The NFL coaching carousel has been at high speed this season, with a record-tying 10 firings of head coaches. Among those firings have been well-respected coaches who couldn’t survive the frustrations of their fanbases and ownership.
For example, ex-Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott was fired after nine years guiding the Bills’ rebuild alongside quarterback Josh Allen. But after another controversial early exit from the postseason, the Bills decided to move on.
McDermott is 98-50 as a head coach, and with four head-coaching jobs remaining, he would be a top candidate for a team looking to raise its standards. However, according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, McDermott hasn’t given any of the four remaining teams looking for a new leader a call.
“He would be one of the top candidates for basically any job around, if he wanted to take one. It remains unclear what Sean McDermott will firmly decide to do, but to my knowledge, he hasn’t engaged on any of these openings,” Rapoport explained.
“Based on the conversations he’s had with the people he’s talked with, who have taken a year off after a long head-coaching stint, all have said it was beneficial and worth it. We’ll see if that is the way Sean McDermott goes, but I believe it is likely he ends up taking a year off.”
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