Sean McDermott Show, Week 11

you know you saw this last weekend. The Atlanta Falcons upset the seven and one New Orleans Saints. She saw Tennessee Titans beat the Kansas City chief She saw the Miami Dolphins get their second win. Of course, the Buffalo game. Six and two, Buffalo going in two and six Cleveland. It's a hard league to win in and the margins are really small, and it's hard to do it, particularly

on the road. Well, it is, Steven, and those are the lessons we've tried to impart on our young football team, and that you got to play every week regardless of the records. You got to bring your a game. And we saw this week how important that is around the league, in our game in particular. You go into a Cleveland team where in the preseason highly talent. Are they going to be a contender in the AFC? In the conference? They've started out to a rocky start, really talented club.

But you can continue to lean on your defense. They held those guys to nineteen points with all those weapons, even including Kareem Hunt who was inserted in. Yeah, they've got a healthy array of weapons, probably unseen unlike most teams in terms of the number of weapons offensively. But I thought overall our defense gave us a chance at times,

but overall wasn't good enough. And I think the ownership and the accountability of our defense and the members of our defense they take that to heart and we've got to build on that. Yeah. One of the things about that defense is it continues to play good football. Is something you never see in the league these days. A goal line stand, man, oh man, what a stout stand. Eight plays in a row inside the two yard line.

And in fact, even the penalties they took. The Poyer penalty was a smart thing to do on first down, to take the interference penalty. It ended up you Stone Walham, and it's something you almost never see in the league. And yet you guys pulled it off. Yeah you don't or very rarely do you anymore. To your point, the guy's just the character. I mean, Jordan Poyer's penalty, taking

a penalty in that situation, playing smart, situational football. That just shows me how we've grown in that situation on that side of the ball in particular. And the character of the way the guys they stood up for seven eight plays. That's hard to do in training camp, let

alone in a regular season game. Now you get down there and one of the guys that stood out as Cleveland tried everything to get in and they tried to go over the top to Odell Beckham Junior, Tredavious White on the play in the end zone, he knocked it away. But also all day it took a really elite player

like Odell Beckham Junior. He was even limited in his play when he was on his unbelievable effort, probably the toughest player on the field force with tra Davis White and just the way he battled and and you know he rolls to the challenges. What you and that's what you want to see from a young player that's challenging the way of guarding a player like Odell Beckham junior, and he did it, and he did it extremely well. Yeah.

One of the things in an offensive year where you're trying to develop Josh and you're trying to, you know, struggle to score points, sometimes the thing that you're really good at. You get down to the red zone and this team is hard to keep out of the end zone. Seventy percent of the time they're scoring touchdowns down there. Nobody else can come close to that in the league. Why is it that you're so effective when you get down close. Well, we've got multiple threats. We can run it.

Josh can run it, as we've seen, and the receivers can. You know, we've got some good concepts going on down there. And the protect It all starts up front with the protection, whether it's the run game or the pass game, with our offensive line and giving Josh time. And so it's the biggest challenge for us has been in that fringe area once we crossed the fifty, getting into that one of yard lining in and so we've got to make sure we go back and evaluate that and look at

that hard. Yeah, you guys knew coming into this year you're gonna have a young, developing quarterback. You're gonna play complimentary football, and you really got some help from the special teams this week. Corey Brewerk has really had his best game of the year and set up really what was this early safety in the second half with an ice punt inside the ten. Yeah, huge punt. It flipped the field for us and probably to your point, Corey's

best days as a Buffalo Bill. He's another young player that was challenged a little bit last year and now he's coming into his own and it's it's a credit to him his hard work and his process with our special teams coaches, and that's just been fun to watch and we expect the same and more of that from Corey moving forward. All Right, coach, we appreciate that we're going to continue this conversation later in the show. Game preview is presented by Independent Health from your every day

to You're Unexpected. That's the Red Share treatment. Mattie glab here this week's game preview. The Bills are back on the road in Week eleven as they head in Miami to face the two and seven Dolphins, who are one and four at home this season. Buffalo is three and one on the road so far for the Bills, now six and three next Sunday to Bills play at Miami

one o'clock Hard Rock Stadium in Florida. The Dolphins are on a two game win streak, as last week's win against the Colts marked quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick's tenth career fourth quarter comeback win. Since Week five, the Dolphins have increased their points per game average by more than ten points, going from eight point four points per game in the first five weeks of play to nineteen point two five points per game from the last three weeks of play.

Fitzpatrick is completing sixty one point five percent of his passes as the average is one hundred and seventy point five yards per game, and has thrown eight touchdowns as well as eight interceptions. One of his favorite targets is receiver DeVante Parker, who is averaging fourteen point two yards per catch and fifty two point one yards per game. Against the Colts, in Week ten, Miami had three interceptions, which matched their total from the first eight games of

the season. The stamp flickmass leftstock cottech now touchdown Buffalo oh Fasley was wide opened and Josh Allen's three games against Miami, the quarterback completed sixty percent of his passes for six hundred and fifty seven yards and seven touchdowns, along with two hundred and sixty two rushing yards and two touchdowns on the ground. Wide receiver John Brown has been a sparked for Buffalo's offense, as he is the first Bill to ever have at least four receptions for

at least fifty yards in nine consecutive games. They're gonna run chapter the right side, and he's not gonna get there. He's stopped. He's chopped per lots about a half yard lots out the play. The Bill's defense has remained top three in the NFL since Week five, bring to third and allowing an average of three hundred and four point two yards per game and sixteen point seven points per game.

Since the Biginning of twenty seventeen, Buffalo's defense has allowed forty three passing touchdowns, which is currently the fewest in the NFL. This season, they have allowed only eighteen pass completions of more than twenty guards, which is the third kewest in the league. Buffalo has won four of the last five matchups against Miami. Steve back to you. Thanks, Mattie, appreciate it. We're back for some final thoughts from head coach Sean McDermot coaching coming into the second plays second

challenge in Miami Dolphins. You faced him earlier in week seven, and a lot has changed down in Miami with this club. They've hard fought a couple of losses yours and then the Pittsburgh Theaters, and now the Dolphins have put together a two game winning streak and you gotta go face them on the road. Oh, we do, and they'll be a tough out. Credit to them the way they've played. They play hard, they're well coached. They remind me a lot of us our first season. I'll beat it, we

had a different record. It's gonna be a tough football football game, and it's gonna be a physical football game. We're gonna have to go down there ready to go and bring our top game because in all three phases, really because they're well balanced. They've got an offense and a quarterback that's moved the ball, moved the team ever

since he's been named the starter. And their defense is playing playing well, not giving up big plays and then special teams wise, they've been doing some things gimmicks, gadgets to create some plays and extra extra possessions offensively, Yeah, you come. You can relate to Brian Flores his first year as head coach just two years ago. It was you kind of trying to gather things up and set a culture. Can you see back in time two years ago? You got to relate to what Brian Flores is going

in maybe a difficult year. It turned out pretty well for you in your first year here, but you kind of relate to what he's going through and how the progress. You can see the progress they've made, right, you can see it, and that's really what you want. You want to get the right guys on the bus and some of the other guys maybe off the bus and if it wasn't right for them, we're moving forward and that's

what they've been doing. It appears from Afar obviously the outside looking in, but more importantly, how and what are we going to do? And that's we've got to respond and we've got to get our mojo back after this past week and play play confident of football and good fundamentally sound football with great levels of executions. All right, coach, good stuff. We'll be back next week to recap the Miami Dolphins game and look ahead to the Denver Broncos.

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