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Speaker 1: time to be a Buffalo Bill and a fan of
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Sean McDermott Show,
Speaker 1: once again, is presented by ECMC and Collide to Healthy,
Speaker 1: official healthcare providers of the Buffalo Bills. I'm Steve Tasker
Speaker 1: and we're pleased to be joining Sean McDermott. Sean, after
Speaker 1: the bye week, you come back and the chiefs of
Speaker 1: lofts twice since you took the field in Tennessee. Now
Speaker 1: you've got the second best record in the AFC. It
Speaker 1: must feel pretty good to get back into the swing
Speaker 1: of things sitting there, Yeah, it does. You know, we're
Speaker 1: able to sit back evaluate some of our team over
Speaker 1: the bye week, and you know, things we've been good
Speaker 1: at and things that we need work on and so
Speaker 1: but at the same time, get some rest and get
Speaker 1: some players healthy. At the same time, I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about that you kind of got a rash
Speaker 1: of injuries there in the Tennessee game. Plus you were
Speaker 1: you know, Devin Singletary, some guys who were just about
Speaker 1: to be ready from the start of training camp until
Speaker 1: this point, and from this point to the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season eleven weeks on either end. So it
Speaker 1: kind of hit your right in the middle of each season.
Speaker 1: It did. And it's funny you mentioned that because I
Speaker 1: was kind of doing the math over the bye week
Speaker 1: there and saying, hey, is there a good time for
Speaker 1: a buye? It was a good time for the buye.
Speaker 1: We did have some injuries. We've incurred some injuries really
Speaker 1: since it started training camp, and so credit to our
Speaker 1: training staff, credit to the players. They've worked hard this
Speaker 1: past week to get themselves ready to go. Right. The
Speaker 1: last time you took the field in Tennessee, you knew
Speaker 1: it was going to be a hard fought game. Their
Speaker 1: defense is a quality defense. It was a one possession game.
Speaker 1: How great did it feel when your offense went out
Speaker 1: there with four twenty two left in the game. You
Speaker 1: handed it to Frank Gore a couple of times and
Speaker 1: you put it away. They never got the ball back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look for that, right, and we worked on that
Speaker 1: way back in the spring. Bobby Johnson, our offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: and our offensive lineman have done a great job, including
Speaker 1: coach Dable of really scheming up some runs. And then
Speaker 1: on top of that technique fundamentals toughness that goes a
Speaker 1: long way in terms of winning and closing out football games.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that offensive line. Mitch Morrise went down,
Speaker 1: Cody Ford went down. You always give us this next
Speaker 1: man up mentality. It's easy to say, but man, oh man,
Speaker 1: the guys who were next man up stepped up and
Speaker 1: you closed out a football game when they came in
Speaker 1: off the bench really expecting not to take any snaps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and give credit to those guys. The coaches had them ready,
Speaker 1: They were prepared. That says a lot about the guys
Speaker 1: in our room. And to close out a game the
Speaker 1: way we did in that fashion, I thought was impressive.
Speaker 1: And then Ryan Bates to have played in his first
Speaker 1: NFL regular season game and Spencer Long coming in and
Speaker 1: doing a really good job says a lot about our guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about one of your guys, Dion Dawkins,
Speaker 1: who's really the only loan survivor from last year's offensive line,
Speaker 1: and now this year, in twenty eighteen and now twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: not only is he a survivor, he's a team captain.
Speaker 1: What are the differences you've seen in Dion Well, maturity
Speaker 1: and not that he wasn't mature before, but maturity and
Speaker 1: focus really with off the field and on the field.
Speaker 1: And look, we've brought in a number of guys and
Speaker 1: sometimes that that's a great wake up call for other guys.
Speaker 1: And and Deon's done a really nice job since the
Speaker 1: spring coming back up until now, and so we need
Speaker 1: him to continue to grow and develop and remain focused
Speaker 1: and continue to lead the way he's led. Well, let's
Speaker 1: keep an INTRENCHU. Let's flip it over and talk about
Speaker 1: your defensive line. You went into Tennessee a team that
Speaker 1: was leading the NFL and sacks given up. And I
Speaker 1: think it says something about the strength or maybe the
Speaker 1: depth of your team that when you read a team
Speaker 1: that's struggling in some area, you can use that you're
Speaker 1: good enough in that area to use it to your
Speaker 1: advantage and win the football games. So you're pass rushing Tennessee,
Speaker 1: five sacks on a team that was struggling to do it,
Speaker 1: and you took advantage, right, Steve. I mean you know
Speaker 1: it starts up front. We talk a lot about that
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball and our defensive line.
Speaker 1: We're only going to be as good of a defense
Speaker 1: as our defensive line allows us to be. And so
Speaker 1: their mentality, they're attitude, their toughness, their intensity, that's an
Speaker 1: everyday thing. And those guys bring their lunch pails. And
Speaker 1: when they do that, we've got a chance. Now you've
Speaker 1: got some veterans over there, you also got a couple
Speaker 1: of rookies. Bam Johnson got his first sack. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about Ed Oliver. You know he hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten a sack yet, but how is he in his development?
Speaker 1: Is he contributing or is he getting everything you want
Speaker 1: from it? Well, he's doing his job. Let's just let's
Speaker 1: just say that he's doing it just playing defensive tack.
Speaker 1: He's not an edge rusher. Right, Yeah, that's right. Let's
Speaker 1: let's say in case Ed's watching, let's just kind of
Speaker 1: dial it back a little bit. And this is make
Speaker 1: sure he does his job and he's growing, and that's
Speaker 1: what you want from a young player, to develop a
Speaker 1: good solid foundation. He's understanding how he fits into the
Speaker 1: system in the scheme, and then how he fits amongst
Speaker 1: his teammates on the left side and the right side.
Speaker 1: So that'll come and defensive tackle. I've long said it's
Speaker 1: the most unselfish position on the field and on the defense,
Speaker 1: and so you have to embrace that mindset if you
Speaker 1: want to play well. Well. Talking about your defense, last year,
Speaker 1: your pass defense was elite. It continues to be elite
Speaker 1: this year. This year your run defense matches it. What
Speaker 1: has been the big difference? How have you been able
Speaker 1: to elevate the run defense to keep in teams four
Speaker 1: out of these five games named they can't get four
Speaker 1: yards to carry? Yeah? Well, awareness, I think it starts
Speaker 1: from the guy who spent a lot of time in
Speaker 1: the film room with their coaches, without their coaches in
Speaker 1: study groups, and then their awareness leads to great practice habits.
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser and the staff do a really good job
Speaker 1: of scripting a good practice where they can work on
Speaker 1: some of those run fits as we call it, and
Speaker 1: they know where they are in the fit, and sometimes
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing that leads to preventing big runs.
Speaker 1: All right, Sean, thanks for these insights. So we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our conversation just a little bit later in
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Speaker 1: Mattie Glive here with this week's game preview and their
Speaker 1: third divisional matchup of the season. The Bills take on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and seven times to come back in the
Speaker 1: founder five. Miami is currently fourth in the AFC East
Speaker 1: and has yet to win a game this season. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins average a league worst eight point four points per game.
Speaker 1: They haven't had a rusher or receiver hit the one
Speaker 1: hundred yard mark yet. On defense, Miami gives up an
Speaker 1: average of thirty six points per game, last in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They are thirty first enforcing three and outs, which is
Speaker 1: only twenty three point two percent of the time. Fris
Speaker 1: You're coming, They got up. They gotta trap back. Gary
Speaker 1: is set back at the four yard line. It is
Speaker 1: Georgia game. The Bills are looking for their fifth win
Speaker 1: of the season, which would be the first time Buffalo
Speaker 1: was five and one since two thousand and eight. The
Speaker 1: Bill's defense has held their opponents to under seventeen points
Speaker 1: in the last six games, which is the fifth time
Speaker 1: in franchise history that unit is second in the NFL
Speaker 1: and three, forcing a team off the field forty three
Speaker 1: point three percent of the time. Buffalo's defense ranks third
Speaker 1: league wide, allowing an average of just two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five yards per game. The Bills are tied for
Speaker 1: first when it comes to red zone touchdowns, scoring seventy
Speaker 1: one point four percent of the time in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Ten of the bills eleven touchdowns this season have all
Speaker 1: come on drives of seventy or more yards. If Buffalo
Speaker 1: can defend their dirt on Sunday, it will mark their
Speaker 1: seventh home wins against the Dolphins in the last eight years.
Speaker 1: Steve back to you, thanks a lot, Mattie. We're back
Speaker 1: here with coach Sean McDermot. We're gonna get your final
Speaker 1: thoughts coach. Facing a Miami Dolphins team struggling to get
Speaker 1: anything going offensively, it starts really at their quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen started the game last week, didn't finish it.
Speaker 1: They made the change really because of poor play and
Speaker 1: put Fitzpatrick back in. Does that add a degree of
Speaker 1: difficulty for you guys? And preparing for the Dolphins well,
Speaker 1: it does. Fitz has done a lot of good things
Speaker 1: in this league. Very experienced, very savvy. It's thrown a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of touchdown passes and over the
Speaker 1: course of his careers. We've got to be prepared, which
Speaker 1: I feel like we will be after a good week
Speaker 1: of practice, and we've got to earn the right to win.
Speaker 1: The fourth quarter. Margin of victory is when you turn
Speaker 1: the tape on as not indicative of how this team plays.
Speaker 1: If you look at the halftime scores other than the
Speaker 1: first game of the season, they were within give or
Speaker 1: take seven points other than the New England game. So
Speaker 1: this team has played hard, they've played well, they've played discipline,
Speaker 1: and we expected touch challenge. Well, it kind of focus
Speaker 1: on the Bills. Quarterback Josh Allen the last out against
Speaker 1: Tennessee kind of took a step forward. We've seen him
Speaker 1: go up, take a step back, a couple of steps forward,
Speaker 1: and go up and down. But he had seventy percent
Speaker 1: plus completion percentage, he cut down on his turnovers and
Speaker 1: something a little bit better from him. Well it was
Speaker 1: and it was a step in the right direction for
Speaker 1: Josh and for our offense, quite honestly, and Josh is
Speaker 1: continuing to learn how to play, and his development is
Speaker 1: a big part of our success as a football team,
Speaker 1: and so his his consistency now moving forward is a
Speaker 1: big part of his development. And that's what we're looking
Speaker 1: for this week. I know every game is important, but
Speaker 1: you're coming up on three straight home games. Anything about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love We take them one at
Speaker 1: a time, but to be home in front of our
Speaker 1: fans for three straight home games means a lot. What
Speaker 1: it means to play in front of our fans, to
Speaker 1: play in Western New York and for our players to
Speaker 1: be able to run out on our field and makes
Speaker 1: a lot to the players, especially Sean. Thanks for being here,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be back after the Miami game to
Speaker 1: recap the Dolphins and also look ahead to the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles game. So I have a great weekend, everybody. We'll
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