Speaker 1: Right, baby on the road. Was that when them? Was
Speaker 1: that not the wrong? No? No, still a little meat
Speaker 1: on the ball, right, still little meat on the ball. Right,
Speaker 1: still still a little meat on the ball for us
Speaker 1: to get better. Right there, growth mindset, We've got a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot to get better. Wrong, we'll fix it off.
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Speaker 1: some football. It's an exciting time to be a Buffalo Bill,
Speaker 1: and I'm a fan of the Buffalo Bills. Welcome everybody
Speaker 1: to Week fourteen of the Sean McDermott Show, presented by
Speaker 1: Connor and Farrish, your workers camp Attorney, Sean, thanks as
Speaker 1: always for joining us. You're coming off a huge win
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football against the forty nine Ers was
Speaker 1: the first Monday night football win for the Bill since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. What's that mean for you and what
Speaker 1: you've built here in Buffalo? Well, truly, the next step
Speaker 1: Steve I thought the guys came out did a great job,
Speaker 1: well crafted game plans by the coordinators and the players executed.
Speaker 1: I saw a team that played aggressive yet disciplined, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what you gotta be able to do.
Speaker 1: Those two have to work hand in hand well. Coach
Speaker 1: Josh obviously he's a big part of that and is
Speaker 1: coming off another incredible performance. It was his third game
Speaker 1: this season with four passing touchdowns. He became the second
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history with three games in one season
Speaker 1: with three hundred and seventy five yards passing or more,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns and a passer rating of one thirty year better.
Speaker 1: This time he did it on the national stage on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. So how much do you think he
Speaker 1: deserves to be in the MVP discussion. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: when you look at his season and totality at this point,
Speaker 1: all games to in and he's really taking the next step.
Speaker 1: He's written the next chapter in his book and his
Speaker 1: development in his career, and that's the credit to him
Speaker 1: and the coaches and the work that he's put in.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's always bumps in the road for
Speaker 1: young players in particular that position and what that position
Speaker 1: has to balance. But I really thought he really let
Speaker 1: the game come to him and yet was in control
Speaker 1: of the game the whole time, and I thought that
Speaker 1: was indicative of his week of preparation and what he's
Speaker 1: been doing most of the year. Well, you can't mention
Speaker 1: the game Josh had without talking about Cole Beasley. He
Speaker 1: had one hundred and thirteen yards in the first half
Speaker 1: and finished with a career high one thirty and that
Speaker 1: was his fourth game this season of over one hundred
Speaker 1: yards and it keeps him on pace for the best
Speaker 1: season of his career. How do you describe the chemistry
Speaker 1: between Josh and Cole and how it has developed over
Speaker 1: the last two years. Well, it's been huge. When you
Speaker 1: have an instinctive player like Cole in the slot that
Speaker 1: can do things, and then the report that those two
Speaker 1: have built, you know there's time to involved in the
Speaker 1: passing game, so to be on the same page, to
Speaker 1: be on the same page from a mccle issue also
Speaker 1: is huge and Coals just made some big time plays
Speaker 1: for us all season long. Release Now on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball, you got another game clinching interception
Speaker 1: out of your all pro corner Tavius White. It was
Speaker 1: his third interception of the year, all of which have
Speaker 1: come in the fourth quarter. Turdavius now has sixteen second
Speaker 1: half takeaway since twenty seventeen. It leads all NFL defenders.
Speaker 1: And now his game has developed, even now that he's
Speaker 1: coming off a Pro Bowl campaign last year. Talk about
Speaker 1: that development, well, I think the cool part about Trey
Speaker 1: and what he's been able to do is, you know,
Speaker 1: we obviously assigned him to a long term contract the
Speaker 1: start of the season. There just on the end of
Speaker 1: training camp, and the cool part about Trey is that
Speaker 1: he has not taken his foot off the gas at all,
Speaker 1: and if anything, he works harder, And I think that's
Speaker 1: great when you're committed to developing your craft at a
Speaker 1: high level and that growth mindset, I think it's just
Speaker 1: awesome because it also speaks to our locker room and
Speaker 1: the other young players around him as well. You can't
Speaker 1: talk about the leaders on the defense without bringing up
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde. Hyde had a game high twelve tackles. He
Speaker 1: had a huge interception that he returned down inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line, and he and Jordan Poor you get
Speaker 1: a lot of praise as the backbone of your secondary
Speaker 1: let alone your entire defense. But what specifically does Mica
Speaker 1: bring to your locker room. Well, Mike is a positive
Speaker 1: guy with a lot of good energy and his positional flexibility.
Speaker 1: I think he does a great job. He's one of
Speaker 1: my guys that I always look to to get the
Speaker 1: pulse of the locker room, the pulse of our football team,
Speaker 1: and he's shooting me straight and that's great. He's just
Speaker 1: a mature young man and it's been really fun to
Speaker 1: watch him develop on and off the field since he's
Speaker 1: come to Buffalo a few years ago. Your defense also
Speaker 1: got a key player back this last week. Matt Milano
Speaker 1: was back in the lineup. But now aj Klein still
Speaker 1: played a huge role for you against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: But what did you see from Matt in his return
Speaker 1: and how did that play into the performance of your
Speaker 1: entire linebacker group as a whole. Good to see Matt
Speaker 1: back out there. He gives us some good juice, and
Speaker 1: he's an athlete and he's a guy that plays the
Speaker 1: game extremely fast and physical. I think he's a tough
Speaker 1: guy to go up against from an offensive standpoint, and
Speaker 1: the guys love them. The guys like having them back
Speaker 1: and certainly was very high on what A. J. Klein's
Speaker 1: done as well. So I just love the unselfish approach
Speaker 1: by both of those two young men and how they
Speaker 1: approached us last week. Coach, you're now nine and three,
Speaker 1: you got a one game lead over the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: the AFC East, You have four games left, and if
Speaker 1: you think back to the goals you set in the offseason,
Speaker 1: how does it compare with where you expected to be
Speaker 1: in December. Yeah, they're all the goals are still there
Speaker 1: for us. We haven't accomplished them yet, they're still there,
Speaker 1: so they're still meet on the bone as far as
Speaker 1: that goes. Steve and I know our players are right
Speaker 1: now trying to get ourselves ready for the Steelers, a
Speaker 1: big time opponent coming in here and a team that
Speaker 1: has one of the best, if not the best, record
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and so it'd be a big challenge
Speaker 1: for us. But I know our team is just focused
Speaker 1: on improving every week and that's all we can say
Speaker 1: right now. Thanks, Coach. We'll catch up with you later
Speaker 1: in the show to get your final thoughts on your
Speaker 1: upcoming match with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shopping Wood is presented
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Welcome back to the Sean McDermot Show in
Speaker 1: his time now to break down the film of another
Speaker 1: edition of Chopping Wood with our good buddy Eric Wood. Eight.
Speaker 1: The Bills hadn't won on Monday Night since nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and Josh came out and lit up the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers defense for three hundred and seventy five yards and
Speaker 1: four tds. It felt like a statement game from him
Speaker 1: in the offense. What did you see from Josh through
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, Josh had an excellent night and he
Speaker 1: really spread the ball around Grey Brian day Ball did
Speaker 1: a great job of mixing in some easy completions and
Speaker 1: throws down the field. And as we look at the tape,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to break it down and show
Speaker 1: the Bills fans exactly what they were doing. But Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley had a monster first half with one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirteen yards, which was a career high for him. They
Speaker 1: got him involved early with his thirty one yard or
Speaker 1: on the first drive. Cole Beasley all year against the
Speaker 1: defense has been absolutely legal. Here the Bills used two
Speaker 1: vertical routes and Cole Beasley does a great job of
Speaker 1: finding us the zone. Josh buys a little bit of
Speaker 1: time in the pocket, actually moves to his left on
Speaker 1: this play and delivers a great ball down the field.
Speaker 1: And when you're missing guys like John Brown, you need
Speaker 1: guys like Dave Davis to step up, and he did
Speaker 1: that here on this night, twenty two yard or on
Speaker 1: second and twelve. So this played the Bills us some
Speaker 1: play action. And this might be one of the best
Speaker 1: throws I've ever seen Josh Allen Bay. He throws it
Speaker 1: over the underneath linebackers into a very tiny window in
Speaker 1: the secondary of the forty nine ers. And I love
Speaker 1: Josh's reaction after he lets go of the ball, almost
Speaker 1: like a guy trying to make a put and it's breaking.
Speaker 1: He has that reaction when he throws it in. Just
Speaker 1: an unbelievable throw. Yeah. And so with just under three
Speaker 1: minutes to play in the first half, they convert on
Speaker 1: a fourth down and then hoole what looks like an
Speaker 1: RPO to Dawson Knox for what looks like an easy touchdown. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Touchdowns are forward to manufacture of the red zone of
Speaker 1: the NFL, and Brian Davill all year has done a
Speaker 1: great job of scripting different plays. We have not seen
Speaker 1: this concept that all this year from Bills in the
Speaker 1: red zone, and they use hard play action. Dobson Knobs
Speaker 1: comes across the formation. It's a tough look on the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers defense, and the receivers on the outside
Speaker 1: do a phenomenal job blocking as well. Okay, let's fast
Speaker 1: forward to the third quarter and look at some great
Speaker 1: play designs by day Ball to get Josh an easy touchdown.
Speaker 1: This one is to Isaiah McKenzie. So this is a
Speaker 1: man beater concept and the Bills use a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rug round a legal pick seam on the outside.
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis does a great job of rubbing the defender,
Speaker 1: not blocking the defender, but getting in his way, and
Speaker 1: isa McKenzie gets in for a very easy score. Josh
Speaker 1: does a great job just throwing a catchable ball because
Speaker 1: those are the layups that you often see quarterbacks miss
Speaker 1: at times. Yeah, and then once again in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they got the game clinching touchdown from Gabe Davis. He
Speaker 1: was wide open for this twenty eight yarder and wow,
Speaker 1: hard to scheme up and play more open than this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On this play, if think Josh Allen Tott Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: guessing and Richard Shermans one of the smartest, best defensive
Speaker 1: acts in the NFL. But Josh does a great job
Speaker 1: of holding him with a tiny pump fake and gave
Speaker 1: Davis runs right by him for another easy fourth of
Speaker 1: the Bills and just caps off a night where Josh
Speaker 1: Allen was on absolute fire. Yeah, it was great to
Speaker 1: see the Bills light it up in primetime. Now let's
Speaker 1: see what Josh can do against the Steelers top ranked
Speaker 1: defense on Sunday night. Eric, thanks for this, yep, Thanks
Speaker 1: Steve Mattie glab Here this week's game preview. It's the
Speaker 1: nine and three AFC East leaders and the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: hosting the eleven and one AFC North leaders in the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers for a Sunday night football matchup. Steelers quarterback
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger is in his seventeenth season and the Bills
Speaker 1: are seeking their first win against Big Ben. The Steelers
Speaker 1: defense is tough to score on, only allowing seventeen point
Speaker 1: six points per game, which is the lowest in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They forced turnovers and get to the quarterback more than
Speaker 1: any team, ranking first with forty four sacks, sixteen interceptions,
Speaker 1: and twenty three takeaways. Buffalo's offense ranks tenth, averaging three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight point eight yards per game, and
Speaker 1: are the best at converting third downs, doing at forty
Speaker 1: nine point three percent of the time. Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: the second player since at least nineteen fifty to have
Speaker 1: three games with at least three hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: passing yards, three touchdowns, and a one thirty passer rating
Speaker 1: in the same season. He has just one touchdown away
Speaker 1: from tying Hall of Famer Jim Kelly's team record of
Speaker 1: thirty four total touchdowns for the most in the single season.
Speaker 1: Since Week seven, Buffalo's defense has the second most interceptions
Speaker 1: with eight and the fourth most takeaways with twelve. They've
Speaker 1: also totaled nineteen sacks in the last six games. The
Speaker 1: Stealers lead the series against the Bills with sixteen wins
Speaker 1: and ten losses. That's this week's game preview, Steve back
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks as always, Maddie, coach. You're coming off
Speaker 1: a big win in prime time and now you have
Speaker 1: the eleven and one Pittsburgh Steelers coming to town for
Speaker 1: Sunday night football. Do you think this game is going
Speaker 1: to be a good indicator maybe of how close you
Speaker 1: are to being that championship caliber football team voys hoped
Speaker 1: your team would be. Well, it's really another opportunity for
Speaker 1: us to grow as a team, and what a cool
Speaker 1: experience this will be preparing for this week's game, Like
Speaker 1: every week, you know, they're all the same, We try
Speaker 1: and measure them all the same. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for this opponent, you know, we know that
Speaker 1: they're coming off of a of a heartbreaking loss in
Speaker 1: terms of their season, and one that I'm sure that
Speaker 1: they're going to want to get back on the right track.
Speaker 1: So I've been there before, being undefeated in a season
Speaker 1: and know the pressure that that comes with, and so
Speaker 1: I know what happens after that game as well. And
Speaker 1: so we've got to be on ourself on our game
Speaker 1: this week and continue to grow and improve and be
Speaker 1: on our a game knowing that this is going to
Speaker 1: be one of those games that it's going to come
Speaker 1: down to the fourth quarter. Yeah, last year you came
Speaker 1: back in the fourth quarter to beat the Steelers on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football to clinch a playoff spot. What's different
Speaker 1: about this year's matchup between these two teams, Well, eight
Speaker 1: year is different. You know, they're in a different position.
Speaker 1: We're in a different position as well, And I think
Speaker 1: our team is a different position from a maturity standpoint,
Speaker 1: from an experience stand point more than anything, in particular
Speaker 1: with Josh's experience now. And you know, I think as
Speaker 1: an organization, we're in different position as well, and that's
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Thanks coach, good luck this week
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. We're gonna be back next week to recap
Speaker 1: your game against the Steelers and preview your Week fifteen
Speaker 1: matchup against the Denver Broncos. And for you at home, everybody,
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