Bills fire head coach Sean McDermott: reports

The Buffalo Bills fired caput manager Sean McDermott connected Monday aft the team’s heartbreaking playoff nonaccomplishment to the Denver Broncos successful the AFC Divisional Round, according to aggregate reports.

The Bills failed to get backmost to the AFC Championship Game aft losing to the Broncos successful overtime, pursuing a arguable interception call. The decision marked different crushing stroke to McDermott’s tenure arsenic the Bills’ caput coach.

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Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott leaves the tract aft an NFL divisional circular playoff shot crippled against the Denver Broncos, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, successful Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Buffalo posted a information of McDermott’s property league pursuing the arguable call.

"I’m saying it due to the fact that I’m lasting up for Buffalo. I’m lasting up for us. What went connected is not however it should spell down," helium said.

McDermott took the occupation earlier the commencement of the 2017 season. Buffalo lone finished nether .500 erstwhile since then. He helped usher the Bills to the playoffs successful 8 of the 9 seasons. The squad made the league rubric crippled doubly but ne'er got backmost to the Super Bowl.

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Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott reacts during the 2nd fractional of an NFL divisional circular playoff shot crippled against the Denver Broncos, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, successful Denver.  (AP Photo/RJ Sangosti)

NFL fans had assurance that the Bills could person been Super Bowl contenders going into the 2025 season. The Bills’ likelihood got amended erstwhile their nemesis, Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, was mislaid for the play with a genu injury.

Buffalo fell abbreviated successful winning the AFC East – falling to the New England Patriots. They made the playoffs via the chaotic paper and defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars by 3 points. But the nonaccomplishment to the Broncos yet doomed McDermott’s tenure arsenic caput coach.

Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills walks disconnected the tract aft being defeated by the Denver Broncos successful overtime of the AFC divisional playoff crippled astatine Empower Field astatine Mile High connected Jan. 17, 2026 successful Denver, Colorado.   (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

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The adjacent Bills caput manager volition instrumentality implicit the adjacent fewer years of Josh Allen’s career. Allen won the MVP grant past play and was successful the moving for astir of this season. The squad is successful hopeless request of a apical wide receiver to mates with Allen and it is expected to beryllium addressed going into the offseason.

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