Holy sassafras. What a time to be alive. If the Miami massacre by the Bills really didn’t happen on Sunday… please don’t wake me up. What in the world did we just see play out quietly at Bills Stadium some 12 or so hours ago as I write this?
I’m up in the middle of the night, probably like many other Bills fans. Still not exactly sure what I watched on television from our perch in Wyoming Sunday afternoon. The Buffalo Bills came out, clicked it into high gear and ran ram-shod all over the Dolphins and wouldn’t stop.
Offense, defense, special teams, coaching. It was all there, firmly on display from start to finish of the game. But what was even more striking from my perspective is how Sean McDermott flipped the script and is now currently administering a reign of terror mode upon opponents as he guides this team into the playoffs.
Gone is the rather ‘Jauronish’ approach to winning.
McDermott gets that being meek will get you so far and then you gotta plunge the knife in and destroy the opponent’s will to live. Suck it up, move on to the next opponent. Wash. Rinse. Repeat until winning a Super Bowl Championship.
And if it doesn’t happen that way… let’s say the Bills go one and done in the playoffs. Disappointing? Yes, it would be, but not at all in a way similar to past painful losses from decades ago. The genie is out of the bottle now with this team and they will not look backward, and perhaps neither should we.
McDermott is shaping the mental persona of this team around values and standards he holds himself accountable for in his own life. He practices what he preaches. Those who have the privilege to work with the minds of wrestlers know the mental discipline required to become a championship wrestler, as McDermott did during his youth.
[Here is buffalonews.com’s Jason Wolf’s terrific story about Sean McDermott from his wrestling days.]
The will to achieve and succeed for something outside self glorification is a thing of beauty to see when it happens.
Sean McDermott reminds me of the Pied Piper. His players obviously love his pure soul and flourish under his leadership and guidance. It’s a privilege to watch how this team has come together. They are a very fun team to watch and cheer for, even as a casual fan.
However, there is nothing casual about BillsMafia.
The people of Buffalo celebrate their team and their love for one another in the most culturally unique ways. We express our love through our team and love our team as a gigantic extended FAMily. This was the basis for changing our name change at the BuffaloFAMbase blog.
We really are family in every sense of the word and including all the dysfunctional elements of family life that go along with being labeled ‘BillsMafia’… as our strange identity erupted on the NFL scene in 2010.
It’s all been such an incredible adventure being a Bills fan for life. The winning does taste sweeter after suffering through decades of despair. And as far as coaches go, it’s been since Marv Levy that a coach really understood our unusual fan base the way Sean McDermott does.
After reading #ColtsNation just donated thousands of dollars to the Oshei Children’s Hospital Patricia Allen Fund, you have to love this role model we are embracing as fans. Kindness and generosity of spirit creates ripples of positivity we could all use right about now.
And then soon it will be time to unleash ‘Dragon’ McDermott on the genius mind of Frank Reich and see what happens. Go Bills.
~The Caboose~
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