Speaker 1: But we're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody got
Speaker 1: not Let's go bury everybody to do their job. What
Speaker 1: to love, 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 Buffalo Bills. Hello everybody, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot Show, presented by ECMC and Collide to Healthy,
Speaker 1: official healthcare providers of the Buffalo Bills. We're pleased to
Speaker 1: join once again Sean Mcdermotshan, after the big win on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving against Dallas, you gotta be really happy with the
Speaker 1: way your entire roster showed up in a big moment
Speaker 1: for your franchise, A big game, you know, for the fans.
Speaker 1: Obviously all these games are kind of big for you guys, right,
Speaker 1: but man, you have to be happy about the result.
Speaker 1: Oh we were. I mean the players to take a
Speaker 1: short week, keep their focus where it needed to be,
Speaker 1: go down there and play physical and executed a high level.
Speaker 1: Um you know, that's that was the goal. And they
Speaker 1: executed well. You knew it was going to be an
Speaker 1: environment and that first drive Dallas comes down and goes
Speaker 1: in puts one in the end zone, the crowds going crazy,
Speaker 1: you could hear it on the broadcast. But your team
Speaker 1: responded in the big moment, and Josh turned in his
Speaker 1: maybe his best game as a pro. Yeah, we knew that,
Speaker 1: and we talked the night before the game Steve about
Speaker 1: you know, we're a tested football team, albeit not in
Speaker 1: the games you know, the playoff games and so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. But this is our team's a football
Speaker 1: team that's pretty steady, and they've been through some moments,
Speaker 1: through situations where we've gotten scored on first and come back,
Speaker 1: where we've down sixteen in the fourth quarter and come
Speaker 1: back as well, we've also scored first and held the lead.
Speaker 1: So we've been through about as much as you can
Speaker 1: go through. That's where you bank on that on that resiliency,
Speaker 1: in that leadership you came out of. Your quarterback had
Speaker 1: really spread his wings in a big moment. Also, Brian
Speaker 1: Dabo gave him some help, had the reverse pass. I
Speaker 1: don't really call it the Turkey special. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want to call it. And then Josh also
Speaker 1: showed up big. And a couple of weeks ago we
Speaker 1: were talking about the team playing fear is the fourth
Speaker 1: down conversion where he picked up a drop snap and
Speaker 1: made it. I mean, just the leadership on the field
Speaker 1: is really where it counts most and can mean the
Speaker 1: most for your team in those moments. Yeah, and Josh
Speaker 1: is really the tip of the spears. It relates to
Speaker 1: playing fearless and their leadership as they continue to develop,
Speaker 1: will feel that even more as they come of age
Speaker 1: and gain more experience playing NFL football. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that great stories about this game Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: going back to Dallason, Wow, he showed up big first quarter.
Speaker 1: He guys, scored the first touchdown for you guys in
Speaker 1: the game and continued it throughout. It had to mean
Speaker 1: something for the guy. Not on the guy. It's obviously
Speaker 1: meant something for Cole, but to see the postgame reaction
Speaker 1: and to see him come in and it really did
Speaker 1: build your team a little bit. Awesome, Absolutely awesome, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite moments in the NFL to this point.
Speaker 1: A little bit surprised that they didn't maybe try and
Speaker 1: take him away, knowing that he was coming back. Josh
Speaker 1: took what the defense was giving him and found Cole
Speaker 1: a couple of times and just love to see that,
Speaker 1: and he handled it with such class going back there,
Speaker 1: going back home, and he has nothing but respect for
Speaker 1: that organization, as do we and great to see him
Speaker 1: have success and going along with the Coolbiza did make
Speaker 1: you feel good even as a coach, as a player
Speaker 1: and the guy we fans washed him come in crowdsurfing
Speaker 1: the watcher room. It does say something about the point
Speaker 1: you're at now. You got a month left in the
Speaker 1: season and you seem to be hitting a crescendo. I
Speaker 1: think we're playing good football, and that's really what the
Speaker 1: growth mindsets all about. We learned from our mistakes, we
Speaker 1: continue to grow earlier in the year, and we continue
Speaker 1: to do that now. But at the same time, now
Speaker 1: we're banking on saying, hey, listen, understand our foundation it's
Speaker 1: been built. Rely on your fundamentals and execute at a
Speaker 1: high level. Play fast, play physical, and let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: So we talked about, you know, the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, the defensive line on the guys on the
Speaker 1: defensive defensis line showed up big four sacks and they
Speaker 1: got a defensive lineman interception when he know it's like
Speaker 1: the unicorn almost it shows up right, really got to
Speaker 1: be happy with the way your defense played against Statistically
Speaker 1: speaking up until Thanksgiving, best offense in football everything we
Speaker 1: do again, we talk about the tip of the spear
Speaker 1: on defense is our defensive line. They're the guys that
Speaker 1: we need to they need to play well for us
Speaker 1: to play well on defense and their intensity, their physicality.
Speaker 1: They're working in unison with one another. That really just
Speaker 1: helps the back seven and then our overall defense as well. Sean,
Speaker 1: congratulations on a big When we're gonna come back later
Speaker 1: in the show and get your final thoughts. Shopping Wood
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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. Hi, everybody, and welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Sean McDermott Show. It is now time to chop
Speaker 1: some wood with Eric Wood, the radio analysts the Bills broadcast. Eric,
Speaker 1: are you ready to chew through some of that game
Speaker 1: tape from the big win down in Dallas on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Let's do it. This ought to be a fun one
Speaker 1: to review. What an awesome game that was. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Of course, the guy you
Speaker 1: got to start with is Cole Beasley. He came back,
Speaker 1: had a career day against his old team, and it
Speaker 1: all started in the first quarter with a key third
Speaker 1: down reception worth Josh was thrown it out of his
Speaker 1: own end zone. Yeah. Absolutely. Cole played an incredible game
Speaker 1: against his form of a team, working oftentimes against Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: a nickel corner who he worked against a lot in practice.
Speaker 1: And this was an enormous play by the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: They're backed up in their own end zone and at
Speaker 1: this point they're down seven nothing, and if you punt
Speaker 1: from your own end zone, there's a great chance that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys add some points there. And on this play
Speaker 1: you see great protection from the offensive line. It's extremely
Speaker 1: difficult pass protecting in your own end zone because any
Speaker 1: penalty results in a safety if you're in the end zone. Well,
Speaker 1: Cody Ford draws the toughest test upfront and is able
Speaker 1: to drive to Marcus Lawrence by and Cole Beasley running
Speaker 1: across the field on a deep over, has a little
Speaker 1: bit of separation, and Josh Allen, with a ton of compidence,
Speaker 1: just rips the ball to Cole Beasley for a completion
Speaker 1: that they had to have at this point in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and with a ton of the season still to go.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley has already matched his career best five touchdown
Speaker 1: performance and now we're gonna get a chance to see
Speaker 1: him make his touchdown here in the Dallas game inside
Speaker 1: the red zone for the Bills. In this game, it
Speaker 1: was going to be imperative that the Bill score points
Speaker 1: when they get down towards the red zone and score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You know they're facing the number one offense in the
Speaker 1: league at the time. Cole Beasley runs a phenomenal route
Speaker 1: here and Josh Allen operating out of an empty set
Speaker 1: and is able to identify the coverage pre snap. He
Speaker 1: does a great job of avoiding the rush stepping up
Speaker 1: to his right, and he finds just the crease inside
Speaker 1: the zone to find. Cole Beasley does a great job
Speaker 1: of getting up the field for the touchdown. And the
Speaker 1: fascinating thing of this is Cole Beasley. It's like an
Speaker 1: artist running routes out there. But this is something he
Speaker 1: did at SMU and he talked to Brian dave Ball,
Speaker 1: and Brian dave Ball puts it in the game plan
Speaker 1: and calls it down towards the red zone. That is
Speaker 1: great trust between a wide receiver and offensive coordinator. And
Speaker 1: I always said when the guys on offense are helping
Speaker 1: to design the plays and have some input and they
Speaker 1: feel more invested, they're often going to play better on Sundays. Now,
Speaker 1: let's switch it over to the other side of the
Speaker 1: ball where ed Oliver really has started to come into
Speaker 1: his own. He has had a phenomenal effort and he
Speaker 1: showed up again last week against Dallas. Yeah, ed Oliver
Speaker 1: has been playing with tremendous effort all year. The results
Speaker 1: are just starting to show now. He's got three sacks
Speaker 1: in his last three games, forces a fumble against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in a huge momentum play for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys offensive line is excellent. The weakness of
Speaker 1: their line became when they're starting offensive guard Connor Williams
Speaker 1: got hurt and they put in Sue Filo and ed
Speaker 1: Oliver here is working one on one against him, and
Speaker 1: he's able to beat him with great technique. He attacks
Speaker 1: the outside shoulder, the offensive lineman pushes him back, eventually
Speaker 1: works to a rip and then he's able to turn
Speaker 1: the quarter quickly and as soon as Dak Prescott rears
Speaker 1: back to throw it, gets the perfect strip. And this
Speaker 1: was a huge turnover to the Buffalo Bill's defense. Well,
Speaker 1: he's certainly got the speed in power, but one of
Speaker 1: the things about ed Oliver is the fact that first
Speaker 1: step he's so explosive off the ball. What's that do
Speaker 1: for an offensive line? I'm going to have to handle
Speaker 1: that kind of technique in power. Yeah, it puts a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of pressure for an offensive linement to block
Speaker 1: him playing and play out because he is so quick
Speaker 1: and he's actually shorter, which at times gives defensive lineman
Speaker 1: an advantage. He's a smaller target to hit. He gets
Speaker 1: under your pads and can push you back toward the
Speaker 1: quarterback using his natural leverage. But he's also extremely fast
Speaker 1: off the ball and he utilizes his quickness great And
Speaker 1: on the last play, we're gonna see ed Oliver working
Speaker 1: against an all pro center in Travis Frederick, and ed
Speaker 1: Oliver is slanting in from his three technique position outside
Speaker 1: the guard and he goes back. Well a lot of times,
Speaker 1: what the center is thinking there is that ed Oliver
Speaker 1: is going to cross my face and I'll wash him by.
Speaker 1: And ed Oliver works across the face of Frederick, but
Speaker 1: then he pushes back with his right hand to the
Speaker 1: left shoulder of Frederick, catches him off guard and able
Speaker 1: to rock him back into Dak, forcing Dak to slide
Speaker 1: to his right right into the arms of Ed Alver. Eric.
Speaker 1: Thanks for chopping someone with us. We'll see you next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Coming up on the Sean McDermott Show. Game
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Speaker 1: heard this week's game preview. In Week fourteen, the Bills
Speaker 1: host the AFC North leaders that are known as the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore has currently won the last eight games,
Speaker 1: while the nine and three Buffalo Bills have won the
Speaker 1: last three. The Ravens, led by Lamar Jackson, both the
Speaker 1: second ranked offense in the NFL, averaging thirty three point
Speaker 1: eight points per game, but he has thrown the second
Speaker 1: most touchdowns in the league twenty five and only five interceptions.
Speaker 1: Baltimore also has a top ten defense, ranked ninth, allowing
Speaker 1: an average of three hundred and twenty three point four
Speaker 1: yards per game. With a win over the Cowboys, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen not only had a career day but set a
Speaker 1: franchise record, totaling at least two touchdowns in eight straight games.
Speaker 1: Allan's twenty four total touchdowns so far this season is
Speaker 1: fifth in the NFL. Over the last eight games, Allen
Speaker 1: has an eighteen to three touchdown to turnover ratio. Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown are two wide receivers who've added
Speaker 1: a lot to the offense this year. The duo are
Speaker 1: the first two wide receivers to surpass fifty catches in
Speaker 1: their first twelve games since Eric Mould's and Peerless Price
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. The Bills defense has remained
Speaker 1: of force to be reckoned, with all seasons sitting top
Speaker 1: three in the NFL, allowing an average of three hundred
Speaker 1: point one yards per game. The last time the Ravens
Speaker 1: played in the Orchard Park was in twenty thirteen, where
Speaker 1: the Bills beat Baltimore twenty three to twenty Steve back
Speaker 1: to you, thanks Mattie, and now we're back with coach McDermot.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get his final thoughts as we head into
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens game. Coach, you get a long week
Speaker 1: and it's a different challenge than a short week, and
Speaker 1: sometimes waits it's better. Sometimes it can be a problem.
Speaker 1: It's just a different challenge. You get ready for maybe
Speaker 1: the best team in football right now, best record, with
Speaker 1: a little extra time to do it well. And they're
Speaker 1: playing like to your points, Steve, they're playing very well offensively, defense,
Speaker 1: and so these special teams hard to find a weakness
Speaker 1: in this football team. You know that said, they're coming
Speaker 1: here and we've got we've playing pretty well also, so
Speaker 1: a lot of respect going both ways, flowing both ways,
Speaker 1: and we've got to have a really good week of
Speaker 1: practice and and be prepared for one heck of a
Speaker 1: battle come Sunday. Yeah, you know, they come in with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Maybe he's into running for the MVP. And
Speaker 1: you can see why the guy's been very productive. He's
Speaker 1: got an offensive coordinator and Greg Roman, who's got a
Speaker 1: track record of mobile quarterbacks who can run and pet
Speaker 1: Lamar's pushing a thousand yards rushing on the season. It
Speaker 1: is a unique offense that Greg Roman and the Baltimore
Speaker 1: coaching staff would put together. Credit to them. It's it's
Speaker 1: not seen very much around the NFL. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some components or concepts that are seen across NFL teams,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, it's it's very unique and
Speaker 1: so thankfully we don't have them on a short week.
Speaker 1: That said, you know, we've got to make sure that
Speaker 1: we have a good game plan where our players can
Speaker 1: play hard and play fast and beat themselves, and that
Speaker 1: we can play fisical but also fundamentally sound on what
Speaker 1: we're doing. One of the lessons I learned a long
Speaker 1: time ago is when you win big games like you
Speaker 1: did on Thanksgiving, your reward is a bigger game. And
Speaker 1: now you're getting noticed as well. Your game against Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks gets flexed to Sunday night football.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to watch the Buffalo Bills play against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. How are you at keeping the lid on
Speaker 1: the postseason picture, the big picture down the line? How
Speaker 1: do you keep the guys focused on the here and now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one week at a time approach, and that hasn't changed,
Speaker 1: and I don't expect that to change. We respect every
Speaker 1: opponent enough that, in particular with this week's opponent, we've
Speaker 1: got to keep our eyes on the prize this week.
Speaker 1: And it's certainly a great credit to the players and
Speaker 1: the staff and all the hard work that they've put
Speaker 1: in to this point to be recognized to play on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night. And that's we didn't have any quote unquote
Speaker 1: primetime games other than if you consider the Thanksgiving Day
Speaker 1: game a primetime game, but we didn't. We were one
Speaker 1: of the few teams that didn't get one. So I
Speaker 1: think the players also realized that and they've worked hard
Speaker 1: now to earn that. That's for their hard work and
Speaker 1: success to this point. Sean's good to talk with you.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the big win on thanksgame. We'll look forward
Speaker 1: to coming back next week and recapping the Ravens game
Speaker 1: and looking ahead to the Sunday night football matchup with
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Have a great weekend, everybody. The Sean
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