NFL Confidential: Coaches Riled Up About Bills; Who Might Be Favorite for Job?

What in the world is going on with the Buffalo Bills? Who will be coaching Josh Allen next after Sean McDermott's dramatic firing as Bills head coach?

Those are the questions we're all wondering the answers to in the days after McDermott's dismissal as head coach in Buffalo despite leading the team to the postseason eight times in nine seasons. So, FOX Sports' Ralph Vacchiano and Eric D. Williams surveyed the league to get a grasp on what people think about the Bills' vacancy, and who might be a favorite to get the job.

We also asked executives what to make of the C.J. Stroud situation with the Houston Texans following his miserable performance in their divisional round loss to the New England Patriots. Here's what people around the league are saying about the Bills and Stroud. 

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Ralph Vacchiano: The firing of Sean McDermott in Buffalo didn’t come as a complete surprise. There had been rumblings about the possibility for weeks. But he now joins John Harbaugh as the second NFL coach fired this offseason despite a career winning percentage over .600.

And that fact has sent shockwaves through an NFL coaching community wondering, as one current assistant coach told me, if the expectations of owners have become "impossibly high."

"What are we even doing anymore?" the assistant said. "Do these owners think it’s easy to do what [Harbaugh and McDermott] did over the years? And [Matt] LaFleur was close to being fired [in Green Bay], too?

"I get that the Super Bowl is the ultimate goal, but these guys had teams competing for it every single year. That’s not easy to do."

Both coaches not only had gaudy records (Harbaugh was 180-113 in 18 seasons in Baltimore, while McDermott was 98-50 in nine years in Buffalo), but they also had