Sean McDermott was fired as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills on Monday morning and for those football precincts like our own that have seen a parallel green and blue processions of slapstick acts camouflaged as football coaches the last few hours of forever, that feels very odd.
McDermott has a career record of 98-50 in nine seasons as the Bills coach. If you’d like a comical point of comparison, you need to go back to Oct. 2, 2011 — 98 Giants regular season wins ago. If you’d like an hysterical point of reference you need to backtrack to Dec. 27, 2009 to get there for the Jets.
More interestingly, in Buffalo itself this is a move that has caused that loyal fan base to mostly range from baffled to furious. The top sports radio station there conducted an informal poll and 92 percent blamed the Bills’ inability to make or win a Super Bowl in those nine years on GM Brandon Beane, while only 8 percent blamed McDermott.
But it was McDermott who was pink-slipped Monday.
