The Buffalo Bills are making a major change following their latest playoff exit.
Sean McDermott has been fired as head coach after nine seasons, NFL Media reported Monday. The Bills will reportedly retain general manager Brandon Beane.
McDermott was Buffalo’s most successful coach since Marv Levy went 98-50 from 1986 to 1997 and led the team to four straight Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s.
McDermott led the Bills to the postseason in eight of his nine seasons. However, despite Josh Allen emerging as one of the game’s top quarterbacks, Buffalo did not make a Super Bowl under McDermott, losing to the Kansas City Chiefs twice in the AFC Championship Game.
The Bills’ latest playoff disappointment came on Saturday, when they lost to the Denver Broncos in the divisional round 33-30. While the Bills lost in overtime, one of the turning points of the game came right before halftime, when Buffalo tried to push the ball downfield instead of kneeling the clock out. Allen fumbled with a few seconds left, allowing Denver to kick an easy field goal and go up 20-10.
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Buffalo’s final three playoff losses have all been determined by three factors. And three of McDermott’s playoff losses resulted in extra time.
That features a 42-36 loss to Kansas Metropolis within the 2021 divisional spherical that’s turn out to be dubbed “13 seconds” — the period of time Patrick Mahomes needed to full two passes for 44 yards and arrange Harrison Butker’s tying 49-yard discipline aim on the ultimate play of regulation.
Regardless of Buffalo’s playoff failures, McDermott oversaw a crew that received 10 or extra regular-season video games seven straight seasons, together with two crew record-matching 13-win seasons, in 2022 and ’24.
With the Payments firing McDermott, there have been 10 NFL head teaching modifications this offseason. The New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons have since employed new coaches.
McDermott might be a candidate for any of the opposite seven head coach vacancies. He is informed his employees he plans to proceed teaching, ESPN reported.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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