Bills general manager Brandon Beane and Buffalo’s players are defending head coach Sean McDermott following a report that stated he once referenced the 9/11 hijackers as an example of teamwork.
Beane told reporters Friday:
“Everyone is 100% behind Sean. … Everyone is truly focused, it’s been a good week of practice, I know we’ve had a couple hiccups here that we’ve had to deal with off the field, but out there, you wouldn’t know it. I was out there for every bit of that practice. And just to watch that and see it. The guys are going to rally. There’s two things you can do. You can divide, or you can rally. And I expect this team to rally.”
NFL insider Tyler Dunne (h/t Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk), citing sources, wrote in a report on Thursday that during training camp in 2019, McDermott used the 9/11 hijackers as an example of how the players can come together and work as a team.
McDermott “cited the [9/11] hijackers as a group of people who were all able to get on the same page to orchestrate at