Through two home games at New Era Field, the Buffalo Bills have an unblemished record of 2-0.

Home field advantage has always been something Western New Yorkers have boasted about each Sunday and now Bills’ head coach Sean McDermott is buying in. The Buffalo head coach gave each player a jar full of rubber and sand, representative of the artificial surface players trot onto each gameday.

The jar is supposed to remind each and every player on the Bills roster to “Defend our Dirt.” The slogan also hangs in vision from a sign just outside the Buffalo locker room.

The most tenured of all Bills players, defensive tackle Kyle Williams, commented on just what it means to have that advantage at home.

“It’s got to matter,” Williams said to Vic Carruci of The Buffalo News. “Any time that we’re at home, we have the crowd, we have the comfort zone of being here, it has to mean something.”

For Buffalo, it’s been a lost art of late to defend their home field. The team is just 22-18 at home in the last five seasons, winning just 55-percent of their games with the crowd at their back.

Williams explained the importance of winning at home and how it can lead to success.

“Statistically, it shows that teams that make the playoffs or win championships, they’re winning 80 or 90 percent of their home games,” said the defensive tackle who’s in his 12th season, in which all have been with the Bills.

“Of their eight home games, they’re going to win six or seven, win three or four on the road. And that’s kind of what it goes back to. If we want to be the team we want to be, we have to be able to defend our dirt, win at home.”

Buffalo will get a chance to add on to their undefeated home record and continue their surprising start as the Buccaneers come to town this Sunday. The Bills Mafia has hopes to come out strong as they’ve been resting their voices the last three weeks.