Speaker 1: But we're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody got
Speaker 1: me not Let's go bury. Everybody do their job. One
Speaker 1: to love it, Wealth, Calvern defense, Let's go, no overthinking, right,
Speaker 1: Go play some ball, Go play some football. It's an
Speaker 1: exciting time to be a Buffalo Bill and a fan
Speaker 1: of the buff Blow Bills. Everybody, Welcome to the Sean
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Speaker 1: again we're here to join Sean McDermott for his thoughts
Speaker 1: on last week's game against the New England Patriots, looking
Speaker 1: forward to the Jets game, looking and beyond to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and coaching. You knew going into Foxborough they got
Speaker 1: the best defense statistically in the National Football League. You
Speaker 1: knew the margin of air was going to be very small.
Speaker 1: And once again, just like the first go round, it
Speaker 1: comes down to the wire in this one of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: no it did, and we didn't play our best game.
Speaker 1: They executed at a high level, which is what you'd
Speaker 1: expect from the defending champs, especially this time of year,
Speaker 1: and so we've got to learn from that. But it
Speaker 1: came down to the last possession. We had a chance
Speaker 1: to tie the game or go ahead with a two
Speaker 1: point possibly after that, and we didn't convert. But a
Speaker 1: lot of lessons can be taken from that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at this game too. You're kind of trying
Speaker 1: to build your team. You got a team that's been
Speaker 1: at the top of the division. You kind of build
Speaker 1: your team to beat him. In two teams with strong
Speaker 1: defenses and two teams that have two guys in the
Speaker 1: slot with Julian Edelman for the Patriots and you with
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, a lot of similarities. There are those two games,
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley with a bunch of catches for over one
Speaker 1: hundred yards. That's kind of the direction the National Football
Speaker 1: League is in. You want to have one of those guys,
Speaker 1: and both teams have one. Yeah, it was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It was fun to watch Cole do what he did
Speaker 1: the other night, and Josh to be able to connect
Speaker 1: with Cole in particular before half and then towards the
Speaker 1: end of game, and so it set us up with
Speaker 1: in scoring position a few times, and that was good
Speaker 1: to see. To get that part of our offense developed
Speaker 1: and going. Now you're in the playoffs, so you can
Speaker 1: have a little fun here. You got another big man touchdown,
Speaker 1: Don Dalkins. Yeah, it's got Actually, we had a guy
Speaker 1: tell us today there's one guy on the team that
Speaker 1: had a touchdown pass last year and a touchdown pass
Speaker 1: this year. It's the left tackle. That's amazing. Fun time
Speaker 1: and as a play that was called at the right time,
Speaker 1: executed perfect. Yeah, well well designed. We did run it
Speaker 1: last year, so I know there was some question on
Speaker 1: whether or not he reported eligible or not, but we
Speaker 1: try and do things the right way and we executed
Speaker 1: at a high level. Yeah, you know it's you executed
Speaker 1: a high level, particularly at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: You had like thirty one thirty two seconds ago, and
Speaker 1: you come down, you manage the clock perfectly, you get
Speaker 1: the ball over the top, two knocks, and the end
Speaker 1: of the first half is exactly the way you scripted.
Speaker 1: You wanted to end with the score, come out and
Speaker 1: get the ball in the second half. It really had
Speaker 1: to be happy with your execution, your play clock management,
Speaker 1: the offensive game plan, and the way the guy's executed.
Speaker 1: Well I was. I thought the guys executed well. Brian
Speaker 1: called a good series right there and six seconds on
Speaker 1: the clock. With you know, you're never sure what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, right, so but you got to be able
Speaker 1: to get up and down with the ball, and Josh
Speaker 1: did that well. We executed, and we wanted to then
Speaker 1: what we called double dip is come out after half
Speaker 1: and score again. And we drove. I think we moved
Speaker 1: the chains once, but we stalled after that, and so
Speaker 1: we've got to look at that as well. You know,
Speaker 1: Josh came down. It's kind of fun. You watched Josh
Speaker 1: play and there's no question he's kind of the bell
Speaker 1: cowar your offense, and he should be. He's the quarterback
Speaker 1: and he's going to be there for a while. But
Speaker 1: to see him hit those deep balls and he hadn't
Speaker 1: really had struggled to hit. To see him compete like
Speaker 1: that and then come back and also do the nitty
Speaker 1: gritty stuff of getting the fourth down conversion on a
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak with a face mask in the whole nine
Speaker 1: yards and didn't get called. Really got to be happy
Speaker 1: about where he's at mentally, even though you know, you'd
Speaker 1: still like to be a little more efficient. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we got off to a little bit of a slow
Speaker 1: start overall, I thought after that he made some really
Speaker 1: elite throws in some tough situations of the game where
Speaker 1: it was before half, and he used his feet before
Speaker 1: half as well. And then the throw to John Brown
Speaker 1: on second and eleven plus whatever it was, and with
Speaker 1: a guy in his face, took a big hit and
Speaker 1: then to lead us on the drive at the end
Speaker 1: to give us a chance to tie the game at
Speaker 1: least or go ahead. Big time drive in a big
Speaker 1: game and big moments of a big game. Well, your
Speaker 1: defense continues, even with this loss last week, to be
Speaker 1: ranked extremely high in the rankings all across the National
Speaker 1: Football League. And there's been a couple of games, and
Speaker 1: this latest one in New England's another example. You've gotten
Speaker 1: the best offensive performance from the teams you face that
Speaker 1: they've been able to muster all season. And Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: what can you say? The guy rose up. He had
Speaker 1: his best day of the year this last week against
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, and that's and that was to be expected, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can only they talk people talk about
Speaker 1: while they're not the same, and Tom Brady is not
Speaker 1: the same. And as I said, you think, don't ever
Speaker 1: think you've got him figured out. He's been one of
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, for a reason, and
Speaker 1: especially late in the year, and they executed at a
Speaker 1: high level. And so we've got to go back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board and continue to grow and develop as
Speaker 1: a staff and as a team. And we'll do that
Speaker 1: move forward. We're gonna come back later in the show
Speaker 1: and get your final thoughts. Thanks Sean. Chopping Wood is
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Everybody, welcome back to the Sean McDermott
Speaker 1: shown as we go inside the film room. As a tradition,
Speaker 1: we bring Eric Wood in the radio analysts for the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills broadcast to talk about it. We're gonna chop
Speaker 1: some wood in the segment we obviously called chopping Wood. Eric,
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. Nobody cares about moral victories anymore.
Speaker 1: But in a really competitive game, we really had a
Speaker 1: playoff atmosphere. You gotta like the way the Bills showed up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on Saturday, they proved once again that they can compete
Speaker 1: with anyone in this league, and in these last few
Speaker 1: games have been very stiff competition. At the Steelers, you
Speaker 1: play the Ravens. You play the Patriots at their place,
Speaker 1: and you go toe to toe with all of them,
Speaker 1: you beat the Steelers. The Bills are proving with this
Speaker 1: this young roster and serve spots, especially quarterback, middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: These these young captains, they're getting really big experience right
Speaker 1: now in these really hostile environments that will pay off
Speaker 1: hopefully come playoff time. Yeah. Well, Josh Allen in the
Speaker 1: second year, he's had this knack for like looking at
Speaker 1: his own game and making improvements. You know, he addresses
Speaker 1: those parts of his game that he might struggle with
Speaker 1: early in the season. We saw the deep ball has
Speaker 1: been a problem for the team throughout the season. Yet
Speaker 1: in this big moment, Josh came through with maybe two
Speaker 1: of his best throws of the year. This touchdown pass
Speaker 1: to John Brown is probably the play of the game
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. John Brown going against Steph Gilmour,
Speaker 1: double teamed by the safety coming over. Smoke runs a
Speaker 1: phenomenal route and Josh puts it right on the money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is one of my favorite throws I've
Speaker 1: seen Josh make in his entire career. And you have
Speaker 1: two guys barreling down the face of Josh Allen. On
Speaker 1: this play, they do a designed to hard play action,
Speaker 1: but because of the edge pressure from Kyle van Noy
Speaker 1: in him not getting leaving containing then Lawrence Guys coming
Speaker 1: right up the gut at him. Josh bads back to
Speaker 1: his left, sees that Smoke brown completely dust Stefan Gilmore,
Speaker 1: regarded by most as the best cornerback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and drops it right over the top of the safety mcquarter.
Speaker 1: Just a phenomenal route, excellent throw by Josh Allen under
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure. You know it's not a deep ball.
Speaker 1: But we also had the big man touchdown, the rarity
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Dion Dawkins comes through, gets a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and it was always fun when you see these celebrations.
Speaker 1: No Quay, we saw a great celebration just a minute
Speaker 1: ago by Smoke, But these big man touchdowns are so
Speaker 1: rare and they're an awful lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: They do a little bit of a play, actually roll
Speaker 1: out out to the right, leak Dion Dawkins out the back,
Speaker 1: and one of the things I love most about this
Speaker 1: play is Dietrich Wise he almost reads out of it
Speaker 1: to cover Dion in the flat in Clinton. Spain just
Speaker 1: gives him a little bit of a tug to bring
Speaker 1: him back in to pre up his buddy for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins. He needs to buy his boy, Quentin Spain
Speaker 1: a steak or something for that one. Let's look ahead
Speaker 1: for a minute Week seventeen the New York Jets. Certainly
Speaker 1: it has not gone the way the Jet fans would
Speaker 1: have hoped, but they did win last week over the Pittsburgh's.
Speaker 1: A huge difference maker in that game was the Jets
Speaker 1: safety Marcus May. Let's pick things up with his interception.
Speaker 1: Tell us what you see on this intersection from the
Speaker 1: Jets safety Marcus May has been a bright spot for
Speaker 1: this team, and as Duck Hodges tries to test the
Speaker 1: defense here, Marcus May does a great job coming over
Speaker 1: the top, playing the ball through the receiver, not a
Speaker 1: PI because he's playing the ball the entire time even
Speaker 1: though there was some contact, and just makes it an
Speaker 1: excellent play on the outside of the Jets there. Even
Speaker 1: with that interception, this game still came down to the wire.
Speaker 1: Marcus May coming up with a second big pass breakup
Speaker 1: of the day's one on one with James Washington. Dut
Speaker 1: down the field, He's able to make the play. It's
Speaker 1: really really a nice play by the young safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the game on the line. This Steelers try to
Speaker 1: test Marcus May again in this game, and they try
Speaker 1: and test them deep. Washington has been a great deep
Speaker 1: threat for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They test them deep and
Speaker 1: Marcus May just does a great job running with him vertically.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that Buffalo Bills this week.
Speaker 1: We'll have to be careful testing in the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: and moving forward, the Jets have to love what they
Speaker 1: have at the safety position with Jamal Adams and Marcus
Speaker 1: May Harrol Eric. Obviously, this game isn't the last game
Speaker 1: of the season for the Buffalo Bills. They're head of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Look forward to ending the regular season on
Speaker 1: the right foot against the Jets, and looking forward to
Speaker 1: the broadcast with you and Murph. Thanksgreing with us. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: my pleasure, Steve. Game preview is presented by Independent Health
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Speaker 1: In Week seventeen, the ten and five Bills round out
Speaker 1: the regular season with the home game against the six
Speaker 1: and nine year Jets. Buffalo punched its ticket to the
Speaker 1: playoffs with a Week fifteen win over the Steelers and
Speaker 1: locked up the fifth seed wildcard spot in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1: Many records were broken and milestones were passed this season
Speaker 1: as Buffalo got to ten wins. Head coach Sean McDermott's
Speaker 1: twenty five wins are the fifth most by a head
Speaker 1: coach in team history. Josh Allen has had twenty one
Speaker 1: straight games with a touchdown. It's a new franchise record
Speaker 1: that passes Doug Flutie's twenty game streak from nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: eight to ninety nine. Allen's twenty nine total touchdowns this
Speaker 1: season are the second most in franchise history behind Jim Kelly.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense continues to remain amongst the best as they
Speaker 1: close out the regular season, still ranked third allowing only
Speaker 1: three hundred point one yards per game and second allowing
Speaker 1: sixteen point four points per game. On the season, Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold has completed sixty one point seven percent of his passes,
Speaker 1: averaging two hundred and thirty five point four passing yards
Speaker 1: per game, and has scored eighteen touchdowns while growing twelve interceptions.
Speaker 1: While their offense has had a tough go, their defense
Speaker 1: ranked seventh, with Jamal Adams leading the team in tackles
Speaker 1: with seventy two. They have the second best run defense,
Speaker 1: allowing only eighty seven point nine rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: The last time the Bills saw the Jets was in
Speaker 1: Week one in Buffalo won by a point with the
Speaker 1: final score of seventeen to sixteen. Steve back to you.
Speaker 1: Thanks as always, Maddie, appreciate it. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: come back. Get some final thoughts from coach. Coach you
Speaker 1: got the week seventeen matchup with the Jets. Can't help
Speaker 1: or detract from your playoff spot. What's your message Forget
Speaker 1: about the team, we'll get to them. What about the fans?
Speaker 1: What about the what's your message to them about? You
Speaker 1: know this game? And it's kind of a bonus football
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills and their fans this week? Yeah
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, listen, we take every game to
Speaker 1: me seriously and respect every opponent, and it's another opportunity
Speaker 1: for us to improve as a football team. We're young
Speaker 1: in a lot of areas and a a lot of positions.
Speaker 1: Keep positions and they will give us a chance to
Speaker 1: through the week of practice and then the game to
Speaker 1: continue to develop at some of those positions. And again,
Speaker 1: as an overall team, in your three years here, you've
Speaker 1: got two trips to the play offs, and you know
Speaker 1: you came in thinking, well, let's go playoff caliber. It
Speaker 1: was a slogan that was on the walls and that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And you know, what is your message
Speaker 1: to your team now about their mindset going into this
Speaker 1: week seventeen matchup and beyond, Well, it's that playoff caliber.
Speaker 1: The whole vision behind that is that's a day to
Speaker 1: day standard of how we do things. Everyone. I'm sure
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams set out their goal to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, but to me, that's the day to
Speaker 1: day standard in the plan. And then so now we
Speaker 1: moved to championship caliber, and that's really the mindset and
Speaker 1: the new standard that we're trying to establish here at
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Well, Sean, congratulations on the playoff birth.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to the Jet game this week. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be back next week to recap the entire twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen regular season and preview the wild card matchup and
Speaker 1: the Bill's playoff birth. This season. Enjoy the holidays, everybody,
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