, which is medicre outside JA and Cook. We may just get McDaniel at this point, instead of someone like Kubiak who will want more personnel control, meaning we repeat the firing cycle in another year or two after not making the playoffs. Beane is going to destroy this team.
Oh god, McDaniel. Ew.
Why, because they tried to field a team with all third and fourth receivers? Seems to me like it’s more of a general manager problem.
Beane keeps his job because of the new stadium. Plain and simple. Ownership trusts the football department, they’ve put a great product on the field. They want to make sure they don’t blow that all up. It’s easier to fire the coach. Beane will get his if they don’t win the conference next year.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be stunned if Joe Brady is promoted. Otherwise, they’re waiting for one of these coordinators. Supposedly they LOVE Davis Webb.
If Joe Brady gets promoted after sinking McDermott’s last season with his predictable and sub par play calling, it’s going to kill all the goodwill Pegula created the last 9 years.
Titans make that call!!
Lot of teams would be wise to reassess their searches. He’s a good coach.
Titans would be smart to make the phone call immediately….
LoL Allen makes all those turnovers and they blame the coach. The Buffalo curse continues. No MaHomes or Burrow this year. No excuses for Allen
@mlbnyyfan: Allen had a bad game, but he’s literally the reason McDermott wasn’t fired earlier. Same with Beane. Allen being an MVP covers up a lot of what is wrong with the Bills. Shocked that Beane keeps his job. His drafting and especially free agent signings have not been good.
And the turnover just before half was inexcusable. Just zero reason to be running down the middle with zero timeouts. Unless he thiught he was running 70 yards for a td.
How about the OC who designed that play? That’s when you kneel down knowing you get the ball first in the second half.
That goes through the HC. McDermott has to give the green light to run a play there. It still falls on his shoulders.
The call was fine. Protect the football. Rule #1.
Yeah, this feels like an overreaction. Unless they piled a Bischiotti and decided ahead of time that they’ve essentially wanted to fire McDermott, then this seems more like impatience than logical comparison.
It was a close loss. People will point out things that McDermott did wrong, and it’s not like those things aren’t valid. But is it enough to toss him and bring in/up someone else? Whomever you bring in has to be better. The roster has needed work for at least the last three years-if McDermott had an outsized influence on that and is as such the reason to blame, then positives from moving on can be easy to see. If not, it seems like Beane is the one to blame. After all, he’s riding the coattails of Allen at least to whatever degree McDermott was. The immediate promotion despite the disappointing results sends an awful message to me, especially because the most glaring deficiencies were in the roster department.
Yes, Allen had a tough game but hadnt turned the ball over in his previous six playoff games.
They’d probably want him, but if you can’t win with Josh Allen, how do you win with Cam Ward?
Some teams need to crawl before they walk. Also, remember once upon a time they said this about his old boss in Philly.
They were right about Andy in Philly.
The Chiefs were smart to not give him roster control.
The Titan’s GM is the bigger issue since he seems even worse that Beane, who most Bills fans want to see fired, not promoted.
I live in Nashville and I can tell you their GM is not the issue. The problem is Amy Adams Strunk, who completely handcuffed the guy last offseason. Apparently she’s giving him control over the roster now so maybe he can actually do his job.
He’s gonna go to a winner not the Titans. We all do respect.
Steelers?
Steelers need a coach with an offensive mindset.
I don’t know if ‘need’ is a consideration with Pittsburgh. They’ll do whatever they can to avoid a rebuild.
Baltimore’s GM is probably jumping for joy this morning.
Good call
Just like Harbaugh, probably needs a change of scenery, and they need to see if someone else can take it the rest of the way before it’s over for Allen.
Harbaugh would’ve been a great hire here.
We fired the wrong guy. Or at least, we should have also fired Beane.
Would have like Stefanski. Waited too long.
They were still playing football
Dude, waited too long? Guess they should have fired him before their playoff game, checks out.
Im under the impression he was hired late Saturday night. We lost early Saturday night. Certainly there was enough time to shoot his agent a text. “We need to process this and are considering making changes. Could you give us a day?”
Saw this coming. Buffalo just can’t seem to get over the hump, even with K.C. and Cincy out the playoffs.
Cincinnati hasn’t been in the playoffs for awhile
Referring to the title game years ago when the bills couldn’t beat them.
Wasn’t a title game. It was a divisional round game.
Correct
A divisional game where the team and fans were emotionally exhausted from nearly losing their player, who came back to starting for them. McDermott has been through roller coaster rides with this team.
Kansas City and Cincinnati both MISSED the playoffs. Chiefs were in trouble even before they faced Buffalo in November.
2026 shaping up to be a generational coaching carousel
Minus Tomlin. That dude needs a break
I dont agree. He is only 53. The Miami, Balt and Buffalo jobs are still out there. Every other job is a sinkhole.
Tomlin himself has said he plans on taking a year off from coaching.
He’s going for break
Baltimore is also going to become a sinkhole. Lamar Jackson’s cap hit in 2026 is $70+ million, and he’s reaching that injury prone stage like Cam Newton did at the end of his career. He’s gonna end up signing a five year extension to lower this year’s cap hit, but it’ll also make it impossible to cut him for cap space. They’ll be in the same boat Cleveland has been in since acquiring Watson.
This one really wasn’t his fault though *cough Josh Allen turnovers *cough. If they didn’t give up 3 before half they have a better chance to win.
Allen is one of the only reasons why they’re in the playoffs every year. Bad personnel and McDermott finding a way to lose nearly every close game, both faults that Allen’s greatness regularly overshadows.
McDermott wasn’t the one that fumble and throw interceptions against Denver Saturday. He also didn’t throw the ball away on a 2pt conversion attempt against the eagles. Also what’s up with Allen in overtime? 0-8? WTH!
@YEP: Did Josh Allen give up multiple 3rd and longs in the fourth quarter and OT to the Broncos by playing soft defense? This is a recurring theme with McDermott. When the game is on the line, he backs the defense off into prevents and soft coverage and the other team marches down the field and scores. Been happening for years.
Mock Allen’s TOs all you want but he still put up 30 points on the road against a tough defense. Only problem is that the Bills defense (remember, McDermott is a defensive-oriented coach) gave up 33.
When are Bill fans going to learn that Josh Allen can’t win big games? Look at his college history. 1-1 record in bowls. 0-1 in conference championship games. Always took a lost when playing teams like Nebraska, Iowa, and Oregon. Hell his teams split half their games with MAC teams.
He played at Wyoming, they did not have the talent to be successful against the big boys. I think there’s always 10 other guys on the field with him no matter where he plays.
@YEP: I’m not a Bills fan, just someone who watches nearly all of their games. The Bills come up short every season for a variety of reasons, but the only reason they’re in those games is because of Josh Allen. He is far and away their best player and carried the team this year with Cook.
Please go back and check out how many points McDermott’s defenses give up in big games. I’ll do the math for you: they’ve given up 31.6 points per game in playoff games they’ve lost since 2019. Is this Josh Allen’s fault? McDermott is a *defensive* coach and his defenses regularly get run over in the playoffs. Blame him, blame Beane for constructing the roster. Blaming Josh Allen is silly.
Tell you what…if you don’t want Josh Allen, this Colts fan will take him in a heartbeat. Allen is far from the problem.
Goff for Allen, straight up!!!
I think bad personnel belongs to the front office so IMO they fired a very good Head coach. Get Allen some outside studs.
Your HC has to give the green light there. That’s an automatic kneel down there unless the HC says to run a play. He’s gotta be in Allen’s ear telling him to throw it to the sidelines or throw it out of bounds, but to absolutely not scramble.
That has to fall on the HC’s shoulders.
Josh is a veteran qb, the coach doesn’t bear responsibility for him running around the middle of field with the ball not tucked.
He absolutely does. The head coach is in charge. If he can’t effectively communicate to his QB to throw the ball down field or away, it’s on him. He should be downing it right there anyway, not going for a miracle that has a sub-1% chance. If you’re going to have the audacity to let your OC call a play, make sure the message is clear as day.
No offense intended, but your comment reads like someone who has never been a head coach at any level.
So much for standing up for Buffalo though
McDermott was told to take his seat
Power play and the GM (who should be fired) won the battle.
They still want Beane to transition into the new stadium. Likely getting a two-three year leash depending upon what the new coach can do?
McDermott had power in the past…he got rid of some coaches…now it was his turn
I will say, I think he gets another one of these coaching jobs that are open. He has done a good job. Just couldn’t get them over the hump
He 100% just moved to the top of some wish lists
I subscribe to the John Madden theory that this is about the time a coach needs to move on. Like we’ve discussed with the Harbaugh firing and Tomlin resignation, both of them were probably at those places ten years longer than they should have been. I think you probably geta good five or six years before it starts getting stale where you’re at. Nine is definitely stretching it way out. Unless you’re the rare guy like a McVay, and even he contemplated walking away a few years ago before they did their rebuild.
Brian Daboll, next head coach of the Bills … taking over when they move into the new Highmark Stadium.
I like Daboll…as OC. Not head coach material with his temper and in-game mental breakdowns.
You have amnesia. Buffalo fans had turned on him before he left for the Giants, and many wanted him fired if he ddin’t get that job.
How about a coach that would really upset the AFC East, He had a good run with a Hall of Fame QB, Buffalo should hire Bill Belichick, he could get this franchise over the hump, he does have the knowledge of steering a 53-man roster to a SBowl a time or two. I really don’t see any other coach out there right now any better than the man they fired to lead Buffalo to the Super Bowl right now.
Nobody wants a loser or a cheater. Belichick is both.
I’d rather have a bunch of rings with a skeez like Bill than continue to wonder what it feels like to root for champions.
Pegula would be laughed out of WNY if they hired Belichick. He’s past his prime (we all know Brady was carrying him) and no one wants to deal with his girlfriend drama.
Maybe he could come down to Tampa and help Todd Bowles
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Yet another ownership that decides that the GM, in this case Beane, keeps his job in spite of a tainted roster that failed to provide the offensive weapons Allen needed to get that signature win into a championship game….
It was glaring how badly they needed a respectable wide receiver. Their most reliable late game option was Cooks who has been out of his prime for 5 years. Beane failed to address a major area of need.
Meanwhile, Diggs will make his first SB. Its being set up for the Patriots, although I hope Denver and Stidham, prove me wrong.
Chicago Bear’s Ben Johnson should be fired too.
For what reason?…..SMH
He is a Lions fans and he wants him back
Yeah. Hey, every coach who doesn’t make it to the Super Bowl should be fired. Why not?
Let’s start with that pesky Andy Reid…
Beane couldn’t get this team a WR ever.. somehow he gets to keep his job
Exsactly. McDermott lost the power play and the GM (who is to blame for a roster with few stars and no depth) gets to hire his replacement. You’d think Pegula would have learned with the Sabres (who are playing lights out after only a GM change).
Massive mistake on the Browns part. This guy will be out of a job for 5 seconds
Excuse me, I meant to say Bills
It’s okay, keeping the GM who is more to blame for the roster and firing the coach who had to make do with it was a very Browns move in 2026.
They fired the wrong guy. Wow. What a coaching carousel.
I could pretty much guarantee you he will be the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. No rhyme no reason. I just have that feeling.
Baltimore…which has a good QB and is closer to home for McDermott (he’s a Philly guy and family-first person).
Tomlin and McDermott were college football teammates and are pretty close, so for that reason I can pretty much guarantee that McDermott wouldn’t put himself into consideration for the Steelers, nor would the Steelers approach him about the job. Would be uncomfortable all around.
I unfortunately have to agree with Madden’s article in today’s Trib. The problem with the Steelers starts with its owner and given his comments over the past couple years, being mediocre is the standard. He’s liable to hire McCarthy and get Rodgers back thanks to their prior work together. Lots of good candidates out there, including McDermott, but I almost expect the worst
I despise Madden and hate the Trib even more… but he’s spot on here that AR II is the ultimate problem.
Not a Trib fan. And I don’t listen to the radio show because really, he’s playing a role. But I find his columns are consistently spot-on no matter the sport in question
He’s no Gene Collier… but I’ll give you that his writing is much more objective and less full of bravado than his radio show.
Love Collier. Loved Bruce Keidan.
Probably gonna be the top name on the market now. I get this move if Buffalo was out in the wild card round and still had Harbaugh or Stefanski out there. Who are you getting now though?
Makes the Bengals advancing to Super Bowl all the more shocking because Bills might have been better for the AFC that year and the Bengals have since proven to be a one year wonder.
Get JA some talent at WR. Not a bunch of team cast offs
Since Baltimore hasnt gotten Minter yet, the Bills should swoop in. Kubiak still has two games to worry about.
It doesn’t matter. Vrabel and McDaniels have started the next dynasty.
New England have yet to face Denver — and “dynasty” is so 1980s.
Not really, the Patriots had their official dynasty with your boy, Brady … haha
Double-Dealing Brady didn’t win without cheating.
(Not to be confused with Joe Brady.)
I just like working you up, CNJ … we all had to watch that replay. Remember when the Brady years had the NFL give them saturday night playoff games every year? I could have won alot money off them with the home-cooking the referees gave them in the ‘Boro. I was livid when the Titans would play there and have two opponents.
Changed the perception and culture for Buffalo. Good coach but at times his decision making was baffling to me. It’s not all on him but clearly Buffalo met it’s ceiling with McDermott. Beane should be out as well, he refuses to improve the team at the most crucial positions during the season, and has made some questionable trades/picks when they are in the offseason.
Coach is ok. That GM did zero to help Allen for 8 of the 9 years.
Buffalo has the league’s rushing champion in James Cook. The biggest need for the Bills is defense.
And WR, which seems extremely pertinent here.
You don’t win in the NFL without defense. Seattle proved that Saturday night. New England proved that Sunday afternoon.
The Texans played great defense as well but the HC stuck with his deer-in-the-headlights QB. This team will wonder if Stroud will recover and he should.
You. That defense is so good that even competently average QB play might have gotten Houston a win. Stroud looked lost for large parts of the Steeler game too: 4 fumbled snaps in the 1st half alone and none looked like they were in the center.
Sean to Miami and Buffalo gets Tomlin.
No thanks. Tomlin needs a year off and he’s not going to move the needle past what McDermott accomplished with this roster.
They went to OT, on the road, against the #1 seed, despite Josh Allen’s TO’s and the reward is a pink slip.
Bad day to have a bad day, Josh.
That championship was set up for the Rams. KC layed down at home in the second half against the Bengals.
For everyone saying Bean should have been out too, he built a team that wins 11 or more games a year. You’re not going out spending big on FA receivers when your QB makes 60 mil a year. They have a lot of good players they’ve drafted, and he’s drafted receivers like Coleman who just haven’t developed well. Do you remember how bad Buffalo was before he got there since the late 90s? McDermott got a lot of grace, from the 13 second game, to the meltdowns every year against KC in critical moments to that no-show against the Bengals. If your QB/HC combo hasn’t won it all by year five, it literally has never happened, so it was time to move on and let somebody else try. He kept his job lonter than he probably should have in light of some of the past failures. Ironically, the one least his fault was yesterday, but that’s how it goes sometimes.
Eagles have an expensive qb and have good talent at wr and won a bowl. Could have drafted better at that position, a lot of good young wr last few years. GM equally responsible.
I think the system plays into this too though. Eagles don’t run that Eherdt-Perkins system that’s been hard to get receivers for other franchises, namely the Patriots and the past when the Steelers ran it. Ironic that New England took off when they got the guy they jettisoned that most Bill fans wanted jettisoned two years ago. Philly’s offense also wouldn’t be where I’d be looking to make my point considering their underachievement.
McDermott goes out with Rich Stadium, which is fitting considering he brought playoff football back to the stadium. A new coach wont have to worry about that legacy.
Beane has whiffed on more top picks than he hit, and his capa management has them at the bottom of the league. Philly and LA Rams seemed to have figured it out…
Beane didn’t build that team. McDermott did.
He was a terrific DC in Carolina who built the Bills defense and identity into exactly what Carolina used to be.
Beane on the other hand has yet to replace the players that made McDermott’s Bills the team they are and has whiffed on so many picks and free agent/trade moves it’s not even funny.
Cook is amazing but let’s be real. They didn’t intend to draft a lead back when they drafted him. It was yet another day two/three swing at an extremely important position that luckily for them worked out this time.
What has he done at WR post Diggs? Nothing. Whole bunch of “value” moves. Same with almost every position, and his big gambles on guys with “potential” in the first round have yet to work out. Epenesa is especially shocking because he looked like a home run coming out of college. We’ll see if Hairston turns into anything.
This off-season is one where Beane has zero excuses.
How sad, there isn’t a better coach available than what they just fired. More years of curses incoming
Beane deserves as much blame as McDermott, but that defense looked too unserious for too much of the year. This is a great job for somebody. Best QB in football, strong three fifths of an offensive line in place, and a few other good pieces. The floor and ceiling are both high when you’re starting with Allen. Have to think Minter and Joseph are happy this one came open. Also wonder if Cignetti and Freeman just got a little less sure they want to stay in college.
imo, Beane deserves even more blame. Bizarrely, the Bills just announced that Beane has been promoted to President of Football Operations. I don’t get it. Bad drafts, worse FA signings.
I remember hearing a beat reporter talk to Robert Mays last offseason about how owners are often more hesitant to fire GMs because firing a coach creates more work for the GM while firing the GM creates much more work for the owner. I think if you’re an owner who has a GM who’s built the team from an afterthought to a consistent contender and you have reasonable questions about the coach, it’s easier to axe the coach. But again, I also think while some of this team’s problems are on roster building (eg get that QB a real number one receiver FFS), they also underperformed in numerous ways, including a defense that was more porous than it should have been.
Most of the defensive issues is just youth though. That happens when you have to pay the QB, the depth on the rest of the team suffers. Back in 2019/2020/2021, that was the very best roster in football, and McDermott didn’t get it done with it.
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. The defensive front just got a huge influx of rookies who haven’t done much yet, but it’s not that young a defense overall.
As for the paying the QB part, sure, paying the QB takes money from other things, but most teams are paying their QB a lot. The problem is more that you need a changing of the guard elsewhere on the roster and you need to do a good job of it. If your QB is good enough, you’ll have to do it multiple times. The Chiefs did a great job of it once and now partially need to do it again, for instance. It’s a great problem to have. They just need to do a better job of drafting and developing. A slump in that area will make you decline most of the time even if your QB is great.
I mean we’ve seen this throughout the free agency era. Once you pay your QB and you go deep in the playoffs every year, it’s hard to maintain a tiptop roster. KC is going through this. The teams from past eras that had a lot of talent at one time did like the Seahawks. Fact is, he had a top end roster and didn’t win it all with it. That’s not on Bean. Do you really think a receiver changes anything when they had Diggs in the past, and the same kinds of losses were happening every January? Yesterday wasn’t as much his fault as the past ones, but he literally lost a game that they got the lead with 13 seconds left on the clock because of how they kicked off and played defense. Considering that literally no coach/QB duo has ever won it all after five years together, it makes sense to move on. It doesn’t mean he’s a bad coach or anything, but it’s time for somebody else to try before Allen’s career is over. Mike Vrabel came in with his new QB and might take your division rival further than you have in seven years after year one.
When the Bills had the roster you’re raving about, the Chiefs had Mahomes and Reid. Only one team can make it to the Super Bowl every year from the AFC. I’m not saying McDermott should have kept his job, but I also don’t think you’re setting the fairest standard.
And it’s absolutely possible to pay your QB and restock your team. The Ravens bottomed out with injury bad luck this year, but they’ve consistently kept that roster in good shape, in part because they always accumulate extra picks. Same with the Eagles.
And the Chiefs weren’t better. Sorry, but the facts are the facts. Buffalo’s roster was stacked. I said it every year, what is McDermott and Josh going to do to lose those games to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. If you took both rosters, you’d take almost everything on Buffalo over what KC had outside of Mahomes, Kelce, McDuffie, and Jones, and while people are whining about receivers, the Chiefs have been in turmoil for years at that position and won two Super Bowls, eliminating Buffalo in the process along the way. I remember looking at their roster in 2019, and I was like this team is better than anyone in the league everywhere. Okay, first time AFC championship game jitters, but then 13 seconds happened the next year, and then they got blown out by the Bengals in 2021. You actually going to tell me the Bengals had a better team too? After that, wah, we don’t have the best roster in the league anymore. So what, that’s how it goes for any team that’s won for a while and picks low in the draft. It’s stil very good, and it was more than enough to win with this year.
This year the defense never looked all that good. I thought they still might make the Super Bowl in a wide open year just because they had Allen and a good line, but the defense was soft.
If he had better WRs, they probably do.
What are you even talking about?
The Bills didn’t have a legit corner until Benford stepped up literally out of nowhere and never had a strong run game prior to Cook except when they had Shady. You can’t win with that no matter who your #1 WR is.
This year they were decimated by injuries and have been in the past with Milano and Micah Hyde.
Has nothing to do with paying the QB and everything to do with their core getting old and needing to be replaced.
Did not see this coming. It will be interesting to see if they get over the hump or get worse. I put my money on getting worse.
This is exactly why Harbaugh should have waited with these teams chasing him like the prom queen. He could have jumped right into this opportunity with no ties to Rich Stadium. Instead he jumps into a NY scene that has a GM desperately wanting something to do. Maybe Beane could have worked with him, maybe not. I still felt Harbaugh could have pressed for the GB job as well but they extended the boy-wonder playcaller.
I would have fired Beane over McDermott
The WRs they gave Allen this year were unacceptable. And that falls on Beane
But Buffalo should clean house, top priority should be getting better WRs for Allen
I’d sign Rashid Shaheed
I’d draft Chris Brazzell and Elijah Sarratt mm
I feel good for Shaheed right now. Can he keep it going for two more games?
I thought he was safe lmao wow what an offseason this will be. Who would even be a good fit for that team spearheaded by Winter Soldier Joshua Allen. Mike McCarthy? Kingsbury? Minter?
Only Minter sounds good out of those. Could see Vance Joseph too. This offense has a very high floor. The defense needs new ideas.
Vance could work tbh
He wasn’t a very good HC the first time. That wasn’t all on QB. His defense regressed greatly from the Wade Phillips years.
No retreads. Kubiak or Minter seem like the better options.
I wouldn’t mind Minter with Daboll as his OC
After his postgame tantrums seemed more and more like a deflection without reflection, and after many disappointing postseasons given all their talent, it’s not all that shocking, but sticking with Beane at the same time is …a choice.
I believe this is a bad judgement fire call by Buffalo management. Buffalo is today looking for a scape goat, so were blaming McDermott for Saturday’s game, Buffalo is changing the picture of how this game was played, don’t look at the Allen picture of the game, but let’s look at the HC picture of the game. What did McDermott do during the game to get him fired, did he throw the interception, did he fumble the ball, did he turn the ball over four times, answer is NO. But again, Buffalo management does not want to put the blame on their franchise QB who even admitted that he played poorly. Now Buffalo is looking for a new HC the question is, is there a better HC out there that is available and is better than the one Buffalo made as a scape goat. Will the next HC be able to get the Buffalo 53-man roster to all pull from the same side of the rope to make a SB run as McDermott has 8 of the last 9 years. Sometimes you just have to be happy with making the playoffs 8 of the last 9 years as a solid action of getting 53 individuals to pull toward a goal which McDermott had done. This was just a bad firing by a organization looking to blame someone for four turnover and bad play by a QB on Saturday.
Totality of the situation. No coach/QB duo has ever gotten it done if it hasn’t already happened by now in their timeline.
The Snake and Madden after seven years, though Ken had been drafted in 1968 and was behind Raider legends in Lamonica and Blanda. As early as 1971, Madden was wanting to give the job to Stabler but Davis believed in Lamonica.
Stabler wasn’t starting before then. It was right at year four. It was also 50 years ago.
True, but the Raiders still had championship expectations, it just took longer to get the job from Lamonica. Stabler started the 1972 season but the Steelers help send him back to the bench. He would get revenge the next year in postseason
The defense shares no blame? Consecutive games allowing over 30 points. Games Allen brought them back from? High priced pass rushers who cant bring the QB to the ground? Wide receivers who still cant step it up in postseason? The coach unfortunately, took the arrows.
I wonder if McCarthy maybe to Buffalo? He worked well with Rodgers and Dak. So it seems if the offense/QB is in place and team is ready to win might not be a bad spot for him.
I think McCarthy benefited from Rodgers and Dak as much as they benefitted from them.
Exactly. And now he can benefit from having Allen.
They just fired a coach who benefitted from Allen and couldn’t take the team to the Super Bowl.
What would he bring that McDermott didn’t? I’d rather see a new coach than a retread who failed in his last two jobs.
The terrorists win again smh
Tomlin as HC with Mike MacDaniel as OC. That’s a match made in heaven
More likely Tomlin is going to TV if not on sabbatical.
Jimmy Haslam on line 1
As a former Buffalo HC famously said : “They’re killing me Whitey!… they’re killing me!”
Saban
Lots of under performing seasons. This could motivate the Bengals to reconsider on Taylor.
how on earth does the GM keep his job ? guess they feel the need to squander a couple more allen years
This was wrong..Sean isn’t easy to upgrade.
Brandon Beane promoted that is a joke
Here’s the deal…
There’s an interesting question raised by this move, that being 1) was the problem that Beane picked the wrong guys or 2) McDermott couldn’t develop them? Or both? Josh covered for whoever’s fault it was. He’s the best player in football.
The real problem from a Pegula standpoint is that they couldn’t go into the new stadium with both a new coach and GM. Beane HAD to stay for this reason alone. The new stadium. Beane HAS been in charge of this whole operation for a few years now. Year one of New Highmark can’t be without the team that built it. If this happens again next year Beane will be in trouble.
Personally, my hope was that if this was going to happen they would have someone already tagged to be the new coach. I loved Sean, this era has been so amazing as a Bills fan, but also… we can’t keep running it back! Josh got beat to hell this year, his athleticism really isn’t go to last all that much longer.
I don’t think Beane had anything to do with building the stadium, but I take your point. Beane runs everything on the football side but the Pegula management team runs the operation. Beane very much so has a boss.
The team has to have stability entering the new stadium from a football side and Beane seems to be the more powerful of the two. McDermott didn’t have the clout like the great coaches do. He didn’t win it, I understand the move. I agree Beane should go next offseason if they don’t win next year..
Not only did Beane not get fired, he was promoted.
I already have a theory: they were afraid to lose Joe Brady, so they fire McDermott they day after the playoff loss, and tomorrow they’ll announce they’re promoting Brady.
I dunno, some of the worst screen calls and passes I have ever seen. Ironically, if Allen just gets his screen pass up two inches for Shakir, they could have had a 31-23 lead. Yes, his three turnovers were bad but the Bills defense gave up only six points. Allen was fine until the Cooks non-catch.
So you fire the coach who pulled you of decades of mediocrity and has the highest winning percentage over the past six years and promote the mediocre GM who never gave him enough tools to win it all.
Makes perfect sense!
Rich Kotite is available
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Beane should be the one to go. His terrible decisions are what put a ceiling on that team.
As a Cleveland fan, wouldn’t mind seeing McDermott coach the Browns.