‘McDermott was painfully transparent in his rookie year as coach about how he wanted his own man at the position. The Tyrod Taylor midseason benching fiasco put the Bills in position to miss the playoffs, and he and the team finally cut ties in the offseason with the trade of Taylor to the Browns. The Bills didn’t bite during the free-agency frenzy over Kirk Cousins and Case Keenum, settling on AJ McCarron to “compete” for the job in camp.’