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Was Sean McDermott really Buffalo's problem? There's plenty of blame to go around for its playoff woes

playAdam Schefter: Bills fire Sean McDermott (1:34)Adam Schefter reports on the Bills' decision to fire Sean McDermott after nine seasons. (1:34)Ben SolakJan 20, 2026, 06:40 AM ETCloseBen Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network. EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsThe point of NFL football is to win Super Bowls, and there is one path to winning them -- fielding a good team.

Was Sean McDermott really Buffalo's problem? There's plenty of blame to go around for its playoff woes

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Key Highlights

  • No bad team in NFL history has ever won the Super Bowl.
  • Of course, there's more than one good team in football every season, so luck and injuries and razor-thin edges get involved down the stretch.
  • But in general, you have to field a good team to win a Super Bowl. For the past seven seasons as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott fielded a good team.
  • The Bills won at least 10 games in all seven of those seasons, making them only the sixth team in the Super Bowl era to string together seven-plus seasons of double-digit wins.
  • The Bills also made the playoffs in all seven of those seasons, and in the past six, they won at least one playoff game.
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