Rex Ryan pushes Bill Belichick as 'only guy' to replace fired Bills head coach Sean McDermott

The astonishing firing of Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott has led galore to speculate who volition instrumentality the occupation successful Western New York.

One erstwhile Bills person connected the sidelines knows who helium thinks should get the job. In fact, it’s the lone prosecute successful his eyes that makes sense.

Rex Ryan, who spent 2 years arsenic caput manager of the Bills, believes that this is the cleanable occupation for Bill Belichick to instrumentality to the NFL.

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ESPN Analyst Rex Ryan and Auctioneer Pat Tully assistance rise wealth onstage astatine the 5th Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala astatine the American Museum of Natural History connected Oct. 18, 2017 successful New York City.  (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

"Get the feline that has proven helium tin spell to the Super Bowl," Ryan said connected ESPN’s "Get Up."

"That’s the lone guy, successful my opinion, you regenerate Sean McDermott with."

Ryan knows each astir Belichick fixed his clip successful the AFC East coaching the Bills and New York Jets earlier that.

BILLS FIRE HEAD COACH SEAN MCDERMOTT

He adjacent added that Brian Daboll, who has been rumored arsenic a frontrunner for the caput manager position, should instrumentality to enactment successful his aged Buffalo relation arsenic violative coordinator nether Belichick.

Belichick, though, has been adamant that helium volition stay successful assemblage shot contempt a roller coaster archetypal play astatine Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels went 4-8, including 2-6 successful the ACC, this past season.

Belichick was antecedently linked to the New York Giants’ occupation aft Daboll was fired mid-season, but helium released a connection astir his committedness to UNC.

"I person large respect and genuinely attraction for the New York Giants organization and some the Mara and Tisch families," helium wrote successful November. "The New York Giants played an important relation successful my beingness and successful my coaching journey. 

North Carolina caput manager Bill Belichick directs his squad during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Charlotte successful Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025.  (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

"It was a privilege for maine to enactment for the Mara household and beryllium a subordinate of Coach Parcells unit for implicit a decade. However, contempt circulating rumors, I person not and volition not prosecute immoderate NFL caput coaching vacancies.

"Since arriving successful Chapel Hill, my committedness to the UNC Football programme has not [wavered]. We person tremendous enactment from the university, our alumni, and the full Carolina community. My absorption remains solely connected continuing to amended this team, make our players, and physique a programme that makes Tar Heel fans proud."

Would Belichick see the leap backmost to the NFL if it meant moving with 2024 NFL MVP Josh Allen successful Buffalo? It’s an charismatic occupation with a rabid instrumentality basal itching for that archetypal Super Bowl successful franchise history.

The Bills volition instantly statesman their caput manager search, arsenic GM Brandon Beane volition stay successful spot and pb the mode to uncovering the adjacent guy.

Head manager Bill Belichick of the North Carolina Tar Heels smiles during warmups anterior to their crippled against the Duke Blue Devils astatine Kenan Memorial Stadium connected Nov. 22, 2025 successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Jaylynn Nash/Getty Images)

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McDermott has been successful presumption to scope the Super Bowl successful caller seasons, but the Bills haven’t been capable to get past the likes of Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, losing to them doubly successful the AFC Championship Game successful 2020 and 2024.

Buffalo has made the playoffs successful the past 7 seasons, each of which nether McDermott. He leaves the Bills with a vocation coaching grounds of 98-50 from 2017-25.

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