DFW's Anthony Lynn, a former Cowboys and Bills aide, could return to Buffalo as their next head coach after McDermott's firing.
FRISCO - The Buffalo Bills fired Sean McDermott on Monday morning and now the search is on for a successor ... and DFW's own Anthony Lynn is on the list of interviewees.
Lynn is a native of McKinney who starred at Celina High School and then at Texas Tech before an NFL playing career at running back from 1992 to 1989.
He is reportedly set to interview on Saturday.
His coaching career includes stints as the running backs coach for his hometown Dallas Cowboys, as the head coach of the Chargers and in 2016, as the interim head coach of these same Bills.
In fact, Lynn was a finalist for the Buffalo head coaching job in 2017 that went to none other than McDermott.Lynn, 57 - who still maintains a home in the DFW area - is presently the Washington Commanders run-game coordinator and running backs coach.
Logic says the Bills fired McDermott with a plan, with a great deal of speculation centering on the team hiring an offensive-minded coach (which Lynn is) ...
And maybe on a Josh Allen-friendly coach, which is why Brian Daboll (former Bills coordinator recently fired as the New York Giants head coach), Joe Brady (the Bills offensive coordinator who presently works with Allen) and Davis Webb (the Denver Broncos assistant who is a former Allen teammate) are among the hottest names on their wish list.
Other top candidates for head coaching vacancies right now include Minnesota's Brian Flores and Cleveland's Jim Schwartz.
Lynn played in Lubbock from 1988 to 1991, and he was an All-Southwest Conference running back in 1990. The 6-3, 230-pounder then advanced to the NFL as an undrafted free agent and ended up winning two Super Bowl rings as a member of the Denver Broncos.