Sean McDermott’s first season with the Buffalo Bills saw the team end the league’s then-longest playoff drought.

It wasn’t always pretty as Buffalo had their fair share of blowout losses, but the Bills ended their first year at 9-7 and entered the playoffs as one of the AFC’s Wild Card teams.

McDermott’s second season wasn’t as successful from a win-loss perspective, but the overhauled roster won six games despite starting four different quarterbacks. Buffalo leaned on their defense in McDermott’s second year, but the offense will be asked to pick up the slack after the team surrounded second-year quarterback Josh Allen with plenty of talent and protection this offseason.

A 15-17 record heading into year three may not seem impressive, but CBS Sports believes McDermott has done a terrific coaching job thus far in Buffalo. Just how good does CBS Sports consider McDermott? He landed at No. 9 on the site’s top-10 head coach list ahead of Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The list was made after 10 CBS Sports editors and writers submitted ballots of their best head coaches. Once the rankings were set, Jared Dubin wrote about the top-10 coaches. Here is what he said about McDermott.

9. Sean McDermott, Bills

The Bills are just 15-17 in two seasons under McDermott, but he earned a lot of respect around the league for coaxing a 10-6 campaign out of a subpar roster in 2017. The Bills’ offense took a step backward last year amid a massive personnel overhaul and quarterbacking done by rookie Josh Allen and injury replacements, but the defense showed significant strides, and that’s the side of the ball McDermott calls home.

The blurb incorrectly states that Buffalo went 10-6 in 2017, but is correct in noting that McDermott has earned a lot of praise for the job he’s done in Buffalo. With an overhauled offense, a potential top-10 defense and a much-improved special teams unit to work with in 2019, expectations should be raised for McDermott and the Bills.