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Brandon Beane has a response to Bills fans on the Joe Brady hire.
When the Bills fired nine-year head coach Sean McDermott, after Buffalo’s season came to yet another heartbreaking end with a playoff defeat, fans were not happy. When the Bills hired their own offensive coordinator, Joe Brady, making the 36-year-old the NFL’s youngest head coach, fans were not sure about that move either.
In polls cited by Bills writer Tyler Dunne of Go Long, fan approval of the Brady hire sat between 8 percent and 9.5 percent. In a report card of the 10 NFL coaching hires since the regular season ended, FanSided analyst Mark Powell gave the hiring a “B,” but added, “Let’s hope it all goes well, but it smells … nasty. For a team so close to the Super Bowl, it’s surprising Buffalo had to promote from within.”
Fans were perhaps most critical of another Bills move announced at the same time as the firing of McDermott. Owner Terry Pegula not only did not fire general manager Brandon Beane, he promoted Beane to become president of football operations for the franchise.
On Monday, in statements published by Go Long, Beane responded to his critics — and fans who disapproved of the Brady promotion from OC to HC as well — and he did not hold back.
Beane Drops 3 Harsh Words on Fans
What does Beane have to say to fans and media outlets who ripped the organization for promoting Brady rather than hiring a big-name head coach, after seven straight years of reaching the postseason but falling short of the Super Bowl?
“F*** the outside,” Beane declared, as quoted by Dunne. “It’s about the right selection for this team.”
In his three seasons as offensive coordinator, Brady appears to have produced results. The Bills ranked second in offensive points scored in 2025, fourth in 2024 and sixth the year before that.
Buffalo, of course, reached the playoffs in all three seasons — but was stopped in the divisional round this season by the Denver Broncos, and in 2023 by the Kansas City Chiefs. In 2024 the Bills got to the AFC Championship Game only to suffer a crushing, 32-29 defeat at the hands of the Chiefs, again.
Beane Defends Choice of Brady
Beane also told Dunne that he would have regretted not hiring Brady if the coach departed the Bills for another team. Brady also sat for two interviews each with the Baltimore Ravens and Las Vegas Raiders.
The new president of football operations continued in his defiance toward critics of the Brady hiring, according to Dunne.
“I would love for everyone to cheer every move, but it’s not about winning the press conference. It’s about winning games over there,” Beane said, adding that if he turns out to be wrong in his decision, “I’ll f****** take my job and f****** go home.”
Beane also said of Bills fans, “If we win, they’ll love it. It’s the same thing I said when I took Josh Allen. If I’m wrong, the moving company will be at my house.”
BuffaLowDown writer Scott Rogust agreed with Beane’s self-assessment, in an analysis published Monday.
“Given how the season ended, the decision to hire McDermott’s replacement in-house will only make frustrated fans angrier if it doesn’t pan out,” the BuffaLowDown scribe predicted.
Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin
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