The Buffalo Bills have had a heck of a bye week.
The season hasn’t gone well overall. The Bills are 6-6 and are on the outside looking in at the AFC playoff picture. Making matters worse is a tough matchup on the road next against the Kansas City Chiefs (8-4).
On top of all that, star player Von Miller was arrested only days into their week off.
But the hits did not stop there. A feature on Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott by Tyler Dunne was released at GoLongTD.com. It did not paint McDermott in the best of lights.
Part one of the three-part series–which is based on 25 sources, some of whom remained anonymous–is titled “Blame Game.” Mentioned in initial section are critics of the coach.
“He’s a fraud and he’s a finger pointer,” one person noted.
Another source noted that McDermott “never takes accountability. For anything.”
One source said that “you’re fighting against the head coach” when working on the Bills coaching staff.
It is worth noting that in the piece there are sources positive of McDermott’s leadership style.
But the oddest of parts notes how McDermott used a reference to the Sept. 11 attacks during a team meeting. According to the piece, McDermott asked, “What tactics do you think [the terrorists] used to come together?”
“I don’t know why he’s that awkward but his social skills are lacking,” an anonymous player told Dunne. “Maybe he’s just wound-up thinking about ball. You’ve got to talk to the team every day. That’s one where maybe he heard it on a podcast. Next episode! That’s not the one to lead with. He was trying to bring the team together. It was a horrible, horrible reference. He missed the mark.”
The full feature can be found at Go Long (subscribe here).
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