WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.980 Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news, 00:00:02.020 --> 00:00:04.280 breaking news, folks. The Bills have fired Sean 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:06.200 McDermott. You already know how these episodes 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:09.119 go. No intro, no outro. We're just going to get 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.320 into the meat and potatoes of the situation. 00:00:11.699 --> 00:00:14.279 So here's the statement from Terry Pagula, owner 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.160 of the Buffalo Bills, and I quote, Sean has done 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.260 an admirable job of leading our football team 00:00:19.260 --> 00:00:21.760 for the past nine seasons, but I feel we are 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.699 in need of a new structure within our leadership 00:00:23.699 --> 00:00:25.899 to give this organization the best opportunity 00:00:25.899 --> 00:00:28.649 to take our team to the next level. We owe that 00:00:28.649 --> 00:00:31.809 to our players and to Bills Mafia. Sean helped 00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:34.289 change the mindset of this organization and was 00:00:34.289 --> 00:00:36.329 instrumental in the Bills becoming a perennial 00:00:36.329 --> 00:00:39.109 playoff team. I respect all the work, loyalty, 00:00:39.409 --> 00:00:41.609 and attention to detail he showed for this team 00:00:41.609 --> 00:00:44.210 and the community. I wish Sean, Jamie, and his 00:00:44.210 --> 00:00:47.310 family all the best. Moving forward, Brandon 00:00:47.310 --> 00:00:49.530 Bean will now serve as the president of football 00:00:49.530 --> 00:00:52.149 operations and general manager of the Buffalo 00:00:52.149 --> 00:00:55.200 Bills. Brandon will oversee all facets of our 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.240 football operation, including the oversight of 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.719 our coaching staff. I have full faith and have 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.780 witnessed Brandon's outstanding leadership style 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:04.939 and have confidence in his abilities to lead 00:01:04.939 --> 00:01:07.719 our organization. Bean will be leading the search 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.219 for a new head coach and will be working directly 00:01:10.219 --> 00:01:13.519 with Pagula and Peter Guelli, excuse me if I 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:15.439 butchered your last name, who will now serve 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.019 as president of business operations during the 00:01:18.019 --> 00:01:21.079 interview and hiring process, end quote. So Sean 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.799 McDermott's overall record was 98 -50. His playoff 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.219 record is 8 -8. He won five consecutive divisional 00:01:28.219 --> 00:01:31.500 titles and he was 0 -3 in playoff games that 00:01:31.500 --> 00:01:35.180 went into overtime. Now, according to ESPN Research, 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.379 The Bills have won at least 10 regular season 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:41.219 games in seven consecutive seasons, which is 00:01:41.219 --> 00:01:44.260 tied for fifth in the Super Bowl era since 1966. 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:47.659 However, they are the only team of those top 00:01:47.659 --> 00:01:50.359 six to have not made an appearance in the Super 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.700 Bowl. The other teams, the Patriots, the 49ers, 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.140 the Chiefs, the Colts, and the Cowboys. We all 00:01:57.140 --> 00:01:59.319 knew that the minute that that game was over, 00:01:59.459 --> 00:02:01.819 somebody was going to get fired. It was either 00:02:01.819 --> 00:02:03.859 going to be Brandon Bean, or it was going to 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:06.769 be Sean McDermott, Or it was going to be both. 00:02:07.170 --> 00:02:09.569 Now, me personally, I would have chose both instead 00:02:09.569 --> 00:02:11.810 of just one or the other, which I'll explain 00:02:11.810 --> 00:02:13.990 in just a moment. But how is it that you lose 00:02:13.990 --> 00:02:16.169 a game that you know you could have won in a 00:02:16.169 --> 00:02:18.370 year where you're not facing Patrick Mahomes 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:21.530 or Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert? 00:02:21.770 --> 00:02:24.810 That's unacceptable. The time for excuses is 00:02:24.810 --> 00:02:26.849 out the window. It's either you're going to win 00:02:26.849 --> 00:02:29.680 the big game or you're not. But you continue 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.319 to hit the same roadblock year after year after 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.180 year, and you have nobody to blame but yourself. 00:02:36.659 --> 00:02:39.599 So how is it that the Patriots can go through 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.400 what they've gone through within the past few 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.300 years, get their act together, and now they look 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:46.759 like the Patriots of old, while you continue 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.159 to figure out how we're going to get to the Super 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:52.259 Bowl? And you can't say that this year was difficult, 00:02:52.419 --> 00:02:55.349 because it wasn't. You literally had to go through 00:02:55.349 --> 00:02:58.409 Trevor Lawrence, which you essentially just steamrolled 00:02:58.409 --> 00:03:01.090 all the way into the end zone. You could have 00:03:01.090 --> 00:03:03.310 beaten the Broncos had Josh Allen not turned 00:03:03.310 --> 00:03:06.669 the ball over four times. So don't give me that 00:03:06.669 --> 00:03:10.229 junk. I don't want to hear it from no Bills player. 00:03:10.430 --> 00:03:12.389 I don't want to hear it from nobody that's getting 00:03:12.389 --> 00:03:15.030 paychecks from the Bills, Darren Arlovsky. I 00:03:15.030 --> 00:03:16.810 don't want to hear it from nobody this year. 00:03:17.270 --> 00:03:20.370 Because this was the year for you to win, and 00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:24.060 you didn't do it. Because of self -inflicted 00:03:24.060 --> 00:03:28.620 wounds. It's not because of nobody else's fault. 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.219 It's not the ref's fault. It's not because of 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:34.520 the catch or the pick. It's none of that. It's 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.280 because you failed to meet expectations. When 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.580 you're not producing, you have to go. That's 00:03:40.580 --> 00:03:44.400 just what it is. They gave you chance after chance 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.659 after chance after chance. You're in a weak division. 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:52.219 A division that has not gotten its act together 00:03:52.219 --> 00:03:55.800 in I don't know how long. It's only been you 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.280 and the Patriots that have just been steamrolling 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.039 the division. And you mean to tell me you guys 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.539 still can't find a way to make it to the Super 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:08.120 Bowl? Are we serious? So Bills fans, don't just 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.120 say, oh, you guys are coming at us sideways. 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:12.500 You're only coming at the Bills like this. Oh, 00:04:12.539 --> 00:04:14.819 no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have the 00:04:14.819 --> 00:04:17.740 same energy for the Ravens fans. I have that 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:20.300 same energy for the Bengals fans. I have the 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:24.279 same energy for all of the other teams. Even 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.240 in the Patriots dynasty, there were still people 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.540 winning championships. Eli was winning championships. 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.939 Ben won a championship. Drew Brees won a championship. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.879 What are we doing? Now I'm going to save the 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:38.420 rest because we have to talk about the game, 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:40.279 which that should be coming out fairly soon. 00:04:40.459 --> 00:04:42.240 Just give me some time because I have to re -watch 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.670 the game and whatnot, okay? Now let's talk about 00:04:44.670 --> 00:04:49.129 Brandon Bean. Mr. Bean. The Bean Man. How is 00:04:49.129 --> 00:04:52.149 it that you're able to stay with this team, but 00:04:52.149 --> 00:04:55.370 the head coach goes, even though you guys were 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:57.970 a package deal? So if you guys were a package 00:04:57.970 --> 00:05:00.589 deal, then you guys should be getting fired together. 00:05:01.149 --> 00:05:04.589 And the fact that you guys were able to give 00:05:04.589 --> 00:05:09.420 him a promotion. A promotion? Really? And this 00:05:09.420 --> 00:05:11.779 is the same smoke that I have with the other 00:05:11.779 --> 00:05:14.600 GMs who still have their job right now. How is 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.100 it that Andrew Barron can trade away future picks 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:20.459 and give the worst contract in sports history 00:05:20.459 --> 00:05:23.860 to Deshaun Watson, but still keep his job? How 00:05:23.860 --> 00:05:26.279 is it that Joe Shane can let his star running 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.839 back go, but you're going to fight tooth and 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.980 nail to give a deal to your quarterback who benefited 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:35.629 off of Saquon Barkley being on the field? And 00:05:35.629 --> 00:05:37.629 you're going to say, who's going to pay a running 00:05:37.629 --> 00:05:40.389 back $12 million a year? But you keep your job. 00:05:40.670 --> 00:05:43.209 What are we doing? Can somebody please answer 00:05:43.209 --> 00:05:45.930 me? How is it that these guys are able to keep 00:05:45.930 --> 00:05:48.670 their jobs when they haven't been doing well 00:05:48.670 --> 00:05:51.769 in a production -based business? Can somebody 00:05:51.769 --> 00:05:55.680 please explain to me? Please explain to me. But 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.180 here's the best part. When you compare the Bills 00:05:58.180 --> 00:06:01.720 roster to the Texans, to the Patriots, to the 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.500 Broncos, even to the Jaguars before they faced 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:08.680 them, the Bills had the worst roster. And you 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.079 mean to tell me you're able to keep your job 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.899 when you should have done more for Josh Allen? 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.480 Are we serious? All Josh Allen had this year 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.000 was Khalir Shakir, Brandon Cooks, and James Cook. 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:27.420 That's it. Corlin Sutton, Marvin Mims, LeJuan 00:06:27.420 --> 00:06:31.720 Humphrey, R .J. Harvey, Evan Ingram, Drake May 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.120 has Stephon Diggs, Mack Hollins, Keishon Boutier, 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:38.420 Hunter Henry, two really good running backs. 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.660 So the room for excuses on your poor drafting 00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:44.639 methods is out the window. You have to start 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.439 giving Josh Allen weapons because at this point, 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.860 Josh Allen is going to want to leave. All you 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:52.480 did was just give him a rusty butter knife and 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.980 a twig and say, you know what? Make it work. 00:06:55.379 --> 00:06:57.279 Now, when we talk about potential candidates 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.259 for this job, there's not a lot of options out 00:06:59.259 --> 00:07:02.079 there. The options that are available are currently 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.040 finalists for other jobs. So the question is 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.860 this. What do the Bills do at this point? Do 00:07:07.860 --> 00:07:10.060 you call the Steelers and maybe inquire about 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:12.779 Mike Tomlin? Do you inquire about Brian Dable? 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.300 Do you inquire about making Joe Brady your head 00:07:15.300 --> 00:07:18.319 coach? Because at this point, you have a very 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.439 tough decision that you have to make moving forward. 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.160 So if I'm Brandon Bean, we're going in a meeting 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.879 room, no phones, no technology of any sort. We're 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.040 getting a whiteboard and we're hashing this thing 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.860 out. I don't care how long it takes. I don't 00:07:31.860 --> 00:07:34.100 care how uncomfortable it gets. We need to hash 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:36.860 this thing out now. Because where you guys are 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:39.899 headed is a level of insanity that not even Cowboys 00:07:39.899 --> 00:07:43.040 fans have even reached. It's time for you to 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.959 figure out what you're going to do moving forward. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.199 Because what we have right here is not working. 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:51.279 And you have to ask yourself, if we make this 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.819 move, will it get us over the hump? If we hire 00:07:53.819 --> 00:07:55.839 this person as our head coach, what is going 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.899 to be his identity? Is he going to use the players 00:07:58.899 --> 00:08:00.939 that we have in a different way for better or 00:08:00.939 --> 00:08:04.259 for worse? What moves can we do to get over this 00:08:04.259 --> 00:08:07.199 hump? Who can get us over that hump? Do we have 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.540 the structure right now to support getting over 00:08:09.540 --> 00:08:12.339 the hump? These are the uncomfortable conversations 00:08:12.339 --> 00:08:16.699 that have to be asked every single day in order 00:08:16.699 --> 00:08:19.019 for you guys to get an idea of what you guys 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:21.819 need to do to get to a championship. So if I'm 00:08:21.819 --> 00:08:24.100 the Bills, I'm either choosing Joe Brady or Brian 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:26.500 Dable because both of them played a pivotal role 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:29.139 in developing Josh Allen. On top of that, if 00:08:29.139 --> 00:08:31.360 you go after an offensive -minded head coach, 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.960 they might have an eye for talent that you don't 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.139 have. See, these are the type of things that 00:08:36.139 --> 00:08:38.360 people don't talk about when choosing a head 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.879 coach. But these are the things that need to 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.299 be talked about in this moment. Because you already 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:45.860 have the franchise quarterback. All you have 00:08:45.860 --> 00:08:48.399 to do is just build around him. If you make a 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.100 trade for maybe an A .J. Brown, for instance, 00:08:51.299 --> 00:08:53.840 or maybe a Jalen Waddell, that's a good start 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.600 right there. You can no longer take these crazy 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.740 swings and think that you're not going to have 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:01.799 any backlash from it. Case in point, you guys 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.620 signing Von Miller to that crazy contract after 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:07.399 he only played a couple games with the Rams. 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:10.039 Granted, he played a pivotal role in the Rams 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.399 winning the Super Bowl, but that doesn't mean 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.200 that you give him this crazy contract. One more 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:16.879 thing I have to talk about then I'll end the 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.820 episode. Of all the vacancies that we have right 00:09:19.820 --> 00:09:22.340 now, which one do you think is the best one? 00:09:22.970 --> 00:09:25.509 Because me personally, I still believe it's the 00:09:25.509 --> 00:09:28.090 Ravens. And the reason why I say that is because 00:09:28.090 --> 00:09:31.009 you still have Lamar. You still have Derrick 00:09:31.009 --> 00:09:33.830 Henry, Rashad Bateman, Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews, 00:09:33.830 --> 00:09:36.710 Mike Green, Kyle Hamilton, Roquan Smith. But 00:09:36.710 --> 00:09:38.809 when we look at the Bills job, however, you have 00:09:38.809 --> 00:09:41.529 Josh Allen, James Cook, Khalir Shakir, Dawson 00:09:41.529 --> 00:09:44.730 Knox, Gregory Russo, Landon Jackson, Deion Walker, 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:47.970 TJ Sanders. The point that I'm trying to make 00:09:47.970 --> 00:09:50.500 is... Both teams are really good opportunities. 00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:52.980 It's just a matter of what's your flavor. But 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:54.940 I guess we just have to wait and see what happens. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:56.580 But I'm going to end this episode here. 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