{"id":507060,"date":"2026-01-19T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507060"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:47:51","slug":"bills-dismiss-boss-sean-mcdermott-after-postseason-failures","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bills-dismiss-boss-sean-mcdermott-after-postseason-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills dismiss boss Sean McDermott after postseason failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills have sacked head coach Sean McDermott after another campaign that they failed to make it to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo GM Brandon Beane is being retained. He will be part of the process to select a new manager for the organization to lead Buffalo in its debut campaign in its new stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bills<\/a> are moving on from coach Sean McDermott after their loss in the divisional round to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Broncos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Broncos<\/a>, per The Insiders. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VhQGWwfa6s\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VhQGWwfa6s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2013254729200001520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team lost 33-30 against the Broncos in the AFC divisional round to cap another disappointing campaign. It was the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time in 5 years that Buffalo lost in the divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>Sean leaves the Bills with a 98-50 record, with an 8-8 mark in the playoffs, featuring 2 AFC championship defeats against the Chiefs. McDermott won 5 straight AFC East titles from 2020 to 2024, finishing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> behind the Patriots in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott could emerge as a head coaching candidate for other organizations in the league, as the manager already told his close friends that he wants to continue to coach in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat against Denver continued Buffalo\u2019s streak of not reaching the Super Bowl since losing 4 consecutive games from 1990 to 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills have sacked head coach Sean McDermott after another campaign that they failed to make it to the Super Bowl. Buffalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507061,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17370,20075],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18188,20076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Buffalo fired the head coach after 9 years.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507062,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507060\/revisions\/507062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507060"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507060"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}