Speaker 1: But we're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody got
Speaker 1: me not let's go bury. Everybody do their job. One eleven, well,
Speaker 1: Calvern defense, let's go no overthinking, right, go play some ball.
Speaker 1: We'll play some football. It's an exciting time to be
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill and a fan of the Buffalo Bills. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Sean McDermott Show, presented by ECMC and
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Tasker and once again we're joining coach Sean McDermott. Coach,
Speaker 1: thanks for spending some time with us. Yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, Steve. Yeah. It's those games that are so close,
Speaker 1: one possession games are particularly frustrating. But you gotta know too,
Speaker 1: you're still you got the second best record in the
Speaker 1: conference behind two pretty good teams with Super Bowl aspirations.
Speaker 1: You measured up pretty well, but man, bitterly disappointing to
Speaker 1: fall just that short. Well, it is. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of positives we can take out of it. There's no
Speaker 1: moral victories, but that's not how we that's not what
Speaker 1: we believe or how we how we think in this building,
Speaker 1: and that said a lot. We need to get corrected.
Speaker 1: We have pulled out some close games, so I know
Speaker 1: we can execute at a high level. I know we're
Speaker 1: mentally tough, and I know that we can get people
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and that eventually will prevail it.
Speaker 1: We've done it enough, and so we came up short
Speaker 1: this week. We didn't execute at a high enough level
Speaker 1: and our fundamentals didn't carry over from practice to the game.
Speaker 1: So we go back to the back to the practice field.
Speaker 1: I've been in those disappointed locker rooms obviously. What was
Speaker 1: your message right having when the heat of the moment
Speaker 1: and the guys are particularly frustrated, how did you bring
Speaker 1: them back together and get them focused on what was ahead?
Speaker 1: I think it's big picture perspective, right. I understand that
Speaker 1: the game, it was not our season. It's one game.
Speaker 1: We need to learn from it and then understand the
Speaker 1: opportunities we did have to win the game, and why
Speaker 1: we have the opportunities first of all, and then second
Speaker 1: of all, why we didn't capitalize on those opportunities. So
Speaker 1: another learning opportunity for our young football team. Well, one
Speaker 1: of the reasons you had a chance to win that
Speaker 1: game was your defense. Patriots had thirteen possessions, seven of
Speaker 1: them were three and ounce. Those guys are really growing
Speaker 1: and putting something together on that side of the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really fun to watch, it really is. We've got
Speaker 1: we've got obviously more continuity on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So the offense is a little bit younger in that regard,
Speaker 1: but the defense, I thought it was a good plan
Speaker 1: by coach Fraser and the staff well executed. The guys
Speaker 1: played fast, they played physical, They were able to recognize
Speaker 1: some things pre snap, which you know how important that is.
Speaker 1: And then they brought their fundamentals to the game. And
Speaker 1: you got a twenty one year old kid in the
Speaker 1: middle of the defense, Tremaine Edmonds. How good could he
Speaker 1: possibly be? He seems to be making strides. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of plays where he seemed a little bit
Speaker 1: ahead of the game even he was in their backfield
Speaker 1: stuff and a run play before really developed. Yeah, he's Look,
Speaker 1: we got to take a one game at a time.
Speaker 1: There's still a young players. It's just in the fourth
Speaker 1: game now of his second year, and I think again
Speaker 1: the key was he was playing fast. He was able
Speaker 1: to play fast, recognize what was going on, and then
Speaker 1: and then pull the trigger, and you saw him make
Speaker 1: some plays at the line of scrimmager in the backfield.
Speaker 1: And he's able to use his speed. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: extremely fast. So it was a good game overall and
Speaker 1: a good sound defensive effort, you know, even though the
Speaker 1: offense struggled to score points, they seemed to move the
Speaker 1: football yet and three hundred plus yards of offense, you
Speaker 1: moved up and down the field. But like always a
Speaker 1: Patriot defense hard to score points on. Still some positives
Speaker 1: to take out of this game on the offensive side too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's the sound of a good defense. They're a
Speaker 1: good defense. They had yet to at that point to
Speaker 1: give up a touchdown in a game we scored once
Speaker 1: on them in terms of a touchdown, and so good
Speaker 1: defenses gets you know, tighter and stiff as as you
Speaker 1: crossed the fifty. And that's what they did. And so
Speaker 1: we did move the ball again. I thought, we beat
Speaker 1: ourselves with a lack of fundamentals, a lack of execution,
Speaker 1: and then at the end of the day, we've got
Speaker 1: to take care of the football. And even in this
Speaker 1: loss we've talked about in the first three weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, even though you were three and oh you
Speaker 1: come out after halftime time. Offense was kind of strolling.
Speaker 1: You went into a lull almost, and it seemed like
Speaker 1: maybe that was going to cost you a couple of
Speaker 1: the games earlier that you won. Not so against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Came out in the third quarter and put together a long,
Speaker 1: sustained driving really had your most productive quarter yardage wise
Speaker 1: and really production wise of offense of the entire game.
Speaker 1: That was maybe what a sign of growth even it was,
Speaker 1: I mean, we had struggled coming out of the locker
Speaker 1: room on offense and the third quarter, and so I
Speaker 1: loved how we adjusted at halftime. Everyone stayed calm, and
Speaker 1: as we say, calm breeds calm, and the guys came out.
Speaker 1: We executed, We took with the defense gave us, We
Speaker 1: spread the ball around, run end pass, and we marched
Speaker 1: into the end zone. So well executed. That's what we
Speaker 1: need to continue to do. Right well, before we go,
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you one last thing. Frankcore fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: career yards. I know he's here because he can play.
Speaker 1: We've seen that seventeen carries for one hundred and nine yards.
Speaker 1: But he's also a kind of guy that man, Oh man,
Speaker 1: would you love to have a bunch of guys who
Speaker 1: do it like he did? That's right, I think every
Speaker 1: coach would. And you know it was natives a great environment. Right,
Speaker 1: We've got we had our legends in town. Coach Levy
Speaker 1: was in town amongst amongst all the players that have
Speaker 1: played and worn the red, white and blue of the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And so to have Frank accomplished what he
Speaker 1: accomplished this past weekend, what an honor, What an honor
Speaker 1: just for me as a coach, one an honor just
Speaker 1: to watch it, and so really cool moment for our fans. Sean,
Speaker 1: thanks for spending a minute or two with us. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue our conversation later in this show, so
Speaker 1: for us of you join us. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean McDermott Show, and this week
Speaker 1: on the tail of tape, where please be joined once
Speaker 1: again by Eric Wood. Eric, we're gonna chop some wood again. Today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Patriots Bills game. Give me
Speaker 1: your thoughts on a disappointing loss for the Bills, but
Speaker 1: also pretty close loss in a great football game. I
Speaker 1: gotta say it, Yeah, it was a great football game.
Speaker 1: And you have two top teams in the NFL likely
Speaker 1: going toe to toe and they played bad enough on
Speaker 1: offense to not win the game, but to go toe
Speaker 1: to toe with the defending Super Bowl champions on a
Speaker 1: day where you don't really have it offensively is a
Speaker 1: great sign. Yeah. And let's let's start with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Held him to under fifty percent completion routes, no touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: had a pick, and let's talk about that. You know,
Speaker 1: the secondary did a phenomenal job against the Patriots. They
Speaker 1: did do a phenomenal job that they mixed up coverages,
Speaker 1: they made plays down the field, and a number of
Speaker 1: times they got around Tom Brady enough to get him
Speaker 1: off his spot. And the key that going against Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is make him uncomfortable. And here you see he
Speaker 1: tries to take a shot down to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the field at James White, a running back. It's off
Speaker 1: coverage here, it's the zone looked by the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: And I assumed he would attack with Edelman and Edmunds
Speaker 1: towards the top of the screen, where he went a
Speaker 1: number of times start out the game. Here he takes
Speaker 1: a shot that James white le By Wallace comes and
Speaker 1: makes a great pass break up here and the Bills
Speaker 1: secondaries just Apps, who was playing phenomenal right now. Later
Speaker 1: on in the game, the Bills surrendered their only defensive
Speaker 1: touchdown of the day and there's still seven minutes left
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. But the rest of the game,
Speaker 1: the defense really kept it to a one score game,
Speaker 1: and they were really the difference and given the offense
Speaker 1: a chance to do something, they did, and they were
Speaker 1: so good in the red zone and keeping the Patriots
Speaker 1: out of the end zone. And here they throw a
Speaker 1: shot past the Philip door Set, and this is a
Speaker 1: small play in the game, but a huge play. Philip
Speaker 1: door Set is not able to get any yards after
Speaker 1: catch stops him at the three yard line. And again
Speaker 1: this is another time that the Bills were able to
Speaker 1: keep the Patriots out of the end zone in small
Speaker 1: plays like this that add up to just a phenomenal
Speaker 1: defensive performance. And finally, the Past go ninety three yards
Speaker 1: down the field for a drive that looked like a
Speaker 1: momentum change for New England. But Micah Hyde comes through
Speaker 1: with an enormous interception. He does, and you do not
Speaker 1: see Tom Brady throw many interceptions. He had zero coming
Speaker 1: into the game, and here the Bills are able to
Speaker 1: force him to roll to his right. Jerry Hughes is
Speaker 1: coming around the left, tackle beets Marshall Newhouse around the edge,
Speaker 1: forces Tom Brady out to the right and on the move,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady makes a critical air he tries to force
Speaker 1: a ball in there to Edelman. Micah Hide, with just
Speaker 1: a phenomenal play, breaks off of his coverage to come
Speaker 1: back and make this interception. All right, let's transition into
Speaker 1: Buffalo's Week five opponents, and Buffalo should feel very confident
Speaker 1: in there in their secondary moving for But last week
Speaker 1: we saw a breakout performance from a guy from Tennessee,
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, an Old Miss product. Yeah, he was a
Speaker 1: second round draft pick this year. He's drafted fifty first
Speaker 1: overall out of All Miss. He's six one two twenty
Speaker 1: six and the crazy thing about him is he's almost
Speaker 1: like a running back. When he gets the ball in
Speaker 1: his hand, you have got to show up to tackle him,
Speaker 1: and oftentimes one guy is not going to bring him down.
Speaker 1: He is great run after catchability. He did slide in
Speaker 1: the draft a little bit more than some predicted, but
Speaker 1: early the part of the season he started to get
Speaker 1: some chunk plays. He's up even as a rookie, he is.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty three yards per reception. A couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, the Bills faced the Bengals and John Ross
Speaker 1: was having an incredible year. The Bills held him to
Speaker 1: two catches for twenty two yards. They're gonna try and do,
Speaker 1: obviously the same to A J. Brown, who's off to
Speaker 1: an absolutely hot start this year. Yeah, he had a
Speaker 1: breakout performance against at Land in Week two. He had
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and he shows off the concentration in great
Speaker 1: hands he does. And again we see him get the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands here and almost like a running
Speaker 1: back bus out of a play where you think the
Speaker 1: Falcons haven't completed bad but if he brings the tackle
Speaker 1: and gets all the way down to the end zone.
Speaker 1: On our final play, you see Mariota just recognize one
Speaker 1: on one coverage and the rookie A J. Brown is
Speaker 1: who he's trying to go to. And here you see
Speaker 1: a great throw but a great concentration by the receiver
Speaker 1: over the shoulder catch throws where only AJ Brown can
Speaker 1: get it. And it's plays like this that the Bills
Speaker 1: are going to have to prevent. The Bills have done
Speaker 1: an excellent job of preventing red zone touchdowns and making
Speaker 1: sure a J. Brown is covered in the red zone
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big key keeping the Titans out
Speaker 1: of the eric. Thanks for your insights. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking forward to your radio called down in Nashville. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it as well. Game preview is
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Speaker 1: That's the Red Share Treatment. I'm Mattie Glab here with
Speaker 1: this week's game preview. With a quarter of the season over,
Speaker 1: in Week five, the three and one Bills will head
Speaker 1: to Nashville to take on the two and two Titans.
Speaker 1: The AFC South Bow ranks twenty fourth in total offense,
Speaker 1: but quarterback Marcus Mariota has yet to throw an interception.
Speaker 1: He has seven touchdowns and a one oh six point
Speaker 1: two rating through four weeks. The Titans offense features a
Speaker 1: few weapons, one of those being running back Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: who is the league's eighth best rusher, averaging seventy seven
Speaker 1: and a half yards per game. Tennessee's defense is allowing
Speaker 1: an average of fifteen and a half points per game,
Speaker 1: which ranks for fourth lowest in the NFL. Corner Logan
Speaker 1: Ryan has two interceptions and six passes defended, which ties
Speaker 1: for the best amongst all NFL players. Draw pressured rolls,
Speaker 1: right looks, right fires into the endot intercepted, intercepted of
Speaker 1: the dome like a high ensit. The Bill's defensive unit
Speaker 1: continues to show their strength, ranked thirty in the NFL
Speaker 1: with the yards allowed. The group averages about two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty yards given up a game and ranked second
Speaker 1: in opposing passer rating with seventy eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's defense lead the league in three and outs, forcing
Speaker 1: offenses off the field thirty two point seven percent of
Speaker 1: the time. The Bills ranked eighth in total offense. All
Speaker 1: nine of Buffalo's touchdown drives so far the season have
Speaker 1: been seventy yards or more, with ties for fourth in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and the last three matchups between the Bills
Speaker 1: and the Titans, the game has been decided by a
Speaker 1: single point, with Buffalo going two and one in those matchups.
Speaker 1: Steve back to you. Thanks Mattie. Now we're back here
Speaker 1: with coach Sean McDermot coach coming into this game against
Speaker 1: Tennessee from a distance, give the fans that I've got
Speaker 1: a taste of what the Tennessee Titans are all about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at their running game, really good backfield,
Speaker 1: including Marcus Mariota, one of the best quarterbacks around, very
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback, extends plays. They have the RPOs, the run
Speaker 1: pass options that are tough to defend in a good
Speaker 1: receiving cord with a couple of big guys outside that
Speaker 1: make it very tough, and they catch contested balls. So
Speaker 1: it'll be a big challenge for us. And then on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, they've got a very
Speaker 1: active and physical defense with guys in the cover areas
Speaker 1: that can cover and match up man and man and
Speaker 1: they're led by their front their front seven. So it'll
Speaker 1: be a big week for us. As you said, you're
Speaker 1: just starting the second quarter of the season, the second
Speaker 1: four games of the first half of the season. But
Speaker 1: you've also a lot of positives to go forward with.
Speaker 1: What's the next thing you have you been working on
Speaker 1: or messaging to your team about all right, this is
Speaker 1: the next step we've got to take. Is it more
Speaker 1: consistent than that or is there one specific Well, I
Speaker 1: like how fast we're playing. I mean just in terms
Speaker 1: of the way we cover. We're covering kicks, we're playing fast.
Speaker 1: We're in the return game. We got the return game
Speaker 1: going now with Andrea in a second week back, so
Speaker 1: we got that going a little bit out. We had
Speaker 1: the big play we gave up with the block punt,
Speaker 1: So we've got to make sure we fundamentally get that
Speaker 1: corrected and continue to grow on our special teams units
Speaker 1: because that's a big part of the game, the kicking game.
Speaker 1: And then offensively, we did move the ball and now
Speaker 1: we have to continue to grow in that area as
Speaker 1: well with the continuity and the messaging and the communication.
Speaker 1: We didn't know we weren't always on the same page.
Speaker 1: And then defensively, how do we take another step where
Speaker 1: we stay humble, we stay hungry, we continue to put
Speaker 1: players in position to be to be successful. Sean, thanks
Speaker 1: for spending some time with us, and for you at home,
Speaker 1: don't look for us next week. It's the bye week
Speaker 1: after this week. In Tennessee, We'll see you in two
Speaker 1: weeks where we preview the next Bill's game. Until then,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend this week and coach good luck
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Thanks Steve, all Right, everybody. The Sean McDermott
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