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Speaker 1: Week one, Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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Speaker 1: tuning it up for what could be a division flinching

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Speaker 1: that I want to, right, But this season feels so fresh,

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Speaker 1: that you described, Mike, and that would be this. I

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Speaker 1: think this man cares about the history of this game.

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Speaker 1: And the legacies that are in it, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's firmly aware of his own legacy, and I think

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Speaker 1: what's important to him is getting the all time wins record,

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Speaker 1: passing Don Shula, and he's in striking distance. So with

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Speaker 1: that in mind, I think every victory for him is

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Speaker 1: precious and I think that takes precedence over trying to

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Speaker 1: screw the Jets out of the first pick in the draft.

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Speaker 1: That's just me. Now, it's just my opinion. I could

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Speaker 1: be wrong, but that's just kind of how I see it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you feel differently, Steve, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna do that. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff going abound about scenarios and all of that. Did

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Speaker 1: you read the tweet that without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: has a worst coaching record as a head coach than

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Speaker 1: Rex Ryan. They're almost they both have sixty There's like

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Speaker 1: sixty one, sixty six and Belichick's sixty and sixty five.

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Speaker 1: You know it's not And here's the thing. I know

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Speaker 1: people have always wanted to make this compared. You know,

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Speaker 1: who is respont who was more responsible for the success

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots for so many years? Was it Brady.

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Speaker 1: Was it more Brady's doing or was it more Belichick's doing?

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Speaker 1: And I believe this. I believe they're gonna go down

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Speaker 1: in history is probably the best coach quarterback tandem ever.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's gonna come close to touching them.

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Speaker 1: Not what is it, nine super Bowls, six titles. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: going near that. It's just not gonna happen. I'll be

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Speaker 1: shocked if it happens again in our lifetimes. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: happens one hundred years from now, who knows. But I'll

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Speaker 1: say this, every head coach who has been successful in

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Speaker 1: this league has had a good quarterback. I mean, let's

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Speaker 1: just be real about it, right, Okay, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: John Schule is the winning his coach in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: He had Bob Greasy and Dan Marino. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: had two Hall of Fame quarterbacks winning his coach in

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Speaker 1: NFL history. Andy Reid is climbing up the ladder and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna probably get to three hundred wins before he's done.

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Speaker 1: Why Because he's got Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback on

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Speaker 1: the planet. And he also had Donoan McNabb, who was

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Speaker 1: no slouch, right, got to a Super Bowl with him,

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Speaker 1: four NFC Championship games, same thing with George Seyffert, and

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Speaker 1: Bill Walsh had Joe Montana, then Steve Young, Mike Holmgren,

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Speaker 1: who did it with Brett Farve, and then he did

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Speaker 1: it with Matt Hasselbeck. Pete Carroll was a five hundred

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Speaker 1: NFL head coach. He had a five hundred record as

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Speaker 1: an NFL head coach. And then Russell Wilson comes along,

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Speaker 1: and oh, he's a really good coach. Now, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's just Brady, yes, And I'll talk about him being

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback of all time. I'll sign up for that.

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Speaker 1: I don't like him, but I have respect for his game.

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Speaker 1: But if Belichick had a really good quarterback who wasn't

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Speaker 1: named Tom Brady, I think he'd be relatively close to

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Speaker 1: being just as successful as he's been. Let me say

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Speaker 1: this as well. Part of being a head coach is

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Speaker 1: deciding who plays. And I heard this before Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: when Tom Brady was verse starting out, first, starting out,

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Speaker 1: one of the guys in Mike that I knew and trust,

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Speaker 1: had said Belle in the preseason. Belichick said, this kid,

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Speaker 1: Brady is the guy. He knew it before he was

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Speaker 1: starting in front of Drew Bledsoe, and once he got

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Speaker 1: on the field, he never came off. That's in doing

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Speaker 1: large part because you got a head coach as will

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Speaker 1: they say no, no no, we're keeping it here. Pete Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: same thing. Russell Wilson was the third guy on the

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Speaker 1: depth chart in training camp, and Pete Carroll knew what

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Speaker 1: he was looking at and he said, that's the guy.

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Speaker 1: The third rounder is gonna play up front of this guy.

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Speaker 1: I think they signed Matt Flynn away from I might

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Speaker 1: not have that name right. I want to say Flynn's

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Speaker 1: the last name from Green Bay. They signed him to

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Speaker 1: an offseason deal to be the starter in Seattle when

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Speaker 1: they drafted Russell Wilson, and then Russell Wilson comes out

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Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, you know what, you're gonna step

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Speaker 1: aside here, Russell Wilson's gonna be starting. And it was

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Speaker 1: the right move. So you can say what you want

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Speaker 1: about them getting like they're the guys who recognize who

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Speaker 1: these guys are now. Certainly a guy like Marv Jim

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Speaker 1: was in trench when Marv got here and he just

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Speaker 1: carried on. Dan Marino, first round draft pick quarterback who

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Speaker 1: turned out to be a pretty good pick for Don Done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the rest of those guys. So part of being a

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Speaker 1: great coach is knowing what you're looking at, and these

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Speaker 1: guys doing it. So you gotta give him at least

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Speaker 1: credit for the one decision they made about getting that guy.

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Speaker 1: At least Pete Carroll and U and Bill Belichick about

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Speaker 1: getting the right guy on the field. Right, eight oh three,

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty, Let's go to Sean and Buffalo Shan.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us here on One Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to touch on the John Brown discussion

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Speaker 1: we were just having. I don't know if this is

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Speaker 1: brought up yet or not, so I apologize if it has.

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Speaker 1: But he has that sickle salt trade, right. He was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed then twenty sixteen, and players with that trade have

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Speaker 1: missed games in Denver due to the high altitude. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: he might be coming off ir with that ankle, but

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills are going to hold him out

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Speaker 1: regardless because of that. Well, so yeah, it'll be it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting. It'll be interesting. You know, Steve and I

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Speaker 1: were actually doing a little research before we came on

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Speaker 1: the air, because in the event that this subject got

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Speaker 1: brought up, and we are up against the breaks, so

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. But I will say this, we

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Speaker 1: did find some written material online because back when John

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Speaker 1: Brown was a free agent after the twenty eighteen season,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos were interested in signing him as a free

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Speaker 1: agent because they had signed Joe Flacco to be their

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Speaker 1: quarterback and those two had a good rapport down in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: you know, when John Brown played there for a season. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we know that the Bills ultimately signed John Brown and

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Speaker 1: he came here in twenty nineteen. But there was a

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Speaker 1: whole rite up in Denver, and I'm trying to look

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Speaker 1: at the publication. I think this is I think this

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Speaker 1: is just the Denver dot com. There was a write

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Speaker 1: up there by Ryan Konigsberg, and he essentially said after

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Speaker 1: doing research with a doctor and with John Brown's agent

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Speaker 1: to assess whether or not he could come play in Denver.

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Speaker 1: And basically what we gleaned from the article, and this

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Speaker 1: if I've got that pronounced correctly, which basically is dealing

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Speaker 1: with how red blood cells carry oxygen through your body,

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Speaker 1: and that's what the sick people with the sickle cell

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Speaker 1: trait can suffer from not getting enough oxygen to their organs,

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Speaker 1: which obviously becomes even more complicated at altitude where the

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Speaker 1: air is thinner. But according to this article, it's very,

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Speaker 1: very very rare to have negative consequences coming out of

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Speaker 1: playing at altitude, even if you have a sickle cell trait.

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Speaker 1: So all cases are different. And again I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to play a doctor on the radio, but i will

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Speaker 1: use the quote from this doctor of hemoglobinopathy at Children's

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Speaker 1: Hospital in Colorado when she was asked if possessing the

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Speaker 1: sickle cell trait would prevent John from playing in Denver

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Speaker 1: on a long term basis, she answered, without hesitation, no,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. We have definitely had players with sickle cell

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Speaker 1: trait on the Broncos roster before. There is not a

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Speaker 1: contraindication to a player with sickle cell trait coming to Denver. Now,

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Speaker 1: we do know the Pittsburgh Steelers former safety Ryan Clark

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Speaker 1: had a major complication from playing in Denver, and he

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Speaker 1: too had the sickle cell trait and he had he

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Speaker 1: lost his spleen and his gall bladder because they were

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Speaker 1: not getting enough oxygen and he experienced extreme abdominal pain

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Speaker 1: after he played up there, and then a couple of

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Speaker 1: years later when he was scheduled to play in Denver

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Speaker 1: again as a member of the Steelers, he did not.

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Speaker 1: He skipped the game. He had he had an old

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Speaker 1: he had an additional medical factor that contributed to that.

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Speaker 1: Is that right, Well, it's unclear, but basically what the

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Speaker 1: doctor said was Ryan Clark had sickle cell trait. And

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Speaker 1: we know that one ramification of sickle cell trait and

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Speaker 1: altitude exposure can be a condition in which oxygen supply

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Speaker 1: to the organs is interrupted, leading to partial or complete

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Speaker 1: tissue death due to oxygen shortage. It's even debatable though,

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Speaker 1: whether that's attributable just to sickle cell trait and altitude exposure,

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Speaker 1: or if the rare individual who experiences that also has

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Speaker 1: some other underlying risk factor. Now they don't know if

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Speaker 1: Ryan Clark had another underlying risk factor. But the point

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Speaker 1: here is that you can have sickle cell trait and

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Speaker 1: be fine playing at altitude. And according to and I'll

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Speaker 1: have to read this further, but I believe it was

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Speaker 1: his agent who said John Brown is firmly in the

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Speaker 1: mix in terms of being interested in playing for or

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Speaker 1: the Broncos are in the mix as one of his

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Speaker 1: free agent suitors because they believe he could play there

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Speaker 1: without any ill effect. And he we went back and

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Speaker 1: look he had he played there. Yeah, he was in

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. He was into at a rookie, had a

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Speaker 1: couple of catches for a couple of yards and when

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Speaker 1: he played for the car and obviously there were no

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Speaker 1: ill effects at all his game there at that time.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So based on the research that Steve and

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Speaker 1: I have done, it would seem that that would not

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Speaker 1: be an issue for him as far as this game

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Speaker 1: in Denver is concerned. But we are just going based

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Speaker 1: on online research. Obviously, we've seen this in the NFL before,

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Speaker 1: to Steve, where one team will pass a player on

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Speaker 1: a physical and another team will fail them. So different

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Speaker 1: medical staffs have different medical opinions. We don't know what

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Speaker 1: the Bill's medical opinion is, but according to past instances

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Speaker 1: involving John Brown in Denver, it does not appear to

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Speaker 1: be an issue. So we'll try to get clarification on that,

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Speaker 1: hopefully from the team, but we have to take a

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Speaker 1: break when we come back. More of your phone calls,

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Speaker 1: Greg and Rochester, Alan Clarence, hang on, we'll get to

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Speaker 1: you as we are, asking you on the Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: what would a Bill's AFC East title mean to you?

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Speaker 1: It's been a quarter century people, How's it going to

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Speaker 1: make you feel? Emotions we haven't tapped into in a

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Speaker 1: feel if, in fact, it becomes a reality. On Saturday

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown Steve Taster One Bills Live Wednesday. Addition,

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Speaker 1: be able to check in with Maddie Glab at practice

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Speaker 1: and we'll obviously have to wait for the injury report

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Speaker 1: And be on the lookout on Twitter for that as

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Speaker 1: we'll be tweeting that out later this afternoon, and you

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Speaker 1: can always go to Buffalo Bills dot com for the

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Speaker 1: injury report when it is released later in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty as we are asking you on the Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: what would a Bill's AFC East title mean to you?

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Speaker 1: It's been twenty five years, emotions none of us have

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Speaker 1: tapped into for quite a long time. So search your soul.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what it would mean to you. We

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Speaker 1: go back to the phones, We go to Al in Clarence, Al.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Welcome to one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, how you doing good? Good? I'm just limn

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Speaker 1: team with season two because this season I'm going to

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Speaker 1: season ticket holder for years and a couple of years

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Speaker 1: ago I was looking forward to effect. You know, Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson was coming to town. We're not going to see

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Speaker 1: him for eight years again, hopefully we see him. Just

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Speaker 1: a great schedule this year, I mean next year you've

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Speaker 1: you're playing Tom Brady's division and he's not even coming

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Speaker 1: back to town. We have Atlanta and Carolina coming to town.

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Speaker 1: Next year we're on the road for New Orleans. So

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Speaker 1: this year playing that division, the Rams come coming here,

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Speaker 1: it was just a and we're used to the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champs coming here, but we're not used to him

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Speaker 1: being Patrick Mahomes and City. So you know, to see't

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Speaker 1: you know, see those guys in their prime in person.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one thing to watch the games on TV,

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Speaker 1: but I've been a season ticket holder for years. When

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Speaker 1: you go into the game, it's it's nice to look

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Speaker 1: back when you're older and go I've seen you know,

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Speaker 1: I've seen Jack Tempa person, you know, Daryl La Monica.

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to see the best in person. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I get that. It's tough. Does an AFC's title kind

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Speaker 1: of reduce the sting at all? Yeah, I'm hoping the

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Speaker 1: t shirts will be out in time. Like first, I've

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Speaker 1: got kids who've never lived through that. My kids are all,

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Speaker 1: you know, and going to the games for years and

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Speaker 1: never had a winning season. I'm hoping the AFCAST championship

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Speaker 1: shirts will be out some time for me to give

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Speaker 1: them to them. Yeah, I'll tell you what out then,

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Speaker 1: and this is the real this is the real sad

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Speaker 1: part about it. You know, well, the Bills are gonna

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Speaker 1: win the division this year, and you know, if they

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Speaker 1: do win the division, they do if all this good

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Speaker 1: stuff happens down the road, we still haven't experienced it

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Speaker 1: because nobody was able to watch. You couldn't come in

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Speaker 1: and get the what it's like and what it means.

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Speaker 1: You don't get to go to school and share it

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Speaker 1: with your friends. You don't see your teachers dressing in jerseys.

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Speaker 1: You don't see the firemen doing it. You don't see

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Speaker 1: the schools decorating their gymnasiums. You don't get to see

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Speaker 1: birthday parties with the theme. You don't get to see

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Speaker 1: you don't get in none of that. And that you know,

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Speaker 1: it is everywhere. When when the Bills win and go

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Speaker 1: as far as they are going, it permeates every store,

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Speaker 1: every business, every entity, every institution in town, in the

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Speaker 1: whole region and so and that's not going to happen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. Um, My mother in laws are retired principal

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Speaker 1: at a Catholic school here in western New York and

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Speaker 1: every Friday was Bill's Day at a Catholic school with

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Speaker 1: a dress code, so Friday was Bill's Day. You could

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Speaker 1: just dress in Bills gear, like the wheels were off

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Speaker 1: on Fridays. And that's you know, back when you guys

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Speaker 1: were playing, that's when that stuff kind of took hold,

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Speaker 1: and Fridays where Bill's Days get Yeah, man, you know,

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Speaker 1: dressed up in your Bill's garb and let's go wedding.

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Speaker 1: You know, Bills themed weddings anniversaries every you know, how

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Speaker 1: many people do you know how many people have Van

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Speaker 1: Miller on an audio loop for their introductions when the

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Speaker 1: wedding party comes through with the reception. I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you how many people had that. When I was going

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Speaker 1: to weddings, you know, in the late nineties, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was kind of around that age where you know,

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Speaker 1: you're going to a lot of weddings, a lot of

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Speaker 1: your friends are getting married and stuff. People would be

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Speaker 1: like asking Van, like, hey, can you say introduced the

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Speaker 1: wedding party? You know it's fandomoni. I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, just ridiculous. Great. That was like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: got Van on the intro for the wedding pot Wow,

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Speaker 1: Like that was like a big deal. It's a little

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Speaker 1: side business for Van. Oh my god, probably cleaned up happens.

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Speaker 1: It happens, and and you know, ah, it's just a

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Speaker 1: that's the tragedy of this whole thing U as far

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Speaker 1: as football goes. But I think I think if you

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Speaker 1: asked any Bills fan and they were asked point blank,

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Speaker 1: would you rather be able to go to games and

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Speaker 1: the team doesn't win the division or not go to

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Speaker 1: games and the team does win the division? I think

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Speaker 1: you know what, just about every Bills fan would take.

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Speaker 1: They would take the winning season, the division title. I

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Speaker 1: think they would take it one hundred times out of

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Speaker 1: one hundred, don't you. Yeah, well of course, yeah, give

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Speaker 1: me the winner, give just just win, give me the winner.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, there's no way around it. I mean, right,

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Speaker 1: we can't change it. And yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like the it's like the coach, Like the head

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Speaker 1: coach is all the time, worry about what you can control. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, and really the only thing you can control

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Speaker 1: is your support of the team. And I know people

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Speaker 1: would prefer to show that by being here in the stadium.

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Speaker 1: And I get it because you know, I've got family

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Speaker 1: that's season ticket members too, So you know, they're they're

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Speaker 1: going through the same thing everybody else is going through too.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy, it's not easy. It's a different it's

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Speaker 1: a whole different thing than we're used to. But at

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Speaker 1: least this team is winning and they're They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be just good this year. They're gonna be good for

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Speaker 1: a while. See the window is just opening, seems like it.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this as well, it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: this is for like probably April, man probably June or July,

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Speaker 1: we'll have a Twitter poll on the show about as something,

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Speaker 1: what has changed for you permanently now that you can

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Speaker 1: go back to games You're that kind of thing. I

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Speaker 1: guess my point is they're a damn good football team

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Speaker 1: right now. They're still gonna be pretty damn good when

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Speaker 1: you get back in that building on Sundays. So that's

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Speaker 1: the light that should be the light at the end

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Speaker 1: of the tunnel for Bills fans. It's not like this

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Speaker 1: is a one and done kind of year. This team's

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Speaker 1: position to be pretty damn good for a while, and

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Speaker 1: that's hopefully what a Bills fan can hang their hat

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Speaker 1: on right now. I know every season is different, but

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Speaker 1: this team's going to be competitive and a perennial contender

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Speaker 1: in the conference. I think going forward for quite some time.

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Speaker 1: Chris and Baltimore hang on the line, Ron, You two

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Speaker 1: will get to you when we come back. Got to

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but back with more of your

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Speaker 1: phone calls as we're asking you, what would a Bill's

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Speaker 1: AFC East title mean to you? Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: back in a flash here on one Bill's line. Presented

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Speaker 1: by Kaloid of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. It's the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and add Pro Sports proud to once again

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Speaker 1: partner to recognize some of the best coaches that Western

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Speaker 1: New York has to offer through the twenty twenty high

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Speaker 1: school football Coach of the Week program. With games not

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Speaker 1: being played in twenty twenty, Bills still taking the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to recognize the outstanding work that our community's horsity football

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Speaker 1: coaches have done with their programs, both on and off

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Speaker 1: the field. This week in Section six, it's West Seneca

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Speaker 1: West coach Mike Vastola. Vestol has been a member of

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Speaker 1: the West Seneca West coaching staff for seventeen seasons, posted

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Speaker 1: a record of thirty seven and thirteen during his tenure

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Speaker 1: as head coach. In twenty seventeen, he led his team

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Speaker 1: to a thirteen and oh record as West won the

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Speaker 1: New York State Class A title. He was named the

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Speaker 1: Don Shula High School Coach of the Year for the

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Speaker 1: Western New York Region after the twenty seventeen season. Vestola

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Speaker 1: also a member of the Inside Out Coaching community, which

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Speaker 1: is led by Buffalo native an NFL legend Joe Erman.

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Speaker 1: In Section five, it's Joe Karaher from Minders Academy. Coach

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Speaker 1: Careher has been associated with the Minders Academy as a

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Speaker 1: student athlete and football coach for twenty two years. In addition,

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Speaker 1: Caraher as coach wrestling, as a math teacher, and was

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Speaker 1: the head boys lacrosse coach for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: He was named the head football coach in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 1: and led the Blue Devils to a league title in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Those are your high school coaches of the week.

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Speaker 1: Good on them for their stuff. Stevie, you're good over there.

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Speaker 1: You need to take your mask off, got me? Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean every time we leave the studio and have

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Speaker 1: to go out, whether it's for a bathroom break or

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Speaker 1: something else, mascos right back on, and then we have

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Speaker 1: for those of you can't see it on TV, we

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Speaker 1: got plexiglass in between Steve and I. That's been in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. It's been there for close

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Speaker 1: to a month now. Yeah, but we are asking you

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Speaker 1: what would an AFC's title for the Bills mean to you.

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Speaker 1: It's been twenty five years. For older fans, it's feelings

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Speaker 1: they've not felt in quite some time. For newer fans

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Speaker 1: it is brand new. So how is it grabbing you?

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Speaker 1: Knowing the Bills are on the cusp of a division

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Speaker 1: title eight oh three, five fifty. To get on board

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Speaker 1: here and leading us off will be Chris in Baltimore. Chris,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: How you both doing today? I'm actually calling. I'm originally

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Speaker 1: from Awego, New York, and my wife is from angel

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Speaker 1: In New York. I'm thirty five and she's thirty, so

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Speaker 1: I have like some real early memories from football when

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Speaker 1: the Bills were basically dominating those years in the FC.

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Speaker 1: But it was the other night her and I were

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Speaker 1: talking and she's just so confused because she's been a

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Speaker 1: billd span her whole life growing up right there in

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Speaker 1: western New York. She's just not she doesn't even really know.

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Speaker 1: You know, her and her brother about the same age,

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Speaker 1: they've never seen anything like it. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: what's real special about it for that roughly thirty to

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Speaker 1: twenty five year old fan who's you know, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be their first time really potentially seeing them when the

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Speaker 1: FC East. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I would agree one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. It's it's brand new, it's exciting. Some people

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Speaker 1: are just I think I think there were some people

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Speaker 1: seve that were still holding their breath going into the

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Speaker 1: Steelers game last week. I mean, the way it was

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Speaker 1: shaping up. The division title seemed more and more likely

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Speaker 1: with each pass week, especially after Miami lost um last week. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think people are feeling pretty good about it,

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Speaker 1: but I think I still think, you know, again, we

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Speaker 1: go back to all that scar tissue, and it's there,

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Speaker 1: it's unquestionably there. But I think finally some of that

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Speaker 1: is melting away and people are allowing themselves to be

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Speaker 1: excited about this football team. Yeah, the Bills have a

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Speaker 1: two game lead on their closest competitor in the division.

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Speaker 1: There's three games to play, and the Bills are playing

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, I know, have you heard about it?

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Speaker 1: They're finally starting to the they're impossible to ignore now.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've been ignored for so long and now

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Speaker 1: it's impossible. You guys like like Calin Colin cap Coward,

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Speaker 1: he put them at the top. He's their number one

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Speaker 1: team in the league, said right now, this is my

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Speaker 1: top ten and the Bills are number one, right ahead

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. And he had a list of reasons

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Speaker 1: that we're all valid. But that's where we're at now.

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Speaker 1: This is this is rarefied air, this late in the

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Speaker 1: season for a Bill's team and an entire what two

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Speaker 1: generations of Bills fans? Yeah, probably twenty five years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that would cover it. My son's thirty three

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Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's been and he was like

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Speaker 1: a ball boy during training camp for a couple of

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Speaker 1: years when I was playing, but it was at the end,

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Speaker 1: right so we're in the playoff, but we weren't like that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's got to be two generations for thirty

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00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: year olds and also fifteen year olds. You know, this

852
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: is all new to them. Twenty year olds, it's all

853
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: new to them. Let's go to Ron on a sale

854
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: next Ron, You're on one bills live. What do you

855
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: have for us? Hey, guys, how are you doing good? Good?

856
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 1: So basically I think, you know, to be honest, what

857
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: an AFC East Championship would mean to me would would

858
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: pretty much be everything at this point. As as you're

859
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: saying generationally of being a younger fan thirty one, always

860
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: been a fan from day one. But you know, unfortunately

861
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: all I ever grew up with was the pain and

862
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: heartache and always hearing about those wonderful stories of what

863
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: was in the Golden era. So you know, I actually

864
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: I live in Brooklyn, which shout out to Meghan and

865
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: everyone from from Red's down there. But I've had the

866
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: luxury of being home with my family during quarantine and

867
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: I have to say, what Saturday means to me is

868
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: the first time these two generations can actually bridge the

869
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: gap and experience something so great together. And you know,

870
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: similar to Sales show on Monday about savoring the moment,

871
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you what that moment will mean

872
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: to me, and it will probably be savored until a

873
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: better one takes its place. So that is exactly what

874
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. Come Saturday. Good, good call Rod, appreciate

875
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: you for doing it. That's right. Well, he brings up

876
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: a valid point. One is if you're if you've grown

877
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: up in a family of Bills fans, the generations that

878
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: are older than you have only talked to you about

879
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: what the nineties were like. You if you're a younger

880
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: guy like Ron, you didn't experience it firsthand. You've only

881
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: heard the stories, and you've probably dreamt about what it

882
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: must feel like to know your team is damn good,

883
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: it's damn good. It's great to share it, you know,

884
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: to experience a team that's damn good together, you know,

885
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: with the older generation that knows what it's like but

886
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: would be more than happy to experience it again. And

887
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: then for the first timers to get to experience it

888
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: with them older generations of their own family members, you know,

889
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 1: all died into Wolf fans. That's special. That's special stuff,

890
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: and that's what we're looking for today on this show.

891
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: That's why we're asking this question because he's right, you've

892
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: had conversations about it, and certainly two thousand and seventeen,

893
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: when when the team got to the playoffs, that was

894
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: a monkey off the back. That was a moment that

895
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: everybody shared together, absolutely no question about it. In fact,

896
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: that was one of the great moments. It was akin

897
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: to the successful moments they'd had in the past with

898
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: you know, the Champion, the fifty one to three game,

899
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: the comeback game, and all that stuff. You've heard legendary

900
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: you know stories about that moment getting into the playoffs

901
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen at the end of it was a

902
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: moment rivaling all of those. I I thought it was

903
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: awesome because it was it was unique, and it was

904
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: one of those things where we were Bills fans were

905
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: watching all together all at once, and they all found

906
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: out wherever they were, wherever you were, you found out

907
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: at the exact same time, and it was a it

908
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: was a moment like none other, Like none other. Well yeah,

909
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: and the reason why is because if you ask any

910
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: Bills fan where they were on that day, they will

911
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: be able to tell you. Right. It was that seminal moment, right,

912
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: and and you don't have to apologize for it. I mean, like,

913
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: this wasn't a championship or it wasn't a division title.

914
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Yeah, it was awesome that they shared it.

915
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 1: We shared it with the team in the locker room.

916
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: With that video, it was unbelievable. How we're watching Andy

917
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: Dalton throw it to Tyler Boyd for just I just

918
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: want to first down, and all of a sudden, it

919
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: wasn't just the first down. The guy busted a tackle

920
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: and goes into the end zone. And I mean, you

921
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: talk about a moment there was There hasn't been anything

922
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: like that at any point in Bill's history, at any point. No,

923
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: that was not absolute, not that singularly unifying. Yeah, in

924
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: a good way. And that's why maybe fifty one to three,

925
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: maybe that's that's right. There isn't it. It's gotta be

926
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: first super Bowl. There's nothing to why. I mean, yeah,

927
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: there's nothing like we're watching the highlights of the video,

928
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: the locker room videos. Fortunately our co worker get into

929
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: the locker room before the doors got closed. It is

930
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: just absolutely it was as a moment like none other

931
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: in sports. It absolutely wasn't It was. It was euphoric,

932
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: it was relieving, and it was one that finally Bills

933
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: fans all over the globe could celebrate together. It wasn't

934
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: like the old people saying wow when we did it. It

935
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was a great or going to

936
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: a game and even celebrating one victory and all that.

937
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: This was something. It was something else and that kind

938
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: of those moments right there that we're watching on these

939
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: monitors and the moments we're talking about this season, there

940
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: would have been six of them at least, right you

941
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: get down the list. Yeah. And the difference too, is

942
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: that moment in twenty seventeen getting in was the thing. Yes,

943
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: that was that was the thing. That was the event.

944
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: It's not about getting in now, that's right. Winning the

945
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: division while it will be something that I think Bill's

946
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: fans will savor and we'll hear from more of you

947
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: as we move forward in the show, I don't think

948
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: that's the thing either. It's winning in the playoffs. But

949
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: part of it also was there's value in it. Yeah, absolutely,

950
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: but it's not the only of course we're all in.

951
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: I mean, but here's the thing that's the crusher about it.

952
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: You win the division, you get a home playoff game. Well,

953
00:51:58,680 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: then we don't get a seat. You know that, I

954
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: get a seat, right. You win the division so you

955
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: can get the home field, so you can have the

956
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: fans there so they can enjoy it, so you can

957
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: kind of celebrate that moment and let's take this. Let's

958
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: whoever this team's gonna be. We don't know who it

959
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,439
Speaker 1: is yet, whoever this team is gonna be, we're gonna

960
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: taken on together. And you know that's kind of a

961
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: bummer because now you don't get to do that. So

962
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of a watered down, kind

963
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: of a pump fake celebration, yea, where you kind of got, yeah,

964
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: let's go. Oh, we can't even go right, So there's

965
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of that going. So this year we'll

966
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: always have that kind of hanging over it. But nevertheless,

967
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: you know this is a it's the bar is set higher,

968
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: and that's we've said it time and time again. The

969
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: stakes get bigger. You get a more important game to

970
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: play in now, not not a less important one. When

971
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: you win games, you get bigger games. Break time for

972
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: us when we come back. More of your phone calls.

973
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: Frank and Williamsville Lewis and Dallas Irving on a cell

974
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: Hang tight, we'll get to you when we return here

975
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. As we're talking AFC's title, what

976
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: it would mean to you if the Bill's taken home

977
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: this weekend. Back in a moment here on One Bill's Live,

978
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Balo

979
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Network Sports Date, your sports update from One

980
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,760
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. The Bills have designated wide receiver John Brown

981
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: to return from the injured reserve list, as he's expected

982
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: to return to the practice field this week. Brown placed

983
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: on IR and missed the last three games after injuring

984
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: his ankle in the Bills Week ten game against the Cardinals,

985
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: but no confirmation of that as the team is practicing

986
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: indoors today, so we want to have practice participation info

987
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: till the team injury report is released later this afternoon.

988
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: The team did release their first injury report of the

989
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: week on Tuesday, with it being a Saturday game. Tremaine Edmunds,

990
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: Terren Johnson, and Lee Smith were all new additions and

991
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: listed as limited participants. Edmund's dealing with a foot injury,

992
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,479
Speaker 1: Johnson coming off a concussion in the game last week,

993
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: and Smith were through a knee injury. The NFL informed

994
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: teams that if a positive test or high risk close

995
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: contact designation comes after the deadline for submitting game day

996
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: and actives, a club can activate a new player up

997
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: to thirty minutes before kickoff. For change comes after Dez

998
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: Bryant was ruled out of Baltimore's Week thirteen game against

999
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: the Cowboys right before kickoff when it was discovered he

1000
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID and was yanked after an actors

1001
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: were announced, leaving the Ravens with one player short. NFL

1002
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: owners are meeting virtually today to discuss several items, including

1003
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,720
Speaker 1: the option to increase the regular season to seventeen games

1004
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. The expanded regular season and related

1005
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: reduction in the preseason. As part of the new CBA

1006
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: that was approved in March, owners have the ability to

1007
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: increase the regular season schedule to seventeen games at any

1008
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: point between the twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three seasons.

1009
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: There will be no postseason bubbles for NFL teams. The

1010
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: NFL informed league clubs on Tuesday that teams cannot require

1011
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: players and staff members to stay at a hotel during

1012
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs other than the ninth prior to the game.

1013
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: The choice to forego local bubbles was recommended by the

1014
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: league and NFL Players Association medical experts based on COVID

1015
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: nineteen testing data. Oh the New York Jets, the winless

1016
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: team is not getting a lot of respect from the

1017
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: betting public. After a ton of money was put on

1018
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,280
Speaker 1: the Rams this week, they've moved the opening thirteen point

1019
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: line to a current seventeen point favorite for the Rams

1020
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: over the Jets. So far this season, there have been

1021
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: only four games with a point spread of more than

1022
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,720
Speaker 1: fifteen points, and the Jets where the underdogs in three

1023
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: of them. Steve, that is your sports update from One

1024
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, our number two of

1025
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: the program where we are asking you on the Twitter

1026
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: poll today how would an AFC East title by the

1027
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: Bills feel for you? And we've had a couple of

1028
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: really good responses thus far, just in terms of sharing

1029
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 1: them with family members from older generations to getting ready

1030
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: to buy their kids AFC East Champion t shirts before Christmas,

1031
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 1: all kinds of things, and we'll we're happy to take

1032
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: any at all of your comments at eight oh three,

1033
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: five fifty where we do have a line open for you.

1034
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: Will also get to the tweet sheet here and due

1035
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: course as well, but we will lead off this hour

1036
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: with Frank in Williamsville, Frank, what do you have for us?

1037
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: Welcome to one Bill. We'll hold on, let me get

1038
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: you up here. There you are, Frank, Welcome to One

1039
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: Bills Live. I guess I'm gonna give you the other

1040
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: side of the coin because I'm old enough to remember

1041
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: O J running around the rock pile and every one

1042
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: of these uh four super Bowls and the rest of it.

1043
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: I just think the Bills have either play this year.

1044
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 1: They've set the buyer a lot higher than the East

1045
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: Division championship, and I'm super Bowl or nothing to start

1046
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. I want to get Steve. If if

1047
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: you look at back in your career, you think about

1048
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: those four AFC championships, how much did they way they

1049
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: overshadowed by the fact that you've lost the Super Bowl.

1050
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you'll win the final game, you can

1051
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: be disappointed that the only one team is gonna be happy.

1052
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: And I really think that they they've proven themselves be

1053
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: good enough that we really should be thinking about Super

1054
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: Bowl and if they if they just win let yes,

1055
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: if they just win the AFC East and when maybe

1056
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 1: one playoff game would be in the mows and would

1057
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: you be happy with this season? I think they've proven

1058
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: themselves be better than that, and for me, it's Super

1059
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 1: Bowl or Boss. Yeah. I agree to a certain extent,

1060
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I do think the bar is

1061
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: higher than just winning the division and win in one

1062
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: playoff game. This is a team that if they don't

1063
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: go the distance, it's gonna be because of what happens

1064
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: in the game that they play. On any sounds obvious,

1065
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying is they make they're gonna

1066
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: get beat by a Hail Murray in a playoff game.

1067
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna get beat by a team that it forces

1068
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: the Bills to make mistakes that we haven't seen them make.

1069
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: The team that's playing right now, the Bills team is

1070
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: playing right now, and the way they're playing on both sides,

1071
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: of all three sides of the ball, is good enough

1072
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: to beat anybody in the National Football League on any

1073
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: given Sunday, and not only beat them, but give them

1074
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: a good game every single time, even when they don't

1075
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: play their best. The Bills are as good as any

1076
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: team in the nf FELL. And I'm not just saying

1077
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: it because they're in the league. I'm saying it because

1078
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: it's true. The way Josh is playing the way this

1079
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: team plays, particularly when they get John Brown back in

1080
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: the lineup. Their offensive line is playing well, they're healthy,

1081
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: and the things that I mentioned him earlier. Colin Coward

1082
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: gave a list of things. The Bills are the only

1083
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: team in the league's got twenty first downs in every

1084
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: single game they've played this year. In the last three weeks,

1085
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: they've scored. They're the only team in the league scored

1086
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: twenty five points or more. They lead the league by

1087
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: a mile in fourth quarter takeaways. There are a lot

1088
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: of statistics. Their schedule up to this point has been

1089
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: more difficult than any other team in the AFC playoff bracket.

1090
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: They have run the gauntlet in the regular season and

1091
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: they're still coming out on top with a chance of

1092
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: getting the two seat and an outside chance of getting

1093
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: the one seat. They're not even out of that. This

1094
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: is a really, really good football team, and they unlike

1095
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: some other teams we've seen of late, the Bills are

1096
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: getting better and better every single week. So, yeah, you're right, Frank,

1097
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: the bar is higher than just a division title, absolutely,

1098
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: and it's hard. And I know for a lot of

1099
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: Bills fans, not you because of your history that you've

1100
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: shared with us and for me kind of too. Yeah,

1101
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: it's hard for people to get their mind around something

1102
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: bigger than just you know, going a little bit further.

1103
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: But it's out there, and here's the thing here, and

1104
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: you're right. The real tragedy of this season is gonna

1105
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: be when it ends. That's the tragedy of this season.

1106
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: Whenever it ends, however it ends, that's it's gonna be

1107
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: sad to say goodbye. Even if you hoist the Lombardi,

1108
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna wish it could go on. The tragedy of

1109
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: this season is that at some point the schedule runs out.

1110
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: Even if you go the whole distance and you win

1111
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, sure it'll be fine, it'll be great,

1112
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, this is a ride that is

1113
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: worth getting on and staying on to the end. And

1114
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: however it ends, whether we're celebrating or whether it's a

1115
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: bitter defeat in the super Bowl or a bitter defeat

1116
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: in the conference championship or the divisional round or whatever,

1117
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be sad to see this one end because

1118
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: this has been really special and this group in this

1119
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 1: locker room, in this building is a really special group

1120
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be back next year. Yeah,

1121
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: because it changes every year. Every year. This team is

1122
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: completely different than the twenty nineteen crew, and the twenty

1123
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one crew is going to be different than

1124
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: this crew. They're all different. Even those four Super Bowls,

1125
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: there was a you know, more than there's a ton

1126
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: of guys new on every team of those Super four

1127
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl runs. So yeah, the tragedy of this season

1128
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: is that at some point it's gotta be over, even

1129
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: if you're hoisting the trophy. And I know everybody said, well, no,

1130
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: will be Listen, you wish it could go on, man, Yeah,

1131
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: you wish you could go on forever at that point,

1132
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: and you know people are like, well, then why are

1133
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: you just putting the division up there. We're just trying

1134
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: to deal with Step one here first, okay, And you

1135
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: know we're not trying to get too far ahead of ourselves.

1136
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: I think we all are in agreement. This is a

1137
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: pretty damn good football team, as Steve just outlined. But

1138
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: we're asking this question today because this is step one.

1139
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: Was This was priority goal for Sean McDermott when he

1140
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: came here. I still remember after he got hired, he says,

1141
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: I have visions of you know, this team hosting playoff

1142
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: games in January, and we're here now, we're right on

1143
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: the cusp of that, and that's special, and so we

1144
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: want to well, yes, does everybody want more than just

1145
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: a division title? Absolutely, but savor each step along the way.

1146
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: And this is a big step knowing how long it's

1147
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: been since this franchise has been in this position. And

1148
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: that's why we're trying to soak it all up today.

1149
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: At eight o three five fifty, let's go back to

1150
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: the phones and we're gonna go to Lewis and Dallas. Lewis,

1151
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey, guys,

1152
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: love you guys, listen to you every day. Lived in

1153
01:01:55,200 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: Dallas now for forty five years. Appreciate it. Thanks be connected. Hey,

1154
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know the first game I

1155
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: ever attended was the KSE Buffalo game for the championship

1156
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: for the first Super Bowl in nineteen sixty seven. Yeah,

1157
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: and that was when I was twelve years old. And

1158
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, that was unbelievable as far as

1159
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: to remember. But I got a question for you guys,

1160
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: because I haven't heard anybody talk about it in any

1161
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: of the talk shows I listened to. I don't even

1162
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 1: know if it's allowed. What if Buffalo wins and they

1163
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to host the playoff game and they're

1164
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: not allowed to have fans and that's that sticks. I

1165
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: assume that's not going to change. Is it allowed? And

1166
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: would Bills rather have a in a neighboring state host

1167
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: a playoff game on a neutral field where the fans

1168
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: could go to Yeah, I mean, I don't even know

1169
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: if they can entertain that. I don't even know if

1170
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: that's an option you have. You'd have to get, really,

1171
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean special position for a permission from the league.

1172
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw fans in the stands for the

1173
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: Cleveland game on Monday night. They had some fans in

1174
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 1: the stands. So in the state of Ohio, you know

1175
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: it's allowed. I'm trying to remember. Did the Steelers have

1176
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: some in their stadium last week when they were hosting

1177
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: Washington Family and friends? Oh, that's what it was. Family.

1178
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, family and friends. So yeah, I

1179
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: think you're talking about special dispensation from the league, and

1180
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: I think that's a slippery slope think about to go down.

1181
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: So I don't anticipate them signing off on Yeah, I

1182
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: doubt that very much. I mean, I get your say,

1183
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: what you're saying, losing it might be the might The

1184
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: most they consider doing is is to as a as

1185
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,479
Speaker 1: a revenge tactic on New York State for not letting

1186
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: them have it have fans in theirs. But I think

1187
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: the real it's too hard. I mean, where are you

1188
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: gonna say, for instance, you date, we're gonna take it

1189
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: to Ohio and you want to get as many fans

1190
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: you can't, so you take it to the Horseshoe and

1191
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna down to Ohio State and say, we're gonna

1192
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: put this game on here. Is that is that cool

1193
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: with you? And they'll say yeah, sure, and you get

1194
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans in there, But what do you gain?

1195
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's moving your team. Yeah,

1196
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: it's up for the very thing that you tried to

1197
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: get in the first place, which was a home player.

1198
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: You've got You've got a safe haven here, one that

1199
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: you're entrenched in, and uh, you run the risk of, say,

1200
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 1: for instance, the Bills, what if the Bills end up

1201
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: playing like uh, Indianapolis, Yeah, or Tennessee like Indianapolis and

1202
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: the lumb Us is halfway there, right, So you got

1203
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: now is it's just as many Indianapolis fans as there

1204
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: is Bills fans or vice versa. So yeah, I get it.

1205
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: It would be a little bit of a tit for tat,

1206
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, politically, But I just don't see it happened.

1207
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know that. I don't know what the

1208
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 1: league would even say about it if they wanted to that,

1209
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: if the team wanted to move it, and they gave

1210
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: you enough heads up and the league would say, oh,

1211
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: you want to have fans? Yeah, okay, okay, maybe the

1212
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: league would go for it. I don't know. Um, there

1213
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: would obviously be some expense that would be weighed into

1214
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: the equation that would probably make it even a push

1215
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: or losing proposition financially. Yeah, I'd I'd have to say

1216
01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: it's probably pretty unlikely, if at all possible. To the phones,

1217
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: we go to Mike in Geneseo, Mike, what do you have?

1218
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. I hope you guys are

1219
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: doing well today. And Merry Christmas. Yeah, Merry Christmas. Yeah.

1220
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: I've been a Bills fan since nineteen sixty. I remember

1221
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: the battling Ballboa. You know, the champion, the AFC Championship,

1222
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: and that began the winning period, but then there was

1223
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 1: heartache in between, and then the nineties came along with

1224
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: Steve and the boys. And this period right where we

1225
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: are now is that to me, it seems like another

1226
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: winning period. I feel so good about the fact that

1227
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: these guys have our ninety nine percent there and an

1228
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: AFC championship. So it's wonderful of my daughters Buffalo. She

1229
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: lives in Buffalo now and Amherst, my son is in

1230
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz. He's part of a big Bills back backing

1231
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: group out there, so it's good to see my family

1232
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: excited about another championship. Possibly. Yeah, I'll tell you, Mike,

1233
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that. And the thing that grabby

1234
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,959
Speaker 1: about is is kind of true you. I think most

1235
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: Bills fans seeing the progression of when McDermott was hired

1236
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: and going to the playoffs in his first season, and

1237
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: the building process in twenty eighteen, then last year winning

1238
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: ten games and going to the playoffs and getting beat

1239
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: in overtime in a playoff game on the road, and

1240
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: then this year where it looks as though and things

1241
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: you know, if they win the division, get a home

1242
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: playoff game, it's just a progression of what it is.

1243
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: This does seem to be an era, not just a

1244
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: nice season, right, Absolutely, I agree, one hundred percent. There's

1245
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: you know, God bless the Pigouls. They've done it right.

1246
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: They've got two guys that are running the show that

1247
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: are you know, you can see that they're winners and

1248
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: they know how to produce winners. And we're drafting. Well,

1249
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: you look at Davis this year, what he's done in

1250
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: the receiving corps. There's a great period coming here. I

1251
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: really feel it. All right, Mike, We appreciate the call. Thanks.

1252
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: Got to get to some other people and one of those.

1253
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: Next up is Kelly in Gettsville. Kelly, you're on one

1254
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. What do you have for us? Oh? I

1255
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: just wanted to say one um. Actually, when we were

1256
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: getting married death when we signed Jim Polly to the Bills,

1257
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,439
Speaker 1: and so I gave my husband season tickets and we've

1258
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 1: had them. We had them off through the glory years,

1259
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: and then we took some time off and had a

1260
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: couple of kids, and now my kids had season tickets

1261
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: for like the last six or seven years and this

1262
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: will be great cross to be able to experience a

1263
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: championship team with them. So that's all I had to say.

1264
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: And thanks for taking a call. Yeah, thank you, Kelly. Yeah,

1265
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: it is a it is a cross generational thing. I mean,

1266
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: I think we're finding that out today, you know. And

1267
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: that last call or Kelly is a perfect example of it.

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Speaker 1: Like I've got kids that have season tickets now, you know,

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Speaker 1: after we had season tickets, and now they're going to

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Speaker 1: experience winning the same way we did. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a cool deal. She gave her husband, her

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Speaker 1: brand new husband. Their wedding day was when the day

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Speaker 1: Jim got signed, so she gives him season tickets. That

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01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: is that's so Buffalo right there, right that is very Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And that's this And I've said it a ton in

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Speaker 1: public speeches that I've given to groups and stuff. When

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Speaker 1: you when you're a Bills fan and you live here

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01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo and you grow up here in Buffalo, you

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01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: become a Bills fan because everybody who knows a Bills fan,

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Speaker 1: the cops, the judges, the clerk at the store, the teachers,

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01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: the principles, the administrators, the lawyers, the fireman, everybody's a

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Speaker 1: Bills fan, and so are all their families, and so

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01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: are all their extended families and their friends. So that

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01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: Kelly's just sharing us with her, you know, season tickets,

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01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,759
Speaker 1: story about her husband, and now their kids have season tickets.

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: Now they they're kind of go all together. It is

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Speaker 1: part of what makes this a unique fan base and

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: a unique relationship between this city and this team and

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01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: the people who leave Buffalo because of their careers and

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01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 1: their lives and whatever happens. And you know, and they

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01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: leave it, they stirement whatever, they still take it with them. Yeah,

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01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 1: and it's still a part of who they are, woven

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01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 1: into you. It's just part of your into who is

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: It's part of the fabric of your life. And and

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01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: you know, thanks for Sharon Kelly. That's awesome and that

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Speaker 1: is totally a Buffalo phone call her. Uh Stephen in California,

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01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: speaking of transplants, Stephen, you're on one Bill's Live. What

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01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Hey, I'm not a transplant.

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01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: I've lived through all my life. Okay, I'm gonna Bill

1300
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: stand by choice. Most of you other people Bill fan

1301
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 1: by accident of birth anyway. But I've been through a

1302
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: lot with the Super Bowls. I see PTSD from the

1303
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: last four Super Bowls, and nothing will satisfied me unless

1304
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 1: we get a Super Bowl. Chappi chip. That's the way

1305
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 1: I wanted to put a field, right, I mean, but

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01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: I have to believe Stephen that after not seeing a

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01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: division title for twenty five years, that's got to at

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01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 1: least count for something though, right, well absolutely, in factfully,

1309
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: we'll make the playoffs in twenty seventeen. I mean, it

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01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 1: couldn't happen a better day because it was New Year's

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 1: Ead and that was my birthday. So it's a greatest

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01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: president I ever got. There, you go, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Stephen, at least thank you, see

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01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: that's great, And he's right there. There's a lot of

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01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 1: and for old for the old guys like me. I

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01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: got five presidents. I always talking about, you know, there

1317
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 1: is a lot of scar tissue. We laugh and joke

1318
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 1: about the scar tissue that that makes people think things about,

1319
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, the bills and how things are going to

1320
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 1: turn out for But those games, those teams that I

1321
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: was on, those those other four Super bowl the twenty five,

1322
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, those Super Bowls have

1323
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: zero to do with the twenty twenty one bills. Twenty

1324
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one bills. Yeah, they have zero to do

1325
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: with this crew. Zero. And it's not going to affect

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01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: them if if they get that far, those Super Bowls

1327
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: are not to have any impact on this team. Well,

1328
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: what's the first question they'll be asked though super Bowl week?

1329
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you have to redeem the history?

1330
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: You know? Do you think this is a redemption game

1331
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: for your team, you know, to redeem the history or

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01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 1: something like somebody will come up with something, you know, Yeah, yeah,

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01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: and yeah. The answers is no, because I'll tell you this,

1334
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 1: me and and all these other old guys, the Hall

1335
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 1: of Famers and all that. Listen, guys, ain't about us.

1336
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 1: It's about you. You. You do it for you. Yeah,

1337
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 1: it's your locker room, it's your team, it's your time,

1338
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 1: this is your era. You're playing for you and yours,

1339
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: not us and ours, you know. And that's yeah. And

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01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: they'll know that. I mean, but um, and believe me,

1341
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 1: the old guys like me, we will be praying for him. Man.

1342
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: We'll be like, yeah, we're all about it. I hope

1343
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: you guys win. I hope you. I hope you guys

1344
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: are the greatest thing since slice bread. I don't care

1345
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 1: if anybody remembers my name. I just want you guys

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01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: to win. And that's uh and I think that's where

1347
01:11:57,080 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 1: most of the guys are or would be. Yeah. To

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01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 1: the phones, we go to h Larry and Buffalo Larry,

1349
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live,

1350
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: Chris ask how you doing? Guys? Good? Thanks for calling Larry.

1351
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 1: All right, I'm the guy that liked to build to

1352
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: bury people real real quick. Though. I remember as an

1353
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: eleven year old kid, I took my little paper route money,

1354
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 1: paid seven dollars for ticket to the Bills Chiefs Championship game. Okay,

1355
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: let's talk about sixty six in sixty six Larry, Yeah, yep, yep,

1356
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: So how soon will be sixty six? Boy? But anyway,

1357
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: then to the nineties. But this team is special. This

1358
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: team is special. And the reason why I say it

1359
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: special is because of the way they're playing. Every week,

1360
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:54,679
Speaker 1: they're getting better and better and better. The sky's the limit. However,

1361
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: going back to the sixties and then the nineties, the

1362
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: guys on the team stay with the team, and I

1363
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: hope and three that this team will stay together at

1364
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:07,759
Speaker 1: least five years. If this team can stay together five years,

1365
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,320
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing two Super Bowls. Wow, Mary Christmas, guy, all right,

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01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Larry appreciate it. Yeah, I mean it's harder

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01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: to do now than it was back when Steve and

1368
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: his guys played, because free agency really didn't take effect

1369
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,600
Speaker 1: like it got ratified in ninety three. It kind of

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01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: became like a regular working offseason thing like ninety five

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01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 1: because he had planned b first and that was kind

1372
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 1: of a restricted form of free agency. But full blown

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01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: free agency as we know it today really didn't come

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: into play until ninety five ninety six, somewhere in there,

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01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: where rosters really started to turn over and became bidding

1376
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: wars on the open market. And then the salary cap

1377
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 1: kind of tamped that down. But even then, I mean,

1378
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: you see on average now twenty five to thirty percent

1379
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:00,600
Speaker 1: turnover on your roster year over year. It's hard to

1380
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: keep groups together. You can keep a chord together, I

1381
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: think if you stay capped strong, as Brandon Bean always says.

1382
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: But man, I mean it's coming down the pike here

1383
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: in just over a year where you're gonna have to

1384
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: pay the quarterback, and you can probably have to play

1385
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds, your two first round picks from the eighteen class,

1386
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: and then things get supremely more difficult in terms of

1387
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: keeping a talented roster together. It's a different league than

1388
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: it was then, so staying together means something different. You'll

1389
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: have a core group of guys. But even this crew

1390
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: this year twenty nineteen, we've said it before. We had

1391
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 1: four new guys in the rotation on the defensive front,

1392
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be probably four more next year. Right.

1393
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: It could be a couple of these guys are on

1394
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: one year deals, and Trent Murphy probably won't be around.

1395
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some guys that come and go

1396
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: much more so than they did in the past. But

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01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 1: here's my question is, and the real thing that has

1398
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:01,600
Speaker 1: yet to be answered, how big is the core of

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01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: guys who are gonna be here? Josh probably Diggs, Diggs, Yeah,

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: Singletary and Moss are on rookie deals, so they're they're here. Yeah,

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01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 1: they're here, Tremaine Edmunds, Okay, Milano, yeah, maybe, Hide and

1402
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: Poyer they got they just signed extension. But they're you know,

1403
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 1: Poyer did. Yeah, Hides going into the last year of

1404
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: his deal next year. So you got Tredavis just signed Dawkins.

1405
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: Dawkins just signed, has got and then you start looking

1406
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 1: around a couple more years to be guys like but

1407
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: Feliciano is a free agent, Daryl Williams, Is Cody Ford

1408
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: gonna be here? How long is is Ed Oliver selling

1409
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 1: his rookie deal as well? So you got some guys

1410
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: like that that you can you can let slide for

1411
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: a while. But how big is that core gonna be in?

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01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: What's it gonna look like? Yeah? And that's that has

1413
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 1: yet to be answered. I know this when I when

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01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: I look back across history at the four super Bowl

1415
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: teams that we were on, twenty two guys playing on

1416
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: all four twenty two. That's not gonna happen in seventy

1417
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: Again for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the seventies, for the

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01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:11,360
Speaker 1: four super Bowls they went to over six years, twenty

1419
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: two guys. Yeah, that's a big nuts, a lot harder,

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01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: it's a big number. That's a that's too big a

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01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: number for today's way of doing business in the YEA.

1422
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: You think it's a big number. I think you'll be

1423
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: lucky if you can keep twelve yeah, you know, ten

1424
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: to twelve, I mean, but there might be more than

1425
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: that because you might be able to, like say, all right,

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01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: let's say like Tyler Bass. You know, you may able

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01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 1: to hang on to him right right, the quarterback. You're

1428
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: gonna hang on the quarterback. You're gonna hang on to stuff.

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01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,960
Speaker 1: But who's you know who, how's it gonna work and

1430
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 1: what the core is gonna And I'm not saying it

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: has to be the same twenty two guys every year

1432
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, but you know there has to

1433
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: be you know, what's the core gonna look like in

1434
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: today's football, and particularly the way Brandon and Sean have

1435
01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: done it because they bring a ton of guys in

1436
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: on one year deals and and they help. Those guys

1437
01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: are contributors. They are You think about, you know, the

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01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: last year in Phillips, Jordan Phillips, and then they had

1439
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: they only had Shack Lawson for two years or three years.

1440
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,679
Speaker 1: They had all these guys for one year deals. Darry

1441
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,759
Speaker 1: Williams is here this year on a one Kevin Johnson

1442
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: last year, Johnson helped There are some times when they

1443
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: help Frank Gore you know, he wasn't a you know,

1444
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: he wasn't a huge contributor, but you know what he

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01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: he was kind of solid for them. You know, they

1446
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:27,719
Speaker 1: liked him in the He was important when Devin Singletary

1447
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: was hurt, right, and he was dependable if nothing else.

1448
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: And so you got guys like that that are come

1449
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 1: through and they're gonna contribute and they're gonna move on.

1450
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but Nick and Ontario

1451
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 1: Bob on a seal. Hang tight. We'll get to you

1452
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: in the next segments. We continue to take your phone calls.

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01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,840
Speaker 1: What would a Bill's AFC East title mean to you?

1454
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two,

1455
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: five fifty. We'll also get to your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet Here on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid

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01:17:54,040 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Chris Brown, Steve Casker.

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01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 1: Second half of the show here on One Bills Live,

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01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: Wednesday edition, and we're going right back to the phones

1460
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: because you got a lot of people looking to comment.

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01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 1: Open line for you at eight oh three oh five

1462
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:21,840
Speaker 1: fifty as we're asking you what would an AFC East

1463
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 1: title for the Bills mean to you. It's been a minute.

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01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 1: It's been about twenty five years, quarter century. However, you

1465
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: want to slice it new emotions for a lot of

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: fans that haven't experienced success like this before. But we

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01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: go to Nick and Ontario. Nick, you're on one Bills Live.

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01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? How they're going to

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01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 1: see good, good good. I was born in nineteen ninety nine,

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01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 1: so obviously I've never witnessed anything like this. I'm just

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01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 1: pumped about it, man. So what what do you think

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: you'll be doing if the Bills win on Saturday and

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01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: beat the Broncos to clinch the division? Oh? I don't know.

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01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: I might have to go through a few tables that

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01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: you have you ever home games at all? Nick, I'm

1476
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: season taken holder. Actually yeah, okay, So how's it? How

1477
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 1: do you feel about not being able to be there

1478
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: and how's this season gone in that regard? Oh? Disappointing

1479
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: that my dad actually lives in Buffalo and we haven't

1480
01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: been been able to even watch a game, So it's

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01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: a little bit disappointing. But you're just trying to say positive. Yeah,

1482
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 1: I hear you, Nick, Thanks for the call. We appreciate it. Ye,

1483
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 1: let's check in on the tweet sheet because we got

1484
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 1: people firing in comments like constantly over this past hour.

1485
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the longest list of comments I've ever seen.

1486
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: So we'll try to get to some here now. And

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01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:36,679
Speaker 1: as always, the tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan

1488
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,759
Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills.

1489
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: So Nick says, I literally can't imagine what did it

1490
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 1: mean personally, because I've never experienced it before. A division title,

1491
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:50,680
Speaker 1: that is, at the very least, I'll be thrilled that

1492
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,720
Speaker 1: the division title drought would be one less stat that

1493
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: announcers would get to bring up during Bills games. Yeah,

1494
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: there is that. There is that from Dinah. It would

1495
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: bring memories of when I was young and foolish enough

1496
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 1: to believe that division titles and Super Bowl appearances were easy.

1497
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 1: It would mean a celebration with my parents, who were

1498
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 1: in their eighties. It would mean that I'd see it

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01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 1: again in my lifetime. Yeah, there was probably some people

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01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: who doubted that they would ever see it in their lifetime.

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01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: But and it is hard. Yeah, I mean we saw

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01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: those those t shirts were making the rounds in like

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01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: the mid two thousand, like two thousand and eight, two

1504
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, and two thousand and ten. It was

1505
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 1: those T shirts that said one before I die, right, Yeah, yeah,

1506
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:38,320
Speaker 1: people were thinking that way. People didn't make it. Francis,

1507
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: it will be me to it will be me. It

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01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: will mean to me that we are a top tier

1509
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: football team and don't have to revel in mediocrity like

1510
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: we have done in the past twenty five years. And

1511
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: that's been as frustrating as anything. Yeah, you know that.

1512
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: It was man, oh man, it was some dark years. Well,

1513
01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,760
Speaker 1: it was just it was a struggle just to be relevant. Ye,

1514
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: let alone be a legitimate contender. Yeah. From Kimberly, she

1515
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: says the first Super Bowl that we lost brought me

1516
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: to tears AFC title in twenty plus years. Totally makes

1517
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 1: up for the two decades of loving the team all

1518
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: those years, no matter what. So happy for the players

1519
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 1: and coaches and my great city, Go Bills. Yeah, it

1520
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: doesn't take much to quench your thirst after a long drought,

1521
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:27,000
Speaker 1: particularly a team like this one. And we haven't talked

1522
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: much about this and this is not the time for

1523
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: We'll save it for another time. But this does seem

1524
01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 1: to be an era, not just a nice season. We

1525
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: said that to one of the callers. Yeah, the window

1526
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: is starting to open here to what could be several

1527
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,719
Speaker 1: years of being legit AFC contenders from Alan, it would

1528
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:47,599
Speaker 1: mean tearing down the virtual goal posts with an AFC's title,

1529
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: which is what happened in eighty eight, right, Steve, the

1530
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: goalpost came down at Yes, that's the smurless block the

1531
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,679
Speaker 1: Phandemonium game. Yeah, and then people jumped down the field

1532
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: and tore the dang thing down, like George on the

1533
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,839
Speaker 1: field understatement. Yeah, like I mean stormed it. It was packed,

1534
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:06,519
Speaker 1: did you get We came out and that was the

1535
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 1: first it became a little thing in eighty eight because

1536
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: it had been so long. And when when we won

1537
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: beat the Jets to win the division, um, we you know,

1538
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, all right, we started to run out

1539
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 1: on the field and we're starting to you know, slap hands,

1540
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: say hello to some of the Jet guys or whatever,

1541
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: and uh turn around and all of a sudden, there's

1542
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: like people coming from behind you going out onto the

1543
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,559
Speaker 1: field past you. I'm like, who was that? Then I

1544
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: turned around it's like it's everybody, yeah, and uh so

1545
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm like going, oh you know what, I

1546
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: better think about getting out of here. And so I

1547
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: looked around and I found actually it was fred Smertless

1548
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 1: and I I just Freddy's belt and just hung on

1549
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 1: and I said, go man, and uh so we we

1550
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: made it in. There was others too. Uh it was

1551
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: when after I think it was the comeback game or

1552
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: maybe the come back game. A lot of people left

1553
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: in the stands for the comeback. I can't remember what

1554
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: game it was that. There's another one where NBC was

1555
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: doing the game and actual OJ was the sideline guy. Yeah,

1556
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: and they and Bill polling. Bill was up there polling

1557
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: and he's like going to close the garage door. We

1558
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: don't want people coming up in the tunnel, right, And

1559
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: as he starts to close the garage door, Juice rolls

1560
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 1: under the garage door to get in. He's like on

1561
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,600
Speaker 1: the ground, laying there and rolling under the door to

1562
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: get in. His producers telling them, hey, you need to

1563
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:34,880
Speaker 1: go out and get a postgame interview, and no, he said, no,

1564
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:37,799
Speaker 1: you're not going back out there. So they had closed

1565
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: that door. And I remember too, after the fred Smurs game.

1566
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: I just mentioned the Pandemonium game in Ada. We ran

1567
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 1: up and I looked turned around and it was really weird.

1568
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened or why it happened or

1569
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: what made it, but I turned around and looked, and

1570
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, the tunnels elevated, so you had a good

1571
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,519
Speaker 1: view of the field. Look down. Looking you kind of

1572
01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: got a good few of how many people were out there,

1573
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: and it was it was like a concert and the

1574
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 1: goal post is starting to go down and this, and

1575
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 1: there's like somebody at a smoke bomb or something. Oh wow, right,

1576
01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: so it looked like, you know, it's like a riot. Riot.

1577
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: It was like apocalyptic and the cost the cops are

1578
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: in front of the tunnel, you know stuff, and like, dude,

1579
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: it was pandemonia. Yeah that's where it was. And uh yeah,

1580
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: that was That was one of the most more memorable yea.

1581
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:28,960
Speaker 1: So Alan wants to tear down virtual goal posts if

1582
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:30,720
Speaker 1: if he can make that happen, I'd like to see

1583
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: video of it. That would be entertaining for sure. From Terry,

1584
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to Saturday. This is by far the

1585
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: Bill's biggest game of the year. Having the chance to

1586
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: clinch the AFC East after twenty five years is a

1587
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: huge step for this team. It's big. It's big, and

1588
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: I understand. You know there's fans out there say, hey,

1589
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 1: this isn't the end game. We all know that, but

1590
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: this was step one. Win the division so you could

1591
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,920
Speaker 1: host a playoff game, play in your own building. I

1592
01:24:58,000 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: know it's going to be different if fans can't be there,

1593
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: but still, I mean, it's it's something to hang your

1594
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 1: hat on, something you can make T shirts for. Let

1595
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 1: it rip man. Yeah, absolutely, And yeah, this is a

1596
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: good one from Charlie as well. She says. Ever since,

1597
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: he says, ever since I started watching football in two thousand,

1598
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:22,680
Speaker 1: we've been mediocre, bad or really bad outside of the

1599
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 1: seventeen and nineteen seasons. Last year was a big step

1600
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Winning the division. But winning the

1601
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: division after making the playoffs two out of the last

1602
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: three years means we finally are a legit very good team.

1603
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 1: And I think that's true. I think that this has

1604
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 1: been a progress. In seventeen, they won, they got into

1605
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 1: the playoffs, with the moment we were talking about a

1606
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: little earlier, kind of backed in. They backed in, They

1607
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: kind of squeaked in, snick snick. They won nine games.

1608
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 1: But that was also at a time when I thought

1609
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot kind of proved how what a good coach

1610
01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: he was and Brandon been as well, because at the

1611
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: beginning of that season, when they traded away Sammy and

1612
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: they traded Roan dar Darby, they Marcel Darius, they were

1613
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: telling people that they were The media around the country

1614
01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: was saying that the Bills were tanking. Yeah, they were tanking,

1615
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: and they went to the playoffs that year. Yeah, that's

1616
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: a good coach, that's a good staff and they did

1617
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: that was to me, that's when you thought he does

1618
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. You know, break time for us

1619
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:32,160
Speaker 1: when we come back. Kenny and Buffalo Patton Genesee hang tight.

1620
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: Will get to you as we take more of your

1621
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: phone calls as we were asking what would an AFC

1622
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 1: East title by the Bills mean to you after twenty

1623
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: five years of waiting back in a moment here on

1624
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Now,

1625
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 1: one more comment to read on the tweet sheet here

1626
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: before we go to the phone from Jeremy. I won't

1627
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: know truly until it happens. The last time a division

1628
01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:10,919
Speaker 1: championship happened, I was in fifth grade carrying my teenage

1629
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 1: mutant Ninja Turtles lunchbox around and Tasker was crushing it

1630
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,120
Speaker 1: on the field. It would mean the world to me,

1631
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:20,559
Speaker 1: I'm sure, But as an adult watching twenty five years

1632
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 1: of no title, I can only imagine it being great.

1633
01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:29,759
Speaker 1: The long gap got a long stretch of time between

1634
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 1: division titles. Here hopefully it comes to an end. On Saturday.

1635
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: We go back to the phones to Kenny and Buffalo. Kenny,

1636
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hello, gentlemen,

1637
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 1: thank you. I love your show. Thanks. Hey. All I

1638
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:45,800
Speaker 1: want to say is I you know, I remember I

1639
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:49,440
Speaker 1: had to season tickets in early eighties, like the Case Stevenson,

1640
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: the Hank Bull of days. And I remember when Marv

1641
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: came in and things started getting better. And I do

1642
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: remember the UH the games when we tore down the

1643
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 1: goal posts and they carried it. They carried the goal

1644
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 1: post up to rails, booth and everything. And and what

1645
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:13,639
Speaker 1: I want to say is I also remember the lad

1646
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 1: the early nineties when we were when we were going

1647
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowls. This town was electric with with

1648
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: with all the bills UH memorability. There was tense on

1649
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 1: every corner selling Bill's Mill, memorability bills, Uh yeah, sw yeah,

1650
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:34,280
Speaker 1: everything that that there was tense on every corner of

1651
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:36,799
Speaker 1: the city, just selling heave of it was probably bootlegg

1652
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: But you know what, uh, what I want to say is, uh,

1653
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 1: as far as the vision title, I knew we were

1654
01:28:46,479 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 1: going to get one sooner or later as soon as

1655
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 1: Bretty left uh New England, and uh, I think our

1656
01:28:55,040 --> 01:29:00,479
Speaker 1: time is coming, you know. Uh you can you can

1657
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:02,880
Speaker 1: more or less callus Butter because we're all on a

1658
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:05,640
Speaker 1: roll right now, all right, and you know, I just

1659
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm real happy for the bills, you know,

1660
01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: I just I don't know, I'm getting a little cluster here.

1661
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hang up now, no problem, can Butter

1662
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 1: on a roll. I'll take that. I'll buy that for

1663
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 1: a dollar. Yeah, he's Yeah, there's a lot of people

1664
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:23,519
Speaker 1: who are still around that gripped with excitement. You can't

1665
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:28,600
Speaker 1: contain himself, you can't even speak. Yeah, I remember only Wednesday,

1666
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: and it's just a bummer that. You know. The only

1667
01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:35,720
Speaker 1: downside of the whole thing is the pandemic and yeah,

1668
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 1: the fact that nobody can share it together because it

1669
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: builds in Bills Bills fan base you're you know, you're

1670
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 1: in the stadium even with season tickets, and you're high

1671
01:29:46,160 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: five and people and hugging people that you don't know.

1672
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:53,599
Speaker 1: I mean that it happens. And if you have season

1673
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: tickets for several years, you come to know people that

1674
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 1: sit next to your year after year. Of course they

1675
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 1: kind of become extended family. Yeah, you're all fans together,

1676
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 1: but you see the same guys every weekend, you know,

1677
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:10,080
Speaker 1: eight home games a year. Pawlationship. Yeah, we go back

1678
01:30:10,080 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 1: to the phones. We go to Pat in Genesee. Pat,

1679
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live Brownie to hear from you, guys. I was just

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01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: calling to say, a division win I think would show

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01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: the national media the unity that we have here in Buffalo,

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01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of creed, race, socioeconomic status. I feel

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01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a unique thing that the whole

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01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:32,720
Speaker 1: community can get behind the Bills. And I say this

1686
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 1: is kind of a retort to Dominique Fox, where if

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01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 1: you got on the news on ESPN yesterday and said

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01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: that he actively roots against the Bills because he feels

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01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 1: like their fans love the flag and guns. And I

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01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,160
Speaker 1: think that we're bigger than that. We're We're a community

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01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: full of diverse people that love a team, and I

1692
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: hope that the national media will see that there's there's

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01:30:52,160 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 1: a lot of different parts to this fan base, but

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01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,760
Speaker 1: we love them a whole lot, you know. All Right,

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01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 1: well said Pat, I'll take that. I'll buy that for

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01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 1: a dollar. And if that is true what Dominique Foxworth said,

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01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate because that's that's painting the Bills fan base

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01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: with a really really broad brush. Wow. Yeah, that's that's

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01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: what the national media does and has been doing for

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01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,840
Speaker 1: a couple of decades and for a long time. Unfortunately,

1701
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 1: whatever brush they were painting the Bills with was probably true.

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01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:23,560
Speaker 1: U Now, um, they have to they can't do that anymore.

1703
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:25,360
Speaker 1: You can't be lazy and say the Bills are going

1704
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,759
Speaker 1: to do this, this, this, and this because they always

1705
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 1: do that that that. Yeah, Rodney Harrison tried doing that

1706
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:31,559
Speaker 1: last weekend when he was the only guy to pick

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01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 1: the Steelers in that game. Right swear it is which

1708
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:39,760
Speaker 1: I love that are changing our social media channel when

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01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:41,640
Speaker 1: you win a lot of games. Totally trolled them on

1710
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:47,679
Speaker 1: Monday saying good morning everybody except Rodney, right, that was great.

1711
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 1: It's it's true that when when you start winning games

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01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,679
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, year in year out, the national

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01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 1: analysts analysts seem to take more interest in you and

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01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 1: prepare for you better. They get to know you a

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01:31:57,479 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: little bit more, not only because they see you because

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01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: you're on more national TV games, but because you're going

1717
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: to be more relevant to the conversation and in the

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01:32:04,040 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: playoff conversation against whatever other team happens to be good

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01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: that year. So they do take more interest and get

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01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:12,519
Speaker 1: deeper into the analysis with you. They go and they

1721
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: watch the games. Actually, you know, they get an idea

1722
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:17,719
Speaker 1: of who's playing well, they start to learn some names

1723
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:21,680
Speaker 1: about guys, you know, and they know who's not on

1724
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:25,800
Speaker 1: your team anymore. That kind of thing. Up until then,

1725
01:32:25,840 --> 01:32:28,320
Speaker 1: for a couple of decades, they didn't have to waste

1726
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 1: that time on the Buffalo Bills because they weren't relevant

1727
01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 1: enough often enough. So, all right, it's great time for us.

1728
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:37,360
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we'll get a little taste

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01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: of this Bills Broncos matchup with the analyst that's going

1730
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: to be broadcasting the game on NFL Network one, Mark

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01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: Schlaire with former Broncos guard and Super Bowl champ will

1732
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:49,919
Speaker 1: be joining us in the third hour of the program.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. This

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01:32:52,640 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Blow Bills Radio Network Sports their

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01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:11,400
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. The Bills have designated

1736
01:33:11,439 --> 01:33:14,000
Speaker 1: wide receiver John Brown to return from the injured reserve

1737
01:33:14,080 --> 01:33:16,759
Speaker 1: list as he's expected to return to the practice field.

1738
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Brown was placed on IR and missed the last three

1739
01:33:19,280 --> 01:33:21,400
Speaker 1: games after injuring his ankle in the Bills Week ten

1740
01:33:21,479 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: game against the Cardinals, but no confirmation as the team

1741
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 1: is practicing indoors today so won't have any information until

1742
01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:31,479
Speaker 1: the team's injury report is released later this afternoon, and

1743
01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:34,439
Speaker 1: the team's first injury report released on Tuesday, with it

1744
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 1: being a Saturday game. Tremaine Edmund's, Terren Johnson, and Lee

1745
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:41,559
Speaker 1: Smith were all new listings as limited participants, Edmund's dealing

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01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 1: with a foot injury, Johnson coming off a concussion in

1747
01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: the game last week, and Smith working through a knee injury.

1748
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 1: The NFL informed teams that if a positive test or

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01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:54,200
Speaker 1: high risk close contact designation comes after the deadline for

1750
01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:56,679
Speaker 1: submitting game day and act as, the club can activate

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01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:59,160
Speaker 1: a new player up to thirty minutes before kickoff. The

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01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:01,679
Speaker 1: change comes after Dez Bryant was ruled out of Baltimore's

1753
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: Week thirteen game against the Cowboys right before kickoff after

1754
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:07,760
Speaker 1: testing positive, and he was yanked after an act as

1755
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 1: were announced, leaving the Ravens one player short. NFL owners

1756
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 1: are meeting virtually today to discuss several items, including the

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01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,640
Speaker 1: option to increase the regular season to seventeen games in

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01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,839
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. The expanded regular season and related reduction

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01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:22,680
Speaker 1: of the preseason as part of the new CBA that

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01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 1: was approved back in March, owners have the ability to

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01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:29,320
Speaker 1: increase the regular season schedule to seventeen games at any

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01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:33,480
Speaker 1: point between twenty twenty one and the twenty twenty three seasons.

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01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:36,800
Speaker 1: There will be no postseason bubbles for NFL teams. The

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01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 1: NFL informed league clubs on Tuesday night. The teams cannot

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01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 1: require players and staff members to stay at a hotel

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01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:45,719
Speaker 1: during the playoffs other than the ninth prior to a game.

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01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:48,680
Speaker 1: The choice to forego local bubbles was recommended by the

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01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:53,839
Speaker 1: league and NFL Players Association medical experts based on COVID

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01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: nineteen testing data. That is your sports update from one

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01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive Chris Brown, Steve Tasker our number three of

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01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:05,759
Speaker 1: the program and joining us now as a former NFL

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01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 1: guard for twelve seasons for both Washington and Denver, three

1773
01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:12,280
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champ, Fox Sports NFL analyst, and he's

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01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:14,840
Speaker 1: gonna be on the broadcast on NFL Network with Adam

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01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:18,599
Speaker 1: Amine and Lindsay Zarniak. It is one Mark Schlareth joining

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01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:21,200
Speaker 1: us on the program here, Mark, thanks for taking the time.

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01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 1: How's you and your family during this pandemic? Everybody, well,

1778
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:29,280
Speaker 1: everybody is doing great. Thanks for asking things, you know,

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01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I always choose to look at the bright

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01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 1: side of things. And hell, we got and spend a

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01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:35,720
Speaker 1: lot of time together, so that's a good thing. You know,

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01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with the granddaughter, so we've

1783
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 1: had a great time with them, and anyhow, so there's

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01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:43,800
Speaker 1: a lot of good things that are going on right now. Yeah,

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01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:45,519
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm kind of in the same

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01:35:45,560 --> 01:35:47,559
Speaker 1: boat I was asking you. We heard you were going

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01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:50,600
Speaker 1: to be on the broadcast this week of the Bill's Broncos.

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01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:52,879
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about this game? How the Broncos

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01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,599
Speaker 1: did it? Seemed like Drew Locke kind of showed some

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01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: glimpse of what he could become as an NFL quarterback.

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01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:01,599
Speaker 1: What's the vibe about him in Denver? Well, I think,

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01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:03,799
Speaker 1: you know, there was a lot of disappointment early throughout

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01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 1: this season, and one of the things the Broncos did

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01:36:06,320 --> 01:36:09,200
Speaker 1: is they went in and drafted a bunch of wide receivers,

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01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:11,720
Speaker 1: and you know, they talk about speed and trying to

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01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:14,479
Speaker 1: match speed with the kanc Chiefs, which I'm not, you know,

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01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:17,400
Speaker 1: a believer in, But the bottom line is they kind

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01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:20,200
Speaker 1: of stripped things down. They got into a lot of

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01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:23,320
Speaker 1: under center formations, they got into a lot of two

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01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:27,520
Speaker 1: tight end formations. Almost fifty percent they were in twelve personnel.

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01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 1: They condensed things a little bit, They ran the ball,

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01:36:31,240 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: and they really set up a lot of underneath passing

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01:36:35,040 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: options for Drew Brees. I thought they did, excuse me

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01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:40,080
Speaker 1: for Drew Lott. I thought they did a really good job,

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01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 1: Steve of creating opportunities early with kind of pin flat

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01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: routes by tight ends and tight end screens and swing

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01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 1: passes and a couple of screens to the running back.

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01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:54,000
Speaker 1: Going into the game, I think the Broncos were dead

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01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:57,680
Speaker 1: last in the league in passes at or behind the

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01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:00,600
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And so they opened that uportunity up.

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01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:02,760
Speaker 1: I think they went into that game plan feeling like, Hey,

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01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:06,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna make Drew twelve or twelve in these type

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01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:08,439
Speaker 1: of passes, then we'll see what happens on the down

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01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:10,600
Speaker 1: the field stuff and opened up for him and he

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01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 1: complayed it some nice deep balls as well. So I

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01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:16,360
Speaker 1: think game planning wise, they took a step back and

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01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:18,960
Speaker 1: kind of got more into kind of a West Coast

1818
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 1: office they were running before the year before, and it

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01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: really suited him much better. I saw it coming out

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01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:27,040
Speaker 1: of the game too, Mark that coach Fangio said he

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01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:30,719
Speaker 1: was pretty pleased with the way or the willingness that

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01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: Drew had to go to the checkdown sooner in the down,

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01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:38,120
Speaker 1: sooner in the play, if you will, I'm sure you've

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01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 1: seen a lot more at Drew lock than we have

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01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:43,479
Speaker 1: had he been more apt as a young quarterback might

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01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 1: be to try to get it all in one play

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01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:48,920
Speaker 1: and maybe way to half a beat longer than usual,

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01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:50,840
Speaker 1: to try to make the big play instead of just

1829
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: taken that easy checked down in the past. And did

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01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 1: you see a change in that this week? Yeah, there's

1831
01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:58,200
Speaker 1: no question that was a change, and not only from

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Speaker 1: Drew Lock, but from a play calling sequel. And I

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01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:04,080
Speaker 1: think one of the things that you saw early throughout

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01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:07,640
Speaker 1: the entirety of earlier in the season is all the

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01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:11,679
Speaker 1: opportunities that they created. You know, there were so many

1836
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: times where they're creating four verticals and there are no

1837
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 1: easy answers for Drew Locks. So you know, part of

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01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 1: that is people are like, well, he's throwing the ball

1839
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: down the field and he's turning the ball over, and

1840
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:23,479
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if you don't have early answers for

1841
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:26,000
Speaker 1: a guy, it's really gonna be hard for him, you know,

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01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:28,559
Speaker 1: to check it down. So I think there were two

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01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: things that really changed in this last game plan that

1844
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 1: really helped him play a heck of a lot better.

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01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:35,479
Speaker 1: And there were a lot of two man routes when

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01:38:35,479 --> 01:38:37,799
Speaker 1: they went deep. There were a lot of two man routes,

1847
01:38:37,840 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, seven man protections that really helped him out.

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01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 1: So those things were the changes that were made going

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01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: into the week, and they looked like a much more

1850
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: potent and much more just in sync offense, if you will. Well,

1851
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 1: they started the season oh and three, and albeit against

1852
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:59,880
Speaker 1: three pretty good football teams, you know, so the three

1853
01:39:00,120 --> 01:39:03,760
Speaker 1: now I say that it's week fifteen. Why did they

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01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:08,599
Speaker 1: wait till week fourteen to do that? Yeah, I've been

1855
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 1: asking the same question Steve, like, Hey, you know, I'm

1856
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: no genius, but if your quarterback is struggling throwing the

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01:39:15,760 --> 01:39:18,240
Speaker 1: ball deep, you might want to shorten things up. So

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01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure why, you know, you

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01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 1: know sometimes that I think it's just pride. Yeah, they

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01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: changed their offensive cordin if they had a rookie offensive

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01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:32,120
Speaker 1: coordinator last year in Rich Scangarello. And this is the

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01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:35,439
Speaker 1: type of offense they ran, the multiple tight ends, the shifts,

1863
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: the motions, the tight end screens, you know, the publish

1864
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:43,120
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And and Big Fangio had

1865
01:39:43,120 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 1: fired him and said I want a deeper strike offense.

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01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: They brought in Pat Shermer, who with the Giants took

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01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:50,680
Speaker 1: a lot of shots down in the football field, and

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01:39:50,760 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: it seemed like they just were gonna do that regardless.

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01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: And you know, last week, all that short stuff, it

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01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:01,640
Speaker 1: manifested itself in some opportunities one on one, you know,

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01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:04,639
Speaker 1: with some some man opportunities, also a bust to coverage

1872
01:40:04,680 --> 01:40:06,880
Speaker 1: to take a couple of shots deep, and they converted

1873
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 1: on three deep shots last week, one to Jerry Judy

1874
01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: on a little slant and go where the corner bit

1875
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:16,760
Speaker 1: on the double move one and two touchdowns to kJ

1876
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,559
Speaker 1: Hamler where he just beat a corner and one on

1877
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:22,720
Speaker 1: one and then another one where he was in the

1878
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 1: slot and the safety jumped underneath route and he was

1879
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,560
Speaker 1: wide open over the top. So like they did a

1880
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:31,599
Speaker 1: good job with that stuff last week. It really looked

1881
01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:34,280
Speaker 1: like an offense that you know, you look at and say, wow,

1882
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:36,320
Speaker 1: had they been doing this all season long, would you

1883
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 1: have a chance to compete for, you know, at least

1884
01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: a wildcard spot. Flipping it over to the defensive side

1885
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 1: of the ball, mark what jumps out is they're precariously

1886
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:49,920
Speaker 1: thin at cornerback now due to the suspension of Bouoye

1887
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,639
Speaker 1: and some injuries obviously that they sustained even in last

1888
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: week's game. But still in all vic Fangio is doing

1889
01:40:56,960 --> 01:40:59,120
Speaker 1: vic Fangio things on the defensive side of the ball.

1890
01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:01,920
Speaker 1: Number one in the league in red zone defense. What

1891
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:03,640
Speaker 1: has been kind of a key for them down in

1892
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:08,720
Speaker 1: that all important area. Well, I think obviously they can

1893
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: defend the run, and they do a good job defending

1894
01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:13,320
Speaker 1: the run. With just seven in the box, you know,

1895
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:17,000
Speaker 1: playing two high safety stuff. And then Kareem Jackson is

1896
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 1: really the safety they use most of the time that

1897
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:21,519
Speaker 1: rotates down into the box if they're gonna use an

1898
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:23,800
Speaker 1: eight man front. But I'll tell you he's a run

1899
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:26,360
Speaker 1: support guy that will play it at twelve yards deep,

1900
01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: so he can have even in the red zone his heels. Obviously,

1901
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 1: you're not gonna play twelve yards deep in the red zone.

1902
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 1: You're gonna play it eight yards deep. But he reads

1903
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:35,960
Speaker 1: it so well and he just triggers and runs the

1904
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:38,719
Speaker 1: alley and he's a sure tackler. I mean, he's a beast,

1905
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:41,439
Speaker 1: and he's been a big difference maker, not only in

1906
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:45,040
Speaker 1: the field, but obviously in the red zone. And big

1907
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:48,400
Speaker 1: fans who just hasn't playing really well, they're very tied together,

1908
01:41:48,479 --> 01:41:51,320
Speaker 1: and like I said, they do a really exceptional job

1909
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: of stacking, stacking offensive players, shedding guys and getting to

1910
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 1: the ball carrier. So that stuff has been really good.

1911
01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this, because of their thinness

1912
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: that you talked about in the cornerback position, they've spent

1913
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 1: a lot more time here recently, in the last probably

1914
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 1: twelve weeks, kind of changing their defense and run a

1915
01:42:11,080 --> 01:42:13,760
Speaker 1: lot more pressure schemes, a lot more blitz scheme. So

1916
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 1: Vic is definitely adhered based on the personnel that he

1917
01:42:18,160 --> 01:42:22,400
Speaker 1: has to create opportunities for his defense, and they've excelled

1918
01:42:22,439 --> 01:42:24,439
Speaker 1: in those things. I was going to ask you about

1919
01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: their pass rush. Certainly we know that von von Miller

1920
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,720
Speaker 1: is not in the lineup, but Bradley Chubb it still is.

1921
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 1: How how has the extra rushers or then you know,

1922
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:38,920
Speaker 1: the zone blitzes, the extra added attempt to get more pressure.

1923
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 1: How has it helped and who's been the main beneficiary

1924
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 1: of it? Well, I mean it's really been There's been

1925
01:42:45,520 --> 01:42:48,160
Speaker 1: a ton of guys. Bradley Chubb is still putting pressure

1926
01:42:48,200 --> 01:42:51,080
Speaker 1: on at tattoo Is has done a good job with that.

1927
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:54,960
Speaker 1: Malik Reid has been a guy. It seems like every

1928
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: week there's a different guy. And their inside guys. Shelby

1929
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 1: Harris a really good player, knocks down three or four

1930
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: passes a game because he doesn't usually get a lot

1931
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 1: of penetration. But Jones inside that There's been a couple

1932
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:12,599
Speaker 1: of different guys Walker inside have really done a good

1933
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:14,920
Speaker 1: job when they get their one on ones. And Vic

1934
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:17,720
Speaker 1: Vick is a guy that really, you know, from a

1935
01:43:17,760 --> 01:43:21,840
Speaker 1: pressure standpoint, he will bring pressure simply to create good

1936
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 1: one on one matchups. You know, it's not about it's

1937
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: more about dogs than it is blitzes, and it's about, hey,

1938
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:29,680
Speaker 1: who can I get one on one and how do

1939
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:32,479
Speaker 1: I like that matchup? Whether it's an inside guy like

1940
01:43:32,920 --> 01:43:35,680
Speaker 1: Draymond Jones getting a one on one on guard or

1941
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: a guy like Walker getting a one on one with

1942
01:43:38,680 --> 01:43:40,680
Speaker 1: a guard or a center. And so he does a

1943
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 1: really good job of mixing those things up and finding

1944
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,200
Speaker 1: the one on ones that he thinks he can take

1945
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:47,719
Speaker 1: advantage of. And that's kind of the way that defense

1946
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:50,679
Speaker 1: is operated. I realized game plans different each and every week,

1947
01:43:50,760 --> 01:43:55,040
Speaker 1: But in general, what has been le Broncos defensive approach

1948
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:58,120
Speaker 1: when facing a mobile quarterback? Obviously they face Mahomes twice

1949
01:43:58,120 --> 01:44:00,599
Speaker 1: a year, They've faced a couple other guys that can

1950
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:02,599
Speaker 1: get out on the move, much like Josh allen Kin,

1951
01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 1: So just curious from a general perspective, what's been their

1952
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:08,680
Speaker 1: defensive approach to quarterbacks like that. Well, I mean, they

1953
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:11,800
Speaker 1: definitely want a pressure, They really want a pressure from

1954
01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:16,440
Speaker 1: the inside, and you know, keep kind of a standard

1955
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: outside lane, integrity pass rush and really get the majority

1956
01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,240
Speaker 1: of their pass rush stuff from the inside, from their

1957
01:44:23,280 --> 01:44:26,840
Speaker 1: inside guys penetration. But one thing they hate is they

1958
01:44:26,840 --> 01:44:29,280
Speaker 1: don't want guys to be able to step up in

1959
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: the pocket, manipulate the pocket, throw from the pocket, or

1960
01:44:31,880 --> 01:44:34,920
Speaker 1: escape in the middle of the football field. So it

1961
01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:37,120
Speaker 1: really has been a kind of control. I'm not gonna

1962
01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:39,320
Speaker 1: call it a mush rush because it's been an edge

1963
01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: presence for the rollout stuff, but it really has been

1964
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:46,519
Speaker 1: pressure more from the inside of the pocket and staying

1965
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: with that pass rush integrity lane. So I think they've

1966
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: done a good job with that stuff. They've really over

1967
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: the two games they played Mahomes. Mahomes was really not

1968
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: much of a factor. I think he has in two

1969
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:02,280
Speaker 1: games two touchdown passes. Again, the Broncos in their first

1970
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: game they were like, oh, for ten on third down

1971
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:07,040
Speaker 1: or for eight on third down, and really shut them

1972
01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:09,040
Speaker 1: down on the red zone as well. So they've done

1973
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: a good job in the red zone, is a good

1974
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:15,599
Speaker 1: job in third downs against Mahomes. So they have really

1975
01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:18,840
Speaker 1: they have really shown against you know, Mahomes and the

1976
01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:21,400
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. You know, what's your gut feeling about

1977
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: how they'll handle these you know, the injuries to their

1978
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:27,360
Speaker 1: secondary and the thinness out there. I mean, I think

1979
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: they probably got faith in the front line guys. But

1980
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, how what will they do upfront if anything

1981
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,799
Speaker 1: different than they have been doing because of the injuries.

1982
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen them rotate through guys Steve for

1983
01:45:38,360 --> 01:45:40,880
Speaker 1: the last well for the last eight ten games, and

1984
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:43,800
Speaker 1: they really haven't done anything different. Um. You know, they've

1985
01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:46,000
Speaker 1: got a couple thumpers that play linebacker. They do a

1986
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:48,400
Speaker 1: pretty good job to stop in the run and hitting people,

1987
01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:51,200
Speaker 1: and they're good and coverage. Josie jewels all over the place,

1988
01:45:51,240 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 1: a very smart football player. But really, you know, it's

1989
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:57,719
Speaker 1: just about for them, it's just about technique. They understand

1990
01:45:57,760 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: where their help is. They understand if they're into the

1991
01:45:59,720 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 1: bound and they're running, you know, they're they're running a

1992
01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:06,640
Speaker 1: man coverage. How they want to take inside lanes and

1993
01:46:06,840 --> 01:46:08,800
Speaker 1: force you to the sideline, and you know all the

1994
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:11,920
Speaker 1: things that teams do. But it's just been about more

1995
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:14,840
Speaker 1: about discipline than has been anything else. Talking to Mark

1996
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 1: Laris will be doing the game on NFL Network on Saturday,

1997
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:21,120
Speaker 1: with Lindsay's Herniak on the sidelines, Adam Amen on the

1998
01:46:21,120 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: play by play, special teams Mark. Obviously, they got a

1999
01:46:25,120 --> 01:46:29,240
Speaker 1: big return for a touchdown last week. Mcmahonus uncharacteristically missed

2000
01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 1: a couple of extra points. He's on the COVID list

2001
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 1: now but expected to be back for the game. M

2002
01:46:34,400 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: What is your assessment of the special teams unit. Has

2003
01:46:37,040 --> 01:46:39,360
Speaker 1: it been the mixed bag that it seemed like last

2004
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,000
Speaker 1: week or has it been a little bit better than

2005
01:46:41,040 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 1: that on the whole. No, it's been awful. Um, you know,

2006
01:46:45,120 --> 01:46:47,760
Speaker 1: other than McManus. McManus has been good. Last week was

2007
01:46:47,840 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 1: by far their best week. It was really the first

2008
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:55,240
Speaker 1: week that they contributed to a win. And you know,

2009
01:46:55,320 --> 01:46:58,800
Speaker 1: McManus has been great all all year. Last week notwithstanding,

2010
01:46:58,840 --> 01:47:01,240
Speaker 1: he's been great all year. But they've been awful in

2011
01:47:01,320 --> 01:47:04,360
Speaker 1: the return game. They've been awful in the coverage game.

2012
01:47:05,439 --> 01:47:07,960
Speaker 1: They have I mean they you know, last week, they

2013
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 1: Sam Martin punted well as well. He had that deep

2014
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,680
Speaker 1: fifty eight fifty nine yard punt out of the end

2015
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:16,080
Speaker 1: zone and the end of that game to give the

2016
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:19,919
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers a long field to try to score to

2017
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 1: try to win that game in the last drive. So

2018
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 1: they've actually been other than that. I mean, last week

2019
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: they were really good and contributed to win, but they

2020
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:30,599
Speaker 1: have not been very good all season long. Well, you know,

2021
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:33,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback always catches a lot of eyes, as Drew

2022
01:47:33,360 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: Locke has, especially with the way he played this last week,

2023
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:39,639
Speaker 1: or at least his numbers. Two rookie wide receivers though,

2024
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: with kJ Hammler and Jerry Judy, what about them? How

2025
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:46,799
Speaker 1: are they developing? As the team happy with their development

2026
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 1: thus far? What do they think they have in those

2027
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:51,479
Speaker 1: two young guys? Yeah, I think the team is fairly

2028
01:47:51,479 --> 01:47:53,519
Speaker 1: happy with him. I mean, Jerry Judy seems to drop

2029
01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 1: a ball a game and he's not a real effective

2030
01:47:56,320 --> 01:47:58,719
Speaker 1: guy when it comes to the run blocking game. So

2031
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:01,479
Speaker 1: that's something that needs to get better. I tell you what,

2032
01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 1: He's got an elite level you know, we always talk

2033
01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:06,040
Speaker 1: about your elite level speed at the receiver position, your

2034
01:48:06,080 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 1: ability to take off and do all that thing, uh

2035
01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:11,960
Speaker 1: my thing, his ability to stop. He's got an elite

2036
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 1: level route running, elite level releases. He is really good

2037
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:18,400
Speaker 1: at that stuff. He's just been inconsistent catching the ball,

2038
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:22,280
Speaker 1: inconsistent or non effective when it comes to asking to

2039
01:48:22,320 --> 01:48:25,280
Speaker 1: throw a block, and so you know, it hasn't had

2040
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:29,760
Speaker 1: the production that you probably want or expect, but he's developing.

2041
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:33,160
Speaker 1: kJ Hamdler's had some leg injuries, but that guy's you know,

2042
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:36,840
Speaker 1: great speed, he really has, he really has developed is

2043
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:40,080
Speaker 1: into a pretty decent wide receiver. You know. Tim Patrick

2044
01:48:40,200 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 1: is the guy to me who is kind of the

2045
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 1: actuator of the wide receiver room. He's you know, he's

2046
01:48:45,040 --> 01:48:47,680
Speaker 1: not that speed guy. He's a big bodied guy, but

2047
01:48:47,760 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 1: he's been very consistent out there, kind of replacing some

2048
01:48:52,560 --> 01:48:55,320
Speaker 1: of the injuries they've had out there. So he's the

2049
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,960
Speaker 1: guy to me that really kind of makes that wide

2050
01:48:58,000 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 1: receiving room going. And then they've got a nice mix

2051
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:02,479
Speaker 1: the tight ends and no offense is you know, it's

2052
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:06,280
Speaker 1: a big time speed tight tight end. Last one I've

2053
01:49:06,320 --> 01:49:08,759
Speaker 1: got four you, Marcus, is about those two backs, Gordon

2054
01:49:08,760 --> 01:49:12,479
Speaker 1: and Lindsay. Obviously, Gordon's kind of outperformed him in the

2055
01:49:12,479 --> 01:49:16,639
Speaker 1: scoring side of the ledger with six touchdowns to Lindsay's one.

2056
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:20,080
Speaker 1: But it seems like the workload has been relatively balanced.

2057
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:22,759
Speaker 1: But what's what's just your assessment of how they've utilized

2058
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:26,920
Speaker 1: those two as a tandem. Um, Well, you know, they

2059
01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 1: try to keep it fairly balanced. Lindsay's more explosive but um,

2060
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: but Gordon's just a more complete back like Lindsay, has

2061
01:49:35,400 --> 01:49:39,800
Speaker 1: the breakaway type of speed. But in critical situations, you're

2062
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:43,200
Speaker 1: gonna see Gordon. In third downs, you're gonna see Gordon. Um.

2063
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:45,479
Speaker 1: You know, in the red zone, you're gonna see Gordon.

2064
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:48,599
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that can break tackles and

2065
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:50,639
Speaker 1: and do the dirty work, so to speak. And he's

2066
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:53,640
Speaker 1: a good glitz pickup guy. Really understands that aspect of

2067
01:49:53,640 --> 01:49:56,960
Speaker 1: the game. Philip Lindsay, not so much in short yardage.

2068
01:49:57,080 --> 01:49:58,800
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that you know, if you

2069
01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 1: hit him, you're gonna tackle. He's one hundred and eighty

2070
01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 1: five pounds, so, but he is you know, he can

2071
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:06,120
Speaker 1: take it to the house anytime he touches the football.

2072
01:50:06,200 --> 01:50:09,720
Speaker 1: But um, even though they've kept it fairly balanced, the

2073
01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:14,519
Speaker 1: critical situations go to to uh do Melvin Gordon bonus

2074
01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:16,599
Speaker 1: question I got for you, Mark, Where is your son

2075
01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:19,160
Speaker 1: Daniel gonna wind up anywhere in spring training? Here? Does

2076
01:50:19,160 --> 01:50:20,960
Speaker 1: he have a destination lined up? Yet? What are we

2077
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 1: looking at here? Give me a hot stovely No, you

2078
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:27,080
Speaker 1: know when you're when you're old? Uh, you know you're

2079
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: old now at thirty four years old. Uh yeah, he

2080
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:33,759
Speaker 1: worked out all year and was thrown I mean cheese.

2081
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 1: He was ninety six, ninety seven. Um, still can throw

2082
01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:39,559
Speaker 1: a current ball, but couldn't get a job. And COVID

2083
01:50:39,600 --> 01:50:42,679
Speaker 1: makes it not much harder because they've eliminated a bunch

2084
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:45,600
Speaker 1: of the you know, a bunch of the minor league organizations.

2085
01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:48,519
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, he's he's working, putting his resume

2086
01:50:48,560 --> 01:50:50,599
Speaker 1: out there, trying to get on the other side. And um,

2087
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:52,640
Speaker 1: he continues to throw, but he's trying to get on

2088
01:50:52,720 --> 01:50:55,360
Speaker 1: the other side in the management role, and uh okay,

2089
01:50:55,479 --> 01:50:58,280
Speaker 1: so he's working toward that. Awesome. Thanks for the update

2090
01:50:58,320 --> 01:50:59,920
Speaker 1: on that. All right, good luck to him and thanks

2091
01:50:59,920 --> 01:51:02,719
Speaker 1: for the time. Mark, have a good broadcast on Saturday, Mark, Thanks,

2092
01:51:03,160 --> 01:51:05,559
Speaker 1: sounds good. See you guys, take care. You bet right.

2093
01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 1: That's Mark Schlereth. He'll be doing the game on NFL

2094
01:51:07,960 --> 01:51:10,280
Speaker 1: Network Saturday with Adam Amain on the play by play

2095
01:51:10,320 --> 01:51:13,120
Speaker 1: and Lindsay's Arniac on the sidelines. And you can tell

2096
01:51:13,160 --> 01:51:15,639
Speaker 1: he's watched his share of Broncos football this season. Also

2097
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: a Fox NFL analyst, but his son Daniel has been

2098
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,880
Speaker 1: a pitcher in the major leagues for probably about eight

2099
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 1: nine years. Now. He played for Arizona and Detroit and

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01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:28,840
Speaker 1: had a cup of coffee with the Red Sox last year.

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01:51:28,880 --> 01:51:31,519
Speaker 1: But yeah, covid and thirty four year old pitcher trying

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Speaker 1: to find a home. Right, That's easier said than done.

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01:51:34,479 --> 01:51:36,920
Speaker 1: Thirty is the new forty and major League Baseball. I

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01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,960
Speaker 1: will so, I was just curious. I was looking for

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01:51:39,960 --> 01:51:42,200
Speaker 1: a little hot stove league action there see if he

2106
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:45,400
Speaker 1: was gonna land somewhere for spring training but still out

2107
01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:47,560
Speaker 1: on the market as a free agent. His son and

2108
01:51:47,640 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 1: major league baseball pitcher. So just wanted to ask and

2109
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:52,760
Speaker 1: get a little hot stove league action in there and

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01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 1: see what's going on. Yeah, he had he had a

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01:51:54,840 --> 01:51:57,160
Speaker 1: handle on it. He's it's hard to work out with

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01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 1: nothing in sight at the end of it, you know. Yeah,

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01:51:59,240 --> 01:52:02,040
Speaker 1: travel is more difficult now, and you know, hold the

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01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:04,120
Speaker 1: workouts in front of scouts, you know that are out

2115
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:06,400
Speaker 1: on the path. It's tough. That is a that is

2116
01:52:06,439 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 1: a tough road to home. Back to the subject at hand, though,

2117
01:52:09,920 --> 01:52:12,280
Speaker 1: an AFC East title on the line for the Bills

2118
01:52:12,320 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 1: on Saturday. A win and they win the AFC East

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Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty five years. We've been

2120
01:52:17,240 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 1: asking fans all day what that would mean to them.

2121
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:22,479
Speaker 1: And we got a guy waiting patiently on the line here,

2122
01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: So let's get to John on a cell, John, what

2123
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one bills live. Hey, guys, thanks,

2124
01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:31,320
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Um kind of brings back memories.

2125
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:35,760
Speaker 1: I had the privilege to see both errors. Um. The

2126
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:37,600
Speaker 1: old Bill's error. To me, it was one of a

2127
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:40,880
Speaker 1: shock and awe. A lot of different personalities. I mean,

2128
01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 1: it was amazing that uh Martin Leevian, Bill Polink could

2129
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:49,160
Speaker 1: actually deal with those personalities and accomplish what they accomplished.

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01:52:50,120 --> 01:52:53,400
Speaker 1: And this group seems to be, uh the kind of

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01:52:53,400 --> 01:52:58,000
Speaker 1: group that's more of an oil machine, and it's uh,

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01:52:58,040 --> 01:52:59,840
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna be a different experience for

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01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 1: these young guys in me. I really think this group

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01:53:03,479 --> 01:53:06,679
Speaker 1: could actually go ahead and finish it. John, I don't

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01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:13,280
Speaker 1: see a to me, Um, I don't see a like

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01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:15,519
Speaker 1: one of those uh with the coaching thing there where

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01:53:15,520 --> 01:53:21,320
Speaker 1: they uh, you know, prevent defense stuff right right right.

2138
01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:24,320
Speaker 1: They're willing to go for chances here. We're maybe back

2139
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 1: in the old days they would be reluctant to do that. Yeah,

2140
01:53:28,320 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: I hear you, Yeah, all right, good call. John appreciate it,

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01:53:30,880 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 1: thanks very much. We do want to get to some

2142
01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:34,720
Speaker 1: more of those tweets on the tweets you because there's

2143
01:53:34,720 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 1: some gold over there. Steve, pull those two up that

2144
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:37,880
Speaker 1: you had, and I'll let you get to those in

2145
01:53:37,880 --> 01:53:40,639
Speaker 1: a second while you're finding them. And then this one

2146
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:44,680
Speaker 1: came in said, I'm not originally from Buffalo, been here

2147
01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:46,960
Speaker 1: since two thousand and five, and I am a season

2148
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:50,040
Speaker 1: ticket holder. The Bills winning the division means my two

2149
01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: year old will be a Bills fan orr whole life now.

2150
01:53:53,280 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 1: So I mean this is this is this is the

2151
01:53:55,439 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 1: significance that people apply to these these major events in

2152
01:53:59,439 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: the course of team's history. Yeah, and a division title

2153
01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:04,760
Speaker 1: may not is not the end game, as we've said

2154
01:54:04,760 --> 01:54:08,320
Speaker 1: more than once today, but it still carries weight, I

2155
01:54:08,360 --> 01:54:12,200
Speaker 1: think unquestionably. Yeah, it does. Well. You gotta read this, Dave,

2156
01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 1: he said a cut. I'll read both of them. He

2157
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:15,760
Speaker 1: said one in it was a continuation, he says. I'm

2158
01:54:15,760 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 1: thirty three. My family moved to seven to one six

2159
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:20,960
Speaker 1: in June of ninety three. I was six for the

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01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 1: last Super Bowl. All I remember is crying for the

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01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: loss at a party. I grew up directly in the

2162
01:54:25,840 --> 01:54:28,800
Speaker 1: Shadow of the Glory Years season tickets from ninety six

2163
01:54:28,880 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: through two thy twelve, and I've been to about one

2164
01:54:31,560 --> 01:54:38,040
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy games, including driving to both Jacksonville and Houston.

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01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:41,640
Speaker 1: I was at the airport last year after the Pittsburgh game.

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01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:46,480
Speaker 1: I have a side hustle flipping nineties bills merchandise. I

2167
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:50,000
Speaker 1: even have a believe tattoo he got. The bills mean

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01:54:50,080 --> 01:54:53,480
Speaker 1: the world to me. Ten and three feels absolutely unreal.

2169
01:54:54,200 --> 01:54:58,200
Speaker 1: I've tiered up twice during today's show thinking about the

2170
01:54:58,240 --> 01:55:03,320
Speaker 1: real chance of a bowl. Oh wow, that's that's big, um,

2171
01:55:03,560 --> 01:55:07,240
Speaker 1: and it runs the gamut because you know, as emotional

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01:55:07,320 --> 01:55:10,120
Speaker 1: as that is, listen to this from Jack. It would

2173
01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:12,720
Speaker 1: be the world to me to see the division title.

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Speaker 1: Just over a month ago, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

2175
01:55:16,160 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm forty five years old. I started first round of

2176
01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:22,000
Speaker 1: chemo with Roswell yesterday. I've witnessed the last AFC championship

2177
01:55:22,080 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 1: and the bills are a huge part of what keeps

2178
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:27,840
Speaker 1: me going. Go bills and Uh. We're wishing Jack the

2179
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:30,440
Speaker 1: best of luck in his chemo treatments. Good luck beating

2180
01:55:30,520 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 1: that um this other one here, it would mean more

2181
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:37,760
Speaker 1: to me than eighty eight. I was sixteen and it

2182
01:55:37,880 --> 01:55:41,560
Speaker 1: was big. I think Leavey said something about fans tearing

2183
01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:45,720
Speaker 1: down the goal posts back then. Um another fan, DSJ

2184
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:51,320
Speaker 1: Early Fan, Rock Pile, OJ Electric Company, etc. At Game

2185
01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:55,360
Speaker 1: one at rich Stadium, Chuck Knox, YadA, YadA, YadA. Happiest

2186
01:55:55,440 --> 01:56:00,560
Speaker 1: ever were the three days immediately after the AFC Chanchampionship

2187
01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:05,080
Speaker 1: game over the Raiders and before worrying about getting beat

2188
01:56:05,120 --> 01:56:09,040
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Second happiest Andy Dalton touchdown in

2189
01:56:09,080 --> 01:56:14,440
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen breaking the drought twenty twenty AFC East not

2190
01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:18,120
Speaker 1: number three. So you know, you you look at these

2191
01:56:18,280 --> 01:56:23,680
Speaker 1: and it's got people reminiscing, it's got people celebrating Cross generationally,

2192
01:56:24,200 --> 01:56:27,720
Speaker 1: and it's got people convinced they can convince their kids

2193
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 1: to be Bills fans. It's like the guy with the

2194
01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:32,400
Speaker 1: two year old daughter. It's hard to pass down a fan,

2195
01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:38,640
Speaker 1: a fanship with nothing to pass, you know, with nothing

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01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:43,360
Speaker 1: tangible to get behind. But you know, Bill's fans have

2197
01:56:43,440 --> 01:56:45,560
Speaker 1: been doing it for a long long time, and now

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01:56:46,840 --> 01:56:49,440
Speaker 1: it's nice to see all these these kids who grew

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01:56:49,520 --> 01:56:51,840
Speaker 1: up with parents who were fans and they became a

2200
01:56:51,880 --> 01:56:53,880
Speaker 1: fan because of that and now to have something they

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01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:56,480
Speaker 1: can grab onto themselves as an entire generation. It's pretty

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01:56:56,480 --> 01:57:01,880
Speaker 1: cool and at hopefully it won't be another drought on

2203
01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:04,200
Speaker 1: the horizon, but this one. I think this team is

2204
01:57:04,240 --> 01:57:05,800
Speaker 1: gonna be good for a while. Yeah, this teams, this

2205
01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:07,560
Speaker 1: is gonna be It looks like it's going to be

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01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:10,400
Speaker 1: an era, not just a good one good season out

2207
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:14,880
Speaker 1: of others. Let's get to Brian and Middleport before the break. Here, Brian,

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01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:18,960
Speaker 1: you're on one bills Live. What do you have for us? Hi, guys, Steve,

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01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:20,480
Speaker 1: It's an honor to speak to you on the phone.

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01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:24,360
Speaker 1: It's I've been listening to this show all day and

2211
01:57:24,400 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the time. My point is is that,

2212
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 1: and one thing that I don't think anybody's mentioned so

2213
01:57:30,280 --> 01:57:34,400
Speaker 1: far is is the resurgence of football in general in

2214
01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:38,560
Speaker 1: the area. I know as a kid, I grew up

2215
01:57:38,600 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 1: in the nineties and we played lot football as often

2216
01:57:42,320 --> 01:57:45,680
Speaker 1: as we could, whether allowing, and you know, obviously we

2217
01:57:45,680 --> 01:57:48,720
Speaker 1: we emanated those people we wanted to be. My favorite

2218
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:54,680
Speaker 1: was Steve Tasker, of course, and I'm starting to see

2219
01:57:54,720 --> 01:57:58,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of that now. And the important thing is, well,

2220
01:57:58,240 --> 01:58:03,120
Speaker 1: since this has happened, My high school football team went

2221
01:58:03,240 --> 01:58:05,880
Speaker 1: from when we were in school back in nineteen ninety three,

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01:58:05,920 --> 01:58:08,520
Speaker 1: who went ten and oh and it was huge. Football

2223
01:58:08,640 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 1: was huge. Since then, it has really declined. And during

2224
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:18,400
Speaker 1: this declining we've actually had to incorporate another team from

2225
01:58:18,440 --> 01:58:21,760
Speaker 1: another school just to even have enough people on the bench.

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01:58:22,600 --> 01:58:25,880
Speaker 1: My point is, look and see what's going to happen

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01:58:25,960 --> 01:58:29,160
Speaker 1: in the next few years to the local football programs,

2228
01:58:29,320 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 1: and I can almost promise you that they're going to

2229
01:58:31,520 --> 01:58:35,320
Speaker 1: get better because everybody's gonna want to be the Stefan Diggs,

2230
01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:41,880
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen's, etc. Etc. Yeah, I think it could happen.

2231
01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:45,879
Speaker 1: You know, you've got young kids coming up watching this team.

2232
01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of seventeen jerseys out there,

2233
01:58:48,080 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: I know, and probably at the stadium next year there

2234
01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:53,400
Speaker 1: will be a lot of fourteen jerseys as well. Yeah.

2235
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: With what that combination has been, we've seen the election

2236
01:58:56,080 --> 01:58:59,280
Speaker 1: signs on front lawns all through the fall Alan Diggs

2237
01:58:59,280 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, which is which I have to say,

2238
01:59:02,200 --> 01:59:07,200
Speaker 1: was probably the best election sign I've seen all fall.

2239
01:59:07,520 --> 01:59:09,800
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I like that combination the

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01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:13,840
Speaker 1: best because that that group's produced. I mean, look at

2241
01:59:13,840 --> 01:59:17,040
Speaker 1: that group. I mean a hundred receptions and this team's what,

2242
01:59:17,120 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 1: the third passing offense in football, third best passing offense

2243
01:59:20,520 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 1: in football. I mean, they've gotten the job done in

2244
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:28,800
Speaker 1: a big, big way. Tweet sheet Tiffany extremely satisfying and

2245
01:59:28,840 --> 01:59:32,080
Speaker 1: well deserved to win an AFC East title. However, I'm

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01:59:32,120 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 1: going to be greedy and also want an AFC championship

2247
01:59:35,920 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: and a Super Bowl championship to follow. This season has

2248
01:59:38,760 --> 01:59:42,520
Speaker 1: been special and this group, from ownership on down, has

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01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:48,360
Speaker 1: put this team in position to win it all. Yeah,

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01:59:48,360 --> 01:59:52,000
Speaker 1: well it's it's it's in their hands, that's for sure,

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01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:54,520
Speaker 1: and it hasn't been in their hands this late for

2252
01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: a long long time. And to win a division title

2253
01:59:57,800 --> 02:00:00,040
Speaker 1: and to have a home playoff game coming here and

2254
02:00:00,240 --> 02:00:02,560
Speaker 1: all the things that go with it. Uh, there's still

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Speaker 1: a lot of football that needs to be played. You

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02:00:04,120 --> 02:00:06,480
Speaker 1: got three games left in this season. You want to

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Speaker 1: finish strong. Last year they didn't if you remember even

2258
02:00:09,360 --> 02:00:12,080
Speaker 1: going into Week seventeen, where they didn't even really need

2259
02:00:12,120 --> 02:00:14,400
Speaker 1: the game. The game was meaningless for the Buffalo Bills

2260
02:00:14,440 --> 02:00:17,680
Speaker 1: and they lost to a Jet team that they absolutely

2261
02:00:17,680 --> 02:00:20,920
Speaker 1: would have throttled had the game meant anything. They could

2262
02:00:20,920 --> 02:00:22,840
Speaker 1: have been eleven. They could have been twelve and four

2263
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:24,680
Speaker 1: last year. Instead they were I know they should have

2264
02:00:24,720 --> 02:00:27,240
Speaker 1: been A yeah, they were eleven and five last year,

2265
02:00:27,880 --> 02:00:30,600
Speaker 1: weren't they ten and six? I could have been eleven

2266
02:00:30,640 --> 02:00:33,880
Speaker 1: and five last year had they needed that last game,

2267
02:00:33,960 --> 02:00:38,200
Speaker 1: and they didn't this year. It'll be interesting to see

2268
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 1: how the rest of this season plays out. We have

2269
02:00:40,240 --> 02:00:44,840
Speaker 1: no idea who the matchup will be in the first

2270
02:00:44,920 --> 02:00:47,240
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. Might be a little bit clearer

2271
02:00:47,280 --> 02:00:50,400
Speaker 1: after this week. It will be somewhat clearer after this week.

2272
02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:57,200
Speaker 1: But it's it's hard. It's hard to get to the

2273
02:00:57,240 --> 02:00:59,880
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Even when you're a division champion, even when

2274
02:01:00,080 --> 02:01:03,440
Speaker 1: you've got a bye. You gotta win against a really

2275
02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:08,280
Speaker 1: good team that is playing really well. That's hard combination

2276
02:01:08,320 --> 02:01:10,760
Speaker 1: to beat. Now you're in the same spot. You're a

2277
02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:13,560
Speaker 1: good team and you're playing well too. But those games

2278
02:01:13,600 --> 02:01:17,520
Speaker 1: are never easy, and they come down to a handful

2279
02:01:17,560 --> 02:01:19,560
Speaker 1: of instances where a player's got to make a play

2280
02:01:19,600 --> 02:01:21,800
Speaker 1: and your guy does or he doesn't, or their guy

2281
02:01:21,840 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 1: does or he doesn't. Um you may be good enough.

2282
02:01:25,960 --> 02:01:29,720
Speaker 1: Ask ask the New Orleans Saints how hard it is

2283
02:01:29,760 --> 02:01:31,960
Speaker 1: to get back to a super Bowl. They could have,

2284
02:01:32,120 --> 02:01:35,120
Speaker 1: should have, would have been in a most multiple super Bowl.

2285
02:01:35,200 --> 02:01:37,600
Speaker 1: They're the victim of the Minneapolis miracle. They're the victim

2286
02:01:37,600 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: of the bad play call against the Rams, the no

2287
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:44,080
Speaker 1: call passing affairs by Nicole Rams game. Yeah, the one

2288
02:01:44,080 --> 02:01:47,800
Speaker 1: that they changed the rule for a minute. They've been

2289
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:51,120
Speaker 1: the victim of the you know, the miracle in Minneapolis

2290
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:54,960
Speaker 1: and the no call. That's two and one of them

2291
02:01:55,600 --> 02:01:58,040
Speaker 1: was in the championship game at the last minute. Both

2292
02:01:58,080 --> 02:02:02,440
Speaker 1: of them were in the NFC title games both. Yeah,

2293
02:02:02,480 --> 02:02:04,840
Speaker 1: that's how hard it is to get there. Yeah, so

2294
02:02:05,720 --> 02:02:07,160
Speaker 1: we got a long way to go before we get

2295
02:02:07,160 --> 02:02:11,160
Speaker 1: to any of these lofty goals. But certainly you like

2296
02:02:11,280 --> 02:02:13,280
Speaker 1: the team that you're cheering for right now and their

2297
02:02:13,360 --> 02:02:15,960
Speaker 1: chances break time for us? But more are your phone calls?

2298
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:19,000
Speaker 1: When we return? What would an AFC East title by

2299
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:23,120
Speaker 1: the Bills mean to you? After twenty five years of waiting?

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02:02:23,480 --> 02:02:25,440
Speaker 1: More are your phone calls? Next? Here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health is Buffalo Bill's Radio Steve

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02:02:40,800 --> 02:02:43,000
Speaker 1: task you final half hour of the program, but still

2303
02:02:43,040 --> 02:02:45,200
Speaker 1: here to take some of your phone calls? Is The

2304
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: Twitter poll today has been a popular one. What would

2305
02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:51,440
Speaker 1: an AFC East Division title for the Bills mean to

2306
02:02:51,600 --> 02:02:55,480
Speaker 1: you after twenty five years of waiting and waiting no

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Speaker 1: more on the phones is Mike and north Tonawanda, Mike,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Welcome the show. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's it's good to see. Uh, it's great. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be great to talk to you today and make it

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Speaker 1: short as I can. The most popular Bills jerseys this

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Speaker 1: year fourteen, seventeen, and seventy six. Yeah, Fat Freddie lives

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Speaker 1: again for John Feliciano, and I mean I watched him

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Speaker 1: when he pulls, and I watched him help the left

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Speaker 1: guard with Hayward the other night and it was like

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Speaker 1: a house fell on top of Hayward. I've heard some

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Speaker 1: negative fans today and I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: If you can't enjoy the Bills right now, you're a

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Speaker 1: lost soul. You're never going to enjoy them. To borrow

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Speaker 1: a line from Rick gener eight Rick Jennerette, the Bills

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Speaker 1: are scary good and man, can you I can't wait

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Speaker 1: for the next draft. We get another inside guy, maybe

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Speaker 1: a big, big nose guard. Well get an edge rusher,

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Speaker 1: we get a lineback of the Compleatz I mean, the

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Speaker 1: team is going to be good for a long time. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you should be in the Hall of Fame. Guys, thank you,

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Speaker 1: sorry for taking so long a right. We're goodative fans.

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Speaker 1: I guess he's I think he's referring to people that

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Speaker 1: aren't satisfied with the AFC's title. And I think the

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Speaker 1: whole reason we brought it up is it's step one.

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Speaker 1: It's step one of the journey right now because they

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Speaker 1: have a chance to clinch a playoff berth and the

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Speaker 1: division in the same week if they can get a

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Speaker 1: win over the Broncos on Saturday, and it's step one.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want to go much

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Speaker 1: further than that on the journey, but it's cements a

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Speaker 1: home playoff game, and that's something we have not experienced

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Speaker 1: in quite a long time, right, I mean not in

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Speaker 1: ninety eight, not in ninety nine. They were on the

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Speaker 1: road at Miami in ninety eight in the wild card game,

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Speaker 1: lost a heartbreaker there. Ninety nine. I'm not even going

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Speaker 1: to describe, but we all know where the team was

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02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:04,960
Speaker 1: then on the road in a wild card game despite

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Speaker 1: being eleven and five. Uh, last home playoff game is

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Speaker 1: ninety five against the Dolphins, right, and the David White

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Speaker 1: interception game Right, that's no, no, David White six ninety

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Speaker 1: six against the Jaguars. Ninety six is the last home

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Speaker 1: playoff game? Yeah, ninety five was the last uh was

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Speaker 1: a division title or last division title home for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Beat the Dolphins on the David White interception, if memory serves,

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Speaker 1: and then they went to Pittsburgh the next week. You

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02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:38,360
Speaker 1: went to Pittsburgh the next week, did not win. Bruce

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02:05:38,360 --> 02:05:41,760
Speaker 1: didn't play. He had the flu. That was the flu game,

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02:05:41,880 --> 02:05:44,760
Speaker 1: was playing in that game. So that was Yeah, that

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02:05:44,880 --> 02:05:48,000
Speaker 1: was rough. What does that mean? Come on? That was

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Speaker 1: the year that I was I ended up? I played receiver. Yeah,

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02:05:51,800 --> 02:05:54,000
Speaker 1: I had to play receiver because we had, you know,

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Speaker 1: sixteen guys hurt Um, Me and Billy Brooks and Andre

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02:05:57,560 --> 02:05:59,520
Speaker 1: had finally got Billy Brooks had a year that year.

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Speaker 1: And we find Andre finally got back onto the field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: definitely has turned right off the bones. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: it was rough. Back to the phone, so we can

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Speaker 1: get to everybody here, we go to Ava and Toronto, Ava,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hi, Um,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call today. I'm just calling to

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Speaker 1: refer back to a gentleman who call not too long ago.

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Speaker 1: And then you guys touch space on the call regarding

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Speaker 1: are I guess elite players right now and who's really

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Speaker 1: holding it down and how it would be great if

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Speaker 1: they could all stay together. Do you remember that call? Yes? Yes,

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Speaker 1: the core of the team right exactly. Thank you. I

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02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:41,520
Speaker 1: just have to shut out because sometimes when we do

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02:06:41,640 --> 02:06:46,600
Speaker 1: call out names, it's hard to remember. Everybody vote Beasley.

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02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:51,520
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley has been taxing every game since I've been watching,

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Speaker 1: and I mean I've I've I've I've been a Bills

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Speaker 1: fan since I've been with my husband for the last

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02:06:58,480 --> 02:07:00,840
Speaker 1: I guess five years now or so. Go to incredible

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02:07:00,840 --> 02:07:02,800
Speaker 1: time to be as Bill fan. And I just don't

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02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:06,480
Speaker 1: want to forget about mister Beasley there, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially knowing that he came from the Cowboys and wasn't

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Speaker 1: really getting the attention there, right, I just had to

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Speaker 1: shout him out. Yeah, no problem, but thank you for

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Speaker 1: doing that. Appreciate the phone call, and yeah, Beasley's having

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02:07:18,360 --> 02:07:20,240
Speaker 1: a career. You're also And that's part of the puzzle

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02:07:20,320 --> 02:07:22,320
Speaker 1: here of what's been put together and why the team

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02:07:22,360 --> 02:07:25,800
Speaker 1: has been so competitive. We go to Pat. I think

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Speaker 1: he's in Baldwinsville, but I'm not sure. Pat, thanks for

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02:07:28,920 --> 02:07:33,160
Speaker 1: joining us. Well come, I'm just France say. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: Bill are good one if they win the week on

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02:07:35,920 --> 02:07:43,480
Speaker 1: the ASAS championshipping up Bill long time and I think

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Speaker 1: Steve was playing. Then, Merry Christmas to you both and

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02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:50,920
Speaker 1: your family family. Have a good day, all right, you too,

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Speaker 1: Pat appreciate the phone call. Uh yeah, I mean it's

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02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:57,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you're gonna forget some guys when you're

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02:07:57,160 --> 02:07:58,840
Speaker 1: running down the list of you know, who's the core

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02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:02,760
Speaker 1: and everything. Getting back to Ava's comment, Um, Beasley's had

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02:08:02,800 --> 02:08:05,400
Speaker 1: a magical year, and you want to talk about picking

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02:08:05,480 --> 02:08:08,160
Speaker 1: up the slack. I mean John Brown's probably missed a

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02:08:08,240 --> 02:08:10,360
Speaker 1: good five or six games now this season and he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a one hundred percent healthy and two others.

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Speaker 1: So this offense has had to lean on Beasley even

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Speaker 1: more maybe than they did last year when Stefan Diggs

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Speaker 1: wasn't here, and he's delivered in every way, shape and form.

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Speaker 1: It's it reminds me that when you have a really

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Speaker 1: good football team and everybody's watching and everybody you know,

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02:08:30,160 --> 02:08:33,880
Speaker 1: has their favorite players and stuff, and when you look

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02:08:34,040 --> 02:08:37,280
Speaker 1: at what has contributed or what has been important to

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02:08:37,320 --> 02:08:41,320
Speaker 1: the team's success, you start with you start with that

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02:08:41,360 --> 02:08:43,520
Speaker 1: which is the most dependable, and the guys that have

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Speaker 1: come through Weekend week has starts with guys like Josh

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Speaker 1: and and Diggs and Cole Beasley and Feliciano, and you

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Speaker 1: go down to down and down and down and down

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Speaker 1: the list. It reminds me when you get into these

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Speaker 1: games like division championship games and then wildcard round and

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Speaker 1: then the divisional round of the playoffs, the AFC Championship round,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have people contributing in those moments that are unexpected,

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02:09:05,440 --> 02:09:08,280
Speaker 1: some that are expected and then others that are unexpected.

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Speaker 1: And when you win games that of the magnitude that

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Speaker 1: we're talking about. You know, Levi Wallace is gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: You know, uh A, J. Klein's gonna do it. Somebody's gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, get active, a you know, Trent Murphy's gonna

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Speaker 1: be active. There's gonna be a list of it's gonna

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02:09:28,960 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 1: be a list of fifty three guys, and they're all

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Speaker 1: gonna have to contribute. They all will, you know, Andre

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02:09:34,320 --> 02:09:38,160
Speaker 1: Roberts you know, Isaiah mckenns all these guys and when

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Speaker 1: she you know, when Ava calls from Toronto about my

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Speaker 1: guy Cole Beasley, she's right. But I know this too.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be if if this thing goes down deep

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, you have to go down deep into

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Speaker 1: your roster because you're gonna And the reason it's gonna

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02:09:54,160 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 1: be is because these games are gonna get like they're

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02:09:56,960 --> 02:09:59,960
Speaker 1: gonna be those games where there's gonna be three plays

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Speaker 1: and the entire game that makes the difference. And then

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Speaker 1: if if that happens in the wildcard round, there's gonna

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02:10:06,160 --> 02:10:09,360
Speaker 1: be three game three plays in the division round and

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Speaker 1: all six of those plays, three in one game three

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02:10:11,680 --> 02:10:14,400
Speaker 1: and the other are gonna be made by six different guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it takes everybody and her calling in shout now God Beasy, like,

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02:10:20,760 --> 02:10:24,879
Speaker 1: don't you forget we forgot about him. It's true. It

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Speaker 1: takes for you know, you forget. It really came back

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02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:30,000
Speaker 1: to me. It takes every every single guy on the

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Speaker 1: roster who's wearing a helmet that day, and some of

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Speaker 1: them who aren't are gonna help. Yeah, they're all gonna contribute.

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Speaker 1: If not that week, the next week. Yeah, you know,

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02:10:38,200 --> 02:10:41,480
Speaker 1: and even if they're on the sidelines and Matt Barkley

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Speaker 1: is standing over there and he goes, heyy on this, yeah,

2447
02:10:45,600 --> 02:10:47,320
Speaker 1: check it there, or he just comes off and he

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02:10:47,360 --> 02:10:49,840
Speaker 1: says he's standing there and Josh talking to Josh and

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02:10:51,240 --> 02:10:54,040
Speaker 1: Diggs walks up. He says, hey, guys, if they call

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02:10:54,160 --> 02:10:56,360
Speaker 1: this play again, make sure you think about this and

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02:10:56,400 --> 02:10:58,040
Speaker 1: do that. And remember we talked about that in there.

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02:10:58,040 --> 02:11:01,200
Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, yeah, I got you. And it happens. Yeah,

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02:11:01,240 --> 02:11:05,080
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's a Matt Barkley contribution right right.

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Speaker 1: And I've seen it happen. I've seen Frank Reichstan on

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02:11:08,600 --> 02:11:11,400
Speaker 1: the sidelines talking to Jim going, hey, if you do

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02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:14,720
Speaker 1: this again, make sure he's you run this, run the wrinkle,

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02:11:15,920 --> 02:11:21,360
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's it takes. It's so hard

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02:11:21,400 --> 02:11:24,480
Speaker 1: to win. It takes everybody doing it and everybody having

2459
02:11:24,480 --> 02:11:26,720
Speaker 1: their lights on all the time and every little detail

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02:11:26,760 --> 02:11:29,520
Speaker 1: in every moment because the games are that close and

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02:11:29,560 --> 02:11:32,480
Speaker 1: the teams are that difficult to be. We will finish

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Speaker 1: this conversation with the tweet from Jack and he says,

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02:11:37,280 --> 02:11:41,400
Speaker 1: an AFC title for the Bills means national credibility. Finally,

2464
02:11:41,840 --> 02:11:45,760
Speaker 1: far too long, we've been disrespected or largely ignored by

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02:11:45,800 --> 02:11:49,240
Speaker 1: the larger media markets and wider NFL fan base, treated

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02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,720
Speaker 1: as some football outposts. Getting to the playoffs the last

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02:11:52,760 --> 02:11:55,080
Speaker 1: few years has helped, but winning the East and Alan

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02:11:55,160 --> 02:11:58,680
Speaker 1: rising as a star gives us recognition. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a good boat to put on the conversation today. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for all the phone calls. Break time for us, But

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Speaker 1: when we return, it's what have we learned from today's show.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that when we return. Here on one

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Speaker 1: Bill's line, presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now for what have we learned? Brought to you buy Skyworks,

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Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: And I think if there's anything we learned today is

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02:12:36,240 --> 02:12:40,720
Speaker 1: that people will be soaking up an AFC East title

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02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:42,920
Speaker 1: if in fact it comes to pass on Saturday with

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02:12:42,960 --> 02:12:46,520
Speaker 1: a win over the Broncos. There are a few who

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02:12:46,560 --> 02:12:49,880
Speaker 1: are still looking for more than that, but I think

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02:12:49,880 --> 02:12:52,120
Speaker 1: everybody's looking for more than that. But this is step

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02:12:52,200 --> 02:12:55,520
Speaker 1: one in what should be a very exciting journey, and

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02:12:56,280 --> 02:12:59,080
Speaker 1: I think most fans have the right frame of mind,

2484
02:12:59,480 --> 02:13:02,400
Speaker 1: soak up every little piece of it along the way,

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02:13:02,520 --> 02:13:04,160
Speaker 1: and I just wait for the end game. I think

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02:13:04,160 --> 02:13:06,640
Speaker 1: it also too. You got to realize that when in

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Speaker 1: the division, this weekend gives you two more weeks of

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02:13:09,120 --> 02:13:11,680
Speaker 1: reveling in it. No matter what happens against the Patriots,

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02:13:11,680 --> 02:13:13,440
Speaker 1: no matter what happens against the Dolphins, no matter what,

2490
02:13:13,520 --> 02:13:15,800
Speaker 1: you can enjoy it. You can enjoy it and know

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02:13:15,920 --> 02:13:19,240
Speaker 1: that you're secured in the future of the postseason. And

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02:13:19,320 --> 02:13:21,240
Speaker 1: that's as fun as anything. And I still think I

2493
02:13:21,240 --> 02:13:24,840
Speaker 1: would love to see the Bills finish running the table. Yeah,

2494
02:13:26,040 --> 02:13:30,160
Speaker 1: but either way, enjoy it while it's happening this because

2495
02:13:30,160 --> 02:13:32,760
Speaker 1: it's as we all know, there are few and far between.

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02:13:32,800 --> 02:13:36,440
Speaker 1: There's no guarantees. Stay tuned to Buffalo Bills dot com

2497
02:13:36,440 --> 02:13:40,160
Speaker 1: for injury report updates. They'll be coming out later this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: and on our show tomorrow Thursday, we will have James

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Speaker 1: Palmer from NFL Network. He's based out in Denver and

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02:13:48,400 --> 02:13:51,960
Speaker 1: knows the Broncos backwards and forwards. He'll be joining us

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow's program. So join Steve and myself for a

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Speaker 1: Thursday edition of One Bills Live, which is presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo bills radio in the US

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