Speaker 1: But we're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody got
Speaker 1: me lot, Let's go bury. Everybody do their job. One
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Speaker 1: all right, go play some ball, Go play some football.
Speaker 1: It's an exciting time to be a Buffalo Bill and
Speaker 1: am a fan of the Buffalo Bills, and this is
Speaker 1: one heck of a team. Welcome to the Sean McDermott Show,
Speaker 1: brought to you by ECMC and Collide to Healthy, official
Speaker 1: healthcare providers of the Buffalo Bills. I'm Steve Tasker and
Speaker 1: we're please once again to join Sean McDermott. Sean, congratulations
Speaker 1: on the win in MetLife. Oh thanks, Steve. It's a good,
Speaker 1: good team win, good good to get off. It's a
Speaker 1: good start, hostile environment, but overall good team win. Just
Speaker 1: before we came on, we saw a little little snippet
Speaker 1: of the postgame locker room. Certainly an emotional locker room
Speaker 1: as it is after every game, but also after the victory.
Speaker 1: Is there something tangibly different about this group of guys
Speaker 1: as opposed to maybe you're even your first two years
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. You know what, We've had some good
Speaker 1: teams and a good group of guys, But this is
Speaker 1: a This is a pretty close knit group of guys
Speaker 1: that take a lot of pride in what they do
Speaker 1: on the field and off the field, and I think
Speaker 1: they have a pretty good feel for what football means
Speaker 1: to the fans of Buffalo, of the Buffalo Bills in
Speaker 1: this great city. Yeah, you always want to talk about Josh.
Speaker 1: The overriding theme of this last game against the Jets
Speaker 1: was the four turnover first half. How do you get
Speaker 1: him to be maybe a little more consistent in the
Speaker 1: first half, or maybe the guys around him, you know,
Speaker 1: how do you handle him going forward? And like this
Speaker 1: week against the Giants, Oh, we want to take what
Speaker 1: the defense gives a Steve and sometimes that means shot,
Speaker 1: Sometimes it means checking the ball down, sometimes it means
Speaker 1: Josh you his feet, or sometimes, quite honestly, it means
Speaker 1: him throwing the ball away. And so I think for
Speaker 1: a young quarterback in Josh's development in this case, it's
Speaker 1: understanding that and being okay with that, and that will
Speaker 1: come as he continues to get experience and reps. So
Speaker 1: you get into this game, you're you're only down six
Speaker 1: points at halftime. After four turno your minus four in
Speaker 1: the turnover ratio? How do you well, how do you
Speaker 1: what message do you give your team at halftime? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. We took a deep breath, and the
Speaker 1: guys this did a great job of just keeping their composure, um,
Speaker 1: not only on the field in the second half, but
Speaker 1: also in the locker room. That's where it really started.
Speaker 1: And the guys knew we were in in a decent
Speaker 1: spot even though we had given the ball up four
Speaker 1: times and and yet the game was still still in
Speaker 1: We felt like in our control. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and um, that doesn't mean we had the lead or
Speaker 1: anything like that. It just meant that we feel like
Speaker 1: the game was still yet to be decided, and so
Speaker 1: we were felt like we were in a good position.
Speaker 1: We needed to come out after half and have a
Speaker 1: good a good stop defensively and then and then put
Speaker 1: some good drives together offensively. Didn't happen right away, but
Speaker 1: eventually we kept playing and we kept making adjustments and
Speaker 1: communicating on the sideline, and the players and staff just
Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job. Well. It was anything. When it
Speaker 1: did finally start to turn around. New faces were a
Speaker 1: big part of it. That's been a big theme this offseason.
Speaker 1: A lot of free agents, like you know, the draft
Speaker 1: picks you're depending on. John Brown came through the best
Speaker 1: debut of a wide receiver in Bill's history, over one
Speaker 1: hundred yards and he had the touchdown to go ahead.
Speaker 1: His contribution really is exactly why you wanted to sign him.
Speaker 1: It is number one, the type of person he is.
Speaker 1: You know, John's the type of person that if he
Speaker 1: catches two balls, he's okay. If he catches twenty balls,
Speaker 1: he's okay, as long as the team wins and we
Speaker 1: get the result that we're looking for. So I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that about John and the way that he impacted
Speaker 1: us in the first game. But it was a team
Speaker 1: effort again with the protection Josh's throws and then being
Speaker 1: able to distribute the ball to Devin's Singletary, to Zay Jones,
Speaker 1: to Cole Beasley, and then to use Frank Gore like
Speaker 1: we did. I thought. I thought, all in all, it
Speaker 1: was a good team effort and good blend. Yeah, Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary is one of the guys that kind of splashed
Speaker 1: on the consciousness of the fan base for this first
Speaker 1: game and didn't see him much to the first three quarters,
Speaker 1: but then in the fourth quarter it's almost like you
Speaker 1: unfurled him and when you handed in the ball, some
Speaker 1: things happened. Yeah, he made some plays, and really he
Speaker 1: did a lot of that in college, and so we
Speaker 1: had some good background on Devin coming out and some
Speaker 1: good intel and got to know him a little bit
Speaker 1: on our own as well there so we were able
Speaker 1: to get him in the game and he was able
Speaker 1: to make them most of his opportunities, which for a
Speaker 1: young player, much like the rest of our young players
Speaker 1: who played, and we had some other young players that
Speaker 1: played their first NFL game, regular season NFL game and
Speaker 1: made big impacts for us. Well, the story the game
Speaker 1: was the four first half turnovers and the fun of
Speaker 1: the game was the late comeback. But the reason it
Speaker 1: all happened was your defense. Those guys really played well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they kept the game tight. You mentioned the four turnovers
Speaker 1: in the first half, Well, just the football gods don't
Speaker 1: look down on that kindly. So usually those games get
Speaker 1: get pretty lopsided rather early. So the defense and special teams,
Speaker 1: I thought did a really nice job of keeping the
Speaker 1: game close, holding them and when and where we needed
Speaker 1: to hold them. And then you know, they got the
Speaker 1: big stop at the end once we did go ahead, Steve,
Speaker 1: they got the big stop at the end to close
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah. One of the things that's different about
Speaker 1: this defense, and we knew it was going to be
Speaker 1: good like it was last year with so many returning
Speaker 1: guys and added depth. Your pass rush really showed up
Speaker 1: in a big way. Four sacks, five batted balls at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. That's a huge difference maker. Very
Speaker 1: active up front, very active, and to me, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is is they played really hard their feet, their
Speaker 1: hands and never stopped. They were always going, always moving,
Speaker 1: great effort and coordination up front, and to me, the
Speaker 1: game is won to us. As we've talked about before,
Speaker 1: the game is won front to back, both on the
Speaker 1: defensive side and the offensive. Thanks she We'll be back
Speaker 1: later in the show to get your final thoughts. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Thanks Steve. Coming up later in the show, we examine
Speaker 1: the progressive nature of coach mcdermot's process and celebrate the
Speaker 1: important contribution that female staff members provide the bills. But
Speaker 1: up next, Eric Wood joins us to cut through the
Speaker 1: game tape in our film room segment Choppin' Wood. Choppin'
Speaker 1: Wood is presented by Saint Bonaventure University, the official education
Speaker 1: provider of the Buffalo Bills. Welcome back to the Sean
Speaker 1: McDermott Show. I'm Steve Tasker once again. This week we're
Speaker 1: gonna be joined by former center of the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: Eric Wood. He's gonna come in and help us break
Speaker 1: down film in the segment we call Choppin Wood. Eric.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Of course. You know today
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about two young running backs, one for
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, of course, Devin Singletary and say Quon Barkley,
Speaker 1: the Giants this week's opponent. Thanks for joining us again, Eric, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my pleasure. I'm looking forward to it. Those are
Speaker 1: two explosive running backs, guys that can make big plays.
Speaker 1: And we saw Motor's ability firsthand for the first time
Speaker 1: this Sunday against Jets. Let's start here from his run
Speaker 1: to the outside to the left and what do you
Speaker 1: see here as this plate unfolds. This is a scheme
Speaker 1: called a G scheme. So there's down blocks on the
Speaker 1: front side, zone off the backside, and then Quentin Spain
Speaker 1: is going to pull no matter what he's pulling for
Speaker 1: the outside defender on the line of scrimmage. He does
Speaker 1: a great job. He goes to the ground, but that's
Speaker 1: all you need. You need him to set the edge
Speaker 1: and not let it get collapse, and he doesn't. And
Speaker 1: then you have Mitch Morris pulling and he does a
Speaker 1: great job getting in space and he goes through the
Speaker 1: ground here and a lot of people would say he
Speaker 1: missed the cup block here, but what he does is
Speaker 1: he makes Jamal Adams defend his legs and get way
Speaker 1: out of the run laid. And then Lee Smith, a
Speaker 1: glorified offensive lineman with number eighty five on. Absolutely love
Speaker 1: that guy, and he shows how well he can block.
Speaker 1: And notice John Feliciano here on the backside. He goes
Speaker 1: behind Dion Dowkins block which isn't necessarily his track, but
Speaker 1: he does a great job of zoning over the top.
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary hits the whole extremely fast and it's an
Speaker 1: explosive play, all right. One more play from that drives
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary now in a powering josh Alan under center.
Speaker 1: How does this change things? So this is a very
Speaker 1: similar play to the first one we saw. Another g
Speaker 1: scheme only this time we have two tight ends on
Speaker 1: the front side, so Inseci, Lee Smith and Tommy Sweeney
Speaker 1: are all gonna block down again. Policiato this time is
Speaker 1: pulling for the end man on the line of scrim
Speaker 1: and so he'll end up pulling for what will end
Speaker 1: up being a safety. The jet sweep motion makes the
Speaker 1: defense just hesitate a second with day Jones going across
Speaker 1: the formation. I thought Tommy Sweeney did an excellent job
Speaker 1: at the point of attack here as a rookie tight end.
Speaker 1: That is so tough and that's such an impressive block. Again,
Speaker 1: Mitch Morris pulls on the very athletic Jamal Adams and
Speaker 1: gets just enough of him here, another great block in
Speaker 1: space by him, but a great job up front again
Speaker 1: by the Bills blocking. Now, let's move to this week's opponent,
Speaker 1: the New York Giants, and of course most football fans
Speaker 1: know the name of say Kuon Barkley. What does he
Speaker 1: bring to the table and what does this offensive line
Speaker 1: in front of him really know about their own running back?
Speaker 1: A very explosive player can hit a home run at
Speaker 1: any time on the field. This play here is a
Speaker 1: simple duo play, as it's called everybody double teams up front.
Speaker 1: It's similar to a power without a puller. And here
Speaker 1: they're simply looking for where the misfit is. So sae
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley will press into the left, a gap between
Speaker 1: the center and the guard, and he'll draw up the linebacker.
Speaker 1: When fifty five hits there, now sa Quon's going the
Speaker 1: next gap out and as number twenty five for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys plays outside leverage. Now sa Quan's out the gate.
Speaker 1: And this is his big playability. He is so fast
Speaker 1: when he turns it on, similar to Leveon Bell with
Speaker 1: his patience right there, one stutter step, but then when
Speaker 1: he hits it, he is gone. One of the things
Speaker 1: about this giant game that we're watching here a gets
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in week one is the game got out
Speaker 1: of hand a little bit in the second half, so
Speaker 1: that kind of took the ball out of s Quon
Speaker 1: Barkley's hands. But on this play, when the game's still
Speaker 1: in the position where they can give him the football,
Speaker 1: he still makes some plays on his own. He does,
Speaker 1: and here you see his ability to break tackles and
Speaker 1: make people miss. He uses the double spin move here
Speaker 1: and with the Bills often bringing pressure off the edges
Speaker 1: of the offense and then penetrating up front. It'll be
Speaker 1: crucial for them to make plays when they get there.
Speaker 1: You see here they have two guys that will get
Speaker 1: their hands on him. One spin move there with penetration
Speaker 1: in the backfield, another spin move here, and sa Quan
Speaker 1: avoids both of those tackles. And luckily for the pursuit
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys, they're able to tackle him for not
Speaker 1: too big of a game. But if everybody's not pursuing
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley, he can really make you pay because
Speaker 1: he can often break at least one tackle a play.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your insights, Eric, we appreciate it. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week. Up next, a thoughtful look into the
Speaker 1: positive influence of female staff members in the Bills organization.
Speaker 1: When we return to the Sean mcdermo show, Bills fans
Speaker 1: often here Sean McDermott talk about the process of the
Speaker 1: football team. Tonight, we'd like to take a more thoughtful
Speaker 1: look at the contributions to that culture that the female
Speaker 1: staff provides. Here at one Bill's Drive and a group
Speaker 1: of men and women in that locker room, I just
Speaker 1: want to get that out. Man, just I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of that group on the road in
Speaker 1: the division down like we were momentum certainly not in
Speaker 1: our favor for most of the game, and just what
Speaker 1: a blessing to be a part of that group in there.
Speaker 1: So my title is Coordinator of Player Services. I'm a
Speaker 1: sports scientist. I work in college scouting. I'm an offensive
Speaker 1: coaching intern with the Bills. I played when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. I played when I was nine and ten,
Speaker 1: and then going into high school, I tried to play
Speaker 1: again and was told no that they were not ready
Speaker 1: to have a female. Oh. I started coaching in high
Speaker 1: school a few years ago and kind of thought that
Speaker 1: was going to be the cap for me. Eventually got
Speaker 1: involved in the women's Careers in Football forum that was
Speaker 1: put on by the NFL and I met coach McDermott again.
Speaker 1: He had offered an opportunity to come and shadow for
Speaker 1: a couple of days if that was something I was
Speaker 1: interested in, and when I followed up with that, he
Speaker 1: kind of countered the offer and said why don't you
Speaker 1: come an intern for training care So I'm from just
Speaker 1: south of London in England and my background was working
Speaker 1: as a sports scientist in soccer, and then when the
Speaker 1: opportunity arose to come over to Buffalo initially to start
Speaker 1: working hockey, I jumped at the chance of trying a
Speaker 1: different sport, and likewise, then when I got the opportunity
Speaker 1: to come over to the Bills and start working in football,
Speaker 1: just seemed like a really exciting opportunity in a very
Speaker 1: forward thinking organization that I didn't want to turn down.
Speaker 1: We have a Dietitian scouting equipment. We have several in
Speaker 1: the training room, our sports science and chiefs from England
Speaker 1: coaching and football operations. We had several during camp and
Speaker 1: we have one for the season and then player engagement.
Speaker 1: We're looking for the best ones and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: at some point we run across one for strength or
Speaker 1: you and or the video department. I went to well
Speaker 1: at University in New England. We established a coaching minor.
Speaker 1: So my professor we were just talking about what kind
Speaker 1: of sport I would like to work with, said like,
Speaker 1: why don't you just do football? So my pathway to
Speaker 1: the NFL changed, but my overall goal was always to
Speaker 1: be here. You know, as we all know, football is
Speaker 1: it's a hard sport to get into you know, we
Speaker 1: want to hire the best, We want to hire people
Speaker 1: that can help us win, and so when they see
Speaker 1: women in these positions, it's because if they are the
Speaker 1: best person for that job, especially having Kim as an owner,
Speaker 1: they're very progressive. I think they're not just progressive with women.
Speaker 1: I think they're progressive across the board with diversity, and
Speaker 1: I know Sean's been the key aspect in helping with
Speaker 1: that diversity. With the start of Phoebe and then bringing
Speaker 1: Calli in, we have normalized the culture here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately you don't stand out and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Bills have a lot of women in these football specific roles.
Speaker 1: You don't think that you say, oh, why is really
Speaker 1: good at her job? Joe's really good at her job.
Speaker 1: That's all it is. It's these are the best people
Speaker 1: for the position, and that's what it is. It just
Speaker 1: happens to be a great group of women in the
Speaker 1: same building. When I was young, women didn't coach and
Speaker 1: it was hard to envision yourself in that role, whereas
Speaker 1: now what we're doing for young girls as being able
Speaker 1: to say, like, this is a career profession, this is
Speaker 1: something you can pursue. It's not just a dream, it's attainable.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily say I'm a trailbloizer. People have done
Speaker 1: that before me. I'm stepping in. I'm continuing the trend.
Speaker 1: Just so lucky to be in an organization that does
Speaker 1: treat people like family. Coach McDermot always reiterates that here
Speaker 1: we are a family, and you do get that feeling.
Speaker 1: They all fit the roles perfectly. As I watch the
Speaker 1: interaction with our players. They are all very well accepted,
Speaker 1: both in the player coaches business side. Everybody accepts them
Speaker 1: because they're professionals at what they do. If you have
Speaker 1: people all from the same background, I think you miss
Speaker 1: different perspectives, different ideals, you know, different experiences that people
Speaker 1: have had along the way, you know, working across different countries,
Speaker 1: across different teams and different sports. I do believe that
Speaker 1: the NFL is at the fourth of being diverse and
Speaker 1: having women in roles that they deserve to be in.
Speaker 1: You know. My hope is that we get to a
Speaker 1: point where the culture is so welcoming that women are
Speaker 1: no longer intimidated to try and take that step. That's
Speaker 1: where I hope we can get after the break we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into the science behind the biggest
Speaker 1: plays from the bills comeback win over the Jets. Later on,
Speaker 1: coach shares his insight on Buffalo's returns of the meadowlands
Speaker 1: for a Week two matchup with the Giants. Bill Sportsology
Speaker 1: is presented by ECMC, bringing hope and healing to Western
Speaker 1: New York. Welcome to this week's Sportsology or our first play,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at how much separation Levi Wallace
Speaker 1: made up breaking up a critical deep fourth quarter pass
Speaker 1: just before the two minute warning on third and one,
Speaker 1: Jets wide out Robbie Anderson gets off the line quickly
Speaker 1: and creates two point two three yards of separation from Wallace.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Sam Donald looks down field as Anderson stretches the
Speaker 1: separation gap to three point zero six yards at the
Speaker 1: thirty nine yard line. That's when Wallace turns on his
Speaker 1: own Jets and reaches a speed of sixteen point four
Speaker 1: seven miles per hour as he closed the gap to
Speaker 1: point two five yards at the Bill's thirty one yard line.
Speaker 1: So how many yards did Wallace make up two point
Speaker 1: eight one yards in just two point eight seconds? For
Speaker 1: our next play will show you the completion probability of
Speaker 1: the game winning touchdown pass from Josh Allen to wide
Speaker 1: receiver John Brown. With the Jets playing with a single
Speaker 1: high safety, Allen decides to take a shot and throw deep.
Speaker 1: On third and four. Brown streaks down the left side,
Speaker 1: topping out at sixteen point zero eight miles per hour,
Speaker 1: creating point nine three yards of separation between him and
Speaker 1: the defender. When the ball arrives at the thirteen yard line,
Speaker 1: the gap is down to point six five yards. Brown
Speaker 1: makes the catch despite being inter spired with and runs
Speaker 1: into the end zone for the game winning score. So
Speaker 1: what was the completion probability of the Allen touchdown throw?
Speaker 1: Thirty two point two percent. With a look at this
Speaker 1: week sportsology, I'm John Murphy. Next on The Sean McDermott Show,
Speaker 1: Mattie Glab joins us to preview this Sunday's game against
Speaker 1: the Giants and coach shares his final thoughts before the
Speaker 1: team departs for the big out. Game. Preview is presented
Speaker 1: by Independent Health from her every Day to your Unexpected,
Speaker 1: That's the Red Shared Treatment. Maddie Glab here with this
Speaker 1: week's game preview. In Week two, the Bills head back
Speaker 1: to MetLife Stadium for the second week in row. This
Speaker 1: time it's an NFC matchup against the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: a one hundredth season of NFL football. The Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: in their sixtieth season and season number sixty is underway.
Speaker 1: Buffalo enters this game with a winning Week one, while
Speaker 1: the Giants suffered a thirty five to seventeen loss against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Bill's victory over the Jets was the
Speaker 1: team's largest four quarter comeback since nineteen ninety one. Buffalo
Speaker 1: will go up against another talented running back in sae
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley. Last year's offensive Rookie of the Year, total
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and seven rushing yards, which was second in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He also had ninety one receptions for seven
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one yards and racked up fifteen total touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Another talented Giant is tight end Evan Ingram. In Week one,
Speaker 1: he had the best performance of any tight end with
Speaker 1: eleven catches for one hundred and sixteen yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The Giants defense features a bevy of new faces, which
Speaker 1: could explain why their defense gave up four hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five total yards, including four hundred and five yards
Speaker 1: through the air. The Bills passing defense held the Jets
Speaker 1: to one hundred and seventy five yards, making it the
Speaker 1: ninth straight game that the Bills have held their opponent
Speaker 1: to under two hundred and ten passing yards. The Bills
Speaker 1: are looking to win back to back games at the
Speaker 1: same stadium for the first time since the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: beat the Jets and Giants at MetLife Stadium in two
Speaker 1: thousand and six. That's this week's game for you, Steve,
Speaker 1: back to you, Thank you, Mattie. We're back here with
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott for some final thoughts. A lot of things
Speaker 1: are parallel about these two games. You're going back on
Speaker 1: the road, but to the exact same stadium. You're playing
Speaker 1: a team that's got maybe an elite running back, and
Speaker 1: it's the home opener for them. Some of that stuff
Speaker 1: really stinks. It sounds like on the surface yea, but
Speaker 1: still by the same thing, it's not just another road game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big challenge. It really is, and every week in the
Speaker 1: NFL is a big challenge in particularly win the play away.
Speaker 1: We talked to the players a lot about hey, that
Speaker 1: each and every week we're improving whether we win or
Speaker 1: we lose. Obviously we want to win it. But having
Speaker 1: said that, we continue to grow each and every one
Speaker 1: of us and then collectively as a team going back
Speaker 1: on the road, no question about it. But the one
Speaker 1: thing about an old adage in the NFL defense travels well,
Speaker 1: you're taking that same defense in. You've had great success
Speaker 1: holding quarterbacks off the passing yard statistics sheet. A lot
Speaker 1: of times they're under two hundred yards. You know, our
Speaker 1: staff does a really good job and the continuity of
Speaker 1: our defense has helped as well. Second year from most
Speaker 1: of these guys, sometimes third year in some cases. So
Speaker 1: it allows our players to play faster. There's no such
Speaker 1: at two for it, and in this case it's pang
Speaker 1: off for it. Well, coach, congratulations on the week one win.
Speaker 1: Back to Metlive hopefully for win number two. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us this week, and thank you everybody at home.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week on The Sean McDermott Show.
Speaker 1: The Sean McDermott Show is sponsored by Independent Health from
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