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Speaker 1: They is One Bills Live, presented by Call Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: All right, ripping and roaring here through a Tuesday Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. One Bills Live is the show. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: We're here with you until three. And it's a shame

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Speaker 1: that some of the conversations that one Stephen Any Tasker

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Speaker 1: and myself have in our office don't make the air.

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Speaker 1: We are going to share one with you here because

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Speaker 1: Steve and I were going back and fourth about the

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Speaker 1: upcoming game on Sunday between the Jets and the Lions.

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Speaker 1: I am all aboard the Dan Campbell train and biting

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Speaker 1: off kneecaps. Lions are playing some good football. They gave

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Speaker 1: the Bills all they could handle on Thanksgiving, and their

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator is a play calling savant of late Jamison

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Speaker 1: Williams is now working his way back into the fold.

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Speaker 1: Their number one draft choice who came off the ACL

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Speaker 1: that he suffered in the I want to say National

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Speaker 1: early January. And uh, they are a tough out right now. Now.

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Speaker 1: You could say the exact same thing about the Jets.

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Speaker 1: So Steve and I are at odds. Brownies, Brownies, A

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Speaker 1: Lion guy. I think the Lions are gonna beat the

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Speaker 1: Jets this week. Steve believes the Jets and I quote

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Speaker 1: are going to what you say, annihilate, well, lump them,

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Speaker 1: lump them up, lump up the Lions this week. Because

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Speaker 1: my logic is, as anybody with a long history in

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Speaker 1: football like I do has, it is this, don't ever

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Speaker 1: forget it's the Lions. So Steve makes a dramatic exit

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Speaker 1: from the office as he utters this line, Brownie, don't

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Speaker 1: ever forget, don't ever forget it's the Lions. So Steve

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Speaker 1: leaves the office. Nice exit. Two timed it right, pull

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Speaker 1: it off, Drake, dramatic exit. Then as I come back,

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Speaker 1: he comes back. He comes back to his cubicle to

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Speaker 1: sit down, and I look Steve dead in the eye

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Speaker 1: and I go, Steve, never forget it's the Jets for

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Speaker 1: a second. That's a good point by you. That's a

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Speaker 1: good point by you. Is this the I don't know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get game of the week or what

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Speaker 1: it's When Nic said it, this is the way. It's

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Speaker 1: when the hard cold truth meets the indisputable fact. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's just when yes, pick, take your pick. The Lions

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Speaker 1: are the hard, cold truth and the Jets are fact.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing I think about the Jets. They legitimately

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Speaker 1: push the Bills to the limit in both those games.

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Speaker 1: They are legit upfront. Their defense is for real, exactly,

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Speaker 1: and I think for that reason, it's gonna be hard

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Speaker 1: for the Lions to do what they've been doing, and

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Speaker 1: that's hang a bunch of points on them. And I

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Speaker 1: just think the Jets are a better football team right

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Speaker 1: now with Mike White, and you know, I just can't

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Speaker 1: get my mind around that. Now. I forget. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to forget too for me. The Lions gave the Bills

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Speaker 1: all they wanted as well. It was a thirty three

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Speaker 1: thirty game, don't forget, twenty five game, don't forget, and that,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was a game that was it was tough,

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Speaker 1: it was on Thanksgiving, all that data data, twenty eight

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Speaker 1: twenty five Bills and not. But I just think the

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Speaker 1: Jets are more for real than the lines. I just

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Speaker 1: and they're at home. The Jets are at home. I

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Speaker 1: just I just think the Jets are better football team

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Speaker 1: and right at this point in history. Dan Campbell aside,

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Speaker 1: I think the Jets are being better run. So I

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Speaker 1: like Robert Solo, I like Dan I like both these

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Speaker 1: my mind around the fact that the Jets pushed the

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Speaker 1: Bills to the limit twice and beat them once. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Bill let me say this, the Bills are

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Speaker 1: really The Bills are the best team in the conference.

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Speaker 1: They've played the stuffest schedule, They've been injured as much

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Speaker 1: And they were on the road against Baltimore and beat them.

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Speaker 1: team and to come in and play the way the

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Speaker 1: So in this week when we're talking about and I

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Speaker 1: they lost to the Dolphins. They lost to the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: they lost to the Vikings, they lost to the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Like everybody's doing. They beat the Commanders, the Packers, the Bears,

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Speaker 1: they're playing a last place schedule. We've known Minnesota was

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Speaker 1: the Jets. That's true, though, it's true they the thirty one,

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Speaker 1: score their last games. They're they're scoring al and they're

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Speaker 1: oc Ben Johnson's gonna start getting some sniffs now, maybe

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Speaker 1: Doing that with the Lions is I think Jared Goff exactly.

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Speaker 1: later or two years later. So sometimes these guys skyrocket

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Speaker 1: McCoy in Cincinnati. No, that's not right. What what am

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Speaker 1: I missing? Well, the head coach and the head coach's

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Speaker 1: there's all these guys that sometimes it takes them forever

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Speaker 1: more on Sunday scored. They scored twenty five against the

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Speaker 1: I mean I I still think I'm very interested to

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Speaker 1: No doubt, they gotta win out. Yeah. They got leap

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Speaker 1: Two player transactions involving a total of four players actually

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Speaker 1: squad move. Today. The active roster move was the signing resigning,

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Speaker 1: actually of defensive tackle Brandon Bryant to the fifty three

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Speaker 1: a result. He had just rejoined the roster last week

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Speaker 1: this spells problems for like Jordan Phillips. I don't think

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Speaker 1: of about thirty one thirty two degrees, fifty eight to

428
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Speaker 1: sixty percent chance of snow and one to three inches

429
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Speaker 1: is forecast during the day. In the evening when the

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Speaker 1: Bills are playing football, variably cloudy snow showers. A low

431
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Speaker 1: of twenty five to twenty six wins ten to fifteen

432
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Speaker 1: miles an hour out of the west southwest. Chance of

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Speaker 1: snow sixty percent. Another one to three inches expected. So

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Speaker 1: it looks like snow is going to be at least

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Speaker 1: right now. I realize it's only Tuesday, and this is

436
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Speaker 1: obviously subject to change. But if we get to about

437
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Speaker 1: Thursday and this forecast is unchanged, we can bank on

438
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: snow during the game during the game Saturday night. I'll

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00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: say this though, the snow is better than it was

440
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: this last Sunday when it was wet. When it wasn't

441
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: snow it was rain. The snow is better because the

442
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: ball will stay dryer, and it's just better you don't

443
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: get wet. Always. Snow is always better than the rain.

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Speaker 1: The thing that's the worst part about it is the

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Speaker 1: winds southwest at what twelve fifty one to three, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: about twelve miles per hour when southwest west southwest. We'll

447
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: see and this, yeah, somewhere between fifty five and sixty

448
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Speaker 1: percent chance of snow. It's gonna be cold, might be chilly.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be cold. Had that

450
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: chili stuff. He's gonna be gold. Yeah, we'll watch it.

451
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a factor. Yeah. And you know at

452
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: the big and of course all of us as Bills fans,

453
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: and I know you've done this too. Anybody you talk

454
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: to about this game are asking me, and I anticipated

455
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: I cut them off before we even got there. Is

456
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: it legal? Yeah? Is it right? You know where I'm going?

457
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: Is it legal for the Bills to go without heaters?

458
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: Then the Dolphins have to go without heaters on their sideline? Yeah.

459
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: The amenities have to be identical, which is why the

460
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: Bills didn't have the missing missing fans on their sidelines.

461
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: When the Dolphins, Oh, they had them on the sideline,

462
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: but they just couldn't use They couldn't use them because

463
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins said, oh no, we don't need those. We're

464
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: in the shade over here. We're great. And I remember

465
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: sitting in the press box looking at the Bills bench.

466
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: They got those shades, those shade tents propped up to

467
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: try to keep the players in the shade as much

468
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: as possible. And there's six missing fans behind them, all unplugged,

469
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: all unused because the Dolphins aren't using them on their sideline. Unbelievable. Yeah,

470
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: it's just annoying. Let's go to the phones at eight

471
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,239
Speaker 1: O three five fifty fifty two five fifty as we

472
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: are asking you have the Bills properly equipped themselves for

473
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: a stretch run here in twenty twenty two, we go

474
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: to Mike and Amherst to lead us off. What do

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00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: you got for his Mike, Hey, guys, I just want

476
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: to thank you for being the exact sports therapeutics we

477
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: all meet in Buffalo. You guys have an awesome show.

478
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: I tune in every day while I'm working from home

479
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: to kind of stay level headed. So great show. As always,

480
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys think, but I've never

481
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 1: felt better about this team. I think we've shown the

482
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: moment is not too big anymore. You know, if you'd

483
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Speaker 1: have told me at the beginning of the year we'd

484
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: be ten and three, first place, to beat the Chief,

485
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: the Titans, the Ravens, I'd sign that the rest of

486
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: my life and say absolutely so. I think they're in

487
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: a great spot. Over the last four wins. I've gotten

488
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: the vibe that they're kind of letting the game come

489
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: to them and saying, hey, look, we're gonna play the

490
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: football game, our opponent wants to play, and we're gonna

491
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Speaker 1: beat them. You know, it seemed like when we had

492
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: those couple losses, Josh was being a little loose with

493
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Speaker 1: the football, maybe being too aggressive. And I mean, there's

494
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Speaker 1: a question for you guys. Do you think the coaching

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00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: staff kind of got together with them and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's calm down. We're good enough team. We can beat

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00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: anybody over sixty minutes. Let's not force things. And my

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00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: other questions you guys, was do you think they have

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Speaker 1: overcome these kind of one off anomaly losses. Do you

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Speaker 1: think that going down the stretch, you know, they're going

501
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: to be prepared for those kind of wacky situations. Yeah,

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00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: that's a good question. You're talking about the thirteen second

503
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: game and you're talking about the Minnesota game when you

504
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: know all he needed was one quarterback sneak for no

505
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: gain to win the game. That kind of stuff. Yeah,

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00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: you'd like to think so, but it's impossible to anticipate

507
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Speaker 1: every weird situation that happens in a football game. You

508
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: gotta even the I think it was Damar Hamlin in

509
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game with the Justin Jefferson pass where it

510
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: actually he was going to intercept it and actually cam Lewis.

511
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: Cam Lewis actually helped Justin Jefferson catch the ball ironically,

512
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Speaker 1: when all he had to do is swipe it off

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Speaker 1: to the sidelines and the Bills win the game. That

514
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, you can't anticipate all of that,

515
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: and that doesn't all fall on the coaching staff because

516
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: you got to have some players out there who are

517
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: pros and kind of get that situational thing too. I

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Speaker 1: do think I like it. You're right, the Bills are

519
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: right where they want to be, But when you're right

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00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: where you want to be and at this situation this

521
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: time of year. It's precarious because you got other good

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Speaker 1: teams that are snipping at your heels, and you gotta

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00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: keep going. You gotta keep staying where you want to be.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, they are right where they want to be.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this too about your other point real quickly,

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Speaker 1: about the Bills kind of playing the game that is

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Speaker 1: presented to them by their opponents. The Bills are a

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00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: good football they're a great football team, and right now

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00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: they're displaying the fact that they can win games anyway

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Speaker 1: you want to have it. We saw him a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago run the ball more than they threw it.

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Speaker 1: We've seen him play a defensive game like they did

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Speaker 1: last week against the Jets, and we've seen him hang

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Speaker 1: thirty one on the defending World champions, forty one on

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Speaker 1: the number one seed from a year ago, thirty eight

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Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh Steelers. They can beat you anyway that

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Speaker 1: is presented in the game that they need to win

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Speaker 1: that way they can do it. They did it with turnovers,

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Speaker 1: they've done it without turning over. They've overcome their own

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Speaker 1: mistakes to win. They've done it every situationally thing way

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Speaker 1: you can come up with and that's something to feel

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Speaker 1: good about. That's something to feel good about because they

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00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: are a deep, stacked, talented football team that's playing really

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Speaker 1: well right now. They don't play in a vacuum because

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00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: there's some other good teams out there. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: Bills have played in less of a vacum in than

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00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: any other team in the league, because I keep saying it,

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Speaker 1: They've had the toughest schedule out there and they've overcome

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Speaker 1: to the number one seed. Yes, so yeah, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot to feel good about about this team. But as

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00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: we all know, it's the NFL and mantle Man, you

552
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: got to get to the end of it right. At

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Speaker 1: the same time, the concern we hear from Bills fans,

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00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: at least the ones that are talking to me, is

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00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: they had become accustomed to seeing this as a juggernaut

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Speaker 1: offense through the ball down the field, kind of like

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Speaker 1: we're seeing the Eagles do every week. That's what the

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00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: Bills had had kind of conditioned their fan base to expect.

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00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,719
Speaker 1: You can make the argument we have not seen that

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Speaker 1: since about Week five against the Steelers, and I think

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Speaker 1: while Bills fans on the whole are happy that the

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Speaker 1: team is still winning football games. I think they're wondering, Hey,

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Speaker 1: in a week where we actually need to be explosive,

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Speaker 1: can we be? Because they haven't been reminded of that

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Speaker 1: capability in a game in quite some time. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that's why there are some Bills fans that

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00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: are a little nervous saying, Hey, are we ever going

568
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: to get back to that? Are we capable of doing that?

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what they're openly wondering. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a panic situation, but that's the

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Speaker 1: general consensus that I get from the fans that have

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Speaker 1: been talking to me even when I'm not on the show. Here,

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Speaker 1: we gotta take a break because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: our colleague one, Alec White, content coordinator Bills reporter for

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com, is going to join us. We're

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Speaker 1: talking playoffs scenarios. It is that time of the year.

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Speaker 1: He'll bring us up to speed. Next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Collet of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. Please to be joined now by

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Speaker 1: our colleague Content coordinator Bills reporter for Buffalo Bills dot

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Speaker 1: Com one Alec White, joining us as it is time

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Speaker 1: once again to review the AFC Conference playoff race. And Alec,

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Speaker 1: I know that the Bill got some more help this

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Speaker 1: past weekend, So why don't you kind of map out

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: for us what week fifteen did for the Bills to

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: kind of help them with that Dolphins loss to the Chargers. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Kind of the most important thing to know from week

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Speaker 1: fourteen is there is a playoff clinching scenario this coming

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Speaker 1: week between the Bills and Dolphins. The Bills need to

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Speaker 1: win and they get a playoff spot. They don't clinch

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Speaker 1: the division, but they do assure themselves of a playoff spot.

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Speaker 1: And now you're two games up on Miami with four

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Speaker 1: games to play, so there's a little bit more margin

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00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: for error, so to speak. In terms of the AFC East.

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Speaker 1: The way it'll work, win, as I said, you get

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs two wins out of the next four,

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Speaker 1: you're the minimum three seed in the AFC. You win

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Speaker 1: three of the final four, the Bills are a minimum

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Speaker 1: of the two seed, and if they win all four,

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Speaker 1: as we said last week, they would still be the

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Speaker 1: number one seed. Yeah, so I mean, you win this weekend,

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Speaker 1: you're three games clear the Dolphins with three games to play,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're in the ahead ahead and becomes a push, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they would just need and your conference record would be

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Speaker 1: better than theirs as well. They would just need the

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Speaker 1: division tiebreaker of intradivision record between yeah everybody else. But yes,

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Speaker 1: they would they win, they go three up, and then

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Speaker 1: they could clinch the AFC East on Christmas Eve with

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Speaker 1: the win against Chicago. Yeah, they would go two and

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Speaker 1: two in the division. The Bills would go three and

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Speaker 1: two in the division. The Bills would have a eight

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Speaker 1: and two conference record and the Dolphins would have a

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Speaker 1: six and four conference record. Yeah, all those tie breakers

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00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: would would shift towards Buffalo, so that even if they did,

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Speaker 1: if the Bills did drop their final three games and

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins won theirs, the Bills would still be ahead

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Speaker 1: of them, I think because because of the way that

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Speaker 1: the because they're not they're not clinching the division this

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Speaker 1: week if they beat Miami. Yeah, there's still that possibility

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Speaker 1: if if Buffalo loses Week eighteen against the page Riots

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Speaker 1: and Miami wins beats the Jets, Yeah, because both teams

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Speaker 1: have three AFC games in their last four, and that's correct,

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Speaker 1: that's the difference because so you can't really beat them

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Speaker 1: on the conference tiebreaker. So alec, what about matchups this weekend?

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Speaker 1: What helps the Bills the best? What could hurt them

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Speaker 1: in terms of division and conference? So when I wrote

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Speaker 1: the Hoho to root for last week and did a breakdown,

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Speaker 1: I said, root for the Ravens even though they have

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Speaker 1: an advantage in the AFC, But you still want to

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Speaker 1: root for the Ravens this week against the Browns because

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Speaker 1: it helps with the Bengals, right, Because if we're concerned

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Speaker 1: about the Bengals potentially sneaking in beating Buffalo and holding

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00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: that head to head tiebreaker, it helps for Baltimore to

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Speaker 1: be So it's kind of like a bird in the

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Speaker 1: hand thing you already beat Baltimore, you would have the

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Speaker 1: tiebreaker on them if they won their division and you

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Speaker 1: won yours. Correct, So the Bills would need the Ravens

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Speaker 1: to beat the Browns this week and then likewise the

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Speaker 1: Bengals are at the Bucks. Tom Brady struggled, but he's

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Speaker 1: going back home to Tampa Bay this week after being

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Speaker 1: out in San Franco. Bengals at Bucks is another one.

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Speaker 1: And then in your in the division, Jets and Lions,

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00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: that might be one of the better matchups on that

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Speaker 1: Sunday one pm. It's even it's in Detroit. Lions could

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Speaker 1: be are they're playing for a playoff spot just like

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Speaker 1: the Jets. The one thing to note about the Jets

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Speaker 1: is if the Bills win Saturday, the Jets cannot win

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Speaker 1: the AFC East, they would be playing for a wildcard spot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean Detroit at six and seven, they're in the

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Speaker 1: nine hole in the NFC. But Washington and the Giants,

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00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: who hold the six and seven seeds, are playing each

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Speaker 1: other this week, and so a sixth loss brings the

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Speaker 1: loser of that game down closer to the rest of

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Speaker 1: the teams in the hunt. Obviously, Seattle's in that picture also,

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Speaker 1: But Detroit, they gotta look at it here. With four

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00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: games left, they're gonna It's not like they're going to

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00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. They're like, ah, yeah, we'll play this game whatever.

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00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: There's something on the line for them. They got a

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00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: legitimate shot if they can stay hot here down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: So Steve and I have been arguing about the Detroit

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Speaker 1: and Jets game. He thinks the Jets are gonna lump

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Speaker 1: up the Lions, and I think the Lions are gonna

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Speaker 1: surprise the Yet not on the Lions bandwagon, Steves, I

665
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Speaker 1: am not, although that doesn't mean I am on the

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00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: Jet bandwagon. They're good. They played the best team in

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00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: the conference tough twice and split with them. That's the Bills.

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00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: They also got swept by the Patriots. I know it

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00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: was both times with Zach Wilson. Right. Strength the schedule

670
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: doesn't matter really in the NFL, but it look makes

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00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: the Bills win on Thanksgiving look a little bit better,

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00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, and the tiebreakers and all that strength

673
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: of schedules way down the list of tiebreakers, but it

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Speaker 1: does mean something as a kind of team you've put together.

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00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: And the Bills have had a really tough schedule, They've

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Speaker 1: been injured throughout the season, and they're still one seed.

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00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: So nobody's done it better than they have thus far.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk best case and worst case

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Speaker 1: scenarios here going forward with as you know, with things

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Speaker 1: as they currently stand here, Alec, what are we what

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00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 1: are we looking at? YEA best case scenario this week

682
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, only Bills win followed by a Jets loss,

683
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Speaker 1: a Patriots loss, a Chiefs loss, and a Bengals lost.

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00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: Lots of you need a lot of losses. But that's

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Speaker 1: the best case, right right again, this is this is

686
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: a dream scenario. Bills go up three in the AFC

687
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Speaker 1: East and now have one game full one game lead

688
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 1: plus the tiebreaker over Kansas City for the one seas

689
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Speaker 1: Committee is playing. But yeah, that's gonna be the feisty

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Speaker 1: Houston text. Come on tech, come on, um we listen.

691
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: We were here at the end of the two thousand

692
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: and seventeen regular season with the Bills at the end

693
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: of the drought, and they're like, the Bills had to win,

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00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: and like three other teams had to lose and lose,

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Speaker 1: and by all the last one did. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I'm all right, you don't out that before it hatches,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. As you said, the Bills have a

698
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Speaker 1: little breathing room in the division, so a loss wouldn't

699
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Speaker 1: be catastrophic from that standpoint. But for a number one seed,

700
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Speaker 1: it's a different story. So maybe just lay out as

701
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Speaker 1: much as I don't want you to, the worst case,

702
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: right area, right, So AFC East, let's start there. If

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Speaker 1: the Bills were to drop on Sunday to the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: lose that ye are on Saturday, Yeah, the division odds,

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Speaker 1: they would still be favored to win the division. Going

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Speaker 1: down the stretch with three games remaining, the Bills would

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Speaker 1: shift the probably the timing of when the Bills could

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Speaker 1: clinch a playoff spot and the division, so it would

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Speaker 1: you would just shift it a week they would go.

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen against Chicago would be the playoff clincher if

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Speaker 1: they were to lose to Miami, and then Week seventeen,

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Speaker 1: if they won that one against Cincinnati, that would be

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Speaker 1: the target date for clinching the AFC East. And then

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Speaker 1: you're just kind of hoping and praying that Kansas City

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Speaker 1: loses another one along the way. They still have and

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Speaker 1: they still have to play the Raiders as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have the easiest strength of schedule in the

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Speaker 1: league down the stretch here. I think it's been that

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00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: way for the last six weeks. Their schedule is pretty tame.

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Speaker 1: After the NFC West kind of fell flat on their

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Speaker 1: face behind them this year. The Chiefs absolutely and the

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Speaker 1: Ravens have a very easy schedule too. They do, but

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Speaker 1: they're down there since one more time? Do they play

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Speaker 1: since one more time? Yes, I think they do, right,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers one more time, who they just beat,

726
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Speaker 1: But they're down to their third string quarterback Anthony Brown,

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Speaker 1: So it could be some potential room there for for

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati to make. That's going to make that Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: game between the Bills and the Bengals very interesting because

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Speaker 1: if by the time we get to that game, the

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Speaker 1: Bengals have taken over the division lead in the AFC

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Speaker 1: North over the Ravens, Bills are gonna want that game,

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Speaker 1: so they have another head to head tiebreak. And that

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Speaker 1: goes back to what we were saying earlier about your

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Speaker 1: kind of want the Ravens still to be winning right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well yeah, the Chiefs right now are sleepwalking through games.

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Speaker 1: I mean they absolutely they can. They snooze fest the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Yeattle, might be their hardest game left and

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Speaker 1: it's in home and arrowhead unless you count the Broncos

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Speaker 1: giving them a game as the real thing. Well they

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00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: didn't last week right for a little while thirty four,

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Speaker 1: but then but that was in Denver. The next one's

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00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: gonna be in a forget it and the Raider the

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00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: cam't bank on that. Alex, thank you as always for

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Speaker 1: bringing us up to speed here. We'll be sure to

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Speaker 1: check in with you next week as we UH dial

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Speaker 1: up and you know, do the math on what happened

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Speaker 1: in week fifteen, so we'll see you in week sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys very much. That's Alex White, Contact coordinator, bills

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Speaker 1: reporter for Buffalo Bills dot Com. We will take a

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Speaker 1: break here, be back with more including your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: Those things got a long shelf life, Steve ed. You

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00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: know the food doesn't disappear as fast now. In my

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Speaker 1: house with my kids in college, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: had a couple of apples still left over in there.

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Speaker 1: worry you're you're pushing it there. At that point, the

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Speaker 1: little mushi pulled a Snapdragon out, crunchy as it was

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Speaker 1: was very pleasantly surprised. We got to get back to

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Speaker 1: the phones at eight oh three, five fifty one eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty and next up is Judy

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo. What do you got for us? Judy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills problem stems way back to the draft.

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00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: They went heavy on defense and none of those players

771
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: are even on the field playing at any significant time.

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00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Cook has helped us to some degree. But

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00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: before the draft, I called him and you were asking,

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00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, who should the Bills take? And I was

775
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: very high on a six foot four, four point three

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00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: eight wide receiver called Christian Watson. He was available. They

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00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: didn't take him. The Green Bay Packers did in the

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00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 1: second round. And I'm not mistaken. He has eight touchdowns

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00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: in the last four games. What an impact this player

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00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: could have. We wouldn't even be talking about Beasley and

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00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: Brown at this point if he were on this team. Yeah,

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00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: that's I get it. Here's the thing you got to

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00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: remember too, and that made Yes, Judy, You're right, it's

784
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: a valid point. Going back and looking at the draft,

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00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: you can always say should have taken this guy or

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00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: that guy, no question about it. I didn't have a

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00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: problem with any of the things we did because we

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00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: thought they needed a corner because of Tredavious White being injured,

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00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: and they got Kyrie Elam and they lost Levi Wallace

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00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: and free agents lost free right, So yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't know. I have a hard time

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00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: going down that road because it's a rabbit hole, no question.

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00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: But they're ten and three and their number one in

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00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: the conference. They've had the toughest schedule in the league.

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00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: They haven't done too much wrong well, and I think

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00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: we also have to put ourselves back where we were

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00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: in April, Steve, and back where we were in April.

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00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: We were fully confident that Gabriel Davis, who at that

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Speaker 1: point in time, the last time we saw him on

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Speaker 1: a football field score four touchdowns against the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in a divisional playoff game, that he was going

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00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: to be ready to assume the true number two wide

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00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: receiver role. So the need was not perceived to be

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00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: what it is now, and people were pretty confident that

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00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie could fill a slot role. They had signed

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00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder in free agency at that point in time,

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Speaker 1: so even if McKenzie didn't pan out, you had Crowder

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00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: as insurance, a veteran player with proven production for the

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00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: slot receiver role. So I think looking at the roster

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Speaker 1: on paper and based on recent past production, Gabe Davis

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns in the Divisional playoff, Isaiah McKenzie filling in

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Speaker 1: for the one time he did Cole Beasley in Week sixteen,

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00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: dropping eleven catches for one hundred and twenty five yards

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Speaker 1: and a touchdown against New England in prime time. I

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00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: think it's reasonable to say they thought they would be

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00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: okay going forward, and maybe they would supplement the back

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00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: end of the roster with a receiver prospect, which they

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00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: did in the form of Khalil Shakier. Obviously, here we

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00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: are now in week fifteen of the twenty twenty two season.

820
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis hasn't fully assumed a true number two wide

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00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: receiver role, and Isaiah McKenzie has not been able to

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Speaker 1: replicate the production of Cole Beasley. As a matter of fact,

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00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: those two guys together haven't replicated the production of Cole Beasley.

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Speaker 1: Is it a problem? Yeah? It is, and that's why

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00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: they brought John Brown and Cole Beasley back because they

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00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: want to have some kind of answer. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder is still on injured reserve, although I think

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00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: he's getting closer to return, So you can't treat it

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Speaker 1: in a vacuum Hindsight's twenty twenty. I get your point, Judy,

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Speaker 1: and I and truth be told, I think you're looking

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Speaker 1: at this team taking a receiver in the first two

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00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: rounds of the draft next spring. Yeah, for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna bring us down. They're gonna bring us some competition,

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Speaker 1: just like they've done already. They brought in Naheim Hines,

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Speaker 1: they brought in Crowder for that matter. They brought in

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Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley, all these guys as competition to

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00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: keep the fire lit and in case and because of

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00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: their experience with this club and in this culture, they

839
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: can be closer to being ready on a shortened back

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00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: half of the season here with four games to go

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00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: and playoffs. So yeah, they brought these guys back for

842
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: a reason because they're closer to being able to contribute,

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00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: and they don't have to contribute over six months, just

844
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: in a best case scenario, just give us finish us

845
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: a game. You know you're up. A guy goes down,

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00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: Just give us thirty five snaps over the course of

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Speaker 1: two games to get us through the playoffs. Make a

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00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: couple of plays. That's what you're looking at. With a

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Speaker 1: guy like Cole Beasley, even John Brown, we'll just make

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Speaker 1: the offense more efficient. They don't even have to come

851
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: in and finish the whole season as the number two

852
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: or number three wide receiver. You're looking at these guys

853
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: as pitchers. Just come in, finish us this game and

854
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: make about four catches over the last three quarters of

855
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: this game, and you're gonna be We're gold. That's all

856
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: we need. That kind of thing is what you're looking at.

857
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: But I agree with think about it if you if

858
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: you go back and do the draft all over again,

859
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: the Bills probably do if they don't like Kayer Leadings

860
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: having trouble getting on the field, all of a sudden,

861
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: they do take the best wide receiver, the guy that

862
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: now you look at this season you say, okay, hey, wow,

863
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: look at this wide receiver. You take him right, You

864
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: take Christian Benford exactly where you took him, and he's

865
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: your starting corner on opening day, just like he was

866
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, there's a lot of things you

867
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: do differently if you go back in time. I get it,

868
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: teams have been you know, we as fans, we do

869
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: that constantly. But Brownie's right, you go back and where

870
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: we were at that point. This team was a steamroller

871
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: and you're just you're just you're painting a mural on

872
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: the side of it. I mean, basically is what you're

873
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: doing this this team was going. So I'm not too

874
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: interested in in hitting the panic switch because the team

875
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: is winning these games and all of a sudden, you know,

876
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: you need you didn't beat the Jets by enough to

877
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: feel good about your offense. Well, the Chiefs beat the

878
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: beat the Broncos by less than the Bills beat the Jets.

879
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: That Cowboys beat the Houston Texans by less than the

880
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: Bills beat the Jets. So calm down with the we

881
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: got it. We should have done so much differently back

882
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: in April, because we're the Bills are exactly where they

883
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 1: envisioned themselves being at this point of the regular season.

884
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: Break time for us here, But when we return for

885
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: our number two, we're gonna be joined by senior NFL

886
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: writer for OutKick dot Com Armando Salgaros joining us for

887
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: our number two. Next here on one Bills Live, presenter

888
00:50:27,920 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: Body Collid to health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio The one

889
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by call a Health. Our number two

890
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

891
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little Dolphins now with our good friends

892
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: and your NFL writer from OutKick dot Com one Armando Salgero,

893
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: who joins us on the show. Armando, how you doing.

894
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: You're making the trip this week? Huh? I am making

895
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: the trip. It's a big game, so why not? All right? Well,

896
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: where's how come you don't have snow in your background

897
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: this week? Then? Come on, you gotta get ready. Well,

898
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: you guys showed me the stadium as it looks now,

899
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: so I'm just, you know, doing what I do. I'm

900
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: staying warm and toasty. Armando. Let me just say this,

901
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: I would wager you don't have enough clothes in your

902
00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 1: closet to watch this game outside here in Buffalo. That

903
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: is a losing bet by you. You got cold weather gear?

904
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, yes, look im oh frozen, Oh

905
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: my god, he's so cold, frozen that we lost. Armando right,

906
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: and he was gonna pontificate about his cold weather gear. Well,

907
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: here's that's a tough break. Here's the thing, people, people

908
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: from warmer cities tend to overcompensate when they know they're

909
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: traveling to northern locals where there's cold weathers. So they

910
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: will bring, let me just more than they need very often.

911
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: Here's my problems because we you know, back when I played,

912
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: and even now, and even with the snowstorm, we had

913
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, ye have people come. We

914
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: always had people coming in for the game. Yeah, And

915
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: so I always had spare wardrobe for everybody. I had

916
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: ski pants, I had park as, hats, gloves, we had

917
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 1: all that extra stuff that we would let people use

918
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: to let armando. So you have a lot of cold

919
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: weather gear go into because we just missed that. Yeah. See. So,

920
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: like I was covering the NFL when the Bills were

921
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: going to back to back to back to back Super Bowls,

922
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: and typically what would happen is they would have to

923
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: play in Buffalo, and they did play in Buffalo, I

924
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: remember one and the Dolphins played a lot in Buffalo,

925
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: by the way, in December, and so I was there

926
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: for the Louis Oliver getting destroyed by by Andre Reid.

927
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: I was there for the Kansas City Chiefs and the

928
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: Bills AFC Championship game. I know what it's what it

929
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: means to be cold in Buffalo, and I learned a

930
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: lesson thirty years ago, and it's not a lesson that

931
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: I've forgotten. And so yeah, absolutely, I have all of

932
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,399
Speaker 1: my gear ready and at my disposal if I need

933
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: to have it all right, all right for you this

934
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: time around, Armando. It's it's some interest. There are some

935
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: interesting storylines. The Bills are significantly healthier on defense than

936
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: they were back in Week three when they were missing

937
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: five starters and then they started dropping like flies in

938
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: the one hundred twenty degree heat on the Bill's sideline,

939
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins offense had yet to really kick into

940
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: gear back then. It obviously has since, but then the

941
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: last two weeks, one against the best defense in the

942
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: league in San Francisco, the other against a not so

943
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: great defense in the LA Chargers, and people are wondering

944
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: has the blueprint been unveiled as to how to slow

945
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: down this Dolphins attack? And has two it turned into

946
00:54:52,840 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: a pumpkin Wow, we're going all Cinderella here. So as

947
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: far as the blueprint is concerned, it depends on which

948
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: blueprint the Bills want to pick, because the San Francisco

949
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers basically be fuddled and be riddled the

950
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense, playing mostly zone against the Dolphins offense and

951
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: it worked. And then the Chargers came back and played

952
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: mostly press man against the Dolphins offense and that worked.

953
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: And so it's up to the Bills to decide which

954
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: way they want to go, because in the last two

955
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 1: weeks to a tongue of Vloa has been under fifty

956
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage combined against the Chargers and the forty

957
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: nine Ers, when he's seeing two different approaches to stopping

958
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: their passing game, which is, by the way, the bulk

959
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: of their attack. Because their running game has been kind

960
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: of a disappointment this year. Why do you think what

961
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: all of a sudden and if if everything seemed to

962
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,760
Speaker 1: be working against the Dolphins offense, why wasn't it working

963
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: during that stretch when they were take you know, they

964
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: were beating everybody going away. I mean, what happened to

965
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: their ability to overcome that stuff? Well, I think in

966
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: part you guys just mentioned it before the first time

967
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: that they played the Bills. I think the Bill's entire

968
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: secondary was out, and so that's problematic and good for

969
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. They played the Baltimore Ravens, they got behind

970
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: by like twenty eight points, and they started throwing the

971
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: ball down the field and the Ravens came away with

972
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: like four busts in the deep secondary, gave up the lead,

973
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: and the Ravens went on to do that two or

974
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: three more times during the year. So it wasn't so

975
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: much that the Dolphins were doing something amazing. It was

976
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: that the Ravens were being the Ravens in the secondary

977
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: and just blowing coverages, which they've done a lot this season,

978
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: and blowing four leads late in the fourth quarter. So

979
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: you get that kind of thing. Detroit, by the way,

980
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins lit up the Detroit Lions in the secondary.

981
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: The next day, the secondary coach got fired because apparently

982
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: the game plan was one thing and they played a

983
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: different thing in the game, which is stunning to me

984
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: because you prepare all week to do the one thing

985
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: and then come game day on Sunday, you're not doing

986
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: that one thing that you prepared all week to do.

987
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's why the secondary coach got fired the

988
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: next day. Give us an idea, if you could, Armando

989
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: as to the interpretation of these last two games by

990
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans. Are they in panic mode now that they've

991
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: lost two straight and the offense has not looked like

992
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: what it did the previous six weeks. What's the general

993
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: consensus down there of the offense after these past two performances. Well,

994
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: you have to understand the context of it all is

995
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: that the Dolphin fans are really behind TA for the

996
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: most part. And so the narrative is in the fan base,

997
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: good players have bad, bad games, and he's happened to

998
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: string two of them together back to back. So that's

999
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: that narrative. As far as the greater narrative is, there's

1000
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: still in the playoff race. They're still in the playoff

1001
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: funt if the season ended today, I hate that phrase,

1002
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: but if the season ended today, they would be in

1003
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs as a wild card. The thing that just

1004
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:05,919
Speaker 1: blows my mind is that the last two weeks, it's

1005
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: kind of noted the Dolphins from let's go to Buffalo

1006
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: and compete for a division title. Two, Let's go to

1007
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo and even if the worst happens we're still in

1008
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Those are two very different things in my book,

1009
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: and I would say to you, if any of that

1010
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: thinking is shared within the locker room, they've got problems.

1011
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: On Saturday night, how good do you? How good were they?

1012
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: We were up here, and of course we're neck deep

1013
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo Bill stuff up here, so you hear kind

1014
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: of the superficial coverage of the Dolphins. And of course

1015
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: during that stretch when you know they're winning five games

1016
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: in a row, they were crushing it offensively, and it

1017
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: looked like they had turned the corner and found everything

1018
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: they'd ever you know, all their hopes and dreams were

1019
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: going to come true this year. What was going right

1020
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: for them? Well, they have arguably the most dynamic wide

1021
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL. And I'm not saying that he's

1022
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver, but Tyreek Hill. Can you can

1023
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: stop him for you know, fifty seven plays and he'll

1024
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: have three plays in the game that are lightning bolts.

1025
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: In fact, last week in a loss, he recovers a fumble,

1026
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: recovers a fumble and he goes fifty seven yards for

1027
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: a touchdown, which you know humans don't do. He just

1028
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: does things that are dangerous. So that was happening. Jalen

1029
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: Waddle was benefiting from the fact that defenses are afraid

1030
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:55,919
Speaker 1: of Tyreek Hill, and the running game was good enough,

1031
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: and the offensive line was healthier. It's less healthy now.

1032
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 1: Tehran Armstead, who is their left tackle, is kind of dragging.

1033
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: He's got a foot injury, he's got other issues that

1034
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: aren't really out there. Waddle has not been at the

1035
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: forefront as a number one receiver when Tyreek has been

1036
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: shut down. And the fact is the defenses have decided, Okay,

1037
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna challenge Tyreek instead of being afraid of Tyreek.

1038
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna roll coverages to Tyreek. We're gonna you know,

1039
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: we're going to man press like the Chargers did. It's

1040
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 1: a different it's a different approach, and it has obviously

1041
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: gotten different results. Let's flip it around, Armando, because lost

1042
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: in the defeat at the hands of the Chargers, with

1043
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, the Dolphins offense being kept under wraps, was

1044
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: the fact that Justin Herbert threw for three hundred and

1045
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards. This is a defense that was, you know,

1046
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 1: just a year ago, armed with a pair of top

1047
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: shelf cornerbacks Byron Jones has not been part of the

1048
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: equation almost the entire season. It doesn't sound like he's

1049
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: coming back anytime soon. And I understand that's a story

1050
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 1: in and of itself, but this is a defense now, Armando,

1051
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: that's twenty third against the pass. They add Bradley Chubb.

1052
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: No offense to Bradley Chubb, but I mean, he just

1053
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: looks like another guy out there. Jalen Phillips has been

1054
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: more impressive than Bradley Chubb the last few weeks, and

1055
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: they paid that guy one hundred and twenty five million dollars.

1056
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: Sight unseen in a uniform helped me out with this defense.

1057
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah, the Bradley Chub situation has been

1058
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: up to now a disappointment because they brought him in

1059
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 1: to be the closer and the guy that when you're

1060
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: protecting a lead late in the game, he knows that

1061
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,080
Speaker 1: you have to pass and it's gonna be bad for you.

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01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: You sound familiar, So he hasn't really done that, to

1063
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: be honest with you. The last couple of games, there's

1064
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: been no opportunity to close because they've been trailing. So

1065
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: that's problematic for brad Lee Chubb. The rest of the

1066
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: defense look Byron Jones has been out all year. I

1067
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 1: know for a fact that when he was playing the

1068
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: last couple of years, the Bills decided he was the

1069
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: guy that they were going to pick on, so because

1070
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: they didn't want any part of Xavi and Howard. Xavi

1071
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: and Howard is still playing, and everybody else in that

1072
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: secondary playing cornerback or Nicol is kind of a guy.

1073
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: And as far as last year, last year, we gotta

1074
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: remember they started out something like oh and seven or

1075
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: one in seven and then they rallied late in the

1076
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: season to in like six games in a row. And

1077
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: what people forget is that during the one and seven

1078
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: they were playing good quarterbacks and during the six win

1079
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: winning streak they were playing horrible quarterbacks. Wonder if that

1080
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: made any impact on the results of the game. Yeah,

1081
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: it did. It absolutely did. When you're playing, you know,

1082
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: third stringers, and because the starter is hurt, when you're

1083
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 1: playing Joe Flacco who doesn't want to really get hit

1084
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: late in the season, that kind of thing is what

1085
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: the Dolphins faced late last season that made the look

1086
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: of the defense seemed way better than it probably was.

1087
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: And you get let's talk a little bit about their secondary.

1088
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: They were, you know, the Bills the first meeting really

1089
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to take advantage of it except

1090
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: early in the game when the Bills were fresh, I

1091
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: mean their first drive of the game. They went right

1092
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: down the field, score a touchdown, went forth on a

1093
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: fourth and goal from the two, and threw it in

1094
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: to Devin Singletary. How has this secondary evolved? I mean,

1095
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: I see, I see federlum Is taking some snaps at safety.

1096
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: I see him in there once in a while. I

1097
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: noticed that the other day. Um, yeah, Eric Roa got

1098
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: heard IgG Bonogamy. Um seems to be kind of buried

1099
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: back there is he is he taking raps? Get give

1100
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 1: us an idea about their corners? Yeah, so their corners

1101
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: are not Byron Jones and and Nick Needham is out

1102
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 1: who was their their slot corner? And so what you're

1103
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: getting is backup guys. And the Bills have been in

1104
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: the same situation this year, as you guys know that

1105
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 1: they've played backup corners a lot. The difference this game

1106
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: is now the Bills are coming to this game with

1107
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: a healthy secondary with a blueprint for stopping too. If

1108
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: they want to choose those blueprints, and the Dolphins, on

1109
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: the other hand, are coming to this game kind of

1110
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: reeling because, yes, Justin Herbert lit them up, and yes,

1111
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: Brock Purdy, who was mister irrelevant, having been the last

1112
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: draft pick selected in the last draft, he didn't light

1113
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: them up, but he didn't show any fear, and he

1114
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: attacked them and he threw two touchdown passes against them,

1115
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: and you know, they got gobbled up. So the Dolphins

1116
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 1: are kind of like trying to hold serve because they've

1117
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: been on the retreat the last couple of weeks. You know,

1118
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: I would say to you that Josh Allen should have

1119
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 1: a great game on Sunday. Let's see if he does,

1120
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: excuse me on Saturday night, Okay, and then I don't

1121
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: remember off the top of my head, but I don't

1122
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: think Miami has had to experience poor weather yet. There's

1123
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance that there will be one to

1124
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: three inches of snow on the ground that fall during

1125
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: the game. What weather challenges, if any, have the Dolphins

1126
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: experienced this season? Right, Yeah, it's rained a couple of times.

1127
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: That's been about it. They are not, or have not

1128
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: historically been a great end of season bad outdoor weather

1129
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 1: team with the exception maybe being in twenty sixteen when

1130
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: they went up to Buffalo and beat the Bills and

1131
01:07:56,800 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, went onto the playoffs. But going back to

1132
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: Don Shula, they're a team that has struggled late in

1133
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: the season. And I really have never understood it because

1134
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, these guys, the Miami Dolphins play in Miami,

1135
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: but their roster is not all Miamians. These guys come

1136
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: from you know, all all parts and all weights unknown, right,

1137
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they come from up north. They've seen though

1138
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 1: they've played in it, they're not unfamiliar with it. And

1139
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: yet I don't I get the heat advantage that they

1140
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 1: have early because they practice in the heat. But the

1141
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: answer to cold weather is put on clothes, and so

1142
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: what's the problem. I don't get that. The one thing

1143
01:08:58,000 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: I would say is to a tongue of by Law,

1144
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: he you know, he had a terrible game up there

1145
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago because the balls were going

1146
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: all over the place and it was just a disaster.

1147
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: His arm strength is not, in my opinion, built for Buffalo,

1148
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: not built for the meadowlands in December and January. That's

1149
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: where I think it matters. Yeah, I would agree with

1150
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: that and this this game being in December in Buffalo,

1151
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a weather game. You're gonna have

1152
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: to overcome some stuff. And I and I'll say this, Armando, Yeah,

1153
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: I get it. When you come up and all you

1154
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: gotta do is put clothes on. For the answer to

1155
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: coal whether the problem is this. It's hard to run,

1156
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: jump and turn and twist and carry the ball when

1157
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: you got layers on. And it feels funky for a

1158
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: lot of guys to handle the ball with sleeves between

1159
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: your arm and the ball. And I've long advocated for

1160
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: a technolo oology to come out. You know, they got

1161
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: these the gloves that are tacking. Guys can carry the

1162
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: ball with one hand like a loaf of bread nowadays,

1163
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: and nobody lecks twice about it because the gloves are

1164
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: so sticky. The ball doesn't come out. They don't make

1165
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: they don't have that for the arms and the sleeves

1166
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: and the and the chest. When you hold the ball

1167
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: up here tight, it's really slippery. That bothers mentally. A

1168
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: lot of guys, particularly the ball handlers, who catch the

1169
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: ball a certain way with their arms and their body.

1170
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: If they do that, it's a real problem. And I

1171
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: think that really gets into the mind to some of

1172
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: these guys. Fair. Um, Tyreek Hill played in Kansas City,

1173
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: Yeah for six years, right, Um not not a wonderful

1174
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: place in January. It's cold in Kansas City. Yeah right, Yeah,

1175
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: And so look, I totally get it, Steve, and I

1176
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: totally understand that it's bad. It's also a bad look

1177
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: if any of the Miami Dolphins say what you just said,

1178
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: because right, because people like me will destroy them. I

1179
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 1: get it. And that's why we have Armando on the show.

1180
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,639
Speaker 1: That's right, you go ahead and destroy him. Go ahead, listen, Armando,

1181
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: Thanks very much, save travels up here on Thursday. We

1182
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you at the game. And thanks

1183
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: as always for the time. It's always my pleasure, guys.

1184
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,639
Speaker 1: All right, Armando Sagaro, senior NFL writer for OutKick dot

1185
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: Com talking Dolphins with us. And I think the other

1186
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 1: thing that we didn't really discuss with him, Steve, is

1187
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 1: the psyche of this football team, because outside of the

1188
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: three games that they lost early in the year, which

1189
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: by the way, happened when Tua was in concussion protocol,

1190
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: it was easy for them to explain that away. Ah,

1191
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: we didn't have our starting quarterback. You know, how do

1192
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: you expect us to win games? You know against these

1193
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: kinds of team to blah blah blah. They had an

1194
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: easy out. Mentally, I think to kind of explain those

1195
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: losses away. I don't know that you have that now,

1196
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: because you have to. Who's been the best quarterback in

1197
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: the league from a passer rating standpoint, from a QBR standpoint,

1198
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: from a completion percentage standpoint. He's been lights out for

1199
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: like six seven weeks and he's rocketed to the top

1200
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 1: of the league and quarterback rating. And now you play

1201
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: the number one defense in San Francisco on the road,

1202
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: you lose. Okay, you played the best defense in football.

1203
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 1: Yeah it didn't go our way today, that's fine. But

1204
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:33,719
Speaker 1: then the next week you come out against at best

1205
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:38,879
Speaker 1: Steve a middle of the road defense, lower third defense,

1206
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: best riddled with injuries. No j C. Jackson, no Joey Bosa,

1207
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 1: no Sebastian Joseph Day, no Derwin James. They're missing five

1208
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: starters on defense, and you can't do anything. You're three

1209
01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 1: of seventeen passing at halftime. Don't tell me doubt is

1210
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 1: not crept into that locker room. And I'll say this,

1211
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: and we're showing the highlights now, and you've you've mentioned it,

1212
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: Brownie a bunch. What the thing that you noticed about

1213
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:17,680
Speaker 1: the Charger defense is that they kept the wide receivers

1214
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: to the outside outside the numbers. They've had inside leverage

1215
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:26,000
Speaker 1: on all of their route combinations every play. And what

1216
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 1: that means is the receivers have to cross your have

1217
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: to go through a guy to get open. And what

1218
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: that does is scares a quarterback off the throat. To us,

1219
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: they're covered basically because if you want to run inside,

1220
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna run towards the defender, which is the last

1221
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: place you want to go as a receiver. Right. So

1222
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: so then typically, and this is what the Dolphins did too.

1223
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,280
Speaker 1: They said, Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna

1224
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: get we're gonna get these guys down the sidelines if

1225
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: they're have an inside leverage, we're gonna send our guys

1226
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: down outside the numbers and go out throw it outside

1227
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: the numbers down the field. And so they did that,

1228
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: and they they hit a couple. But here's the thing,

1229
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 1: Like the Tyreek Hill pass, when they get their feet

1230
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 1: got tangled up, he was open anyway, but Tah hit him.

1231
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: The defender falls down because he he clips his foot

1232
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: on tyreek hills ankle, and he goes down Tyreek's by

1233
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: himself and he walks into the end zone. That was

1234
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: a typical play. The problem is this, and showed it

1235
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: on there all we're all sitting here in Buffalo. We

1236
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 1: watched Josh throw those balls. Josh puts it out there,

1237
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: and man, that thing sings when it gets out of

1238
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,600
Speaker 1: his hand. It sizzles out of his hand to a

1239
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 1: lets it go, and that thing goes way up high

1240
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: in the air. Well, it looks like a lollipop. It is.

1241
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: It is up in the air for a long time,

1242
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 1: and it doesn't it doesn't have it just because of that.

1243
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't have the velocity. And there's just so much

1244
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:57,799
Speaker 1: ground covered by the receiver, the defensive players, the safeties

1245
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,760
Speaker 1: who were breaking on the ball. Because the balls in

1246
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: the air that split second longer, things change a lot

1247
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: more when it gets comes down, and it's harder to

1248
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: maintain as a receiver. It's and it's hard to anticipate

1249
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: how open your guy's gonna be. With that extra half

1250
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: second of airtime, the ball has to take in essence,

1251
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 1: it's like what Armando said, and we've been Bill's fans

1252
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:25,680
Speaker 1: crushed to all the time for this. Anyway, his arm

1253
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: is not Josh Allen's arm. It's not just it's not

1254
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: justin Herbert's arm. It's not Joe Burrow's arm. It's not

1255
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford's arm, not Mahomes's arm. I mean, go down, look,

1256
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 1: not Trevor Lawrence's arm. I mean it's you're talking like

1257
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan arm. Yeah, you know, I mean Philip Rivers arm. Yeah,

1258
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: you Peyton Manning arm. At the end of it all,

1259
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: it's just that that is a limiting factor in what

1260
01:15:55,320 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: it throws the quarterback can execute. And right now, you're right, Brownie. Defenses.

1261
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: These last couple of defenses we've seen top one top

1262
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: defense and the other one in the middle of the

1263
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: road defense are executing a game plan to force Tua

1264
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 1: to make throws that are hard for him. Yeah, throw

1265
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: it outside the numbers, beat us that way. That same

1266
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: thing they do with Lamar Jackson because as accurate outside,

1267
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 1: he's got the arm strength to get it out there,

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01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have the accuracy. And that's that's a

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:26,640
Speaker 1: that's a that's a wider margin of error for the

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01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: quarterback than having the less of an army. So Lamar's

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 1: got less of a margin of error than Tua does

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01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: because he can sling it. He can get it out there. Um.

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01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: But I think that's where we're sitting with Tua. And

1274
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: then you come in and you add cold and snow

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01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: to the mix. You got a native Hawaiian plan and

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: his name is Tonga ya Law. You've got a Polynesian name. Yeah,

1277
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah, but that's what the last couple of

1278
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: weeks that has been the thing that's jumped out about

1279
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,839
Speaker 1: their losses. Break time for us here when we return,

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: the Bills Legend of the Year will be joining us.

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01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:08,839
Speaker 1: You might know him if you've been watching Bills football

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01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: long enough. His name is Butch Roll. It's coming your

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01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: way next year on One Bills Live, presented by Colloid

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01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back

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01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

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01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: and please to be joined now by the Bills Legend

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01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 1: of the Year, which is presented by the BFLO Store,

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01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: the official retailer of the Buffalo Bills. It is none

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01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: other than former Bills tight end Butch Roll, who was

1290
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: named the twenty twenty two Bills Legend of the Year

1291
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: for his tireless efforts in supporting the community with his

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01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:56,560
Speaker 1: community service initiatives. Butch congratulations. First of all, how'd you

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01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: get the word? And when'd you get the word? Thank you?

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01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: Thank you guys having me. Honestly, I guess the words.

1295
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: About a week ago, Jeremy, I don't know, Jerry play

1296
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 1: some trick on me. He was calling me, texting me

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01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:09,560
Speaker 1: and I was out and about. He was affecting me,

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01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 1: telling me to get ahold of him. I thought it

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01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: was something that we were about to do with the

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01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,720
Speaker 1: Legends in Buffalo. So when I contacted him, we were

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01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: talking and I asked him about the nominations, just going,

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01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: you know, because I remember seeing the application. So I

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01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: asked him. I said, I was think going, did anybody

1304
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: get chosen? Because I remember last year Mark Maddox wanted

1305
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 1: so I'm asking and he said, yeah, that was a

1306
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: cult race. Man. Is that a lot of good, you

1307
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 1: know foundations that you know it's up in the runnings

1308
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,759
Speaker 1: and you know, with that being said, you're a winner.

1309
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm like really, So I stopped for second and started laughing.

1310
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 1: I say, get out of here. But yeah, see that's

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01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: how I found out about a week ago. And you know,

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01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm humbolt and I'm grateful and thankful at the same

1313
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: time because I've been doing this for a while. I

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01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 1: know we're a smaller foundation, but we're effected. Like I said,

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01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: still waters run deep, and that's all that matters. I'm

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01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: affecting the community, helping kids in Florida Buffalo texts, not

1317
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: calling it anywhere there's a building, backers following. I'm there

1318
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,759
Speaker 1: trying to support and give these kids a better education,

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01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: which is my mission. So that's when I found out.

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01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm grateful. Yeah, but I'm let me say,

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01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of you. I've I've attended a couple

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01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: of year events here in Buffalo and it's it's really

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01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:24,600
Speaker 1: I love your events because they're you know, listen, we

1324
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: both love Jim Kelly and stuff, and his events are

1325
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: these huge, mega, you know, they just huge thing. And

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01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: I love yours because you just go and it's a

1327
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 1: bunch of friends getting together. You raise money, is you

1328
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: sell some stuff and you give it to the kids,

1329
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,679
Speaker 1: and it's I just think it's awesome, and I'm glad,

1330
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 1: and you do it more often I think maybe than

1331
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 1: anybody um that I ever played with or have seen since.

1332
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you do a couple of three or four

1333
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 1: or five six of these a year, and a number

1334
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: of them are here in Buffalo, and uh, I'm really glad.

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01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of you for getting the recognize for

1336
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: the work you've done and and for the you know,

1337
01:19:57,320 --> 01:19:59,599
Speaker 1: for the dedication that you put into it a year

1338
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 1: in year. Just thanks so much for being a part

1339
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: of the community. And congratulations. Wow, Steve, thank you man.

1340
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: You know you're my man. When we played together, we

1341
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 1: had ton times out there, and you know, I've always

1342
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: every time i haven't event in Buffalo, You're always the

1343
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: first one in my call, I said, And he said,

1344
01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: Steve's gonna be in challenge so I can get him

1345
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: over there. And like you said, Jim's I love Jimmy's

1346
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: events too. You know, we've been going there for the

1347
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: past fifteen sixteen years and it's a mom house and

1348
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: it's awesome to see all the guys come back. But

1349
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: I tell you know that's it's a big event and

1350
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:29,799
Speaker 1: that's great. I love it. He's doing great. Things gentlemen.

1351
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: You know, he's the man, He's a pillar there. And

1352
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 1: I always appreciate and I always appreciate you being able

1353
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: to show up, Man, when you can go. That means

1354
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: a lot to me because I know we don't have

1355
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,640
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that we've played together that's in

1356
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: the area. So the ones that do show up for

1357
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: the events, Man, is very good to see you guys.

1358
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: It's a brotherhood, man, and one's my heart. When I

1359
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: see you guys, my heart goes. You could fill with

1360
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 1: joy because I start thinking back and reflecting on the

1361
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 1: days we've played together in the locker room, just you know,

1362
01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: bonding together as a brotherhood and winning a lot of games,

1363
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, AFC Championship Game, Special teams. We're out there

1364
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: acting like Matt Maniacs on the special team together. It's

1365
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:07,599
Speaker 1: just a fun time, man, And I really appreciate your

1366
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 1: support coming in, you know, taking time out of your

1367
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: busy schedule, because I know you have a lot going

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01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: on just to show your face, whether it's for a

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01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: half hour an hour, but you do it, and that's

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01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: that's appreciative to me. All right. So, but just for

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01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: fans that aren't familiar, maybe just paint a picture for them,

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01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,679
Speaker 1: you know, on on what the butch Roll Foundation does,

1373
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:28,840
Speaker 1: because you know, you guys have been around almost ten

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01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: years now. Yes, really started back in twenty and twelve.

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01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:35,559
Speaker 1: Actually I started before then because I was helping out

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01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:37,679
Speaker 1: with Little League football and you know, these inner city

1377
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: kids didn't have the means to buy a purchasing buying

1378
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: cleats or having a uniform. So I was coming out

1379
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:46,439
Speaker 1: of my own pocket buying cleats for them, you know,

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01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: getting them food. And then I came across some sponsors

1381
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,600
Speaker 1: that was you know, pretty that came part of the

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01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: foundation that was donating every year. And once I established

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01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,600
Speaker 1: the foundation, then I set up my mission to have

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01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: scholarships being into underprivileged kids. Because these kids are see

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01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: every day in the Florida area in different areas that

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01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: struggle come over. Our babysitters. They take care of their kids,

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01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: their kid brothers and sisters while the mom, one single

1388
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,679
Speaker 1: parent homes. The mom is working two jobs. So they're

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01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: taking care of the kids, being a babysitter and a

1390
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: big brother and have to you know, deal with school

1391
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 1: work at the same time. And they struggle when it

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01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:25,560
Speaker 1: comes to filling out financial aids. And getting money for scholarships,

1393
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: so I could, you know, that's the area I want

1394
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: to focus on. The kids that have the money, they

1395
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,320
Speaker 1: don't need. It's the underprivileged kids. So they apply for

1396
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: the scholarship at the end of the year and we

1397
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: present them. You know, I choose the ones I want

1398
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 1: to present their graduations, and they're hockey. They they're appreciated,

1399
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: and they come back and thank it all the time. Right,

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01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,600
Speaker 1: and you continue to do this. You've been doing it

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01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: for ten years. And how many events I mean, I

1402
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: know you do this not just in Buffalo, but around

1403
01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: How many events have you had over the last say,

1404
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: twelve months? Oh my god, listen, last the last two years.

1405
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,560
Speaker 1: I think I've been an event every single game I have.

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01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: I think, with the exception of maybe Thanksgiving I was

1407
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, but I'm at an event every game,

1408
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:11,280
Speaker 1: every Bills game. I'm doing something. What it's small or big,

1409
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: but I'm doing something. So it's a NonStop continue think

1410
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: during the season because that's the time. I think advantage

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01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: of the builds back that who love to participate in

1412
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,799
Speaker 1: love you know, former players bringing there in their presence

1413
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: and yelling and screaming with them and having a good

1414
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 1: time and doing raffles fifty fifties, all the things that

1415
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: help foundation, you know, accumulate funds to help these kids.

1416
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: And it's it's an every week thing. I promise you that. Yeah,

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01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,680
Speaker 1: for the past two years. All right, So, Butch, why

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01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 1: don't you give me some of your thoughts on you know,

1419
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: what you think of the team this year? I mean

1420
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 1: ten and three. They're a top to AFC conference. Injuries

1421
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 1: have been a bugaboo for them all year long, but

1422
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: still sitting the top to AFC. Just how many games

1423
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: have you caught? I know you're probably busy during games,

1424
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,599
Speaker 1: you know, doing your community stuff. But in the games

1425
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:57,560
Speaker 1: you've watched, what have you thought? You know? Listen, I

1426
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 1: am I've watched every game and watch every game regardless,

1427
01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 1: even at the events. Someday it's on every TV in

1428
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 1: the bar, so I'm watching it. If I'm not doing

1429
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: an event, I'm still watching. You know, I'm gonna have

1430
01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: a build fan that's I'm gonna builds that hard. I

1431
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: live in Miami. I don't like Miami Dolphins fans. They

1432
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: are not real fans. I tell everybody that I wear

1433
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:17,640
Speaker 1: my Buffalo gear down there you know they don't like it,

1434
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 1: but no, that's funny, funny thing. I had a buddy

1435
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:22,160
Speaker 1: come to my house the other day and he laughed

1436
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,559
Speaker 1: because he looked around and said, dude, you're from Florida.

1437
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: You don't have that one thing that represents Miami far

1438
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: as sports wise, because you don't have my Michigan State

1439
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: items in my home in Buffalo gear. That's all I

1440
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: have Michigan State and I'm Buffalo. I don't have nothing,

1441
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: no universe from Miami. No, no Miami Dolphins. When I

1442
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 1: tell him, I say, dude, I'm boyed. I don't care

1443
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 1: what you say. I don't need that group for another team.

1444
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 1: I know I've been going to race here. But my

1445
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: heart is than Buffalo and he's a real loyal fans,

1446
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,799
Speaker 1: and I love the build and listen, I tell everybody,

1447
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 1: this team always reminds me of us. See, you know

1448
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: they have the talent we you know, we had a

1449
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 1: squad and this is what they reminds me of us.

1450
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 1: You know, you have your modern day Jim Kelly, which

1451
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: is Josh Allen, you know, and then you receiving Corps.

1452
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: You know you have docs Dawson knocks. I've just seen

1453
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 1: him the other night. I liked to play as style

1454
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 1: of play, you know, just what they can get him

1455
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: the ball or more. But I feel good about it. Honestly,

1456
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 1: I feel like we're gonna be definitely being Phoenix this year.

1457
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm planning on Dangan Phoenix last year. I have my

1458
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, that's just how I look at

1459
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:23,120
Speaker 1: this team. Gage. I know that injuries plays a big part,

1460
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: but they just you know, we have players that have

1461
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:26,560
Speaker 1: to step up at this point. This is like, this

1462
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: is the time you separate the pretenders from the contenders.

1463
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: That's just how I look at it, though. They have

1464
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 1: to step up and play and every game that that

1465
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: last game again suggestives you know, that was a scratching

1466
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: car on game. Man, these guys, you know that reminded

1467
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:40,640
Speaker 1: me of us, Steve when we played somefing We had

1468
01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: games like that. You have to keep shipping away at

1469
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 1: that monument until you get that masterpiece and at the

1470
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 1: end of the day you win the game and go

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01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: home and thank God for that win and just you know,

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01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,639
Speaker 1: going to the next week, so I know the googling schedule.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, good stuff, goods. Thanks so much for being

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Speaker 1: on Congratulations on being the Legend of the Year this year,

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01:25:57,479 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to Christy mass with you soon.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll cross pass An Arizona that we say, all right, absolutely, brother,

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Speaker 1: all right, man, god let thanks all right. That's Bootroll

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Speaker 1: former Bills tight end and voted the Bills Legend of

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Speaker 1: the Year for twenty twenty two for his continued support

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Speaker 1: and dedication to community service. We will take a break here,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I will come back to wrap things up

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Speaker 1: next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid of Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right. See, so the one

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Speaker 1: thing we did not do today was answered the topic

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Speaker 1: of discussion ourselves. If the Bills properly equipped themselves for

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Speaker 1: the stretch run? What say you? Well, I think they've

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Speaker 1: been properly equipped for three years, despite the changing pieces.

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01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: They've got what they need and they've had it for

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Speaker 1: a long time. The question is can they you know,

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01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 1: do it on games didn't matter. We said it last year,

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Speaker 1: You've said it for three years. I've said it for

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Speaker 1: three years there and they're still there. They are good

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Speaker 1: enough to go to and win the Super Bowl, and

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Speaker 1: they have been for you know what, thirty six months.

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Speaker 1: So but they you know, they don't do it in

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Speaker 1: a vacuum. You got to play well on a day

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Speaker 1: when it's a winner go home, a thirteen second game,

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Speaker 1: or a game like or whether it's a thirteen second game,

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Speaker 1: or whether it's a game like they had here against

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots where they were perfect and scored

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01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: a touchdown in every possession and never punted. You got

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01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: to play well on those days. And they're gonna have

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01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:38,559
Speaker 1: those days. They've got those days in their future this year,

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01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:43,680
Speaker 1: whether it's having to play on wild card weekend or

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01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: whether it's having a bye week and going straight to

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01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 1: the divisional round. Either way, they're good enough to win

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01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 1: any game they kick it off in this season, and

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01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a chance to do it again. You

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01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: see this with the Chiefs. They slept walk through that

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01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 1: game against the Bronchos yesterday because they're waiting. They want

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01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: They know they're gonna the playoff games are what matter.

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Speaker 1: The Bills need to show that they know that too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing is yes, they've properly equipped themselves.

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Speaker 1: I will agree. Injuries have robbed them of some of

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01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: the very things that they have counted on which is

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01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: depth and some of their premium players chief playmakers. So yes,

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Speaker 1: they've properly equipped themselves, but a lot of that has

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Speaker 1: been stripped by injury this year at different points of

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Speaker 1: the season. Obviously. If there's one thing I have said,

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Speaker 1: maybe more than anything else, when people approach me to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Bills, is I always finish with I

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Speaker 1: just gotta stay healthy. And that's true for any football team. Yeah, obviously,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's dealing with different kind of injuries. I mean,

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01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: the Cardinals just found out today they're gonna be without

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01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray the rest of the year. It's happening to

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Speaker 1: everybody across the league. It's just at different times of

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Speaker 1: the season. I'll say this though, when you're that when

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Speaker 1: you're in that spot, you say all this other stuff

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Speaker 1: and the saying, of course, they gotta stay uninjured, But

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Speaker 1: that's really the only thing you say with this Buffalo

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01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: Bills team, if they stay healthy, there's no stop in

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Speaker 1: them except themselves. We said it from the beginning, and

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Speaker 1: that's where they're at, that's where they've been, that's where

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Speaker 1: they're going to stay for the time being. And that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good spot to be in with a big

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Speaker 1: one on tap on Saturday. We've got another big show

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Speaker 1: on tap for you tomorrow, NFL Networks Mike Giardi will

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Speaker 1: be joining us. Steve and I will see you tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at one pm