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Bill-ieve it! Buffalo in the Playoffs and New England's New Scandal

ESPN Daily

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Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Buffalo Bills clinched a playoff spot for the second time in three years. How did they get here, and does their turnaround story hold lessons for other NFL teams? ESPN NFL insider Bill Barnwell joins Mina Kimes to explain the Bills' surprising success. Then, in light of new video evidence, Bill and Mina break down the Patriots "Spygate II" video taping scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Josh Allen kneels it down and here we go.

0:03.0

Three, two, one. Get ready, Buffalo. Merry Christmas.

0:07.0

The bills are going to the playoffs for the second time in three years.

0:11.0

Amazing. What a game. What a game.

0:14.0

The Buffalo Bills are in the playoffs.

0:20.0

Today, how the long-suffering team got so good so quickly,

0:26.8

and why their success won't stop here. Then, just before the Patriots and Bengals played,

0:33.9

the world saw the video the team shot of the Cincinnati sideline and heard them defending it.

0:40.1

What did the tape really show? And was it worth it? I'm Mina Kimes. It's Monday, December 16th.

0:49.0

This is ESPN Daily, presented by Indeed.

0:57.7

Your ESPN Daily, presented by Indeed. Your namesake team is in the playoffs, the Bills.

1:02.0

I mean, I don't want to brag.

1:03.5

Bill Barnwell is a senior football writer at ESPN.

1:06.9

He has consulted with NFL teams, but the bills are not, in fact, named after him.

1:12.3

So tonight, the Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 70 to 10, clenching a spot in the postseason.

1:20.2

And Bill, what's amazing about this team, aside from being named after you, is that for most of the 2000s, they didn't even have a winning record.

1:29.9

But now they have made the playoffs in two of the last three years during this rebuilding process.

1:36.6

Where does this recent success begin in your mind?

1:40.3

I think the simplest place for it to start is just hiring Sean McDermott.

1:46.4

I mean, this was a coach who really seems at odds with a lot of what NFL teams tend to do

1:53.1

when they have head coaching opportunities pop up. I mean, Sean Rick Dermott was 42. It wasn't

1:57.9

like he was old, but let's face it, every coaching opportunity

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