Go on record... Fire McDermott?

[Trogdor]

11 hours ago, BurpleBull said:

Go ahead, start acting spoiled, get your wish, and wait till our asses go right back to being basement dwellers.

 

Keep McDermott and do something about the O-coordinator, if anybody. 

 

I placed a bet on the Bills for the first time ever two games ago, it included James Cook touching the ball 16 times.

 

Think he did?

 

Nope.

 

And then I read a write-up on TBD today about the Bills baffling usage of Cook, so I know that my anger wasn't unfounded or completely inspired from losing out on the bet I placed.

 

Made me think for sure the game was rigged because it made zero sense, but then again, maybe the O-coordinator is just not a very wise person.

 

We've gone from being dynamic to mundane in the span of two weeks.

 

And who's bright idea was it to come out of the offseason without a real threat/ complement to Keon Coleman (whose selection I still at times question)?

 

We've gotta stop with the stupid offensive playcalling, act like we run ***** in our division again, and hope to the stars that the defense catches up and looks respectable at the very least the rest of the way.

 

Team McDermott unless this thing we've got implodes.

This fear of another drought is insane to me. The goal has to be the Super Bowl, anything less is loser *****. McD and Beane are never going to get us there, they both have serious deficiencies in their respective jobs. 

[BurpleBull]

1 minute ago, Trogdor said:

This fear of another drought is insane to me. The goal has to be the Super Bowl, anything less is loser *****. McD and Beane are never going to get us there, they both have serious deficiencies in their respective jobs. 

The ultimate goal is to win a Super Bowl, obviously, but you don’t flip a franchise for the better with “serious deficiencies”.

 

Show me your master plan that guarantees Bills fans that they won’t have to worry about another 10+ consecutive seasons of not even reaching the playoffs, if replacing McDermott and Beane?

 

Go ahead and name your sure-fire HC and GM candidates along with your proof that they will garner the same respect from our players and keep the well-documented camaraderie alive.

 

I’m not sure exactly who or what you hold as responsible for this franchise’s turnaround, but feel free to let me know.

[DrDawkinstein]

1 minute ago, BurpleBull said:

The ultimate goal is to win a Super Bowl, obviously, but you don’t flip a franchise for the better with “serious deficiencies”.

 

Show me your master plan that guarantees Bills fans that they won’t have to worry about another 10+ consecutive seasons of not even reaching the playoffs, if replacing McDermott and Beane?

 

Josh Allen

 

1 minute ago, BurpleBull said:

 

Go ahead and name your sure-fire HC and GM candidates along with your proof that they will garner the same respect from our players and keep the well-documented camaraderie alive.

 

Logical fallacy. No one here could name Sean McDermott in January 2017. 

 

We've already seen 8 years of evidence from McD that he wont get it done. That beats any fear-based fallacies you can come up with.

 

1 minute ago, BurpleBull said:

 

I’m not sure exactly who or what you hold as responsible for this franchise’s turnaround, but feel free to let me know.

 

McDermott did a great job turning the franchise around. But we've hit his ceiling, and have been hitting it since 2021, and are wasting the career of the best player in Bills history.

 

He's the type of HC who can take a 4-13 team to the wild card round. He's also the type of HC who takes a 14-3 team to the wild card round.

 

His whole motto is "Playoff Caliber", and that's what we have. But now we need "Championship Caliber".

[Pete]

I’m on record- Fire Brady!

[The Jokeman]

2 minutes ago, Pete said:

I’m on record- Fire Brady!

and replace him with whom? again if going to suggest someone gets fired than mention a suitable replacement and hopefully a reason why they're better than what we have. 

Edited 8 hours ago by The Jokeman

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

I don't really think McD has done a bad job coaching this year to be honest.  If you want to fire him, fire him after the team lays another egg in the playoffs or misses - but i don't fire him because we lost an away game with a banged up roster.  

[harryS]

22 minutes ago, BurpleBull said:

Show me your master plan that guarantees Bills fans that they won’t have to worry about another 10+ consecutive seasons of not even reaching the playoffs, if replacing McDermott and Beane?

 

 

Josh Allen.

 

Your turn.  Show me the evidence that firing McBeane will bring about a new drought.  When in the history of the NFL has a QB of Allen's caliber gone on a long streak of missing the playoffs?

 

Josh is a buoy, you see.  We're going to make the playoffs with him no matter who is the coach.  The question is more, which GM will give him the talent to win in the playoffs?  Which coach will be able to match wits against playoff winners like Andy Reid, Spags, Fangio, etc?

[Pete]

15 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

and replace him with whom? again if going to suggest someone gets fired than mention a suitable replacement and hopefully a reason why they're better than what we have. 

Adam Henry can fill in while we do our search.  I don’t have Beanes Rolodex, but I’m sure he has some numbers to call.  Brady is killing our offense. 

[BurpleBull]

41 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Josh Allen

 

 

Logical fallacy. No one here could name Sean McDermott in January 2017. 

 

We've already seen 8 years of evidence from McD that he wont get it done. That beats any fear-based fallacies you can come up with.

 

 

McDermott did a great job turning the franchise around. But we've hit his ceiling, and have been hitting it since 2021, and are wasting the career of the best player in Bills history.

 

He's the type of HC who can take a 4-13 team to the wild card round. He's also the type of HC who takes a 14-3 team to the wild card round.

 

His whole motto is "Playoff Caliber", and that's what we have. But now we need "Championship Caliber".

If you say so.

 

I specifically named Sean McDermott as the head coach that I thought we should hire, take it or leave it.

[Ray Finkel]

We need a President of Football Operations to get in Pegula’s ear.  Beane and McDermott are tied at the hip and this organization needs a different voice that reports to the owner.  Pegula should not be President even though he can do whatever he wants because he is the owner.  

 

 

 

 

[DJB]

 

 

A defensive “guru” head coach. 
 

Definition of insanity here 

[JAMIEBUF12]

NO

[billsfan714]

6 hours ago, Trogdor said:

This fear of another drought is insane to me. The goal has to be the Super Bowl, anything less is loser *****. McD and Beane are never going to get us there, they both have serious deficiencies in their respective jobs. 

Same with me, I feel like asking is the drought in the room with us right now? 😆  Does Josh instantly morph into JP Losman or Trent Edwards if McD isnt here. I dont think so.   The drought was about not having a franchise QB.

[TheFunPolice]

All time great QBs do not equal "drought"

 

The problem is twofold as I see it:

 

1. Our defensive minded HC has a scheme that no longer works (if it ever really did). It relies on smaller, faster players who are going to get hurt more often because of the nature of having a 225 pound LB getting blocked by OL who outweigh him by 100+ pounds play after play. It relies on keeping everything in front, and eventually the offense will make a mistake. It works often against mediocre QBs, but not against most of the guys you see in the playoffs. 

 

This carries over into the overall philosophy of the team: low event football as some call it. So exciting. Keep it clean, limit mistakes, make a play when you have to. 

 

Again, many teams are sloppy, undisciplined, and will often hand you the game if you play this way, so you'll rack up wins. But it doesn't work against great teams very often. 

 

2. The GM is not very good. He is living off of drafting Allen, which was amazing for this franchise. But his free agent signings have been so-so at best, his draft picks, especially high ones, are so bad the HC who he is supposedly one mind with doesn't want to play them, and his roster build is so bad we're bringing back a guy with a broken neck who cannot or should not even play to sign to the practice squad and waste a space for no apparent reason last year, and this year we're signing back a bunch of players we let go ostensibly because they weren't good enough. 

 

This is an admission that the GM has failed time and time again to find suitable replacements for these players. There is no other way to say it, as much as we love these players as human beings and for what they did here. 

 

I'm not even kidding: Andre Reed would have had a better chance of seeing the field and making a contribution last season than Hyde. This is no shot at Hyde, the man had a career ending injury. But why was he taking up a spot on the practice squad? 

 

This GM has to go, and if the coach was fired as well I am fine with it. But Beane is by FAR the bigger issue. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[T master]

On 10/13/2025 at 9:23 PM, Heavy Kevi said:

I've been saying yes for years, so there's no real question what I think. I've started basically this same poll 3 times, but let's get a snapshot of what we think right now...

 

It's a simple question: has the final straw broken the Buffalo's back?

 

Go on record!

90 & 46 regular season record 7 & 7 in the post season, you are as bad as Ralph firing Phillips & Knox the only 2 HC's that won anything while a HC with the Bills  .

 

So who then does your brilliance suggest they replace him with that would keep the team at least where it is and make it better ?

 

Inquiring minds want to know !!! 

[TheFunPolice]

McDermott is a better coach than Sirianni. And it's not even close, IMO. 

 

Yet Sirianni has been to 2 Super Bowls and won 1 with Jalen Hurts. Really he should have won both, had Hurts not had that fluke fumble. 

 

Allen is worlds better than Hurts (IMO) so what is it? It was KC both Super Bowls. 

 

Eagles roster is stacked with talent. Bills roster is stuck in the past resigning guys from 5 years ago because there is no better option. That is 100% the direct result of the GM failing to find players to replace them. 

 

Beane needs to be let go at the end of the season unless the team at least gets to the Super Bowl. He got Allen. Aside from that, any competent GM could do no worse  in roster management. 

 

I bet McDermott's defenses look a lot better with an elite corner and a DE who is a problem for opposing offenses. Beane has tried and tried again and has yet to get this done. 

 

I bet McDermott's offense looks a lot better with an elite WR. This is where the GM says "here's Waddle or Olave" and the HC makes it work, because the goal is to win a Super Bowl, not get to the playoffs and be eliminated every year. 

[colin]

im a hater and for the past 4 off seasons i wanted to move on.  I still do, but given where we are now the two best coaches/roles in our building are kromer on OL, and McD as a DC.  they both have succeeded many times at a high level in those roles.  McD has been an overall successful HC, but given that the expectations are a chip, he's not been all the way there.  I think right now he's got to really take his stamp and mark the D, either wake babbich up, over see more, or just call plays as needed (he may have done so at the end of the last game for all i know).  on O, frankly he has to realize what brady does wrong and actually make him do the right thing.  it's not something he's really done before, aside from firing dorsey and promoting brady, but it's what he has to do to make the next step.