{"id":239738,"date":"2025-10-25T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239738\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:17:07","slug":"sean-mcdermott-is-8-0-after-bye-weeks-best-record-in-nfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239738\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McDermott is 8-0 after bye weeks, best record in NFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No coach gets his team ready to play after a bye like Bills head coach Sean McDermott.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are 8-0 after bye weeks with McDermott as head coach. No head coach in NFL history has that many wins after byes without a loss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s bad news for the Panthers, who host the Bills on Sunday after the Bills were off last week. McDermott says the bye week gives him more time to step away from preparing for the next opponent, and spend time analyzing his own team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s what we\u2019re doing well. Here\u2019s who\u2019s doing it well . . . then it\u2019s into where do we need to adjust,\u201d McDermott said, via the Bills\u2019 website. \u201cThere\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/news\/pulling-together-as-a-team-buffalo-bills-return-from-their-bye-with-determination-to-get-back-in-the-win-column\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">course corrections<\/a> through every season. So those that can make those adjustments play better, perform better and you go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are expected to keep their winning streak after byes going on Sunday, as they\u2019re 7.5-point favorites at Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No coach gets his team ready to play after a bye like Bills head coach Sean McDermott. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-239738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}