In retrospect, there may have been multiple hints that Buffalo Bills' head coach Sean McDermott was on the hot seat entering the NFL Playoffs

The decision to fire coach Sean McDermott and to promote G.M. Brandon Beane shows that owner Terry Pegula resolved the “coaching” vs. “talent” question by concluding that the roster was good enough to get farther than the divisional round of the 2025 playoffs.

After nine excellent regular-season performances — and eight playoff appearances — Sean McDermott was fired by the Buffalo Bills. Given the team's excellence under McDermott, the move came as a major surprise, especially considering some of the big-name coaches the team could have wooed were already off the market.

Before the Buffalo Bills fired Sean McDermott as their head coach, GM Brandon Beane and owner Terry Pegula reportedly didn't like his assessment of the roster.

Sean McDermott reportedly criticized the Buffalo Bills' roster building to general manager Brandon Beane and owner Terry Pegula five weeks before he was fired as head coach, according to WGRZ's Vic Carucci.

After making a controversial firing, the worst thing you can do is have a typo in the first line of your official statement. Bills owner Terry Pegula made that mistake, beginning his statement with "Sean has done an admiral job ..." Surely he meant "admirable."

The Buffalo Bills' surprise firing of head coach Sean McDermott drew criticism from two former players who helped end the playoff drought in 2017

The Buffalo Bills thanked head coach Sean McDermott in a tribute video on Monday following his firing after the team's 33-30 loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Round.