The Buffalo Bills have named Sean McDermott as their new head coach, the 20th in team history.
Owner Terry Pegula says he believes the bills have hired a “smart, determined and hard-working head coach who has been training for many years to achieve this goal.”
The 42-year-old McDermott has been the Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator since 2011. In four of those six seasons, the Panthers finished in the top-10 defensively. Before that, McDermott spent a little over a decade with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he worked his way up from administrative coordinator in the scouting department to defensive coordinator in 2009.
Joe Person, the Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer says that McDermott is very organized, almost the polar opposite from former Head Coach Rex Ryan.