Nihilarian

I'll say it again. We haven't heard ANYTHING simply because he is NOT interviewing with other teams. I'm a Buffalo Bills fan first. I just don't get all the vitriol from fans against a head coach who has done so much for this team. Bills fans forget that the Buffalo Bills used to be in the toilet, along with the NY Jets, Cleveland Browns, and other bad teams. Seventeen years, man. Seventeen years. Sean McDermott was a godsend for this franchise.

Can you name one team that he interviewed with? This was my entire point: he hasn't taken any interviews yet, and we haven't heard one peep from his agent. Which means he isn't interested in being a coach again in 2026.

I think there is a higher probability that he ends up in KC as their 2027 HC. JMO. Reid will retire, and they are friends as he worked with him in Philly. On another note, looking at YouTube there are always crazy made-up stories about how the Bills traded for this guy or that guy after the trade deadline ended. There is one where McDermott disparages Beane and states he told everyone he would again coach this year, to get back at Buffalo, he is taking the DC job with Miami. Utter nonsense.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion. The facts are that McDermott has a .662 winning percentage as an NFL HC. Tomlin .628. Harbaugh .614. The last playoff game the Steelers won was in 2017. While the Ravens have done better than the Steelers in that respect, they failed to even make the playoffs this season. The Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2012 with a star-studded team. And Pittsburgh won an SB in 2008, that season the Steelers had the #1 defense in the NFL. I keep reading about how Josh Allen is the greatest QB to walk the planet, and yet in 2003 the team was 6-6 about to miss the playoffs before McDermott made that in-season change at OC. My opinion is that many teams want McDermott as their HC, and we simply haven't heard ANYTHING because he hasn't been taking any interviews. Five straight AFC East Championships, which is one more than Marv Levy. Eight of nine seasons in the playoffs for a first-time NFL head coach. He went to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor at QB. The second-winningest NFL head coach over the last 5 years, and Andy Reid with KC is the #1. He is the best head coach this franchise has ever had, and might ever have. I get the hate and dislike for the guy because he hasn't taken this franchise to a Super Bowl. Let...it...go!

This! From day one, we read and heard that John Harbaugh had teams that didn't have a head coach opening that were asking to interview him. All from his agent, I suppose. If McDermott were looking for a job this year, we would have heard something about it, and yet silence. To me, McDermott is more attractive then Harbough or Tomlin as he actually has won playoff games recently. When he is ready to coach again i'm sure we will hear something. Right now...crickets!

No stone unturned...

Just like Josh was in on the Keon Coleman drafting? Dunno why the QB needs to be involved unless they plan to keep him on after his playing days are over. Perhaps involved in who the HC hires as his OC.

Just a thought, if the Bills had kept McDermott and fired Joe Brady, they could have offered McDaniels the OC job. Cna't wait to see what he does with the Chargers and Hebert.

Not really, an OC job pays a whole lot less than an HC job. Then, the Bills probably just wanted to hear his plan to run the team. Buffalo might be waiting for someone on one of the teams still in the playoffs to interview, so why not cross all the t's and dot all the i's in the meantime?

Sometimes leadership of a team just wants to hear "their plan." In one case, in dire times for Buffalo, they let it be known that the Bills would pay a new HC 10 million per year, which at the time was far above what other teams were paying. So, Bill Cowher interviewed in Buffalo, and the Bills had no interest in paying anyone that much, as they just wanted to hear his plan for the team. It just so happens that after they heard Cowher's plan, the person they hired for their new HC was the guy Cowher stated he would have hired as his OC. It makes sense to hear everyone's plan for the team.

McDaniel is an offensive wiz... because if he can get alligator arm, Tua to lead the league in passing with 4624 yards. That is one QB who is so limited in his throws...though Tyreek Hill did have 1799 yards receiving, 13 TDs. Waddle also had 1014 yards receiving. Buffalo currently doesn't have the wide receiver weapons that he would need to get this offense working like he did in Miami.

Think about this for a minute. If the Bills had hired Schwartz as HC, he could have hired the OC that Rex Ryan had hired, Greg Roman. The Bills had LeSean McCoy at RB and were the #1 rushing team in 2015. Between RB McCoy, RB Karlos Williams, and Tyrod Taylor at QB, who scrambled, they did alright on the ground. They did go 8-8, and the offense was better than the defense, as we all know why now. Alas, we don't know if Schwartz would have hired Roman as his OC or who he would have hired as his DC. He must have interviewed and given them his plan. clearly not good enough. Gotta sell it!

He had a strong DC in Miami, and the players complained that he worked them too hard, so he fired that guy. That DC (Vic Fangio) went to the Eagles after being fired, and that defense is the one that gave Mahomes fits in the Super Bowl. McDaniel then got the reputation for being soft on his players, and that is a big reason why he lost the locker room last year. Buffalo might just want to hear "his plan" to run the team.

When a new HC is interviewed, he sells his plan to the owners, GM, or whoever is in charge of the hiring. He lays out his plan for schemes, coordinators, and what he can do with the current roster. An example might be that when Bills GM Buddy Nix and Ralph Wilson was the owner back in 2010, the Buffalo Bills were so toxic that nobody wanted the job in Buffalo because Wilson would micromanage the team by phone from Detroit. Nix couldn't even get interviews from noted assistants. Chan Gailey was hired back in 2010 because he told Ralph Wilson he could win games without star players. Mind you that the last NFL job Chan Gailey had in the NFL was as an OC for the KC Chiefs in 2008, and he was fired in KC for fielding about the worst offense in the league with Tyler Thigpin as QB at 2-14. So, Buffalo hired a new HC who was fired from his last job as an OC 2 years earlier because nobody else would take the job. This was kinda why the franchise went nearly 20 years with not many wins each year. When Terry & Kim Pegula hired Rex Ryan in 2015, his big mouth sold them a bad bill of goods about how he would do this and how he would do that, and it was mostly nonsense because he revamped the Buffalo defense "his way," which was near best in the league in 2014 under HC Doug Marrone and DC Jim Schwartz. That Buffalo defense was #4 overall that season, and the team went 9-7 that season...on the verge. The reason Marrone failed was that he had our favorite Buffalo Bills coach, Nathanial Hackett, as his OC. 🤮 Kyle Orton was the Buffalo starting QB along with EJ Manuel, and now you know the reason that young man never developed into even a backup QB. Anyway, Rex Ryan hired Greg Roman as his OC and Dennis Thurman as his DC. That 2014 Buffalo defense was stifling against the pass because they led the league in sacks with Mario Williams, Marcel Dareus, and Kyle Williams. Now, Rex Ryan implemented his defensive scheme, which had the D-linemen dropping into pass coverage and holding their area to contain the run so that the crappy Buffalo linebackers could rush the passer. From #4 overall to 15th, 19th. The point here is that Rex Ryan, a supposed defensive genius, came in as a new HC and revamped a defense to fit his scheme, even though he didn't have the players to utilize it properly. It might take a few seasons of drafting and obtaining the right players in free agency to make the proper transition to run his scheme. Ryan went 8-8, 7-9, and was fired. The Buffalo owners realized they had been lied to and moved on.