{"id":806657,"date":"2026-08-08T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:10:09","slug":"josh-allen-still-feels-guilty-about-sean-mcdermotts-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806657\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Allen still feels guilty about Sean McDermott&#8217;s firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of 10 head-coaching vacancies in the 2026 cycle arose when the Bills surprisingly fired Sean McDermott after a divisional-round overtime loss to the Broncos. Quarterback Josh Allen, who was heavily involved in the search for McDermott\u2019s successor, still feels guilty about McDermott\u2019s demise, seven months later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7497190\/2026\/08\/07\/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-2026-expectations\/?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.fho8._YWUtWvgVbQk&amp;source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&amp;smid=url-share-ta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I think about that all the time<\/a>,\u201d Allen told Mike Silver of The Athletic. \u201cThere are certain plays throughout the game \u2014 and that\u2019s going to be every game \u2014 where you\u2019re like, \u2018I could have done more.\u2019 And I always feel like I can do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen had four turnovers in the 33-30 loss at Denver.<\/p>\n<p>If the Bills had returned to the AFC Championship and won, McDermott would still be there. Even if the Bills had lost in the AFC title game, advancing to the final four likely would have been enough to keep it from being McDermott\u2019s final season.<\/p>\n<p>The end result \u2014 a pink slip for McDermott and promotions for G.M. Brandon Beane and offensive coordinator Joe Brady \u2014 sends mixed signals to the Bills Mafia. And it puts even more pressure on Allen and the rest of the organization to finish the job of getting back to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1993, and winning it for the first time ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last of 10 head-coaching vacancies in the 2026 cycle arose when the Bills surprisingly fired Sean McDermott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-806657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}