Bills reportedly fire head coach Sean McDermott after 9 seasons of falling short of reaching Super Bowl

The Buffalo Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott on Monday after the team again failed to reach the Super Bowl in his nine seasons.

The move came after the Bills were eliminated in Saturday's heart-wrenching 33-30 overtime loss at Denver in the divisional round of the playoffs.

"Sean helped change the mindset of this organization and was instrumental in the Bills becoming a perennial playoff team," owner Terry Pegula said. "But I feel we are in need of a new structure within our leadership to give this organization the best opportunity to take our team to the next level."

As part of the new structure, Pegula announced he was promoting general manager Brandon Beane to president of football operations. Beane, who also is completing his ninth season in Buffalo, will oversee the coaching search.

The Bills went 12-5 in the regular season and saw their five-year run atop the AFC East end, finishing second behind the New England Patriots. Buffalo became the NFL's first team to win a playoff round in six consecutive years but not reach the Super Bowl.

McDermott's firing is the latest in what's become a seismic shift in the NFL's coaching ranks this off-season. He became the 10th head coach to lose his job, joining a respected group that includes Baltimore's John Harbaugh and Pittsburgh's Mike Tomlin. Harbaugh has since been hired by the New York Giants.

The 51-year-old McDermott finished with a 98-50 regular-season record and was 8-8 in the playoffs, ranking second on the team list in wins behind Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy (112-70, 11-8). Levy did so over 11 seasons during a tenure that included the Jim Kelly-led team reaching, and losing, four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s.

McDermott's failure to reach the Super