{"id":92929,"date":"2020-08-12T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=92929"},"modified":"2020-08-12T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:50:24","slug":"sean-mcdermott-signs-multi-year-extension-with-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2020\/08\/12\/sean-mcdermott-signs-multi-year-extension-with-buffalo-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McDermott Signs Multi-Year Extension With Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sean McDermott<\/strong> is locked in as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bills\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> future.<\/p>\n<p>The team signed the soon-to-be fourth-year head coach to a multi-year extension on Wednesday. According to ESPN&#8217;s <strong>Adam Schefter<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a six-year deal that will keep him at One Bills Drive until the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: Bills gave HC Sean McDermott a six-year contract extension, tying him to Buffalo through the 2025 season, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1293599346219454464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Buffalo Bills Sign Head Coach Sean McDermott to Multi-Year Extension<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Sean&#8217;s leadership on and off the field has been nothing but genuine and transparent, qualities we appreciate as owners,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloBillsPR\/status\/1293593135499677698?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terry and Kim Pegula said in a team statement<\/a>. &#8220;He is the same great person to us, the players, and everyone across all our organizations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To date, McDermott&#8217;s tenure as Bills head coach has lasted three seasons. In two of those have Buffalo made the playoffs. It included a 9-7 campaign in his first year at the helm that saw the team end a postseason drought that began after the 1999 regular season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Bills took it a step further by finishing the regular season with a 10-6 record, finishing second in the AFC East, and garnering the five-seed in the playoffs. They did so with a formidable defense that allowed just 16.2 points per game, the second-lowest total in the league behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a>. It was a testament to McDermott&#8217;s quality as a coach given his experience as defensive coordinator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/panthers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> prior to his arrival in Western New York.<\/p>\n<p>The team also got improved play from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=AlleJo02,AlleJo03,AlleJo00&amp;search=Josh+Allen&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Allen<\/a><\/strong>, a promising development for a franchise that&#8217;s lacked a true franchise quarterback since <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=KellJi00,KellJi02,KellJi01&amp;search=Jim+Kelly&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Kelly<\/a><\/strong>. He doubled his touchdown pass output from 10 to 20 while also reducing his interception count from 12 to nine. And he continued to impress on the ground as he registered nine rushing touchdowns which not only led all quarterbacks but were eighth-best overall in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is getting a dynamic receiving weapon in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DiggSt00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stefon Diggs<\/a><\/strong> who Buffalo acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/2020\/03\/16\/stefon-diggs-traded-to-buffalo-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via trade<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/vikings\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in the off-season. Combined with the notion that the defense should remain one of the league&#8217;s best units, it appears that this is a franchise on the rise in the AFC. And locking up McDermott gives the team some coaching stability they&#8217;ve really not enjoyed since the <strong>Marv Levy<\/strong> era.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"kk0a8ZaRRwtNCgriYfts7A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1188987926\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'kk0a8ZaRRwtNCgriYfts7A',sig:'tLmmv6kUlQ7ajkuqh8U2xnLYzJQkMK2Zjdz8yYyPuRM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1188987926',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leading the Buffalo Bills to the playoffs in two of his first three seasons as head coach, Sean McDermott signed a long-term extension with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":92933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-bills"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}