'“I did it to understand our situation,” McDermott told Buffalobills.com. “I want to better understand this organization and I think it’s kind of an off the field and on the field type approach. What’s it like to play and what’s it like to see this town on fire for this football team? So better understand that and then also just the brotherhood and the bond that went into those teams is so rich. You could just smell it in the room, just the love for one another that was present.”'