Speaker 1: Finding the way. I'm no way every week, Kolo Buffalo Bill,
Speaker 1: no overthinking. All right, go play football. We'll play some football.
Speaker 1: Exciting time to be a Buffalo build of the fan
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Welcome into Week eight of the
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott Show, presented by Connors and Ferris, your workers
Speaker 1: comp attorneys. I'm Steve Tasker and as always I'm joined
Speaker 1: by Sean McDermott, coach. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Your bye week came earlier in this season that it
Speaker 1: did last year, but similar last year, your first place
Speaker 1: in the division, but you're coming off a tough loss.
Speaker 1: What was your message to your team headed into the bye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was really just to try and take
Speaker 1: where we're at, learn from the experiences we've had this season,
Speaker 1: and then also try and get some rest. Never want
Speaker 1: to go into the bye with a loss. But having
Speaker 1: said that, there's a lot of lessons that can be
Speaker 1: learned that can help us as we moved forward through
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Now we're looking back at
Speaker 1: your first six weeks of the season. You're sitting at
Speaker 1: four and two, You've got a couple of shutouts under
Speaker 1: your belt. How's your team overall performance compared to the
Speaker 1: expectations you had for them leading up to this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, really it's just about us growing
Speaker 1: as a football team every week, and we certainly understand
Speaker 1: the expectations, and no one has higher expectations and we
Speaker 1: have of ourselves, And it's really us growing every week
Speaker 1: as a football team, getting better every week, knowing that
Speaker 1: each week is a new challenge and that we're circling
Speaker 1: on everyone's schedule, which is the result of our sustained
Speaker 1: success to this point. So that's what we want. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Josh is coming off back to back games which
Speaker 1: he had over three hundred yards three touchdowns, and against
Speaker 1: the Titans he became the only quarterback in NFL history
Speaker 1: to have eight or more passing tds and twenty five
Speaker 1: or more rushing tds in his first fifty games. He
Speaker 1: also set career highs with thirty five completions in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: How have you seen him improved throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this season in particular, Well, it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I thought we got off to a little bit of
Speaker 1: a slow start in that first game at home against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Since then, Josh has really played really good football. You
Speaker 1: watch what he did in Kansas City, you watch what
Speaker 1: he did this past week previous to the buy in
Speaker 1: Tennessee against two good defenses, and I think he continues
Speaker 1: to show why he is who he is. Well, your
Speaker 1: offense has been rolling, with over four hundred total yards
Speaker 1: in four straight games. That's the first time in franchise history.
Speaker 1: You also have one of the top scoring offenses in
Speaker 1: the league, putting up almost thirty four points per game.
Speaker 1: What part of your offense have you seen the biggest
Speaker 1: improvement from since last season. I really think that there's
Speaker 1: more of a balance involved since Week one, in particular
Speaker 1: in what we're doing, how we're going about running our offense.
Speaker 1: We're spreading the ball around. The profile of the offense
Speaker 1: has changed enough to allow us to be more productive
Speaker 1: and keep defenses off balance perhaps, And so I just
Speaker 1: I like what we've done. I like what Brian Davile
Speaker 1: has done. And then defensively and special teams as well,
Speaker 1: we've been able to get some takeaways, which has helped
Speaker 1: set our offense up scoring position. Also. Yeah, speaking to
Speaker 1: the defense, you still got the number one defense in
Speaker 1: almost every category. You're only allowing two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: yards per game, the fewest in the NFL. You've got
Speaker 1: the best turnover differentials, as you mentioned at plus eleven.
Speaker 1: You're coming off a tough futing against a tough Tennessee team.
Speaker 1: What's your defense need to do to maybe take it
Speaker 1: to another level? If there is one, Well, there is,
Speaker 1: and I believe it's playing more physical. That's where it
Speaker 1: really starts. If you want to be a good defense,
Speaker 1: it's got to start with the mentality and an attitude
Speaker 1: of physical football, and then fundamentally getting better using our hands,
Speaker 1: getting off blocks, and then playing better just at the
Speaker 1: point of attack. Over also some things we need to
Speaker 1: get better for sure. All right, So I don't want
Speaker 1: to jinx this thing, but you've never lost a game
Speaker 1: coming off the bye not since you've been a coach.
Speaker 1: Day coacher buffle, right, way to go? All right, I'm
Speaker 1: just calling I'm just I'm diffusing it right now. But
Speaker 1: last year, you want after coming out of the bye week,
Speaker 1: what do you think the key is to being successful
Speaker 1: coming off a week off? Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think if you spend the week the right way, the
Speaker 1: bye week, that is, you look objectively at what you're
Speaker 1: doing and which you could be doing better, and then
Speaker 1: you take those adjustments that we make as a staff
Speaker 1: into the meeting room with the players, and they're intentional
Speaker 1: about making those corrections. I think that's the start and
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. But as you know, Steve,
Speaker 1: every week, it's it's really hard to win in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and that's all we're trying to do. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know a lot was said last year after you
Speaker 1: lost a heartbreaker at Arizona headed into the buy, then
Speaker 1: he came out with a stronger team. Your players often
Speaker 1: talked about that as a turning point in the season.
Speaker 1: Can you kind of use that same thing after this
Speaker 1: Titans loss to turn your team in a better direction? Now, well,
Speaker 1: that's what losses should do. Either you either lose or
Speaker 1: you learn, and in this case, we certainly lost. But
Speaker 1: my hope is that we learned a lot from that loss,
Speaker 1: and whether it's defensively in this case, that we just
Speaker 1: talked about offense and special teams included for us overall,
Speaker 1: to become a better team with both your offense and
Speaker 1: defense among the best in the league, you must have
Speaker 1: guys playing integral roles who aren't always getting to know
Speaker 1: it a from the media or the fans. So in
Speaker 1: your opinion, is there anybody who's been your unsung hero
Speaker 1: six games into the season. Well, I really like what
Speaker 1: Star is done, and now he's been talked about, but
Speaker 1: not one of the call it newspaper names, if you
Speaker 1: will on the defensive side. On the offensive side, I
Speaker 1: think you turn it around and you look at what
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox has done. I'll be getting banged up the
Speaker 1: previous week here, and I think a lot also could
Speaker 1: be said about what our offensive line has done. In
Speaker 1: defensive line collectively. Yeah, there were some moments this past
Speaker 1: game where we could have played better, for sure, but
Speaker 1: I like how we're growing in those areas, hopefully with
Speaker 1: more room for improvement and more growth to be had yet. Thanks, Coach.
Speaker 1: Will catch up with you later in the show to
Speaker 1: get your final thoughts on your upcoming matchup with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you a little bit later. The
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Speaker 1: here this week's game preview The Bills are coming off
Speaker 1: their bye week and are set to face the Dolphins
Speaker 1: in Week eight. Buffalo is four and oh after a
Speaker 1: buye under head coach Sean McDermott and has the chance
Speaker 1: to sweep the Dolphins with the win. The Dolphins are
Speaker 1: searching for their second victory and haven't had a win
Speaker 1: since this season. Opener to a tongue of Vloa will
Speaker 1: play in his third straight game after missing three weeks
Speaker 1: due to fractured ribs from their Week two matchup against
Speaker 1: the Bills. In the last two games, Tua has the
Speaker 1: third best completion percentage at seventy four point seven percent
Speaker 1: and has thrown for six hundred and twenty passing yards,
Speaker 1: which is also the third most. His thirty four passing
Speaker 1: first downs during that time span are the most in
Speaker 1: the NFL. The Dolphins defense also ranks toward the bottom
Speaker 1: of the league, allowing twenty nine point six points per game,
Speaker 1: which is the second worst. They do know how to
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback, registering fifty one quarterback hits, which
Speaker 1: is good for second best. The Bill have six straight
Speaker 1: wins against the Dolphins, and a seventh would make it
Speaker 1: their longest win streak against Miami in team history. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has played great against them during his career,
Speaker 1: throwing for nineteen passing touchdowns and averaging a one hundred
Speaker 1: point eight passer rating. Buffalo has the second best offense
Speaker 1: in the league, averaging thirty three point eight points per
Speaker 1: game with an average point differential of seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half per game. The Bills also have a plus eleven
Speaker 1: turnover differential, which is the best in the NFL. Buffalo's
Speaker 1: defense is allowing a league low just two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy point two total yards per game and is holding
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks to a sixty two point one passer rating.
Speaker 1: The group is also allowing an average of fifteen and
Speaker 1: a half first downs per game and has allowed only
Speaker 1: twelve plays of twenty or more yards. Both are also
Speaker 1: the best in the league. The Dolphins lead the series
Speaker 1: against the Bills with sixty one wins and fifty three losses,
Speaker 1: but haven't beat the Bills since December of twenty eighteen. Team,
Speaker 1: that's this week's game preview. Steve back to you. Thanks
Speaker 1: as always, Maddie coach. Last time you played the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: two left the game with an injury and Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: came in in relief off the bench. This week, you're
Speaker 1: going to be facing TWA once again as he got
Speaker 1: back into the lineup. How different did the Dolphins look
Speaker 1: with TWA under center compared to Jacoby Brissette. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: they've really moved the ball in their last two games.
Speaker 1: Since two has been back. You can see the offense
Speaker 1: coming to the surface a little bit more in terms
Speaker 1: of what they wanted to do all along this season,
Speaker 1: and so they're they're a dangerous group. They've got weapons
Speaker 1: in their wide receiving corps, in their tight end corps
Speaker 1: out of the backfield as well. And then what he
Speaker 1: does with his mobility and his ability to scramble and
Speaker 1: extend plays certainly gives us a challenge. That's the first
Speaker 1: time you've faced the Dolphins. This will be the second
Speaker 1: time in the season before you've even faced one of
Speaker 1: your other division rivals. What are the biggest challenges in
Speaker 1: preparing to face a team for the second time. I
Speaker 1: know you've gotten this question a thousand times, but you
Speaker 1: know you played him so recently and now you got
Speaker 1: to play him again. What are the challenges to that? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think you hit one of them, which
Speaker 1: is just a few weeks ago we played this team,
Speaker 1: and so they're familiar with us. We're familiar with them,
Speaker 1: we hope, you know. And it's interesting, having not played
Speaker 1: another division opponent, we're going to play them twice before
Speaker 1: playing another division opponent, and so because of that, there's
Speaker 1: again some recency, if you will, just in terms of
Speaker 1: what we do, what they do. And most of the
Speaker 1: times those games are spread out a little bit, but
Speaker 1: in this case it's not. And I just think overall
Speaker 1: that you've got to get yourself geared up and ready
Speaker 1: to play every week, and our football team has to
Speaker 1: approach this week with that in mind. That this is
Speaker 1: a team we beat a few weeks ago, but you know,
Speaker 1: human nature, I guess would suggests that it's going to
Speaker 1: be even harder this go around. So we've got to
Speaker 1: prepare that way. Thanks coach, and good luck on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week to recap your game against
Speaker 1: Miami and preview your Week nine matchup against Jacksonville. To
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