Bills HC Sean McDermott: 'Narrow-minded' to say Buffalo hasn't had success without Super Bowl win

Over the last few years, the Bills have gone from a perennial struggling team to the kings of the AFC East under head coach Sean McDermott, winning the division the last four years and going to the playoffs in six of the last seven seasons.

The 2023 season proved especially challenging early on for Buffalo, with the team going through a stretch of games midseason characterized by inconsistent play, culminating in a mid-season firing of offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey. But after quarterbacks coach Joe Brady took over as interim OC, the Bills seemed to come to life, winning six of their final seven games and defeating the Dolphins in Week 18 to secure another divisional crown and a playoff berth.

"It wasn't a surprise. Those moves, those staff changes are always tough, they're not fun in any way, shape or form, but I was not surprised by how our team responded, I wasn't," McDermott said in an interview with NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero at the Annual League Meeting on Sunday. "And so I think it says a lot about the character of the people in our building, and again a successful season, to be able to regroup and get done what we got done.

"But we're all still with one eye on the world championship, that's what drives us every morning when we get up."

Though the Bills have found success in the regular season, that final barrier of winning a Lombardi has remained elusive for the franchise, with postseason disappointment coming each year.

A good amount of scrutiny around these struggles has been focused on quarterback Josh Allen, who has helped turn things around in Buffalo behind his dangerous dual-threat abilities, but has also struggled at times, namely with turnovers, which have plagued him over the last two seasons (32