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Speaker 1: And you know, when the final injury report comes out

426
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Speaker 1: later this afternoon, we'll have a better say as to

427
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: just who the Steelers will and will not have and

428
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: they have opportunity to make even more moves all the

429
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: way up to Saturday at four pm. And you know,

430
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 1: I mentioned they have some reserve linebacker uly Sees Grant

431
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: who's on IR with a back problem. He's been practicing

432
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: this week, could be eligible to come off IR this week.

433
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 1: So they may have enough bodies, right, But I can't

434
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Speaker 1: imagine that the defense and the way it's being run

435
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: and the way they're going to be playing off one

436
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 1: another is going to be airtight. I just I don't

437
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: know how you pull all that together in six days, right.

438
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,959
Speaker 1: That's I think it's a tall task. And for as

439
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:46,439
Speaker 1: multiple as the Bills are on offense and changing stuff

440
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: and going tempo on you like that, I could totally

441
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: see because the Bills haven't pulled this out of the

442
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: bag recently, but I could totally see them using tempo

443
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: changes on this Steelers defense. They don't have their number

444
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: one or their number two play caller on defense available

445
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: for this game, and I could see them. You know,

446
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: they get a first down, bang right up to the

447
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: line of scrammage, run another plays and this guy's like,

448
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I can totally see them

449
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: trying to catch him like that a few times. And

450
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: also one of the things you do as well is

451
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: what we've seen him do, not so much this year

452
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 1: or some I mean, they do it a little bit

453
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: every game, but a lot more shifts and then motions

454
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: where you come out and you set it and you

455
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: go quick and they go, or you come out and

456
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: you set it, tight end, switches sides, guy comes off,

457
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: then motions and comes back, you know, and what that

458
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: does to the defense if they're zoned off or even

459
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: if they're not, they've got adjustment packages they've got to

460
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: make because of the strength of the formation changes and

461
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: so does the personnel. And you know, if you've got

462
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: a guy that's got the third the three strong which

463
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: is the third receiver from the boundary on the strong side,

464
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: and he's got him in man demand, that guy changes

465
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. Two guys at least have to

466
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: know that that's happening, because the guy who did have

467
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: him and the guy who now has him. So you

468
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: can see Brian Dable going in different personnel package every snap,

469
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: different shift in motion every snap, and these guys have

470
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 1: got to communicate it and not only know who they've

471
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 1: got but execute it at a fast tempo and that's

472
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: a problem. And as we heard Chris Collinsworth say when

473
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: we had him on the show yesterday, you know, the

474
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: Steelers play a lot of zone, but Josh just absolutely

475
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: destroyed the zone coverage on Monday night. Now, you would

476
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: think that the Steelers can dial up better pressure than

477
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, so that should help the zone defense of

478
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: the Steelers, but I don't think they can sit in

479
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: zone all day after what he did to his zone

480
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: coverage last week. He was twenty three to twenty five

481
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: for two hundred and eighty four yards and two touchdowns.

482
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 1: Like that's gonna get your attention, whether you're a really

483
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: good pass rush team or not, that it comes down

484
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: to their the Bill's ability to answer the pressure. Yeah,

485
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: that's it. That's this game because Josh and these receivers

486
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: have proven they can be forget about being over the

487
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: top successful, just successful enough to put this defense in

488
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: a bind. That's that's the crux of this entire game

489
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: for me. On that side of the ball, when Buffalo

490
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: has the ball, if they cannot handle the pressure, that'll

491
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: be the That'll be the thing that that gives Pittsburgh

492
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: to win and gives them their ability that could because

493
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: that run game or not, the Bills are gonna have

494
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: to drop back and throw it occasionally, and if you know, occasionally,

495
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: they've got right more than occasionally. If that's got to

496
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: be the question that has to be answered. All right,

497
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Speaker 1: break time for us. When we return the latest installment

498
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Speaker 1: of Tasker's Teammate, be sure to stay tuned for that.

499
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: And then in about twenty five minutes time, Bills general

500
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: manager Brandon Bean as we talked to him about his

501
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: new contract extension with the Bills here through twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Back in a moment here on One Bill's Life, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

504
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

505
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: you on a jam packed Friday. Brandon being coming up

506
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes time. But now it is time

507
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: for that favorite part of the week. It's called Tasker's Teammate.

508
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: Everybody where we put the screws to Steve to see

509
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: if he can guess which teammate we are describing. Tasker's

510
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: Teammate brought to you by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious

511
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Speaker 1: meals delivered Download the Wegman's app. I feel good about

512
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: this segment. I feel good about it this week. Yeah.

513
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: So okay, here is Are you ready to play? Steve?

514
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: I am so ready. Okay. Here is clue number one

515
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: for this edition of Tasker's Teammate. A Michigan native, I

516
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: was an accomplished two sport athlete high school, with football

517
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: being one of those sports. Obviously Michigan. I've had a

518
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: couple of guys from Michigan on Tasker's Teammate lotus right,

519
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: that's right, Um Michigan. Wait wait I got it? Uh?

520
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: If you get this on Ray Bentley, No, it's not

521
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: Ray Bentley. I Clue number two. Steve. I was also

522
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: a two sport athlete in college, earning All American honors

523
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: in football the Wheels at turn Michigan all sports, two sports.

524
00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: Uh Roland, Roland, Holland Roland. Now it's not here. What

525
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: are you? What are you thinking of? Roland? Hooks? Hooks?

526
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: It is not rolland hooks. We move on to clue

527
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: number three. Did he get who? I was a third

528
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: round draft choice, but not by the Bills. Oh, not

529
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: by the Bills. Corbyn Lisina. It is not Corbyn, Lisina,

530
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: how about that name, Steve? Did you think Corbin was

531
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: a STU two sport athlete? Maybe maybe shot put in

532
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: dis I mean, come on, okay, all the big guys,

533
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: all right, So here we go clue number one, two, three, four.

534
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: After my third season in the league, I was traded

535
00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: to the Bills. Trade to the Bills. Oh that's a

536
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: good one. Traded to the Bills. So if he's I

537
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: can feel that Steve is close. I thought you'd get

538
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: it on that one, because that narrows the field. Consider

539
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: that there's only like one, there's only one guy, and

540
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: I can't think of who it is. Well, I need it.

541
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: I gotta narrow it down further. I gotta need to

542
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: because trades we're not very popular back then. A lot

543
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: more guys are traded now then back the third year

544
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: of his career. So it's not it's not biscuit, it's

545
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: oh wait no, I'm telling you. If the MSG viewers,

546
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: they get so much more out of Tasker's teammate than

547
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: the radio listeners because if you watch this, silence is

548
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: really grip pleasure of watching Steve mind work, and the

549
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: facial expressions that accompany them are just I got to

550
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: have a year and it is pure unadulterated entertainment. Leonard Smith.

551
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: It is not Leonard Smith. Here is clue number five.

552
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: I was a teammate of Steve's for ten seasons in Buffalow.

553
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: Ten seasons. Now that's got to really narrow it down.

554
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: You've got to have it now right from we want

555
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: to in season? Do we need do you want to

556
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: review the clues? Let's run him down. Him again. He's

557
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: from Michigan. Run him down. He's from Michigan. Two sports

558
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: sport athlete, All American in football, American in football. Was

559
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: trading in his third year to Buffalo. We played together

560
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: for ten years, so it was eight eighty eight to

561
00:31:52,520 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: ninety seven or eighty six to ninety h wow, who

562
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: can that be? Early in my career in Buffalo, we

563
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: didn't trade for Lofton. He was here ten years. Yeah, man,

564
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: I thought i'd help you with that. I think I

565
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: feel like I stumped your more. I'm going around the

566
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: locker room now. Ken Hall, it is not Ken Hall

567
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: from mississippis passed away anyway. Um, that's but he was

568
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: here from He was here in eighty six when I

569
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: got here. Yeah. Uh, so here we go. Clue number six.

570
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So it could have been traded for

571
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: before I got here and then played with me for

572
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: ten years. Oh Steve, it's so close, it's on the

573
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: tip of your tongue. Oh man, all right, go ahead, listen,

574
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: next one. All right, So clue number six. After my

575
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: time with the Bills, I played for two more NFL

576
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: franchises for a total of four jeez in my sixteen

577
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: year career. John Kidd, it is not John Kidd. He

578
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: did he wouldn't trade it for him? Blue Wait? Oh wait, sorry, stop,

579
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: let me get another one. Sixteen years, sixteen years. I

580
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: don't want to make you feel bad, but you're gonna

581
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: kick yourself. Chris Moore is he's already on. It's not

582
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: Chris Moore. Yes, he already has been on, and he's

583
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: from George starting to think about you know then yeah, wait,

584
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: Steve Christie. Not Steve Christie. I'm starting Adam Linger. It

585
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: is not Linger. All right, So here we go. I

586
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: got into coaching after my playing career was over and

587
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: coached in NFL Europe before getting a coaching job in

588
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: the NFL. Well coached got of coaching after he was Barre.

589
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: This is one of those ones where it's right in

590
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: front of you and you just can't focus on it

591
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: because I gotta say, I'm I'm stunned that you haven't

592
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: got me yet. I don't even have another clue, but

593
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: I'll I have one in my head that I can

594
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: give you. Traded for him in his third year was here.

595
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: I was teammates win it for ten years. Yeah, and

596
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: then he played for like three more teams after that,

597
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: three more teams after that. And you know he started

598
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: his career in Seattle. If you didn't say that, oh,

599
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: it's Pete metz Lars, it's Pete Pete mets Lars, Pete

600
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: wheat Straw. You got because he was traded for before

601
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: I got here, right, I didn't give you the team,

602
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: so and that's why, because you would have got it

603
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: immediately if you knew it. He played, and he got

604
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: drafted by Seattle and then got traded to the Bills.

605
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: I said he was a third round draft choice, but

606
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: not by the Bills because I knew if I gave

607
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: you Seattle, did you play coached coach in NFL Europe?

608
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: That's right? Do we uh? Do we have him? Jay Okay? Pete,

609
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: how you doing good? I thought this was supposed to

610
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: be surprising or something. No, well it was he has

611
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: to guess you get I had to guess you first

612
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: before you could come on. Yeah, like three. I didn't know,

613
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: we'll see. First of all, I didn't know you grew

614
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: up in Michigan, born in Michigan, that you went to Wabash.

615
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: You goof, yeah, well that's in Indiana. And then and

616
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: then I then he gave me this thing. We were

617
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: teammates for ten years. I couldn't believe. I couldn't get it.

618
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: And then he said, you we were traded for you

619
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: in your third year and we were teammates for ten years.

620
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: He couldn't He couldn't do the math. I could not

621
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: as Yeah, that's I understand. I was vague on purpose

622
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: because I know how close you two are, so I

623
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: knew if I gave any kind of little crack in there,

624
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: he would have, you know, snuck right through it and

625
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: there right away. So Pete, I'm sorry, man, I talk

626
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: about a little bit. You know. He had to stand

627
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: on a on a phone book. All the pictures next

628
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: to this guy. Yeah, that's right. There is a team

629
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: photo where for some inexplicable reason Steve is in the

630
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: back row is that because they go a number order

631
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: was eighty eight. I was number eight. It's nineteen. Pete

632
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: six eight because he was because he was, you know,

633
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: an All American in basketball, right, so he's six eight

634
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: and I'm not. And so yeah, they took I think

635
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: Birch Told took a picture from behind the team photo

636
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Speaker 1: and there's I stood on an egg carton one of

637
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: those big egg boxes, you know, milk crate, plastic milk crate.

638
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: And I stood up on that, and there's a couple

639
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: of one, at least one of them. I'm like an

640
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: half inch taller than Pete, and a picture which he does,

641
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: he does a very good job making you look like

642
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: it's telve year old in the team photo. And then

643
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: then there was the one where I wasn't standing on

644
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: anything and writing for me was Howard Ballard, and I

645
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: looked like like a little I looked like Howard's little

646
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: conscience on his right shoulder. Right, my head's sticking out

647
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: from behind, and there's a cop. Yeah. So, uh so Pete.

648
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: You know, everybody talked when Fred Jackson was playing here

649
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: about you know, how he was a division three athlete

650
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: and you know, came up into the league the hard way,

651
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: this that and the other, and I think people forget

652
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: there was a D three athlete on this roster for

653
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: a long time before Fred Jackson. Yeah, and it was Petels,

654
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: I know, kind of showed up pet you guys all around,

655
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: you know, Pete, Fred really you know it was I was,

656
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: you know, before you they started, you know, really building

657
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: up the D three thing, and Fred kind of ran

658
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: with that hole all aspects of you know, so more

659
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: pulp and stuff. That was kind of nice. Yeah, I

660
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: as a FELO Division three athlete, I have appreciation for that.

661
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: So I mean, I you know, I see that now.

662
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: I was surprised that you were a real quick story.

663
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: Here you go, here's a D three story. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is like three or four years ago, four or

665
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: five years ago. I was coaching in San Diego and

666
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: a kid from I think it's Hobart Ali Marpett. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

667
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: I was coming out in the draft. Now. He had

668
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: gone to the Senior Bowl and he went to to

669
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: Combine and you know, he was a big time guy.

670
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: So we had him out to San Diego for interviews

671
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: and stuff before the draft and so I heard he

672
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: was in the building. So I was like, you know,

673
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: I gotta go say hi to this guy because he's

674
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: the D three guy and you know, go say hello

675
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: and you know, pump up D three or whatever. So

676
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 1: I went and found him and came up and introduced

677
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: myself and I said, hey, my name is Pete Matslars.

678
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: He goes, I know who you are. He goes, You're

679
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: from Wambast College. He says, you were the highest ever

680
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: drafted Division three player in the history of the NFL draft.

681
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: I was like, I was, yeah, yeah, this is twenty

682
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: eight years after I, you know, and Mark pett was

683
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: a third year, third round pick two I believe of Tampa.

684
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: But he's, you know, he'd second. You know. I walked

685
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: out of the room and I go, you know why

686
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: he knew that I was the highest ever drafted Division

687
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: three players because he figures he's gonna beat me, right, right,

688
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: who's the guy I gotta beat, right, that's a great story,

689
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: and he did. So yeah. I sent him a text afterwards,

690
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: take congratulations and stuff, and so no, it's funny, you know,

691
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: he's like, I was like, I was the highest ever.

692
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: This is like I don't even know what. This was

693
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: two thousand probably, uh, fourteen or fifteen somewhere in there,

694
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: and I got drafted at eighty two. So you know,

695
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: I always told you, Pete, you were the classic underachiever.

696
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: If I was six eight, I'd still be playing. Oh

697
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: come on, oh yeah yeah, yeah you went because you

698
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: get broken half a six eight yeah and your figger target. Hey, Pete,

699
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: great talking to you man, Thanks so much. It's great here.

700
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: And tell Barbara everybody I said. Yeah, I wish, I

701
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: wish we had more time, Pete, but he took too

702
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: long to guess you, so that's on him. All right.

703
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: You guys have a great afternoon. Go Bills on Sunday night.

704
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: Hopefully they won't play well and beat the Steelers. Although

705
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: that's a tough place to play on a night game. Yeah,

706
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: but you know in Buffalo's still a tough place to Yeah.

707
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: Oh good, yeah, change your bed. Yeah no, kid, I'm

708
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: gonna switch that because we played for like three years

709
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: in rolling Monday night Football and got smoked every time

710
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: we played him. All right, thanks for the time, Pete.

711
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: We appreciate everybody. I love you, all right. That's Pete

712
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: mental Oars. The latest edition of Tasker's teammate, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Wagman's Meals to Go. We have to take

714
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: a break and when we return, we will have Bills

715
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: General manager Brandon being on he of the new contract extension.

716
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about that and how he's seen

717
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: this season unfold to this nine and three sprint out

718
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: and see where he thinks it might be headed after that.

719
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: Back with Brandon being in a moment here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Collide Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

721
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: There are fans and then there are Bills fans, and

722
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: we love to you say it draft development and resign

723
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: our own. So this has proven the pudding. My job

724
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: is to win now antiin the future. Conting to say

725
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: that Sean and I preach family, culture, character, all right,

726
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: contract extension for one Bills GM. Brandon being still out

727
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: of practice right now doing his usual work. Um, but

728
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: how did that one strike you? You know when you

729
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: know the news comes down yesterday and there he is

730
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: pretty much lined up with Sean for the foreseeable future here.

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00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of a no brainer, right, Yeah,

732
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: you knew it was gonna happen when and this is

733
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: the kind of thing too that you kind of take

734
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 1: heart with because as fans, you know, say, for instance,

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00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: you know, you get a guy like Josh Allen or

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00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: orchard Avious White or Dion Dawkins or Matt Milano or

737
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: these guys coming up for resigning, there's always a chance

738
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: that your team can't afford to keep them, or they

739
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: go somewhere. They things don't work out because of the

740
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: salary cap or the finances or you or you sign

741
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: a contract and all of a sudden, the contract doesn't

742
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: make sense for the team and they gotta go, and

743
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: you you lose them. There's no salary cap for head

744
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: coaches and gms and the guys who make your position,

745
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: your organization go. Getting the two top guys signed to

746
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: extensions here in this last offseason was an enormous step.

747
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: It's it's important, it's it speaks to stability, and it also,

748
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, it speaks also for them getting ready not

749
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: only to continue to have success year after year, as

750
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, good franchises due, but it also sets the

751
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: table for a lot of things, good and bad. Good things.

752
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: They're set up to keep identifying the guys they want

753
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: to resign, the guys that sign draft and develop your

754
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: own and resign them and also prepare for times when

755
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier or Brian Dable or Joe Shane or Dan

756
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: Morgan get poached, right, because if you keep having success

757
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: like this, there're gonna be other teams in the league

758
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 1: that aren't a successful Let's say I want a piece

759
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, and what they're doing over there is right,

760
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: So let me try to take some of that and

761
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: put it into my organization. Yeah, it's exactly right. And

762
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: they and they'll send guy and you know a lot

763
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: of teams will say they hire the guy. They bring

764
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: them in and say, okay, how they do it there?

765
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: And they say that this ABC, D, E, F, G, H, I,

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00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: J K, all the way down the alphabet. And they'll say,

767
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna try and do all of those things.

768
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: And there's some of them we may not be able

769
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: to because our markets different, our team struct whatever. But

770
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: that's our that's our blueprint. And they go Sometimes they

771
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: can get it done. Sometimes they can. More often than

772
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: not they cannot. Yeah, certainly, I mean, but here it is.

773
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: You know. McDermott signs his extension in August and then

774
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: just a few months later they get Brandon being done with.

775
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: As crazy as the year twenty twenty has been, you

776
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: got to tip your hat to the Pagoulas for getting

777
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: the two cornerstones of the construction of what this team

778
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: is now locked up for the foreseeable future. And I

779
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: think it goes without saying that these two men have

780
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: been in lockstep from the day Brandon got here in

781
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: May twenty seventeen, not long after Sean was hired in January.

782
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: So when you have two people that are aligned in

783
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: a lot of their philosophical beliefs as to how you

784
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: build it in this league to be a perennial contender,

785
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: it usually leads to success. And I'm not saying they

786
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: agree on everything, and they'd be the first to tell

787
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: you that as a matter of fact, they don't think

788
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: it's healthy to be agreeing on everything. I agree. There

789
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: should be dissenting voices or differences of opinion, and I

790
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: think they have those. But I think their relationship is

791
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: strong enough where they know how to navigate their way

792
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: through it. There's no there's no hard feelings when somebody says, well,

793
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best way to go. I

794
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: think we should do it this way right. And I

795
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: was signed as a buffalo bill way back in the

796
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: last century by Bill Polian who hired Marv and those

797
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: two guys were in lockstep, like Brandon bean And and

798
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: Sean mcdermottar. And I always thought that's that's kind of

799
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: the way it's gotta be. And I wasn't until later

800
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: in my career. Later in my career, actually my broadcast career,

801
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: where I found out a lot of teams they don't care.

802
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: They they both have a job. They're not in lockstep

803
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, they got This guy's got his job

804
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: to do, and he's doing his job in such a

805
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: way that if everything goes belly up, he can blame

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00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: the other guy, and vice versa. I can't believe in

807
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: organization will we run like that, But some of them are,

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00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: and they're doing and they do that consistently. They don't

809
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: see things like that. The successful organizations have a GM

810
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: and a coach who want to build the same thing

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00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: the same way right now, how to get there? Hey,

812
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: the GM would like to help you, but he can't

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00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: because of this or that. And then head coach says, listen,

814
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: we can't do that because we got too much of

815
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: this and not enough of that we need to go

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00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: a different direction. Whatever the disagreements may be, they still

817
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: see the thing in the big picture the same way.

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00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: And you've got to have those two guys making a

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00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: case for what they're doing to the ownership group, who

820
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: has to be on board with everything. And it's much

821
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: easier to convince ownership to get on board with it

822
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: when both guys see it the same way and can

823
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: sell it that way. That way from the very tip

824
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: of the top of the organization all the way down

825
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: to guys like you and me, they're all on board,

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00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: and they pulled in the same direction that it's a

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Speaker 1: real key a component, and it starts with those two guys,

828
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: because if you don't win football games, you'll never be stable, right,

829
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: And we saw more than enough of that through the

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00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: early constant characteristic. It was a constant characterist him. But

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Speaker 1: I think it goes without saying that this tandem is

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00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: probably given this franchise the most stability it has seen

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00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: since the two men that you just mentioned, Bill Polian

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00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: and Marv Levy. It's without question. And these two men

835
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: are very young in their careers too, which you could

836
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: not say at least about Marv less so about Bill.

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00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: So things keep going this way, they could be here

838
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 1: for a really long time, so break time for us.

839
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we hope to have Brandon

840
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: being off the practice field and we'll talk to him

841
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: about his new multi year extension with the Bills. That

842
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 1: and plenty more coming up next Here on one Bills

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00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio

844
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Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all over the field.

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00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve abolutely Steve a blimp. We're not

847
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: even in the straged fear of normalcy. There are fans

848
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: and then there are Bills fans. Um you know we

849
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: love to we say a draft development and resign our

850
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: own so U this has proven the pudding. My job

851
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: is to win now Antoine in the future, and you're

852
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: gonna constantly hear me say that. Sean and I preach family, culture, character.

853
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: How about that a highlight reel for the general manager.

854
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: I mean, we have got it covered in the control room.

855
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: General Manager Brandon being joining us. He of the new

856
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: multi year contract extension. Brandon, thanks for taking some time

857
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: fresh off the practice field. How about that some slow

858
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: motion walk up video, some huddles, some fist bumps. I mean,

859
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: how about that? We got you covered, man, I appreciate.

860
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: I gotta give Jane Crewe some some mad problems for that.

861
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: Was that was expected fun to watch. I'll tell you

862
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: what I'll tell you, Brandon, after this whole COVID thing's over,

863
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: you and I will go out for a beer and

864
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: you can buy, and I'm gonna get and I'm gonna

865
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: get totally out of hand. It'll be so fun for me.

866
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: You tell me when I'll be there, right, bring your

867
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: bring your wallet. Congratulations, Oh seriously, Merry Christmas as well.

868
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: I know that, um, this is a big day for

869
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: you and your family. And does it give you some

870
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: gratification that uh Bill's fans and the fan base and

871
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: the mafia and the whole organization. Everybody seems so thrilled,

872
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: not just for you, but also for the organization with

873
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: the stability you've provided. Yeah, now, it's it's exciting when

874
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: you know when you take this job, people are always

875
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: going to say, question, is that a smart decision? They

876
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs this and that you can't do

877
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: it and that was part of the excitement of this thing.

878
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: And just knowing what you guys that build here with

879
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: Marv lev and Bill Pollyon in the nineties, uh, and

880
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,919
Speaker 1: watching this fan base and even you know, my time

881
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: in Carolina when we played the Bills and you still

882
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: saw great support whether we were in Carolina and obviously

883
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: here just um, this is one of the purest fan

884
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: bases in all of sports, and definitely in the NFL.

885
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: There's probably two or three close to this. This is

886
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: I'm obviously partial, as you guys are too, but um,

887
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: that was attractive to me to uh come work for

888
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I worked for the Pagoulas, um, but

889
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, you know, we got a large

890
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: committee and in the Bills mafia world, and and I'm

891
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: working for them as well, and I want to provide

892
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: a good product. And I know Sean would echo that,

893
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, from his seat too. So it's exciting to

894
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: be able to continue. We haven't accomplished near what we

895
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: want to get accomplished, but I'm glad that they said, hey,

896
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: you're doing good enough so far, we're gonna let you

897
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: continue what you started. And how how did that kind

898
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: of come about? Brandon. The only reason I asked that

899
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: is because, knowing how you and your personel department works,

900
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: you probably just this time, you just got your head

901
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: down and you're just going like day after day, and

902
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you get tapped on the shoulder,

903
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 1: you get a phone call, and you're like, hey, we'd

904
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: like you to stay around for a whole lot longer.

905
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that has to be you know, you pick

906
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: your head up from your work and you're like, oh,

907
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty good. Like how did that come about? Yeah,

908
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: no doubt. You know, everything happens at the right time,

909
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: and we knew it would. It was very confident once

910
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: Sean got his extension that we'd figure out the time

911
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: to knock mine out. And Terry and Kim reached out

912
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: to my agent, Frank Hour, who uh is just really

913
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: really good and I think they worked him together and

914
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: it sounded like it went great the whole time and

915
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: on both sides, and uh they figured out you know,

916
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: what the what the right numbers were in a number

917
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: of years and all those those little details. And I'm

918
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: very appreciative of Frank and obviously Terry and Kim forgetting

919
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: this done. You're right you never know the timing, Chris,

920
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: but uh, it's a good time for the holidays. I

921
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: think my wife's list just got a little bit bigger, right,

922
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: but your kids listed, he's in line for something. I

923
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: think he's in line for tell them, But right, I

924
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: think that's out of the bag. I think you're they're

925
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,800
Speaker 1: in line for some new irons. I think is what

926
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: he's Oh wow, look at you making the list for him? Why? Uh,

927
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: what's that? Give me an idea now on a person.

928
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: What was the first thing you did when you shook hands,

929
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 1: even before you signed the contract, when was all agreed

930
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: to What was the first thing he did? What did

931
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: you think of, Um, you've been around the game for

932
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: a long time, and to have a you know, you

933
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: get your shot, but then to make most of it

934
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: and get an extension and becomes sort of the fabric

935
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: and part of the history of the franchise. What was

936
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: the first thing that you did? You know? The first

937
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,800
Speaker 1: thing I did was I thought about just where I

938
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: started my journey, and I think about people from my hometown.

939
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: I grew up on a road called BlackBerry Road, so

940
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: you can imagine it's not in the big cities or

941
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: anything like that two stop like town, and just the

942
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: people there that stay in touch with me and support

943
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: me through the downtimes. I get text when we lose.

944
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: You know, everybody texts you when you win or things

945
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: are going well, but it's those people that connect to

946
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: you when things haven't gone well or as you had planned,

947
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: and you always appreciate that. So my high school football

948
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: coach texts me every game before the game, after the game.

949
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: And you know, just so many people from my community

950
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: back there that followed me in Carolina and or we

951
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: got a lot of Buffalo Bills fans in Carolinas. We

952
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: already had them, but we got more. And so just

953
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: that and then you know, I called a few people

954
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: that helped me get to this role and just thank

955
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: them again for what they did to help me be here.

956
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: And they're in the league and in their own teams

957
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: right now. But uh. And then obviously had a great conversation.

958
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: Terry called Sewan and gave the heads up and U

959
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: Sean FaceTime me, and it was just it was great

960
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: to chat with him one on one because I was

961
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: at home. It was to due to the PROVID COVID

962
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: protocols when this thing was kind of getting agreed upon

963
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 1: and speaking of those those protocols, Brandon, we haven't had

964
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: an opportunity to kind of talk to you about how

965
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: the team has you know, tried to adjust in many

966
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: cases on the fly, uh many times over. I mean

967
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: it seems like there's new COVID protocols coming down the

968
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: pike every single week. Um, you know, this team and

969
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: just the job that you guys have done collectively, how

970
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: do you feel that the organization has just morphed and

971
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: changed in being able to be flexible and adjust and

972
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,399
Speaker 1: still get to where they are now at nine and three.

973
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of a testament to what

974
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: you guys on that football side of the house have

975
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: been able to pull together. Yeah, we got great people here, Chris,

976
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: as you know, I know you and Steve know a

977
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: lot of them. And this is not something Sean and

978
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: I can go around and do and implement everything. It

979
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: takes so many hands on deck and there's been committees

980
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: with Nate Rescuer, head trainer, Barb Evans, our Internet I mean,

981
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: our provate call coordinator, and it's so many others that

982
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: hands on daily calls. Kevin mean, Brandon Rowe and those

983
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: guys constantly evaluating where we're at, what we're doing well,

984
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: what we're not, what we've got to adjust. Matt Warswick,

985
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: whose coaches right hand man, We're gonna have to go

986
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: virtual meetings here. And I think you know, I was

987
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: talking to someone yesterday. You look at the teams that

988
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: are currently with four games to go are up there.

989
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,760
Speaker 1: You look at a Pittsburgh Steeler, a steady organization, Kansas

990
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: City Chief steady organization. And now I'd like to say

991
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Um, you know have stability and a

992
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: steady organization. This has been in you know, every season

993
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: has adversity. This has been a constant season of adversity

994
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: dealing with with all this like like the world is

995
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: in and I think stability and you know, having the

996
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: right people in this building, our staff, our coaches, our players,

997
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: Terry and Kim giving us the resources this summer to

998
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 1: put all those those tents and to create a safe

999
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: environment for our players. Uh. It's it's not been easy, um,

1000
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: and it's it's been a struggle all the way. But

1001
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: I give a lot of people credit that that have

1002
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: helped get us to this point and hopefully we can

1003
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: keep it. You know, the guys dialed in and finish

1004
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: strong these last four. Yeah, this as this game this

1005
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: season took off. You know, we were all hoping that

1006
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 1: Josh would take a little bit of a step forward

1007
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: from last year and and that you know, you'd still

1008
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: have that stellar defense. Are you surprised? I mean, I

1009
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: think all of us Bills fans you look back at

1010
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: what the team's identity was last year and it couldn't

1011
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 1: be much different than it is this year. You're you

1012
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's playing out of his mind at

1013
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: an elite level, and your defense, as they are on

1014
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: the across the league, is not a top five defense

1015
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: like it was because of the turnover up front or whatever.

1016
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: I was shocked at the new identity that this team was,

1017
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: but kind of comforted that this coaching staff, with Sean

1018
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: and Leslie and Brian, they're winning games in a completely

1019
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: different fashion than they did a year ago. Yeah, and

1020
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: I would throw Heath Farwell in there too. Our special teams,

1021
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: as you know, have really helped us with field position.

1022
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: Our kickoff team has been some guys back and it's

1023
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: it's some of those drives where if they had started

1024
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: at the twenty five, it might have been a touchdown

1025
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: that we started them at the seventeen and we held

1026
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: them to a short field goal. But those guys have

1027
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: all done a great job and Josh's Josh is really

1028
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: coming into his own and it's been on and I

1029
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: looked at Josh's growth, you know, what can I do

1030
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: and how can I help this young man? And because

1031
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: knowing him through the process before we drafted him, I

1032
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: felt like this everything I heard about and and everything

1033
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: that I saw from him, this young man was gonna

1034
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: leave no stone unturned to be the best he could be.

1035
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: And I thought, as an organization, that's something thing that

1036
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: I'll ride or die with. So speak just this guy.

1037
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: If he fails, it's not going to be for a

1038
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: lack of effort and trying to do everything he can.

1039
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: And every single season he doesn't go on some three

1040
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: month hiatus and come back in April, I mean, he

1041
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: goes out there with Jordan Palmer, and I give Jordan

1042
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: credit to Jordan does a great job with working with

1043
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: Brian Davil and Ken Dorsey on communicating some of the

1044
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: things that making sure they're on the same page of

1045
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: what does Josh need to focus on this offseason? But

1046
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: a lot of credit goes to Josh, Brian ken Dorsey,

1047
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott for Josh's development and the growth of our offense.

1048
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: It's it's really helped us and it's been fun to

1049
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: watch to this point. Yeah, I want to take that

1050
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: a step further brand than if I could, because you know,

1051
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: you and your personnel department have worked hard to give

1052
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Sean and his staff the necessary pieces to be successful

1053
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: in a perennial contender, but specifically with the evolution of

1054
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: this passing game. How closely have the steps and the

1055
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: stages unfolded the way that you and Sean maybe had envisioned. Yeah,

1056
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean it starts up front, Chris. You know, I

1057
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: really think, uh, going out, you know, we had Josh's

1058
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: rookie year, we didn't plan to flame as much, but

1059
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: circumstances changed for us and and we thought that's the

1060
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: best thing for the franchising for him at the time

1061
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: to do it. But we definitely didn't have a great

1062
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: old line that year, and we didn't have the weapons

1063
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: that we that we had even last year, and so

1064
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: I think just um, you know all that, you know

1065
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: kind of you know, I don't know, I think at

1066
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it takes time to build

1067
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: something the right way. And the first thing we wanted

1068
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: to do in nineteen was protect Josh and give him

1069
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: a chance to learn, grow, go through his progressions. And

1070
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: unfortunately Cole Beasley and John Brown were out there and

1071
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: we were able to add them. And then the draft

1072
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: came and you know a Dawson Knox who who's had

1073
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: an up and down year due to some injuries and

1074
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: COVID hit him, and Devin Singletary and just trying to

1075
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: add pieces so that Josh doesn't feel like he's got

1076
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: to make all the plays himself. I mean, I think

1077
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: sometimes if you look at some of the decisions he's

1078
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: made that he said, man, if I had that to

1079
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: do over again, I'd do something different. Or when Josh

1080
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: has tried to do too much, and part of that

1081
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: is on again back to me, I look at myself.

1082
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: What can I do to give him the weapons so

1083
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: that he doesn't feel like he's got to make every

1084
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: play because that's hard to do for anybody, and he

1085
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: wants the ball in his hands. And I think that's

1086
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: what I love about him most is when things are

1087
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 1: going against us, if our offense has the ball go

1088
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: to that Arizona game. I know we lost it, but

1089
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: we had to have five drives prior to that touchdown

1090
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: drive of like forty yards total. We were just in

1091
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: a funk and it happens. You can't predict it. But

1092
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: we got the ball down three and I believe like

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01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: anything that he was gonna lead us, and I guarantee

1094
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: you those other ten guys in the huddle did as well.

1095
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: I know that the result wasn't what we wanted, but

1096
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,919
Speaker 1: he had a great drive and Steph had a great catch.

1097
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: I got one question, a big picture of the NFL.

1098
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: I know this COVID things has thrown a wrench into

1099
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 1: the finances of the entire league. And now we're starting

1100
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: to hear that it was negotiated that the cap won't

1101
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: go any lower than one hundred and seventy five million.

1102
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: Now we're hearing optimistic projections because of the new TV deals,

1103
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: it may not be such a big financial hit. How

1104
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: much how much do you know that you can share

1105
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: with us, and how much can you kind of ramp

1106
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: up and know that it's gonna be a much different,

1107
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 1: maybe a historic landscape this offseason with teams who are

1108
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: going to be in financial crisis because of an uncertain cap,

1109
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: lower cap, whatever cap. How much can you ramp up

1110
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: to be prepared for that knowing what you know? Now? Yeah,

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01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean we don't know a lot different. Obviously, there's

1112
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: been some some talk out there the last few weeks

1113
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: about maybe there would be some type of agreement between

1114
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: the union and the owners to get it above one

1115
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: seventy five. I thought it was a great move last

1116
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: year to set that as a floor, just so we

1117
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: could at least plan for that, because you everybody was

1118
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: planning on this cap to be probably two ten to

1119
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: two fifteen. We're probably the ranges just based on the

1120
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: every year annual growth, and so we knew this was

1121
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: gonna be kick to the mid kick to the mid section.

1122
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: But it is, you know, interesting to hear some of

1123
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 1: the talk that maybe it won't be one seventy five,

1124
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be one eighty one eighty five. Until we

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01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: get any clarity though, Steve, We're gonna operate here as

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01:02:56,240 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: if it's one seventy five, because you know, anything else

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01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: I think would be probably you know a line on

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01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: my part, right, I know Brandon that you know there

1129
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: you took a couple of swings at trying to get

1130
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: Stefan digs into trade before it finally happened for you

1131
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: in March this past year. And I mean, my gosh,

1132
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: if anybody could have predicted this, I don't know if

1133
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: everybody was thinking it could be really this good. I mean,

1134
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: not only on the field, but Brandon. I mean, we

1135
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,439
Speaker 1: heard what the rumblings were up there, and you know why,

1136
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: whatever suppositions people wanted to make. I mean, he has

1137
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: been a not just a model teammate, but a consummate

1138
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: leader on this roster. I mean he's over there with

1139
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: the defensive players, dapping them up, you know, before they

1140
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: go out for the next series and stuff. I mean,

1141
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: just stuff that I don't think anybody anticipated seeing from

1142
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: Stefan in light of what had been said about him prior.

1143
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: And I know that you guys always do your due

1144
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: diligence and your homework. And I know Terrence Gray, your

1145
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 1: college scouting director, had some familiarity from being with that organization.

1146
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys aren't surprised at all, but you know,

1147
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, the teammate he has been.

1148
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: Forget about what he does on the field, I think

1149
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: we all knew he was elite, but the teammate he

1150
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: has been did that even catch you, Bry surprise? You know,

1151
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know, to be honest with you. I mean,

1152
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: we kind of we did our recon and we felt

1153
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: what we knew. What I knew was this guy was

1154
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: very competitive, high energy, and was just going to bring

1155
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: a passion. And he thing I'll tell you about Steph.

1156
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: Steph loves ball, He loves his teammates. He loves to

1157
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: get out there and compete. And if you got that

1158
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: and you're willing to work, and you're and he's smart,

1159
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: you're willing to learn, you can change anything, you know,

1160
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: like all of us changed. You know, I'm hopefully a

1161
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: much more mature person now than I was when I

1162
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: started in Carolina and hopefully even four years ago here.

1163
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,439
Speaker 1: But I would say Steph would probably be the first

1164
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: to tell you he learned from some of the things

1165
01:04:55,880 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 1: there that maybe he would approach a situation differently had

1166
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: he had to do over again. And those are some

1167
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: of the conversations we had early on with him, just

1168
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: kind of going through what went great for him because

1169
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: he was a successful player there, and then what were

1170
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: some things that didn't and just learning him, and I

1171
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: think that's key, learning what makes him tick. Building trust

1172
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: and trust is important with Steph. He's uh. That's one

1173
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: of the things that even back back last year that

1174
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: when we were researching him at the trade deadline, probably

1175
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: the thing that I heard more most was super competitive,

1176
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: highly competitive. You need to make sure he trusts you.

1177
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: And Steph is a guy. Don't don't you know, don't

1178
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: try and tell him it's raining when it's not. You know,

1179
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: and you know the slogan, I'm not going to say it,

1180
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, tell him what

1181
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: it is, even if it's something he doesn't want to hear.

1182
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,479
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to be asked him or anything

1183
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: like that, and I can respect that. I'm I'm similar

1184
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: in that way, and I think we tried to make

1185
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: sure people understand who he was and at the same

1186
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: time have those conversations from him what we expect here

1187
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:05,240
Speaker 1: and and to your point, Chris, he's done everything we've asked.

1188
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 1: The guys love him on all sides of the ball,

1189
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: and we're excited he's here. I was looking over the roster,

1190
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: what did you learn? Because I was shocked they're two

1191
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: guys read Ferguson and Jerry Hughes. They're the only two

1192
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: guys left from before you were the GM. You've completely

1193
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 1: made the roster, built it from the ground up, starting

1194
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,959
Speaker 1: with Josh all the way down through the last trade

1195
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: with Digs. What did you learn building this roster that

1196
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't know when you even took the job. Yeah,

1197
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you do have to when you

1198
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 1: take a job. You know the players with their helmets

1199
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: on and what they look like on tape or when

1200
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: you've seen them live, but you don't know what's behind

1201
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: the helmet and inside the heart and what makes them go.

1202
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 1: So Steve, just getting to learn what type of players

1203
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: we had here. You've mentioned Jerry Hughes and Read, and

1204
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 1: there's been some other guys that have you know, whether

1205
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: it's Kyle Williams, Lorenzo, Eric Wood, there's so many other

1206
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: players that we're here to help us get this thing

1207
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: started that aren't here that we're big. Parts of why

1208
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: we're nine and three right now is and just learning

1209
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 1: the history of the building and trying to understand what

1210
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: went wrong the last seventeen plus years and how we

1211
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: can fix it. And then part of it is too

1212
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: learning this community. What is this community value? What is

1213
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: our fan base value? And people that care, people that

1214
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: are appreciative of their opportunity. This is a blue collar community,

1215
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of the players that we

1216
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: have put here our team first guys, blue collar, selfless,

1217
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: and that's the model that Sean and I both were in,

1218
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 1: you know, in lockstep from day one on, and that's

1219
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:49,439
Speaker 1: what we've tried to have. We've made some errors along

1220
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 1: the way and try to learn from those, but for

1221
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: the most part, I think most of our players would

1222
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: I would feel very comfortable. Would could sit and talk

1223
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: to a CEO of a company, but could also talk

1224
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: to someone who's struggling or you know, a homeless person

1225
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. They just they're really caring people

1226
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: and it's not about me, it's about we. Last one

1227
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: for us, Brandon, I just wanted to get a little

1228
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,759
Speaker 1: bit of a peek into the challenge. Scouting never stops,

1229
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: as we know, but there's a lot of hurdles to

1230
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: clear for those guys too, whether it's travel restrictions, whatever

1231
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,560
Speaker 1: the case might be. How have you guys navigated that

1232
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 1: at least here in these last few months. Yeah, it's

1233
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: been similar to the COVID protocols. It's been kind of

1234
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: on the fly. At first, it was, you know, we

1235
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,800
Speaker 1: couldn't go to any in August. The guys once they

1236
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: leave camp, they you know, go on their merry way

1237
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: and start hitting the schools and watching these guys in camp,

1238
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: and that was not allowed. So they're doing what I'm

1239
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: doing with you guys right now. They've done a lot

1240
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: of zooms with the player you know, the player personnel people,

1241
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: the academic advisor, whatever coach they may know. They can't

1242
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: be in person in the facility. But they changed the

1243
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 1: rules on us about five or six weeks ago and said, um,

1244
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: beyond games which you can go to that, you can

1245
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: go to practice anytime they have it in their stadium,

1246
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of like we did today. Um, you just can't

1247
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: go inside their practice facility. So we've had to adjust

1248
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: and I haven't been able to make as many games

1249
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: this year, but uh, Terry Kim have helped us move

1250
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 1: around a little bit with with use of their their

1251
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: playing and that's helped Joe and Dan and myself too,

1252
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: because I know some teams have not been able to

1253
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 1: do that, and that's a big advantage. And another another

1254
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: combination that that has helped us do our jobs in

1255
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,640
Speaker 1: an even harder year. To your point, Chris, but um,

1256
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: there's it's gonna be a really good draft. I know.

1257
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later. It looks to be at

1258
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: this point, so we have to, you know, use that

1259
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: same mottel I said earlier. Find we have to find

1260
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: a way to uh to get this jump, to get

1261
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: the job done because we got to draft the right

1262
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: players come April. Well, we're glad that the Pegoula has

1263
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: found a way to get you under a contract extension.

1264
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: So congratulations once again and we'll be talking to you

1265
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 1: in the offseason. Good luck the rest of the way here,

1266
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: and stay safe with you and your family this holiday season.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Great to see you guys. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: Brandon being Bill's general manager. He of the multi year

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Speaker 1: contract extension, and as Steve said, that is a heck

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Speaker 1: of a Christmas president from the Pegoulas for Brandon being

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Speaker 1: and his family, just a really good day. You know,

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Speaker 1: you hear about transactions all the time. They happen every

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Speaker 1: day in the league. These are these are the big ones,

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Speaker 1: and it's not just for the person getting the extension

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Speaker 1: that goes you know for the whole family. I mean

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Speaker 1: it is Oh yeah, it's career changing, it's life change,

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Speaker 1: it's a life changer, it's a it's a long term commitment.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, he's a part of the history

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Speaker 1: of the franchise, not just when he becomes Gim, but

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Speaker 1: certainly when he becomes Jim for an extended a long time.

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Speaker 1: And the and the success they've been in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: three out of four years he's been here. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's big, and congratulations to him and Sean and the

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Speaker 1: whole crew. Break time for us. Steve has a date,

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Speaker 1: so I will be carrying the rest of the show,

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Speaker 1: but I will be doing with the assistance of NFL

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Speaker 1: Film Senior producer Greg Cosell, who's coming up next to

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01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:13,519
Speaker 1: make his weekly appearance, and we'll be back with him

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01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: to talk about this. Bills Steelers Sunday night game is

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Speaker 1: a biggie man, it's the biggest one on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody says. And we'll have him

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Speaker 1: break that down with me when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Back on One Bills Live. Chris Brown here with you,

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Speaker 1: and so our listeners don't worry about Steve. He's just

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Speaker 1: got a dentist's appointment, so he's taken care of some

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Speaker 1: oral stuff and he'll be good to go next week

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Speaker 1: and even on Sunday for the game when the Bills

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Speaker 1: take on the Steelers on Sunday Night Football. Joining us

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Speaker 1: now making his weekly appearance here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: is the senior producer from NFL Films. Also one of

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Speaker 1: the co hosts on ESPN's NFL Matchup show is one

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Speaker 1: Greg Cosell. Joining us and Greg, I gotta say we

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01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: were all in for a tree Monday night. Was what

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01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,719
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was able to do against the San Francisco

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01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:21,640
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Huh, the Josh Allen experience, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty awesome Monday night, I thought. And I've

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 1: seen every snap as a pro, and I probably watched

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Speaker 1: eight games his last year to Wyoming, and I think

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Speaker 1: I even watched him his previous year at Wyoming. That

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01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 1: was the best game I've seen him play. He was

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Speaker 1: so so good. And you know, one of the things

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Speaker 1: I know we've talked about this Chris. We know that

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Speaker 1: he can move and we know he's got a powerful arm,

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Speaker 1: but what is the thing. The thing that stood out

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Speaker 1: to me two things. Number One, his accuracy his ball placement,

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Speaker 1: that's the term I like to use, ball placement or

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Speaker 1: ball location. That was as consistently precise as we've ever

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Speaker 1: seen it. And if he can be at that level,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be an absolutely special player. And

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Speaker 1: the second thing, I thought his movement not only out

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Speaker 1: of the pocket. Okay, we know he can run out

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Speaker 1: of the pocket, as we're seeing him do here, but

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Speaker 1: I thought his movement sort of within the pocket was

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Speaker 1: very controlled, very calm. He did not break down, He

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Speaker 1: did not look frenetic or chaotic. He looked very comfortable

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Speaker 1: moving within the pocket. And those two things to me

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Speaker 1: really stood out. Yeah, I would agree wholeheartedly with your

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Speaker 1: second point because I thought that was the biggest difference

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Speaker 1: in his game, even from some games earlier in the season,

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01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 1: just the poise and the level of calm. It reminded

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01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: me of the way Aaron Rodgers moves through a game

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01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 1: just completely like almost flatline, like nothing rattles him no

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Speaker 1: matter what the situation is. That's who he looked like

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Speaker 1: in the game. To me, it's Funny you say that,

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Speaker 1: because at halftime on Monday night, I texted my buddy

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Speaker 1: Matt Bowen, who you guys know and right obviously my

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Speaker 1: friend from the Matchup show, and I just said to him,

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01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: I said, that's the best I've ever seen. Alan looked.

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Speaker 1: He looked in total command and that you know, and

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01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: that's just watching on TV, obviously, but you can see

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Speaker 1: certain things on TV clearly, and he just looked in

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01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 1: total command. It looked like he was like he was

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01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: dictating the action right, and you know, not to take

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01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: anything away from what he and the Bill's offense did,

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Speaker 1: and I realized that San Francisco was shorthanded at the

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Speaker 1: corner position. I think four of their top six corners

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01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 1: were either on IR or unavailable for this game due

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01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: to injury. Were you surprised that the Niners defense didn't

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01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: try to change things up? Maybe more significantly than they did,

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01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,680
Speaker 1: because it was largely a four man rush for a

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01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: good portion of that game. They tried to send some

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01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 1: blitz a little bit in the second half, and then

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Speaker 1: it's almost like they waved the white flag after that. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not a guy who you know,

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Speaker 1: starts to say, here's what a coach should or should

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01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: have done. Robert Sala has a very good track record

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Speaker 1: in this league, and he clearly felt this was the

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Speaker 1: best way to play. And by the way, they weren't

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Speaker 1: that shorthanded at corner. Sherman's the left corner, he's back.

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Speaker 1: Verretz had a really strong year at right corner. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Deante Johnson is not their normal slot corner. He'd be

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Speaker 1: third or fourth on that list, So that was the

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Speaker 1: one position that was in their mind, probably lacking, But

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Speaker 1: Robert Sala clearly thought this was the best way to play.

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Speaker 1: They played a ton of his own and they didn't

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Speaker 1: blitz a lot, and that's the way they chose to play.

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Speaker 1: And obviously, look, Josh made some big time plays too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, did he make some really good throws

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Speaker 1: from the pocket. And my absolute favorite one, I think

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Speaker 1: it's his best throw as a pro, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, was the digball to Gabriel Davis, which I know,

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Speaker 1: you know the play I'm silver as a pro. But

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Speaker 1: he also made a lot of plays where he got

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Speaker 1: outside the pocket. I mean, it wasn't as if they

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Speaker 1: put no pressure on him at all. He just made

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Speaker 1: some throws now on the move that were that were

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Speaker 1: pretty special. So when that happens, and you know, he's

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Speaker 1: twenty three of twenty five against zone coverage, and earlier

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Speaker 1: in the season he was getting criticized for not being

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Speaker 1: as effective against zone coverage, and that was a point

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Speaker 1: where after the first three or four weeks of the season,

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Speaker 1: people started playing more zone against him, and you know,

1384
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Speaker 1: his numbers dropped off precipitously. That was not the case

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Speaker 1: Monday night. So no, I realized that, you know, Pittsburgh

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01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 1: plays a fair amount of zone themselves, but they have

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Speaker 1: a pass rush to go with it. So that's a

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Speaker 1: much different animal than what he just saw this past Monday. Correct. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but their pass rush will be lacking a little bit

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Speaker 1: with Burt pre out, so you know, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: just to transitioning to Pittsburgh a little bit, we know

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Speaker 1: that Spelene is out. We know that Vince Williams is out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when they're in their nickel with five dbs,

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01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: their linebackers are likely to behavery will he so, who's

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: a solid pro. And then Marcus Allen, who was a

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01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: safety at Penn State, who they basically have made a linebacker.

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Speaker 1: So you know, there's there's questions about Pittsburgh's defense. And

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01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: we know high Smith gets the majority of the snaps

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01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 1: now opposite T. J. Watt, who, by the way, is

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Speaker 1: phenomenal and he's a guy you got to deal with.

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Speaker 1: But you know, their defense is a little depleted. It's

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Speaker 1: not the same Steelers defense from two to three, four

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01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And you know, I was looking at some

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Speaker 1: stats on ESPN Stats and Info, and Josh has been

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Speaker 1: very good against blitz pressure this year. I think his

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01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: completion percentage around sixty seven percent somewhere in there. Is

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Speaker 1: this just an example of maybe the best pressure team

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Speaker 1: in the league, And might those numbers be misleading in

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Speaker 1: light of the caliber of a pass rush that he's

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Speaker 1: seeing this week. Well, my guess is he'll still get

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Speaker 1: pressure from the Steelers. They'll still blitz. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they'll change their character. Obviously players are different, but I

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Speaker 1: don't believe they'll change who they are. And then we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he does, Josh does move. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's I'm one of those guys that I don't

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01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: like to make Chris, you know, statements about a guy's

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Speaker 1: whole career, you know, based on a game or you know,

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Speaker 1: whether it's negative or positive. I mean, I thought he

1419
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: played far and away the best game of his career,

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01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: and there are so many positive things to take away

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01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 1: from it. But you'd be hard pressed to say he's

1422
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Speaker 1: gonna play like that every single week. Really, no quarterback does.

1423
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: But the improvement has been dramatic to me. As I said,

1424
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Speaker 1: the number one thing was he looked in command, and

1425
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:41,759
Speaker 1: that's what you want to see, particularly when you face pressure.

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01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: When you face a pressure team, they are going to

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Speaker 1: be snaps when they win the down. That's just the

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01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: Steelers are good there. You know, they've been a really

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01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: good defense for a long time. They're gonna win some downs.

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: You know, he might get sacked, he might run out

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Speaker 1: of the pocket and maybe make a bad throw. That

1432
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Speaker 1: could happen because their defense is really good. So we'll see.

1433
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Speaker 1: But Josh's you know, I think just mentally he's really improved.

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Speaker 1: He's you just get a sense that he's in control

1435
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: of what he's seen. Maybe give me a timeline of

1436
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: your observations of the evolution of this Bill's passing game,

1437
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: because we've seen Brandon Bean, who just got a contract

1438
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 1: extension yesterday. He kind of has assembled these pieces for

1439
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 1: the coaching staff to develop, and we've kind of seen

1440
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: the puzzle come together, the investment in the offensive line,

1441
01:19:29,560 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: adding Beasley and Brown and then digs via trade this

1442
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: past offseason, along with Gabriel Davis in the draft and

1443
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 1: the like you know, Zach Moss, etc. I don't know

1444
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 1: if anybody anticipated that the identity of this team would

1445
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: be a passing attack that throws at forty times a game.

1446
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: But here we are, and it's working really, really well.

1447
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: So maybe just walk me through your thoughts as to

1448
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: the starting point, the midway point, and where we are

1449
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: now with the evolution into this passing offense, and where

1450
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: it leaves you on the Bills right now at nine

1451
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 1: and three. Well, I think that if you want to

1452
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: be a past first offense in today's NFL, I think

1453
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: your quarterback has to have movement traits. I think it's

1454
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: very hard to be a past first offense with a

1455
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: pocket quarterback because the defense will win too many downs

1456
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: and your quarterback will have no parachute, he'll get sacked

1457
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: or he'll be forced to throw too many balls away.

1458
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: So I think that that's one thing I would say, secondly,

1459
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: I would say that ideally, you probably don't want to

1460
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: do this every week. It depends on the opponent. I

1461
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 1: still think they would like to be able to run

1462
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: the ball whatever that means. That's that's a week to

1463
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: week thing and a case by case basis. But I

1464
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: still think they would like to run the football more

1465
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: and better than they do. Now. That's not to say

1466
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,679
Speaker 1: they're going to become a volume running team. I don't

1467
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: think that will happen because of the quality of the

1468
01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 1: quarterback and the kind of quarterback he is and the receivers.

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01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they have they apparently have hit the

1470
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: jackpot with Gabriel Davis. I mean I watched him coming

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Speaker 1: out of college, and they do a lot more work

1472
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Speaker 1: than I do, obviously because I don't get to sit

1473
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: down with kids talk to them. But I remember watching

1474
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: him in college. It only did was line up on

1475
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 1: the left side of the formation, literally two yards from

1476
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 1: the sideline and run about two routes. So obviously in

1477
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 1: their study of him and in meeting him and talking

1478
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 1: with him, something clicked. And I keep hearing from people

1479
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 1: who up there that he's a really smart kid. So

1480
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, obviously they they hit the jackpot with him

1481
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: because he was not a first or second round pick.

1482
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: So the team has evolved into a passing team. Chris,

1483
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if they started this pandemic offseason with

1484
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: the idea that they were going to be a passing team.

1485
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: So speaking of the run game, let's flip it over

1486
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,680
Speaker 1: to the Steelers, because volume in the run game has

1487
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,920
Speaker 1: been sorely absent there. Nobody has run it. God, nobody

1488
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: has run it less than the Steelers since Week seven

1489
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 1: in the entire league, which just runs so counter to

1490
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: what Pittsburgh has been for so many years. And last week,

1491
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: I mean that might have been rock bottom, Greg, I

1492
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,440
Speaker 1: mean they ran it. They had fourteen runs against Washington.

1493
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,720
Speaker 1: Seven of them didn't gain a yard. And there are

1494
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 1: some plays where they've and I'm sure you've seen this

1495
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 1: on the tape. They've got seven blockers against five defenders.

1496
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: They still can't get a yard. It defied logic, which

1497
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: is why Tomlin was out of his skull after the game. No,

1498
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:36,600
Speaker 1: and that's the thing is they literally it's easy for me,

1499
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 1: you whoever to say, well, you got to run the ball,

1500
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: and theoretically that's true, but they are not moving anybody

1501
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: off the ball with their offensive line. When you watch

1502
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: the tape, they literally don't move anybody. And you know,

1503
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: James Connor, I guess, is due to be back this week. Correct, Yes, yeah, so.

1504
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean he had a stretch of about four games,

1505
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: maybe Week three to Week six, somewhere around there, where

1506
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: the average about eighteen carries a game. They had a

1507
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: pretty efficient run game, you know, I think he had

1508
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:07,719
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards and three of those four games

1509
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: that looked like they had a pretty balanced team. But

1510
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the run games stopped, and

1511
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: now they really don't even try to run it, and

1512
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: their passing game is basically all short stuff with the

1513
01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: occasional deep shot. I mean, what's his name? I hate it.

1514
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 1: Can't believe I just said that. That's not what I

1515
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:30,719
Speaker 1: wanted to say. But Ben Roethlisberger has not been sacked

1516
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 1: in five or six games because everything is quick, the

1517
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: ball comes out. I mean, Juju Smith Schuster Chris had

1518
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: seven receptions for twenty eight yards last week. I mean,

1519
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 1: that's just unheard of for a wide receiver in this league,

1520
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: especially in the way the passing game is used in

1521
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:50,600
Speaker 1: today's NFL. So why is that the approach because it

1522
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 1: begs the question. You know, there's a couple of things

1523
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 1: that could be an issue here. They might be worried

1524
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: about protection and keeping Ben upright, but I mean, for

1525
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:01,720
Speaker 1: how many years did we see Ben just shrug off

1526
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: pass rushers and stiff arm guys and extend plays and

1527
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: chuck it fifty yards down the field to Antonio Brown

1528
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. That doesn't exist anymore.

1529
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: He's at his lowest yards per attempt number in his

1530
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 1: entire career at six point four two, and they're just

1531
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 1: throwing all this short stuff all over the yard And Okay,

1532
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 1: you want to get it out quick, I get it,

1533
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't seem to be an effective means

1534
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:29,720
Speaker 1: to an end for an offense. No, it's not correlating

1535
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: to points. That's the issue. I mean, ultimately, you want

1536
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 1: to score points, but no, that's what their offense has become.

1537
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: And then they'll take the occasional deep shot to Washington

1538
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: or to Claypool. But for the most part, everything is quick.

1539
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: I know, they keep stats as to how quickly the

1540
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: ball comes out in terms of seconds. Roethlisberger's number one

1541
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: in the league. That's what their offense has evolved into

1542
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 1: they as you said, and the numbers reflected they really

1543
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:58,400
Speaker 1: don't even try to run the ball. So again, I

1544
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: think it's hard to s an offense in which you're

1545
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,759
Speaker 1: asking your quarterback can drop back forty five or fifty

1546
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: times by choice. Yeah, that's it to me. Again, everything's relative,

1547
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: But I think that's a hard deal. And I don't

1548
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: think this short passing game for Pittsburgh is a great

1549
01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: matchup against the Bills. And I'll just throw a couple

1550
01:25:20,280 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 1: of X GEN stats at you to back it up,

1551
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 1: but you can tell me what you see on tape.

1552
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: Just in terms of Buffalo defending the short pass, they

1553
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: do rank in the top five in completion percentage allowed

1554
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:34,719
Speaker 1: on short pass attempts seventy three point three percent completion,

1555
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:36,720
Speaker 1: which sounds like a high completion rate. But I guess

1556
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: for the high percentage passes, that's a pretty good number

1557
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: if they're in the top five. Ye, what have you

1558
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: seen from the Bills in defending short passes that might

1559
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: make that supposition valid In terms of defending what the

1560
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:56,080
Speaker 1: Steelers like to do with the passing game, Well, you know,

1561
01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: I don't think I can answer that with one thing,

1562
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: and say, hey, here's what they do against the short

1563
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 1: passing game. I mean, I think the Bills, for the

1564
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 1: most part, I think the number one. I think their

1565
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:10,800
Speaker 1: defense has improved as the year has progressed. And I'll

1566
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:12,720
Speaker 1: tell you if I could, if I could, And this

1567
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:15,600
Speaker 1: doesn't answer you question specifically, I said to myself, I

1568
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about this player when I spoke to

1569
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 1: you on Friday, because they play the Bills have been

1570
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 1: basically morphed into a Nickel defense. You know, Tron Johnson

1571
01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: does not come off the field hardly ever, and I

1572
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: think that he has played really well over the last

1573
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:32,559
Speaker 1: month or so. I don't know how they've charted him,

1574
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: you know, I can't sit and chart every single play.

1575
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you know when you talk

1576
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: to Brandon Bean or Sean McDermot, I don't know if

1577
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: they mentioned him, but I think that watching the tape,

1578
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:45,679
Speaker 1: I feel like he's become a really good slot corner.

1579
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: I think he's very physical in the run game. He's aggressive,

1580
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: he's competitive. You know. I think that since they don't

1581
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 1: play a ton of man coverage, is not a man

1582
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,680
Speaker 1: based defense, It's not as if he's matching up all

1583
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 1: the time and man coverage. But I think he does

1584
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:01,800
Speaker 1: a really good job in his own I think he

1585
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 1: has a really good feel for it. He's just a

1586
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 1: player that, like I said, when I watched the tape,

1587
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:07,599
Speaker 1: I said, I got to make sure I talk about

1588
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson because I think he's a really good player. Yeah,

1589
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: and it's interesting that you say that, because he was

1590
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 1: having a rough go of it very early in the season,

1591
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,280
Speaker 1: to the point early yes where they were ready to

1592
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 1: replace him in the lineup with cam Lewis, an undrafted

1593
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,479
Speaker 1: kid out of ub up here that had a really

1594
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: good training camp, and he was he had he actually

1595
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: started a game in his place and then had a

1596
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 1: wrist injury and Tarren came back in and when he

1597
01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 1: got a second chance, he didn't miss I mean, he

1598
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: made the most of it, you know, to your point

1599
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: about how he's been playing since he's been back in

1600
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: the lineup, So good on him for making the most.

1601
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 1: You know, they played Nickel to twelve personnel to two

1602
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,639
Speaker 1: tight ends. You know, they don't really play bass very

1603
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: often at all these days, and we saw what they

1604
01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:54,759
Speaker 1: did this week with Milano back. They played Klein pretty

1605
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: much on first and second down and Milano came in

1606
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:00,559
Speaker 1: as the nickel linebacker on third down. And by the way,

1607
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:02,479
Speaker 1: Klein is another guy that I think over the last

1608
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:05,280
Speaker 1: month has played really really good football. And you know,

1609
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:07,360
Speaker 1: he's a veteran who's been in the league. I remember

1610
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 1: watching him with Carolina, with New Orleans. He's just a

1611
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: solid player. You know, he's not a superior athlete, so

1612
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 1: you never think of client. Oh you know, he's being

1613
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,519
Speaker 1: one of the top ten linebackers, but he's one of

1614
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: those guys. He'll end up playing as long as he

1615
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: wants to play because he's just one of those guys.

1616
01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 1: He's just a good football player, understands the game. Probably

1617
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:29,720
Speaker 1: you know, again, I'm not watching every play, but my

1618
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 1: guess is he's very disciplined and probably doesn't miss many assignments. Yeah,

1619
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: lunch payale player for sure. Greg. We're out of time,

1620
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: but thanks for breaking it down for us. Enjoy that

1621
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: game on Sunday night. We'll look for you on the

1622
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 1: Matchup Show this weekend. Appreciate it, Chris, thanks so much.

1623
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: All right, that's great. Co Sale, senior producer of NFL

1624
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 1: Films and co host of the NFL Matchup Show on ESPN.

1625
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:53,600
Speaker 1: You can watch those early in the morning on the

1626
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: weekends on ESPN and ESPN to break time for us.

1627
01:28:57,160 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we'll get to some of

1628
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: your questions in the OBL fan mail bag, and don't

1629
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:05,120
Speaker 1: forget In about fifteen minutes, we'll be catching up with

1630
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:08,639
Speaker 1: one Lorenzo Alexander for the lowdown all of that coming

1631
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 1: your way. Next here on One Bills Live, presented by

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01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's radio first ground

1633
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 1: here with you on One Bills Live, and it is Friday,

1634
01:29:30,120 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: which means the OBL fan Mailbag is open for some selections,

1635
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:40,360
Speaker 1: and first up in the mail bag for this week

1636
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:44,599
Speaker 1: is KBG, who says I may be biased, but I'd

1637
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 1: love it if you guys could compare each of the

1638
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:48,799
Speaker 1: position groups of this team to those of the nineties Bills.

1639
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 1: Not really old enough to have remembered watching those teams

1640
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 1: that closely. All right, Well, I'm gonna date myself here,

1641
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: but I was a young college student the first year

1642
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: the Bills went to the Super Bowl, but I was

1643
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 1: watching them because my roommate was a Tonawanda native and

1644
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:09,880
Speaker 1: I had the games on every single week, so I'm

1645
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:13,559
Speaker 1: pretty well versed. And I would say all right, let's

1646
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:15,560
Speaker 1: do this. Let's let's start on the offensive side of

1647
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:17,679
Speaker 1: the ball and just zip through it real quick. Okay,

1648
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:20,759
Speaker 1: So you have Thurman Thomas in the backfield, no fullback

1649
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:22,720
Speaker 1: in the current team, but you had I think it

1650
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:28,719
Speaker 1: was Larry Kinnebrew and maybe even Jamie Mueller as fullback options.

1651
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:32,560
Speaker 1: So Thurman kind of wins that one hands down. Forgive me,

1652
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:36,080
Speaker 1: but I'm siding with the Hall of Famer quarterback. Josh

1653
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:38,639
Speaker 1: Allen's on his way. He's not at Jim Kelly's level

1654
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:44,640
Speaker 1: just yet, so encouraged there skill positions, wide receiver in

1655
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 1: the slot, Andre Reid, I'm taking him over Cole Beasley

1656
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,400
Speaker 1: as much as I like Cole, Gotta go with the

1657
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Sorry, outside Stefan Diggs and James Lofton

1658
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 1: again another Hall of Famer here. I think Diggs has

1659
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 1: the ability to have a comparable career with his abilities.

1660
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:09,639
Speaker 1: And then on the other side, you're talking John Brown

1661
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 1: and Don Beebee. So I'd say that's probably a wash,

1662
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:19,800
Speaker 1: maybe a slight edge to John Brown, but that's pretty even,

1663
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 1: I would say. And then offensive line wise or tight end,

1664
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:28,760
Speaker 1: I forgot tight end, Pete Metsoars, Keith mckeller are the

1665
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 1: primaries there and Dawson Knox, Tyler Croft, m I don't know.

1666
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 1: I'd say it's about even Knox's athleticism helps there. And

1667
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: then offensive line. I mean, I love Dion Dawkins and

1668
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: I think Darryl Williams has been a stabilizing force on

1669
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: the right side of the offensive line, but you'd be

1670
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 1: hard pressed to beat Will Wolford and Howard Ballard at

1671
01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:56,439
Speaker 1: the tackle positions on the left and right respectively. Ken

1672
01:31:56,560 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 1: Hall in the pivot, I mean, Pro Bowl guy, really

1673
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:07,679
Speaker 1: the brains along with Kelly behind the K gun offense

1674
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,880
Speaker 1: and all that he would fix up front to keep

1675
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:14,760
Speaker 1: Jim protected. You know, I think Mitch Morris is a

1676
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 1: nice guy calling the shots in there. But again, I mean,

1677
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 1: we're talking about all time greats here for the Bills,

1678
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to remember if John Davis was here

1679
01:32:25,640 --> 01:32:29,400
Speaker 1: yet in ninety and I can't quite recall if he

1680
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 1: was or if he wasn't. I'm trying to look up

1681
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:36,920
Speaker 1: the official roster on Here we Go starters in roster

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01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: from Pro Football Reference, which is a great site if

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01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,679
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. No, Jimmy Richards still the guard

1684
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:47,840
Speaker 1: wall of Famer kind of got aside with him. John

1685
01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 1: Davis was here, he was a starting right guard, good player,

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01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:52,840
Speaker 1: but I like Feliciano a little bit better than him.

1687
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: And then defensively, Leon Seal's Jeff Wright, Bruce Smith. I mean,

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01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 1: I like Jerry Hugh, I like Mario Addison and the

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01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: lunch pail players they are, but we're talking about arguably

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01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:07,000
Speaker 1: the best defensive ent to ever play the game. So

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01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:11,200
Speaker 1: you see the problems here. Linebacker Cornelius Bennett, Shane Conlin,

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01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 1: Darryl Talley. I mean, these guys are a Wall of

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01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 1: Famers or soon to be Cornelius Bennett. It's a Hall

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01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 1: of Fame semi finalist. I mean, this is just it's

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01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 1: hard to compare when you have guys who have played

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01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:27,679
Speaker 1: their entire careers. Secondary is where this current Bills team

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01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: may have the nineteen ninety Bills Leonard Smith, hard hitting

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01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: strong safety, different kind of player to a certain extent,

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01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:39,760
Speaker 1: but not nearly as versatile as Jordan Poyer. So I

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01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: would probably give the edge to Poyer there, and I'd

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01:33:42,439 --> 01:33:45,120
Speaker 1: probably give the edge to Micah Hyde over John Hagey.

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01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: Starting corners, Kirby Jackson, Nate Odom's Odam's pretty good player,

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01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: so I would match him up against tradevious White. I

1704
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: think he had a nine interception season, not that year

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01:33:55,960 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety, but I would probably if Tredabus the

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01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 1: edge based on the trajectory his career is currently on,

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01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 1: and Kirby Jackson versus Levi Wallace, that's probably relatively even.

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01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 1: And then you know, kicking game bench coaching staff again,

1709
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:18,760
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a Hall of Fame head coach, Ted

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01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: Marcher Brod and Brian Dables a fun comparison to talk about,

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01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:26,120
Speaker 1: both very innovative and then defensive coordinators. You know, you

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01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: got Walt Corey and Leslie Frazier. So yeah, it's a

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01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 1: fun comparison to do. But I don't know if it's

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01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 1: totally fair to this current Bill's team because you're talking

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01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: about a roster that had a handful of Hall of famers,

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01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:42,040
Speaker 1: hall of Fame head coach. It's fun to do, but

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01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:44,080
Speaker 1: you know, to give the edge to one side or

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01:34:44,120 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: the other, that's kind of tough. But hopefully I helped

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01:34:46,760 --> 01:34:49,800
Speaker 1: you a little bit from Jeremy, I need help having

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01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:52,679
Speaker 1: a couple of friends over for the game, socially distant

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01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:55,360
Speaker 1: sized living room, my eighteen month old son goes to

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01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 1: sleep around kickoff. I am not a quiet fan to

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01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: be around. What are some of the salution to watching

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01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: the game and not disturbing my son or my sleeping wife?

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01:35:05,400 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: One word, headphones? Either that or you're gonna have to

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01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:14,799
Speaker 1: find another venue. I do know that if you close

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01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:19,519
Speaker 1: a door and then stuff, you know, a laundry towel

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01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: into the crack under the bottom, that does help muffle

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01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:25,639
Speaker 1: the noise from other rooms or other floors. So if

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01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to do that, that is a

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01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 1: good idea. And I don't know about you, but when

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01:35:31,160 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 1: my kids were little, I used to play music in

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01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 1: their room on a CD player and just put it

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01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: on repeat. So you know, you just put some soft

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01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: music on in your eighteen month old's room and just

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01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: run that. Hopefully that can drown you out downstairs. So

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01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:50,679
Speaker 1: best elucte on that, Jeremy. We have to take a break,

1738
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:54,280
Speaker 1: but when we come back, it is time for the lowdown.

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01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander will join me making his weekly appearance here

1740
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: as we talk Bills, Steelers and maybe review that Monday

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01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:05,080
Speaker 1: night game, since I'm sure Lorenzo will have an opinion

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01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:08,360
Speaker 1: on it Lorenzo Alexander. Next, you're on a Friday edition

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01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 1: of One Bill's Live, presented by Collida Health. This is

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01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:32,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Pastor who has been

1745
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 1: all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

1746
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:40,120
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you, Stave, Steve a blimp.

1747
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:58,800
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stratosphere of normalcy. All sliding

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01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 1: into the third album or the program on a Friday,

1749
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:04,960
Speaker 1: as he does every week. Is the man, the myth,

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01:37:05,040 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 1: the legend. They call Lorenzo Alexander and he joins me

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01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: now here for our numbers three of the programs. Oh hey,

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01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:16,759
Speaker 1: join man, I'm doing good. What is that? Was pretty

1753
01:37:16,760 --> 01:37:19,320
Speaker 1: good out here in Phoenix, just whipping and running, taking

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01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 1: care of these kids and coaching. So I'm really enjoying. Yeah, coaching.

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01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: Way to go, man, um. Yeah, I want to begin, Lorenzo,

1756
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:32,680
Speaker 1: because I have to believe that you took in the

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01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:37,640
Speaker 1: Monday night game, and there was something that I was

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01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 1: struck by the most with respect to Josh Allen's performance,

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01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:46,240
Speaker 1: and that was the level of calm and poise that

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01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:49,760
Speaker 1: he had on display from start to finish in that game.

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01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: It was a level of you know, Joe cool out

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01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:56,720
Speaker 1: there that I don't think I've seen from him from

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01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:59,960
Speaker 1: start to finish in a game before. Did you notice

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01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:04,680
Speaker 1: that and did you feel similarly? Yeah, I don't know

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01:38:04,720 --> 01:38:07,680
Speaker 1: if I made that exact conclusion, but I definitely as

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01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:09,280
Speaker 1: you bring it up, I know what you're talking about,

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01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:12,000
Speaker 1: and that is something that it's obviousite is that's going

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01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:15,080
Speaker 1: to allow him to ascend. It's that next level as

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01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: far as when you think about the elite quarterbacks in

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01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,560
Speaker 1: this league and being consistent, because we all know what

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01:38:19,720 --> 01:38:21,439
Speaker 1: Josh is able to do with his talent and his

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01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:24,400
Speaker 1: abilities and his growth that he's seen. But if he

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01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,639
Speaker 1: has a place where he has to continue to grow

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01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: is when he tries to do too much to try

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01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 1: to win and now to just play within the system

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01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:35,679
Speaker 1: and within himself and so to be able to see

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01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:38,560
Speaker 1: that development obviously you know me going back to with

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01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:41,160
Speaker 1: him in twenty seventeen and now to kind of see that,

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01:38:41,280 --> 01:38:44,120
Speaker 1: which was what you're talking about put on full display

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01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: versus the forty nine ers on Monday night from a

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01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:51,600
Speaker 1: complete game from a mental standpoint, it's really encouraging. And

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01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 1: so now it's up to him to continue to evolving

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01:38:54,880 --> 01:38:58,439
Speaker 1: that and then really probably this Pittsburgh Steelers game will

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01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 1: be another great challenge that because this obviously the Niners

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01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:04,719
Speaker 1: are not the forty nine ers of the Super Bowl

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01:39:06,160 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 1: team last year, and so as the pressure increases, will

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01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,680
Speaker 1: he still be able to do those same things? And

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01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 1: I say yes, I think he's learned a lot of things.

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01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: He's grown up, especially throughout this season. But that's when I'll,

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01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, you really start to see that and see

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01:39:19,920 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 1: how if it's consistent from week in a week out,

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01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,559
Speaker 1: much like that we see from like a Russell Wilson

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01:39:24,720 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 1: or a Patrick Mahomes style quarterback, where nothing really ever

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01:39:28,040 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 1: bothers them, even when they seem like they're down maybe

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01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:32,800
Speaker 1: by fourteen, or even if they're up winning and the

1796
01:39:32,880 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 1: team may be coming back, they always seem to be cool,

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01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:39,080
Speaker 1: common collective, which we saw Josh display on Monday night

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01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:42,240
Speaker 1: versus the forty nine ers. Let's give some credit to

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01:39:42,640 --> 01:39:45,080
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. I mean, yes, the

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01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 1: forty nine ers drive ninety seven yards, but then they

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01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:51,360
Speaker 1: have that goal line stand, you know, Tremaine with the

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01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: big stop on fourth and goal there. I know that

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01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: probably gave you a good feeling. Because he's playing, he's

1804
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: playing like we expect him to play. Now, he's kind

1805
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,800
Speaker 1: of got it all the way back up where you know,

1806
01:40:01,920 --> 01:40:04,680
Speaker 1: on Sundays or Mondays in this case, he's pinning that

1807
01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: needle down to red with the intensity of his play.

1808
01:40:08,520 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 1: But I think it's a collective thing. Zo. It looks

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01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 1: like not only has not only has the defensive unit

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01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 1: raised their level of play. I think that's that's bred

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01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 1: some confidence into the entire unit and they're just they're

1812
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:25,120
Speaker 1: getting to the point where they're getting that nasty vibe

1813
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 1: again that coach like so much. Yeah, and it's it's

1814
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:31,680
Speaker 1: good to see it that they're starting to peek at

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01:40:31,720 --> 01:40:33,599
Speaker 1: this time in the year and playing really good football,

1816
01:40:33,640 --> 01:40:35,799
Speaker 1: you know, and kind of start off with Tremaine Emmons.

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01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:38,920
Speaker 1: It's good to see that he's finally got his confidence back.

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01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:40,920
Speaker 1: I think it was you know, shattered or you know,

1819
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: disturbed a little bit earlier in the season when he

1820
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: has some injuries and was trying to overcome those still

1821
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 1: go out there for us team, but not being able

1822
01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 1: to play up to the standard that he expects of himself.

1823
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: And you know, you hear all the noise about switching

1824
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:55,560
Speaker 1: his position and maybe we should use him like this

1825
01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 1: and saynt like this, but he say true to who

1826
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:03,439
Speaker 1: he was working and as his body healed, now you're

1827
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:06,519
Speaker 1: starting to see the fruits of his labor, the dominant,

1828
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:08,800
Speaker 1: the athleticism, the ability for him to go out there

1829
01:41:08,800 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 1: and make plays as was put on full displayed on

1830
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: this gold line stand. You know, six to five, two fifty.

1831
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 1: You're not running a guy like that over, hitting him

1832
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:19,720
Speaker 1: high as we're taught to do, and driving me back.

1833
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:21,679
Speaker 1: And so when you have your tone set or back,

1834
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:25,200
Speaker 1: everybody around you then starts to play better. And what

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01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 1: I also like out of this defense is that this

1836
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 1: defensive line, it's now starting to establish a new line

1837
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. You see ed Oliver a butler. I mean

1838
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:38,560
Speaker 1: this the whole defensive line unit, especially these tackles. In

1839
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:42,240
Speaker 1: these last couple of games, it's they have popped more

1840
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:44,519
Speaker 1: than me. It seems like they're playing two or three

1841
01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:46,479
Speaker 1: yards on the other side of a lot of scrimmage

1842
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:48,479
Speaker 1: and making running backs have to make a cut earlier

1843
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:50,800
Speaker 1: than they want to. And they still have some things

1844
01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 1: they have to clean up, but overall, it's a much

1845
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 1: better progression, a much better cohesive unit defensively. And then

1846
01:41:56,920 --> 01:42:00,280
Speaker 1: when you throw in tremain or Tredavisai and Michael High

1847
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:03,799
Speaker 1: back there getting some interceptions. Yeah, that's that's the full package.

1848
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:05,479
Speaker 1: And that's really what would you like to see from

1849
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 1: every faceted situation of football, which coach is always preaching.

1850
01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 1: So looking ahead to this game, you know the Steelers

1851
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:16,680
Speaker 1: stubbed their toe, they're dealing with some injury issues. They

1852
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:19,479
Speaker 1: just had to add Vince Williams to their COVID list

1853
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 1: the linebacker. They're shorthanded at the linebacker position. And you say, oh, man,

1854
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:27,720
Speaker 1: wounded animal, wounded animal, But then you remind yourself that

1855
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:30,520
Speaker 1: it's the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the most stable franchises

1856
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 1: in football, and anytime you doubt them, that's when they

1857
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:36,040
Speaker 1: come back and bite you and you're walking out of

1858
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:38,040
Speaker 1: a stadium going, how the heck did we lose that game?

1859
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:43,760
Speaker 1: So is what is the greatest danger here next to

1860
01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:49,479
Speaker 1: underestimating the Steelers? Why? I don't think anybody in the

1861
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 1: builds organization on that team, in that locker room, I

1862
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 1: know the coaches aren't aren't going to underestimate a team

1863
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 1: that was undefeated up until last week. No One who

1864
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:03,479
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is I think the worst part about this

1865
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:07,320
Speaker 1: is that you're catching a Pittsburgh Steelers team that, if you,

1866
01:43:07,520 --> 01:43:09,760
Speaker 1: if you mind yourself, two weeks ago, Mike Thomlin after

1867
01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 1: a win said hey, we're not playing good enough when

1868
01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:15,920
Speaker 1: we're playing horribly offense, defense and special teams, and the

1869
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:17,880
Speaker 1: guys in that locker room was like, well we won

1870
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:20,599
Speaker 1: the game still, and then you come out and lose

1871
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:25,000
Speaker 1: to a Washington football team, and so now they're gonna

1872
01:43:25,040 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 1: be galvanage right now. They're gonna be all hands on

1873
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:29,559
Speaker 1: deck because they still want that a number one seed,

1874
01:43:29,600 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 1: because if you listen to their locker room, it's all

1875
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:34,519
Speaker 1: a bit about we want that. We haven't had a

1876
01:43:34,560 --> 01:43:36,599
Speaker 1: buy and so the only way you're going to earn

1877
01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:38,599
Speaker 1: a buy at this point is being a number one seed.

1878
01:43:38,680 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 1: And so not that anybody in that Builds locker room

1879
01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 1: is scared of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but I think they're

1880
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 1: going to be a much more focused team, energized from

1881
01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:51,400
Speaker 1: a player since and you already know Mike t always

1882
01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 1: has the guys to prepare to play. So I'm actually

1883
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:57,160
Speaker 1: excited for it. You know, it's gonna be two AFC

1884
01:43:57,360 --> 01:44:00,719
Speaker 1: contenders going at it. Maybe a precurse serve what happens

1885
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:03,439
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship depeating on how the seeding falls out.

1886
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:06,439
Speaker 1: But this is a great test for the Bills because

1887
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:09,760
Speaker 1: I think they have beaten teams that's supposed to beat.

1888
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:12,720
Speaker 1: They've competed, but they haven't quite gotten over the hump.

1889
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:14,800
Speaker 1: You know, you think about the Tennessee Titans, you think

1890
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:17,240
Speaker 1: about this Kansas City Chiefs. They haven't been able to

1891
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 1: beat those type of teams yet, and so if they

1892
01:44:19,360 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: really want to make a run, this is a great

1893
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,680
Speaker 1: challenge for him to take that next step as far

1894
01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: as Okay, now we're going to start beating some of

1895
01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:28,960
Speaker 1: the elite teams, some of the teams that are perennial

1896
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:33,720
Speaker 1: playoff teams that have that championship culture embedded into the organization,

1897
01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:36,680
Speaker 1: so that now we can take that next step in

1898
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:39,680
Speaker 1: our progression, win a playoff game, get to the NFC Championship,

1899
01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:43,680
Speaker 1: and try to win when things really matter, which the organization.

1900
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 1: You know, when I was there, wasn't quite able to

1901
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:47,720
Speaker 1: do going to the playoffs two out of three years

1902
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 1: under Sean McDermott. And so as you look at that,

1903
01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, the various matchups in the game. The one

1904
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: that was standing out to Steve and I this week

1905
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:01,320
Speaker 1: is obviously Pittsburgh's defense. It's the pressure they can generate

1906
01:45:01,400 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 1: on the quarterback and Josh being able to handle that

1907
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:08,439
Speaker 1: and still you know, hit his targets, make connections, make

1908
01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:12,880
Speaker 1: good decisions and move the football when we all know

1909
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:15,400
Speaker 1: the saying pressure, bust pipes and all of that. I

1910
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,920
Speaker 1: know that the Steelers pass rush has been you know,

1911
01:45:19,200 --> 01:45:24,000
Speaker 1: depleted somewhat without Bud Dupree, But I think that the

1912
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: big hosses they got up there next to what on

1913
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:30,719
Speaker 1: the inside are underrated. I mean Cameron Hayward. I still

1914
01:45:30,760 --> 01:45:33,280
Speaker 1: don't think it's enough credit as a player, and even

1915
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 1: Stefan to it. He's top five in the league in

1916
01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 1: pressure rate after what and Dupree, who are one in three.

1917
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 1: So I don't know, like I still see them having

1918
01:45:44,160 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: some measure of success. Yeah, and I'll tell you this,

1919
01:45:48,479 --> 01:45:51,640
Speaker 1: I mean that that that credit is not internal. You know,

1920
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:54,400
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective. When you mentioned those guys names,

1921
01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:58,439
Speaker 1: I know immediately how how good Hayward is and two

1922
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:00,680
Speaker 1: it are and they put it take year in a

1923
01:46:00,800 --> 01:46:03,160
Speaker 1: year out. Yeah, from a national perspective, they may not

1924
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: get the same cloud as Eric Donald, But these guys

1925
01:46:07,520 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 1: can play football at a high level as really as

1926
01:46:09,560 --> 01:46:11,840
Speaker 1: the engine that allows TJ. Wat to do what he

1927
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 1: does on the outside, because you can't always double team him,

1928
01:46:15,040 --> 01:46:18,280
Speaker 1: especially when they head dub Bud Vapree on the other side,

1929
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:21,920
Speaker 1: And so those guys are gonna have to upfront. As

1930
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:23,960
Speaker 1: far as the offensive line in the Buffalo Business Week

1931
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:27,120
Speaker 1: really have great technique. I'm pretty sure Davil in the

1932
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:29,280
Speaker 1: office will have some schemes maybe getting the ball out

1933
01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:31,160
Speaker 1: of your hands quick and getting the ball in the

1934
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:33,240
Speaker 1: hand of your playmakers and let them do some things

1935
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:36,200
Speaker 1: and get that line movement sideways. This will be a

1936
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:38,519
Speaker 1: great week to have the run game come alive because

1937
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 1: then as a pass rusher, you have to honor the run.

1938
01:46:41,479 --> 01:46:43,760
Speaker 1: You know, if you no longer can pin your ears back,

1939
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,839
Speaker 1: if it's second and nine, maybe it's you know, second

1940
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:49,360
Speaker 1: in four and that maybe they're gonna run it, maybe

1941
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:51,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna pass it. So I think the run game

1942
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:54,120
Speaker 1: is really gonna have to come alive this week to

1943
01:46:54,360 --> 01:46:57,280
Speaker 1: keep those rushers of the Pittsburgh Steelers kind of at

1944
01:46:57,360 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 1: bay and kind of guessing as far as when they

1945
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: can pin their ears back and get after Josh in

1946
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:05,880
Speaker 1: that passing game. But I don't think the Pittsburgh Stealers

1947
01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:10,120
Speaker 1: has faced anybody with the type of weapons that the

1948
01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: Bills have either, you know, so you can undress a

1949
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff, you know, go to empty. You know,

1950
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:16,479
Speaker 1: Dave was really creative with some of his motions and

1951
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:19,879
Speaker 1: schemes that he gets to where now, defensively, I undress

1952
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: you do I really want to blitz and leave Cole

1953
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,840
Speaker 1: Beasley one on one or Stefan Diggs. So you have

1954
01:47:25,040 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 1: to be very calculated and play more to the situation

1955
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:30,559
Speaker 1: versus just saying, Okay, I'm better than you, I'm gonna

1956
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:33,599
Speaker 1: die these things up. Well, there's really no other team

1957
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:36,320
Speaker 1: in the league that has the type of weapons across

1958
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:38,559
Speaker 1: the boards the way the Bills was. Maybe the Kansas

1959
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:41,760
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, but they don't face those type of teams

1960
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:44,120
Speaker 1: weekend and week out. And I don't know, Pittsburghers still

1961
01:47:44,160 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 1: try to do what they want to, but they may

1962
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:48,760
Speaker 1: want to be, you know, approached that with caution because

1963
01:47:48,800 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 1: we've seen what they're able to do, especially Josh, and

1964
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:52,840
Speaker 1: the pressure to be able to avoid some things extend

1965
01:47:52,960 --> 01:47:55,559
Speaker 1: plays that leads to some big chunk plays. Down the field.

1966
01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: Steve and I were talking about this earlier in the show.

1967
01:47:57,960 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 1: I think you can kind of speak to this with

1968
01:47:59,600 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 1: a level expertise here because you look at the second

1969
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:05,120
Speaker 1: level of defense for the Steelers. We already know that

1970
01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:07,760
Speaker 1: Devin Bushes out for the year. They just lost his

1971
01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:11,320
Speaker 1: replacement to a knee injury in Monday night's game, and

1972
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like he's going to play. Vince Williams

1973
01:48:14,280 --> 01:48:16,920
Speaker 1: just went on the COVID list. So that's three of

1974
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:20,000
Speaker 1: their top four inside linebackers on the roster. These are

1975
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:23,360
Speaker 1: the guys that call the defense, and now you're going

1976
01:48:23,400 --> 01:48:25,840
Speaker 1: to have either a very young player coming on the

1977
01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 1: field or a converted safety and Marcus Allen. Somebody is

1978
01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 1: going to have to fill the void there. Maybe just

1979
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:36,559
Speaker 1: talk to me about in the span of six days,

1980
01:48:37,200 --> 01:48:39,759
Speaker 1: coming up with a guy that you feel confident handling

1981
01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:43,080
Speaker 1: that role and how that opposing offense can kind of

1982
01:48:43,120 --> 01:48:45,160
Speaker 1: play some games with you, or do you just hand

1983
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:47,320
Speaker 1: those duties off to a safety, like you know, make

1984
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 1: a Fitzpatrick or Terrell Edmonds. I mean, as far as

1985
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:54,799
Speaker 1: calling the defense in the huddle is one thing, itybody

1986
01:48:54,880 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who does that. It could be a defensive lineman.

1987
01:48:57,280 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 1: You know, as far as all, I can't here, because

1988
01:48:59,120 --> 01:49:01,560
Speaker 1: everybody has to get a call and hear it. The

1989
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: hardest part is going to be the communication right, that's

1990
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 1: what I'm getting. The linebackers are right or the bridge right,

1991
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:10,160
Speaker 1: you know, so if you break the huddle, we get out.

1992
01:49:10,240 --> 01:49:12,439
Speaker 1: I'm making a close left, close right. I'm making a

1993
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:15,080
Speaker 1: blitz set up. If we're blitzing, I'm also checking to

1994
01:49:15,200 --> 01:49:17,040
Speaker 1: the back end. You know what kype of coverage? Are

1995
01:49:17,080 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 1: we playing versus a you know, a two by two

1996
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:22,040
Speaker 1: or a three by one set. And so if you

1997
01:49:22,160 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 1: put a guy in there that it's not used to talking.

1998
01:49:25,320 --> 01:49:27,040
Speaker 1: So if you have a younger guy or who hasn't

1999
01:49:27,040 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 1: been out there, you convert somebody that's maybe like a

2000
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:31,680
Speaker 1: real linebacker, like let's say Matt Mclone will move him

2001
01:49:31,680 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 1: over to mic. It's not that he can't do it,

2002
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:35,920
Speaker 1: he's just not he's not used to it. And so

2003
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:38,200
Speaker 1: when you're playing a team like the Bills that execute

2004
01:49:38,240 --> 01:49:40,559
Speaker 1: at a very high level and have all these weapons,

2005
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:43,719
Speaker 1: you don't have room for error to kind of think about,

2006
01:49:44,439 --> 01:49:47,280
Speaker 1: well do I call is it close right? Or is

2007
01:49:47,320 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: it rib or we adjusting a box because if you're

2008
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: a split second too late, you get guys running free.

2009
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:54,280
Speaker 1: And I would say the same thing if you try

2010
01:49:54,320 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 1: to move a safety, even though he's a veteran Mike

2011
01:49:56,640 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 1: and Fitzpatrick, if you're moving from safety up your it's

2012
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 1: a different perspective that you're seeing the field now from

2013
01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, from further back to moving closer. You have

2014
01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 1: to be able to expand your vision. And then again,

2015
01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:11,960
Speaker 1: those guys are just used to talking forward, you know,

2016
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: it's different when you're talking to d lineman and then

2017
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:16,839
Speaker 1: having to get back to safeties. It's just a different perspective.

2018
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:19,080
Speaker 1: And if you're not used to those things, even though

2019
01:50:19,120 --> 01:50:22,920
Speaker 1: you know it, you sometimes second guess yourself because you're

2020
01:50:22,960 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: you have a different vantage point now. So that will

2021
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: be a challenge for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But as I say,

2022
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,760
Speaker 1: I mean they're well coach football team, so they will

2023
01:50:30,800 --> 01:50:33,160
Speaker 1: get somebody coached up. It's going to be all about

2024
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:35,720
Speaker 1: how they execute. So there may be some opportunity in

2025
01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: there to give them some different looks, maybe some different

2026
01:50:38,439 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: motions to call some some uncertainty or room for Paul

2027
01:50:43,400 --> 01:50:46,120
Speaker 1: whoever's going to step into that mic linebacker spot to

2028
01:50:46,240 --> 01:50:47,840
Speaker 1: where now they're not on the same page, and you

2029
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:51,200
Speaker 1: take advantage of a lack of in experience in that position,

2030
01:50:51,439 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: because I'm I could see Dable going tempo on them too.

2031
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:55,840
Speaker 1: You know, you get a first down, bang right up

2032
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:58,160
Speaker 1: to the line again, and off they go again, snapping

2033
01:50:58,200 --> 01:51:00,280
Speaker 1: the ball in like five seconds after they get everybody

2034
01:51:00,360 --> 01:51:02,800
Speaker 1: up there, and you know that guy's still he's still

2035
01:51:02,840 --> 01:51:05,080
Speaker 1: trying to go through his checks and then they're already going.

2036
01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:08,160
Speaker 1: So I just think there's gonna be opportunities. I think

2037
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:10,760
Speaker 1: there's gonna be opportunities like that if they have some

2038
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:15,560
Speaker 1: younger guys, you know, sitting in those roles. The Pittsburgh

2039
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:21,360
Speaker 1: offense Lorenzo puzzling, puzzling because it is in stark contrast

2040
01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:24,640
Speaker 1: to what we've seen for so many years with Ben

2041
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:28,320
Speaker 1: Lam Roethlisberger, which was basically, let me stiff arm this

2042
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:31,360
Speaker 1: guy in the pocket, let me shrug off this linebacker,

2043
01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:34,280
Speaker 1: let me extend the play, chuck at fifty yards Antonio

2044
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,560
Speaker 1: Brown in the back of the end zone, touchdown, and

2045
01:51:36,640 --> 01:51:38,719
Speaker 1: then let's run the ball for one hundred and fifty yards.

2046
01:51:38,760 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: By the way, also, they can't run the ball right now.

2047
01:51:42,120 --> 01:51:44,679
Speaker 1: I've never seen it like this in Pittsburgh. They cannot

2048
01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:49,200
Speaker 1: run the ball. They had seven runs fourteen total rushes

2049
01:51:49,320 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 1: last week ZO against a good defensive front Washington. Nothing

2050
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: to take away from them. They got a good group

2051
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:57,479
Speaker 1: of all first round draft choices up front, by the way,

2052
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:01,640
Speaker 1: but they had fourteen rushes in the game. Seven of

2053
01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 1: them didn't even get a yard. And there's some plays

2054
01:52:04,520 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 1: there that I was watching on tape ZO they got

2055
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: seven guys blocking five they can't get a yard. What

2056
01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:16,160
Speaker 1: is going on in Pittsburgh. Well, again, you know, my

2057
01:52:16,320 --> 01:52:18,439
Speaker 1: t hinted to it a couple of weeks ago, and

2058
01:52:18,600 --> 01:52:23,679
Speaker 1: so that's why I wouldn't I wouldn't invest my game

2059
01:52:23,760 --> 01:52:26,280
Speaker 1: plan or my thought process of who I thought the

2060
01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers were, too much about what happened last week

2061
01:52:29,880 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 1: when you mentioned, you know, fourteen runs, half of them

2062
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,519
Speaker 1: to get into any yards, because you know, this week,

2063
01:52:34,640 --> 01:52:37,600
Speaker 1: my TIS turned turned that gauge up, saying this is

2064
01:52:37,680 --> 01:52:40,080
Speaker 1: not who we are, this is not the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2065
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:42,800
Speaker 1: Yes we made you know, Ben is doing some different

2066
01:52:42,840 --> 01:52:44,519
Speaker 1: things in the quick game and getting the ball out

2067
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:48,960
Speaker 1: of his hands, but our identity is rooting and being

2068
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:51,800
Speaker 1: able to run us football. And that's how we've you know,

2069
01:52:51,880 --> 01:52:55,080
Speaker 1: typically won games, played great defense, run the ball well.

2070
01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:58,120
Speaker 1: Obviously Ben Is getting interjected makes a big plays. But

2071
01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:01,400
Speaker 1: that's one thing because that speaks to physicality that really

2072
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:03,479
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't even have nothing to do with scheme, right,

2073
01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:06,479
Speaker 1: nothing what you dialed up. It's all about physicality being

2074
01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:11,040
Speaker 1: being dominant up front. And that's his mentality. As far

2075
01:53:11,120 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 1: as Mike t how he coaches, what he expects didn't

2076
01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:16,479
Speaker 1: add up to what you just talked about. So that's

2077
01:53:16,479 --> 01:53:18,960
Speaker 1: gonna be out there, probably a point of emphasis because

2078
01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:20,760
Speaker 1: obviously they want to beat the Bills, but they know

2079
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to be able to run the

2080
01:53:22,439 --> 01:53:24,680
Speaker 1: ball in the playoffs if they want to get back

2081
01:53:24,680 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 1: to the championship caliber type of team, because you may

2082
01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:30,280
Speaker 1: show up and maybe they have to come to Buffalo

2083
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:32,640
Speaker 1: and play who knows or you know, Kevi see and

2084
01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:34,599
Speaker 1: it's snowing and it's crazy. You just never know what's

2085
01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna happen over the next four weeks, and you're gonna

2086
01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:38,600
Speaker 1: have to be able to run the football. And so

2087
01:53:38,680 --> 01:53:40,840
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a point of emphasis, and the Bills

2088
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:43,920
Speaker 1: once again will have another great challenge to showcase their

2089
01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 1: befit the line because they've been playing really well and

2090
01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,760
Speaker 1: stop that run early, and that's something that they need

2091
01:53:48,840 --> 01:53:51,000
Speaker 1: to continue to work on and continue to shore up

2092
01:53:51,040 --> 01:53:52,639
Speaker 1: as they head into the playoffs as well. So it's

2093
01:53:52,640 --> 01:53:54,640
Speaker 1: gonna be a good, I think battle and matchup on

2094
01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:57,439
Speaker 1: so many different levels, especially on the back end where

2095
01:53:57,479 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 1: you know Pittsburgh has you know, playpool was coming up

2096
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:03,320
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster and how our back in hand with those

2097
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:05,759
Speaker 1: guys as well. So it's gonna be a fun game, exciting.

2098
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:08,439
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Yeah, and you know to that point,

2099
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:11,720
Speaker 1: I you know, I believe me. I'm as weary as

2100
01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: anybody about what the Steelers can turn out in a

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Speaker 1: given week. I have as much respect for them as anybody.

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Speaker 1: Despite what happened last Monday. I'm wondering about the cumulative

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01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:25,920
Speaker 1: toll on this Steeler's roster. Okay, as you mentioned, no

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01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:29,360
Speaker 1: bye week yet and probably won't get one unless they

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Speaker 1: get the top seed in the AFC, which is still

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01:54:31,439 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: there for them. But this is going to be their

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Speaker 1: third game in twelve days as well. I'm just thinking

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Speaker 1: about the cumulative effect here. They've got guys dropping off,

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Speaker 1: you know, ir COVID, they're a little shorthanded I'm just

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01:54:48,520 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 1: thinking of the cumulative effect there, and if the Bills

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Speaker 1: can get up on them early and kind of pound

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Speaker 1: on them, win the battle at the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: early in this football game, they might be able, might

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Speaker 1: be able to get this Steelers team to kind of

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Speaker 1: back off a little bit. And I don't know, maybe no,

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Speaker 1: I think if they punch, I don't know what kind

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Speaker 1: of this Steelers team will never this will never back

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Speaker 1: off or quit or you know, oh, well, this is

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Speaker 1: our third game in twelve days. They're beating us pretty good,

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Speaker 1: or you know, but you know, we still got a

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Speaker 1: playoff spot. That that won't cross their mind. They're not

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're not a perennial playoff team. They're

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Speaker 1: not who we know them to be because they have

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Speaker 1: that type of mindset. I mean, we talk about coaching

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Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. I mean Mike t has established

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01:55:39,320 --> 01:55:42,640
Speaker 1: that coachure um for a long time now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's probably one of the most respected coaches in the league. Um.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the guys that I wish I

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01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:48,840
Speaker 1: would have had an opportunity to play for some time

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01:55:48,880 --> 01:55:52,640
Speaker 1: in my career. His guys respect him so much and

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01:55:52,720 --> 01:55:56,960
Speaker 1: have so much reverence for him and what that organization means,

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01:55:57,040 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 1: that you're never gonna see any quit Um. I can't

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Speaker 1: even think of a time where I even thought about that.

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Speaker 1: When you watched up Pittsburgh Stills even some of some

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Speaker 1: of their down years, right when they go eight and eight. Yeah,

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01:56:07,720 --> 01:56:10,520
Speaker 1: you never get that feel. You never hear that coming

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01:56:10,560 --> 01:56:13,960
Speaker 1: out of the media or the locker room. There's never

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01:56:14,080 --> 01:56:15,800
Speaker 1: none of that going on. So I don't see that

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Speaker 1: starting now. Um. I do think because of the lack

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Speaker 1: of a bye weekum, being a third game in twelve days,

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Speaker 1: and some of the adversity of COVID and having some

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Speaker 1: players down that maybe the physicality part of it and

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01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:32,000
Speaker 1: the mentality that they won't it won't be intentional. But

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Speaker 1: like you say, but the wear and tear and the

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01:56:34,120 --> 01:56:37,320
Speaker 1: fatigue of the game may may get to them, but

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01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:39,480
Speaker 1: it's not like they're gonna make a conscious decision to

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01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:44,320
Speaker 1: say I'm shutting it down. I'm not what I want right,

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Speaker 1: and I probably would be. It's because of attrition, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I probably asked that poorly because I was trying

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Speaker 1: to say what you just said. So thank you for

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01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:54,280
Speaker 1: thank you for explaining it. Better than I could. Um,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about this one though, Zoh? Bottom line,

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Speaker 1: I mean I like it. I mean the way the

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01:57:01,640 --> 01:57:05,040
Speaker 1: Bills are playing right now, especially when you see the

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01:57:05,040 --> 01:57:09,280
Speaker 1: emergence of the defense, I like it. I think we're

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01:57:10,840 --> 01:57:14,280
Speaker 1: the Bills are probably best positioned from a mentally physically standpoint,

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01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 1: the way they're playing to beat a real contender. You know,

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01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:19,400
Speaker 1: you think about those other games with the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Titans, and the adversity as far as

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Speaker 1: COVID and all the stuff, all the distractions that was

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01:57:25,200 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 1: going around that earlier in the year. Defense not playing

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01:57:27,680 --> 01:57:30,120
Speaker 1: well just so so many other things that was going

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Speaker 1: on during that time, and not performing the way they

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01:57:32,400 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 1: should not excuse as they didn't play well and lost

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Speaker 1: both those games. And now you're playing really good. You're

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Speaker 1: starting to peek at the right time. Everybody's rested and

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Speaker 1: doing well. You have a one track mind. You getting

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Speaker 1: closer to the playoffs. Some things are still still there

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Speaker 1: for you, and so you want to be able to

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Speaker 1: play at a high level. And you see the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: still is where they're at. I think it's gonna be

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01:57:52,680 --> 01:57:55,080
Speaker 1: a really good game. But I do think the Bills

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01:57:55,360 --> 01:57:59,440
Speaker 1: are at this point, maybe playing slightly better and with

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Speaker 1: this offense, I mean, the way Josh Adam is playing.

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Speaker 1: If they come out and do it and repeat the

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Speaker 1: same type of efficiency, maybe not put up the same

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Speaker 1: amount of points, but the efficiency that they show last week,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's hard to beat them. It is

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Speaker 1: gonna play out being hard. So I think it's gonna

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01:58:15,080 --> 01:58:18,120
Speaker 1: be a close one with the Bills winning, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe by you know, three or four points, and it's

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01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 1: going to come down to, you know, that last drive.

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Speaker 1: But like most games come down to, should be fun.

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Speaker 1: Should be a fun one for sure, all right, So

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Speaker 1: enjoy that game Sunday night. Thanks for all the insight here.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We'll catch up with you next week.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Pressy soon, all right. Lorenzo Alexandra with

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Speaker 1: the lowdown here on a Friday edition of One Bills Live.

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01:58:39,840 --> 01:58:42,400
Speaker 1: Joins us every week to give us his thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the past performance and the one upcoming. He thinks it's

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01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:47,440
Speaker 1: gonna be a tight one on Sunday night. I do

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Speaker 1: think it will be tight two, but a good battle nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: and looking forward to it for sure, as I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you guys are as well. Break time for us here,

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Speaker 1: but when we return more of your questions from the

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Speaker 1: obl fan may bag, we'll get those answered here. Next

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio back Got One Bills Live. Chris Brown with

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Speaker 1: you time now for this week's edition of The Team Reporters,

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Speaker 1: where our colleague Maddie Glab catches up with Steelers dot

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Speaker 1: com reporter Missy Matthews to help set up Sunday Night's

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Speaker 1: game between the Bills and Steelers here at Bill's Stadium. Missy,

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Speaker 1: a big Sunday night football matchup here for Week fourteen.

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Speaker 1: It's the Bills and the Steelers. But the Steelers, they've

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01:59:44,320 --> 01:59:47,240
Speaker 1: been playing quite a few games in a short amount

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01:59:47,280 --> 01:59:50,600
Speaker 1: of time. You guys have completely gotten the short end

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Speaker 1: of the stick when it comes to schedule changes and

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Speaker 1: things like that. Due to COVID nineteen. You guys are

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Speaker 1: set to play your third game and eleven days here

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Speaker 1: coming to Buffalo to play the Bills. How is the

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Speaker 1: team dealt with all these schedules shifts and change is

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Speaker 1: certainly not easy, especially towards the end of the season. Here, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the three postponements for the Ravens game just

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02:00:16,000 --> 02:00:18,720
Speaker 1: everybody didn't know what was happening, and obviously you feel

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Speaker 1: for the players, their families, anybody that was affected by

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Speaker 1: contracting the virus or being a close contact. It's, you know,

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Speaker 1: a very scary and real thing. But you know, going

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02:00:28,520 --> 02:00:31,080
Speaker 1: back to earlier in the season before when our bye

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02:00:31,120 --> 02:00:34,840
Speaker 1: week was completely just thrown upon us. Everything was changed,

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Speaker 1: Coach Donlon said, we do not care like this is

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. They're playing football in the middle of a pandemic,

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02:00:40,760 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 1: so you have to be laid on your feet and

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Speaker 1: just kind of go with the flow. The postponement with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens game wasn't great because it just kept changing

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Speaker 1: and changing. The only good thing is that there were

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Speaker 1: three straight days that coach Tomalon gave the players no

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02:00:55,080 --> 02:00:58,240
Speaker 1: physical practices. They actually had Thanksgiving off, which you know

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02:00:58,320 --> 02:01:00,879
Speaker 1: in football doesn't happen too often and you're either practicing

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02:01:01,000 --> 02:01:04,360
Speaker 1: or doing something, so that was maybe their quasi maybe

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Speaker 1: buy in terms of resting their bodies. Joe Hayden was

2231
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:08,840
Speaker 1: a guy that if that game is played on Thanksgiving,

2232
02:01:09,160 --> 02:01:11,800
Speaker 1: was never going to play that game, So it getting

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02:01:11,840 --> 02:01:15,360
Speaker 1: moved got him a chance to come back, so helps

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Speaker 1: with injuries of a I do think you know the

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Speaker 1: human element of it, Like you and I, when you're

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Speaker 1: changing constantly, you kind of don't know if you're coming

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Speaker 1: or going, and I think you know, the guys fuil

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02:01:25,560 --> 02:01:28,080
Speaker 1: that as well. So Coach Salmon definitely does a good

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Speaker 1: job of trying to keep them singularly focused at whatever

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Speaker 1: is the next game, the next task. And as you

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Speaker 1: said Sunday Night Football and Buffalo, Yeah, the Bills have

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02:01:38,760 --> 02:01:40,879
Speaker 1: gotten a little bit of a taste of the schedule

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Speaker 1: changes too. Earlier in the season when they're game against

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans got pushed and that's a game that

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Speaker 1: the Bills lost, and you could kind of tell that. Unfortunately,

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02:01:50,400 --> 02:01:53,200
Speaker 1: the schedule changed seemed to throw them off a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So it's definitely something that is not easy for a

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Speaker 1: whole team to adjust to. But but like you said,

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Speaker 1: you just have to kind and expect the unexpected. In

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Speaker 1: this twenty twenty year that we've all been dealing with,

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02:02:06,040 --> 02:02:08,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers suffered their first loss of the season. They

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Speaker 1: were going for twelve and oh loss to the Washington

2253
02:02:12,240 --> 02:02:15,000
Speaker 1: football team and they've scored less than twenty points in

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, they scored nineteen in a win

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Speaker 1: against the Ravens and then seventeen against the Washington football team.

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Speaker 1: This team normally averages twenty seven point eight points per games,

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Speaker 1: so it's an explosive offense. But why do you think

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Speaker 1: the Steelers offense has struggled here in the last two games. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you go back to the win over the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: as you said, they still didn't score that many points

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Speaker 1: as they were previously in the season. It didn't feel

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Speaker 1: like a good win. They won, but there was also

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Speaker 1: a pick six by Joe Hayden in that game to

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Speaker 1: score some points. And then of course you know the

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Speaker 1: Washington football team when they came here to Hinesfield. It's

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Speaker 1: the offense just doesn't have the fluidity, and the players

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Speaker 1: have talked about it leading into this game, and even

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Speaker 1: weeks prior. Coach someone has talked about it the end

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Speaker 1: game not necessarily having to have a one one hundred

2270
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Speaker 1: yard rusher every single game. But if you can't score

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Speaker 1: one yard out, as coach said, then you don't deserve

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Speaker 1: to win. And that is exactly what happened in that

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Speaker 1: game against Washington. Drops have been a problems the past,

2274
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Speaker 1: a problem the past two weeks by wide receivers and

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Speaker 1: tight end Eric Ebruns. So it just seems like they

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Speaker 1: need to Maybe it was a silver lining and it

2277
02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:30,080
Speaker 1: was against an NFC team. They certainly did not deserve

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02:03:30,160 --> 02:03:32,960
Speaker 1: to win that game, not that they didn't have chances,

2279
02:03:33,120 --> 02:03:37,440
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was just not a great day. Recently,

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02:03:37,560 --> 02:03:40,960
Speaker 1: we have had to limit the small amount of fans

2281
02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:43,280
Speaker 1: we've been allowed to have at home games even more so.

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02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 1: So it's just been a really weird past two weeks.

2283
02:03:46,840 --> 02:03:50,280
Speaker 1: And we'll see if they can respond. TJ Bot said,

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02:03:50,280 --> 02:03:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, we have a bad taste in our mouth.

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02:03:51,680 --> 02:03:54,440
Speaker 1: Let's see what we can do moving forward. Yeah, you

2286
02:03:54,560 --> 02:03:57,520
Speaker 1: touched on the rushing offense. There that something that Buffalo

2287
02:03:57,680 --> 02:04:01,480
Speaker 1: has struggled with too this season. Under the one hundred

2288
02:04:01,640 --> 02:04:05,640
Speaker 1: yards rushing every single game. They just push that over

2289
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Speaker 1: one hundred. In the past couple of games have seen

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Speaker 1: some success and have started to have a little bit

2291
02:04:10,680 --> 02:04:14,480
Speaker 1: more balanced attack instead of just passing the ball heavily

2292
02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:16,880
Speaker 1: every game. So it's been good to see our running

2293
02:04:16,880 --> 02:04:19,160
Speaker 1: backs get going, and I know that's what you need,

2294
02:04:19,280 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, heading into the end of the season, into

2295
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Is a balanced attack from your rushers and

2296
02:04:24,760 --> 02:04:28,680
Speaker 1: your passers and receivers. But when the offense hasn't struggled

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers, I mean Ben Roethlisberger has plenty of

2298
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Speaker 1: weapons at his disposal. I look at these two teams

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Speaker 1: and I see a lot of similarities and just who

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Speaker 1: Ben can throw the ball too, and who Josh can

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Speaker 1: throw the ball to receivers, tight ends, running backs. I

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Speaker 1: was looking at the stats for the Steelers and they

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Speaker 1: have four players who have over five hundred rushing or

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Speaker 1: receiving yards. In your eyes, when you think this offense

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Speaker 1: has had their most success and how has that played out? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we've seen rookie y receiver Chase clay Will

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Speaker 1: really come into his own. His first touchdown was over

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Speaker 1: eighty yards and he really just has It's crazy when

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Speaker 1: you think about a rookie with a veteran quarterback being

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Speaker 1: so well on the same page. No offseason, you were

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Speaker 1: drafted virtually, you know, trading camp was different than what

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Speaker 1: we're used to. Of course, as a rookie, you don't

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Speaker 1: know any better. This is your first experience. But Ben

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Speaker 1: really does have a lot of trusted Chase Clay Pill

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Speaker 1: and we've seen that relationship come to fruition here. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Schuster, Deontay Johnson, even James Washington is maybe

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Speaker 1: that un He's that forgotten wide receiver that's part of

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Speaker 1: the group that, even going back to his rookie year,

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02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,440
Speaker 1: was not on the same page with Ben and they

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Speaker 1: have a good rapport now. He had a touchdown, a

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Speaker 1: fifty yard touchdown last week against the Washington football team

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Speaker 1: and e runs another guy, Vance McDonald. They were you know,

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Speaker 1: Vance was on the COVID list and they were doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of two tight end sets and Vance even

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Speaker 1: said he runs the catcher on the blocker, I help

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Speaker 1: in the run game. So Vance is back, And I

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Speaker 1: do think that kind of goes back to the problems

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers. You know, Marquis Pennty has missed the

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Speaker 1: past two games. James Conner's just returning to practice this week.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll play against you guys on Sunday. So you know,

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02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:14,560
Speaker 1: you can't make excuses for it, but there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things other than just the schedule changing

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Speaker 1: in the uncertainty with that, in terms of personnel that

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Speaker 1: you know, the Steelers are not immune to as well.

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Speaker 1: As every other team in the National Football League. Most definitely,

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Speaker 1: one thing that is for certain has remained true for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers is their defense is out of this world

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02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:35,680
Speaker 1: again this season, They're allowing only seventeen point six points

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02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:38,720
Speaker 1: a game and they forced turnovers like no other team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. They rank first with sixteen interceptions, forty

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02:06:42,640 --> 02:06:46,960
Speaker 1: four sacks, twenty three takeaways. We know this defense is

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02:06:47,280 --> 02:06:50,720
Speaker 1: strong pretty much year in year out under Mike Tomlin,

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02:06:50,840 --> 02:06:54,560
Speaker 1: but what's different about this year's group. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: their closest and I know that's not like a sexy

2345
02:06:57,480 --> 02:06:59,920
Speaker 1: x ando thing about it. Obviously, they lost Evan Bush

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02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:02,600
Speaker 1: early in the season, Bud Duprie. The Steelers just played

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Speaker 1: their first game without him. The tanem of him and TJ.

2348
02:07:05,800 --> 02:07:09,760
Speaker 1: Watt just rushing the passer has been incredible. The Steelers

2349
02:07:09,880 --> 02:07:12,960
Speaker 1: last week against Washington tied the NFL records for sixty

2350
02:07:13,080 --> 02:07:16,920
Speaker 1: nine consecutive games with at least one sack. Thirty one

2351
02:07:17,280 --> 02:07:19,640
Speaker 1: during that streak was four more sacks in the game.

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02:07:19,720 --> 02:07:22,160
Speaker 1: So that's just that's their m and they are not

2353
02:07:22,280 --> 02:07:24,760
Speaker 1: bashful about the fact that they like to create pressure,

2354
02:07:24,840 --> 02:07:27,040
Speaker 1: they like to blitz, but also the back end they

2355
02:07:27,120 --> 02:07:29,640
Speaker 1: have veterans there and Joe Hayden and Steve Nelson and

2356
02:07:30,080 --> 02:07:32,800
Speaker 1: makeup Fitzpatrick, I would say is the difference they traded

2357
02:07:32,880 --> 02:07:35,720
Speaker 1: for him last year, and I think he kind of

2358
02:07:35,960 --> 02:07:38,520
Speaker 1: came into his own in year two, better understanding of

2359
02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:42,040
Speaker 1: what everybody's doing and also just helping other guys out

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02:07:42,080 --> 02:07:45,160
Speaker 1: in the communication between the front end and the back end.

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02:07:45,200 --> 02:07:47,920
Speaker 1: And yeah, the turnovers just seemed to be happening, although

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02:07:47,960 --> 02:07:51,440
Speaker 1: they weren't quite so lucky against Washington on Monday Night.

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Speaker 1: This was an intense game between the Steelers and the

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Speaker 1: Bill's last season on Sunday Night Football. Another Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: Football go of it this season, plenty of premium matchups

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02:08:02,480 --> 02:08:05,480
Speaker 1: to look into. It will certainly be a great game

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02:08:05,760 --> 02:08:07,760
Speaker 1: when you look at the talent on both sides of

2368
02:08:07,840 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 1: the ball. But what matchup are you looking forward to

2369
02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:15,080
Speaker 1: most here in this game? Not necessarily like wide receiver

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02:08:15,320 --> 02:08:18,920
Speaker 1: VERSU dB, but I think the Steelers defense against Josh Allen.

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02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:21,760
Speaker 1: He's kind of similar in Ben Roethlisberger in terms of,

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02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:24,360
Speaker 1: you know, getting the ball out quick and being able

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02:08:24,480 --> 02:08:26,840
Speaker 1: to take his time if he needs to. So I

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02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:30,960
Speaker 1: am interested to see the matchup of what the Steelers

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02:08:31,040 --> 02:08:34,480
Speaker 1: defense does. Hopefully Steve Nelson comes back this week for them.

2376
02:08:34,600 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden is in a concussion protocol, so he's kind

2377
02:08:37,360 --> 02:08:40,520
Speaker 1: of a wild card at this point. And then Robert Spillane,

2378
02:08:40,600 --> 02:08:43,280
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker who was filling in for Devin Bush

2379
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:46,360
Speaker 1: who got hurt. He also is dealing with a knee injury.

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02:08:46,520 --> 02:08:49,280
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of moving parts still happening. And

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02:08:49,600 --> 02:08:52,280
Speaker 1: I think they also to hold themselves to a pretty

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02:08:52,360 --> 02:08:55,480
Speaker 1: high level. And yes, the offense has its issues, but

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02:08:55,600 --> 02:08:57,920
Speaker 1: I think this defense really wants to come out and

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02:08:57,960 --> 02:09:00,720
Speaker 1: improve that. You know, that wasn't a louve what happened

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. Yeah, I'm really interested to see what's

2386
02:09:03,880 --> 02:09:07,480
Speaker 1: going to happen between the matchup of makeup Fitzpatrick, just

2387
02:09:07,600 --> 02:09:10,320
Speaker 1: to see what he does with the Bills wide receivers,

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02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:14,360
Speaker 1: specifically Stefon Diggs, seeing if he can help limit some

2389
02:09:14,480 --> 02:09:16,680
Speaker 1: of the big plays that the Bills tend to have

2390
02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:19,880
Speaker 1: every single game. Stefan leads the league right now with

2391
02:09:20,040 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: ninety receptions, has over one thousand receiving yards, so I

2392
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 1: would think they would definitely lean on a wide receiver

2393
02:09:26,880 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 1: like him going up against such a talented defense. That

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02:09:30,120 --> 02:09:33,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers have, but stars aside, who are some more

2395
02:09:33,760 --> 02:09:37,040
Speaker 1: of the under the radar players that Bill's players and

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02:09:37,160 --> 02:09:40,120
Speaker 1: Bills fans should know about heading into the Sunday night

2397
02:09:40,160 --> 02:09:44,320
Speaker 1: football matchup. Well, you know, you guys have Tyler Mattacavige.

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02:09:44,400 --> 02:09:46,720
Speaker 1: We called him Dirty Red here in Pittsburgh. One of

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02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:51,360
Speaker 1: his former special teams guys, Jordan Dangerfield just continues to

2400
02:09:51,440 --> 02:09:54,280
Speaker 1: do great things on special teams. Dirty Red can tell

2401
02:09:54,320 --> 02:09:57,320
Speaker 1: you a lot about danger. But on the Steelers defense,

2402
02:09:57,400 --> 02:10:01,560
Speaker 1: Vince Williams is probably the most you know, underrated player

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02:10:01,640 --> 02:10:04,040
Speaker 1: in terms of He's not t J Water, Cam Hayward

2404
02:10:04,120 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: or make a Fitzpatrick like you mentioned, but he was

2405
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:09,120
Speaker 1: the guy that he has been with the Steelers defense

2406
02:10:09,120 --> 02:10:12,640
Speaker 1: since Ryan's Shazier played and then they drafted Devin and

2407
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:15,440
Speaker 1: then he came in and he's still hold it down

2408
02:10:15,520 --> 02:10:18,600
Speaker 1: even with when Robert Spillane was healthy and hopefully they

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02:10:18,720 --> 02:10:20,840
Speaker 1: get him back soon. Who knows what's going to happen

2410
02:10:20,920 --> 02:10:23,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but he's just kind of that veteran guy

2411
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:27,440
Speaker 1: that has been on this defense and really knows everything

2412
02:10:27,480 --> 02:10:29,720
Speaker 1: and can help sec guys. So I would say Vince

2413
02:10:29,840 --> 02:10:31,720
Speaker 1: is one of those names that probably doesn't, you know,

2414
02:10:31,840 --> 02:10:34,200
Speaker 1: pop out and I know you guys all know Terrell

2415
02:10:34,360 --> 02:10:37,680
Speaker 1: Edmunds because of his brother and we did that whole

2416
02:10:37,800 --> 02:10:40,640
Speaker 1: story last year, you know, the three brothers playing together.

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02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:44,680
Speaker 1: So I'd go with Danger and Vince Williams. Definitely. Yeah,

2418
02:10:44,680 --> 02:10:47,320
Speaker 1: it'll get to It'll be good to see the brothers

2419
02:10:47,400 --> 02:10:49,480
Speaker 1: get to see each other on the field. Certainly a

2420
02:10:49,640 --> 02:10:53,720
Speaker 1: different season, like we already talked about with Covid Bomber

2421
02:10:53,840 --> 02:10:56,520
Speaker 1: that probably all their friends and family can't be in

2422
02:10:56,560 --> 02:11:00,040
Speaker 1: the stands as the Bills don't have any fans in

2423
02:11:00,120 --> 02:11:02,760
Speaker 1: the stands this season, so I'm sure a lot of

2424
02:11:02,800 --> 02:11:06,280
Speaker 1: people will be watching and sharing them both on from home.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the time. Appreciate it. Good to

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02:11:09,360 --> 02:11:11,400
Speaker 1: get to know a little bit more about the Steelers

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Speaker 1: and preview this matchup as Sunday gets a little bit closer.

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Speaker 1: No problem, Thanks for having me. Wish I could see

2429
02:11:19,200 --> 02:11:21,360
Speaker 1: you on Sunday, but we'll have to text story the

2430
02:11:21,440 --> 02:11:23,800
Speaker 1: game or something. I know, right, the zoon is just

2431
02:11:23,920 --> 02:11:27,720
Speaker 1: going to have to do it, all right. That's our

2432
02:11:27,720 --> 02:11:31,280
Speaker 1: own Matti glab with Missy Matthews, the Steelers dot Com reporter,

2433
02:11:31,440 --> 02:11:33,880
Speaker 1: given us the four one one on the Steelers and

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02:11:34,280 --> 02:11:37,000
Speaker 1: the matchup four Sunday night break time for us. But

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02:11:37,080 --> 02:11:39,080
Speaker 1: we'll close things up with what have we Learned when

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio time for What

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Speaker 1: Have We Learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Had the

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02:12:05,480 --> 02:12:09,200
Speaker 1: privilege of having Bills GM Brandon Bean on the show today,

2441
02:12:09,320 --> 02:12:13,160
Speaker 1: fresh off signing his multi year contract extension to remain

2442
02:12:13,280 --> 02:12:16,440
Speaker 1: with the Bills for the foreseeable future. NFL dot coms

2443
02:12:16,440 --> 02:12:19,400
Speaker 1: I and Rappaport reporting that his new deal runs in

2444
02:12:19,480 --> 02:12:22,160
Speaker 1: concert with Sean mcdermot's through the twenty twenty five season.

2445
02:12:23,040 --> 02:12:28,640
Speaker 1: So Brandon addressed the multi year contract extension and you

2446
02:12:28,680 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be a good Christmas season for the Beans.

2447
02:12:30,840 --> 02:12:35,480
Speaker 1: Here's Brandon Nolan. What you guys that build here with

2448
02:12:35,640 --> 02:12:38,800
Speaker 1: Marv Levy and Bill Foley and in the nineties and

2449
02:12:38,960 --> 02:12:42,400
Speaker 1: watching this fan base and even you know, my time

2450
02:12:42,440 --> 02:12:44,520
Speaker 1: in Carolina when we played the Bills, and you still

2451
02:12:44,600 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 1: saw great support whether we were in Carolina and obviously

2452
02:12:47,800 --> 02:12:51,040
Speaker 1: here just this is one of the purest fan bases

2453
02:12:51,520 --> 02:12:54,240
Speaker 1: in all of sports, and definitely in the NFL. There's

2454
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:58,160
Speaker 1: probably two or three close to this. I'm obviously partial,

2455
02:12:58,200 --> 02:13:01,840
Speaker 1: as you guys are too, but that was attractive to

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02:13:02,000 --> 02:13:05,560
Speaker 1: me to come work for. You know, obviously I worked

2457
02:13:05,600 --> 02:13:09,000
Speaker 1: for the Pagoulahs, but I feel like, you know, we

2458
02:13:09,080 --> 02:13:11,800
Speaker 1: got a large committee in the Bills mafia world, and

2459
02:13:12,120 --> 02:13:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm working for them as well, and I want to

2460
02:13:14,120 --> 02:13:17,240
Speaker 1: provide a good product. And I know Sean would echo

2461
02:13:17,320 --> 02:13:20,760
Speaker 1: with that. So good to have branded on the show

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02:13:20,840 --> 02:13:23,280
Speaker 1: and kind of share his appreciation to the Pagoulas. So

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02:13:23,400 --> 02:13:26,720
Speaker 1: that was good. A couple of obil fan mailbag questions

2464
02:13:26,720 --> 02:13:29,120
Speaker 1: I want to see squeeze in here from Rachel. Everyone's

2465
02:13:29,160 --> 02:13:31,280
Speaker 1: now high on the Bills and doubting the Steelers, but

2466
02:13:31,360 --> 02:13:33,000
Speaker 1: what are the odds we see a bounce back game

2467
02:13:33,080 --> 02:13:36,120
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. They when they were winning, they could ignore

2468
02:13:36,160 --> 02:13:38,480
Speaker 1: their issues, but after losing, they've had all week to

2469
02:13:38,520 --> 02:13:41,040
Speaker 1: address their problems and motivation to prove the doubters wrong.

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02:13:41,480 --> 02:13:44,080
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna be on their p's and queues.

2471
02:13:44,120 --> 02:13:46,680
Speaker 1: There'll be a much more focused team after their first loss.

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02:13:47,000 --> 02:13:49,960
Speaker 1: That will make the game more challenging for sure. Somehow,

2473
02:13:50,080 --> 02:13:52,080
Speaker 1: some way, though I see I see the Bills pulling

2474
02:13:52,120 --> 02:13:55,080
Speaker 1: this one out, although it'll probably be a tight game

2475
02:13:55,440 --> 02:13:57,760
Speaker 1: for Steve task around Chris Brown, thanks for watching and

2476
02:13:57,840 --> 02:14:00,280
Speaker 1: listening to us all week. We'll catch up with on

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02:14:00,360 --> 02:14:03,120
Speaker 1: what we hope will be another Bill's victory Monday. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you then, m