{"id":376224,"date":"2025-12-29T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:12:07","slug":"sean-mcdermott-on-resting-starters-in-week-18-a-lot-of-things-to-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376224\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McDermott on resting starters in Week 18: A lot of things to discuss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday\u2019s loss to the Eagles closed the door on the Bills\u2019 chances of winning the AFC East and opened the door to questions for head coach Sean McDermott about his plans for who will play in Week 18 against the Jets. <\/p>\n

The game will have bearing on the team\u2019s playoff seed, but they know they will be on the road in the playoffs whether they win, lose or tie their 3-13 visitors from New Jersey. Their chances of winning those postseason road games would tank if quarterback Josh Allen aggravates his foot injury or if he or other key players suffered new injuries, which is among the many things McDermott suggested will be taken to account as the team comes up with a plan for the finale. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do you want to start<\/a>? We\u2019ve got a lot of things we need to discuss as a leadership group,\u201d McDermott said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got the last game in Highmark Stadium here. That\u2019s important to me, It\u2019ll be important to our guys, to our staff. Then there\u2019s other things that come into consideration. It won\u2019t be easy, but it is important that we have a good week here.\u201d<\/p>\n

A good week for the Bills would mean putting themselves in the best possible position to win in the playoffs and we\u2019ll learn in the coming days how McDermott and company plan to go about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s loss to the Eagles closed the door on the Bills\u2019 chances of winning the AFC East and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376224","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=376224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}