Speaker 1: Hey, this was ur just like every win. Man. You
Speaker 1: putting the time in. Good things happen. To stay together,
Speaker 1: you feed one another, good things happened. You take care
Speaker 1: of the football. Good things happen. They listen. It's good.
Speaker 1: You gotta stay focused, right, we got one game before
Speaker 1: the bye, right? Can we stay disciplined and challenge ourselves
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Welcome into Week ten of the Sean
Speaker 1: McDermott Show, presented by Connors and Ferris, your workers camp attorneys. Sean,
Speaker 1: thanks as always for joining us. You're coming off three
Speaker 1: straight wins, capped off with an enormous win over who
Speaker 1: made what team that may be the best team in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Your offense put up forty four points, your
Speaker 1: defense forced four turnovers. What led to such a complimentary
Speaker 1: performance out of both sides of the football, Well, I
Speaker 1: think it started during the week of our practice, really
Speaker 1: Steve with a great week of preparation, great game plans
Speaker 1: and all three phases, and the players just played extremely
Speaker 1: aggressive and free and it was just fun to watch,
Speaker 1: fun to just be around that type of energy on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Even. Yeah, it came out after the game
Speaker 1: that Josh Lost's grandmother the night before, he still decided
Speaker 1: he wanted to play. He came out and he had
Speaker 1: maybe the best game of his career. What do you
Speaker 1: think that showed your team? Well, number one, you know
Speaker 1: that's not an easy thing to play through, you know.
Speaker 1: Number two, I think it just shows that Josh loves
Speaker 1: to compete, was to be around his teammates and is
Speaker 1: going to be there for his team and that goes
Speaker 1: a long way in terms of the accountability and then
Speaker 1: wanting them to play for him. And look, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a great performance, great great win for our
Speaker 1: team and just I know, an emotionally charged win for
Speaker 1: Josh as well. Yeah. Well, speaking of Josh, you put
Speaker 1: the game in his hands in the first half. He
Speaker 1: only ran it three times and he called thirty one
Speaker 1: pass plays. It paid off, as he finished with four
Speaker 1: hundred fifteen yards through the air four total touchdowns. And
Speaker 1: this came a week after you called thirty eight run
Speaker 1: plays against the Patriots and ran for one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety yards. What is the identity of this offense and
Speaker 1: how does it play in to Josh's skills? Well, I
Speaker 1: think we're working progress overall, Steve. You know, we've got
Speaker 1: good practice opportunities this week to get better. And whether
Speaker 1: it's the run game the pass game, you know we've
Speaker 1: got we've got work to do, and just like our
Speaker 1: entire football team does. So you know, we were able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of some things obviously in the past
Speaker 1: game this past weekend and in the run game that
Speaker 1: the weekend before that, And so I think what we've
Speaker 1: shown now is we can establish a lot of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: yet we control the ball outside and whatnot. So you know,
Speaker 1: just again depending on who's available and how we want
Speaker 1: to attack, at least some options for us. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you had a twenty four ten heading into the half
Speaker 1: and you never lost the lead, and while the Seahawks
Speaker 1: eventually got it within one touchdown, your offense kept responding
Speaker 1: and your defense kept stepping up. What was your message
Speaker 1: to the team at half time to make sure you
Speaker 1: finished the job against the Seahawks. Well, whenever you play
Speaker 1: a Russell Wilson quarterback team, you know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. He's a winner. He's showing over the course
Speaker 1: of time, time and time again, really that he can
Speaker 1: come back from any deficit. And we knew we were
Speaker 1: gonna have to play all sixty minutes or for however
Speaker 1: long it took Steve and I credit our players with
Speaker 1: that winning mentality down the stretch to close him out. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about your defense on that side of the ball. Year,
Speaker 1: he had four takeaways, two interceptions, two strip sacks, and
Speaker 1: coming into the game, Russell Wilson was the heavy favorite
Speaker 1: to win the MVP in the NFL and passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: passer rating. How do you manage to force so many
Speaker 1: turnovers from Russell? Well, it comes back to our mindset.
Speaker 1: We wanted to get off to a good start on defense.
Speaker 1: I thought Leslie Fraser and the defensive staff shaped a
Speaker 1: great game plan and it was aggressive, and I think
Speaker 1: our players really embraced that type of game plan this
Speaker 1: past week and they executed again at a high level. Now,
Speaker 1: before the game, you placed Matt Milano on injured reserve
Speaker 1: and Aj Klein got to start in his spot. Klein
Speaker 1: had two sacks, one of which he forced and recovered
Speaker 1: a fumble. He also had five tackles, one tackle for loss,
Speaker 1: four quarterback hits, a pass breakup. How great was it
Speaker 1: to see him step up so big with Matt Milano
Speaker 1: out of the lineup. Yeah. Aj is a good football player,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of knocking off the rust in the
Speaker 1: system again and that was great to see him play
Speaker 1: aggressive and really trust himself and his instincts and his
Speaker 1: gut feeling. You know how important that is as a
Speaker 1: football player. You don't have time to think. You got
Speaker 1: to react, and I thought Aj did a phenomenal job
Speaker 1: of this past weekend. Well, Jerry Hughes recorded a sack
Speaker 1: in three straight games. Your pass rush has improved greatly,
Speaker 1: and as a team you had five sacks and eleven
Speaker 1: quarterback hits on Russell Wilson. How have you managed to
Speaker 1: create more pressure and how has that led to an
Speaker 1: overall improvement from your entire defense. Well, it's whenever you
Speaker 1: can affect the quarterback. It's a good thing. And no
Speaker 1: matter how many times they drop back the pass, you
Speaker 1: want to be able to affect that that position, get
Speaker 1: him off his spot. It doesn't necessarily mean always sacking them. Now,
Speaker 1: we love sacks, but if we can just get him
Speaker 1: to move, get in his arm, kind of get him
Speaker 1: to change his arms, trajectory or his vision, all of
Speaker 1: that help affect the coverage and then obviously the coverage
Speaker 1: and the front work together and getting them down in
Speaker 1: a sax situation. All right, coach, Thanks, We're going to
Speaker 1: catch up with you later in the show to get
Speaker 1: your final thoughts on your upcoming matchup with the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott Show. It's time for another edition of Chopping
Speaker 1: Wood with our good friend Eric Wood. He Josh Allen
Speaker 1: had another incredible game with over four hundred yards through
Speaker 1: the air, four total touchdowns, and on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball, the defense forced four turnovers and really
Speaker 1: helped the offense keep their momentum. What was the key
Speaker 1: to the Bills playing such great complimentary football. Well, when
Speaker 1: you look at the Bills passing attack, they came into
Speaker 1: this game knowing they wanted to attack the Seahawks defense,
Speaker 1: which came into this game ranked thirty second in the
Speaker 1: league in past defense, and the Bills did not shy
Speaker 1: away from their game plan. They only had three runs
Speaker 1: in the entire first half. They threw a thirty one times,
Speaker 1: and the Bills came out firing through the air. Let's
Speaker 1: start on the offensive side of the ball and take
Speaker 1: a look at Josh Allen's first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 1: This was a common theme throughout the game, but I
Speaker 1: thought the offensive line, despite having seven sacks, dealt with
Speaker 1: a lot of adversity with injuries and was able to
Speaker 1: give Josh Allen some really great pass protection, especially with
Speaker 1: all the blitzing that the Seahawks brought. And this was
Speaker 1: a great throw by Josh Allen, hitting Isaiah McKenzie coming
Speaker 1: across the middle of the field on a crossing route
Speaker 1: out of a three by one set. And Isaiah McKenzie
Speaker 1: is not generally one of Josh Allen's first targets reads
Speaker 1: on a play, and you see it here. He looks
Speaker 1: off twice before pulling the trigger for a touchdown in
Speaker 1: a great way to open the game, and it kept
Speaker 1: up for Josh's second touchdown. They brought in a heavy
Speaker 1: formation on the goal line and this one was a
Speaker 1: thing of beauty. The Bills has done everything inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line, for running with extra offensive line and
Speaker 1: all tight ends to spreading it out and going five wide,
Speaker 1: and here they run a pass play. They run play action.
Speaker 1: At first it looked like he might try and hit
Speaker 1: Dawson knocks going out in the flat, and then he
Speaker 1: comes out and throws an absolute laser to Tyler Croft
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. And this ball,
Speaker 1: I think it might have stuck to Tyler Croft's chest
Speaker 1: he threw it so hard. But this is a great throw,
Speaker 1: a great decision by Josh Allen. Also the next touchdown,
Speaker 1: after a tradavious White interception of Bills are again in
Speaker 1: a goal to ghost situation. They give us another look. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this time they started an empty set with a different
Speaker 1: personnel in the game. So they bring Zach Moss across
Speaker 1: the formation with a jet suee motion going towards the
Speaker 1: left hand side, and then here comes the convoy of
Speaker 1: blockers out to the right for our quarterback sweep with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. You see great blocks in space here, and
Speaker 1: you see the athleticism of this offensive line. Two. First
Speaker 1: it's Darryl Williams out in space, and then you see
Speaker 1: John Feliciano get an incredible cut block on Carlos Dunn
Speaker 1: lap for a walk in touchdown. And when the Bills
Speaker 1: are getting touchdowns as easy as you saw those last
Speaker 1: two in the red zone, that's an incredible thing by
Speaker 1: this offense. Yeah, as we said, the defense forced four turnover,
Speaker 1: So let's flip the script and look at how they
Speaker 1: took the ball away and slowed down the top offense
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, starting with Jordan Poyer's interception
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. If this interception looked familiar to you,
Speaker 1: we got to hear after the game from Jordan Poyer
Speaker 1: and Micah Hide that this was essentially the same play,
Speaker 1: the same read that Micah Hyde used to intercept Tom
Speaker 1: Brady against the Patriots last year in Orchard Park in
Speaker 1: the red zone. And this is a great job by
Speaker 1: Jerry us pressuring Russell Wilson, forcing him to make an
Speaker 1: off balanced throw, and Jordan Poyer comes up with the
Speaker 1: interception on fourth and one for the Bills. Now let's
Speaker 1: go to crunch time. It's the fourth quarter in the
Speaker 1: defense gets back to back sacks to set up a
Speaker 1: third and twenty five and this is where Turdevious gets
Speaker 1: his interception and Turdevious White shows great savvy here by
Speaker 1: what's now our experience lockdown cornerback in Buffalo and Trdavious White,
Speaker 1: former first round pick for them, comes back out of
Speaker 1: his read. And when you're able to force a third
Speaker 1: and twenty five, you can do stuff like this. He's
Speaker 1: able to leave his guy that's on a shorter route,
Speaker 1: knowing that he can't get the first down even if
Speaker 1: the ball is completed to him, and he goes and
Speaker 1: picks off Russell Wilson. He gets the ball almost down
Speaker 1: to the goal line. Again, got the hear from after
Speaker 1: the game that Micah Hydes and Jordan Poynter, those guys
Speaker 1: are having some fun with Turdevious not being able to
Speaker 1: finish with this ball in the end zone. Well, with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson a quarterback, the Seahawks always seem to be
Speaker 1: gaining momentum and that didn't stop here and aj Klein
Speaker 1: comes up with an enormous strip sack on a third
Speaker 1: and two. Yeah. With the Seahawks are never out of
Speaker 1: the game. They have such a prolific offense and this
Speaker 1: on this play, Leslie Frazier and Sean mcderman designed a
Speaker 1: great play call. So they line up the defensive ends
Speaker 1: inside of the defensive tackles who they put tremade Edmonds
Speaker 1: and aj Clin on the line outside. This gets both
Speaker 1: sides of the line to squeeze down Russell Wilson knows
Speaker 1: it's only a four man rush. He feels like he
Speaker 1: should be protected, but the right garden right tackle have
Speaker 1: to squeeze down to that defensive end in the a gap.
Speaker 1: This allows aj Clin to come completely unblocked off the
Speaker 1: edge and a great job at him closing in space,
Speaker 1: going after the football and coming away with the fumble recovery.
Speaker 1: It was great to see some complimentary football from the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills against the Seattle Seahawks. If they play like
Speaker 1: that every week, they can beat anyone in the league. Eric,
Speaker 1: thanks for this. Yeah, thank you, Steve. As a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Mattie glab Here with this week's game preview, the seven
Speaker 1: and two Buffalo Bills are heading to Arizona to face
Speaker 1: the five and three Cardinals for the first time since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. The Colonel's offense averages four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two total yards per game, which is the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL and ranks second on the ground, rushing for
Speaker 1: just over one hundred and sixty yards a game. That's
Speaker 1: thanks to second year quarterback Kyler Murray, who leads quarterbacks
Speaker 1: with five hundred and forty three rushing yards and eight
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. Arizona's defense is eighth, allowing only twenty two
Speaker 1: and a half points per game and allows red zone
Speaker 1: touchdowns only fifty percent of the time. Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: third in the league with two thousand, five hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven passing yards. Bills receivers have had a lot
Speaker 1: of success this year, and we'll look to continue that
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals as Stefan Diggs leads the NFL and
Speaker 1: receptions with sixty three and receiving yards with eight hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen. Diggs and Colebeasley combined for one thousand, three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six receiving yards, which ranks third for
Speaker 1: wide receiver duos. The Bills defense ranks eighteenth in total yards,
Speaker 1: allowing three hundred and sixty four point nine yards per game.
Speaker 1: And we'll look to build off their four forced turnovers
Speaker 1: against Seattle, as they are fourth with fourteen takeaways this season.
Speaker 1: Buffalo lease the series against the Cardinals with seven wins
Speaker 1: and four losses. That's this week's game preview, Steve back
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks as always, Mattie, coach. You've won three straight,
Speaker 1: You've got one more game against the Cardinals before you
Speaker 1: head into your bye week. How important it is it
Speaker 1: that you can keep this momentum rolling into the bye. Well,
Speaker 1: that'll be the challenge this week. We go up against
Speaker 1: a very tough Arizona team that we play out there.
Speaker 1: We traveled across country and they're an explosive offense again
Speaker 1: and in a good overall football team. So it'll be
Speaker 1: a big test for us. Now, you're facing Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: this week. He had a game last week where he
Speaker 1: had one hundred and six rushing yards two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty three passing yards against the Dolphins. He's got eight
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns this year. What's the key to stopping a
Speaker 1: true dual threat quarterback like Kyler Murray? Well, this will
Speaker 1: be my first time coaching against Kyler Murray, and he's
Speaker 1: certainly a special in elite talent, both with his feed
Speaker 1: and being able to throw the ball. There's a reason
Speaker 1: he was Rookie of the Year and productive in his
Speaker 1: first season. Now he's off to even better starting the
Speaker 1: second season. So they're putting up a lot of points.
Speaker 1: They've got weapons in the backfield, weapons outside now with
Speaker 1: adding Hopkins this season, So we're gonna have to have
Speaker 1: a great plan and a great week of practice. All right, coach,
Speaker 1: thanks and good luck this weekend against Arizona. You're giving
Speaker 1: us next week off. We appreciate that for the bye week,
Speaker 1: but we're going to be back in two weeks for
Speaker 1: your week twelve matchup against the Chargers. Thanks for watching,
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