The Sean McDermott Show, Week 10

Published Nov 11, 2021, 6:12 PM
Analysis you won’t hear anywhere else straight from Buffalo’s head coach prior to the Bills-Jets game Week 10 at MetLife Stadium

Finding the way. Find the way every week. Coolo Buffalo Bill, no overthinking. All right, go play football. We'll play some football. Exciting time to be a Buffalo build of the fan of the Buffalo Bills. Welcome into Week ten of the Sean McDermott Show, presented by Connors and Ferris, your workers comp attorneys. I'm Steve Taskin once again. I'm pleased to be joined by the head coach of the Buffalo Bill, Sean McDermott. Coach, thanks for joining us. I know you suffered a tough loss on the road in Jacksonville, where your defense really kept you in it, but your offense couldn't get it rolling. What is your message to a team right now as you move forward into week ten, Well, it's it's we got to We've got to adjust. We've got to make adjustments that are necessary for us to move forward as a football team and improve as a football team. And we've got some things that we have to do better if we expect to play better. Right your defense held the Jacksonville offense just two hundred and eighteen yards and nine points. You guys had two sacks, force to turnover just wasn't enough. That's kind of right in line where your defense has been all year. It still ranks first in the league. How do you take positives out of a tough loss that like that and apply it to the whole team, not just one side of the defense or the offense. Yeah, well, it's important it doesn't become this side versus that side. We are one team and there were complimentary parts of the game that even defensively, we didn't provide enough for our offense. And those are things our defense can look at and say, hey, we could have done more without pressing going forward, it's important that they understand that. Right. Josh is having a great year so far. Big part of that has been the fact that he's been taking care of the football, and against the Jacks he turned it over three times, he had two picks and a fumble. He was on the run a lot, got sacked four times. What lessons you think Josh can take from this game personally, Well, I would say number one, try not to do too much, do your job, do your one to eleventh as we say, and trust the teammates around you that they're they're gonna make the plays. And that's probably one. The other thing is I think for our overall team as well as Josh's just continuing to understand that the ball is a great equalizer, much like fundamentals and technique, and if you don't do them and take care of them in this case, or use them at a high level, it can change games fast. Now it's halfway point of the season. You're obviously dealing with some injuries. At this point of the year, with Spinter Brown missing his second straight game. John Feliciano's on injury reserve. You've got Ike butt Ker and Cody Forward starting at your guard spots. Darryl Williams get kicked back out to tackle. What's the key to overcoming all these injuries you're dealing with, particularly in one position group, the offensive line. Well, I think it's mindset more than anything, Steve. It's how bad you want it and what are you willing to do to get the results you're looking for. I mean, no one's gonna come and rescue us or throw us a life raft in terms of trying to rescue us from this situation. We're going through it. Every team goes through it at some point during the season, and this is no different than last year, even though last year, looking back seems so clean. There was adversity last year like there is this year, and so we've got our leaders got to step up. I've got to step up. And then we've got a former response for this week. Well, your offense had a season low of seventy two yards on the ground, and once again, Josh was your leading rusher with fifty yards, most of which came when he scrambled. Devin Singletary only had sixteen rushing yards and Moss had six, but he left the game with an injury early. What have you seen from your rushing offense this year? What's your process to start coaching and your coaching staff that address some of the issues there. Well, number one, we've got to give him a chance playing and simple, We've got to we've got to give him more opportunities to run the ball. It's not always going to be six yards a carry or ten yards a carry. Sometimes a running game takes a little bit. It takes a little bit to get going. And so just opportunities number one, and then number two is when given the opportunity, we got to make it go. And that starts up front and then goes into our back killed as well. Well, you guys, weren't the loan upset on Sunday. In fact, three other teams, Denver, Kansas City, and the New York Giants. They each entered Week nine with a sub five hundred winning percentage and defeated a team that it began the day in first place in the division. So the first time this has happened in ten years. And what does this say about how tough it is to win in the NFL? Yeah, nothing that you and I already don't know. But overall, another reminder just how the league is shaped, how the parody of the league makes it such a week to week league, and every team has good players. Coaches, what have you? You got to come out to play and look to improve every week? Yeah? Thanks, coach. We're gonna catch up with you later in the show to get your final thoughts on your upcoming matchup with the Jets. The game plan is presented by Energy Marketing, the official energy supplier to the Buffalo Bills. Game tree view is presented by Independent Health. You deserve the red shirt treatment, Mattie glab here with this week's game preview. The five and three Bills are heading to New Jersey to take on the two and six Jets in a Week ten matchup. The Jets are averaging eighteen points per game, which ranks twenty seventh. They have the fourteenth best passing offense and the third worst rushing offense. They don't have one player known as the guy because they like to spread the ball. No running back or wide receiver has more than three hundred and fifty yards. The Jets have the worst defense in the NFL, allowing thirty one point four points per game and four hundred and eight point one total yards per game. They also only have one interception through eight games, which also ranks at the bottom of the league. After putting up just six points against the Jaguars, Buffalo falls to fourth, averaging twenty nine point four points per game. They still have the best turnover differential, which sits at plus eleven. Their passing offense ranks seventh, and their rushing offense is eleventh. Wide receiver Cole Beasley has been clutched for the Bills because of his catch ability. Beasley has caught seventy six point one percent of his passes from Josh Allen, which is fifth best among wide receivers. Another player who's been clutch on offense is Josh Allen. He leaves the NFL with forty eight total third down conversions. Buffalo's defense is the opposite of the Jets because they rank at the top of the league, allowing just fourteen point eight points per game and two hundred and sixty two point six yards per game, both are the lowest in the league. The group is also limiting opponents in the red zone by allowing touchdowns only forty point nine percent of the time, which is the best in the NFL. The Bills lead the series against Jets with sixty five wins and fifty six losses. That's this week's game preview, Steve back to you. Thanks as always, Maddie. Coach. You're facing a first time head coach for the third time this season, and this time it's Robert Salo with the Jets. He's beaten a couple of the best teams in the AFC in Tennessee Titans in the Cincinnati Bengals. What have you seen from this look New York Jets team under Roberts All, Well, they play with great energy and to your point, they've knocked off two very good football teams. I think they're trying to build a foundation and we expect obviously a tough challenge when we go over there in a divisional game at their place. So we've got to continue to improve, plenty of things to work on our end and get ourselves right and ready to go. Yeah, everybody knows the importance of divisional games here in the NFL, but now you're just a half game up on the New England Patriots, and while you're not in a must win situation yet, this game feels like it has some added importance with the Patriots on a three game winning streak. How do you communicate the importance of this game and this divisional matchup with your team? Well, every game is important, as we were just reminded of last week, and so as we move forward, it's one week at a time, try and go one to know, respect the opponent, get ourselves ready to go and play at a high level. Thanks coach, good luck on Sunday. We'll be back next week to recap this game against the Jets and preview your week eleven matchup against the Colts. And to everybody at home, thanks again for watching The Sean McDermott Show, presented by Connors and Ferris and has Always Go Bills. Final Thoughts is presented by Toyota, the official vehicle of the Buffalo Bills. Let's Go Places. The Sean McDermott Show is presented by Connors and Ferris, your Workers' comp Attorneys, by Independent Health You Deserve the rich Sher Treatment by Toyota, the official vehicle of the Buffalo Bills, Let's Go Places, by Kalida, official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills, and by ECMC ECMC bringing hope and healing to Western New York

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