{"id":268721,"date":"2025-11-03T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268721\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:24:11","slug":"mcdermott-knows-someone-will-have-to-step-up-with-hoecht-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268721\/","title":{"rendered":"McDermott knows someone will have to step up with Hoecht out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhihnjs2000e01ukyyrooray@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Orchard Park, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills improved to 6-2 on the season Sunday after taking down the Kansas City Chiefs, 28-21, at Highmark Stadium. It is the fifth-straight game in the regular season where the Bills have beaten the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhihq3ya001k357te7mhfs0b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Bills head coach Sean McDermott feels his team did a great job stepping up for one another, especially with a number of players dealing with injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhinjoyn0017357to3ai3mdc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;I think we learned a little bit about ourselves today,&#8221; said McDermott during his postgame comments with the media. &#8220;We\u2019re not where we need to be, but I saw the team come together when it got tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhihq3z7001l357t95s6gs7l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The injury news only got worse for the Bills on Sunday, as edge rusher Michael Hoecht was forced to leave the game in the third quarter due to injury. McDermott confirmed following the game Hoecht tore his Achilles and will be out the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhinlhcb001b357trdvpoe5d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;It\u2019s a big loss,&#8221; McDermott admitted. &#8220;I thought he gave us a certain level of toughness, smarts, knowing how to play the game. &#8230; We&#8217;ve gotta find somebody who can step up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhihq409001m357tsk5oad66@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">More from McDermott&#8217;s postgame comments can be found in the player below:<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Jason Miller &#8211; Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orchard Park, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills improved to 6-2 on the season Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-268721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}