‘We take it week to week'

Here are some highlights from head coach Sean McDermott’s recent press conferences.

Q: Can you reflect back to 2017 when you were in the playoff hunt ... how has your message evolved since that time? Has it evolved or changed in anyway since now that you’re in the playoff hunt right now again, the second time in three years?

SM: Overall, we take it week to week. We took it week to week back then, we take a week to week now. A lot of my message I would say, it’s probably a better question for some of the players that were here with me then, here with us then. A lot of it has remained the same because I believe in it. And then I’m hoping that I’ve gotten better with age, as well and experience.

Q: What do you think the addition of Cole Beasley this year? What has that meant for Josh Allen? You didn’t have him last year. How much of a difference has he made for Josh’s development this season?

SM: It’s been big for our overall offense and really for the personality of our football team. You guys have been around Cole; he’s a likable guy. He’s come from a good upbringing and a football family and he understands the game. He’s got football instincts. Not the biggest, not the tallest obviously or the fastest, but he knows how to play the game and he loves to compete. I think he’s one of our dogs and I love that. You watch him on the field, you watch him in the training room and get a little shooting hoop in there. He loves to compete and that’s an ingredient, a big ingredient of who we are.

Q: Where Shaq Lawson was a couple of years ago, you guys were a little bit critical of him publically, to where he is now ... he’s playing a lot of snaps and coming up with a two-sack game against Denver. What do you think of what he’s done?