{"id":692428,"date":"2026-01-21T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692428\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:31:28","slug":"sean-mcdermott-thanked-by-bills-with-tribute-video-after-9-year-hc-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692428\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McDermott Thanked by Bills With Tribute Video After 9-Year HC Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Buffalo Bills thanked head coach Sean McDermott in a tribute video on Monday following his firing after the team&#8217;s 33-30 loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;For nearly a decade I have had the opportunity to wake up every morning as the Head Coach of the Buffalo Bills, which has truly been a gift,&#8221; McDermott said, in part, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47660266\/source-bills-fire-coach-sean-mcdermott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in his own statement<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230; I am proud and humbled to have worked alongside amazing staff and players as we shared life together and poured out our hearts and souls into both winning football games and making a positive impact in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 51-year-old led the Bills to a 98-50 record in his nine seasons, making eight playoff appearances. Buffalo never reached the Super Bowl during his tenure, however, likely the primary impetus for his removal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills thanked head coach Sean McDermott in a tribute video on Monday following his firing after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-692428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115930273282497884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}