The arrival of new coaching and the development of young players will define if the Bill's defense can elevate in 2026.

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What's up, Bill's Mafia? It's Joe Marino. On today's episode, we're breaking down pathways

for the Buffalo Bills defense to improve in 2026.

And there are so many different things that we have to discuss,

including the infusion of young talent.

But I want to start with the coaching element.

Obviously, the bills made a huge, huge, huge decision to move on from Sean McDermott, who had an outstanding run as the

head coach of the Buffalo Bills. But unfortunately, as a defensive-minded head coach,

it's tough to have the lack of playoff success defensively

that has really spoiled these runs put together by Josh Allen.

And that's where you start the conversation.

It is a situation that has been studied and observed,

and the powers that be said, we can't continue with Sean McDermott as this team's head coach,

especially since this is a defensive-minded head coach that can't get his side of the ball right when it matters most.

I'll bring up the numbers that I think everyone knows at this point.

Ty Dunn has done a good job of emphasizing these.

But when you go back to the bill's last six playoff losses since 2020,

so we're not talking about the Jacksonville playoff loss,

where we're happy to be there.

We broke the drought.

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