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Speaker 1: text down, text down time. It's how we start here,

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Speaker 1: we go three hours of Buffalo Bills talk, NFL Talk.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Welcome to Orchard Park. As you

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Speaker 1: can see, the tarp is off or it's coming off.

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Speaker 1: Looks like they are moving the tarp as we speak.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on MSG, we're removing the tarp from

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Speaker 1: the field at New air of Field. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any snow in the forecast the rest of the week.

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Speaker 1: And we got the Bills in the Baltimore Ravens in

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Speaker 1: a very very very very very big game coming up

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Speaker 1: here on Sunday, the ten and two Ravens and nine

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Speaker 1: and three Buffalo Bills get afternoon and everybody, I'm John Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is Deep Tasker. His name's on the wall over there,

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Speaker 1: Bill's Wall of Famer, our co host again today here

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Speaker 1: until three, good show today, Big game today. Um, I

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Speaker 1: gave it to you. I wrote a post that I

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Speaker 1: write every week, kind of previewing what the big storylines

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Speaker 1: will be this week. One of them was meaningful December

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Speaker 1: football in Orchard Park. It's been a while, right and

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Speaker 1: thanks to Mike Him, Bill Statman, Mike him and his group,

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Speaker 1: Chris Jenkins, the Bill senior director of content. They've come

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Speaker 1: up with some of the more recent games when there

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Speaker 1: was this bigger game in Orchard Park. It's been a while.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while Steve nineteen ninety six. The last

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Speaker 1: time and what's at nineteen ninety six is twenty three,

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Speaker 1: three years ago. That was the last time that the

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Speaker 1: thirteenth week of the season. Who played then Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs ninety six? Were you here? The nine and six Chiefs?

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Speaker 1: The nine and six Bills? Bills one at twenty to

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Speaker 1: nine back on December twenty second, nineteen ninety six. They've

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Speaker 1: only played in history thirteen times and Bills have played

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Speaker 1: a game in December in which both they and their

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Speaker 1: weeks of the season. Thirteenth game of the year, they've

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Speaker 1: only played four of those games. Oh, I'm sorry, they

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Speaker 1: and only four of those have been at home, So

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Speaker 1: this is only the fifth time in franchise history that

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Speaker 1: the Bills have played a home game in which both

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Speaker 1: they and their opponent in Week thirteen have nine or

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Speaker 1: more wins. Feels like it, Yeah right? What does that

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Speaker 1: tell you? It tells you we don't get games like

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Speaker 1: twenty three years since nineteen ninety six. Last one before that.

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Speaker 1: You'll remember this game, I think Bills and Lions December

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Speaker 1: twenty second, ninety one. You are headed to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The Bills lost to Detroit in overtime. Seventeen fourteen. You

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Speaker 1: had clinched everything right, going to the Super Bowl. Second

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Speaker 1: executive year, right, Frank actually Frank Reich's on his birthday.

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Speaker 1: We remember him. It's his birthday today. But Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was they took so many guys out

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Speaker 1: lost a coin flip. Barry Sanders beat us in overtime. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: that game qualifies as a December game Week thirteen or later.

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Speaker 1: With two teams nine or more wins, the Lions came

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Speaker 1: We haven't had many games like this four times at home,

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people, it might happen every year.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes this game so compelling this week. For

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Speaker 1: They to me, teams are built now to fly around

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Speaker 1: You know, That's that's the way Ravens are winning games,

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Speaker 1: and it's you got to contend with it. Baltimore offense

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Speaker 1: as you call him, the atomic bomb at quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson, and he's really committed to the run.

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Speaker 1: It's not scheme for them, and the scheme is interesting,

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Speaker 1: They are as physical the team, the Bill said, faced

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Coming, Chris Brown? How have you been? I'm

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Speaker 1: able to tell it from the way the Bills are

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Speaker 1: working today. True, fall Yeah, I mean I think that

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Speaker 1: if there are any fans out there that are worried

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Speaker 1: about the Bills getting full of themselves after a big

430
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Speaker 1: win on a national stage last week, all you have

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Speaker 1: to do is point to the team they're playing this week,

432
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Speaker 1: which is the hottest team in football. It's very easy

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Speaker 1: to refocus the lens as a team when you're playing

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Speaker 1: a team that has had as much success as the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have had, which is eight straight wins. Guys, it's

436
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Speaker 1: easy to get ready for a team that's on an

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Speaker 1: eight game winning streak that's lighting up the league the

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Speaker 1: way the Ravens are if you're the Bills. One of

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Speaker 1: the things that continues to be a plus for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills is the fact that Tie and Secky is

441
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Speaker 1: the only guy on the injury reports. Murph doesn't want

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Speaker 1: me to talk about the injuries. He thinks it's gonna

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Speaker 1: jinx the team somehow. You've got to knock on wood.

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Speaker 1: But it's really been an amazing stretch by this team

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Speaker 1: that they stay so healthy this deep into the season right,

446
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Speaker 1: and the bonus for them, at least on the backside

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Speaker 1: of this Thanksgiving game is extra rest. So there you

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Speaker 1: can already see here just in the first fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: of practice, there is a spring in the step of

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Speaker 1: a lot of players, and it's because in large part

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Speaker 1: they basically got an extra three days off at least

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Speaker 1: in terms of staying off of their joints, off of

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Speaker 1: their feet to kind of recharge the batteries here as

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Speaker 1: they head into the home stretch of the schedule. I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, two three days off is an eternity

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Speaker 1: in the midst of an NFL season. They're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a lot of benefit from that, but only if they

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Speaker 1: can use it efficiently. What do you think has been

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Speaker 1: the difference in routine, if any, because of the long week, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it really changes much for them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Wednesday is a regular Wednesday now. I think

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Speaker 1: the changes were more impactful last week going into the

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Speaker 1: Dallas game. On the back, you've got more than enough

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Speaker 1: time to get yourself right, to prepare yourself for this

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Speaker 1: game with all the extra time you had afforded to you,

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Speaker 1: and coach has mentioned it to the players credit. They've

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Speaker 1: done the right things to take care of their bodies,

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Speaker 1: even the rookies, because this is all new territory for them,

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Speaker 1: especially from this point forward, because this is conference championship

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Speaker 1: week in the college game, and then after that it's

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Speaker 1: essentially a month off. Yes they're practicing, but a month

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Speaker 1: off of game action for those teams that were going

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Speaker 1: to bowl games or in the college football playoff. So

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Speaker 1: even though this is uncharted territory a lot of these

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Speaker 1: young players. I talked to Devin Singletary last week and

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Speaker 1: he told me, I'm taking care of my body. I'm

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Speaker 1: going in for treatments and all of that stuff. Even

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Speaker 1: though I have a twenty two year old body that

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Speaker 1: feels pretty good, even at this late stage of the season,

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Speaker 1: I'm still doing the right preventative stuff, so my body's

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Speaker 1: ready to perform here down the stretch. Chris Brown joined

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Speaker 1: us from the sidelines and builds practice inside the ad

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Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center. Chris, Josh Handlon and the Buffalo offense.

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Speaker 1: It took a while, like a little bit longer than

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Speaker 1: half the first half of the season, but I think

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Speaker 1: the Bills have found their recipe for offensive success at

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Speaker 1: least some offensive efficiency, a little bit of no huddle,

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Speaker 1: not a fast paced no huddle, but a little bit

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Speaker 1: of no huddle, and a lot of eleven personnel. I

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Speaker 1: would not look for any reason why, even against this

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Speaker 1: tough Baltimore defense, why they might want to come out

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Speaker 1: of that this week. Huh Yeah. I mean, if it's

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Speaker 1: not broke, don't fix it, right. So it's what has

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Speaker 1: really marked the turnaround for the offense in a couple

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Speaker 1: of areas, most notably point production. And I think to

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Speaker 1: a degree almost as important offensive efficiency and consistency of play.

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Speaker 1: And I'll go back to the Dallas game, as I

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Speaker 1: did on the heels of it when I was on

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Speaker 1: with you guys last Friday. There was a stretch coming

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Speaker 1: out of the the locker room after halftime where Josh completed

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Speaker 1: eleven straight passes over the course of three possessions. The

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Speaker 1: first three sessions in the second half had eleven straight

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Speaker 1: completions mixed in with some run plays, and the team

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Speaker 1: put thirteen points on the board and essentially put the

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Speaker 1: game away. That kind of consistency did not exist previously

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Speaker 1: before this team decided we're going to be a no

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Speaker 1: huddle team and we're gonna change tempo, and our offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator is going to watch what the defenses are doing

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Speaker 1: from up above in the coach's booth. So you roll

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Speaker 1: all that together, and it's a big reason why the

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Speaker 1: offense has kind of caught fire, found a measure of consistency,

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Speaker 1: has gelled and been able to perform no matter what

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Speaker 1: the opponent has thrown at them defensively. So even though

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Speaker 1: you're playing probably the most complete team you've seen this season,

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Speaker 1: there's no reason to change that until that opponent dictates

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Speaker 1: that you have to try something different. So I would

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Speaker 1: assume contingency plans will obviously be in place, as they

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Speaker 1: are every week, but I don't see them turning to

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Speaker 1: that unless they absolutely believe it's necessary. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: And I think it speaks to the fact that this

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Speaker 1: team has evolved so far from where they were in

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Speaker 1: the first month of the season. Because remember we had

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Speaker 1: long conversations on this show with you and other people

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Speaker 1: on the show about how the Bills struggled in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter in most of these games. Now it has

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Speaker 1: kind of ceased to be the case. At least this

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Speaker 1: last week, it ceased to be the case because you know,

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Speaker 1: they came out Josh Allen was very sharp coming out

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Speaker 1: a halftime. It's something that they had struggled with earlier

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Speaker 1: in the season, and I think it's one more way

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Speaker 1: that this is a completely different football team in week

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Speaker 1: fourteen than it was in week two, three, four, six, seven. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I think the key here

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Speaker 1: is getting off to a fast start at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the game, and maybe defensively even more than offensively,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are on out. I mean, the Ravens score

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Speaker 1: like crazy no matter what quarter it is, but they

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Speaker 1: get off to an especially quick start at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of games, and I think part of the reason for

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Speaker 1: that is because their offense is so unique looking. So

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Speaker 1: I even asked coach the question today at his press

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Speaker 1: conference about an hour ago. I asked him, as much

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Speaker 1: as you prepare for the uniqueness of this Ravens offense,

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Speaker 1: which deploys three tight ends in a way that no

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Speaker 1: other NFL team does. Although teams are already beginning to

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Speaker 1: copy it to a certain extent, mixing in plays here

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Speaker 1: and there. We've seen it with some other teams in

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Speaker 1: recent weeks, it's still, despite how much you prepare for it,

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Speaker 1: a shock when you're on the field and it's coming

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Speaker 1: at you live at one hundred miles per hour. And

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Speaker 1: so the challenge for the Bills defense this week is

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Speaker 1: maybe not necessarily to completely neutralize it, because nobody's proven

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Speaker 1: they can to this point. But I think it's the

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Speaker 1: biggest challenge is going to be to adjust to it

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Speaker 1: as quickly as possible, to make the reads you need

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Speaker 1: to make to keep gains to a minimum on the

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Speaker 1: part of that Baltimore offense. Because one more question for

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Speaker 1: you about the Buffalo offense, and that's Devin singletary motor

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Speaker 1: has become the motor of the Buffalo offense. And you

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Speaker 1: wrote a great piece on Buffalo Bills come about his

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Speaker 1: childhood connection to Lamar Jackson. That was a really good

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Speaker 1: piece to talk to us about a little bit. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 1: when Devin Singletary was a nine year old youth football

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Speaker 1: player in the South Florida Youth Football League, one of

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Speaker 1: their chief rivals he played for Deerfield Beach. One of

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Speaker 1: their chief rivals was Pompino, which is about ten minutes away,

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Speaker 1: so close proximity rivalries and all that. And yes, there

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Speaker 1: were rivalries like this even in nine year old football

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Speaker 1: and the guy on the other team was Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: so he faced Lamar Jackson at the age of nine.

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Speaker 1: Lamar's team got the better of Devin's team, even though

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Speaker 1: it was back and forth between those two guys. Devin

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Speaker 1: had two touchdowns in the game, Lamar had two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in the game. Lamar had the game winning touchdown as

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Speaker 1: they beat Deerfield twenty one to fourteen. But they have

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Speaker 1: never seen each other on opposing sidelines since that game

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Speaker 1: in little league football at nine years old. They followed

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Speaker 1: each other's careers through high school in college, but again

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Speaker 1: never played against each other. So here we are this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the first time they're gonna meet one another on a

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Speaker 1: football field for the first time in thirteen years to

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Speaker 1: kind of relive those youth football rivalry matchups. I gotta

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Speaker 1: get that film. Yeah, it's a great story. Hey, Chris Snaks,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk you, got it, guys. Chris Brown, Bills Insider

585
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com on the sidelines had practice bills

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Speaker 1: in their Wednesday practice getting set to play the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: As we said, the only guy probably going to be

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Speaker 1: in the injury list is offensive lineman Tie and Seki,

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Speaker 1: who missed last week with an ankle injury, making progress.

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Speaker 1: According to Sean McDermott, may get in limited work today.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. And look, I'm not You can talk about

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Speaker 1: how healthy they are. I get that. I just look injuries.

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Speaker 1: There's a little bit of luck involved. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to tempt fate. You know, Yeah, they've been pretty lucky.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say leave it at that. They have found

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Speaker 1: the magic elixir to prevent injuries here. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a little more than luck to it. They did a

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Speaker 1: little more, did the same thing last year, and they

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Speaker 1: pumped twenty million dollars into something that really worked well

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Speaker 1: for him last year, and now it's continues to be consistent,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's something that that's an enormous difference

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Speaker 1: maker for a team this deep end of the season,

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Speaker 1: when you have all your best guys ready to go.

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Speaker 1: That's it's just you don't get that very often. And

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Speaker 1: you get to the end of the season when the

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Speaker 1: teams are playing in the Super Bowl. You'll find a

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Speaker 1: lot of times that there'll be a story coming out

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Speaker 1: of those Super Bowl weeks where one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: these teams are here is because they stayed healthier than

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Speaker 1: other teams in their division, or other teams in their conference,

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Speaker 1: or other key teams in their conference. It's it's always

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Speaker 1: one of the things that's a positive for a team

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Speaker 1: that goes a little further than you thought they might.

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Speaker 1: Let's say I don't again, the new room. Weight room

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Speaker 1: means a lot. The training regiment means a lot. Luck

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Speaker 1: means a lot too when it comes to avoid the injuries. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I meant Listen, the game is off the hook when

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Speaker 1: you get out there and you're playing as people. You

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Speaker 1: don't know where you're gonna end up and how it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. But I'll tell you this too. They call

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Speaker 1: it a weight room, and we have a ton of

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Speaker 1: times call it. It's it's not a weight room over there.

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Speaker 1: It's way more. And you walk by it when you're

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Speaker 1: at the games or you come here to the facility,

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Speaker 1: you get to get a tour or whatever, and it

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Speaker 1: looks all cool. They got all these racks of and

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Speaker 1: all that. You know this, it's really a great facility.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't. That's like, not what it's about. It's about

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Speaker 1: other stuff. It's about maintenance, staying healthy, getting healthier, getting

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Speaker 1: preventative treatments so that you won't get injured, is you

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Speaker 1: won't pull a muscle at the wrong time. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've had a couple of guys pull hammy. It's been

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Speaker 1: waking the the injury this year for the Bills during

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Speaker 1: training camp, now, during and during the regular season. A

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Speaker 1: couple of guys got it. Robert Foster's dealing with it

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Speaker 1: now he's back on the field. So that building and

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00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: that stuff is it's not as much about getting guys

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Speaker 1: big and fit and strong as it is about keeping

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Speaker 1: them healthy. And that's man. It's nice to see at

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Speaker 1: this point of the season you got all your guys.

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Speaker 1: What's the key for the Bills and defending Ravens quarterback

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson Brownie got into it a little bit. Let's

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Speaker 1: hear what your thoughts are. Eight fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty Steve on Then

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Speaker 1: from New Jersey. Hello, Steve, go ahead, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, how are you doing. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: say it's such an honor and privilege to speak to

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Speaker 1: both of you. Growing up in New Jersey. I'm thirty two,

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Speaker 1: so I just recently got the radio app, so I

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Speaker 1: can listen to you guys all the time. But you

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Speaker 1: know I can vividly remember your Paul for the greatest comeback.

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Speaker 1: And Steve, I all my online passwords are Tasker eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: I want to name my dog Tasker. So oh, it's

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Speaker 1: just an honor and a privilege to speak to you guys. Actually,

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Speaker 1: thanks Steve. How many dogs we'll get to your question?

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Speaker 1: How many dogs you think are named after you? Doesn't

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Speaker 1: over the years? Hundreds? No, I'm double digit. Go ahead, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you had something else I think? Yeah, So I just

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Speaker 1: want to I've been thinking a lot about the game,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I love football, played football coaches

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So I think the three keys for

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Speaker 1: the Bills if they're gonna win this game, Um, number

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Speaker 1: one would have to be to have to create some turnovers.

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Speaker 1: If you look at look back if the Ravens games,

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Speaker 1: especially in the last eight, they haven't turned the ball

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Speaker 1: over very much, and in the games that were closer,

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Speaker 1: you noticed that, you know, they they've been getting turned over.

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Speaker 1: So I could see the Bills this week, if they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this game in this fashion that they you know,

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Speaker 1: it's always it's like a miracle season. There might be

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Speaker 1: some crazy turnovers and that's what they're gonna need one to,

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Speaker 1: you know, come out with a win. The other thing

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Speaker 1: I think that needs to happen is they need to

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Speaker 1: run the ball efficiently. If you look at the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: they have a top eight run defense. But the guys

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Speaker 1: this morning, we're saying that if you look at yards

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Speaker 1: per play, Um, they let him like a decent amount

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Speaker 1: of yards for play. So it's a little bit Um

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Speaker 1: not telling h that they can be run on. You know,

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Speaker 1: you saw with the Niners ran the ball a little bit.

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Speaker 1: They had a long touchdown run on him. So I

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Speaker 1: think Singletary could have a coming out party, especially with

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Speaker 1: that story that Chris did I read yesterday. That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: I can see him. They can't the plays as well

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Speaker 1: as m Lamar Jackson. Obviously you're not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to stop him. And the last thing is on defense,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, I know Steve talked about

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but you know, when you're playing against UM,

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Speaker 1: that type of offense, like an option RPO type offense,

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Speaker 1: is all about the Simons football, you know, So the

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Speaker 1: way to beat them is not to be more aggressive

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Speaker 1: and you know, hit hard or run fast, and it's

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Speaker 1: more about you know, each guy has a guy on

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Speaker 1: that play, so if they're about to spake the handoff,

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Speaker 1: someone's got to tackle that guy regardless. Um, and someone's

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Speaker 1: got Lamar and so on down the line. So I

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Speaker 1: believe that you know you're not going to stop them completely,

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Speaker 1: but that that option offense RPO is about breaking big plays.

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Speaker 1: So if they can limit those big plays by playing

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Speaker 1: sound as Simons football, I think we're gonna have a chance.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you guys taking this time to listen

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Speaker 1: to me, and um, go Bill, Let's go Buffalo. I

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Speaker 1: got out to a game actually week nine. I would

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Speaker 1: second first row Bill Sideline, who was absolutely incredible. Great.

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Speaker 1: And if you do name your dog after make sure

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Speaker 1: it's like a pit ball, you know, German Shepherd or

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Speaker 1: Dover Ruin or something, because I've got enough miniature poodles

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Speaker 1: named after me that you could. You've had turnovers as

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Speaker 1: a key un well, I think that is important. And

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Speaker 1: there's a time of possession thing going on here too.

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Speaker 1: As dynamic as the Baltimore offense is, if you can

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Speaker 1: limit their their possessions. You you go at least take

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Speaker 1: a step and maybe keeping them off of the scoreboard

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Speaker 1: a little. Yeah in the third one, Yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 1: And it's a different guy every defensive call too. But

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Speaker 1: you gotta get somebody. Um, you gotta be able to

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Speaker 1: able to make one on one tackles, which is tough

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Speaker 1: because Lamar we've seen, you've seen all the highlights if

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Speaker 1: anybody follows them the league, Lamar has made some guys

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Speaker 1: look bad in the open field. You gotta be able

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Speaker 1: to tackle him in the open field. Um, he makes

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Speaker 1: people miss, and he makes him miss badly. You can't

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Speaker 1: let him do that. If he does, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna snap off a big play that maybe you could

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Speaker 1: have stopped for no game. That's the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that happens against the Ravens, and I think you got

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Speaker 1: to You gotta constrict their space and you know, and

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Speaker 1: tackle when you get a chance to tackle him. And

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Speaker 1: if you can do that, you do some things that

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Speaker 1: maybe other teams have struggled with. You see here people

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Speaker 1: watching MSG watch what he did against the Niners. Or

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Speaker 1: you know they got they got guys that just don't

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Speaker 1: look at him. They don't look at Lamar He that

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Speaker 1: mesh point with mark Ingram and Lamar he rides them

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Speaker 1: Ingram all the way down into the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: I think you got to tackle him in that sense,

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Speaker 1: even if he ends up handing the football off. You

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Speaker 1: got to make that decision for him and tackle him

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Speaker 1: and tackle him hard, and then the rest of the

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Speaker 1: defense has got to tackle mark Ingram. I don't know

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Speaker 1: in that particular play that might work, but there's the

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Speaker 1: problem with Another problem to Baltimore Ravens present is the

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Speaker 1: fact that they may not run those plays very often

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Speaker 1: against this defense. You start doing that, then they'll just

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Speaker 1: turn around and hand it off. And then you got

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Speaker 1: to deal with him in a regular run game where

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Speaker 1: they execute very well. So you may stop one part

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Speaker 1: of their offense or all of it. You got to

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Speaker 1: play discipline, sound defense, and of course, if you can

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Speaker 1: generate turnovers, all this goes out the window, because that's

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Speaker 1: all that matters. What's the key to defending Ravens quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, what do you think? Let's take another phone

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Speaker 1: call here, Matthew and South Buffalo go ahead. Matt Hey,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say I think the Bills are

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Speaker 1: on fire. I appreciate Josh Allen as a young quarterback

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Speaker 1: as what he does. He's been such a commitment to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and I just want to say, hey, I praise

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Speaker 1: him and give him thanks. Me and my girlfriend to

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Speaker 1: watch him, Jenna, you know she loves him too. And

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Speaker 1: he is the best Russian person. Like listen, he run

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Speaker 1: tackles in like if he if they gave him a fake, right,

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Speaker 1: he goes right in there and he runs the ball.

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Speaker 1: He's not afraid to do anything. So he has he

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Speaker 1: has the balls, and he has the guts, and uh,

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Speaker 1: we're lucky to have him. And you guys got I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at the four game schedule. The only thing I

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Speaker 1: think about is in New England, Pacer. If I've got

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Speaker 1: three one, New England's going to be your loss, right,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Let's go to Lyle in new thing at

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Speaker 1: Lyle you're on the air. Yes, the way to defend them,

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Speaker 1: I would say, put put a spy on them. But

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Speaker 1: the other thing I want them at you is the referees.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of personal foul calls and most

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Speaker 1: of it is done one side or the other, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like it's going against one team or

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Speaker 1: the other. And I think the referees are putting too

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Speaker 1: much pressure on all the teams with the new rules

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Speaker 1: that they've got press you know, I think they can

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Speaker 1: put those of bed h Man. These guys play football now.

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Speaker 1: They need personal fouls. I disagree with that, Lyle. And

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Speaker 1: then it's putting a spy on Lamar might work once

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Speaker 1: or twice, but it's not going to work for the

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Speaker 1: entire game because what happens when the spy gets blocked

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Speaker 1: or they got two lead blockers and you have one spy.

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Speaker 1: It takes a whole defensive effort and it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be And that's one of the reason we ask

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Speaker 1: this question on Twitter. How do you defend him? I

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Speaker 1: don't think there is one magic wand that you can

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Speaker 1: wave over this, Otherwise all these other teams would be

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Speaker 1: doing it. Here's the thing. You got to take what

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Speaker 1: the Bills do defensively. They're good players, the players they

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Speaker 1: depend on what their players can do against other teams

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Speaker 1: and most most importantly, what you think your defensive personnel

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Speaker 1: can do against their offensive personnel. What matchups go or

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Speaker 1: in your favor? What matchups can you win? What do

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Speaker 1: you think you can do against Baltimore, and then what

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Speaker 1: can you use those personnel matchups for to take away

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Speaker 1: what Baltimore does. I mean, that's that's the way this

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Speaker 1: game works. It's a it's a once. It's you can't

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Speaker 1: do what forty nine ers did. You can't do what

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs did. You can't do what the

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Speaker 1: Steelers that. You can't do any of the other teams.

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Speaker 1: You've got different players. You've got to use your drinks

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Speaker 1: against what the Baltimore Ravens do well. And right now

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are doing what they do well better than

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Speaker 1: the teams are against them. That's just that's simple. So

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Speaker 1: the Bills have a different problem than the Niners did.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have a different problem than the Cleveland Browns did.

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Speaker 1: They have a different problem than the Chiefs did because

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Speaker 1: the Bills have to do it with their personnel and

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Speaker 1: they're different in some ways. The Bills personnel probably better

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Speaker 1: than a lot of those teams. But that's the matchup

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Speaker 1: you got to work with. It's not the same plan

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Speaker 1: than any of these other teams used. They got an

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Speaker 1: eight game winning streak for a reason, because they got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of good guys that are playing really well

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Speaker 1: and they're tough to match up against. So that's the

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Speaker 1: obstacle in the road for the Bills right now, coming

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Speaker 1: back with more, Maybe you got an answer, what's the

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Speaker 1: key to defending Lamar Jackson of the Ravens. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back and maybe get to the tweet sheet when we return.

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Speaker 1: One Bill slide presented by Klada Health from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studio Seneca Resorts in Casino. Nothing comes close. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, see Tansker. The lineup of guests here today.

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Speaker 1: We got to Jeremy Fowler from ESPN, gonna stop by

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Speaker 1: here at one o'clock. He's in town covering the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Field Yates joins us during the one o'clock hour. He'll

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Speaker 1: take your fantasy football questions. I believe we're in playoffs

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Speaker 1: now for fantasy football players. After the Bills practice around

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Speaker 1: one thirty or so, they'll wrap up. Terren Johnson will

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Speaker 1: join us well here from Josh Allen after practice as well.

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Speaker 1: Want to review looking I'm really looking for an answer

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Speaker 1: for this question. The key to defending Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, the key to defending the Ravens, I

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Speaker 1: think is maybe the central question. You're not just Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: and I think I came up with my answer and

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Speaker 1: it's it's not the only thing they need to do,

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Speaker 1: but you need to be physical. You need to match

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Speaker 1: their physicality. You mean, you need to hit often and heart,

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Speaker 1: and that's the key to anytime the defense is playing,

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Speaker 1: but especially this team which is so physical. What do

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Speaker 1: you think we need your solutions? Let's go to um

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Speaker 1: Mark and Tonawanda. Hello, Mark, welcome to the show. You're

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Speaker 1: on the air. Hey guys, thanks for having me on. Sure, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I think I said last time, you know the offense,

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Speaker 1: you know, has to be centered more around Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've done a great job as of late.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's been thriving and obviously the defense has to

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Speaker 1: come up big. And I think at Oliver is going

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Speaker 1: to be a key. He needs to have another big

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Speaker 1: game like he did with Dak Prescott and m But

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00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: I want to see a little back and forth between

853
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: uh Alan and Lamar Jackson. I want to see Allen

854
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: had that breakout huge statum they put a big stat

855
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: against his Ravens defense. I think that's key if they

856
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: can go, you know, match them points for points. It's

857
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: gonna be a post game. I'd like to see, you know,

858
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: the Bills get in the thirties and we'll see what happens.

859
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, that's what I want to see.

860
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: I want to see Allen just I'll play Lamar and

861
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: kind of beat him at his own game. I want

862
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: to see what you guys. Thanks, Yeah, certainly that would

863
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to watch, Mark. And but

864
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: you're looking you're talking about two offenses that are really good,

865
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: no question in the fact that you know Baltimore's offense

866
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: is really good. But you're talking about two defenses that

867
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: are allowing over the last five or six games thirteen

868
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: points a game. And so if you think you're going

869
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: to see a shootout by these two teams, I'm kind

870
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: of having a hard time seeing that. I think you're

871
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: gonna see if the Bills play their best defensively and

872
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens are who we see that they are.

873
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a game like it

874
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: was last week for the raven For the Ravens against

875
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, gonna be like a twenty seventeen game.

876
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty game, seventeen fourteen game. It's gonna be

877
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: points are gonna be hard to come by. Not I

878
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be a quarterback shootout. Now.

879
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: You might see these two quarterbacks duel it a little bit,

880
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: guys running, you know, our guy running the football. There

881
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: guy running the football and kind of playing the quarterback

882
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: position the same way. But I have a hard time

883
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: seeing a shootout, you murph. Yeah, Both defenses are good.

884
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: The Bills defense really good. In Baltimore's defense is solid,

885
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: and I repeat what I was saying. They are physical,

886
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: they fly around and hit people. They got a rookie

887
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: playing linebacker, Jalen Ferguson who's really good. Patrick Awassor, I

888
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: gotta get his name right. A Waso is a really

889
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: good outside linebacker. Matthew Judon is at a great game

890
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I was watching it last

891
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: night against the Houston Texans. The back end is good.

892
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: They've got, you know, Marcus Peters, who I think struggled

893
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: at by the way in the in the Niners game.

894
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: And I don't know. Marcus Peters is kind of the

895
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: He was one of the premier corners in the league

896
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: for a while. Acquired in a trade earlier this season

897
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: with the Rams. I don't think his game is quite

898
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: there yet with the Baltimore Ravens, but it's still a

899
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: solid defense. I don't think it'll be a high screen game.

900
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: I really don't call here from Robert in Niagara Falls. Hello, Robert, welcome,

901
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: you're on the air, Murphy. I a comment on Lamar

902
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: Jackson if the referees allow the two teams to play

903
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: instead of just picking all Lamar Jackson because he's such

904
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: a great quarterback and he's wants to be the MVP

905
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: of the league. That's all he's worried about. His MVP

906
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: of the league. If the Bill's defense and the media

907
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: stay away from the Bills like they did in the

908
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: four Super Bowls when they when they got to their heads,

909
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: then the Bills are gonna win. Robert, question, are you

910
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: saying that all Lamar Jackson's worried about as being MVP?

911
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: That's right, correct, because you get that from I don't

912
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: see that. In fact, I think he's the exact opposite.

913
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: I think he's all about winning. I think he's demonstrated that.

914
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: I love his approach to the game. If I miss something.

915
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: Where do you see that he cares about being the

916
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: MVP If you look at it. If you look at it,

917
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: Josh Ellen isn't even on the isn't even on the

918
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: MVP of the league. Jon deserve good reason for that, right, Yeah,

919
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: he deserves it. But if the Bill's defense plays good

920
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: and the Bill's offense, uh scores okay with with their

921
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: two tight ends and they're in they're in the running back, uh,

922
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: the running back scores a lot of touchdowns. Mess up.

923
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: But Steve Tasker played in the game when they beat

924
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: the Houston Arlers. Okay, Houston Arlers were beating them like crazy.

925
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 1: If you had the confidence and you know you're gonna

926
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: go out there, don't let nobody get in your head

927
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: that they're gonna lose. I don't think teams get in

928
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: this team's head, or media or people get in this field.

929
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the things that John

930
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: McDermott does best. I think keeping his team focused. Yeah,

931
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: this is a completely different team and different deal than

932
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: it was when I played. It's this is a unique

933
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: game and you're facing an offense that's very prolific, and

934
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: it's very unique for a couple of reasons. One, they've

935
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's unique and they use him in

936
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: a way that nobody else uses their quarterback, or at

937
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: least not as effectively as they use theirs. And two,

938
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of talent. They got a really

939
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: good football team on both sides of the football, and

940
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: they've got an experienced, very good coach that's getting them ready.

941
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: They're a handful They've always been a handful of Baltimore

942
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: Ravens are a difficult team to beat year in year

943
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: out because they're well coached and they get players. And

944
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: that's what you're facing here. And this is a unique

945
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: Baltimore raven team because it's the twenty nineteen version with

946
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson on an MVP run Um, Lamar Jackson, if

947
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: you spend any time, and not to anything bad about Robert,

948
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: but listen, Lamar Jackson could be anything but chasing an MVP.

949
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: He's the most one of the most humble guys in

950
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: the league. He it's right now. He's just happy to

951
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: be where he's at. He's playing well. He knows he's

952
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: a good player, but he's not. He's not acting like um,

953
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: he's not. He doesn't seem conceded in the least. He's

954
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: a humble kid who wants to help the guys around

955
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: him win. He's a he's having a great season and

956
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: those guys love him for it. And I you know,

957
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: to say he's one of these guys that's worried about

958
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: his own numbers, I don't. I don't think that's accurate.

959
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: We talked to Judy Vattista about it yesterday, and there's

960
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: news conference video of after the win, a huge win

961
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: against the nine Ers, Lamar Jackson with a T shirt

962
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: that says, nobody cares work harder. That doesn't sound like

963
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: a guy who's self you know what I mean. I got,

964
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: he's a great there. You know, you see it on MSc.

965
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: Nobody cares work harder. I get. It's just a Listen,

966
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: it's just a T shirt. But you don't wear he

967
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: wears that because that's what he's thinking. It's a message.

968
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: It's a message. Listen. He's he's got bigger things on

969
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: his mind than a one important win over an out

970
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: of conference opponent in the regular season. The guy wants

971
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs and win games and go

972
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and win that. And he wants

973
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: to help his team do it. They are hitting on

974
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: all cylinders. And you know, we I thought about this earlier.

975
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: They got an eight game winning streak going. And we

976
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: see it occasionally where a team maybe what peaks too soon.

977
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: I don't know they're they're one of those teams. And

978
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: now it's with four games left, okay, but they've been peaked.

979
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: They've been playing. Yeah, they're putting it together really well.

980
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: And I don't know how. I said this about the

981
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: Chiefs last year. I don't know how you maintain that

982
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: for sixteen weeks and ultimately, you know, they fell one

983
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: game short of the Super Bowl. That's hard to keep

984
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: that up. And now this year, you know, they couldn't

985
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: match that. They can't match that production week in week.

986
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: You know, this kind of my attention. Looking at the Ravens.

987
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: Eight straight wins, right, they haven't lost since the last

988
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: week of September. You know, they've beaten in those eighth

989
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: straight wins. They won a game at Seattle, they beat

990
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: New England, they won a game at the Rams, they

991
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: just beat San Francisco, they won at Pittsburgh and overtime.

992
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: Eighth straight wins against some quality competition. Now down the

993
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: stretch they get the Bills, the Jets, Cleveland and Pittsburgh,

994
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: so the schedule lightens up for him a little bit.

995
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: They've won eighth straight and they've beaten really good teams

996
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: in those eighth straight. That's impressive. Yeah, all right, well yeah,

997
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler is going to join us when we come

998
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: back from ESPN. He's in town covering the Bills. Deep

999
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: Tasker and I a couple of hours to go. Come

1000
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: on and stick with us. One Bills Live presented by

1001
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,040
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1002
00:48:49,040 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: in Casino. Nothing comes, closets, do to do, to downto

1003
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 1: over time. Welcome back Howard two of the show, John Murphy,

1004
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We've got Field Gates coming up at a

1005
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: few minutes later on and after practice we'll talk with

1006
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: Terren Johnson. Bill's the Nickel Corner, but in studio with

1007
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: us right now covering the Bills all the way from Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN,

1008
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: we have Jeremy Fowler. Welcome Jeremy, good day here, Thanks

1009
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: for having Is this your first in Buffalo? Yeah, first

1010
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: time in Buffalo covering the Bills. I've been I came.

1011
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: I've covered a few games here. Yeah, last game I've

1012
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: covered here, I want to say it's two thousand and fourteen. Okay,

1013
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: it was the Browns. Remember Johnny came in Johnny Football. Yeah,

1014
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: I remember that game. Wow, cocked it up in the

1015
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: towards the Endzo I think, Yeah, the Bills worked him.

1016
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Brian Hoyer came in here. They were hot,

1017
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: and the Bills like took their whole season away. Yeah,

1018
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: they send you in midweek now, because this obviously is

1019
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: a pretty big game, right talk about that that decision making.

1020
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: Who decides we're sending a guy here during the course

1021
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: of the week. How does the ESPN decide? Well, it's

1022
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: all about the matchup largely, you know, the players involved

1023
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: in the matchup. And this is this is the sexy

1024
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,280
Speaker 1: game right here. Um, two teams that are still fighting

1025
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: for really everything, whether it's seeding, playoff positioning. Um, you

1026
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 1: know they hit. It's got the old school feel to it. Um.

1027
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: And I just think it's all about the matchup. Yeah,

1028
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: and it's he come in an MVP two candidate with

1029
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Everybody wants to see Lamar and that Baltimore

1030
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,959
Speaker 1: Ravens because they are unique. And yeah, we were talking

1031
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: in the break about, you know, coaches of the Year,

1032
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: and I've thought Hardball has done a real job because,

1033
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: like you said, he kind of called his shot here.

1034
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: They said, listen, we're gonna be different, and wow, right,

1035
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: they're different. When he said that, you're thinking, Okay, that's great, John,

1036
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna be a revolution offensive. But he

1037
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: saw something that we hadn't yet. He saw a glimpse

1038
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: of Lamar last year, but a full offseason he knew

1039
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: what they were capable of. And yeah, he's all in.

1040
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: You give him credit, right, He goes and gets great

1041
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: Roman who used to be dialing up crazy plays and

1042
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: like prep football decades ago, and said, here, it's it's

1043
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: your show. And you know we're gonna we're gonna run

1044
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: on first and second down, but we're gonna do it

1045
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: eight different ways each time, and you know, see how

1046
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: you react. And so, I mean, the Bills are just

1047
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: talking to some people here. I mean that you know,

1048
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: they are on edge in a good way. They recognize

1049
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: how crucial it is to know every single detail when

1050
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: it comes to the Ravens offense. What is different about

1051
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: the Ravens offense what is unique? You know? I asked

1052
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: that very question to running back mark Ingram I was in.

1053
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: I popped into Buffalo a couple of weeks ago, and

1054
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 1: he told me that the key for them is it's

1055
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: they know that you know what's coming, so they use

1056
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: that to their advantage. Right. So his example was, you

1057
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: have three months of game film on us, right, so

1058
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna put up on your big board

1059
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 1: in your room every formation that we can run. So

1060
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna run something that you think is coming, and

1061
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 1: then we're gonna play off it and do something totally

1062
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,479
Speaker 1: unpredictable and have three or four options, whether it's with Lamar,

1063
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: with mark Ingram, all the running options off that. So

1064
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: even though you know we're running, you don't know exactly

1065
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: what we're running, and you don't know if you can

1066
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: stop it in the moment. And so it's the spontanee

1067
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: you have it too, that's the key. And then on

1068
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: third down Themars has been really good as a passer.

1069
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: He can climb the pocket. I think he's just been

1070
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: better than advertised in that's about yeah, and it's it's

1071
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: not even about a team that's knowing, it's you know

1072
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like this, Princess Bright. I don't

1073
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: know if I knew that you knew that, I knew

1074
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: that you knew. It's a creative the uncertainty where where

1075
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: the defense feels prepared, they come in and they attack

1076
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: what they have prepared for, and all of a sudden

1077
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: it's something subtly different that snaps off a big play

1078
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: for against them. So then they start to have doubt

1079
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they're on their heels,

1080
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: and then you could have your way with them, and

1081
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't take very long to get there because they

1082
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: are so multiple upfront. And plus it's not just a

1083
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: scheme that's winning. They got some pretty good guys, right,

1084
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: And that's the thing for the Bills. I know. I

1085
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: was talking to Leslie Frasier this week. He was basically saying,

1086
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: you know, the key to this game is to be

1087
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: sort of boring and not try to be a star

1088
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 1: and just stay in your spot and your dad, because

1089
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: if you get nosy and go for the football, that's

1090
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: when Lamar takes it out of the running backs belly

1091
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: and goes for thirty yards. And so it's really like

1092
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 1: it's discipline ad nauseam, like you have to be every down,

1093
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: just all eleven guys doing the right thing, as cliche

1094
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: as cliche as it is, it's key for a matchup

1095
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: like this. Jeremy follow ESPN is our guest. Jeremy. I

1096
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: came in today and told Steve I watched a couple

1097
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: of Ravens games last night, the last two games, and yeah,

1098
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: there's scheme involved, and there's a unique scheme. All of

1099
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: that I acknowledge, But what really got me was how

1100
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: physical they are, you know, and both sides of the ball,

1101
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: offense and defense. They want to beat you up on

1102
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and that might be I

1103
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: think as important as a scheme for them. Right. That's

1104
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 1: why I think it's a pretty good matchup for the Bills.

1105
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: That they seem to welcome that. But he looked at

1106
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: the Rams game a couple of weeks ago. They were

1107
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: not ready to be hit in the mouth like that

1108
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Said hey, look, you know, we might run

1109
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: different variations of what we're running, a couple of option plays,

1110
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: but you know what's coming here, and so they attack

1111
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: one area. In that case, it was basically attacking the

1112
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: outside linebackers in that pass rush area to the left

1113
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: and right and say we're gonna run through here. We

1114
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: believe you can't stop us, and then they got ugly.

1115
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: So that's that's the thing. It's if you let the

1116
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: game slip, if you lose that momentum early, it's over.

1117
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: And also you get to the point where if you

1118
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: do have some success offensively, even as a coaching staff,

1119
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: you got to stay discipline because once you start to

1120
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: commit more assets and a more assets to stopping more

1121
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: specific and more specific plays, all of a sudden, Lamar

1122
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: is good enough to drop back, throw it over the

1123
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: top of your head, or run the other direction and

1124
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: snap off an enormous play for a touchdown that could

1125
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: be a backbreaker. Yeah, no doubt because a lot of

1126
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: his runs are designed, but he can take off at

1127
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: any point. You still, you know, they still want to

1128
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: try to keep him in the pocket, but he's been

1129
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: delivering from there. That's the thing. I mean, I've seen

1130
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: him climb the pocket like you know the Peyton Manning

1131
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: types that we've seen. I'm not saying he's Peyton Manning,

1132
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 1: but that's you know, the traditional prototypical pocket passer you want.

1133
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: He is showing exemplary in a lot of areas there

1134
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: with Jeremy Fowler from ESPN, want to take you around

1135
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: the league a little bit and talk to me. I

1136
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: know you spend a lot of time in Pittsburgh over

1137
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: the years, and we were talking about potential coaches of

1138
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: the year. Mike Thomlin would have an argument doing what

1139
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: he's doing without Ben Roethlisberger and having Devil and Hodges

1140
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: as this guy right now, and yeah, it looks like

1141
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: they might be headed for the playoffs with that, this

1142
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: might be his best coaching job of his career. You

1143
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: could argue, I think he's People who know him well

1144
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: they say he's at his best when things are ugly.

1145
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: You know, when you're not. There's not a lot expected.

1146
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: So this year, no Ben, no Levion Bell, no Antonio Brown,

1147
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: no Juju for Juju Smith Schuster for a couple of weeks,

1148
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: no James Conner for a couple of weeks. Pouncey was

1149
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: out their top linement stuff on two it was out.

1150
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking major injury seven and five, six

1151
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: to the last seven. So it's just he's good at

1152
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: just rallying teams when not not a lot as expected.

1153
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: That's his guilty. You want to know him more than

1154
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: I can. I confess I didn't have the hold him

1155
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: in the high regard until this year because because of

1156
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: Ben and all the talent, I thought, Okay, Tomlin's a coach, Okay,

1157
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: But this year you can see what a different set

1158
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: guy can make for that team, right, And it's just

1159
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: the raw numbers are even though some seasons they you

1160
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: know they He've made some questionable decisions in playoff games

1161
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: are big games. Maybe you know decision songs like kick

1162
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: or go for it or whatever. But as far as

1163
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: consistency of a season, no losing seasons in thirteen years,

1164
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: you know that really, Belichick and maybe a couple other

1165
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: guys can say that, but not very many. Yeah, he

1166
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: is an incredible leader and those guys respond to him.

1167
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: And I think when the chips are down and when

1168
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: your backs against the wall, leadership is what he does best,

1169
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: which is why they've been able to turn it around

1170
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. It's been fun to watch. And one guy

1171
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: who has been known as a pretty good leader and

1172
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 1: was let go yesterday, Ron Rivera, down him in Charlotte

1173
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: for the Panthers. A lot of positive things have come

1174
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: out in the aftermath of how he handled it and

1175
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 1: his performer players and his philosophy, and he's gotten a

1176
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: chance he had an open press conference to answer his

1177
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: critics or the fact that he got fired. What do

1178
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: you think about this situation in Caroline and how it

1179
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: would resolve itself with a new head coach. Well, there's

1180
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: gonna be some fireworks there because a lot has to

1181
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 1: be resolved. And from what I'm told, the new head

1182
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: coach will have considerable saying what they do a quarterback.

1183
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: So that's whether they stick with Kyle Allen, they try

1184
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: to revive Cam Newton, get him healthy again, or they

1185
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: gage his trade interest. All options are on the table there, Rivera.

1186
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: I was starting to hear some rumblings that they were

1187
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: going to move on a couple of weeks ago, but

1188
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: I thought it'd be after the season, so they made

1189
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: it pretty swiftly. I think when you lose to Washington

1190
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: it sort of changes everything, you know, when it gets

1191
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: ugly like that. But he's been I expect him to

1192
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: be involved in at least a few head coaching jobs.

1193
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna get one, but he'll

1194
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: be heavily in the mix. He's highly regarded League one.

1195
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: There are plenty of Carolina connections on this Bills, in

1196
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: this Bills organization, and you know, we all spend a

1197
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: week down there in the summer in August Bill's practice

1198
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: against him. I got the sense then, and even more

1199
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: so after yesterday's events said there's not maybe not real

1200
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: strong confidence in the owner David Tepper as far as

1201
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: having a strong vision of where he wants to take

1202
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: that team. Is that accurate or do you think that's

1203
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: the case down there? I think in some circles. I mean,

1204
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, you have a billionaire hedge fund success story

1205
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: that comes in and starts making changes. But I think

1206
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: people are going to be skeptical because they just don't

1207
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: know yet. But he came from the Pittsburgh Tree. He

1208
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: has an Art Rooney disciple. You know, he was a

1209
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: minority owner there, and so he's gonna try to tailor

1210
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: some things around what the Steelers do while putting his

1211
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: own spin on it, which I think will be more

1212
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: analytical driven. Um you know, newer processes, less traditional. So

1213
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: I think he'll find a sweet spot. And he's a

1214
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: very bright guy. I don't think anybody denies that. It's

1215
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: just a he has to hit a home run with

1216
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: the coach specifically, and now his dynamic is he's gonna

1217
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: hire an assistant GM and probably keep Marty Herne the

1218
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: current GM. So it could be a bit of a

1219
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: clumsy situation with a new head coach who might want

1220
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: more safe right as the assistant GM, or at least

1221
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: somebody more Probably I think that, yeah, they're gonna try

1222
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: to find more balance in that area and brace tho

1223
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: I am with that, specially here we are at the

1224
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: beginning of December, four games left in the season. We've

1225
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: had a head coach fired, hat and off the top

1226
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: of your head, and I'm I know this off the page,

1227
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot. But yep. Usually

1228
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: on average there's six, ye or maybe eight even head

1229
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: coaches that are going to be new and changed over.

1230
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: Can you give me like maybe less than a handful

1231
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: of teams that may be looking for a guy well, Atlanta,

1232
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: I mean I think everybody there is bracing for a change,

1233
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: including Dan quinn Um. So that's one and that will

1234
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: be probably a pretty good job, not as good as

1235
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: it looked a few years ago. But you know, I

1236
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: think the roster wasn't as talented as we thought. But um,

1237
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, Cleveland. I'm looking to Cleveland right now, just

1238
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: because you know Freddie Kitchens is um, you know, some

1239
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: of some of his decisions with the Pittsburgh started shirt

1240
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: and then you know, you just hear whispers about some

1241
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: inexperience there with the way they do things internally, their structure,

1242
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: their process, it's starts. You know, he's never been a

1243
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: coordinator at the NFL level or head coach, and I

1244
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: think that's starting to show. Those are two right there.

1245
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: Um Jets Uh no, no, Jets. I think giants. I mean,

1246
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: if you finished two and fourteen, which is very possible. Um,

1247
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, that's a that's a very proud ownership group.

1248
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think they expected to be this ugly. Jeremy,

1249
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: what can Bill's fans? What kind of reporting you got

1250
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: coming out of Buffalo today? What should we look for?

1251
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: It is will it air today or something later? So, yeah,

1252
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: we'll be reporting all day just on Sports Center, and

1253
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: then we'll do kind of a feature for the week

1254
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: on on what the plan is to try to stop Lamar,

1255
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, and what is the plan? We don't know.

1256
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: I think the Yeah, the plan is to um. You know,

1257
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: really just have all eleven guys take your one assignment

1258
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: and don't try to be a hero. I think that's

1259
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: really their thing. It's it's very boring, but I think

1260
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: that's I think that's what they expect and that's what

1261
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: they hope for because they know they can't you know,

1262
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win one on one in the open

1263
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: field with Lamar Jackson. So the key is to not

1264
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: get him in the open field, keep him in the pocket. Um.

1265
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: And look, they're betting on their guy, right they Sean

1266
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: McDermott just said in the press conference that Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: was a fantastic prospect in the draft and they scouted

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Speaker 1: him and he's a fantastic player. Now they wanted Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: That was their guy. So you know this is what is.

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01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: He six toeschdowns, one interception last three games, so they

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Speaker 1: feel the time is right for him to make some

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Speaker 1: you know, even more of a statement at least can

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Speaker 1: be a great game. Jeremy, thanks for the same for

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Speaker 1: coming in anytime. Thanks guys, appreciated. Following from ESPN watch

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Speaker 1: for his stuff on ESPN from Orchard Park over today

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Speaker 1: and leading into the weekend when we come back more ESPN.

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Speaker 1: Field Gates with his weekly visit with us coming up next,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tansker, One Bills Live presented by Kalida

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Speaker 1: Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back one of those Live,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Jasker in our Seneca studio in Archard Park.

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01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: Bill's still practicing after practice. We expect air from Taron

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Speaker 1: Johnson will be in studio with us, and we expect

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Speaker 1: air from Josh Allen as he meets in medio media

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Speaker 1: today ESPN Hour. I'm the line with us right now

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Speaker 1: from ESPN. Field Yates, NFL insider. He joins us every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday at this time to talk about the Bills, their

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Speaker 1: opponents the NFL, And of course we'll get to some

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Speaker 1: fantasy football questions for Field. You can send those in

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Speaker 1: at One Bills Live. Bill, Welcome to the show. Good

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Speaker 1: to have you with us here today. Hey guys, good

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Speaker 1: to be with you, Murph. Nice to have you back. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you were gone for a good reason last week, traveling

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Speaker 1: on your way to Dallas. Yeah that's right. Yeah, it

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01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: was worth going. It's worth going that distance. All right. Here,

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01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: we got this game now, we got Josh Allen with

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Speaker 1: four hundred thirty yards rushing, and we got Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: with nine hundred and seventy seven yards rushing. You have

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Speaker 1: pointed out in a tweet that just blew us away

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Speaker 1: Steve and I this morning, how unique and really historic

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01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: that matchup is on Sunday. Right, how about this? So

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Speaker 1: no quarterbacks have ever had more combined rushing yards entering

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Speaker 1: a game than Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. Now, some

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Speaker 1: on Twitter were fast to point out that nine hundreds

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Speaker 1: plus of those yards come from Lamar Jackson, which is

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Speaker 1: more emblematic of Twitter than has anything else. Good point

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01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen is a legitimate running threat. It's because

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01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: you haven't bothered watching Buffalo football this year, which means, honestly,

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01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: you're missing out on high quality play, not just from

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Speaker 1: the defense, but also from Josh, who has really made

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Speaker 1: some significant strides that I'm sure has been all the

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Speaker 1: talk of the town over the past six days since

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Speaker 1: that win down there in Dallas. It's like that old

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Speaker 1: stat years ago in baseball, Hank Aaron and Tommy Aaron, Right,

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01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: two brothers leading in home runs? Right, Yeah, that's right,

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Speaker 1: that's great. It's and I think the game of Look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be kind of a smash

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Speaker 1: mouth game this Sunday. What do you think field? Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, it feels like a game that is going

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01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: to be one where you know, we have, of course,

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Speaker 1: victory Mondays in the NFL, where players get the day

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Speaker 1: off in some cases after a win. Both of these

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01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: teams might need to give Monday off to their teams

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01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 1: because this one's going to involve a lot of hard hitting.

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Speaker 1: I don't know specifically what the forecast is for Sunday,

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01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: but it's Western New York, it's December. I'd imagine it'll

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Speaker 1: be cold, perhaps wet, who knows, But this is the

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Speaker 1: kind of game where nobody leans leaves with a clean jersey. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you're wearing white, blue, purple. You're

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Speaker 1: leaving that field with all kinds of paint and grass

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Speaker 1: danes covering your jersey. Because it's gonna be that physical

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Speaker 1: of a game between two teams who have been outstanding

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Speaker 1: so far this year. Yeah, it does. It is going

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01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: to be one of those games where it's gonna hurt

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: It's one of the interesting things about this too, that

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Speaker 1: you think about Lamar Jackson as a running quarterback job Allen.

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Speaker 1: He kind of picks his spots a little more, I think.

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Speaker 1: And they don't have as many called runs in the

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Speaker 1: offense for Josh Allen as Baltimore does for Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: But Josh seems to pick his spots where he's got

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01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: eight rushing touchdowns, which is it's pretty tough to do

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Speaker 1: in this league, and he's done it really picking his

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01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: spots and scrambling. Yeah, it's funny. So just to circle

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01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: back to the reaction to that tweet about the amount

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Speaker 1: of rushing yards that these two quarterbacks have combined for,

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Speaker 1: just because Lamar Jackson has nine hundred plus of those

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01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: yards and might have a two to one edge, do

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Speaker 1: you think that wink Martindale. The Ravens defensive coordinators say, now,

1349
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about Josh Allen running the football.

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: He's got less than half of Lamar Jackson's rushing yards

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01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: this year. Ask Rod Marinelli and Chris Rashard, who coordinate

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01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, about whether it's worth worried about Josh

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01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,439
Speaker 1: Allen as a runner Unquestionably, Lamar Jackson is a more

1354
01:04:56,720 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: dangerous runner than Josh Allen. That that's because he's a

1355
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: more dangerous runner than any quarterback in football. Heck, he's

1356
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: more dangerous as a runner than any player in football

1357
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: right now. But Josh Allen's a unique challenge because but

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Speaker 1: maybe the difference between him and Lamar Jackson stylistically is

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01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 1: that Lamar Jackson is more elusive, explosive, faster, but Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen is a freaked rain Josh Allen. I mean, honestly, guys,

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Speaker 1: the stat that a lot of people that pointed to

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Speaker 1: makes for an apt comparison body wise, I think open

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01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: field running ability, Josh Allen is like Cam Newton during

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01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: Cam sort of apex is that he's two hundred and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, probably forty pounds. I guess Josh is

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Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. And you, first of all, you

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Speaker 1: got to do one of two things. A you better

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Speaker 1: not arm tackle against Josh Allen and B you better

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01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,959
Speaker 1: not blink because if you close your eyes, he's running

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Speaker 1: it over. And that's a challenge. It's a challenge for

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Speaker 1: both sides, There's no question about it. It is a

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Speaker 1: two layer approach. To your defensive game plan. How do

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01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: we slow this guy down his passers and how do

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01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: we show these guys down as runners as well? Talking

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Speaker 1: with field Yates from ESPN NFL Insider, I want to

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01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: talk you about the Buffalo defensive approach to Lamar Jackson

1377
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: a little bit. Did the forty nine ers provide a

1378
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: template on maybe what to do they lost on a

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01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 1: forty nine yard field goal? They pretty much. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying to see, maybe the key is, you know,

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01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: throw everybody in the box and tell Lamar Jackson to

1382
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: beat you with his arm. I know he can do that,

1383
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: He's done that, But maybe is that what you look

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01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: at in a game like this. I think there are

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01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,600
Speaker 1: a couple of keys here for Lamar Jackson. Most important

1386
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: thing you can do as a defensive lineman is you

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Speaker 1: can't run past the quarterback. You just can't do it.

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01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: Because if you run past the quarterback, because you try,

1389
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 1: you're trying to bend the edge and get around an

1390
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. Here's what happens. By the time you turn

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01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: the corner an offensive tackle, Lamar Jackson's nine yards up

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01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: the field. So don't bother running past the quarterback. Beyond that,

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01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: play assignment football, and that might mean that you're doing

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01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: dirty work. But we're showing a clip right now of

1395
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson on the option, And if your job is

1396
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: jack Lawson on a given play is to your accounting

1397
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 1: for the running back, well then you've better crash down

1398
01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: an account for the running back, Or if you're accounting

1399
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: for the quarterback, well then you better hold your ground

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01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,120
Speaker 1: and just sit there and wait. And that might result

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01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: in you doing nothing on the play in terms of

1402
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: the box score, but it might be exactly what you

1403
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: need to win the game. And as impressive as Lamar

1404
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: Jackson has been all year, the Bills cannot play in

1405
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: awe of Lamar Jackson because if you do, that's another

1406
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: easy way to just walk into the game and you

1407
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: might as well put fourteen points on the board for

1408
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: the opponent. He's amazing, he's incredible. He's the MVP of

1409
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 1: the league right now. But you can't walk into the

1410
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: game saying, you know something, this is fun to watch. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not fun to watch. It's fun to play defense. Again,

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01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: if you're a Bill's defender. Yeah, it comes down to

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01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: the fact that that's what it's going to be. It's

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01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 1: gonna be can the Bill. And it seems like when

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01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 1: you're facing the number one offense, a top offense like

1416
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 1: Baltimore or for the Bills, you gotta feel like there's

1417
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a point where you get gonna have to

1418
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 1: score some points. As the Bill's offense evolved far enough

1419
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 1: to score on a really good Baltimore defense, they are

1420
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Speaker 1: allowing thirteen points a game in the last six Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do think it has evolved enough, and I think

1422
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Speaker 1: there's been some really healthy signs from the Bills offense. Obviously,

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01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: Josh is gonna be everybody talks about it at all time,

1424
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,639
Speaker 1: and he's been really good of late. I love Frank core.

1425
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: I have men's respect for him, and much like you, Steve,

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01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: I hope to hear Frank one day enter Canton with

1427
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: the gold Jackets. We talked about last week, but I've

1428
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: really enjoyed what I've seen at a Devin Singletary And

1429
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is a handful and he's a problem, and

1430
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: we saw it last week. He's a factor in the

1431
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: passing game. You know, he's an explosive runner. The guy

1432
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: is a big play waiting to happen. So we've seen

1433
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: more Devin Singletary, which has been really good. And then

1434
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 1: and I know that the narrative last week was the

1435
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley of revenge game, but this has been you

1436
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: guys have been watching this every single week. Cole Beasley

1437
01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 1: and John Brown have been factors all season. That's been

1438
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. And they've really found a way

1439
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 1: to every single week stress and opposing defense. Heck, I

1440
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:09,599
Speaker 1: didn't know John Brown had the quarterback arm in him,

1441
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,200
Speaker 1: but we're learning things about John Brown every single week.

1442
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: Such a terrific signing, as was Cole Beasley. Those two

1443
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: guys got to be a factor on Sunday again because

1444
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: if you guys mentioned that Ravens defense is good and

1445
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: their Secondari's got plenty of talent. With Field Gates ESPN

1446
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: NFL inside here talking about the Bills and the Baltimore

1447
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: Ravens the matchup this week. Do the Bills belong to

1448
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 1: be discussed as one of the better teams in the

1449
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: league just yet or do they need this victory on Sunday?

1450
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: Do you think Field, Well, it can be both. I

1451
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: think in the sense that they need to be discussed

1452
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: right now. At the same time, I think we could

1453
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: all fairly acknowledge this. The next three games for the

1454
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:52,560
Speaker 1: Bills have the opportunity. I mean, this is like, you know,

1455
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: the beauty of the NFL's you guys gotta make the playoffs.

1456
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you have the one seed, the sixth seed,

1457
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: you still have to win a minimum of three games.

1458
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 1: You gotta win four games to guarantee yourself a super

1459
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: Bowl victory. If you're a wild card, you gotta win

1460
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: three if you have a first round by But if

1461
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: this sort of the college football playoff, the next three

1462
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: games is an excellent opportunity for the Bills to quote

1463
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: unquote pad their resume. And again, you talk to Sean McDermott,

1464
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: he probably has zero care in the world about the

1465
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 1: resume of the Bills. He cares about beat the Ravens

1466
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday. But for those of us on the outside

1467
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 1: who are watching this team, and you guys are watching

1468
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: every single day from just from a respect standpoint, the

1469
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: national narrative will change for the Bills one way or

1470
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: the other over the next three weeks. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: they win all three of those games, and like we're

1472
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Speaker 1: talking about them as the best team in football. If

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Speaker 1: they don't, they win two out of three, one out

1474
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Speaker 1: of three, zero out of three. Then it's a moving target.

1475
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: But it's a great stretch for us to sort of

1476
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: feel or know exactly what we have in this Bills team.

1477
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: And even though you know, I'm confident this is not

1478
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: a pushover. This is a team that belongs in the

1479
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: postseason and playing anyway football. Well, one team that's always

1480
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: been in the postseason for the last twenty years of

1481
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots, although now at ten and two, it's amazing

1482
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: that the Patriots are ten and two and everybody's asking

1483
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: what's wrong? They got beat in Houston this last week,

1484
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: and is there anything that wrong with the Patriots? Yes

1485
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: and no. Here here's the yes. The yes is that

1486
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: they need to play better football in offense. Right, But

1487
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: I remember being on this show three four, five weeks

1488
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: ago maybe, and weren't we saying the same thing, like

1489
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: what's wrong with the Bill's offense? And you know, as

1490
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: Josh made enough strides this season. I mean, maybe I'm misrememory,

1491
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: but I certainly feel like there were times when people,

1492
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: maybe not so much on your show, but outside, we're

1493
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 1: questioning Josh Allen's progress. And here we are now people

1494
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: are saying I told you so on Josh Allen, you

1495
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: can't have your kicking the two people. The football season

1496
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: is short in the sense that we only play seventeen games,

1497
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: but it's long in the sense in that you can

1498
01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: make significant strides from one week to the next, or

1499
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 1: one week to the next and then to the next.

1500
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,560
Speaker 1: The Patriots offense has been stuck in the mud the

1501
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:11,560
Speaker 1: past few weeks, but I will be the person that

1502
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: is a year too late to write the Patriots off

1503
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 1: been a year too early. And if somebody else wants

1504
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: to be the person that jumps ahead of the curve

1505
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: and maybe ends up being right, that's fine. But I

1506
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: think twenty years is enough of a sample size to

1507
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 1: realize that this team, it's pretty mentally tough and should

1508
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: not be discounted yet, Peel, I got another AFC team

1509
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: to ask you about, and it's the team that if

1510
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: the season ended today, the Bills would go to face them.

1511
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs, who for a couple of years

1512
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: now have been regarded as an offensive powerhouse, but the

1513
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: way they want against Oakland shows that their defense might

1514
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 1: have something to do with that too. Huh, Yeah, it's

1515
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 1: found its groove of legs. And what's been really important

1516
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 1: for Kansas City is that Tyrn Matthew has been right

1517
01:12:56,439 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 1: at the front of it. Matthew, obviously a really instinctive player,

1518
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: signed this offseason to a three year contract worth fourteen

1519
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 1: million dollars a season. And I would say this one

1520
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: thing that so the Chiefs run defense is still a

1521
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,920
Speaker 1: major problem. You look at it. Your darts per carrious wise,

1522
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: it is no good. Josh Jacobs went over one hundred

1523
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: yards last week. I don't want to say that run

1524
01:13:21,479 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 1: defense doesn't matter, but if you are playing fantastic offensive football,

1525
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: if you're up fourteen nothing or twenty one nothing at

1526
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, it's almost like the

1527
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: run defense is more window dressing than it is deciding

1528
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: games for you, because if you want to let them

1529
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 1: go ahead, let the Ravens are sorry, let the Raiders

1530
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,560
Speaker 1: establish the run when they're down twenty eight nothing in

1531
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 1: the third quarter, go ahead, two up the clock. Right. So,

1532
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: the defense I think has played better of late. I

1533
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 1: think the offense plane better, has changed the pressure on

1534
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 1: the defense as well, if that makes sense. So I

1535
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: think there's a chance that this Chief's defense will find

1536
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 1: some confidence going down the stretch, but again it'd be

1537
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:06,920
Speaker 1: another as poor as the Patriots offense has been of late,

1538
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 1: I still think people view this is a good challenge

1539
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs on Sunday to go to Gillette Stadium,

1540
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: and it will be a great matchup if the Chiefs

1541
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: and the Bills played in the first round of the playoffs,

1542
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: no matter where the game would be, because those are

1543
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: two of the most incredible fan bases in all sports. Well,

1544
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: we had this big win in Buffalo on Thanksgiving over

1545
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys down in Dallas. There was a couple

1546
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: other teams that have had victories. I was going to

1547
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: ask you, and there are teams that are kind of

1548
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 1: hanging around the playoff picture about trying to get in.

1549
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: One of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Cleveland Browns and

1550
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans beating Indianapolis. Which one of those two

1551
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: teams you think was more impressive this last weekend and

1552
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: which one do you think long term has a chance

1553
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: to get in. Yeah, I want to stick with the

1554
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: Titans here. They are more impressive to me, and I

1555
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: think they have a better chance to get in. They're

1556
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 1: more complete team right now. The Steelers did get a win,

1557
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,839
Speaker 1: and it was an emotional win obviously over the Browns

1558
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 1: given what happened in two weeks prior. But I still

1559
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: have some question marks about that offense. It's not smoking mirrors.

1560
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: I don't really think smoking mirrors exists in the world

1561
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: of football as much as some do. But you know,

1562
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,640
Speaker 1: it's a grinded outwin they needed. They basically got one

1563
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 1: big play on offense last week. The Titans are becoming

1564
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: a balanced football team, grind Tannehill has been great for them.

1565
01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: Tannehill obviously very familiar in the AFC East during his

1566
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: seven years I think it was or eight years with

1567
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. He's playing some inspired football and the

1568
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: Titans defensively, they're rugged and they're tough, and Derrick Henry

1569
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: is just an unstoppable force right now. He is an

1570
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:39,759
Speaker 1: absolute freight train. He's two hundred and fifty or fifty

1571
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: five pounds and no one seems to want to tackle him.

1572
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: If you know what do you mean? You don't think

1573
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: smoking mirrors exist in the sense that I think that

1574
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,640
Speaker 1: what we the fans might call smoking mirrors is things like,

1575
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, trick plays and gimmicks, and I think that

1576
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:58,759
Speaker 1: like the Steelers. It may not be the prettiest football,

1577
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: but I don't think you could win consistently in the

1578
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: NFL with basically going into the bag of tricks every

1579
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: single Sunday. The Steelers had one game this year against

1580
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals on Monday Night football way back earlier on

1581
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: in the season where it was a ton of wildcat

1582
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: and Jaylen Samuel's is the quarterback along with James Connor.

1583
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: I just don't think over time defenses are fearful enough

1584
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 1: of that kind of offense that it will maintain for

1585
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: you going forward. I got you, hey, I want to

1586
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:27,680
Speaker 1: ask you about another team that is underperformed. And they

1587
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,719
Speaker 1: beat the Bills not that long ago, back in late October.

1588
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles. It's got to be a humilitating defeat.

1589
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: It was a humilitating defeat to the Dolphins. What do

1590
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 1: you think's going on in Philadelphia? And what is the future?

1591
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: They can still win the division. I don't know if

1592
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: anybody would pick them too, but they can still do it, right, Yeah,

1593
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: they certainly can. It's crazy to think that they are

1594
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: closer to winning their division than other teams are that

1595
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: feel a lot better, right, like the seven and five

1596
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: Rams are three games back in their division. The five

1597
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:00,879
Speaker 1: and seven Eagles are a game back in their division.

1598
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 1: Just crazy. You know, they just don't play. They have

1599
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:09,599
Speaker 1: not played complete football. They have been They were poor

1600
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: defensively for a long stretch to begin this season, and

1601
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 1: then they put it together for a three week stretch.

1602
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the four game not even

1603
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: three four games. Prior to this Miami game, they had

1604
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: been outstanding on defense if you look at them in

1605
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: terms of yards per game and also yards per play,

1606
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: so good. And now, I mean on Sunday they couldn't

1607
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 1: stop anybody. They made Devonte Parker look like Randy Moss

1608
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: out there. So I don't think complimentary football has been

1609
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: in the Eagles favor. And you know, there are a

1610
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: few teams the lack of weapons is really apparent, and

1611
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,560
Speaker 1: that's one of them. They do not have guys that

1612
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 1: you can trust in the passing game right now, other

1613
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: than they're tight ends. What did this big win out

1614
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: in LA for the Rams do for us? I mean,

1615
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: is it just about the fact that one week they

1616
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 1: get completely crushed by a good Baltimore Raven team. In

1617
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: the next week they beat up and they crush a

1618
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,600
Speaker 1: bad Cardinal team or is there something more to the

1619
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: roller coaster they're on. Yeah, nothing cares offensive woes like

1620
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:16,800
Speaker 1: you know, a game against the Arizona Cardinals defense, which

1621
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 1: maybe maybe the recipe for Pittsburgh on Sunday. You know,

1622
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: I think for the Rams, football is an emotional sports.

1623
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: Sports are all emotional, and there is I think a

1624
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 1: psychological component to it as well. I think after that

1625
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: Baltimore game, the Rams were probably as low as they

1626
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: have been probably at any point of the Sean McVay era.

1627
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: Just a humiliating loss on national TV, much less or

1628
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 1: even more so. Now we have them playing a team

1629
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: that they can you know, have beat or they did

1630
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: beat last week in Arizona, and they have a chance

1631
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:58,839
Speaker 1: this upcoming week to potentially win a huge game against Seattle.

1632
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: If they win this game against Seattle, which is being

1633
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: played in Los Angeles, then their season totally changes, because

1634
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:09,600
Speaker 1: not only did they win this past Sunday, but the

1635
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,679
Speaker 1: Vikings lost, and there's still a game back of the Vikings,

1636
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 1: but the door is at least a jar to the

1637
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 1: Rams making the playoffs. And as bad as it has

1638
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,640
Speaker 1: been at certain points this season, what makes football a

1639
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: beautiful sport? Is that once you get into the postseason,

1640
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,960
Speaker 1: it's like the NUBA basketball tournament. There's no best of sevens,

1641
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 1: there's no best of fives. It's just who has better

1642
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: on whatever given Saturday or Sunday you play Field Yates

1643
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:40,759
Speaker 1: ESPN NFL Insider also a host of the Fantasy Focused

1644
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,800
Speaker 1: Football show. It's got some fantasy football questions for you

1645
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: to wrap up field from some of our listeners on Twitter. Steve,

1646
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: you want to get a start to go all right?

1647
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: Here from Cody, who should I play in my PPR

1648
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: flex Tyler Lockett, Keenan Allen, James White or Rishad Penny. Wow?

1649
01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: Those are great options there. I'm gonna stick with Keenan Allen.

1650
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett's a tough one. He went for zero point

1651
01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: effort on Monday night. Give me Keenan out. Here's one

1652
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: from Jack on Twitter for an RB two spot in

1653
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 1: the PPR League DeVante Freeman, Austin Ekeler or Melvin Gordon.

1654
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:14,639
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes, one's easy for me as Austin Eckler,

1655
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: the guy that's just had incredible passing game production for

1656
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Charters. And there's one from last week,

1657
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: Tiffany texting and she goes he wants to thank you

1658
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:25,479
Speaker 1: for help. She snuck into the playoffs thanks to your

1659
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: advice last week. So here we go this week. You're

1660
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: gonna start Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes six points for

1661
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 1: a TD and should she bench Levion Bell and use

1662
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders for her flags? Okay, So I think I'm

1663
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: gonna go with Patrick Mahomes only because he's Patrick Mahomes, right,

1664
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: and then if Jordan Howard sits, I'm okay with benching

1665
01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:54,680
Speaker 1: Leveon Bell. If Jordan Howard plays, then you have to

1666
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: stick with Levion. He has not been great of late

1667
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: for the New York Jets, and frankly, not much has

1668
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: been great of late for the New York One more

1669
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: for you from William and this is multiple choice for

1670
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: your field, he says, Josh Allen or Jacoby Brissette and

1671
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: John Brown, Alshon, Jeffrey or Will Fuller already have DeVante

1672
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: par Devanta Parker is wide receiver one. Thanks, okay, Josh

1673
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: Allen for sure? And then for the second one, can

1674
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: you need it? Was I heard John Brown, Will Fuller

1675
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: and Alshon Jeffrey. Is that what I heard? That? Yeah? Joe?

1676
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: John Brown I mean for fantasy. I know this is

1677
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: not your guys cup of tea yet, but it will

1678
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: be one day. John Brown's got at least ten points

1679
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: in all but one game so far this season, which

1680
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: anybody watched the Bills knows just how good John Brown

1681
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:39,639
Speaker 1: has been. What's happ Well, how do you know it's

1682
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: gonna be our cup of tea? They're gonna start paying

1683
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: us to do fantasy. Might you know I might have

1684
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,679
Speaker 1: some awesome ideas on my sleeve. Yeah, okay, perfect Field,

1685
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: thanks for this, having a great week. We'll talk to

1686
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:52,040
Speaker 1: you next week. Thank you. Thanks guys, talk to you soon. Field,

1687
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: the atespn NFL insider, joins us every Wednesday. He's also

1688
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: host of the fantasy focused football show He's get Great.

1689
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: I wonder, why can you see your self developing an

1690
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,200
Speaker 1: interest in fantasy football when I don't, when I don't

1691
01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: have anything to do. Yeah, I got too much. I'm busy. Yeah,

1692
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 1: I know, you know what I mean. Yeah, we got

1693
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: you got stuff going on. Yeah, you're getting ready for games.

1694
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 1: You're watching game tape and all that, and maybe that

1695
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:20,600
Speaker 1: would help if I were a fantasy but you know

1696
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 1: that's what I'm I'm thinking. You know what. I can't

1697
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: even get off. I can't even get off the couch

1698
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 1: to you know, turn the light out. Let alone sit

1699
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: there about four over fantasy draft. You know, I don't know.

1700
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: And here's my thing. If I'm and I know this too,

1701
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: if I'm competing at something, the like the switch goes

1702
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:42,600
Speaker 1: on and all of a sudden, my wife would be going,

1703
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: or what are you doing? It's three am. I said, well,

1704
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,720
Speaker 1: I got this one last spot on my fantasy team.

1705
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: I gotta fit you, right. I think that's what happened.

1706
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 1: That's what would happens. Why I am avoiding it, That's

1707
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: what would happen to me. I would be like, and

1708
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: then you and I would start having say conversations about

1709
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,639
Speaker 1: let me just tell you something. There's something nobody wants

1710
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: to hear about. It's somebody else is fantasy I agree,

1711
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: So I am so I can't see it. I could

1712
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:08,560
Speaker 1: see it, but not under the circumstances in which my

1713
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: life now exists. Yeah, maybe we could hire somebody to

1714
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: do fantasy football for us. Is that count? We got

1715
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 1: people in the other room and probably do it for

1716
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:17,760
Speaker 1: a couple of bucks a week. I'm running through I'm

1717
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 1: running through scenarios for that, and I could see doing that.

1718
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 1: I could endorse a fantasy team that would be mine,

1719
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:28,360
Speaker 1: but I would have a general manager. Right, we'll take

1720
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:32,839
Speaker 1: a break. David Pepper card Right, Bill's a wrapped up practice.

1721
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Josh Allen before the end of

1722
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: the show with three today and Tarn Johnson. Bill's nickel

1723
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 1: Corner is going to join us as well. Come on

1724
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: back one. Bill's Live coming to you from the Seneca

1725
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: Studio and Archer Park, presented by collid to Health. This

1726
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio ilcome mac One goes live, John Murphy,

1727
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in our Seneca studio on Archer Park. Special

1728
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: guests joining us right off the practice field, got Bill's

1729
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,559
Speaker 1: Corner and nickel Corner. Terren Johnson in with us. Hello, Darren,

1730
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: Thanks coming by, happy to be here. Are you are

1731
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 1: you really? Are you sure? I am? Love you know

1732
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: they had to, you know, handcuff you and drag you OVERPI.

1733
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: Do you want to ask you about injuries? Said? Yeah,

1734
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 1: the injury reporting out out yet today, but we think

1735
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 1: Tyan Secky is going to be the only the only

1736
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: name on it right. See, yeah, we asked We asked

1737
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: about you about how you feel, and he said, I

1738
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: feel great, And I said, well, why is the team healthy?

1739
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: And you had some pretty interesting stuff to say about

1740
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: the schedule and how you guys stay healthy in the

1741
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 1: commitment to it. Um. Basically, I just feel like everybody's

1742
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 1: just on top of the things that they're supposed to

1743
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 1: be doing. It's not specifically one guy just taking care

1744
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 1: of their bodies. It's everybody, And the coaches and the

1745
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: trainers talk to us about that all the time. Just

1746
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 1: making sure we're in the trainer in the training room,

1747
01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: in the training room and a lot of places. It's

1748
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: not like that, you know what I'm saying. Some guys

1749
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 1: are scared to be in the training room, but coach

1750
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,599
Speaker 1: McDermott welcomes it. Yeah. Way back in the ancients days

1751
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:02,799
Speaker 1: when I played, it was like it was a detriment

1752
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,719
Speaker 1: to your career. You're always in the training room, couldn't

1753
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 1: stay healthy or wasn't health weren't healthy, or you weren't

1754
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,640
Speaker 1: tough enough to play because you were getting nice or whatever. Thing.

1755
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: But did now and it seems simple enough. You gotta

1756
01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: acknowledge you're playing pro football. It's not like you're you know,

1757
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: you're not like sitting at a card exactly exactly. Nah.

1758
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like it should have been

1759
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 1: this way. You know, it should have been this way

1760
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: even when when when you were playing, and I feel

1761
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: like that's just being smart. It's not even about being

1762
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: right non physical or being soft or whatever you want

1763
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:37,720
Speaker 1: to call it. You gotta you gotta take care of

1764
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: your body. It's just it's just part of the game.

1765
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:42,560
Speaker 1: Is it stretching, Is that the key? Or is it

1766
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:45,560
Speaker 1: rehab from how do you prevent injuries? What are you

1767
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: doing the training? It's it's a whole bunch of things.

1768
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: Like I mean, we have great trainers, so they're working

1769
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:55,719
Speaker 1: on our bodies doing things massages, needling, um, just different

1770
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: stuff to activate your muscles. Uh, there's a light therapy

1771
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 1: bed in there. We don't get a lot of sun

1772
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: in the winter, so use the light therapy bad because

1773
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: we need the raise. And it's just it's there's a

1774
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 1: whole bunch of things that are sole miniscule, but they

1775
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: meet up to a lot of to a lot. Steve

1776
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we can use a light

1777
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 1: therapy and we haven't seen the sun in four months

1778
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 1: and I've always thought there about And look, we don't

1779
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: want to focus totally on injuries, Teren Johnson, our guests.

1780
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:29,559
Speaker 1: We want to focus about well. Talk a little bit

1781
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys game. You had a big role to

1782
01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:33,360
Speaker 1: play in that win over the Cowboys. Talk about how

1783
01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: you thought you played against Dallas six days ago. I

1784
01:26:36,439 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: thought I played pretty solid. Um, I try to be

1785
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 1: pretty physical in each game. I want to make sure

1786
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: the other team feels me and knows that I'm that

1787
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm on the field. So just basically, there's there's some

1788
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: plays I feel like I still left on the field,

1789
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 1: but that's gonna happen every game. What about this game,

1790
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a game that, um, you just

1791
01:26:57,240 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: and I say that, I've said this one hundred times

1792
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 1: this week. You went a big limelight game like the

1793
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 1: Cowboys on Thanksgiving, and your reward is a bigger game.

1794
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 1: You get a better team coming into your place, a

1795
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: team with the MVP at quarterback or this so far

1796
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 1: perhaps the MVP. And this is a game against a

1797
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 1: team that is going to the playoffs and you could

1798
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: meet again later on. This is kind of a reward

1799
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 1: for being a having a good player or a good game.

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01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:24,920
Speaker 1: Last week is a game where you got to play.

1801
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: It's just as good this week. Yeah, we're we're excited

1802
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 1: for the opportunity. I mean every every week it's just

1803
01:27:31,720 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: who's the opponent, you know what I'm saying, just basically

1804
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: going to be more about how we are able to

1805
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 1: stop the quarterback. Really, i mean he's he's a really

1806
01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:44,680
Speaker 1: good player, but we're gonna do what it takes for

1807
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 1: us to to get this dube. How do you stop them?

1808
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: What do you do with themar ah Man Tackling is

1809
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 1: one thing, and just making sure everyone is gap sound,

1810
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: I'd say, just because they have that extra player, that

1811
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 1: extra Now the running back's not having the ball, he's

1812
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 1: the extra blocker, you know, so just making sure we're

1813
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,599
Speaker 1: all getting to him. And he's really really good at

1814
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 1: making people miss, so just making sure we're spreading to

1815
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 1: the ball, getting giving population. We had a guest on

1816
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:13,080
Speaker 1: the show a couple of days ago, Brian Baldinger, who's

1817
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: a color man on Fox and played in the NFL.

1818
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: He referred to Lamar Jackson as Houdini with the football.

1819
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes he hides it. You find that to be the

1820
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:23,479
Speaker 1: case when you're looking at the film. Yeah, they have

1821
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: a lot of misdirection things going on in the backfield,

1822
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,720
Speaker 1: you know, just if you're read, but you just gotta

1823
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,759
Speaker 1: make sure you read your keys. As a linebacker nickels safety,

1824
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: just make sure you read your keys and the blockers

1825
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: will take you to the ball, you know. So just

1826
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 1: making sure we're reading our keys and playing discipline. There's

1827
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: a lot of unusual things or unique things I guess

1828
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 1: about Baltimore's offensive. The quarterback is has a lot of

1829
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 1: cold runs, a lot of read options, and a lot

1830
01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 1: of ball handling and a lot of misdirection. But they

1831
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: also have another thing that nobody else on the league has,

1832
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: as a three hundred pound fullback. They throw in there

1833
01:28:56,360 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 1: once in a while. You gotta I mean, you gotta

1834
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: take that into account when when he's on the field,

1835
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna do certain things and maybe not do other

1836
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: certain things. But also somebody's got to cover that guy,

1837
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 1: and somebody's gotta take him on. So what kind of

1838
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 1: why doesn't everybody have a three hundred pound you know,

1839
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean, right, I'm not sure they feel like they

1840
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: have a guy who's athletic enough to do those type

1841
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:23,600
Speaker 1: of things and and we just gotta match or like

1842
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 1: go past their physicality. I mean, I feel like we're

1843
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: a pretty physical team. I'm a pretty physical player, and

1844
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 1: I just we just got to make sure we bring

1845
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:33,559
Speaker 1: that to Sunday. There's a lot of physicality coming out

1846
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: of their tight ends. Great blockers at least, like the

1847
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 1: two of them are great blockers. The other one's pretty

1848
01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:40,640
Speaker 1: good as well. And I know combined they've got more

1849
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:42,880
Speaker 1: than a hundred catches among those three. But I think

1850
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:44,559
Speaker 1: those guys are more of a force in the run game,

1851
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: those tight ends that yeah. I mean the Ravens offense,

1852
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 1: they they got, they got some good guys over there.

1853
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,560
Speaker 1: You know, Um, we're just gonna do the best that

1854
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 1: we can do and just um just be trying to

1855
01:29:56,320 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 1: be more physical. We were talking about the Thanksgiving Day game,

1856
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: the huge televi An audience, and what that meant maybe

1857
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: for players on the roster. The guys take notice of that.

1858
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: It was like the highest rated Thanksgiving Day game in

1859
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: twenty seven years, thirty two and a half million people.

1860
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 1: You us, Noah, I heard from one of my other teammates,

1861
01:30:13,439 --> 01:30:16,640
Speaker 1: and I mean it's cool, man. I just have an

1862
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to play on that day alone. Was just it

1863
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 1: was just very I was very thankful for it. And

1864
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: now you got this game, and then of course the

1865
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:27,599
Speaker 1: Sunday night game flex to Sunday night in Pittsburgh. Yeah.

1866
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: Much talk about that in the locker room. Oh no,

1867
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:34,800
Speaker 1: not too much. Rarely actually at all. Um, we just

1868
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 1: who we got this week, you know what I'm saying.

1869
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 1: We played a raven, so that's who we're focused on.

1870
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 1: Really give us some insight too. I know you guys

1871
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:44,720
Speaker 1: don't kind of hang around if you're a win or

1872
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:46,880
Speaker 1: a loss or whatever. But it had to be a

1873
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 1: really nice flight back from from Dallas Thanksgiving. You guys

1874
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 1: went down there and really for the first time gave

1875
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 1: people a glimpse of how good you possibly could be.

1876
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: And it had to feel really good. Yeah, I mean

1877
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: it felt like a weight off I'll say my soldiers.

1878
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:02,519
Speaker 1: I don't know about everybody else, but I felt like

1879
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:05,200
Speaker 1: a weight off off my shoulders. And just being able

1880
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: to even after the w just we're grouping, having those

1881
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: extra extra couple of days and just getting back into

1882
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: the moda December football and us being ready to uh

1883
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:18,799
Speaker 1: go on these these these next four games December football

1884
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:21,560
Speaker 1: at home and this team. Uh maybe that's one of

1885
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: the big steps forward this team has made. How well

1886
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:25,680
Speaker 1: you guys played at home this year compared to last year. Yeah,

1887
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean the fans help a ton, you know, we

1888
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:32,760
Speaker 1: got that that crowd rocking and and that's that's a

1889
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 1: big deal when when we play here. Karen, thanks for this. Thanks,

1890
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're help coming in definitely, Stevens saying it's

1891
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: more than luck. I know they're just luck involved, but

1892
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:43,080
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're healthy and glad your work at it

1893
01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: being healthy too. Thanks for coming in. We appreciate it,

1894
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 1: all right. Stay one piece goes Nickel, Teren, Johnson, Steve

1895
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 1: and I coming back with more. We'll hear from Josh

1896
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 1: Allen when we return. One Bill's Live brought to you

1897
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Speaker 1: by Kalidah Health, coming from the Seneca Studio on Buffalo

1898
01:31:56,920 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Hills Radio Network. Stories Day update comes from

1899
01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 1: One Bills Driver. The Bills have wrapped up their practice

1900
01:32:13,160 --> 01:32:15,880
Speaker 1: indoors in the Pro Sports Training Center, getting ready to

1901
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 1: host the AFC's top team, the ten of two Baltimore Ravens,

1902
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:20,840
Speaker 1: winners of eight in a row, the Bills have won

1903
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:23,040
Speaker 1: three in a row. Ravens are the number one rushing

1904
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: attack in the NFL. They average two hundred eight yards

1905
01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:27,719
Speaker 1: on the ground per game. No team in the NFL

1906
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: has ended a year averaging more than two hundred yards

1907
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:33,599
Speaker 1: since the creation of the sixteen game regular season schedule.

1908
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,960
Speaker 1: Ravens average five point six yards per rushing attempt, and

1909
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,320
Speaker 1: at that pace, they'd finished second all time to the

1910
01:32:39,560 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three Cleveland Browns and average yards per rush.

1911
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,640
Speaker 1: On the injury front, offensive lineman Tiansecki said to be

1912
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:49,799
Speaker 1: making progress with his injured knee. No post practice report

1913
01:32:49,840 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 1: out yet. Referee Sunday is Sean Smith. He did the

1914
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 1: Bills games in Week two against the Giants. The weather

1915
01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:57,640
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy, sky is a high forty three. Wins are

1916
01:32:57,680 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 1: going to be ten to twenty miles per hour. We've

1917
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,719
Speaker 1: got the call the game on our flagship radio station,

1918
01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: w GR Sports Radio five fifty. I'll be in the

1919
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 1: booth with Eric Wood sal Capacho on the sidelines this Sunday.

1920
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: The Ravens have signed fullback defensive tackle Patrick rick Card

1921
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:12,639
Speaker 1: to a two year extension. One of the NFL's most

1922
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 1: versatile players, undrafted out of Maine, they call him Project Pat.

1923
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: He plays both sides of the ball. Fullback and defensive linemen,

1924
01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: and he gets a two year extension late yesterday. Ron

1925
01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:25,080
Speaker 1: Rivera fired yesterday as head coach of the Carolina Panthers.

1926
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:28,240
Speaker 1: New owner David Temper made the announcement today. Rivera, today

1927
01:33:28,280 --> 01:33:30,439
Speaker 1: hell the news conference, says he has no plans to

1928
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 1: walk away from the game he's been a part of

1929
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 1: as a player and coach for thirty three years. He

1930
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 1: wants to coach again. Meantime, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton will

1931
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:39,559
Speaker 1: undergo surgery for the left foot injury that led him

1932
01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 1: be ruled out for the rest of the season. Newton

1933
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,800
Speaker 1: plans they have the surgery now. It originally suffered the

1934
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:47,640
Speaker 1: foot injury and the third preseason game aggravated it. In

1935
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 1: Week two against Tampa Bay Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says

1936
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 1: he's staying with Devlin Duck Hodges as his quarterback. He'll

1937
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,759
Speaker 1: start this weekend with their matchup in Arizona. The Savers

1938
01:33:57,840 --> 01:33:59,920
Speaker 1: hit the road this week. They'll face the Calgary Flame

1939
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 1: tomorrow night nine o'clock faceoff out West. Evan Roy regets

1940
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 1: back at practice yeesterday's schedule to be ready to get

1941
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: back at the lineup very soon and that's the update

1942
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:11,680
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Life. Ron Rivera met the media this

1943
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: morning at the day after he was let go and

1944
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,639
Speaker 1: a couple of comments about being dismissed in his splints

1945
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 1: for the future Panther's head coach. Ron Rivera, here he is.

1946
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 1: Here's what he said today. But he's ol and not

1947
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:28,000
Speaker 1: to be taken lightly. I'm proud that I took over

1948
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:30,960
Speaker 1: at two and fourteen team and won back to back

1949
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:36,519
Speaker 1: to back NFC Division titles South Division titles. I want

1950
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:39,120
Speaker 1: to re emphasize I'm proud that I took over to

1951
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,599
Speaker 1: a fourteen team and won back to back to back.

1952
01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 1: See the emphasis won three in a row, okay, whether

1953
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:51,599
Speaker 1: you define it by wins or losses, or you define

1954
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: it by winning the division. To meet us three years

1955
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,599
Speaker 1: in a row of consecutive winning okay, So I want

1956
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 1: to make sure we're straight on that. I get tired

1957
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 1: of hearing all they couldn't win three in a ye

1958
01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 1: two years in a row. Now we won three years

1959
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:03,600
Speaker 1: in a row, so let's get that straight. And we

1960
01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:05,320
Speaker 1: were the first team in the NFC South to do it.

1961
01:35:05,400 --> 01:35:09,360
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty dog on proud of that, Okay. I'm

1962
01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm probably have been part of the twenty fifteen NFC

1963
01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 1: championship team that represented the NFC in Super Bowl fifty.

1964
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:18,639
Speaker 1: And I'm proud to leave here the winningest Panther's head coach.

1965
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: Sounds proud. He should be proud. He did a good

1966
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:23,000
Speaker 1: job down there. I gotta say this, Steve. He's been

1967
01:35:23,080 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: a good friend to this show, and I like the guy.

1968
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 1: Met him a couple of times, like him a lot

1969
01:35:27,280 --> 01:35:29,640
Speaker 1: nine years there. I understand, I guess I understand why

1970
01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:31,840
Speaker 1: they do what they do. But he had a good

1971
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: thing going on in there, and as he pointed out,

1972
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 1: they won pretty consistently down there with him, not this year,

1973
01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 1: but he's been a good friend to the show. You know,

1974
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 1: we had basically the pipeline from Carolina the Buffalo the

1975
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:44,519
Speaker 1: last couple of years, especially two years ago, and whenever

1976
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:46,640
Speaker 1: we asked, and it's two or three times, hey, can

1977
01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:48,640
Speaker 1: we get Coach Rivera on the show, he would do it.

1978
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: That's I like him for that and for the way

1979
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:53,920
Speaker 1: he's conducting himself, and he could go and subsequent interviews said,

1980
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 1: I know that certainly was an answer to the fact

1981
01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: that he got fired midseason when he lost an MVP

1982
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:04,840
Speaker 1: quarterback and when tick cam Newton couldn't play. This is

1983
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 1: a guy who in subsequent interviews after this, if you

1984
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:09,479
Speaker 1: have what looked on what an outstanding guy he has.

1985
01:36:09,479 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: All the guys that played for him, guys who coached

1986
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 1: with him, including our own Sean McDermott, who was asked

1987
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:17,320
Speaker 1: about him today, was a great mentor, and he cared

1988
01:36:17,320 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 1: about his players off the field and on the field.

1989
01:36:19,560 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: He cared him out of his men and developing them,

1990
01:36:22,439 --> 01:36:24,400
Speaker 1: making their lives better. He acknowledged in one of the

1991
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: interviews I saw that Listen, these guys are here for

1992
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:29,879
Speaker 1: three point three years on average. That's just a snippet

1993
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 1: of their life. We got to make them better when

1994
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:34,560
Speaker 1: they get out of this game than when they came in.

1995
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: And and that kind of attitude is a great service

1996
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:41,080
Speaker 1: to the men who play this game and who try

1997
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: to play it for a long time, who sometimes aren't

1998
01:36:42,920 --> 01:36:45,840
Speaker 1: able to. So having a guy like coach Ron Rivera,

1999
01:36:46,160 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 1: the Panthers can do what they want, obviously, but the

2000
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,840
Speaker 1: league is better when guys like Ron Rivera in it

2001
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:57,080
Speaker 1: than when they're not. So I'm with you, mur If,

2002
01:36:57,120 --> 01:36:59,599
Speaker 1: I got nothing but respect for the guy. It's hard

2003
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: to win this league and he did a pretty good

2004
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:05,519
Speaker 1: job of it in Carolina. Yep, it's sorry to see

2005
01:37:05,560 --> 01:37:07,559
Speaker 1: that end. Hey, Let's talk about the Bills and talk

2006
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 1: about the Bills and the Ravens, and our twitter question

2007
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 1: today deals with that topic in particular, deals with Lamar Jackson.

2008
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Simple question, what's the key for the Bills and defending

2009
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:19,760
Speaker 1: Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Love to hear from you on

2010
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:22,760
Speaker 1: the phone lines eighth three five fifty toll free from

2011
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five

2012
01:37:26,120 --> 01:37:28,519
Speaker 1: fifty Sending a tweet, We'll read it on the tweet sheet.

2013
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:30,560
Speaker 1: Let's do that now. The tweet sheet brought to you

2014
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

2015
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:37,479
Speaker 1: The key to defending Lamar Jackson from Max still not

2016
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 1: completely convincing. He can beat you solely with his arm,

2017
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:42,800
Speaker 1: especially if you have the secondary that the Bills have

2018
01:37:42,920 --> 01:37:45,240
Speaker 1: and you can trust your one on ones for man coverage.

2019
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,840
Speaker 1: I'd be dialing up man coverage all game with a

2020
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 1: loaded box, focusing on outside and edge containment. I like

2021
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: the way you're thinking there, Max, to a certain extent,

2022
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:56,920
Speaker 1: load the box, make him beat you with his arm.

2023
01:37:57,120 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 1: I think to me, that might be the key here.

2024
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:01,600
Speaker 1: Seeven And by the way, he might beat you with

2025
01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 1: this arm. He's that talented, he's thrown it that well

2026
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 1: this year. But I think that's the best bet you have.

2027
01:38:06,240 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 1: Load the box, stop the run, make sure you contain

2028
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 1: him in the pocket, don't let him get outside, and

2029
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: make him beat you with his arm. Making play quarterback. Well,

2030
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:16,320
Speaker 1: if you look at the way the defense is construction

2031
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:18,480
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, they got a really good secondary

2032
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 1: tradevious White, It's a top elite corner in the league.

2033
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 1: You got two of the best. The best safety tandem

2034
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:26,479
Speaker 1: we think maybe in the NFL is certainly one of

2035
01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 1: the best in the conference. They're tough to get a

2036
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: handle on. They do a really nice job in the

2037
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:34,720
Speaker 1: back end of the Bills defense, and I think this

2038
01:38:34,880 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: may be a game where they really lean on those

2039
01:38:36,479 --> 01:38:39,960
Speaker 1: guys heavy cover these cover these players up and see

2040
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,160
Speaker 1: if Lamar can beat you with pinpoint throws and a

2041
01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Now, having said that, they may do

2042
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 1: that a lot, but they won't do it exclusively, because

2043
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:51,560
Speaker 1: as soon as you do something exclusively, you start to

2044
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 1: become predictable, and the Ravens will make you pay dearly

2045
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 1: for it. You got to do with some of it,

2046
01:38:56,960 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 1: but there's also got to be something else in your

2047
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:01,040
Speaker 1: in your arsenal as well. But I do think this

2048
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:03,640
Speaker 1: the Bills do have the ability to lean on their

2049
01:39:03,720 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 1: secondary and whatever that looks like upfront, you can expect

2050
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 1: that to happen at certain times. I feel like Micah

2051
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 1: Hyde has a huge role to play in this game.

2052
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 1: You know, a big, tough defense. What are you're laughing about? Now?

2053
01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:16,439
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you can walk he'll he'll walk him into

2054
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:18,680
Speaker 1: the box and he'll you know, people say, put a

2055
01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 1: spy on him. I don't know if Micah Hyde is

2056
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: the spy. I don't know if a spy is the answer.

2057
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:25,320
Speaker 1: But a big, tough defensive back who can run pretty

2058
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: well and can tackle pretty well, that sounds like Micah

2059
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:31,160
Speaker 1: Hyde's job. I think he almost at times, I think

2060
01:39:31,200 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: he almost wouldn't You maybe want to line up in

2061
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:36,960
Speaker 1: a formation, defensive formation that almost invites the Ravens to

2062
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:39,880
Speaker 1: throw it, yeah, and then see if your secondary, see

2063
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:41,760
Speaker 1: if you can either get out of it or stem

2064
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 1: out of it late, or maybe play it and see

2065
01:39:43,880 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 1: if they can beat you with with that look, because

2066
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: they can certainly run the ball. They're averaging over two

2067
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,680
Speaker 1: hundred yards a game. Wouldn't it be nice if they

2068
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:57,640
Speaker 1: had like fifty right? I mean, that would force them,

2069
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: that would force them to beat you left handed, right,

2070
01:40:01,439 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 1: which is kind of what you're after. So you know,

2071
01:40:04,920 --> 01:40:06,720
Speaker 1: sell out to do that and then see what they

2072
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: can do with the rest of it, you know, and

2073
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:10,120
Speaker 1: see if that happened. Now. I don't know. Like I said,

2074
01:40:11,280 --> 01:40:14,720
Speaker 1: there's no one answer to doing it, because you've got

2075
01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:16,519
Speaker 1: to do it with your personnel and your you know,

2076
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:19,880
Speaker 1: and against their personnel and their matchups may dictate you

2077
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:22,599
Speaker 1: do certain things at certain times. But man, oh man,

2078
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:24,840
Speaker 1: that's you got to do something. You got to have

2079
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: a real plan about and you know a place to start,

2080
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:30,320
Speaker 1: and I think leaning on your secondary for this team

2081
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:32,560
Speaker 1: is a good place for that. Ravens seemed to be

2082
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:37,120
Speaker 1: very well coached, obviously, and and very multiple. They'll do

2083
01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:38,680
Speaker 1: it a lot of offense. You can see it when

2084
01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: you watch their games. Lamar Jackson spends a lot of

2085
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:43,120
Speaker 1: time before the snamp. He didn't just have a wrist

2086
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:46,080
Speaker 1: band with plays. He's got almost a folder of plays

2087
01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: on his wrist, and he's sorts, sir. You can see

2088
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,680
Speaker 1: him flipping pages. That's how multiple they are. That's a

2089
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:53,280
Speaker 1: lot to ask. And our next caller here, Gene and Fredonia,

2090
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 1: wants to bring up something that may play into this

2091
01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: as well. Gen. Are you there still You've been waiting

2092
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,400
Speaker 1: a while, You're still there? Yes, sir, I am go

2093
01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 1: ahead and make your point. Gen, what do you think? Well,

2094
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: here's my thing. I've been a season ticket holder for

2095
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:09,040
Speaker 1: over thirty years, kind of had things handed my way

2096
01:41:09,120 --> 01:41:12,160
Speaker 1: back in the day when Stevie was playing and the guys,

2097
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:14,800
Speaker 1: and I just want the fans to show up, and

2098
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean they're always there and stuff, but do their part.

2099
01:41:20,320 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 1: I think way back then we we we actually made

2100
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: a big difference, as we do in most games in

2101
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:33,240
Speaker 1: all but this game in particular, I think it's it's

2102
01:41:33,280 --> 01:41:37,639
Speaker 1: a chance for us to show what we're all about.

2103
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: I agree with the Gene, and that goes what I

2104
01:41:40,040 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 1: was just saying. When when you think of the noise

2105
01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 1: that can be generated here and the disruption at might

2106
01:41:44,479 --> 01:41:48,000
Speaker 1: cause with Greg Roman upstairs calling the plays down to

2107
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:51,360
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and he's sorting through all the pay literally

2108
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: small plastic pages on his wrists of different plays. If

2109
01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 1: you can distract him make enough noise and maybe he

2110
01:41:57,760 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: can hear the call, maybe he can find the right age.

2111
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:01,800
Speaker 1: I think that could have a role to play. I

2112
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 1: really do the noise that could be generated here. You

2113
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:06,240
Speaker 1: look at me like I'm crazy. No, No, I'm not crazy,

2114
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 1: just no, not at all. I'm with you totally. I

2115
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:11,680
Speaker 1: do think it is a chance a game like this,

2116
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 1: it is a chance for fans to flex, you know.

2117
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:19,040
Speaker 1: I mean we talk a lot about how good the

2118
01:42:19,120 --> 01:42:21,120
Speaker 1: Bills fans are, and it's true, and we've seen it

2119
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,640
Speaker 1: time and time again. We've got you know, we got

2120
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:27,400
Speaker 1: nicknamed fans have you know, the Bills Mafia, and you

2121
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,719
Speaker 1: know the new era of field and the way this apmos,

2122
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 1: the college atmosphere that players talk about when they come

2123
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:36,479
Speaker 1: into this town and this stadium, the atmosphere getting through

2124
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:38,920
Speaker 1: the parking lot, of the tailgating, all the stuff that

2125
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 1: goes on. Yeah, they get talked about a lot, and

2126
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: for good reason. The Bills fans are showing up on

2127
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: road games now more so than I've seen them in

2128
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:50,640
Speaker 1: the last twenty twenty five years. They're getting a reputation.

2129
01:42:50,880 --> 01:42:53,560
Speaker 1: And if you want to extend a reputation as a

2130
01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:56,560
Speaker 1: fan base, this is a game to do it, and

2131
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: against a really good team late in the season, when

2132
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: your team's really good, in a big game, in an

2133
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:07,600
Speaker 1: important game, and for the first time in what you know,

2134
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 1: twenty three years, maybe Murph a game that has implications

2135
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:17,479
Speaker 1: for home field playoff games. That's big. So if you

2136
01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:19,760
Speaker 1: want to continue, if you know, if the franchise and

2137
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: the fans want to continue that reputation and the growth

2138
01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:24,240
Speaker 1: of it, this is a game you need to come

2139
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 1: in and flex. You need to come in and show

2140
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:31,280
Speaker 1: up big. And I have no doubt it's gonna be loud,

2141
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:33,640
Speaker 1: you know, I have no doubt that they will. But

2142
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:38,080
Speaker 1: you know there's yeah, that's call gene. Game brings up

2143
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 1: a great point. If you want to want to help,

2144
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 1: show up and help, there's a spot for you. Do

2145
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,960
Speaker 1: your job right. Lou on Grand Island joins us. Hello, Lou,

2146
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,639
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hey, how are you guys? Okay?

2147
01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 1: What a game we got coming on Sunday? I like

2148
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:57,600
Speaker 1: to see the bills. Key on Lamar, don't buy that

2149
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:00,960
Speaker 1: fake he's always trying to sell. Seems like you give

2150
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:05,360
Speaker 1: him that half step advantage and you're done. Easier said

2151
01:44:05,400 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: than done, I would guess Lou and Steve can talk

2152
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:11,200
Speaker 1: more about this, but don't buy that fake Well he jabbed.

2153
01:44:11,280 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: He's so quick for a big man, see six two

2154
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:17,000
Speaker 1: two twelve. He runs like he's five ten, one eighty five.

2155
01:44:17,160 --> 01:44:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean he's so quick. And that jab step, that

2156
01:44:19,720 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 1: fake that he has, that little hip shake that he has.

2157
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how you ignore that. If you're trying

2158
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 1: to bring him down, what do you do. Yeah, he's

2159
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: a great athlete and that's he's gonna be hard to tackle.

2160
01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:30,120
Speaker 1: But I agree, if you're getting if they're gonna do

2161
01:44:30,160 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: that read option stuff, you got to make the choices

2162
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:34,120
Speaker 1: for him and be ready for the choice you give them,

2163
01:44:34,520 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 1: because they'll take it and then they'll still make positive yards.

2164
01:44:37,439 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 1: That's the problem. But go ahead, No, he's gone. Okay,

2165
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,360
Speaker 1: one more call here, we'll go to Ken in Springville. Hello, Ken,

2166
01:44:43,439 --> 01:44:47,080
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi John, thanks for taking my call.

2167
01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:49,000
Speaker 1: First of all, i'd like to say it's a pleasure

2168
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 1: to talk to both of you and Steve. I hope

2169
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 1: you're getting fitted for a gold jacket. Appreciate it. Thanks. Uh.

2170
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:58,880
Speaker 1: First of all, i'd like to give hats off to

2171
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:01,719
Speaker 1: the strength and con sitting coaches are the Buffalo Bells.

2172
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:04,120
Speaker 1: If we look at the years in the past, we've

2173
01:45:04,160 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 1: always had a lot of injuries in the month of

2174
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:10,160
Speaker 1: October and November. I think they've done a fairly good job.

2175
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 1: And also, i'd like to think your thoughts on the

2176
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:17,479
Speaker 1: blueprint that San Francisco left for us. I think the

2177
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:21,160
Speaker 1: way the linebackers played, Lamar, I think our linebackers have

2178
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:23,559
Speaker 1: more speed, our defense has more speed, and I think

2179
01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: we'll be able to continue him. Yeah, no question, the

2180
01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty niners had some success because I was

2181
01:45:31,240 --> 01:45:37,720
Speaker 1: looking at this earlier, this Baltimore Ravens team, who you know,

2182
01:45:37,760 --> 01:45:39,600
Speaker 1: they've won eight in a row. And let me just

2183
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: give you a real quick here at the point level,

2184
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:45,400
Speaker 1: the points they've scored. They in the last All right,

2185
01:45:45,479 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 1: let's just start from week six, twenty three, thirty thirty seven,

2186
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:54,400
Speaker 1: forty nine, forty one, forty five. At thirty thirty seven,

2187
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:57,760
Speaker 1: forty nine, forty five, they're scorn lights out, and then

2188
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 1: they get to San Francisco they scored twenty. It was

2189
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:04,720
Speaker 1: their lowest output of the season, and you got to

2190
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 1: ask yourself, what was San Francisco able to do that?

2191
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 1: Nobody else was able to do and can you do

2192
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:13,960
Speaker 1: it better? Can you copy it and do it better.

2193
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: It's a good question because it's it's the lowest APPS

2194
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 1: points out total. But and I don't know if there's

2195
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:23,640
Speaker 1: all of San Francisco defense or the fact that they

2196
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:25,679
Speaker 1: were playing in thirty mile hour wins in a driving

2197
01:46:25,760 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 1: rainstorm too, So there's that there as well, So you

2198
01:46:29,040 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 1: got to put that in the mix. Certainly San Francisco

2199
01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:35,320
Speaker 1: had some success, but it was a driving rainstorm or

2200
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:37,240
Speaker 1: thirty mile hour wins, so that was a rough day.

2201
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 1: Gonna be a good day here forty three degrees mostly cloud.

2202
01:46:40,479 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 1: These guys win, not too much of a factor. Bills

2203
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 1: and Ravens coming up on Sunday, Josh Allen against Lamar Jackson,

2204
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:48,760
Speaker 1: both of whom drafted in the first round in the

2205
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,479
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft. Josh Allmon met with the media after

2206
01:46:51,600 --> 01:46:53,759
Speaker 1: practice a few moments ago, and that's how they started.

2207
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:56,040
Speaker 1: He was asked, Josh was asked, if you ever think

2208
01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 1: about how far you've come since the pre draft evaluations

2209
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:00,920
Speaker 1: of both you and the mar Jackson Here just what

2210
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:04,880
Speaker 1: the Bills quarterback said. Obviously, I remember the home opener

2211
01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,599
Speaker 1: last year and we got our butts were up that game,

2212
01:47:07,640 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 1: and I remember the rain coming down and being a

2213
01:47:09,920 --> 01:47:13,240
Speaker 1: pretty a pretty messy game. But UM, I remember watching

2214
01:47:13,280 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 1: Lamar out there a few times and make some plays.

2215
01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:18,120
Speaker 1: And it's just kind of surreal to now being the

2216
01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:20,559
Speaker 1: position that I'm in and UM and I filled night

2217
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:24,000
Speaker 1: and day from as far as football perspective, knowledge of

2218
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 1: the game, UM, knowledge of my own offense. UM. But

2219
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:30,240
Speaker 1: that was one of those moments I got to learn from.

2220
01:47:30,280 --> 01:47:41,880
Speaker 1: It was really cool quarterback. I mean, it's hard to

2221
01:47:42,240 --> 01:47:44,439
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. UM, It's very hard to describe

2222
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: what they do on offense. They run the ball so effectively. UM.

2223
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:51,280
Speaker 1: Lamar is a passer, I mean, can make every throw. UM.

2224
01:47:51,720 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's tough to it's tough to stop.

2225
01:47:54,120 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I'm gonna hate being hate watching

2226
01:47:56,680 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: it from our sideline. But uh, it's it's fun to

2227
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:01,720
Speaker 1: watch from an outside perspective for sure, because they can

2228
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:04,439
Speaker 1: do so many different things. UM. But at the same time,

2229
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 1: like we gotta, our offensive side has to focus on

2230
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:09,760
Speaker 1: ourselves and what their defense does and how we're playing them,

2231
01:48:09,800 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: how we got their next cute and trusted our defense

2232
01:48:12,160 --> 01:48:13,400
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and play a heck of a

2233
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:24,320
Speaker 1: game feel like does it feel like even a longer

2234
01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 1: time ago? Probably? Um, you know, as far as what

2235
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:32,320
Speaker 1: we're doing on offense, who we have on offense, UM,

2236
01:48:33,240 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean we have maybe two guys myself included that

2237
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: we're on that offense that played in that game last year. UM.

2238
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:43,880
Speaker 1: So I know, not many people really know what happened

2239
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,679
Speaker 1: last year or how that might affect how they feel.

2240
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:49,560
Speaker 1: But UM, you know, we're focusing on going one and

2241
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:51,800
Speaker 1: oh this week and it's no small task with the

2242
01:48:51,800 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 1: team that we're going to play. Feeling so much more

2243
01:48:56,479 --> 01:49:00,800
Speaker 1: already now and just come into this office in your

2244
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,120
Speaker 1: career at this point for where you were there, Yeah,

2245
01:49:04,080 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely know that I'm not anywhere where

2246
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:10,800
Speaker 1: where I want to be. Um. But as far as

2247
01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, getting my routine down, having a year of

2248
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: experience under my belt, UM, seeing certain defenses, having the

2249
01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:18,920
Speaker 1: report that I do with coach Dabele, Um, kind of

2250
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:22,400
Speaker 1: taking a leadership role for this team. UM. I think

2251
01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 1: those are some of the differences that kind of separate

2252
01:49:24,400 --> 01:49:27,080
Speaker 1: this year from last year. And um, you know, and

2253
01:49:27,120 --> 01:49:28,559
Speaker 1: then then you look in our locker room, the guys

2254
01:49:28,600 --> 01:49:30,080
Speaker 1: that we have in here, you know, we got a

2255
01:49:30,120 --> 01:49:32,439
Speaker 1: bunch of really, really great dudes that I wouldn't trade

2256
01:49:32,479 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: for anybody. Like the last three games has clicked for you.

2257
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: I think we're just going out there. We know our jobs,

2258
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: we know what we need to execute. Um, we're going

2259
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:47,559
Speaker 1: We're doing a good job of going out there getting

2260
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:49,360
Speaker 1: getting it done. Our five guys up front are blocking

2261
01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:52,519
Speaker 1: extremely well. Our guys are making some plays. We're running

2262
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:55,800
Speaker 1: the ball very effectively. UM. That's really what it comes

2263
01:49:55,840 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 1: down to is execution and making smart decisions on my end.

2264
01:49:58,360 --> 01:50:01,320
Speaker 1: And UM, you know, I definitely believe that the quarterback's

2265
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:02,920
Speaker 1: job is to help move the ball in four points

2266
01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:05,720
Speaker 1: when needed, and we've been doing a good job with that.

2267
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 1: But it takes eleven guys, and UM, like I said, this,

2268
01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:11,360
Speaker 1: this defense that we're playing, they're extremely good. Um, they're

2269
01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:13,920
Speaker 1: extremely fast, they're very tough, they do a lot of

2270
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,400
Speaker 1: different things that we've got to be prepared for. And

2271
01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:19,439
Speaker 1: then even in the end game situations where if they

2272
01:50:19,520 --> 01:50:21,200
Speaker 1: bring something, we gotta be ready and stick to our

2273
01:50:21,280 --> 01:50:24,680
Speaker 1: rules and UM, understand what they're gonna try to do defensively,

2274
01:50:24,720 --> 01:50:26,760
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a four quarter fight for sure.

2275
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: Was there that just if you can even recall you're

2276
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:34,599
Speaker 1: getting tapped on the shoulder branch and saying you're in. Yeah,

2277
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:38,760
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like so long ago, and um,

2278
01:50:39,080 --> 01:50:41,280
Speaker 1: I really can't describe it. Obviously. It was my first

2279
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:45,120
Speaker 1: NFL game of real season, real game action. Um, and

2280
01:50:45,320 --> 01:50:47,760
Speaker 1: we were down. We're down a lot. But I still

2281
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:49,760
Speaker 1: remember going out there and just trying to make place

2282
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:53,840
Speaker 1: for my team. Um, and really nothing's really changing that aspect.

2283
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:56,559
Speaker 1: Think about their amount of heat they bring and how

2284
01:50:56,680 --> 01:50:58,800
Speaker 1: much is that kind of channel like your protections. No,

2285
01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be my game for sure. Um,

2286
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, make sure making sure that I give the

2287
01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:05,560
Speaker 1: right mic points that are online, knows who to go to,

2288
01:51:05,680 --> 01:51:08,880
Speaker 1: what type of calls we're giving. Um, if I don't

2289
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:11,040
Speaker 1: make make it right with the protection, I gotta understand

2290
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:13,280
Speaker 1: where my answers are and how they mass that up

2291
01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:14,840
Speaker 1: in the back end, and how how they try to

2292
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 1: kind of trick you to do some things. So, uh,

2293
01:51:17,320 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a very mentally and physically

2294
01:51:20,160 --> 01:51:22,400
Speaker 1: exhausting game with these guys, because like I said, they're

2295
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:24,560
Speaker 1: they're playing lights out right now, and uh, you know

2296
01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:26,559
Speaker 1: they're coming into our house and that they're gonna come

2297
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:28,720
Speaker 1: in here and try to take what we want. And um,

2298
01:51:29,160 --> 01:51:30,400
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta like I said, we gotta go

2299
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 1: go do a good job of executing the challenge. Well,

2300
01:51:37,600 --> 01:51:40,559
Speaker 1: they're very veteran heavy group. Um you know a guy

2301
01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:43,560
Speaker 1: like Girl Thomas who plays fantastic, tries to bate you

2302
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:45,200
Speaker 1: into doing some a lot of different things and he's

2303
01:51:45,280 --> 01:51:47,760
Speaker 1: very smart when he's back there, how he kind of

2304
01:51:47,800 --> 01:51:49,800
Speaker 1: tricks you to do some things. Um. You know the

2305
01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:53,040
Speaker 1: guy that they traded for recently, um Peters and he's

2306
01:51:53,040 --> 01:51:56,559
Speaker 1: playing lights out. Jimmy Smith's a big, bigger guy that, um,

2307
01:51:56,960 --> 01:51:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, can lock onto you. And like I said,

2308
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:01,960
Speaker 1: they're they're veteran in the back end. Um, and they're

2309
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:03,559
Speaker 1: all playing on the same page right now. And when

2310
01:52:03,560 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 1: you guys got when you got guys doing that. If

2311
01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:07,280
Speaker 1: you look at our side, we got some older guys

2312
01:52:07,320 --> 01:52:09,000
Speaker 1: that know what to do and how to trick guys

2313
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:11,880
Speaker 1: into doing things. So, um, they're playing really well. They're

2314
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:14,800
Speaker 1: meshing well together and it comes down to me making

2315
01:52:14,840 --> 01:52:19,080
Speaker 1: some good decisions. Defense. You mentioned seeing defense. This is

2316
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:21,759
Speaker 1: the thing that it's really change. If you still started.

2317
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 1: You're asked to do a lot protections. What is what

2318
01:52:27,920 --> 01:52:30,479
Speaker 1: is the most difficult part of word in that part

2319
01:52:30,520 --> 01:52:34,680
Speaker 1: of again, um, I mean going back to last year

2320
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: that I think the most difficult part was learning protections

2321
01:52:37,840 --> 01:52:39,640
Speaker 1: and then still trying to understand the concepts that were

2322
01:52:39,720 --> 01:52:42,120
Speaker 1: masked with it and understanding where your answers were if

2323
01:52:42,160 --> 01:52:44,360
Speaker 1: you messed up. And I think this year, especially in

2324
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:46,760
Speaker 1: the off season, bringing in coach Dorsey and having um,

2325
01:52:46,880 --> 01:52:49,320
Speaker 1: you know, Matt in the room and what coach tables

2326
01:52:49,400 --> 01:52:51,840
Speaker 1: taught us, you know, I think that's where it's kind

2327
01:52:51,880 --> 01:52:53,439
Speaker 1: of night and day for me as far as knowing

2328
01:52:53,479 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 1: where my answers are if I'm if I'm not right

2329
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:58,000
Speaker 1: in the protection end. There you go, Josh Shallon, I

2330
01:52:58,040 --> 01:52:59,680
Speaker 1: wish we could hear the questions better. They got a

2331
01:52:59,720 --> 01:53:01,600
Speaker 1: pair of Bolock microphone out there. I don't know. We

2332
01:53:01,720 --> 01:53:04,200
Speaker 1: gotta so worth doing that If you can't, can you

2333
01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:07,400
Speaker 1: understand any questions Stevens when I'm asking? Yeah, it almost

2334
01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:10,120
Speaker 1: hurts my ears to try, Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah.

2335
01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:14,640
Speaker 1: A lot of reference to m the opener in the

2336
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen season, right, the Bills forty seven to three

2337
01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: loss in Baltimore in that terrible rainstorm, A terrible start

2338
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 1: to the twenty eighteen season for the Bills. It took

2339
01:53:23,160 --> 01:53:25,800
Speaker 1: him a while to recover from that game, but they

2340
01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:28,240
Speaker 1: both played in that game right in relief. Josh came

2341
01:53:28,320 --> 01:53:33,759
Speaker 1: in for Peterman and Lamar Jackson came in for Joe Flacco.

2342
01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 1: They both played. This the first time they've gone up

2343
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:39,200
Speaker 1: against each other as starters anyway, and I'm looking it

2344
01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:42,800
Speaker 1: up here. This question, quick question, top of your head.

2345
01:53:42,960 --> 01:53:45,560
Speaker 1: Who started more NFL games so far? Lamar Jackson or

2346
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:49,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I know the answer probably Josh. Yeah, should

2347
01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 1: be Josh's twenty fourth start. This will be Lamar Jackson's

2348
01:53:52,360 --> 01:53:56,040
Speaker 1: twentieth start. Yeah, Lamar finished up seven starts last year,

2349
01:53:56,160 --> 01:53:58,720
Speaker 1: just taken over for Flacco after the second half of

2350
01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:00,599
Speaker 1: the season, and then he's kind of all twelve this year.

2351
01:54:00,680 --> 01:54:03,160
Speaker 1: And for Josh, he had eleven last year and twelve

2352
01:54:03,240 --> 01:54:05,280
Speaker 1: so far this year. Is twenty fourth start. I don't

2353
01:54:05,320 --> 01:54:06,599
Speaker 1: know what the point is there, other than the fact

2354
01:54:06,640 --> 01:54:08,719
Speaker 1: that these are guys very early in their careers still,

2355
01:54:09,479 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 1: and hopefully they get to go against each other a

2356
01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:14,760
Speaker 1: little bit more. We've seen Josh against Darnold, we saw

2357
01:54:14,960 --> 01:54:18,120
Speaker 1: Josh against Baker Mayfield a month or so ago in Cleveland.

2358
01:54:18,600 --> 01:54:21,040
Speaker 1: We have yet to see Josh against the other Josh

2359
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:24,720
Speaker 1: and you know five quarterbackstracted in the first round of

2360
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:27,120
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. We know that that's going to be a thing.

2361
01:54:27,720 --> 01:54:29,760
Speaker 1: And this is a thing now. And if these two

2362
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:34,680
Speaker 1: teams continue listen long view here, maybe these are two

2363
01:54:34,680 --> 01:54:36,160
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the conference for a while

2364
01:54:36,200 --> 01:54:37,840
Speaker 1: and we get to see this matchup more than just

2365
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 1: this week, maybe maybe every year in the playoffs for

2366
01:54:40,400 --> 01:54:41,840
Speaker 1: a while. Every kind of yeah, it might be, and

2367
01:54:43,120 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 1: it's yeah, both these guys are setting up to be

2368
01:54:47,200 --> 01:54:49,680
Speaker 1: in their spot for a while. Yeah, certainly, neither one

2369
01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 1: of them has done anything to even caused people to

2370
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:55,760
Speaker 1: doubt it at this point. I mean that they're they're

2371
01:54:55,800 --> 01:54:58,400
Speaker 1: both getting better, and Lamar has gotten better so fast,

2372
01:54:58,480 --> 01:55:01,000
Speaker 1: and the entire team built a around his skill set

2373
01:55:01,480 --> 01:55:03,880
Speaker 1: has proven to be, you know, a freight train that

2374
01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:07,080
Speaker 1: nobody can stop as at the present moment. So, uh,

2375
01:55:07,520 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 1: it is something fun to think about. And he'd go

2376
01:55:08,960 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: down the league. He got Mahomes in his third year,

2377
01:55:12,040 --> 01:55:16,360
Speaker 1: that whole draft class from last year, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield, Uh,

2378
01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:19,320
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen and then these two Josh and Lamar Uh,

2379
01:55:19,480 --> 01:55:21,120
Speaker 1: those guys are all in the league. He has some

2380
01:55:21,200 --> 01:55:23,880
Speaker 1: other young quarterbacks. An Russell Wilson is still he's just

2381
01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:26,040
Speaker 1: seven or eight years into his career, right, he's an

2382
01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:30,320
Speaker 1: old man. Yeah right, So, um, you know goff Out

2383
01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:34,160
Speaker 1: in Arizona are now goff in La and Kyler Murray

2384
01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:37,320
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Uh, there's a lot of guys out there

2385
01:55:37,440 --> 01:55:40,120
Speaker 1: that and that this generation is gonna be like Russell

2386
01:55:40,160 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: Wilson's kind of the bridge from the from the old

2387
01:55:43,400 --> 01:55:46,440
Speaker 1: guys back in that day. From Aaron Rodgers still hanging around.

2388
01:55:46,480 --> 01:55:48,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's the old guy. He's long in the tooth.

2389
01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:51,040
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's long in the tooth. Philip Rivers, long in

2390
01:55:51,080 --> 01:55:53,520
Speaker 1: the tooth, Eli Manning. We've seen him go away this year.

2391
01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:56,360
Speaker 1: So it's starting to take a new generation, a new

2392
01:55:56,440 --> 01:55:59,520
Speaker 1: generation starting to take over. It's kind of cool, Yeah,

2393
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:01,240
Speaker 1: kind of cool happen both two of them, two of

2394
01:56:01,280 --> 01:56:03,080
Speaker 1: the better ones. Here this Sunday, we're gonna talk more

2395
01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:04,800
Speaker 1: about this game. I want to hear from you. What's

2396
01:56:04,840 --> 01:56:07,160
Speaker 1: your key to defending against Lamar Jackson. Give us a

2397
01:56:07,200 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: call to discuss eight oh three h five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty one goes Live, presented by Collat of

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Speaker 1: Health Comedy live from the Seneca Studio, Seneca Resorts in Casino.

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01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:35,000
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close. We im back to the show. It's

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01:56:35,120 --> 01:56:40,240
Speaker 1: quiet day here at one goes Live. We were just no,

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01:56:40,720 --> 01:56:43,520
Speaker 1: we don't mean we no, don't say. Well, you started it,

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01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:45,920
Speaker 1: you were in, you chimed in and then like you

2405
01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 1: stirred it and then left it sitting question is it

2406
01:56:48,880 --> 01:56:51,960
Speaker 1: worth doing? The Josh Allen News conversation. Hear the question

2407
01:56:52,240 --> 01:56:55,640
Speaker 1: that's right, and I said, when you took and they

2408
01:56:55,680 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 1: were eleven, I don't care what get a microphone that

2409
01:57:00,240 --> 01:57:05,840
Speaker 1: works and some yeah, the listeners aphe let us hear

2410
01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:08,800
Speaker 1: what they're asking him, and he's just it's like he's

2411
01:57:08,880 --> 01:57:12,400
Speaker 1: talking to himself. You know, it's like, what's he talking about?

2412
01:57:12,480 --> 01:57:14,880
Speaker 1: I don't get what? Who's he? He didn't use a

2413
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:16,880
Speaker 1: noun or verb there. I don't know who's he didn't

2414
01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:19,640
Speaker 1: use a name, you know, because the question isn't about

2415
01:57:19,640 --> 01:57:21,600
Speaker 1: a guy, and he we don't know who who Josh

2416
01:57:21,760 --> 01:57:25,080
Speaker 1: is talking about. It happens all the time. Fix that

2417
01:57:25,880 --> 01:57:28,839
Speaker 1: you're talking to me. I don't know I guess wield

2418
01:57:28,880 --> 01:57:32,320
Speaker 1: your power. Voice of the Bills. Oh yes, and Voice

2419
01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 1: of the Bills. There's got to be some sort of

2420
01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:38,800
Speaker 1: microphone or something that you could get that would allow

2421
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:42,440
Speaker 1: us to hear the question. Can I take calls? Or

2422
01:57:42,440 --> 01:57:44,400
Speaker 1: do you want to scream some more? Am I screaming?

2423
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:46,360
Speaker 1: You already toned it down. I was screaming in there,

2424
01:57:46,600 --> 01:57:48,640
Speaker 1: John and Rochester on the line. Hello John, you're on

2425
01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:51,960
Speaker 1: the here all right, Johnny, Steve, Steve. This is going

2426
01:57:52,040 --> 01:57:54,880
Speaker 1: back to earlier than the day when you basically I

2427
01:57:55,040 --> 01:57:59,080
Speaker 1: said something about monitoring the options that Jackson's going to

2428
01:57:59,200 --> 01:58:02,960
Speaker 1: have back there, right. Um, My question is this, for

2429
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, coach McDermott said, play aggressive,

2430
01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:10,120
Speaker 1: play smart, you know, fearless type of football out there? Right,

2431
01:58:10,280 --> 01:58:13,280
Speaker 1: how do you prevent how do you prevent the aggressiveness

2432
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:16,080
Speaker 1: that you get from Shack Lawson and Jerry Hughes on

2433
01:58:16,200 --> 01:58:19,960
Speaker 1: the corners around the edge, from crashing down in and

2434
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:23,800
Speaker 1: then just seeing you know, Jackson go around them. I'm

2435
01:58:23,840 --> 01:58:27,320
Speaker 1: concerned about that. And if he does get around the edge,

2436
01:58:27,360 --> 01:58:30,960
Speaker 1: and if Shaq and Hughes are playing aggressively, do you

2437
01:58:31,120 --> 01:58:35,480
Speaker 1: have high who comes down from the backfield to help

2438
01:58:35,600 --> 01:58:38,120
Speaker 1: push it towards the center where all the pursuit is,

2439
01:58:38,880 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 1: so that Jackson's not running twenty yards thirty yards down

2440
01:58:42,560 --> 01:58:46,040
Speaker 1: the sideline. That that's my question. My concern is that

2441
01:58:46,240 --> 01:58:49,080
Speaker 1: if we if we don't set the edge, and if

2442
01:58:49,120 --> 01:58:52,200
Speaker 1: we don't push him back into the pursuit, it could

2443
01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:54,880
Speaker 1: be a long day. Yeah, here's the thing. You're right,

2444
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:57,400
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough balance balancing age. But here's

2445
01:58:57,600 --> 01:59:00,400
Speaker 1: my point about what I said earlier. You get we've

2446
01:59:00,440 --> 01:59:04,040
Speaker 1: all seen Lamar Jackson. He takes the snap, he steps back,

2447
01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:07,040
Speaker 1: and mark Ingram comes by him, and he puts the

2448
01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:09,880
Speaker 1: ball into mark Ingram's stomach, way back behind him, and

2449
01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 1: then he holds it in his stomach until mark Ingram

2450
01:59:12,600 --> 01:59:15,280
Speaker 1: is taking maybe two full steps, so he's got it

2451
01:59:15,360 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 1: there for a minute. In the meantime, his eyes aren't

2452
01:59:17,640 --> 01:59:20,560
Speaker 1: looking at mark Ingram, Lamar Jackson's eyes. His eyes are

2453
01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:22,400
Speaker 1: looking at the end man on the line of scrimmage.

2454
01:59:22,640 --> 01:59:24,360
Speaker 1: If the end man on the line of scrimmage goes

2455
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 1: with mark Ingram, then Lamar just pulls the ball out

2456
01:59:28,360 --> 01:59:31,840
Speaker 1: of Ingram's stomach and goes around the guy the other Conversely,

2457
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:34,080
Speaker 1: if the guy on the line of scrimmage comes at Lamar,

2458
01:59:34,200 --> 01:59:37,280
Speaker 1: he hands the ball to Lamar jack to mark Ingram,

2459
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,160
Speaker 1: and the running back has it. My point was that

2460
01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:43,480
Speaker 1: if you get into a situation like that, I would

2461
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:47,400
Speaker 1: rather have mark Ingram running into the middle of our

2462
01:59:47,640 --> 01:59:50,720
Speaker 1: defense than Lamar Jackson running out to the edge of it.

2463
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:52,640
Speaker 1: So I my thought is that end guy on the

2464
01:59:52,680 --> 01:59:55,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage should crash in. And if Lamar Jackson

2465
01:59:55,600 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: sees him coming and leaves the ball in mark Ingram's

2466
01:59:58,360 --> 02:00:02,400
Speaker 1: stomach and Ingram goes into the line, Lamar Jackson, by

2467
02:00:02,440 --> 02:00:06,280
Speaker 1: carrying out a play fake gets hit and knocked down hard.

2468
02:00:07,480 --> 02:00:10,200
Speaker 1: So every time hey run that play and he makes

2469
02:00:10,240 --> 02:00:12,320
Speaker 1: that decision, he knows whether he keeps it or not,

2470
02:00:13,080 --> 02:00:14,800
Speaker 1: that mesh point is going to get hit by a

2471
02:00:14,840 --> 02:00:17,240
Speaker 1: defender and hit hard. And Lamar Jackson's going to be

2472
02:00:17,280 --> 02:00:19,560
Speaker 1: the guy getting hit, So he'll hand it off every

2473
02:00:19,640 --> 02:00:22,959
Speaker 1: time because that's his job. He's the guy the defender's

2474
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:26,720
Speaker 1: tackling him. And so at least you know that mark

2475
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:28,640
Speaker 1: Ingram's going to be the ball carry on all of

2476
02:00:28,680 --> 02:00:32,360
Speaker 1: those plays. And I think if mark Ingram beat you

2477
02:00:32,640 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: or if whatever, if he beats you doing that running

2478
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:39,440
Speaker 1: into the middle of the line. I think that's a

2479
02:00:39,520 --> 02:00:40,880
Speaker 1: better way to go, and I think it's harder to

2480
02:00:40,920 --> 02:00:42,920
Speaker 1: beat you that way than have Lamar Jackson with the

2481
02:00:42,920 --> 02:00:44,800
Speaker 1: ball in his hands out in open space. A call

2482
02:00:44,840 --> 02:00:47,480
Speaker 1: from Stephen Jamestown with I think a question on the

2483
02:00:47,560 --> 02:00:49,400
Speaker 1: same issue. Steve, go ahead, you're on the air with us.

2484
02:00:51,040 --> 02:00:54,440
Speaker 1: Oh well, I was wondering, was you know, everybody who

2485
02:00:54,520 --> 02:00:59,480
Speaker 1: plays against them, they guess every team they all need

2486
02:00:59,520 --> 02:01:02,560
Speaker 1: to get to the defense, and they rush way in there. Well,

2487
02:01:02,600 --> 02:01:06,680
Speaker 1: what about making the offense commit If the defense back

2488
02:01:06,760 --> 02:01:09,360
Speaker 1: for just one second and didn't rush on in there,

2489
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:13,240
Speaker 1: let the offense commit to either pass or run, then

2490
02:01:13,320 --> 02:01:14,920
Speaker 1: he would you would have a link up on because

2491
02:01:14,920 --> 02:01:16,120
Speaker 1: you already know what they're going to do in the

2492
02:01:16,160 --> 02:01:20,200
Speaker 1: secondary connect accordingly, Yeah, that's kind of what we talked about,

2493
02:01:20,240 --> 02:01:22,680
Speaker 1: that a little bit of containment is in order here,

2494
02:01:22,760 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 1: right Steve. Well, yeah, I mean, certainly, you gotta be disciplined.

2495
02:01:25,800 --> 02:01:29,120
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. As soon as you don't commit,

2496
02:01:29,440 --> 02:01:32,000
Speaker 1: you're on your heels. I mean, you got you're gonna

2497
02:01:32,040 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 1: have five of their offensive linemen, two of their tight ends,

2498
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:36,400
Speaker 1: all of them weighing you know, two hundred and seventy

2499
02:01:36,400 --> 02:01:38,520
Speaker 1: pounds plus they're firing off the ball. And as soon

2500
02:01:38,560 --> 02:01:40,680
Speaker 1: as you stand up to watch and see kind of

2501
02:01:40,680 --> 02:01:42,640
Speaker 1: what's going to happen back there, you're getting knocked five

2502
02:01:42,720 --> 02:01:45,760
Speaker 1: yards off the ball. Uh, you just gotta be you

2503
02:01:45,840 --> 02:01:49,920
Speaker 1: gotta be disciplined. And and and one of our guests,

2504
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:52,200
Speaker 1: and I think it might have been might have been

2505
02:01:52,320 --> 02:01:56,520
Speaker 1: Jeremy H. Fowler, said, you just can't run past the quarterback.

2506
02:01:56,880 --> 02:01:59,280
Speaker 1: You can't get deeper than the quarterback. And I think

2507
02:01:59,320 --> 02:02:00,960
Speaker 1: that kind of speaks to a little bit of what

2508
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:04,080
Speaker 1: you're talking about. You can't run past guys who may

2509
02:02:04,200 --> 02:02:06,880
Speaker 1: or may not have the ball. You got to keep

2510
02:02:06,920 --> 02:02:08,920
Speaker 1: them in front of you as a defensive rusher. And

2511
02:02:09,040 --> 02:02:11,320
Speaker 1: I think penetration is a huge key for this game.

2512
02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:13,840
Speaker 1: But you also can't penetrate to the point where you're

2513
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:16,240
Speaker 1: running past the backfield mesh point and the running back

2514
02:02:16,280 --> 02:02:19,040
Speaker 1: and the quarterback and the play end up happening behind you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your call, Hey, let's get to True and False.

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Speaker 1: NFL True or False brought to you by Yancey's Fancy

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Speaker 1: New York's artists and Cheese. A couple of issues to discuss.

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Speaker 1: We declare whether we think they are true or whether

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Speaker 1: we think they are false. Number one true or false.

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02:02:32,320 --> 02:02:36,320
Speaker 1: The NFL's current playoff seating system is unfair and needs

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02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:38,760
Speaker 1: to be scrapped. That was the post that went up

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Speaker 1: on USA today dot com. And look, in the event

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Speaker 1: of an actual emergency, this system would bring you what

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Speaker 1: was that. There are gonna be some complaints about this.

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02:02:49,160 --> 02:02:51,160
Speaker 1: Perhaps in a couple of weeks. You could look at

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02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:54,120
Speaker 1: a scenario where the winner of the NFC East, for example,

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02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:57,800
Speaker 1: is home hosting the playoff game, and the Buffalo Bills

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02:02:57,920 --> 02:03:01,480
Speaker 1: might have wins more wins, maybe more wins for instance

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02:03:01,520 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboys where they beat and have to play on

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02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:07,040
Speaker 1: the road. The NFL current playoffs system is unfair, needs

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02:03:07,080 --> 02:03:10,000
Speaker 1: to be scrapped. I'm gonna go false on this. It is.

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02:03:10,360 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 1: It's not totally fair, but don't scrap it. It's where

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02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:14,600
Speaker 1: it works, and I get it, and it puts a

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02:03:14,680 --> 02:03:17,240
Speaker 1: premium on winning your division, and there should be a

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02:03:17,320 --> 02:03:19,800
Speaker 1: premium place there. So I go false, don't scrap it.

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02:03:20,000 --> 02:03:23,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would say scrap it, no, but

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02:03:23,240 --> 02:03:27,520
Speaker 1: change it maybe well if use it to get into

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02:03:27,560 --> 02:03:30,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs and then recede once the playoffs are set

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02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:34,120
Speaker 1: about and use multiple tie breakers to get that set

2540
02:03:34,240 --> 02:03:36,120
Speaker 1: from one to six and then play the turn and

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02:03:36,200 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 1: you lose the incentive on winning your division. No, No,

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02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:41,320
Speaker 1: your division would still get you in, even if it's

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02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: a losing record, which may happen in the NFC East

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02:03:44,240 --> 02:03:46,040
Speaker 1: this year. But winning your you know, there have been times,

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02:03:46,040 --> 02:03:47,680
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Winning your division get you in,

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02:03:47,760 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't get you more than you deserve, well,

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02:03:50,120 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 1: maybe deserve a home game. Look, there have been times,

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02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 1: there have been times when a division is so good

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02:03:57,360 --> 02:03:59,840
Speaker 1: and so competitive that the winner comes up with nine wins.

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02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:02,040
Speaker 1: And if you win a great and it's not the

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02:04:02,160 --> 02:04:04,320
Speaker 1: NFC East this year, I understand that. But if you

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02:04:04,360 --> 02:04:06,440
Speaker 1: win your division, you've got nine wins because you guys

2553
02:04:06,440 --> 02:04:08,480
Speaker 1: have been beating each other over the head in your

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02:04:08,560 --> 02:04:11,000
Speaker 1: division all season long, then you deserve a home game.

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02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 1: I think. I like the fact that division leaders, division winners,

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02:04:14,880 --> 02:04:17,040
Speaker 1: at the end of it, get the home games, get

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02:04:17,080 --> 02:04:19,320
Speaker 1: the benefit of the DELPHA home games. Well, here's the thing,

2558
02:04:19,560 --> 02:04:21,880
Speaker 1: and I get it, but I would much rather look

2559
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:24,640
Speaker 1: at the total package, whether you're playing all these teams

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02:04:24,760 --> 02:04:27,120
Speaker 1: all over the league, not just your division teams. And

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02:04:27,560 --> 02:04:29,400
Speaker 1: I get it too. There's a couple of divisions like

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02:04:29,520 --> 02:04:33,000
Speaker 1: the NFC West this year with the Niners, the Rams,

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02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:37,600
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks. That's a tough division out there, and

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02:04:37,960 --> 02:04:40,320
Speaker 1: we've seen the AFC North be that over the years

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02:04:40,360 --> 02:04:44,680
Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh and Baltimore and maybe thrown in once in

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02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:49,320
Speaker 1: a while Cleveland. But I think if you win the division, fine,

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02:04:49,400 --> 02:04:51,440
Speaker 1: you should get in the playoffs. But once you get

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02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:56,800
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, there should be a mechanism for reseading

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02:04:56,920 --> 02:04:59,080
Speaker 1: the teams and saying, listen, here's how it would set

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02:04:59,160 --> 02:05:00,640
Speaker 1: up if you do get in. So that means the

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02:05:00,920 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 1: wild card teams. For instance, if the Bills, the Bills

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02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:08,480
Speaker 1: could go thirteen and three and not get a home

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02:05:08,520 --> 02:05:10,680
Speaker 1: playoff game, and I think they would deserve one this

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02:05:10,800 --> 02:05:13,760
Speaker 1: year if they did that well, and maybe even more

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02:05:14,720 --> 02:05:17,680
Speaker 1: West the NFC West year, right Seattle, the Rams could

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02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:19,240
Speaker 1: have a really good record and have to play on

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02:05:19,320 --> 02:05:20,800
Speaker 1: the road in a wild card. Yeah. See, I think

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02:05:20,800 --> 02:05:23,560
Speaker 1: that's unfair. I wouldn't I wouldn't touch it. I think

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02:05:23,600 --> 02:05:25,920
Speaker 1: the system works might be how it works works good,

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02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:29,120
Speaker 1: I think, but it could be better. Part two NFL

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02:05:29,200 --> 02:05:31,200
Speaker 1: Tour or False Ron Rivera will be a head coach

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02:05:31,240 --> 02:05:33,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL next year, said today he wants to

2583
02:05:33,880 --> 02:05:36,160
Speaker 1: be Will he be a head coach in the NFL

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02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:40,400
Speaker 1: next year? Ron Rivera is fifty seven year will be

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02:05:40,520 --> 02:05:44,160
Speaker 1: fifty eight years old in January. That's pretty good. I say, yes,

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02:05:44,480 --> 02:05:47,000
Speaker 1: he wants to be a head coach. He's fifty eight

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02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:49,200
Speaker 1: years old. He as a nine year record of mostly

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02:05:49,320 --> 02:05:51,760
Speaker 1: success in Carolina. Yes, true, he will be a head

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02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:53,960
Speaker 1: coach next year. It's gonna be the normal. What five

2590
02:05:54,120 --> 02:05:56,280
Speaker 1: six openings? Why not, Ron Rivere? You can do a

2591
02:05:56,320 --> 02:05:58,040
Speaker 1: lot worse than Ron Rivera. I think so too. I

2592
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:00,160
Speaker 1: think in this day and age, you want guys who

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02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:02,680
Speaker 1: have some experience, and I think he would probably fit

2594
02:06:02,800 --> 02:06:06,280
Speaker 1: some of the spots that may be open. You talk

2595
02:06:06,320 --> 02:06:09,840
Speaker 1: about the Giants, maybe Atlanta he's been in. He'd be

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02:06:09,920 --> 02:06:11,840
Speaker 1: moving over in the same division. We saw that happen

2597
02:06:11,920 --> 02:06:13,800
Speaker 1: with Adam Gase this year. Although it didn't go He's

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02:06:13,840 --> 02:06:18,640
Speaker 1: not going very well right there. Cleveland is an opportunity

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02:06:18,680 --> 02:06:20,600
Speaker 1: for a guy with maybe some experience, and it would

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02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:24,160
Speaker 1: be that might be the place for him, Murph, because

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02:06:24,200 --> 02:06:26,600
Speaker 1: that team they got a guy who'd never been a

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02:06:27,080 --> 02:06:30,080
Speaker 1: coordinator at the NFL level before he did it last year.

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02:06:30,200 --> 02:06:32,520
Speaker 1: Now he's the head coach. Freddie Kitchens just a little

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02:06:32,520 --> 02:06:34,360
Speaker 1: too in experience. Maybe they'll swing back to a guy

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02:06:34,400 --> 02:06:37,120
Speaker 1: who's got a number, a bunch of years as experience

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Speaker 1: as a head coach. As a head coach, Yeah, Dendye

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02:06:39,520 --> 02:06:41,320
Speaker 1: River would be a guy like I think that's important

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02:06:41,320 --> 02:06:43,760
Speaker 1: to not just hire the hot young coordinator, whether it's

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02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:46,960
Speaker 1: in Kitchens barely was a coordinator or Adam Gaze who

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02:06:47,040 --> 02:06:48,640
Speaker 1: that's how he got a job. Hire a guy who's

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02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:50,440
Speaker 1: done this job. He's been a head coach, he's had

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02:06:50,480 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: success taking teams to the Super Bowl. Sure he belongs

2613
02:06:53,240 --> 02:06:56,800
Speaker 1: in the league. Last one. Drew Locke, rookie quarterback Denver Brocos,

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02:06:56,840 --> 02:07:00,280
Speaker 1: will continue his impressive play against the Texans. True false,

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02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:02,840
Speaker 1: I say false. You know why he's not that good.

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02:07:03,280 --> 02:07:05,280
Speaker 1: Drew Luck is not that good. And I formed this

2617
02:07:05,400 --> 02:07:08,440
Speaker 1: impression watching him with the Senior Bowl eight nine months ago.

2618
02:07:08,520 --> 02:07:10,480
Speaker 1: Now didn't think he was that good there, and still

2619
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:13,240
Speaker 1: don't think he's very good. And if he has a

2620
02:07:13,440 --> 02:07:15,560
Speaker 1: decent game or two, that'll be par for the course.

2621
02:07:15,640 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 1: But Texans are a pretty good team in a playoff hunt. No,

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02:07:19,480 --> 02:07:21,520
Speaker 1: Drew Luck is not good. Yeah, he's not gonna. I

2623
02:07:21,560 --> 02:07:26,320
Speaker 1: don't think he can beat the Houston Texans. Um. Yeah,

2624
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:29,040
Speaker 1: he might play well, he may play okay, but he's

2625
02:07:29,080 --> 02:07:31,160
Speaker 1: not going to duplicate that win that he had this

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02:07:31,320 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 1: last week. No. I think it's false too. I think

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02:07:33,320 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna struggle, like like every young quarterback does. There

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Speaker 1: you go, There you go. It is NFL true or false.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you a bout Yancey's fancy New York's artist

2630
02:07:40,480 --> 02:07:42,200
Speaker 1: and cheese Steve and I coming back with more in

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02:07:42,280 --> 02:07:44,400
Speaker 1: a moment. One goes live Steve. He got more yelling

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02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,360
Speaker 1: to do, apparently, and during the time, I'm good, Yeah,

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02:07:47,400 --> 02:07:49,480
Speaker 1: I got it out of my got it out. It

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02:07:49,560 --> 02:07:52,800
Speaker 1: felt good too for you did the rest of us?

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02:07:52,840 --> 02:07:57,040
Speaker 1: Are ears are blue? In there? One goes Liveida Health

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02:07:57,160 --> 02:07:59,920
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. What have we learned from today's show? Brought

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02:08:15,160 --> 02:08:17,879
Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official and I mean official

2639
02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:21,080
Speaker 1: construction rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Really good show today,

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02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:24,120
Speaker 1: Really good show today. Well. Among our guests Jeremy Fowler

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02:08:24,160 --> 02:08:27,120
Speaker 1: from ESPN in town covering the Bills. His stuff is

2642
02:08:28,040 --> 02:08:30,320
Speaker 1: reports will be up on the ESPN later today, we

2643
02:08:30,360 --> 02:08:32,400
Speaker 1: asked him the question we've been talking about all day

2644
02:08:32,480 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: long here, what's the plan to defend against Lamar Jackson.

2645
02:08:35,320 --> 02:08:40,440
Speaker 1: It's what Jeremy Fowler said. Yeah, the plan is to, um,

2646
02:08:41,640 --> 02:08:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, really just have all eleven guys take your

2647
02:08:43,680 --> 02:08:45,720
Speaker 1: one assignment and don't try to be a hero. I

2648
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:48,280
Speaker 1: think that's really their thing. It's kind of boring, it's

2649
02:08:48,440 --> 02:08:50,400
Speaker 1: very boring, but I think that's I think that's what

2650
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:52,480
Speaker 1: they expect and that's what they hope for because they

2651
02:08:52,760 --> 02:08:55,520
Speaker 1: know they can't you know, they're not gonna win one

2652
02:08:55,560 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 1: on one in the open field of Lamar Jackson. So

2653
02:08:57,200 --> 02:08:59,040
Speaker 1: the key is not giving in the open field, right,

2654
02:08:59,120 --> 02:09:02,080
Speaker 1: keep them in the pocket and look, they're betting on

2655
02:09:02,160 --> 02:09:04,960
Speaker 1: their guy, right they Sean McDermott just said in the

2656
02:09:05,000 --> 02:09:08,600
Speaker 1: press conference that Lamar Jackson is a fantastic prospect in

2657
02:09:08,680 --> 02:09:11,160
Speaker 1: the draft, and they scouted him and he's a fantastic player.

2658
02:09:11,280 --> 02:09:13,440
Speaker 1: Now they wanted Josh Allen, that was their guy. So

2659
02:09:13,760 --> 02:09:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, this is what is. He says, six toeschdowns,

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02:09:15,760 --> 02:09:18,520
Speaker 1: one interception last three games, so they feel the time

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02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:20,240
Speaker 1: is right for him to make some you know, even

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02:09:20,280 --> 02:09:23,040
Speaker 1: more of a statement. Good point by Jeremy Fowler takes

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02:09:23,120 --> 02:09:25,400
Speaker 1: us right into park two of what we learned in

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02:09:25,480 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 1: nets Field Yates ESPN's Field Yates joined us and he said,

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Speaker 1: don't look, you got a great running quarterback coming in here,

2666
02:09:31,080 --> 02:09:34,600
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, but don't discount the other guy Buffalos Josh Allen.

2667
02:09:34,640 --> 02:09:36,680
Speaker 1: He can run with the football. Also, here's what he said.

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02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 1: No quarterbacks have ever had more combined rushing yards entering

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02:09:43,360 --> 02:09:47,600
Speaker 1: a game than Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. Now, some

2670
02:09:47,840 --> 02:09:50,920
Speaker 1: on Twitter were fast to point out that nine hundred

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02:09:51,160 --> 02:09:54,880
Speaker 1: plus of those yards come from Lamar Jackson, which is

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02:09:54,960 --> 02:09:58,720
Speaker 1: more emblematic of Twitter than is anything else. Ye, poor

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02:09:58,840 --> 02:10:01,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a legit him at running threat. It's

2674
02:10:01,480 --> 02:10:05,800
Speaker 1: because you haven't bothered watching Buffalo football this year, which means, honestly,

2675
02:10:06,200 --> 02:10:08,840
Speaker 1: you're missing out on high quality play, not just from

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02:10:08,840 --> 02:10:12,000
Speaker 1: the defense, but also from Josh, who has really made

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02:10:12,040 --> 02:10:15,200
Speaker 1: some significant strides that I'm sure has been all the

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02:10:15,320 --> 02:10:18,080
Speaker 1: talk of the town over the past six days since

2679
02:10:18,120 --> 02:10:21,520
Speaker 1: that win down there in Dallas. Yeah it has been, right,

2680
02:10:21,600 --> 02:10:23,760
Speaker 1: the Bills have been since that game. Yeah, talk of

2681
02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:26,000
Speaker 1: the town for sure. All Right, So we got to

2682
02:10:26,000 --> 02:10:28,040
Speaker 1: show tomorrow we had a good show today. We'll have

2683
02:10:28,120 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 1: to come up with something else to talk about on Twitter. Look,

2684
02:10:30,640 --> 02:10:32,680
Speaker 1: I hear all, we all got ideas what they can

2685
02:10:32,720 --> 02:10:34,960
Speaker 1: do against Lamar Jackson. I don't think anybody has the clue.

2686
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:37,480
Speaker 1: And it doesn't really matter as long as Leslie Frasier

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02:10:37,520 --> 02:10:39,880
Speaker 1: has an idea. I think he does. Yeah, that's gonna

2688
02:10:39,880 --> 02:10:41,640
Speaker 1: be at it. And they've got a philosophy and they

2689
02:10:41,640 --> 02:10:43,160
Speaker 1: got to sell it to their players, and their players

2690
02:10:43,240 --> 02:10:44,640
Speaker 1: got to know that, you know, they got to buy

2691
02:10:44,680 --> 02:10:48,240
Speaker 1: in and execute it. It's they're certainly talented enough, this

2692
02:10:48,360 --> 02:10:51,120
Speaker 1: defensive Buffalo to get anything done that Leslie Frasier can

2693
02:10:51,240 --> 02:10:53,040
Speaker 1: dream up. But it's gonna come down to discipline. This

2694
02:10:53,440 --> 02:10:55,880
Speaker 1: raven offense and its run game is so difficult to

2695
02:10:55,960 --> 02:11:00,320
Speaker 1: defend because there's so much of it certain and things

2696
02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:02,360
Speaker 1: look like other things, and this looks like that, but

2697
02:11:02,480 --> 02:11:05,000
Speaker 1: it's not. And if you sell out too much to

2698
02:11:05,160 --> 02:11:10,280
Speaker 1: sell to stop anything, it's not that play. It goes

2699
02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:12,520
Speaker 1: a long way the other way. If you sell out

2700
02:11:12,560 --> 02:11:15,200
Speaker 1: to stop one play that you think's coming, there's a

2701
02:11:15,280 --> 02:11:17,960
Speaker 1: good possibility it's not the right one. So you've got

2702
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:21,040
Speaker 1: to really be disciplined, and in being disciplined. It means

2703
02:11:21,080 --> 02:11:24,200
Speaker 1: there's gonna be less gang tackling, less pursuit to the ball.

2704
02:11:24,240 --> 02:11:26,400
Speaker 1: You're gonna have guys lagging behind because I gotta make

2705
02:11:26,480 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 1: sure the other guy didn't have the ball. So you're

2706
02:11:28,720 --> 02:11:30,560
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of one on one matchups that

2707
02:11:30,840 --> 02:11:35,800
Speaker 1: players have to tackle in space by themselves. And if

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02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:39,360
Speaker 1: you can get that done, that's what makes a great defense.

2709
02:11:39,480 --> 02:11:40,600
Speaker 1: And that's what the Bills are going to have to

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02:11:40,680 --> 02:11:42,320
Speaker 1: play like this week. I think the Bills are really

2711
02:11:42,360 --> 02:11:44,320
Speaker 1: gonna have to be physical and they have to match

2712
02:11:44,400 --> 02:11:46,840
Speaker 1: the physicality that the Ravens bring to the game and

2713
02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:49,600
Speaker 1: fight through blocks from those great blocking tight ends and

2714
02:11:50,280 --> 02:11:53,320
Speaker 1: the three hundred pound fullback that to me is one

2715
02:11:53,400 --> 02:11:55,240
Speaker 1: of the keys. There's no one key, one of the keys.

2716
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Speaker 1: What a show we have tomorrow, Steve, I can't even

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02:11:57,800 --> 02:12:00,320
Speaker 1: read this. Chris Brown's gonna be with us for the

2718
02:12:00,360 --> 02:12:03,360
Speaker 1: Bill's practice field tomorrow. Thurman, Thomas Hall of Famer is

2719
02:12:03,360 --> 02:12:04,880
Speaker 1: going to be joining us Hittman on the show for

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Mitch Morris joins us tomorrow after

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Speaker 1: practice Bill Center. How about this one, Doug Fluty, you

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Speaker 1: know him, I've heard of him gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: show this tomorrow. It's coming back to be a legend

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Speaker 1: of the game. We'll talk with Doug Flutie on the

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Speaker 1: show tomorrow, talk about the Ravens with Dennis Pitt, a

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Speaker 1: former Ravens height end now one of the radio analysts,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about that pregame ceremony with the

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Speaker 1: same Bontoventre's nineteen seventy Final four team with the athletic

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Speaker 1: director from Saint Bontomentre. All of that coming up on

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Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. Are you gonna be ready for all this?

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Speaker 1: I think so. I'm gon have to get some extra sleep,

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Speaker 1: need some vegetables. I'll be ready. Make sure you're ready.

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Speaker 1: We started at twelve noon tomorrow and looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: Doug Flutie coming back to be legend of the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: popular choice for fans, right, yeah, he he was huge

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Speaker 1: here for a minute, right, And they're bringing back Flutie

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Speaker 1: flakes as well. You're gonna be able to get boxes

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Speaker 1: of those. I don't think the serials in production yet,

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Speaker 1: but certainly they can't get the flat boxes that people

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Speaker 1: like to collect. He's gonna be signing those. I think

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be around all day doing stuff pregame, postgame,

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Speaker 1: and Doug Flutie will join us tomorrow to kind of

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Speaker 1: fill in the blanks for his plan. He just got

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Speaker 1: down this season with Notre Dame football too, so we

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Speaker 1: can talk about that with Flutie on the show with

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Speaker 1: us tomorrow. I think he's been on once before maybe,

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Speaker 1: but he'll be with us tomorrow afternoon as well. So

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Speaker 1: that's tomorrow show. We had a good one today. We

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Speaker 1: thank you for participating our production assistance today. George Blast,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Colton and Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, j j Arito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cartis, James robol Our producer Jay Harris going right

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Speaker 1: to work when this show is over, working on the

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Speaker 1: parabolic mike for next week's Josh Allen's news conference, because

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't, Steve is gonna straight you're not going

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Speaker 1: to fix it pretty ugly. They will fix that. Can

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Speaker 1: we get an HR person down here right away? Please,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see all right, I've gone too far.

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow on the show. We started twelve noon

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Studio in Orchard Park, and this is Buffalo Bill's radio