‘What more does McDermott need to see?’
Archives for November 2017
Good news on injury front for Benjamin and Hyde
‘Bills fans were holding their breath when Kelvin Benjamin went down holding his knee, after making his first catch against the Chargers. Sean McDermott today at his press conference on Benjamin “good news is there’s no ligament damage to (Benjamin’s) knee. We’re still evaluating him.”‘
Sean McDermott mum on starting quarterback
‘”Yeah I get it, 5 interceptions, but you have to drill down on it and say why did it happen? Really who was at fault, so I can evaluate more thoroughly and accurately.”‘
Eric Wood wishes team had done more around Peterman
‘”It was surreal. I didn’t envision that happening. He starts 3 for 3, then we get a tipped ball of our own guys’ hand, it’s a pick. Then the next drive we get backed up, and it’s a pick. I wish we had done more around him.”‘
Processed
‘I mean honestly, you’d think maybe we’d seen it all in 17 years of the drought. This was a new low, which in and of itself is incredible. Who would’ve thought we’d get this? Maybe you hated this decision from the start, plenty of people did. But five first half interceptions? Honestly, it’s hard to process that it actually went as poorly as it did.’
McDermott Monday: No quarterback decision for Bills made yet
‘“One game is not going to define Nathan or Nathan’s career,” McDermott continued. “Young players go through it. And you saw some of it yesterday. And I put that back on myself. I said that yesterday I don’t regret the decision, I regret the result. We learn, we grown from it and we get better.”’
McDermott ‘still evaluating’ quarterback situation
‘”We’re building, this is part of the growth process. It burns. It burns hard, you don’t want the result that we had yesterday,” said McDermott.’
McDermott wants to evaluate before making a call at QB
‘“I’m going to evaluate,” he said. “I’m going to take my time and evaluate.”’
Quick Hits: QB decision TBD
‘“One game is not going to define Nathan or Nathan’s career,” he said. “Young players go through it and you saw some of that yesterday. I put that back on myself. I own that decision and as I said yesterday I don’t regret the decision. I regret the result. There were other hands also in the result. So it’s never about one player. I’m confident in Nathan and his mental toughness. We move forward, we learn, we grow from it and we get better.”‘
Bills Today: Hauschka nails 13 straight in route to NFL record
‘You have to dig deep to find Hauschka’s last miss from 50 yards or further. He’s a perfect 5-5 from that distance this season. He was 1-1 on his lone attempt last season and was 6-6 in 2015. The kicker’s last miss from 50-plus yards came in 2014 when he was a member of the Seattle Seahawks.’
Bills left shaken by third straight embarrassment
‘Perhaps the AFC’s mediocrity will keep the 5-5 Bills at least on the fringes of the playoff picture well into December, but things have gone well beyond the critical stage for this team and its first-year head coach – especially after taking the “calculated risk” he did with starting Peterman and insisting it was about giving the team a better chance to win now.’
Nathan Peterman vows to learn from disastrous first start
‘The Bills mercifully pulled the plug on Peterman at halftime, but not before he became the first quarterback since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to throw five interceptions in the first half of a game.’
Jerry Sullivan: Sean McDermott’s ‘calculated risk’ leads to humiliation
‘The move couldn’t have blown up in McDermott’s face any worse if he had stuck his head in the annoying cannon that they set off in the corner of the end zone after every Chargers score.’
Bucky Gleason: For Peterman and Bills, it couldn’t have gone any worse
‘The decision could come down to this: Which quarterback is less likely to lose?’
Tim Graham: Woeful three-game losing streak makes you wonder about ‘The Process’
‘As bad as the Bills have looked under coaches Rex Ryan, Doug Marrone, Chan Gailey and Dick Jauron — let’s even go back to how awful they were under Hank Bullough, John Rauch, Kay Stephenson and Buster Ramsey — you could make a case that what we’ve seen since Halloween is as awful as ever.’