Buffalo Bills Decide to Part Ways with Coach McDermott

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00:00And the Buffalo Bills following their loss

00:02to the Denver Broncos made the decision

00:04to move on from Sean McDermott.

00:07I don't think it was an easy decision for Buffalo,

00:10but this is a team who has done a lot of winning

00:15under Sean McDermott.

00:17But they have not been able to win big.

00:19They have not made a Super Bowl.

00:21There's actually, it's actually a historic,

00:24they have done a historic amount of winning

00:25without winning big.

00:27You do not see teams get this close

00:30without breaking through, really ever.

00:33And we know the quarterback's not gonna change

00:36because Josh Allen is on the top five quarterback

00:41to every single person.

00:43A lot of people still think the best quarterback

00:45in football, quite frankly.

00:47Were you surprised to see Buffalo

00:49move off of Sean McDermott?

00:51No.

00:51Again, we talk about window of opportunities.

00:55Yeah.

00:55This was the window to seize the moment.

00:58Without Andy Reid and without John Harbaugh

01:00in a championship type of setting,

01:03this was for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills

01:06to basically assert themselves.

01:08He had the quarterback with the most experience

01:11from a playoff perspective,

01:12and he had a team that at the very least

01:16could outscore anybody and just get there

01:18somehow, some way.

01:19And it's unfortunate.

01:22I know Bills Mafia will say the controversial call,

01:27and I get all of that.

01:29But let's not forget, a couple of years ago,

01:33at home, the DeMar Hamlin year,

01:37they get abused by Joe Burrow.

01:40In the playoffs.

01:40Yeah, in the playoffs in your building.

01:42I mean, we don't, we, we,

01:44you can't discount that.

01:45When you look at Sean McDermott,

01:49you think, I think at least, good head coach,

01:52I don't, I don't, I don't think elite.

01:54Is, does Sean McDermott wow you to the point

01:57where I gotta have him on the sidelines?

02:01No.

02:01Is, is, is he, is, like, what, okay,

02:05he's a defensive guru.

02:06Did the defense step up?

02:07No.

02:08And I think that's ultimately what it comes down, right?

02:10Like, if you have a defensive-minded head coach

02:13who rolls, you know, who can roll sevens.

02:16D'Amico Ryans.

02:17Yeah, right?

02:18Or, you know, Mike McDonald, you know, in Seattle,

02:21whatever it might be,

02:23paired with Josh Allen,

02:24you would expect major results.

02:26And the reality is, people have mentioned it,

02:2898 and 50 during his time in Buffalo.

02:318 and 8 in the playoffs.

02:33So, you go from winning 66% of your games

02:35to 50% of your games,

02:36and, again, it is okay for the standard

02:40to be the standard.

02:42Like, just because Sean McDermott,

02:45I think, is actually likely to find a job

02:47during this head coaching cycle,

02:49despite entering it late,

02:50doesn't mean it's a mistake to move off of him.

02:53Because this is just a team, Joe,

02:56who has been far too close without breaking through.

02:59And I, I, you could probably make more excuses

03:03for Harbaugh not breaking through in Baltimore

03:05than you can in Buffalo.

03:07Right?

03:08Like, with Harbaugh, it's like,

03:09oh, Mark Andrews dropped it,

03:11or Loop missed a field goal.

03:12Like, for, for Buffalo, it's not one play,

03:15it's one game where it goes wrong.

03:17But you, it's just, there's too much there,

03:20I think, for this football team.

03:22Now, just like getting rid of Harbaugh,

03:25but maybe even more so,

03:27the risk in getting off of McDermott

03:29is they have not had the most talented defenses

03:33year in, year out.

03:34No.

03:34And you kept the general manager.

03:38And it's a decision that has kept a lot of people,

03:42I think, questioning the move to get off of McDermott.

03:46Like, people thought it needed to be a cleaning of house.

03:48Because my read on the situation

03:50is they are keeping Brandon Bean

03:53because they already know who they want to be head coach.

03:57Brady?

03:57And Joe Brady.

03:58And they will interview Brian D'Abel,

04:00and they'll see if it maybe makes more sense

04:02to go that direction,

04:03and maybe Josh will be more comfortable,

04:05and maybe D'Abel, who has been a head coach,

04:09made a playoffs,

04:10maybe they think that's better than Brady,

04:11who's never been a head coach.

04:13But I don't think they're looking for a new GM

04:16to come in and do a wide casting net.

04:20Right.

04:20Because I also don't think they want to

04:22shake the Josh Allen cage that much.

04:25No.

04:26I think they're going to give Josh something he knows

04:29while making a big change in moving off McDermott.

04:32And I don't necessarily think Brian D'Abel's

04:35a good head coach.

04:36You think it should be Brady?

04:38Yeah.

04:38You like that move?

04:38I do.

04:39I do.

04:39I would rather go with the younger guy

04:41that at least is working with Josh.

04:44And if Josh gives the okay,

04:46like, hey, I like what Joe's doing.

04:48He's putting us in a position to win.

04:51All we need now is wide receivers

04:53and guys that can burn.

04:56Then you stick with it.

04:57Look, because Brian D'Abel was there

05:01at the early point of Josh Allen's career,

05:03I'm not discounting that.

05:05But I'm also certainly not discounting

05:07the fact that Brian D'Abel was a head coach

05:10that couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag

05:13in New York from a game plan perspective.

05:15He wasn't a good head coach.

05:17He did well one year and regressed every year after that.

05:21He was the only way to go to the market.

05:26He was a good little guy.

05:26He was a good head coach.

05:27He was a good head coach.

05:28I was a good advisor.

05:29I was a good head coach.

05:30He was a good man.

05:30He would pay for it.

05:31And he if he was a good head coach,

05:31I'm not just a good head coach.

05:32That's a good head coach.

05:33He's a good head coach.

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