Buffalo Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott
Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton discuss the breaking news that saw Sean McDermott being fired by the Buffalo Bills after losing in the Divisional Round to the Denver Broncos. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
You actually predicted the possibility that we would be coming into Monday.
Uh, with no Sean McDermott, Caroline.
So, this is, This is the reaction the Bills are giving us from losing this game.
I never want to cheer for anybody losing their jobs, because it's not just Sean.
McDermott, it's that entire Bills coaching staff.
I would like to say, "I told you so."
Um, but, uh, I, I think this just goes to show, because you don't see coaches fired very often after Getting to the Divisional Round of the Playoffs, but this just shows the level of Frustration within the Buffalo Bills franchise.
This just goes to show that an exit from the postseason, not getting to the Super Bowl.
Not breaking through, especially in a year where there is no Mahomes.
There is no Burrow, there is no Lamar Jackson, that the Bills have fallen short.
Of the standard.
That's not good enough anymore, and something has to give.
Now, I didn't wake up on Sunday morning and think the Bills' issue and the reason The Bills lost that game because of Sean McDermott.
I can't point to coaching.
It was squarely on the turnovers.
You cannot turn the ball over five times in a game and point the finger at anyone the team itself.
But I think that that was, uh, That the frustration has just kind of boiled over.
That the product, not just on Saturday night, but the last several years, Some of the regular season losses, some of the postseason losses.
That's just not good enough in Buffalo anymore.
You have one of the best, if not the best, players on the planet as your quarterback.
Josh Allen.
Losing in the Divisional Round?
Not gonna cut it.
I think this is part of where my mind goes.
To this particular game and the way it was coached, to me.
Is probably not the main reason that Sean McDermott got fired.
This is just-correct... Another piece of information in the overall Concept of, "Why are we firing McDermott?"
I, I can't say this loud enough.
Josh Allen, I think, is a big reason why the Buffalo Bills lost that game.
Weekend.
Yeah.
As much as we all love Josh Allen, And nobody ever critiques Josh Allen, I get it, but the fact is, Josh Allen is the one that, uh, uh... Look, we can fault Sean McDermott for deciding to be aggressive with 22 seconds left in the first half.
I didn't like it.
Take a knee, go to the half.
You're down by seven, live to see the second half.
They did decide to be aggressive, where Josh Allen weirdly fumbled the ball.
Where he was being willy-nilly with where he was holding the football.
So, is it McDermott's fault that they decided to be aggressive?
Yeah.
Is it Josh Allen's fault the ball was Actually fumbled?
Yeah.
Is McDermott being fired today if Josh Allen Hits a wide-open tight end towards the end of the game for the game-winning Touchdown?
Probably not.
I get the firing of Sean McDermott, because the result hasn't been good.
Enough.
I completely understand why the Bills are doing what they're doing.
That being said, I don't believe Sean McDermott's incompetence as coach is the reason the Buffalo Bills lost over the weekend.
The reason the Buffalo Bills lost over the The weekend is also not because of the officials.
The Buffalo Bills lost not because of the call.
They lost because Josh Allen picked a really Bad time to have a terrible, non-Josh Allen-like game.
