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Sean McDermott: 4 Notable Quotes – Bills Vs. Ravens

‘”I think you hit the nail on the head with respect to LeSean. He’s developing. I’ve watched him since he was younger, like I’ve said before, to now. I appreciate his leadership within our team. He’s got a good grasp on the offense, he’s playing fast, he looks like he’s in better shape even than he was a year ago. I think he’s been off to a real fine start.”‘

“Captain” Shady embraces his responsibility

‘”Every move I try to make nowadays, I really want to make it the best because I see how they view me,” he said. “You don’t really notice that until a youngster speaks to you, talks to you, asks you different questions. You’d be surprised what type of all-star, young players in the NFL… the type of text messages or questions that I get. I’m like, ‘damn, I must be 30 or I must be in my 10th year’.”’

Bills O-Line “salty” and confident

‘”The more you do reps together, the more you have these innate things with the guy next to you,” veteran tackle Marshall Newhouse said. “Maybe you don’t have to say a word. You just give him a look or something like that. That stuff comes with time.”‘

Quick Hits: McDermott stamps Bills O-line as ready

‘“They’ll be ready to go. They’re preparing now just like our entire team to make sure they’re ready,” McDermott said. “We’ve got a group of guys who take a lot of pride in working for things. Now they’ve come together. There may not be a whole lot of outside faith in them, but I think they’ve embraced that. There’s not a name on our board that’s a household name and those guys take a lot of pride in their work.”’

Quick Hits: What LeSean McCoy is using as motivation

‘“This offseason I just put the extra work in,” he said. “People take a lot of shots at running backs who are 30-years old and it’s always a question. I feel I get it a lot lately, which I’m not used to, so it was something else to drive me. It got added onto chasing different things, yardage, wins, you name it. Whatever it is I always try to find something to get me going. This offseason I credit that as my motivation in pushing myself.”’

Top 8 storylines for Bills-Ravens this week

‘“I’ve learned a lot, went through a lot, studied a lot this offseason,” Peterman said, “I worked really hard fundamentally, as well. I’ve got to continue to do that. Like I said, there’s a lot of challenges and I’ve got to keep making steps.”’

Bills Today: Bills name team captains for 2018 season

‘For the first time under head coach Sean McDermott, the Bills will have six captains, the maximum number of captains that a team can have per league rules. In the 2017 season, the Bills had five captains. Williams, Alexander and Hauschka are the only returning captains from last season.’

Bills DT Kyle Williams unsure of when his 13th NFL season will start

‘“It’ll come down to performance and how I feel this week,” Williams said. “You know, if I feel like I can perform at a high level the way that I want to – the way that I expect to play – and I can help our team, then all systems go. But if I feel like I would be a detriment and I’m out there just to be out there … that’s where you have to be able to discern what the difference is in those two things.”‘

We asked the Bills’ secondary: How did you get so good, so fast?

‘”To piggyback off of that, we all compete in the meeting rooms, on the field. Speaking for myself, that chemistry goes off the field, too. We hang out with each other off the field, and I think that builds that bond when you get on the field and you’re able to trust the guy next to you. The fourth quarter, you don’t want to let that guy down. Especially with the amount of communication we have to do in the secondary, I think it’s huge to have that camaraderie off the field.”‘

Brian Daboll’s offense promises unpredictability, but what about the talent?

‘”What Brian does — and other people do this as well, this isn’t exclusive to Brian — he finds ways of giving you answers,” Quinn said. “So that could be through what you call displacement. Displacement is where you play the running back, tight end on the outside of the formation. That’s going to largely tell you man or zone.”‘

How Sean McDermott will make himself better in Year 2

‘“In my humble opinion, anyone that says that they’ve anticipated everything, especially the things that come in between those moments, I think they’re lying to you. What’s more realistic in my mind is you prepare your butt off and you’re able to be very organized and put things into buckets, ‘Hey, this is how I want to work with the media in this case … this is how I want to handle crisis management in this case.’ And you just divide things into buckets, so that you have a plan going in. What happens in between those buckets are leadership moments of dealing with people. That’s really, to me, the neat part about the job, the part that I continue to be passionate about and even more passionate about in the second year than I was last year.”’