Sean McDermott was a 24-year old scouting coordinator with the Eagles in 1999, the Bills' last playoff appearance.
Seventeen seasons later, Buffalo is still trying to return to the postseason and McDermott, in his first head-coaching stop, is the man tasked with ending the NFL's longest playoff drought.
McDermott, the ex-Panthers' defensive coordinator, has agreed to become the Bills' coach, the Buffalo News' Vic Carucci reports. Wednesday, McDermott, one of four Bills' candidates to interview for the opening created by Rex Ryan's firing in Week 17, had a second interview with the Pegula family Wednesday, according to Carucci, to seal the deal.