Sean McDermott may not have been able to help get the Buffalo Bills to the Super Bowl before he was fired following the 2025 season, but he absolutely sees them getting there in the first year without him.
McDermott made an appearance on the Rich Eisen show on Friday and not only spoke glowingly of the team’s moves this offseason, but also said he expects to see them in the Super Bowl.
Former Bills HC Sean McDermott sees team in Super Bowl this season
After talking about why the Bills should be considered one of the favorites reach the Super Bowl out of the AFC, Eisen put McDermott on the spot and asked for a prediction.
McDermott put the Bills in there against the Los Angeles Rams, while also showing he has no hard feelings about being fired and is still happy to see his former team do well.
“It’ll be Bills-Rams,” McDermott said. “It’d be a great Super Bowl. Those Rams. Listen, people ask me all the time, ‘Hey, do you still root for your old team?’ And I said, ‘Why wouldn’t I?’ Right? Of course I do. I mean, the impact that you want to have as a head coach on a team and a community, that’s one thing. But, man oh man, the impact that that team, that building, and that community had on me and my family, we’ll remember that for the rest of our lives, Rich, and that’s part of sports, right? The wins and the losses are important, but it’s, like, the impact you leave, or that is left on people and the fan base and them on you, and that’s the real part of sports.”
McDermott coached the Bills for nine years between the 2017 and 2025 seasons, compiling a 98-50 regular season record, while making the playoffs eight times. Seven of those postseason appearances resulted in the Bills winning at least one game, while also reaching two AFC Championship games.
While that is an objectively successful run, the expectation with a quarterback like Josh Allen was always going to be the Super Bowl, and the Bills kept falling just short.
Their 2025 season came to a frustrating end in overtime against the Denver Broncos, in a game where Allen played one of his sloppiest and most mistake-filled games ever.
The Bills replaced McDermott with former offensive coordinator Joe Brady.
On one hand, the Bills have clearly set a standard they believe they should be reaching, and after nearly a decade determined that McDermott was not going to be the coach to get them there.
But there is also a risk in moving on from a head coach that you know is good, and that you know is successful. Especially for a completely unproven head coach that has never had the top job on any team.
Buffalo seems ready to take that risk and roll those dice.
Along with the coaching change, the Bills also made a couple of significant player moves by adding wide receiver DJ Moore and signing pass-rusher Bradley Chubb.
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