Sean McDermott Show, Week 3

man do their job. One eleven, well, Calivern defense. Let's go no overthinker, 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. Hello everybody, and welcome to Week three of the Sean McDermott Show, presented by Connors and Farrish, your workers Camp Attorneys. Sean, thanks again for joining us. Congratulations on another victory to get to two and zero. This week was a little different.

Your offense coming back scoring twice in the fourth quarter. It must be great to see Josh be able to do that and lead your offense back like that. It was good to see, Steve. You know, we talked about the first game, the first win and get out to a big lead in the first win, and the second game. Obviously, in this win we played a nip and tuck game back and forth and we were actually trailing as you

mentioned the fourth quarter. So those are kind of good foundation builders for the season, things that we can build on and use as we move ahead here. Well, Josh once again set career highs with his passing performance is four hundred and seventeen yards, four touchdowns, throwing as probably the best we've seen him throw the football in his career. Do you think he's looked good? He really has. He's

off to a nice start, Steve. You know, really not much different though than the way's practice, and I think that's a great message to all all those young players out there that, uh, there is there is an importance to practice and practicing at a high level, and that's led to the execution that you've seen in defensive scene quite honestly the last couple of weeks from our offense.

And of course you can't mention Josh without talking about the monster game you got out of Steph Diggs eight catches, one hundred and fifty three yards plus a touchdown. What have you learned about Diggs over these first couple of games. Well, he's an energy booster man. He loves to compete, brings great, great vibes to our sideline, to the to the bench, to the field on game day, including including practice. Really, so I've just been a great addition, and I think

he's helped Josh in a lot of ways. He's an encouraging guy man, So whenever somebody uh has a play they went back, He's always there encouraging them and being a great team player, which is which is great to see. Josh connected on eight completions that went for more than twenty yards this last week. Two of them went for touchdowns, and it seems like the deep ball was a big part of his offense against the Dolphins. Wasn't a point of emphasis to add that explos of element to your

passing game. I think more than anything, we were just trying to take what was there. They were going to play man covers quite a bit and press man and we knew that going down there, and I thought Coach Dablem the offensive staff put a great plan together and then the players executed at a high level, and when given the opportunity, we made some big time plays on the ball, whether it was John Brown, Cole Stefan, I mean, the backs got in, Bob Isaiah McKenzie's tight ends got involved.

And then a play that should be overlooked is the great contention in the back of the end zone by Gabe Davis. And for the second straight game here history early in the season, as you might expect, a rookie scored their first NFL touchdown this week, he had two of them. Reggie Gilliams scored the first one of the day and then Gabriel Davis caught the go ahead touchdown on the fourth quarter. How great was it to see those youngsters step up and make plays for your offense. Yeah?

So much fun, right, I mean, people talk pro ball and at the end of the day, these guys are They're human beings, man. They got big hearts and they loved one another, and it was just cool to see the reaction of the sideline, the reaction of the teammates on the field of gays are out there. I mean, we must have had six, seven, eight guys around around those guys when they score, and just really cool to see guys being happy for one another and celebrating one

another success. In my broadcast career and in my playing career, I've seen that after getting a delay of game, like when you had a weather delay or some of your power outage in other games, the team that was in control kind of struggles to turn it back on. How tough is it to get your team to turn it back on following a long halftime and then a weather delay. Yeah,

it was a challenge. We were prepared for it from a preparation standpoint in terms of the organization of what we had had in store, but it is a challenge. It was a long, long halftime and then a long time if you had that together with the lightning the weather delay. So I thought we managed it as best we could, but certainly we can continue to learn from it.

And at the end of the day though, we made it stops in the fourth quarter when we needed to and the offense converted and then we won the game on the on the hands team with the onsets kicked there so well and a good team win no Miami. They scored twenty eight points, got over four hundred yards of total offense. It's out of character for your team. Eighteen to those points, and about two hundred and fifty

of those yards came after that weather delay. How did that impact your defense in particular in the second half. I thought we were on our heels a little bit quite honestly, Steve. And so we've got to go back and look at some things that we can do differently, and that starts with me, and you know it goes all the way down to our defensive staff and the players.

We've got to do a better job. We didn't play our style defense in particular on that second half, and so we got to come out have a good wee could practice this week and put our best for four years. All right, Thanks coach. We'll catch up with you later in the show to get your final thoughts on your matchup with the Rams on Sunday. Shopping Wood is presented by Saint Bonaventure University, the official education provider of the

Buffalo Bills. Welcome back to the Sean McDermott Show, and now it's time for our good buddy Eric Wood to break down the film from the Bill win in Miami. In another edition of Chopping Wood eight, Josh Allen set another career high four hundred and seventeen yards passing, had a career high six twenty five yard plus completions. How did the Bills get their passing game going this week? They connected on a number of different ways. A lot

of it was through the play action. And to think back to last year, the Miami game got them going. That was the first ball they completed over thirty yards all season. They got one of John Brown in the Miami game. And just two weeks into the season we get to play down in Miami and they got it going again. Yeah, and it's interesting too. Let's start. There's a lot of things to choose from, but we'll start.

We're taking a look at the twenty six yard catch to Cole Beasley in the middle of that first touchdown driver the Bills. Ninety seven yards happened early in the game and it got him off to a good start. It did. And Cole Beasley as the third receiver for the Buffalo Bills just seems crazy the way he's able to separate. He's such a valuable piece for them in the slot. And the Bills utilized play a lot. They used a lot of crossing rounds and here they don't

even get a great rub. But Josh Allen showed incredible touch on his crossing rounds yesterday, not rifling it too hard, not leaving too much air under it where the dB could make a playoff. Thought he was just absolutely perfect and a lot of his touch plays. And as you notice here, Josh has all day to throw, and he did all day yesterday. The offensive line, the tight ends when they were in, the running backs, everybody protected well.

Later down in that drive, the Bills are on goal line, and for the second week in the road, they're gonna come out in big, heavy personnel and run a hard play action for the touchdown. Yeah, last week we saw Josh Allen bootleg out and Ryan Bates was actually trying to release late and Josh Allen raining in himself. This time they run another hard play action and Josh Allen rolls out to his right instead of his left. Last week Seese Reggie Gilliam and for the rookie, this is

a contested play on the goal line. It's a great catch, making a catch outside of his body, bringing it in and getting in for the touchdown. We had two Bills make their first touchdowns yesterday in Gabriel Davis and Reggie Gilliam. Congrats to those guys. Yeah. Now let's go to the second quarter. On a first and ten, the Bills are gonna run play action again, this time out of shotgun.

Yeah they are. And this is a hard play action again and like I said earlier, the protection once again is there for the Bills and just another great execution making plays down the field for the Bills. And Josh again puts a great touch on this ball almost. I mean, it's a risky throw, but when you have a receiver like Diggs a lot of times he can almost play defensive back if you need him to. So you let a guy like Diggs go up and make plays for you. And I love the way dig snatches the ball out

of the air on this plane. Later on in the game, the Miami Dolphins take the lead for the first time and the first player to drive, what do they do. They're gonna draw one up at their number one guy, And this is an other big play to it is and it's a great sign that when the game's on the line, the Bills are confident in Josh airing the ball out down the field. And look at the separation. That's the fond Diggs is able to get there, and that's just that's what the lead receivers in this league

can do. They can separate like that. And he's upset with himself and appears at the end of the play that he slipped and he didn't get in for the touchdown. But for the Bills when they absolutely needed to play most, it's so great that they have the confidence to good on the field. Tyler Croft with a great one on one block on that play as well against Kyle van Noy, who's been a productive fast Rusher's Bill seen him and

a Patriots un from the last couple of years. He makes a great block on this play to allow Josh Allen to get this ball off down the field. All right. Here they are with a third down, critical third down, and they got to go back to the play action again for the nail in the coffin. This is the nail in the coffin and Josh Allen just barely misses

John Brown. Seems like a miscommunication a couple plays prior where John Round broke off around Josh Allen threw it high and here the safety is gonna jumps to fond Diggs and when he does that John Brown's gonna be wide open over the top of the defense, and this is a great pitching catch, great execution by them, And like I said on the previous play, for them to have the confidence to allow Josh to throw the ball out there and let a loose down the field shows

tremendous confidence in their thirty year quarterback and he's and he's letting it pay off for them. He leads the league in passing two games into the season. Who would have thought that if you would have said yards from scrimmage. I think maybe Bills fans would believe you, thinking he did a lot of it with his legs. But he throws this ball fifty five yards flat footed from the pocket. The Bills fans, the Bills organization has got to be fired up with the play that they're getting out at

their thirty year quarterback early in this season. Eric, thanks so much for the inside and we're gonna talk to you next week we break down the film against the La Rams. Thank budd, I'm looking forward to Steve. Game preview is presented by in Debt Pended Health. You deserve the Red Shared Treatment. Mattie glab here with this week's game preview. It's the battle of two undefeated teams as the Bills host the Rams in Week three. It will be Buffalo's first of four games against the NFC West.

La brings in a high power offense that ranks fifth in the NFL, averaging four hundred and thirty five point five yards per game. The run game boasts one hundred and seventy two rushing yards a game. Rams quarterback Jared Goff leads an offense that converts fifty five point two percent of their third downs. Goff is completing sixty eight point nine percent of his passes with the tenth best

one hundred and eight point five rating. The Rams defense, with Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey, has only allowed eighteen points per game, which is third best in the league. Bill's quarterback Josh Allen is coming off back to back career games. After his four hundred and seventeen yard four t D day against the Dolphins. Buffalo as the third best offense, averaging four hundred and sixty four yards a game.

Allan leads the NFL in passing yards with seven hundred and twenty nine, while his new connection Stefon Diggs ties for the lead league in receiving yards with two hundred and thirty nine. Eleven of diggs sixteen catches have been for first downs. After allowing twenty eight points to Miami, Buffalo's defense still ranks with the best at fifth in

the league. While the Rams have a rushing offense that ranks third, the Bills have a rushing defense that also ranks third, allowing only seventy five and a half yards per game. The Bills are currently the only team in the NFL to rank in top five on total offense and defense. That's this week's game preview, Steve back to you. Thanks as always, Mattie. Now, coach, you've played both on the road and in front of some fans and at a home empty stadium. You've gotten a taste of the

different environments you're gonna play in this year. Do you feel like home field advantage is still a factor in this unique season? Well, it isn't. It isn't. I mean, honestly, we love our fans, and it was great to see those fans down in Florida this past weekend, and we're gonna miss them when we're back home here, but we know they're outside, man, cheering for us. Watching watching us from home and from everywhere across our country in the world.

We know they're in our hearts, and we want them to know that we're thinking of them as we play, and that twelfth Man supportant to us. We wish that they could be here. Obviously that's not a decision that we can make, but we wish someday hopefully they'll return and we'll be able to plan in front of them again. The Los Angeles Rams, I've got a couple of top defenders as they come into town. They've got a top elape player in Aaron Donald and also Jalen Ramsey. Guys

like that on the other side of the ball. How do they impact your process in getting a game plan together. Well, you got to have a complimentary plan that that's cohesive and fits together with all three phases. Those guys are tough to deal with. They're guys that conrect game plans, and so we've got to be very aware of them as we shape our game plans and strategic ye'd also be aggressing on what we're doing and how we do

it well. The Rams come to town this week two and O. Both your offense and the Rams are averaging over four hundred yards a game so far this year. What type of game are you expecting against the La Rams or it's going to be a big challenge. Like I said before, they're a good football team, well coached. You know, we've got to make sure that we continue to grow as a football team this week as we prepare.

Thanks coach, good luck on Sunday. We're going to be back next week to break down the game with the Rams and look forward to the bills first trip to Las Vegas to face the Raiders. Thanks for watching The Sean McDermott Show presented by Connors and Ferris. We'll see you next week. Go Bills. Final thoughts. It's presented by your local Toyota Dealers. The Sean McDermott Show is presented

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