Sean McDermott Show, Week 9

Published Oct 31, 2019, 1:20 AM
Analysis you won’t hear anywhere else straight from Buffalo’s head coach prior to the Bills-Redskins game Week 9.

But we're live right now. Hey, we're live. Everybody got me not Let's go bury everybody to do their job. One eleven, well, Calvert defense, let's go no overthinking, right, go play some ball. We'll play some football. It's an exciting time to be a Buffalo Bill and a fan of the Buffalo Bills. Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Sean McDermott Show, presented by ECMC and Collide to Healthy, official healthcare providers of the Buffalo Bills, where please to join Sean McDermot. Sean, thanks for giving us some time, thanks for being here. Tough conditions last week and a big physical football game. You know, the Philadelphiils came in very angry and embarrassed from the week before, and it really showed in their play. You got an uptick in their performance and it was hard to contend with. Yeah, they were very urgent to your points, Steve, and and you know we didn't come out and establish a line of scrimmage early to set a tone on their quarterback, and they set a tone on our quarterback or in the game. And then you know, we were within I think we were up seven three right before half. We turned the ball over and that that was a big momentum swing in the game. Yeah, come out. He knew a physical game like that, particularly with their ability to establish the line of scrimmage. It leads to their running game, which had a big day. What's your message to your team about having a bad day and moving forward and having better ones. Yeah, we have to learn from it. We've got to look ourselves square in the eye and say, hey, you know what was my part of it? Starting with me, and then we make the appropriate adjustments and the corrections and we moved forward and get ourselves ready for this week. You got, even with their success, Matt Malano back on the field. How did you assess his coming back? I know it was a game time decision. Did he give you everything you hope for? And I know he's probably the lend even in his play, but talk about Matt getting him back on Yeah, for it was good to have Matt back out there. I mean, he's he's a big part of what we do and how we do things, and he and Tremaine worked, we all together, and so there's some plays you know, honestly, he would like to back. But we're looking forward to Matt building on that this week. You know, even after this game against Philadelphia where you took it on the chin, your defense is still top five defense and giving up the giving up points, and yet your red zone, which was an emphasis in the offseason, still struggles to keep those guys out of the end and when they get down close. What are some things you can do or what's your message to your team about getting stiffer in your own into the field. Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, red zone defense is critical to playing good football and defense, and so we've got to do just a better job of knowing us and executing at a higher level down there, whether it's the run game or the past game. And then again affecting the quarterback on third down when we can affect him on passing downs down there, We've got to do it well. Your team's still going to lean on that defense going forward. Offensively, you're eight nine, seven games into it. You know, you're kind of hanging in there. But you got nine new starters on offense. You get Devin Singletary back on the field this week. How was motor able to contribute? He not too many touches in the first but he gained some momentum in the second Yeah, he did some good things. I was I was glad that we were able to get him, get him the pill there a little bit in the second half, and again good to get him back off the injury from a rookie standpoint, dealing with his real first injury in the NFL, and and so we hope he'll continue to build as well as we move ahead here. One other guy you got back in who's been dealing with injuries is Tyler Craft. Had one game against the Miami Dolphins and now really made a splash in his second game when he got included. Yeah. Great to see a lot of hard work, you know, just a lot of resiliency that went into his approach, and I think the guys felt good for Tyler to get out there, get his first catch and have some success. All Right, So you got the Washington Redskins coming in town, last game of a three game homestand you got a chance to go two and one and finish the first half of the season six and two. What's your message to your team coming into this one with a chance to really set yourself apart. Yeah, reset, really, reset, Let's get back. Let's let's get back to work. Let's prepare like we know how to prepare, and prepare for a close game. Prepare for an urgent team coming in here, just like we're urgent, and our urgency quite honestly has to has to be through the roof. Right. Okay, Sean, thanks for wrapping up the fieldy game. We're gonna come back for some final thoughts about the Washington game later in the show. Game preview is presented by Independent Health. From your every day to your Unexpected. That's the Red Shared Treatment. Mattie Glad, I'm here this week's game preview. The five and two Buffalo Bills are at home for the third straight week as they welcome the one and seven Washington Redskins into New Airfield. The Redskins are at the bottom of the NFC East and the Bills dropped the five and two and next Sunday, the final game of the Bills three game homestand Washington is here one o'clock kickoff of New Airfield. Safety Landing Collins is known for flying all over the place as he leads the Redskins with seventy tackles, which also ties for six in the NFL. His teammate Jonathan Allen has gotten after opposing quarterbacks, leading the team with four sacks. Washington's defense has struggled when it comes to letting teams convert third downs. They allowed third down conversions fifty percent of the time, shrinks thirty first in the league. They have struggled with converting third downs on offense as well, only converting twenty five percent of the time, that second worst in the NFL. The lack of keeping the offense on the field has shown in their point total, averaging just twelve point four points per game and two hundred and sixty one point one yards per game. Veteran running back Adrian Peterson is a bright spot on their offense. Peterson leads the team with three hundred and eighty three rushing yards. Sunday will mark the first time in NFL history that two players with more than thirteen thousand, five hundred rushing yards will play in the same game. Those two, Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson. Runs to his right fires are short one front of the five unto the drone touchdown briefly touchdown. Buffalo wide receiver Cole Beasley has helped the Bills be successful in the red zone Beasley has scored back to back touchdowns for the first time since two thousand and sixteen. Fix a handoff, pressure gets wrapped around and dropped. Here your sack back of the twenty two yard line. Rutdown by shack washing. The Bills defense still ranks at the top of the league in several categories. They have only allowed twenty one plays of twenty or more yards, which is the third best in the league. They will look to fix their run game defense on Sunday, as the Eagles game marked just the first time since Week sixteen of twenty and eighteen the Bills have allowed more than two hundred rushing yards in a game. Buffalo has won the last six of seven matchups against Washington. Steve, back to you, Thanks, Mattie. We're back here for some final thoughts from coach McDermott. Coach, you're gonna face Bill Callahan across the sidelines, a very experienced NFL coach. Is it too early in the game, or is it possible for a new interim coach like Bill Callahan is for the Redskins, for them to take on a new identity. Well, I think we've seen that, honestly, since the game he took over watching them on TV that week and then watching him and his team in the games going forward. They've they've established a new identity and that's a credit to coach Callahan and his staff and their players. So it'll be we'll get their best effort and we'll get their best football this week. All right. So Bill Callahan, he's an old offensive line coach and he's got Adrian Peterson on his team, and you're just coming off a game in which he gave up some rushing yards. You kind of expect, you know, them to try and kind of locomotive you over this week. I mean, is that kind of an anticipatory fact. I mean, you got to think that's kind of where an offensive line coach's mind goes. Right, Well, we've got to prepare. We're both for the past and the run and get back to good, fundamentally sound physical football. All right, coach, thanks for spending some time with us, and we'll be back next week to recap the Washington game and look ahead to the Cleveland Browns coming up. Thanks for watching. Everybody to have a great Eeke game. The Sean McDermott Show is sponsored by Independent Health. From here every day to your unexpected. That's the red shared treatment and by Yancey's fancy New York's artists and cheese, official cheese of the Buffalo Bills.

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