Sean McDermott Show, Week 10

Everybody got me not. Let's go, baby, every man do their job. One eleven well caliber 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. Everybody, and welcome to the Sean McDermott Show, presented by ECMC and Kalidah Health. The official healthcare providers are the Buffalo Bills John Murphy, joined by Bill's head coach Sean McDermott and Sean good to see you.

Congratulations on the winning home against Washington. That was great. Yeah, thanks Murph, I appreciate it. Good to see you as well. It's interesting, you know, we heard you in the locker room talk about how you want to your team to stay humble and hungry. What do you have in mind there? What are you thinking there? It's just you know, it's an approach. It's a week to week league. It's a day to day approach for us trying to continue to improve.

It's a growth mindset, and this league, if you relax, it'll come and bite you in the butt. That's not the right mindset. We've got to stay, stay humble, and stay hungry. Your team obviously not flawless. No team really is flawless, but do have things to work on, areas of improvement pending. And yet you're six and two. That's got to feel pretty good. You must be gratified about that. Yeah, I'm grateful to be a part of it. I really am.

There's good people in this building and this organization and players as well, and we've got a good locker room, good veteran leadership, and you know, we've been fortunate to have the success we've had, and we understand that, and yet we're realistic about where we are and what we

have to improve on moving forward. Looking back to last week's win over Washington, it's pretty clear that Adrian Peterson has a lot of tread left on his tires, and yet he had the big first half and you managed to shut him and really Washington's offense down for the most part in the second half. What changed? What did you do differently in the second Well, adjustments at halftime. To your point, he did have a big first half.

We weren't in our gap and playing with gap integrity as we define it, and so we made some adjustments. Coach Frasier and the staff and the players on defense made the appropriate adjustments at halftime and got it corrected. Got another big game out of Tredevious White, who was sort of in a different role. He was following receivers a couple of times. You blitzed him at least on

one occasion. What does that say about what you might be able to do with Tradevious, you know, in the final second half of the season here, Yeah, I mean we may look at him to rush the pastor a little bit, you know, not alight him up, see if we can cover, maybe drop somebody off into coverage. No, I mean, he's just Tredavis is really developing into the all around corner, both in the run end pass game,

and so that's good to see. And he works extremely hard during the week and it gets the results on the weekend because of his hard work during the week. You have Jordan Phillips, who now leads the league with six sacks. No defensive tackle in the league has more. I'm wondering when you look at him, what did he show you on film in thee on the practice field that let you think that you could go with him and start him in this game this pass Yeah, it's

been an ongoing deal. We chet, we chart production, and he's been productive for us, and so we talk about earning things in our building and he had earned the right to start or we expect for him to continue to develop. And there's certainly areas he's had success and there's also areas he needs to improve. And just like our football team, your team, your defense now for twelve straight games, has allowed no more than one touchdown passing in each of these games. You're midway through the season,

you're the third ranked past defense in the league. What do you want quarterbacks and offensive coordinators, your opponents to see when they look at your past defense? What do you think they would think of your guys? Well, hopefully we're coordinated. I mean, that's really what you want to look at and develop as a past defense is coordination within our linebackers secondary that they work together. You know, there's certainly things we can do better. I like where

we are, but with room to grow as well. Devin Singletary has provided an offensive spark in a few games so far this season, but he really was almost a focal point of your offense this past Sunday. I'm wondering what you see what encouraged you from what you've seen from Devin Singletary. Yeah, another young player, Murph really that's gotten a lot of playing time and he's done some good things with the opportunities that he's earned. And so whether it's Frank or Devin, we're going to continue to

grow and evolve as an offense. That's really the direction we're trying to go in terms of hey, week to week, game planning week to week. This guy may be hot, that guy may be hot, and whether it's in the run game the past game, it all starts up front, you know, it all starts with the offensive line. At quarterback. Josh Allen played another game without turning it over. He has kind of curbed that tendency. He may have had

it earlier this year. It seems like that was a step forward him his performance against Washington this pay it was, Yeah, another step forward for Josh with respect to his approach to the game, his approach to the running game, the passing game, situational football, finding open receivers on the move a little bit of time so and then then working with him when he's on the move. Good part of our offense, and we have to continue to grow that offense.

We heard Micah hydsay in the locker room after the game last Sunday that I'm not going to apologize anymore for ugly wins. What's your take on that? And you know the old Parcels statement, you are what your record says you are. I believe that, don't you. Well, it's hard to win in this league. Yeah, it's truly a week to week league. As you and I were talking earlier here, it's you never want to relax because it's legal,

come up and bite you. So we respect the league, we respect every opponent, and we take again that a humble and hungry approach. Okay, Sean, thanks very much, thanks for your thoughts on the Watchington game. We will pick this conversation up a little bit later on in the show. Game preview is presented by Independent Health from your Every Date, You're unexpected. That's the Red Share treatment. I'm Mattie Glad

I'm here at this week's game preview. After three straight weeks at home, the Bills are on the road for the next weeks. In week ten, they will face the third ranked team in the AFC North, better known as the Cleveland Browns. Bills now six and two, and next week the Bills are at the Cleveland Browns at one o'clock.

Running Back Nick Chubb, who is second in the NFL averaging one hundred point four rushing yards per game, will try to help out quarterback Baker Mayfield, who is the lowest completion percentage in the league out of quarterbacks with at least fourteen attempts per game. Chubb also ranks fourth in total rushing yards with eight hundred and three. Receiver Jarvis Landry leads the team averaging fifteen point four yards

per catch. Cleveland's run defense has struggled so far this year, allowing the third most rushing yards a game at an average of one forty one point three yards per game. Linebacker Joe Schobern gets after opposing offenses as he is second in the league with fifty five solo tackles. Miles Garrett has been a solid force on defense as well, as he is second in the league with ten sacks

and second in TFLs with thirteen. Bill's quarterback Josh Allen will look to beat Myles Garret in the air or on the ground, as he is one of four qbs to have at least twenty passing touchdowns and twelve rushing touchdowns over their first two seasons. Alan has definitely progressed over the last four games two as he has thrown just one interception and lost one fumble. Here comes pressure, He's in trouble. He is dropped. He is set. Tradeaby is white. Trade a dropped him at the four yard line.

The third ranked Buffalo defense that allows an average of two hundred and ninety six point two yards per game, wants to stay strong and limit the Browns's big names on offense. The Bill's defense allowed just nine points to the Redskins and is ranked third in allowing an average of sixteen point four points per game. In the last eight times the Browns and Bills have met dating back to two thousand and seven. The teams are tied at four and four. Murph, back to you, all right, thanks Mattie.

Now time for some final thoughts with Bill. Said coach Sean McDermott. Coach, you're getting ready for this weekend. Your team is three and oh on the road this year, the Browns are in three at home. It's an interesting thing and there's been a lot of that going on in the NFL this year, but certainly it's a different approach for your team, especially after three straight home games. Uh, it is. We've got to be going the road and

be road warriors. And they're highly talented football team, a team that came into the season with very high expectations, and so the most important things we focus on us and ourselves and we continue to grow as a football tall. Want to ask you about their running back Nick Chubb fourth in the league and rushing yardag You've been up against some very good running backs. Here comes another one, maybe one of the best you'll face all year. Huh yeah.

I mean the tests they don't get any easier, right, So, but we've got to get stronger with the with the weeks as they pass by, it's only going to get tougher, and we understand that, so we've got to continue to develop our defense and our overall football team. Your team has played in weather at home the last two weeks, and the early forecast saying you may get more weather this Sunday. He in Cleveland, right, Talk about that and

how you get your team ready to face that challenge. Yeah, that's That's a big part of playing football late in the year is the weather. We get weather here in Western York, which to me is to our benefit. It's an opportunity for us to grow and develop that all important mental toughness that we have to have. You saw it on display this past week, and then we'll probably get some of the similar weather this weekend, and we've got to use every opportunity to get ready for the game. Sean,

thanks for this good luck. Yeah, thanks John. Hey, coach char McDermot, We thank you for tuning in at home and invite you to join us again next week when we recap the game against the Browns and look forward to the Bills final matchup this season against the Miami Dolphins.

Have a great weekend, everybody, 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, the official cheese of the Buffalo Bills