The Bills have a rich history, but some of it is overshadowed by more recent lapses.
Buffalo’s football team most recently made the postseason in 2017, the first year Sean McDermott was the bench boss. The 2017 Bills had to win in their final game to get there, but they now famously needed help from an Andy Dalton miracle.
This season, with three games left, it’s a win-and-in scenario for the Bills. Their future is completely in their own hands and in the past, the Bills organization hasn’t always handled that well.
Despite that, no pressure says the coach.
“Those past failures, not many of us were here. We certainly respect the past, but our eyes are set on the future,” McDermott said on Wednesday.
Plenty of current Bills players will likely more recently remember 2017 and won’t be concerned with the past, either. Many big-time contributors for the Bills were there in 2017, huddled together, watching Dalton help snap a two-decade playoff drought for the Bills.
With the pressures of cracking the longest postseason drought in North American sports history in mind, what’s pressure, anyway? That was a tall task that many thought impossible at the start of the 2017 season, but it happened.
And let’s not forget, even thought the final stretch of Bills football this year includes some tough tasks with the Steelers, Patriots and Jets, that’s still three cracks at it. Three strikes and the Bills are out, there’s still plenty of pitches to come their way.
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