Bills FIRE McDermott & Broncos Scramble to Replace Nix
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Conor Orr and Albert Breer break down the Buffalo Bills firing Sean McDermott after their playoff loss to the Broncos, who the Bills might replace him with in a highly coveted role, and where the winning coach may end up next. We also break down Jarrett Stidham taking over at QB for the Broncos after losing Bo Nix to an ankle injury, and what to expect from the Seahawks against the Rams
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the MNQB NFL podcast. I'm Connoor. That's Albert Breer. New locale for me today, |
| 0:11.8 | Albert, in the attic of my in-laws house. So you can podcast anywhere, as they say. Back to cover |
| 0:18.7 | what has been just a coaching carousel of nonstop chaos. |
| 0:23.8 | Sean McDermott let go this morning, hence a little bit of a late time getting going for Albert and I. |
| 0:28.9 | We had to make some calls, write some stuff. |
| 0:30.6 | You can check it out all at s.com. |
| 0:33.6 | I will say this, Albert, and let's get going with McDermott. |
| 0:36.8 | This is 1A and 1 in terms of best jobs available with Baltimore being the other one. |
| 0:43.9 | The chance to coach Josh Allen is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a head coach. |
| 0:48.7 | And while I think anybody who watched that Bill's game maybe had this on their radar, |
| 0:53.6 | I can say with a pretty good deal of |
| 0:55.8 | confidence that this surprised the heck out of Sean McDermott. I don't think he saw this coming. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah. So I would say, you know, like, and my feeling on it, like, all along has been that |
| 1:10.5 | there are people internally that were feeling the pressure. |
| 1:13.9 | And I think you saw that spill out after the game on Saturday with Josh Allen's emotion, |
| 1:19.2 | with Sean McDermott's anger. |
| 1:21.2 | I think there was just like a sort of release of all that pressure that they had been under. |
| 1:26.2 | I think there was a tremendous amount of pressure on them to win the game against the Jaguars. |
| 1:30.2 | And clearly, like, I don't think that they let that go going into the Denver game. |
| 1:35.9 | And so I don't think there was a ton of internal discussion about doing this before this morning. |
| 1:45.6 | But, you know, I do know that the climate in that building had been a little bit |
| 1:51.8 | different over the last couple of months. |
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