The Buffalo Bills capped off their 2021 preseason slate on Saturday by taking down the Green Bay Packers by a 19-0 final score at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park. With the win, the Bills successfully went undefeated this preseason.
Bills head coach Sean McDermott spoke with the media following the game’s conclusion. McDermott talked about his desire to simulate specific in-game scenarios for the team to run through, as the first-team offense and first-team defense played the majority of the first half.
“I thought there was some positives… and they were some things that came up in the game that we can learn from,” McDermott said. “[For example,] we’re down a long snapper, so A.J. [Epenesa] goes out there and for the most part did a pretty good job, but how do we handle that? We burned some timeouts because of the clock running down on the operation. ... It’s hard to simulate all those [situations] on the practice field. I thought we could continue to learn from those situations."
Now that the preseason is over, teams around the NFL have to cut down their rosters to a total of 53 players by Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 4 p.m. ET. McDermott said following the win that some of the decisions the team will have to make before Tuesday won’t be easy.
“Those decisions are always difficult,” McDermott said. “When it comes to the talent on the roster, it’s gotten more difficult because Brandon [Beane] has done such a great job. You never like to see good players leave. We’re going to be in that situation, at some of the positions in particular, where we’re going to be saying farwell to some really good players and that’s hard.”
You can listen to McDermott’s entire postgame press conference below: