Super Bowl champion coach slams Bills for firing Sean McDermott after crushing playoff loss

The Buffalo Bills’ determination to occurrence caput manager Sean McDermott aft an overtime nonaccomplishment to the Denver Broncos successful the playoffs drew rebuke from a Super Bowl champion.

Bruce Arians, who guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl rubric during the 2020 season, ripped the Bills’ enactment for the determination connected Tuesday.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers manager Bruce Arians during the NFL Combine astatine the Indiana Convention Center connected May 1, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

"This 1 baffles me," Arians said connected "The Pat McAfee Show." "How Brandon Beane got elevated and Sean McDermott got fired, that conscionable blows my mind, due to the fact that they didn't person immoderate damn players.

"The feline is 1 of the champion coaches successful the league and a large person of men. He’s taken that squad arsenic adjacent arsenic you could get – couldn’t bushed (Patrick) Mahomes. He didn’t propulsion immoderate damn interceptions and the referees screwed him atrocious and helium gets fired. I mean, travel connected man. And Brandon Beane gets a f---ing raise? I don’t get that one. That 1 blows my mind."

The Bills failed to get backmost to the AFC Championship Game aft losing to the Broncos successful overtime, pursuing a controversial interception call. The decision marked different crushing stroke to McDermott’s tenure arsenic the Bills’ caput coach.

Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott during overtime of an AFC Divisional Round playoff crippled astatine Empower Field against the Denver Broncos astatine Mile High connected Jan. 17, 2026. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

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McDermott took the occupation earlier the commencement of the 2017 season. Buffalo lone finished nether .500 erstwhile since then. He helped usher the Bills to the playoffs successful 8 of the 9 seasons. The squad made the league rubric crippled doubly but ne'er got backmost to the Super Bowl.

NFL fans had assurance that the Bills could person been Super Bowl contenders going into the 2025 season. The Bills’ likelihood got amended erstwhile their nemesis, Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, was mislaid for the play with a genu injury.

Buffalo fell abbreviated of winning the AFC East – falling to the New England Patriots. They made the playoffs via the chaotic paper and defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars by 3 points. But the nonaccomplishment to the Broncos yet doomed McDermott’s tenure arsenic caput coach.

Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott against the Kansas City Chiefs during the AFC Championship crippled astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Jan. 26, 2025.  (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

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McDermott was 98-50 arsenic the Bills’ caput coach. He was 8-8 successful the playoffs and lone missed retired connected the postseason once.

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