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Posted on 01/19/2026 6:54:31 AM PST by BlueStateRightist
The Buffalo Bills have fired head coach Sean McDermott after another season that failed to end in a Super Bowl appearance, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.
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Pretty hard to believe. I’ll take a wait and see.
Stupid, if true
it’s disgusting
Wow that was quick. They just lost a playoff game a couple days ago.
With these coaching changes, I have a feeling that ownership has their minds made up ahead of time. And then they lose a playoff game, and then that’s their pretext for firing someone.
Vince Lombardi where are you.
But I guess it’s the “Trump National Football League” now.
“You’re fired”
The league has always been intolerant of that. Usually to their detriment. Just ask the Titans as they watch the coach they fired to years take a team to the Superbowl. I’m classifying this one as another mistake. The Bills’ roster has been getting old, GM hasn’t been doing a good job of cycling in new players. McDermott has done well with a team that’s less good every year.
Yeah, this gets me about coaching changes in sports.
Generally, it’s general managers and even owners on some teams, who are making decisions about the players on the roster. And then, the coaches have to work with whatever players are provided to them.
But if the coach is provided with inferior players, how do they expect him to work miracles with inferior players?
No surprise.
And the Bills were robbed in that loss to the Broncos. One bad call by the ref and the coach loses his job.
You have one of the best QBs in the league and a top RB, you have no proven WRs and your defense was mediocre.
Buffalo is a long-suffering franchise having been really close a bunch of times but have never won the Super Bowl.
They are moving into a new stadium, they needed to shake things up, hire a new GM and then get a top offensive head coach, maximize the talents of Josh Allen while he’s still in his prime.
Yup. So often I’m like “well how many wins did you think this roster had in em”. But GMs don’t give lots of interviews, they’re largely invisible, and good coaches always blame themselves for the loss. This all sets up to make the coach the most fired. Of course a new GM would probably want to bring in his own coach, so maybe it doesn’t really matter.
“The league has become intolerant of being good but not great.”
The league has learned that firing a head coach ensures that GM can get a couple more years in, even though they don’t get good contracts or players. The Bills, Steelers, and Ravens had good years, but fired Head coaches and all had underlying front office issues as well IMHO.
That seems to be the pattern. Takes 2-3 years of a team good enough to get to the top. Then the team has their run at the top for 3-4 years, then slowly decline, long run at mediocrity, then coach gets fired.
Pittsburgh, New England, San Francisco, Philly, Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Da Bears, Miami...happened to all of them.
Seeing it in Kansas City, Buffalo, now.
Teams on the rise...the new New England, Jacksonville, Da Bears, Houston, Seattle, Deeetroit(expected sophomore jinx), Denver, Indigenouspeoplepolis
They were robbed last year, too....with that tush push call...where even the refs who saw it couldn’t agree.
Thank God McDermott is gone. Never played a down of football in his life - a wrestler. Thinks himself a genius defensive coach AND head coach simultaneously. Saving up the challenge flags for....? And ZERO clock management skills.
Now the Bills need to get to the heart of the problem and FIRE BEANE THE GM.
Wow. Josh Allen played poorly overall, but he was there at the end while his receivers seem unable to catch passes. Leave aside the controversial interception. There were multiple passes the Bills receivers, quite unlike the Rams and the Bears receivers who seem to catch anything, did not bring in the passes when it counted.
You got that right. John Madden is widely considered to be one of the best nfl coaches of all time but he didn’t win a superbowl until he had been coaching the raiders for ten years. He did have winning records every year though.
Someone had to go. And it wasn’t going to be Josh Allen.
The funny part is that Mike Vrabel is now the longest tenured Head Coach in the AFC east. And this is his first year.
Crazy times.
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