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McDermott Out in Buffalo

NFL Live

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3.7588 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today on NFL Live, Laura Rutledge is joined by Dan Orlovsky, Marcus Spears, Mina Kimes, and Ryan Clark; but first, Adam Schefter has breaking news as Sean McDermott has been fired as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. What does that mean for the future of the franchise and their MVP-winning quarterback Josh Allen; the crew breaks it all down. They also react to a wild Divisional Round in the NFC, as Caleb Williams and the Bears came up just short against the Los Angeles Rams. What went wrong for Chicago that kept them out of the championship game. Plus fallout from the Broncos losing star quarterback Bo Nix for the remainder of their postseason run, and a look ahead at what Seattle brings into the NFC title game. All that and much more on this episode of NFL Live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some major breaking news in the NFL today is the bills have fired head coach Sean McDermott.

0:08.9

Adam Schaefter with us all show.

0:10.3

Adam, what do we know about the decision in Buffalo?

0:14.6

Laura, when the Buffalo bills lost on Saturday to Denver Broncos, that sealed Shaw McDermick's fate in Buffalo.

0:21.8

He was unable to get this team to a Super Bowl, and that essentially was his undoing in the end.

0:28.6

We could look at a variety of factors as to why this team moved in a different direction,

0:32.8

but they are squandering the prime years of Josh Allen's career, not being able to get him to a Super Bowl.

0:39.3

And not being able to get him to a Super Bowl this year when there was no Patrick Mahomes, no Lamar Jackson, no Joe Burrow.

0:46.4

Josh Allen, with him as the quarterback, they lost once in the Wild Card round, four times in the divisional round, twice in the AFC championship game, never getting to the Super Bowl.

0:57.4

And people around the league felt like this was a team that played tight in

1:01.4

moments that mattered.

1:02.8

I think it goes back to when they lost that game in Kansas City in the final

1:06.7

13 seconds.

1:07.7

The team seemed to play tighter after that.

1:10.1

And now here we are in a season where a team

1:13.0

in their division is playing to go to the Super Bowl on Sunday. The New England Patriots may get

1:18.7

back to the Super Bowl before the bills can get there with Drake May having replaced Tom Brady.

1:23.8

And ultimately, Buffalo felt like it needed to do something to try to get to the next step.

1:28.0

And they fired Shaw McDermott and they promoted their general manager, Brandon Bean, to the president of football operations along with his GM title.

1:36.8

Yeah, Brandon Bean, of course, gets the promotion.

1:39.0

As you just said, Sean McDermott has to find a new job.

1:41.8

We'll get into all of this throughout this show and Adam with us for the next hour with a lot more context on this and other things. Now this season, the bills became the fourth different team in the Super Bowl era. To win a playoff game in at least six straight seasons, the first three teams to do so, that was the mid-90s Cowboys. Brady-era Patriots that Adam brought up in the Mahomes-era Chiefs all won at least three Super Bowl titles during their reigns. Buffalo not even made it to a Super Bowl during their run. When you see those numbers, it does make this make maybe a little bit more sense, although I will say this shocked a lot of us as we welcome you to the show. Marcus and Dan here, Mina and RC. We've RC we got a lot to get to Marcus was this in your mind the right move for

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