Speaker 1: Baby, defend your dirt, man, Wait, depend dirt. All the
Speaker 1: heart in this room, man, God day man, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of heart in this room. Heartness room. He too
Speaker 1: got chilled. We're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody
Speaker 1: got me not. Let's go bury. Every man do their
Speaker 1: job one a love well caliber defense. Let's go no overthinking, right,
Speaker 1: go play some ball. We'll play some football. It's an
Speaker 1: exciting time to be a Buffalo Bill and a fan
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Hi, everybody, and welcome to the
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Task and once again we're joining Sean Mcdermotshwan.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the wind against Cincinnai. Thanks for taking some
Speaker 1: time for us. Yeah, thanks to a great win. Yeh
Speaker 1: win at home, in particular in front of our fans,
Speaker 1: and good to be home. Um. So it's it was
Speaker 1: a game that trended up and down, it ebbed and
Speaker 1: flowed and uh and got away from us for a
Speaker 1: little bit. But then I thought the guys showed a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of heart and resiliency and we got to win.
Speaker 1: You know, you said in the speech that you made
Speaker 1: just after after the game, you mentioned hard and your
Speaker 1: players really seem to respond to that word. What kind
Speaker 1: of chord do you want that to strike with your
Speaker 1: players when they respond so heartily, do you, you know,
Speaker 1: tell them how much heart they showed? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you think you know your team, but you really never
Speaker 1: know it until you get into the battles that the
Speaker 1: week to week battles during the season, as you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen and so early on. It's It's one of the
Speaker 1: things I can say is that I know this team
Speaker 1: has heard. I know that they have resolved, and they've
Speaker 1: built up a bank of h They've done it before
Speaker 1: and they found different ways to win and and so
Speaker 1: that goes a long way. I think we can check
Speaker 1: that box with with a lot more to check at
Speaker 1: this point, a lot of work to do, but um,
Speaker 1: I'm confident that these guys have heart. One of the
Speaker 1: things that happened outside the lines on Sunday was Ezra Castro.
Speaker 1: His family was there and you got a chance to
Speaker 1: say hello to them, and so Poncho Bia the fans
Speaker 1: had a chance to say thank you to him and
Speaker 1: to see what his legacy is going to be about
Speaker 1: in the Buffalo area. Do you have any personal feelings
Speaker 1: about that at this point. Well, it's good to have
Speaker 1: his family here. They had a chance to visit us
Speaker 1: a practice, and the players had a chance to come
Speaker 1: around them and support them, and they left us with
Speaker 1: some patches and some bracelets to remember Poncho by And
Speaker 1: just as you know, and we all know in Bill's
Speaker 1: nation here he lived life with such a passion and
Speaker 1: he supported this team with such passion. It's the least
Speaker 1: we could do to help support his family, and we
Speaker 1: hope his legacy, to your point, carries on for many years. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're three and oh and interestingly enough, you've won
Speaker 1: these three games three different ways. You came from behind
Speaker 1: in the Jets late, you were kind of total in
Speaker 1: control with the New York Giants, and then you had
Speaker 1: to lead, you lost the lead, and then you had
Speaker 1: to come back late and win it in the week three.
Speaker 1: What all those different ways of winning tell you about
Speaker 1: your squad? Yeah? Again, you know, I think it speaks
Speaker 1: to the heart. It speaks to the mental toughness of
Speaker 1: our football team and the leadership of Josh and Tremaine
Speaker 1: and the leadership of the coaches on the sideline that
Speaker 1: they're able to keep their poison composure overall as a group,
Speaker 1: make the adjustments and move forward and go to win
Speaker 1: a football game. And it's hard to win in this league.
Speaker 1: It's hard to win and be able to win close games.
Speaker 1: And I feel like we won at least two of
Speaker 1: the three have been close, and maybe in some ways
Speaker 1: all three. To me, all three have been close, right,
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing. One of the things you've
Speaker 1: been preaching out throughout the offseason was turnovers. They hurt
Speaker 1: you in the Week one and then there was a
Speaker 1: seesaw battle in this game against Cincinnati. They had one,
Speaker 1: you had one, they had one that you kind of
Speaker 1: traded back and forth. There's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: roller coaster. How has that helped you and getting that
Speaker 1: message across to your players, Well, the players see the
Speaker 1: benefits of taking the ball away. Defensively, we got we
Speaker 1: had four against the Bengals, and that set us up
Speaker 1: with some short fields and we need to take advantage
Speaker 1: of those short fields. And then offensively, we didn't take
Speaker 1: care of the ball and because of that, the game
Speaker 1: was the way it was down the stretch, and that
Speaker 1: wasn't that wasn't the way we wanted it to be.
Speaker 1: We had a chance to go up two and a
Speaker 1: half to three scores at halftime and we weren't able
Speaker 1: to do that. And so that starts with me. I've
Speaker 1: got to do a better job and continue to drill
Speaker 1: that message home. Well, you got a contribution from your
Speaker 1: rookie tight end Dawson Knox this last game. He had
Speaker 1: an in sweep, a jet sweep, a touchdown catch, a
Speaker 1: long catch, and an angry run at the end of it.
Speaker 1: You know what's to say about to the other young
Speaker 1: guys on your team that you've got a rookie like
Speaker 1: Dawson stepping up and contributing in such a big way.
Speaker 1: Maybe not every week, but when his number was called,
Speaker 1: he certainly came through. Yeah, and he was prepared. That
Speaker 1: really starts with the process that they go through our
Speaker 1: players Monday through Monday through Saturday, getting themselves ready with
Speaker 1: the proper habits, preparation, the work ethic, the work in
Speaker 1: the way room to work in the film room to
Speaker 1: work with in this case, the tight ends coach Rob
Speaker 1: Us and with Brian Dable as well, So you know,
Speaker 1: you get what you earn, and he earned that opportunity
Speaker 1: and he did something with it, and which is good
Speaker 1: to see. Now it's where we go from here. You've
Speaker 1: had a team that has come out and being really
Speaker 1: productive offensively in the first half, your defense has been
Speaker 1: solid throughout. You seem to go into a lull or
Speaker 1: have had some third quarters that haven't gone your way consistently.
Speaker 1: What's spend your message your team to try and fight
Speaker 1: through after halftime, maybe continue your production from the first
Speaker 1: half into the second half. Yeah, it's it's being efficient
Speaker 1: with our time and halftime right, with communication, with where
Speaker 1: we spend our time, making sure everybody's on the same page,
Speaker 1: making sure we were proactive with our adjustments in terms
Speaker 1: of what they could do next to us on offense defense,
Speaker 1: we're special teams and then that translating to the game field.
Speaker 1: So we've got to continue to work on that amongst
Speaker 1: other areas this week as we prepare all Right, most
Speaker 1: people talk about defensive pressure because it's like a pass rush.
Speaker 1: The more guys but talk. I got to ask you.
Speaker 1: You've got some secondary guys from Turdavis Wide, Micah Hyde,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, it's really about your defensive secondary putting pressure
Speaker 1: on the offense. These days, they got a lot of turnovers, tippin' bowls,
Speaker 1: tipped interceptions. It's been a real job by your secondary
Speaker 1: really to put the pressure on the offense. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the reverse of what people would normally think, and
Speaker 1: that's that's what we try and do, but really do
Speaker 1: it through our base fundamentals, and that's when players have
Speaker 1: clarity about what their role is and what's expected. As
Speaker 1: you know, in the heat of the battle, things get gray.
Speaker 1: But we want we want them to be black or white,
Speaker 1: and so they within that they can play fast and
Speaker 1: execute at a high level. That's that's what those players
Speaker 1: have done, all right, Sean, thanks for spending some time
Speaker 1: with this. We're going to come back and finish our
Speaker 1: conversation later in this show. Thanks. Choppin' Wood is presented
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Welcome back to the Sean McDermott Show, and
Speaker 1: we're thrilled this week on a home game, we get
Speaker 1: Eric Wood in studio in person to break down the film.
Speaker 1: In the segment we call choppin'wood. Eric, Nice to have
Speaker 1: you at home. How's it going, Yeah, it's great. It
Speaker 1: was great being yesterday, always fun. Bills are three and
Speaker 1: oh life is good. Yeah, we came the Bills. In
Speaker 1: the offseason. A lot was made to their offensive line rebuild,
Speaker 1: but they also rebuilt the tight end crew as well.
Speaker 1: They drafted Dawson Knox, signed Tyler Croft, brought back Lee Smith,
Speaker 1: drafted Tommy Sweeney, and one of the tight ends, Dawson Knox,
Speaker 1: really had a data of the day. We're gonna break
Speaker 1: down some film against the Bengals he did. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing it because it was a ton of
Speaker 1: fun to call from the booth yesterday, and he made
Speaker 1: a bunch of big plays down to the first quarter.
Speaker 1: An early lead, you get an easy pitch and catch.
Speaker 1: They send Knox in motion and it turns into an
Speaker 1: easy completion for sure. Here we're on the goal line.
Speaker 1: They bring Dawson Knox in motion. They're gonna fake frank
Speaker 1: Or into the a gap on the left side. Again.
Speaker 1: This time they bring Dawson Knox and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get an easier pitch of catch of this. After the game,
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox said, my grandmother could have made this catch. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how the plant his grandmother is, but
Speaker 1: this is great execution by the Bills, a great play
Speaker 1: designed by Brian Dave all and that is what you
Speaker 1: call a layup toss from Josh Allen in a great
Speaker 1: way to start the game. Go on plays in the NFL.
Speaker 1: With as talented as defenses are. In the NFL's biggest
Speaker 1: defense Laminar, sometimes it's hard to just run straight out
Speaker 1: of defense, and plays like these are a great change up. Well.
Speaker 1: Later on in the game, Brian Dayboll gets a little
Speaker 1: bit creative with his play calling and sends a rookie
Speaker 1: tight end on a jet sweep. Maybe I'll call in
Speaker 1: jumbo jet sweep. Yeah, you don't often see jet sweeps
Speaker 1: come from a tight end, but with Devin Singletary out
Speaker 1: of the game and the lack of speed that the
Speaker 1: Bengals had at linebacker, they wanted to get them running laterally.
Speaker 1: So you saw it in a number of different ways.
Speaker 1: Yesterday you saw John Brown on an end around, you
Speaker 1: saw a number of Isaiah McKenzie handoffs on jet sweep,
Speaker 1: and then here you even get Dawson Knox, who is
Speaker 1: fast for a tight end. We talked before the show,
Speaker 1: he's young, he's still got the juice in his legs
Speaker 1: and he shows it here. And this is a great run.
Speaker 1: And the best part about this this is still early
Speaker 1: in the game. The best part about this is how
Speaker 1: he finishes this run. And watch the Bill sideline. They
Speaker 1: are loving it. These type of tempos setting big hits,
Speaker 1: especially from an offensive guy that this lights up the team.
Speaker 1: It's so energetic. And this is a great play by
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. And lastly, we get to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Now Cincinnati has scored seventeen unanswered. The Bills need to
Speaker 1: get back in if they need to play from somebody,
Speaker 1: and Dawson comes through again on this corner route and
Speaker 1: then he turns it into an angry run. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely incredible. And the same guy Williams that Knox
Speaker 1: ran over early in the game on the jet sweep,
Speaker 1: he stiff arms him, runs over number thirty and gets
Speaker 1: the Bills all the way down to the twenty two
Speaker 1: yard vine when they desperately needed a play at this
Speaker 1: point of the game, like you mentioned, seventeen underanswered points
Speaker 1: five of the Bengals. They take the lead and this
Speaker 1: play brings the Bills all the way down the field,
Speaker 1: setting up what would be a game winning touchdown for
Speaker 1: the Bills. They've seen him through three weeks, there are
Speaker 1: three and oh. Certainly they've they've got it out a
Speaker 1: couple of wins and come from behind victory. What's this
Speaker 1: tell you about the Bills team going forward? And can
Speaker 1: they carry that forward? Do they need to get more
Speaker 1: even more consistent. They're kind of riding a roller coaster
Speaker 1: right now in their play they are. But the thing
Speaker 1: I liked most about the Bills starts of the season
Speaker 1: at three and os. They've won in three different ways.
Speaker 1: They've had a comeback, they've held onto the lead, and
Speaker 1: then they've blown the lead and then taken the lead.
Speaker 1: So as the season goes on, where in the past
Speaker 1: it might have been, here we go again. Oh shoot,
Speaker 1: we blew the lead. We're gonna lose again. Now, the
Speaker 1: Bills can always revert back to these early games and
Speaker 1: say we've been down fourteen enough, and we did it
Speaker 1: on the road at the Jets. Hey we've held onto
Speaker 1: a lead. We did it against the Giants, and now
Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Hey, yes, we hit a slump in
Speaker 1: the third quarter and the Bengals came back and took
Speaker 1: the lead. But you know what we still got If
Speaker 1: we got one drop left, we can still go win
Speaker 1: this game. And I love the fact that they've won
Speaker 1: in three different ways. All right, Eric, thanks for being
Speaker 1: here and take us through the film study at the
Speaker 1: Sinsati Bengals game's great dramatic victory. Appreciate it. It It was
Speaker 1: Thank you bactlys Sean McDermott. Sean, you have been three
Speaker 1: and since twenty eleven, what's your message to your team
Speaker 1: about keeping this momentum going? Yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: great to be three and oh it's week four though, right,
Speaker 1: So we've got to continue to focus on our internal
Speaker 1: process and each one of us get better at our
Speaker 1: jobs and then collectively we'll grow as a football team.
Speaker 1: And we understand the opponent this week is they're the
Speaker 1: defending champs, right, and you know we've got our work
Speaker 1: cut out for us this week. But it's another opportunity
Speaker 1: for us to grow as a football team and as
Speaker 1: an organization. And you've got to take these guys on
Speaker 1: your three and oh they're three, and oh what have
Speaker 1: you found out about your team? And your three games.
Speaker 1: That gives you confidence about this one, Well, this is
Speaker 1: a tough minded group, it really is. They we found
Speaker 1: different ways to win. Hasn't been perfect, and I think
Speaker 1: you discover things about your team through the first three
Speaker 1: to four weeks, continue to try and put them in
Speaker 1: better positions to win football games and better positions to succeed.
Speaker 1: And that's part of our process this week. And one
Speaker 1: thing I gotta ask you about your quarterback, Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: He's got fourteen starts under not even a full season.
Speaker 1: He's got five comeback wins under this belt already. What's
Speaker 1: that tell you about that guy? Well, he's a young player,
Speaker 1: that's what it first tells me. And but no, he
Speaker 1: Josh is a tremendous competitor. He works extremely hard to
Speaker 1: prepare to put himself in position to be successful and
Speaker 1: put this team in position to be successful. And he's
Speaker 1: a guy that I think the guys and his teammates
Speaker 1: really really love and respect because of the way he
Speaker 1: prepares and the way he treats them and the way
Speaker 1: he plays at the end of the day. So it's
Speaker 1: a good group and I'm happy to be a part
Speaker 1: of it, all right, Sean thanks for joining us, thanks
Speaker 1: for giving us some time, and thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us here on The Sean McDermott Show. We're gonna come
Speaker 1: back next week to recap the New England game and
Speaker 1: also look ahead to the Tennessee Titans. We'll see you
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