Jordan Mailata explains how the team stayed focused on beating the Steelers instead of the outside noise. Plus, what the Bills learned from their loss to the Rams, the impact of the Christmas schedule, Travis Hunter’s draft stock and more.
brought a ton of games with big stakes—and what those games lacked in drama, they made up for statements made and lessons learned. As we’ve been doing all season, we’ll publish the takeaways Sunday and update them live through Monday morning. So come back again if not all 10 are here yet …This week provided another test that Nick Sirianni’s Philadelphia Eagles passed with flying colors.weeks. The Eagles had won nine straight to move to 11–2 and stay within a game of the Detroit Lions for the No.
“He let us address it,” left tackle Jordan Mailata told me Sunday night. “Once it was done, he made sure to move on and keep the Steelers the main thing. He didn’t let it linger. We kept pushing on. And that was Coach’s message. Nick did a great job of just moving on from that. And seeing him move on made us move on and keep the main thing the main thing. Like I said, it was our business this week, but it’s none of our business.
The run game would come around, even if it didn’t go wild in the second half, and the defense would buckle down, too—keeping the Steelers off the scoreboard and to just 83 yards and four first downs after halftime. “I can tell you right now—the one-two,” Mailata says about the drive. “It is hard to find people to have that one-two: to keep moving the ball, to keep that time of possession up. And that’s what it showed me today, that the next-man-up mentality and the one-two were there. You could see it on the film. Guys just turning up each play, just giving that grit. That was a battle, man. That was no easy game.
What you, and everyone else, will remember is James Cook’s 41-yard touchdown run; Allen exploiting a depleted Lions linebacker group by throwing to running back Ty Johnson; and Allen’s strikes downfield to Keon Coleman, Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox. You’ll remember Greg Rousseau and Ed Oliver getting after Jared Goff, and the Bills jumping up 14–0, 21–7 and 35–14 on their stunned hosts and in front of a stunned crowd.Even now, he can’t explain exactly what went wrong early on in L.A.
And that, McDermott continues, is, and was, especially true with Allen, who’s embraced the leadership role he’s moved into as some of the Bills’ old cornerstone captains left the building in the offseason. All four teams set to play Saturday, then again the following Wednesday, are squarely in the chase. The Chiefs, Houston Texans and Steelers lead their divisions, and the Baltimore Ravens are one game back in the AFC North. On Saturday, the Steelers will play the Ravens and the Chiefs will play the Texans. On Christmas, it’ll be Steelers-Chiefs and Texans-Ravens.
Given that, this was a good time to dig in with a couple of guys in the midst of that meat grinder of a three-game stretch—coming off the field from the first leg of a tough relay. Instead, the Cowboys have surged. They’re 3–1 since, and would probably be 4–0 were it not for Monday night’s punt team meltdown against the Cincinnati Bengals.
“It’s just more who he is—it’s just been the attitude the last couple of years,” Rush answered. “He does a great job having a pulse of the team, keeping guys together, keeping us together in the locker room and creating that culture that no matter who we’re playing, what we’re doing. If you’re out there, you’re competing your butt off. He has us well prepared.”Now, again, McCarthy’s situation is different than some other coaches on the hot seat.
That indicates two things: Belichick wanted to get back to his life’s work and coach in 2025, and his overwhelming preference was to do it his way. In other words, he didn’t want someone going halfway in on him . And I do think the last year showed him that while an NFL job offer might’ve been coming, it probably would’ve been more difficult to get anything approximating the control he had in New England.
Either way, while I’m a little disappointed we won’t get to see him in the NFL next year, I’m fascinated to see how the next chapter for the greatest coach ever plays out.The Niners are now 6–8. They’re on the brink of elimination from the playoff picture after a run of four NFC title games, and two Super Bowl appearances, in five years. They’ve mortgaged contracts to facilitate it. The bill is coming due. Could they push things off another year? Sure.
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