Speaker 1: I'm in the way. I'm the way every week Camico
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill, no overthinking. All right, go play football. We'll
Speaker 1: play the football. An exciting time to be a Buffalo
Speaker 1: build of the fan of the Buffalo Builds. Welcome into
Speaker 1: Week fifteen and the Sean McDermott Show, presented by Connors
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Speaker 1: in for Steve Tasker, Pleased to be joined by head
Speaker 1: coach Sean McDermott. Coach, Thanks is always for joining us.
Speaker 1: You overcome a twenty one point deficit in the second
Speaker 1: half to force overtime against the defending Super Bowl champs
Speaker 1: in Tampa. How can you build off this effort as
Speaker 1: you make a push for the playoffs over these last
Speaker 1: four games of the regular season. Yeah, look, Chris, there's
Speaker 1: no there's no doubt. We faced adversity and we've had
Speaker 1: a tough stretch here the last a handful of weeks.
Speaker 1: And I'm real proud of the guys that way that
Speaker 1: they persevered through that game, and the guts, the heart,
Speaker 1: the togetherness, the love that they showed in that second
Speaker 1: half I thought was a big step forward for our team.
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, and something that I think should serve as
Speaker 1: well as we go down the stretch here. In particular
Speaker 1: against Carolina this week, Josh Allen battled through an injury
Speaker 1: put the team on his back. He became just the
Speaker 1: fourth player in league history to throw for three hundred
Speaker 1: yards and rush for another hundred. He scored all three
Speaker 1: of his touchdowns in the second half. What can you
Speaker 1: just say about the way he played through adversity in Tampa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a warrior of the players. They know that.
Speaker 1: We knew that when we drafted him. And he's the
Speaker 1: guy that you want to have next to you, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that you want to play alongside of,
Speaker 1: and he's a leader in the way he plays. And
Speaker 1: I think all of these experiences this season, in particular
Speaker 1: that game was a big step forward for him in
Speaker 1: his career, in his development. I know Josh was labeled
Speaker 1: as day to day this week with a spring foot
Speaker 1: if for some reason he can't go on Sunday. This
Speaker 1: is why you guys signed Mitchell Trubisky in the offseason.
Speaker 1: What has he shown you through the course of the
Speaker 1: appearances he's made in games this season as well as
Speaker 1: practice week to week. Yeah, always prepared, true professional. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is the first time that he's come into a
Speaker 1: season and had to embrace this backup role, so that's
Speaker 1: been new. But I think he's done just a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job mentally with that. And that's not easy, I can
Speaker 1: tell you that. But he has the trust and the
Speaker 1: faith of his teammates and this football team, and if
Speaker 1: and when called upon, he'll be ready to go and
Speaker 1: do a great job. After losing Emmanuel Sanders to an injury,
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis came into the game, showed up in a
Speaker 1: big way, had the touchdown to bring you within three points,
Speaker 1: and then fought hard for that game saving fourth down
Speaker 1: conversion on the final drive and regulation. He seems to
Speaker 1: always know where the marker is. Thirteen of his last
Speaker 1: fourteen receptions have gone for first downs. What different element
Speaker 1: does he kind of bring to the offense when he's
Speaker 1: inserted into the game. Yeah, I mean he's a young player,
Speaker 1: as you know, Chris, that's done a good job really
Speaker 1: from the first day stepped in this building. Is professional.
Speaker 1: He's hungry. He'll block in the run game, He'll go
Speaker 1: over the middle and make tough catches, whether it being
Speaker 1: in the field or in the red zone. He makes
Speaker 1: a critical catch on that fourth down play on our
Speaker 1: sideline to extend the game. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: had it with the catch initially, but he's certainly had
Speaker 1: enough wherewith all and awareness to get the ball back
Speaker 1: up the field and get that first down. And just
Speaker 1: he's a good, solid, young football player that's only going
Speaker 1: to get better. After giving up over three hundred yards
Speaker 1: in the first half, your defense held Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: company to just one hundred and ten total yards in
Speaker 1: the second half, including three points for the rest of
Speaker 1: the regulation. What kind of adjustments did you and Leslie
Speaker 1: Frasier make it halftime that we're working well for your
Speaker 1: defense over those final two quarters. Well, I think the
Speaker 1: adjustments were big. You know, Leslie did a great job
Speaker 1: along with the defensive staff. But more than that, the
Speaker 1: players really did their job, and I praised them for
Speaker 1: that as well. I mean, it's one thing to change
Speaker 1: some calls, to change things up a little bit, make
Speaker 1: some adjustments, but I thought overall, the execution more than
Speaker 1: anything was what showed up and what was at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the most productive thing for us.
Speaker 1: And while your defense did have a strong second half.
Speaker 1: The game was kind of book ended by big plays
Speaker 1: from Tampa's offense four net with the first touchdown run
Speaker 1: and then obviously Perryman at the end. As a defense
Speaker 1: that doesn't usually give up big plays, how can you
Speaker 1: coach your guys to prevent those from happening down the
Speaker 1: stretch here, knowing they've been instrumental in deciding some of
Speaker 1: your games this season unfortunately. Yeah, well, I just think
Speaker 1: I think you got to keep it in perspective, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had the chance to win these games.
Speaker 1: A lot of these games, we've had the chance to
Speaker 1: win them down the stretch. I can think of all
Speaker 1: but one game where we were not ended at the end,
Speaker 1: and I think more than anything, it's playing good, complimentary
Speaker 1: football and not allowing a run in this case go
Speaker 1: for sixty plus or whatever they go for. But you
Speaker 1: got to get them down and allow us to line
Speaker 1: up again at the end of the day. Though, I
Speaker 1: love how our team has been battling and keeping these
Speaker 1: games to where we have a chance to win it
Speaker 1: at the end. And that's another area where we have
Speaker 1: to do better and executed at a higher level, is
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Yeah, speaking of battling man,
Speaker 1: Milano had a huge sack in the four quarter to
Speaker 1: give your offense a shot on that final drive, and
Speaker 1: regulation finished with nine tackles in addition to the sack.
Speaker 1: He leads your team by a wide margin with fourteen
Speaker 1: tackles for loss this season. What do you think of
Speaker 1: the way he's playing this year after resigning in the
Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, he's a big factor for us. He
Speaker 1: factors into the game. He's an aggressive player, he's physical.
Speaker 1: He was in the right mind space, if you will,
Speaker 1: the other night, and he played, I thought, a really
Speaker 1: good game and did some really good things for us.
Speaker 1: And when he plays physical for us, it definitely gives
Speaker 1: us a lot of energy on defense and our team.
Speaker 1: All Right, thanks very much, coach. We'll catch up with
Speaker 1: you later in the show to get your final thoughts
Speaker 1: on your upcoming matchup with the Panthers. The game plan
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Speaker 1: Week fifteen's game preview. The seven and six Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: Welcome the five eight Carolina Panthers, who are last in
Speaker 1: the NFC sound this season, Buffalo's two one against the
Speaker 1: NFC and three and one against teams with losing records
Speaker 1: going into that week. The panthers most reliable weapon is
Speaker 1: their defense. They rank second overall and have the best
Speaker 1: passing defense, allowing only one hundred and seventy seven point
Speaker 1: seven passing yards per game. It'll be strength against strength
Speaker 1: as Carolina tries to shut down Buffalo's high powered passing offense.
Speaker 1: The Bills will have to prepare for two quarterbacks, as
Speaker 1: they could see Cam Newton and p J. Walker. The
Speaker 1: Panthers are averaging just under twenty points a game, Their
Speaker 1: offense ranks twenty seventh, and they turn the ball over
Speaker 1: at a high rate, ranking twenty nine with twenty three turnovers.
Speaker 1: It could be the perfect time for Buffalo's defense to
Speaker 1: get back to forcing multiple turnovers in a game, as
Speaker 1: they've had just two in the last four games. The
Speaker 1: Bills still have the best defense in the NFL and
Speaker 1: are allowing only two hundred and eighty eight point nine
Speaker 1: total yards per game and seventeen point six points per
Speaker 1: game next Gen stats. Safety Jordan Poyer has allowed a
Speaker 1: QB rating of twenty four point eight when targeted, which
Speaker 1: is the lowest in the NFL. The Bill's offense ranks eighth,
Speaker 1: averaging just over three hundred and eighty total yards a game,
Speaker 1: and they tie for fourth with fifty seventh place of
Speaker 1: at least twenty yards. Josh Allen has the third most
Speaker 1: total touchdowns in the NFL right now with thirty two.
Speaker 1: The Bills lead the Panthers all time with five wins
Speaker 1: and two losses. That's this week's game preview, Chris, back
Speaker 1: to you, all right, thanks very much, Maddie. Coach. You're
Speaker 1: facing your former team, the Carolina Panthers, for the second
Speaker 1: time here in Buffalo, is head coach? This game already
Speaker 1: has enough added importance with the playoff race. Has your
Speaker 1: time here in Buffalo gotten to the point where Carolina
Speaker 1: is just another opponent on the schedule. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be dismissive of Carolina, but you know you've been
Speaker 1: here a while. This is home for me and my family.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's home, and you know that was a stop on
Speaker 1: our way to come to Buffalo and the plan that
Speaker 1: the Good Lord had for us. But we're happy to
Speaker 1: be here and still have some friends down in Carolina,
Speaker 1: some Bills players in fact on the team that I
Speaker 1: root for them when they're not playing the Bills. You know,
Speaker 1: this will be an important game for us, as you mentioned, Chris,
Speaker 1: and it's the most important game of our season because
Speaker 1: it's the next game, but also because of the weight
Speaker 1: of the game in terms of the importance of the
Speaker 1: game as it relates to playoffs. So we've got to
Speaker 1: focus on this game. It's the only game that we
Speaker 1: can control the outcome of and put our best foot
Speaker 1: forward this week. The Panthers have obviously battled injuries on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, but they've been great
Speaker 1: on defense. They rank right behind your team in total defense.
Speaker 1: Now we have the number one pass defense. How do
Speaker 1: you think your offense matches up against their defensive unit? Well,
Speaker 1: I think overall, they do have a really good defense,
Speaker 1: you know, and they've shown that throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the year like our defense has. And it'll be a
Speaker 1: good test for our football team. And we're going to
Speaker 1: have to move the ball and take care of the
Speaker 1: football and score points at the same time. So you've
Speaker 1: got to be able to execute the high level, and
Speaker 1: especially when you're coming down the stretch here, and all
Speaker 1: three phases have to chip into that effort, all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your thoughts, Coach, good luck on Sunday. We'll
Speaker 1: be back next week to recap your game against the
Speaker 1: Panthers and preview your Week sixteen matchup against the Patriots.
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