Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news,
breaking news, folks. The Bills have fired Sean
McDermott. You already know how these episodes
go. No intro, no outro. We're just going to get
into the meat and potatoes of the situation.
So here's the statement from Terry Pagula, owner
of the Buffalo Bills, and I quote, Sean has done
an admirable job of leading our football team
for the past nine seasons, but I feel we are
in need of a new structure within our leadership
to give this organization the best opportunity
to take our team to the next level. We owe that
to our players and to Bills Mafia. Sean helped
change the mindset of this organization and was
instrumental in the Bills becoming a perennial
playoff team. I respect all the work, loyalty,
and attention to detail he showed for this team
and the community. I wish Sean, Jamie, and his
family all the best. Moving forward, Brandon
Bean will now serve as the president of football
operations and general manager of the Buffalo
Bills. Brandon will oversee all facets of our
football operation, including the oversight of
our coaching staff. I have full faith and have
witnessed Brandon's outstanding leadership style
and have confidence in his abilities to lead
our organization. Bean will be leading the search
for a new head coach and will be working directly
with Pagula and Peter Guelli, excuse me if I
butchered your last name, who will now serve
as president of business operations during the
interview and hiring process, end quote. So Sean
McDermott's overall record was 98 -50. His playoff
record is 8 -8. He won five consecutive divisional
titles and he was 0 -3 in playoff games that
went into overtime. Now, according to ESPN Research,
The Bills have won at least 10 regular season
games in seven consecutive seasons, which is
tied for fifth in the Super Bowl era since 1966.
However, they are the only team of those top
six to have not made an appearance in the Super
Bowl. The other teams, the Patriots, the 49ers,
the Chiefs, the Colts, and the Cowboys. We all
knew that the minute that that game was over,
somebody was going to get fired. It was either
going to be Brandon Bean, or it was going to
be Sean McDermott, Or it was going to be both.
Now, me personally, I would have chose both instead
of just one or the other, which I'll explain
in just a moment. But how is it that you lose
a game that you know you could have won in a
year where you're not facing Patrick Mahomes
or Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert?
That's unacceptable. The time for excuses is
out the window. It's either you're going to win
the big game or you're not. But you continue
to hit the same roadblock year after year after
year, and you have nobody to blame but yourself.
So how is it that the Patriots can go through
what they've gone through within the past few
years, get their act together, and now they look
like the Patriots of old, while you continue
to figure out how we're going to get to the Super
Bowl? And you can't say that this year was difficult,
because it wasn't. You literally had to go through
Trevor Lawrence, which you essentially just steamrolled
all the way into the end zone. You could have
beaten the Broncos had Josh Allen not turned
the ball over four times. So don't give me that
junk. I don't want to hear it from no Bills player.
I don't want to hear it from nobody that's getting
paychecks from the Bills, Darren Arlovsky. I
don't want to hear it from nobody this year.
Because this was the year for you to win, and
you didn't do it. Because of self -inflicted
wounds. It's not because of nobody else's fault.
It's not the ref's fault. It's not because of
the catch or the pick. It's none of that. It's
because you failed to meet expectations. When
you're not producing, you have to go. That's
just what it is. They gave you chance after chance
after chance after chance. You're in a weak division.
A division that has not gotten its act together
in I don't know how long. It's only been you
and the Patriots that have just been steamrolling
the division. And you mean to tell me you guys
still can't find a way to make it to the Super
Bowl? Are we serious? So Bills fans, don't just
say, oh, you guys are coming at us sideways.
You're only coming at the Bills like this. Oh,
no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have the
same energy for the Ravens fans. I have that
same energy for the Bengals fans. I have the
same energy for all of the other teams. Even
in the Patriots dynasty, there were still people
winning championships. Eli was winning championships.
Ben won a championship. Drew Brees won a championship.
What are we doing? Now I'm going to save the
rest because we have to talk about the game,
which that should be coming out fairly soon.
Just give me some time because I have to re -watch
the game and whatnot, okay? Now let's talk about
Brandon Bean. Mr. Bean. The Bean Man. How is
it that you're able to stay with this team, but
the head coach goes, even though you guys were
a package deal? So if you guys were a package
deal, then you guys should be getting fired together.
And the fact that you guys were able to give
him a promotion. A promotion? Really? And this
is the same smoke that I have with the other
GMs who still have their job right now. How is
it that Andrew Barron can trade away future picks
and give the worst contract in sports history
to Deshaun Watson, but still keep his job? How
is it that Joe Shane can let his star running
back go, but you're going to fight tooth and
nail to give a deal to your quarterback who benefited
off of Saquon Barkley being on the field? And
you're going to say, who's going to pay a running
back $12 million a year? But you keep your job.
What are we doing? Can somebody please answer
me? How is it that these guys are able to keep
their jobs when they haven't been doing well
in a production -based business? Can somebody
please explain to me? Please explain to me. But
here's the best part. When you compare the Bills
roster to the Texans, to the Patriots, to the
Broncos, even to the Jaguars before they faced
them, the Bills had the worst roster. And you
mean to tell me you're able to keep your job
when you should have done more for Josh Allen?
Are we serious? All Josh Allen had this year
was Khalir Shakir, Brandon Cooks, and James Cook.
That's it. Corlin Sutton, Marvin Mims, LeJuan
Humphrey, R .J. Harvey, Evan Ingram, Drake May
has Stephon Diggs, Mack Hollins, Keishon Boutier,
Hunter Henry, two really good running backs.
So the room for excuses on your poor drafting
methods is out the window. You have to start
giving Josh Allen weapons because at this point,
Josh Allen is going to want to leave. All you
did was just give him a rusty butter knife and
a twig and say, you know what? Make it work.
Now, when we talk about potential candidates
for this job, there's not a lot of options out
there. The options that are available are currently
finalists for other jobs. So the question is
this. What do the Bills do at this point? Do
you call the Steelers and maybe inquire about
Mike Tomlin? Do you inquire about Brian Dable?
Do you inquire about making Joe Brady your head
coach? Because at this point, you have a very
tough decision that you have to make moving forward.
So if I'm Brandon Bean, we're going in a meeting
room, no phones, no technology of any sort. We're
getting a whiteboard and we're hashing this thing
out. I don't care how long it takes. I don't
care how uncomfortable it gets. We need to hash
this thing out now. Because where you guys are
headed is a level of insanity that not even Cowboys
fans have even reached. It's time for you to
figure out what you're going to do moving forward.
Because what we have right here is not working.
And you have to ask yourself, if we make this
move, will it get us over the hump? If we hire
this person as our head coach, what is going
to be his identity? Is he going to use the players
that we have in a different way for better or
for worse? What moves can we do to get over this
hump? Who can get us over that hump? Do we have
the structure right now to support getting over
the hump? These are the uncomfortable conversations
that have to be asked every single day in order
for you guys to get an idea of what you guys
need to do to get to a championship. So if I'm
the Bills, I'm either choosing Joe Brady or Brian
Dable because both of them played a pivotal role
in developing Josh Allen. On top of that, if
you go after an offensive -minded head coach,
they might have an eye for talent that you don't
have. See, these are the type of things that
people don't talk about when choosing a head
coach. But these are the things that need to
be talked about in this moment. Because you already
have the franchise quarterback. All you have
to do is just build around him. If you make a
trade for maybe an A .J. Brown, for instance,
or maybe a Jalen Waddell, that's a good start
right there. You can no longer take these crazy
swings and think that you're not going to have
any backlash from it. Case in point, you guys
signing Von Miller to that crazy contract after
he only played a couple games with the Rams.
Granted, he played a pivotal role in the Rams
winning the Super Bowl, but that doesn't mean
that you give him this crazy contract. One more
thing I have to talk about then I'll end the
episode. Of all the vacancies that we have right
now, which one do you think is the best one?
Because me personally, I still believe it's the
Ravens. And the reason why I say that is because
you still have Lamar. You still have Derrick
Henry, Rashad Bateman, Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews,
Mike Green, Kyle Hamilton, Roquan Smith. But
when we look at the Bills job, however, you have
Josh Allen, James Cook, Khalir Shakir, Dawson
Knox, Gregory Russo, Landon Jackson, Deion Walker,
TJ Sanders. The point that I'm trying to make
is... Both teams are really good opportunities.
It's just a matter of what's your flavor. But
I guess we just have to wait and see what happens.
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