Speaker 1: I had a hell of a job, man. Wait to
Speaker 1: stick to it, the whole game, the whole game. Man,
Speaker 1: that's not easy, right, that's the type of game we're
Speaker 1: go'll be in all the way through the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. Hey, that's one down right there, right, one down,
Speaker 1: one down. We know who's up next. We know who's
Speaker 1: up next. It's all about us, right, stay humble, how
Speaker 1: then needs to be saying? Man, we know what we
Speaker 1: need to do. We'll take what to day. Find in
Speaker 1: the way, find in the way every week. Hello foot,
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, no overthinking. All right, go play the ball.
Speaker 1: We'll play some football. An exciting time to be a
Speaker 1: Buffalo build of the fan of the Buffalo Bills. Welcome
Speaker 1: into Week sixteen of the Sean McDermott Show, presented by
Speaker 1: Connors and Farris, your workers comp attorney. I'm Steve Taskan.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm pleased to be joined by head coach
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. Coach, thanks as is for joining us. You
Speaker 1: guys bounce back in a big way against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: You put yourselves in the driver's seat for a shot
Speaker 1: at the division title. How does it affect your mindset
Speaker 1: now that you're in control of your own destiny. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it gives the players great motivation when they
Speaker 1: know that there's something in front of them and an
Speaker 1: opportunity more than anything in front of them. And even
Speaker 1: if there wasn't, obviously you want to play at a
Speaker 1: certain level all the time. But this is just added
Speaker 1: motivation and should add focus and energy to what we're
Speaker 1: doing down the stretcher. Well, let's start with a maybe
Speaker 1: one of your most important players, Josh. He had three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns against Carolina, got him to thirty one on
Speaker 1: the seasons, the first quarterback in franchise history to have
Speaker 1: back to back seasons with thirty touchdowns. How do you
Speaker 1: think his experience last year has helped him prepare for
Speaker 1: this playoff push over the next couple of weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's big. Really, every experience that he's gone
Speaker 1: through it through the course of his career to this
Speaker 1: point is really added to his foundation and depths towards
Speaker 1: his development. And I think you're starting to see Josh
Speaker 1: really mature. He started off the game this past week
Speaker 1: a little erratic, call it, but he's really settled in
Speaker 1: and found his rhythm and I thought really played well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of those touchdowns of Josh's went to Gabriel Davis.
Speaker 1: He's got four touchdowns over the last three weeks, and
Speaker 1: Davis led your team with five catches for eighty five
Speaker 1: yards filling in for Emmanuel Sanders. How important is that
Speaker 1: numbered two receiver role in your offense given the amount
Speaker 1: of attention Steph Diggs gets every game. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: just going to add that, right. Steph Days gets so
Speaker 1: much attention a week to week, whether it's with the
Speaker 1: top corner matching him or rolling a safety over the
Speaker 1: top of Steff. That that other position, the two the
Speaker 1: three receiver, whether it be Gabe, Emmanuel Cole and such
Speaker 1: an important part of what we're doing on offense. Well,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary ran for a season high eighty six yards
Speaker 1: on a career high twenty two carries. His sixteen yard
Speaker 1: touchdown on the second quarter got things started for you offensively.
Speaker 1: He was virtually the only guy to run the ball
Speaker 1: besides Josh. How do you think using the one running
Speaker 1: back approach worked for your offense in this game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought they did a good job really
Speaker 1: sticking with Motor. Motor had the hot hand. Thought Motor
Speaker 1: you did a really good job as well, and some
Speaker 1: of the time, some of the plays opportunities where he
Speaker 1: didn't have the ball in his hand. Passing game in particular,
Speaker 1: and that's an important part of being an all around
Speaker 1: back and having that consistency and trust with our offense. Now,
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, you stop Carolina
Speaker 1: on four out of five fourth down tries, which really
Speaker 1: changed the moment of the game. How did it impact
Speaker 1: your defensive game plan once you realize they were without
Speaker 1: a place kicker and would be going forth the entire game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it sounds like it's a good thing, and
Speaker 1: it was a good thing for us because they become
Speaker 1: predictable to some extent. Although it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a unique challenge because of the lack of the kicker
Speaker 1: and the four down opportunities that they have and what
Speaker 1: third down is going to look like as it relates
Speaker 1: to going for it on fourth down, so added opportunities.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some analytics people out there that love
Speaker 1: that approach, and I like our kicker on our ends,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep him as long as we can. At
Speaker 1: one point, Carolina was within one possession and Fa Obata
Speaker 1: came up with two huge sacks. The first one came
Speaker 1: on a second down and put them in a third
Speaker 1: and eighteen, and then two plays later he sat cam
Speaker 1: on fourth down to seal the game. What did you
Speaker 1: think of the game Fa had against his old team? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was huge. I mean Fa being an ex panther,
Speaker 1: I know he was motivated going into that game, and
Speaker 1: we had a number of them out there, Fa, Vernon, Butler,
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, J. Klein, to name just a few. And
Speaker 1: great to see those guys play so well against their
Speaker 1: old team. Thanks, coach. We'll catch up with you a
Speaker 1: little later in the show to get your final thoughts
Speaker 1: on your upcoming matchup with the Patriots. The game plan
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Speaker 1: your Week sixteen game preview. Eight and six Bills are
Speaker 1: taking on the nine and five Patriots with the AFC's
Speaker 1: title on the line. The Patriots were riding a seven
Speaker 1: game win streak, but suffered a loss of the Colts
Speaker 1: coming out of their bye week in Week fifteen. If
Speaker 1: the Bills can win out the division is theirs, they'll
Speaker 1: be facing a Patriots team who's averaging twenty six point
Speaker 1: two points per game and has a plus nine turnover margin,
Speaker 1: both of which are top ten in the NFL. One
Speaker 1: of Mac Jones's favorite targets in the end zone right
Speaker 1: now is tight end Hunter Henry, who has nine touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which leads the NFL for tight ends. The Patriots defense
Speaker 1: is allowing a league low sixteen point two points per
Speaker 1: game and is one of the toughest teams to score
Speaker 1: on because they're limiting touchdowns in the red zone to
Speaker 1: just forty five point nine percent of the time. Josh
Speaker 1: Shellen is hoping for a similar performance to his last
Speaker 1: one in Gillette Stadium because last season he completed twenty
Speaker 1: seven of thirty six passes for three hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: yards and through for four touchdowns and a thirty eight
Speaker 1: to nine victory in Foxboro. Alan is also the only
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill to ever have back to back seasons with
Speaker 1: at least thirty passing touchdowns. He has thirty one this season,
Speaker 1: which is top five in the NFL. The Bill's defense
Speaker 1: is allowing the fewest yards in the NFL only two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven point nine per game. They've given
Speaker 1: up only eleven passing touchdowns, which is also the fewest
Speaker 1: in the NFL. New England leads the series against Buffalo
Speaker 1: with seventy seven wins and forty five losses. That's this
Speaker 1: week's game preview, Steve back to you, Thanks Mattie. Coach.
Speaker 1: You're facing the Patriots for the second time, this time
Speaker 1: with first place in the AFC East on the line.
Speaker 1: What did you learn from your first matchup that has
Speaker 1: prepared you for this game. Well, clearly, we've saw some
Speaker 1: of their run game. They turned the round and handed
Speaker 1: that ball out forty five times, which is unusual. So
Speaker 1: we've got a decent field for our defense against their
Speaker 1: run attack, and obviously we have to do some things
Speaker 1: there to get cleaned up so we can play better football.
Speaker 1: And then I think offensively, we saw some of how
Speaker 1: they want to defend our offense. So they're very multiple
Speaker 1: on defense, and I've got a very veteran, smart group
Speaker 1: that played well together, so it'll be a big challenge
Speaker 1: for us here. Yeah, in that first game, Mac Jones
Speaker 1: only threw a bowl three times. It's hard to believe
Speaker 1: that'll happen again. So how are you preparing to see
Speaker 1: a completely different offensive game plan from New England? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a great question. You know, they've only
Speaker 1: played one game in between our game and now our
Speaker 1: second game, and we've played two, which is not a lot,
Speaker 1: but they have two additional games on us there with
Speaker 1: just one that we have on them. But I think,
Speaker 1: just overall, I was very impressed with what mac Jones
Speaker 1: did against the Colts, trying to bring his team from
Speaker 1: behind and showed a lot of poise, a lot of
Speaker 1: high level execution to bring his team back and almost
Speaker 1: go ahead and win the game. So a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for the start he's off to as a young
Speaker 1: quarterback in our league. All Right, thanks coach, good luck
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We'll be back next week to recap your
Speaker 1: game against the Patriots and preview your Week seventeen matchup
Speaker 1: against the Falcons. And to everyone at home, thanks for watching.
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