Bills' Sean McDermott - Blowout loss 'certainly not up to our standard' - ESPN

The Buffalo Bills' blowout loss against the Chicago Bears was «certainly not up to our standard,» according to coach Sean McDermott, who said he was «concerned» by his team's overall performance in its second preseason game.

The Bills, who almost exclusively played their backups against Caleb Williams and the Bears' starters early in Sunday's game, were outgained 528-180 in the 38-0 loss.

«Certainly not up to our standard, what we expect,» McDermott said. «Got a lot of work to do, that's very clear. Doesn't matter who's out there — ones, twos, threes, fours — whoever it is, we expect them to perform and we expect our level of performance to be much better than that.»

Safety Cole Bishop and wide receiver Joshua Palmer were the two projected Bills starters that did see some playing time after both missed time during camp with injuries. Bishop played 11 snaps against the Bears' first-team offense and Palmer played eight.

McDermott did not mention any specific players and acknowledged that Josh Allen and most of the team's starters rested because the Bills wanted to prioritize keeping them healthy, adding that he felt they were moving in the right direction with the first unit during coming off last week's joint practices with the Bears.

But McDermott emphasized that he wanted to see more from Buffalo's second stringers, especially the defense, which struggled against Williams and Chicago's first-string offense.

«Get out there and playing against their ones, I expect — we expect — to compete with them, and that wasn't the case early,» McDermott said. «And then our twos, who were out there against their twos, and our threes against their threes — it didn't get much better.

»So we've got to look at it, figure some things out