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Buffalo Bills fire Sean McDermott (report)
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Sean McDermott’s time in Buffalo has come to an end.
According to NFL Insider Tom Pelissero , the Bills fired McDermott two days after the team lost to the Denver Broncos in overtime of the divisional round.
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Buffalo hired McDermott to coach the team in January of 2017. The Bills made the playoffs in eight of nine seasons with McDermott at the helm and won the AFC East five times.
The Bills, however, have still never won a Super Bowl.
McDermott expressed his frustration with the officiating after his team’s AFC Division game loss to the Broncos. Brandin Cooks appeared to have caught a long pass from Josh Allen on third-and-11 in overtime. Denver’s Ja’Quan McMillian came up with the ball, though, and officials ruled it was intercepted.
“It’s hard for me to understand why it was ruled the way it was ruled,” McDermott told reporters after the game. “And if it is ruled that way, then why wasn’t it slowed down just to make sure that we have this right. That would have made a lot of sense to me — to make sure we have this thing right. Because that’s a pivotal play in the game. We (would have had) the ball at the 20, maybe kicking a game-winning field goal right there.”
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McDermott could not challenge the play.
“It would seem logical to me and make a lot of sense that the head official would walk over and want to go and take a look at it. Just to make sure that everybody from here who is in the stadium, to there are on the same page,” McDermott said. “That’s too big of a play, in my estimation, too big of a play in a play that decided the game, potentially as well, to not even slow it down. That’s why I had to call the timeout. It’s not what I wanted to do, but I had to do it in order to make sure that I understood what was going on and that they did take a look at it.”
McDermott had spent time with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Carolina Panthers in various assistant and coordinator roles prior to becoming the head coach of the Bills.
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