I think that all the “fire McDermott” trope is very knee jerk and shows that we aren’t the fan base I thought we were. The Bills have been exciting to watch and a top tier team for the past few years. All of that was under Sean McDermott. So, let’s take a damn breath and stop making the dream of a Super Bowl win more important than the team and the culture that has been (mostly successfully) built. I have read so much crap here and elsewhere about firing McDermott, benching Allen, dumping any number of expensive players and this whole cacophony of bullshit is about a bunch of people who are so fixated on a trophy that they seem to have forgotten why and how they’ve enjoyed being fans of this team for years when they were awful. Being a Bills fan is about being a scrappy underdog in a city that shouldn’t have an NFL team on paper. It’s about sitting in rain and snow, tailgating in conditions that would have lesser fans staying under a blanket in their living rooms. It’s about being a family, a community that comes together when things are tough and being at our best through it. Something had to be done, no doubt. It was done. Sean McDermott had to fire one of his best friends. It probably tore a hole through him. Maybe, just maybe, we ought to try and pick the man and the team up, brush him off, and cheer him on to whatever end comes to this season. Football is great entertainment. It’s about friends and family and spending some Sundays away from reality. When you start to quantity your enjoyment around a win at all costs mentality, you start to play into the vary money ball bullshit that would have seen our team moved to another city years ago. Right now we still have a salvageable season, a stud QB, great talent on both sides of the ball, a coach that helped put it all together, and a gleaming new stadium being constructed. The window is not closed because there isn’t a fucking window with this team.