Bills Fire Head Coach Sean McDermott
January 19th, 2026
Fired.
Now this is intriguing.
Joe’s phone has been blowing up with Bucs fans barking about the Bills just firing their head coach after a 12-5 season and seven consecutive years of double-digit wins. It seems these fans think McDermott being canned should somehow affect Todd Bowles’ status as Tampa Bay head coach.
It won’t.
McDermott getting launched from Buffalo represents the 10th head coach opening in the NFL this offseason. That total has to be a league record.
Once upon a time in January of 2016, the Buccaneers interviewed McDermott for their head coach opening. They instead went with Dirk Koetter.
Apparently, Buffalo brass had enough of McDermott failing in the postseason, where he has an 8-8 career record. One could argue the Bills got robbed this weekend by a horrendous NFL catch/non-catch rule, but the end result was another winning head coach having his keycard deactivated.
Joe hopes Bowles looks closely at McDermott’s staff for defensive assistant openings.