Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - No matter how you feel about the firing of Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott, longtime Buffalo sports anchor and reporter Howard Simon offered this during an appearance with WBEN on Thursday.
"I'm not sure what they could have done to win over people at the press conference (between Terry Pegula and Brandon Beane). That's not something that I thought they could pull off. People either felt a little bit better or slightly worse," he said.
There's no gray area with Simon. He said, personally, he would not have fired McDermott.
"I would have fired Brandon Beane and kept the head coach, and fired the offensive coordinator. That said, I don't walk away from yesterday's press conference thinking that we're heading into another era of the dysfunctional Bills, which was largely the case over the 17-year drought before Sean McDermott got here."
Coaching candidates
Of all of the coaching candidate names that have been floating out there, Is there a wow candidate for Simon?
"No, not really. I would prefer an offensive minded head coach because I think they need to bring some creativity and explosiveness back in the offense. I don't think we've seen all of the names. They can't talk to anyone from the four teams that are still playing. But if it was just those six (Brian Daboll, Joe Brady, Grant Udinski, Anthony Lynn, Lou Anarumo, Anthony Weaver), I would just make Brian Daboll the next head coach of the Buffalo Bills."
Simon feels the next level of success for the Bills is getting to the Super Bowl.
"The bar has been raised. This is not the Bills in the drought. This is not we're just happy to be in the playoffs. This is a team that is considered a Super Bowl contender and is considered among the elite teams in the AFC, and they have not reached the game," he said. "I think success right now is getting the franchise to the Super Bowl as soon as possible in the Josh Allen era."
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