reported to be interviewing<\/a> in Florida on Friday for Buffalo\u2019s head coaching opening.<\/p>\nBut instead of meeting with co-owner Terry Pegula, president of football operations\/general manager Brandon Beane and the rest of Buffalo\u2019s front office brass, McDaniel decided to cancel his interview, according to a team source.<\/p>\n
It was reported that McDaniel and One Bills Drive \u201c\u201cremain in contact for a potential interview,\u201d per Jordan Schultz.<\/p>\n
After backing out of his scheduled Bills interview, McDaniel is expected to become the Los Angeles Chargers\u2019 next offensive coordinator, if he does not land any of the other five head coaching vacancies, according to reporting from The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini.<\/p>\n
Teaming Allen with McDaniel, who had instant success in South Beach transforming quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and the Dolphins into one of the NFL\u2019s most explosive and innovative offenses, would have made a lot of sense for Buffalo\u2019s next head coach. McDaniel went 35-33 with a pair of playoff appearances in four seasons leading the Dolphins, including a 34-31 loss to the Bills in the Wild Card round of the 2022 NFL season, his first with Miami.<\/p>\n
But McDaniel failed to replicate the offensive success from his first two seasons and was dismissed by the Dolphins after going 15-19 in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
The team has already conducted<\/a> two interviews with offensive-minded head coaching candidates \u2014 current offensive coordinator Joe Brady and former New York Giants head coach\/former Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll \u2014 and has an interview scheduled today with current Washington Commanders run game coordinator Anthony Lynn, and on Sunday with current Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been rumored that the Buffalo Bills are searching for an offensive-minded head coach to succeed Sean McDermott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,98775,2090,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-704105","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-buffalo-bills-coaching-staff","12":"tag-buffalo-bills-news","13":"tag-buffalobills","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115956280581107409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704105","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=704105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}