On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by special guest Tyler Dunne of Go Long to discuss several Buffalo Bills topics, including some of the biggest reasons why this was the right time for the organization to move on from now former head coach Sean McDermott.
It’s been a mess at One Bills Drive since Monday morning when the Bills fired Sean McDermott. From the icy statement towards McDermott with the inexcusable “admiral” typo to radio silence from the team and social media for well over 24 hours before giving McDermott the respect and proper sendoff he deserved. Of course that was nothing compared to the bizzaro press conference on Wednesday with Terry Pegula and Brandon Beane that left many locals shaking their heads and the national media bashing the organization. However, while the messaging sent out by the team this week was amateurish if not bush league, the move itself was perfectly justifiable if not already overdue. There’s a very reasonable case that McDermott deserved the fate he got.
One of the best long form and feature story sports writers in the business, Tyler has been on the Bills peaks and valleys with McDermott regularly for the past several years. A polarizing figure among BillsMafia because of several Bills articles, one 2023 series specifically on McDermott, Tyler rightfully stands by everything he’s written and while a lot of fans and especially a lot of the ardent McDermott supports don’t like it, it’s hard to argue that a lot of what Dunne’s been saying and has said isn’t right.
Tyler goes over a handful of reasons that despite this week’s blunders in message handling, that it was the right time to move into a new direction and that the move shouldn’t really be as shocking as many have made it out to be. They talk about what McDermott did right and wrong, Brandon Beane’s promotion, Keon Coleman catching strays, Tyler’s latest state of the Bills piece that just dropped on Go Long and tons more. You can read all the content at Go Long by subscribing via Substack. You can follow Tyler on Twitter @TyDunne.
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