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Speaker 1: they are good afternoon. Welcome to us Snowy Orchard Partner,

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Speaker 1: York for New Year's Eve. It's a beautiful snowy day.

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Speaker 1: Really is nice out started out without any precipitation at all,

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Speaker 1: gotta laugh because we are listening to the Sean McDermot

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Speaker 1: saying he's almost bella chick in. He's better at an.

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Speaker 1: He is at the top of his game. Here's I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a couple of quotes this These are brought

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Speaker 1: has Sean McDermott on what ed Oliver alf defensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: along now period period. And he says McDermot on what's

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Speaker 1: It is playoff week man, and that you can't get

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Speaker 1: any information out with a crowbar. No. No, And Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien and Houston not much better. He was asked yesterday,

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Speaker 1: was with us yesterday, John mcclan. He was asked about

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Speaker 1: the um, you know, the obvious I guess connection the

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Speaker 1: playing the wild comeback game in the nineteen ninety two season.

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Speaker 1: And Bill O'Brian wouldn't even deal with it. He said, no,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing to do with it. Yeah, and he's right,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. But play along, fellows, give us, give us something.

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Speaker 1: They don't give you. A long week, guys, go on,

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Speaker 1: they don't get a darn thing. Good afternoon, Welcome up

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Speaker 1: the show. I'm John Murphy, This Steve Tasker. It is

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Happy New Year, everybody. We're here doing

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Speaker 1: a show until three o'clock. Will be off tomorrow. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back on Thursday. We'll have the playoff game covered

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Speaker 1: well over the next few days, including today. We've got

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Speaker 1: a good show and we've had a good run up

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Speaker 1: to the show. You've had a good week already. The

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Speaker 1: week has begun and you were at UB bat. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Close friend of our family, uh works for the Bonnies

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Speaker 1: basketball team, so he hooked us up with some tickets.

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Speaker 1: We went to the UB game last night. You be

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Speaker 1: winning over the Bonnies. I can't remember the score, but

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Speaker 1: it's a nice It's a really fun game, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm not a basket you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: it was fun. It was great, a nice atmosphere. And uh,

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Speaker 1: So he came up and said hi, and uh, just

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Speaker 1: and Pucks used to be a big deal in the seventies,

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Speaker 1: Not very much to tails. Shack Lawson will get a

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Speaker 1: in the spotlight. I think he concentrates better. I think

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Speaker 1: he makes better decisions because of it. I think it

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Speaker 1: shows through. It hasn't translated into a lot of points,

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Speaker 1: but it certainly has translated into a handful of plays

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Speaker 1: throughout the game that have made differences. And we'll see

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come back We're gonna go right to practice

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Speaker 1: in a moment with Chris Brown, Bills insider from Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot Com. We'll get his thoughts on this and

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Speaker 1: update who's out, who's in there, who's practicing as the

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Speaker 1: Bills get set for their playoff game on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Let's take out the practice the Bills inside the at

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Speaker 1: Pro Sports Training Center. They're gonna play indoors on Saturday

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Speaker 1: afternoon against the Texans in the first preseason game. So

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Speaker 1: our man Chris Brown is in there watching practice. Chris, Good, afternoon.

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Speaker 1: How are you today? Doing good? Some guys out here

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Speaker 1: that maybe some might not have anticipated would be participating

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Speaker 1: in practice. We got yeah, Tie and Secky and Andre

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Speaker 1: Roberts are giving it to go, along with Shack Lawson.

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Speaker 1: Coach kind of indicated they'd be limited today as they

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Speaker 1: work their way back in off injury. But I gotta

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Speaker 1: say I was watching Tye and Secky takes some reps

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Speaker 1: with the lineman over there in individual position drills. He's

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Speaker 1: moving quite well, even though it looked like he reinjured

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Speaker 1: his ankle that he had been out for five games

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Speaker 1: with since suffering it against Miami. But he doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: to be showing any ill effects from that ankle, which

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw after he got rolled up on

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Speaker 1: that play. He threw his shoe off. He was in

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Speaker 1: so much pain and so to see him out here

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Speaker 1: is almost a shock, but moving quite well. And Andre

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Speaker 1: Roberts was just out here fielding punts. Really showed no

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Speaker 1: adverse effects from the foot injury he's trying to come

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Speaker 1: back from. Didn't really get a chance to watch Shack

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Speaker 1: all that much, but he was out there working with

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Speaker 1: the defensive lineman. Tell me about Levi Wallace and his backup,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson. What do you see there? Yeah, no Levi

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Speaker 1: Wallace out here today, so he's not participating in practice.

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Speaker 1: As coach mentioned in a press conference, he wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: going today. And then Kevin Johnson out here and full

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Speaker 1: go from all indications. Yeah, And that just leaves him

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Speaker 1: one man down off the top. I mean, how's it

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Speaker 1: gonna work, Kevin Johnson, Tarren Johnson. How's the rotation go

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Speaker 1: behind Kevin? Yeah, I mean Terren's out here, so, you know,

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Speaker 1: barring an unforeseen circumstance in practice through the course of

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Speaker 1: the practice week, I imagine he's gonna be the nickel

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Speaker 1: and if Levi can't play on Saturday, then obviously Kevin

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Speaker 1: Johnson lines up outside. Who's the third corner then behind

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Speaker 1: Tarn and Kevin Johnson. If somebody tweaks an ankle on Saturday, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, based on what we saw last week, I

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Speaker 1: think we should assume that it's gonna be sarand Neil,

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Speaker 1: who didn't do too poorly out there and does have

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Speaker 1: cornerback experience. I mean, he played corner safety and linebacker

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Speaker 1: in college at Jacksonville State, so it's not like it's

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Speaker 1: a foreign position to him. It's gonna be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how they mapped that all out. If we remember

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Speaker 1: back early in the season, was up dude. If we

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Speaker 1: remember back early in the season when Tarn Johnson wasn't

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Speaker 1: healthy and playing, it was sarand Neil, Dean Marlowe and

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Speaker 1: a combination therein in the slot with Kevin Johnson also

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Speaker 1: getting some work in there as well. But if Tarn

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Speaker 1: Johnson's healthy, I think they just say, hey, you take

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Speaker 1: Nicol inside in the slot and if we need to

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Speaker 1: go to somebody else, sho'd something happen in Kevin Johnson

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Speaker 1: or guy for Bittra Davious White, it's probably sirran Neil

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Speaker 1: outside God. A question for you about Kevin Johnson, former

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, former first round pick. We had John Clayton

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Speaker 1: on the show yesterday talking or John mc McLean on

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Speaker 1: the show yesterday talking about the Texans, and he mentioned

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Speaker 1: in the high regard that he held Kevin Johnson and

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Speaker 1: he thought the entire organization and lost a lot when

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Speaker 1: they lost Kevin Johnson. He was so banged up for

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Speaker 1: for so long. Downe there's a former first round pick.

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Speaker 1: But I think people who follow the Texans closely know

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Speaker 1: that that guy could play Chris. Yeah, and it was

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Speaker 1: a first round pick for a reason, guys, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: injuries really are what derailed the early part of his

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Speaker 1: career in Houston. And we did a story on him

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot Com coming out of training camp

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Speaker 1: just about how he had to change his style of play,

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Speaker 1: and he had a long talk with defensive coordinator Leslie

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Speaker 1: Frazier at the beginning of the year about how he

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Speaker 1: needs to play because, as we all know, the number

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Speaker 1: one ability in the NFL is availability, and he knew

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Speaker 1: that this one year contract that he signed with the

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Speaker 1: Bills was his opportunity to show and prove that he

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Speaker 1: could stay on the field and get through a sixteen

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Speaker 1: game season. But he knew in order to do that,

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Speaker 1: he was going to have to change his style. His

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Speaker 1: style of play was very aggressive, and very often when

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Speaker 1: he had the opportunity, he would go for the kill

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Speaker 1: shot on a receiver or a ball carrier when he

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Speaker 1: had the opportunity, and he said, I had to focus

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Speaker 1: more on wrapping up and securing a tackle than trying

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Speaker 1: to knock somebody out of a football game, because very

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Speaker 1: often it was himself that he was knocking out of

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Speaker 1: games and costing himself time on the field. So he

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Speaker 1: changed his approach in terms of how he would play

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Speaker 1: defense and make plays on the ball. Yeah, and let

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Speaker 1: me ask you about one more defensive back. While I

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Speaker 1: got trying to hear Chris, said, Tarren Johnson. We've a

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Speaker 1: couple of days here we've betted around, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of end of regular season ideas underrated players. I think

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Speaker 1: Terren Johnson has been a solid player all season long

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Speaker 1: for the Bills in a very important part of their

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Speaker 1: defensive secondary at his nickelback spot. What do you think, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think his role is kind of unsung.

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Speaker 1: I think he's been solid. I think he was a

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Speaker 1: little rusty when he first came back into the lineup.

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Speaker 1: Are we doing, Cole? You're all right, man, you're working

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Speaker 1: the path of the receiver routes here they're running out

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Speaker 1: routes right in front of me. But I think when

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Speaker 1: he first came back he was a little rusty. Had

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Speaker 1: to shake that rust off, and after that he's been solid.

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Speaker 1: And as we know, in this defensive system, the nickel

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Speaker 1: corner has to be huge in run support because he's

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Speaker 1: on some plays he essentially serves as that third linebacker

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Speaker 1: next to Tremaine Edmonds and to Matt Milano. So what

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Speaker 1: you have is a guy that even though he might

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Speaker 1: be diminutive in size, he better have the right mindset

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Speaker 1: about supporting the run, especially on the edge there of

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Speaker 1: the formation. So he's done a great job of that.

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Speaker 1: I think he's certainly proved himself in that area, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then coverage assignments, I think he's availed himself quite well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, Brownie. As far as the

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Speaker 1: defense goes, I'm not really worried unless unless they aren't

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Speaker 1: forced to line up as a McKenzie at corner again

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Speaker 1: this week, which I don't think. I think everything needs

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Speaker 1: to be focused on the other side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: It starts with Josh and we're talking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's he need to do. Get off to a fast start,

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Speaker 1: hit some deep plays, or you know, just be consistent

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Speaker 1: and comfortable. What are your thoughts on how Josh needs

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Speaker 1: to approach this week. I knows Sean has just said, listen,

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Speaker 1: every week is the same. Let's just keep up, keep on,

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Speaker 1: keeping on. But what do you think about Josh and

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Speaker 1: his approach to this game and his first playoff game.

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Speaker 1: I think he's got to keep himself from getting too

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Speaker 1: jacked up. Yeah. I go back to Week four against

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Speaker 1: New England, team starts three and ozer Gigantic Division game.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody wants the Bills to slay the dragon.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots and all of that, and I

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Speaker 1: think Josh went into that game he was over the moon.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was jacked up so much and what happened.

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Speaker 1: What happened was he was airmail in passes and then

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Speaker 1: he was making poor decisions because he was trying to

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Speaker 1: play hero ball. He said he learned from that, But

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Speaker 1: there were another another couple of games where early on

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Speaker 1: he's airmail and throws because he has just got so

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Speaker 1: much adrenaline going through him because he's so jacked up

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Speaker 1: for the game that he's not accurate. He's not on point,

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Speaker 1: he's not taking easy completions now, he said after the

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Speaker 1: New England game when he did pass up some easy completions,

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Speaker 1: that he learned from that. This is going to be

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Speaker 1: the test. Is he going to put himself in position

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Speaker 1: to make the easy completions, make the easy throws, keep

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Speaker 1: his offense on schedule, keep the offense on the field.

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Speaker 1: That's the test for him on Saturday. All right, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much, Thanks Brownie. Guys. Chris Brown on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines had practiced today, bothered by the receivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, guys, job to do here, Yeah, Chris sounds

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Speaker 1: like he subscribes to what coach McDermott said about Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: and it's really a the second choice in our twitter

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Speaker 1: poler that he needs to be consistent and effective more

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Speaker 1: than anything else. I still think getting off to a

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Speaker 1: fast start means more than that, but we'll see. Not

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Speaker 1: that he needs to get off to a fast start

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Speaker 1: and then forget about it. He's done. But I think

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Speaker 1: a fast start will help him proceed through the game.

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Speaker 1: A fast start, maybe early points which they have not

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Speaker 1: had the benefit of, I think would help them later

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Speaker 1: on in the game. And he can he can be

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Speaker 1: consistent and efficient moving forward. They need to score like

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Speaker 1: three three touchdowns and a couple of field goals. You know,

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Speaker 1: they need to get up into the high twenties, mid

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Speaker 1: to high twenties and point total. If they can do that,

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Speaker 1: they're really gonna be hard there. You're not gonna beat

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Speaker 1: this team. And that's been the bugaboo all year. And

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Speaker 1: like we've said, it comes down to I've said this

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Speaker 1: a bunch and I don't know whether you agree with

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Speaker 1: me or not, but you look back at games, it

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Speaker 1: really and it's always been this way when I played,

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Speaker 1: It's this way when they couldn't get to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they were losing a lot of games every year, and

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Speaker 1: it's this way now, particularly with this team. These games

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Speaker 1: are coming down to like three plays scattered throughout four quarters,

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Speaker 1: wherever they happen or whenever they happen, and those are

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Speaker 1: the differences in the game when you've got a team

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Speaker 1: that's built around the defense like the Bills do, and

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Speaker 1: if Josh can just turn less than a handful of

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Speaker 1: those plays back in his favor, or make the plays

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Speaker 1: rather than wait for his defense to stop the other

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Speaker 1: team on a fourth down, if you can make them

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Speaker 1: for your side and get points out of him instead

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Speaker 1: of just not turning it over, everything changes for the squad.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we haven't seen that consistently. We've seen

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Speaker 1: maybe flashes of it, but that's got to happen throughout

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Speaker 1: four quarters, and you've got to be ready every play

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Speaker 1: that this may be that play where Josh comes off

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Speaker 1: that first option quick and sees a guy running wide

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Speaker 1: open and actually puts the ball right on the guy.

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Speaker 1: We've seen him try it and fail. We've seen him

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Speaker 1: miss it and not even try the good the throw

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Speaker 1: where the guy's running and We've seen him pass it

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Speaker 1: up and try and make the tough throw instead of

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Speaker 1: the easy throw. We've seen him take a bad sack

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Speaker 1: in those areas, So all of that stuff combined. If

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Speaker 1: you can just stop that and make the plays that

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Speaker 1: are there to be made, the game for this team

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Speaker 1: is going to be exponential and they go from being

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Speaker 1: just a tough out to a team that's almost impossible

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Speaker 1: to beat. And I think that's the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: you got to hope for for this team headed into

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Speaker 1: this playoff run. Yeah, I'm just looking back here, Steven.

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Speaker 1: Three touchdowns would be great, three or more. You know

644
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Speaker 1: how many times they score three touchdowns this year? Five

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Speaker 1: times they got ten wins, which says they're playing great defense.

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Speaker 1: But three touchdowns is a big ask for this offense.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a it's a it's a Houston defense

648
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Speaker 1: that has not played well, but that's a big ass.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot again. J Watt back too. He's a

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Speaker 1: load yep uh certainly, and we don't know I mean

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Speaker 1: Ty and Secki. If he can go, he's he'll help there.

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Speaker 1: I think they're better with him on the field. Although

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen him for a while. Um he's a

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Speaker 1: big body and he's used to handling a guy like

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt. You know, you put a rookie right tackle

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00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: out there and Cody Ford move him from guard out

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Speaker 1: to tackle and he may have he may have some

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Speaker 1: you know, some breaking in to do. He may have

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Speaker 1: some acclimating to do, and you don't have really time

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Speaker 1: to do that in this game. Yeah, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So being as healthy as they are is

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Speaker 1: a huge boost for the Bills and we'll see if

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Speaker 1: they can carry it in. What's the most important thing

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Speaker 1: Josh Hanlon can do in the playoffs starting this Saturday?

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Speaker 1: What do you think? That's our question of the day.

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Speaker 1: You can respond on the Twitter poll at one bill'sive.

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Speaker 1: You can send in a tweek we'll read some of

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Speaker 1: the tweets off to tweet sheet. You can give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight three fifty or toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty two thirds of

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Speaker 1: you say the most important thing you can do is

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Speaker 1: be consistent and efficient. Maybe that's it. Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight O three oh five fifty outside Buffalo toll

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Speaker 1: three at one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Studios in Orchard Park. And this is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Time four Reads Milestones presented by Reads Jewelers, the

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Speaker 1: official jeweler of the Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen now one

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Speaker 1: of eleven quarterbacks in NFL history with multiple seasons with

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Speaker 1: five hundred and more rushing yards in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: only the third quarterback to do it in his first

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Speaker 1: two seasons. Can you name the other two? Steve cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, that's right. Did you look on the screen

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Speaker 1: or did you just guess? Okay, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: the other two. Josh Allen joins those two. It's no

686
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Speaker 1: coincidence that they've all happened in the lass handful of years.

687
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton certainly was a little bit ahead of his time,

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Speaker 1: but the new you know, way of playing offense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, particularly if you've got a quarterback and do it,

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00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: you let them run and you just tell them, hey,

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Speaker 1: you get a few yards, you slide and they're protected. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In the seventies and eight, nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties, you slide,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get speared. Yeah, right, yeah, maybe we'll call something,

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Speaker 1: maybe we won't, right, I'd encourage you, any of you,

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Speaker 1: particularly you know, people who were born maybe post two thousand,

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Speaker 1: or just maybe after nineteen ninety five, go back and look, mate,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can get it on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine you can get it anywhere you can

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Speaker 1: get anything these days. But go back and look at

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies and look at some NFL films of

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00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: quarterbacks standing in the pocket or running around or getting

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Speaker 1: pushed out of bounds, and look at the brutality of

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00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 1: the game back then, and you'll understand why these records

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Speaker 1: are falling now because and they understand the reason they

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Speaker 1: have rules that protect players, because there wasn't any protection

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Speaker 1: back then except a helmet that was basically a dixie

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Speaker 1: cup with a face mask. I mean those helmets were

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Speaker 1: nothing back then. I mean the suspension help. I mean

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Speaker 1: it was horrible. Was it a better game back then? Steve?

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Speaker 1: It was different. Yeah, it might have been better, and

711
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: we didn't know any better. I think it's better now,

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Speaker 1: It's what am I saying? Of course it's better now,

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Speaker 1: come on, it is. It was a bar fight back then.

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Speaker 1: There was a certain it was Murph Let's fight. And

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Speaker 1: in reality, in all seriousness, it was almost a completely

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Speaker 1: different sport. Yeah, you know, think about it. It was

717
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: a completely different sport in the nineteen seventies than it

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Speaker 1: is today in the two thousand and two thousand and two.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it was all fun, but it was a

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Speaker 1: It was brutal. It was brutality and sanctioned um. So

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Speaker 1: it was a bar fight. It was like a knife

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Speaker 1: fight with no knives, you know, I mean it. It

723
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: was brutal. And so that's why you see guys like

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton, like Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen and others

725
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Speaker 1: who have started to evolve into the league now because

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Speaker 1: of the protection that the players have now. And you

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Speaker 1: can say, oh, you know, it's the game soft now, Yes,

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Speaker 1: compared to the nineteen seventies eighties, the game is very soft.

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you right, it's better now. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's better now. Really good book we had the author

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Speaker 1: on a couple of years ago, Kevin Cook. His book

732
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: is the Last Headbangers NFL Football and the rowdy, reckless seventies,

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Speaker 1: and he dealt with the Raiders and the Steelers and

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Speaker 1: and everybody was a little bit rowdy. If you go

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Speaker 1: back and look at the Raiders and the Chiefs rivalry

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Speaker 1: when the Chiefs were won the suit. You know, they

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Speaker 1: won Super Bowl three under Hank Stram. You go back

738
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Speaker 1: and look at the Raiders Chiefs games in that Oh

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00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was. It was unbelievable. They not just

740
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Speaker 1: late hit but late late, late hits and like head

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Speaker 1: first sparing into the into the chest of the quarterback

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Speaker 1: who had been on the ground for like three seconds.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. Yeah, it was egregious. It was entertaining. Right,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. You could call me out, but I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, Hey, you want to know what about it? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cook, he said it was the era that defined

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Speaker 1: modern sports. It created modern sports. The nineteen seventies NFL

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Speaker 1: because it was so violent, because it was it was

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Speaker 1: barely policed. It was pro wrestling violent. And it really

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Speaker 1: was where the league partnered with networks to start putting

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Speaker 1: games on television and people would watch it and it

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Speaker 1: was you couldn't take your eyes off. I mean it

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00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: was it was car wreck. Every play was great. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: it was. That's because you were the one running down

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Speaker 1: count kick that's right. I was the one watching on

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Speaker 1: TV and loving every minute of it. And listen and

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. The game it got better

758
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: and better as years went on. There was a time

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Speaker 1: when they started to elevate the rules. Elevate, I say,

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Speaker 1: change the rules, Expand the rules. Expand the rules, and say,

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Speaker 1: you know, you couldn't touch the receivers. And that's why

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Speaker 1: guys like me got in the league. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a five nine guy. Buck eighty buck, Buck eighty five.

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Speaker 1: There's no way you could play. A guy like me

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Speaker 1: could play back in the seven early seventies, and that

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Speaker 1: was just ten years I was in. Eighty five was

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Speaker 1: my first year. Because you had to be so big

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Speaker 1: so as to sustain the punishment. You know, you had

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Speaker 1: to be you know, you had to be able to

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Speaker 1: have some wherewithal um. And now when the and the

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Speaker 1: collisions were still great, but it was you know, they

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Speaker 1: just weren't so vicious all the time, and you could

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Speaker 1: kind of guys like me could hang in there in

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Speaker 1: the league. And now you got guys, you know, you

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Speaker 1: got guys like me. They're guys like me everywhere. You know,

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Speaker 1: smaller guys that are just and the game is about speed.

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00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's not about the physicality as much as

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Speaker 1: it is about the speed and your ability to run.

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Speaker 1: But man oh man, and it's changed. It's a complete

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Speaker 1: I think that's it's a different sport now. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's better at any rate. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the playoff game this Saturday. The most important thing Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen needs to do in the playoffs. What do you

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Speaker 1: think it is? Eight three fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Got Isaac on

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Speaker 1: the line, been hanging for a while, Isaac, what's up? Hey? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Tell you guys going in the Happy New Year to

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Speaker 1: you all. Happy New Year, you two great? Uh so

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Speaker 1: um so. One of the thing I just want to

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Speaker 1: comment on your top of the day, and I'm in

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Speaker 1: partial agreement with you guys of about everything that you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. So one, Yes, it's true that that Josh

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Speaker 1: does need them froll on his passing at times. He's

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Speaker 1: been totally her rand us when he uh when he

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Speaker 1: do does have open receivers. But I think all in

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Speaker 1: all that the real problem is not so much as

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Speaker 1: on Josh. As she was saying, Steed I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of it has been on Bryan Dabble in a

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Speaker 1: position that he's putting him in to make those throws.

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Speaker 1: For instance, Um, what problem are you trying to solve here,

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Speaker 1: Josh so so so so when you look at um

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Speaker 1: most of the time here, Oh when when when the

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Speaker 1: players are called on first down? Uh, Bryan Dabble all

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Speaker 1: this call running plays. I mean almost like ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of the time during the games. Not right, but go ahead, quick,

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00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: go ahead, and then and then in second then on

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Speaker 1: second downs it's almost like fifty fifty fifty fifty percent

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Speaker 1: and running fifty fifty percent a pass. And when you

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Speaker 1: can go back and you can look at these stats

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Speaker 1: for yourself and you can see for almost all the

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Speaker 1: time during the games, you always on first down, you

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Speaker 1: run the ball. I don't think that's true. And what's

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Speaker 1: trying with fifty fifty on second down? Anyway? So that

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Speaker 1: that puts Josh in a in a very very peculiar

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Speaker 1: predicament as far us Now, we have to try to

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Speaker 1: get these all these yards on third down, whether we're

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Speaker 1: third and six third and eight third and cent third

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Speaker 1: and eighteen, um, and then he has to throw the ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, a force to make him make a play

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Speaker 1: on those throws. And so I think that as Davil

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Speaker 1: calls a better a better scheme allow of Josh to

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Speaker 1: be able to get into a throw with him early

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Speaker 1: on in the games, throw some screen passes you know,

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Speaker 1: on first down, kind of like mixes up a little

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Speaker 1: bit for him so that this way here he has

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Speaker 1: a much more getting much more better groove of throwing

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Speaker 1: and passing the ball. So when it comes time for

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Speaker 1: him to make those big plays down down the field,

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Speaker 1: he's warmed up to do so, um, you know, don't see,

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Speaker 1: you don't see Josh really become more acculiment in the

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Speaker 1: game until like the second half, and normally we're down

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Speaker 1: a score or two, and then you know, then and

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Speaker 1: then Davil casts a better game which allows Josh, you know,

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Speaker 1: to throw the ball. And you see, the more he

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Speaker 1: throws the ball, the more actually he gets in the

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Speaker 1: second and half. This is why a lot of Alis

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Speaker 1: think that Josh is the second half quarterback. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think that, you know, uh, to the most part, that

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Speaker 1: might might seem to be true, but whether it really is,

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Speaker 1: it's just that the plays are being called more or

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Speaker 1: less for for Josh and the second half more so

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Speaker 1: than the first half. And I just think that if

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Speaker 1: Davil focus a little bit more and mixing those plays

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Speaker 1: up on first downs where he doesn't have to worry

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Speaker 1: about making those big I disagree. See what do you think, offense,

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Speaker 1: Let's see the officers look a lot, a lot better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, I get it. And that's always gonna happen

848
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Speaker 1: when you have one side of the ball that struggles,

849
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Speaker 1: like the offense is struggle in the buffalo. Everybody throws

850
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: it right at the feet of the offense of coordinator.

851
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, and what I look at and

852
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: when I see things, there are those. And I know

853
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: people hate it when they hear this because they just

854
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 1: think they I knew they were gonna run on that play,

855
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: And if I knew they were gonna run, so did

856
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. And no, it's just not true.

857
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: When I look at this offense, and I've been harping

858
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,439
Speaker 1: on it all week and last week too, there are

859
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: plays that are there, The plays that are called by

860
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: day Ball and this offensive coaching staff have been there

861
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: to be made. They have given Josh every opportunity to

862
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: make plays and to stay on the football field. Certainly

863
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: you can blame you can't blame Josh when he hands

864
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 1: it off and the running play gets stuffed. I get that.

865
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: But when he does drop back to pass or has

866
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: a play action passed, there's no doubt that there are

867
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: plays to be made. And you've got Cole Beasley and

868
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: John Brown and or whoever else, Duke Williams or Devin

869
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: Single to name it. Somebody is open almost all the time,

870
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: ready to catch the pass. Josh, He's got to thread

871
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: the needle sometimes, but a lot of times he just

872
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: needs to take the easier throw. Hits on Josh more

873
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: so than Brian Dable. Brian Dable, I think has done

874
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: a really good job, and that's why he's getting asked

875
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: by the Cleveland Browns to come in and handle them.

876
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: They want him to handle their quarterback the way he's

877
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: handled Josh Allen, because everybody can see how far Josh

878
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: has come and how far he's going now. Conversely to that,

879
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: I give Josh a lot of the credit for that,

880
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: as much as Dayball. And I don't know if Baker

881
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: Mayfield will have the same success or the same improvement

882
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: margin under Brian Dable as Josh has had because I

883
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: think Josh is an intelligent, smart, hard working kid who's

884
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: humble and he's got his nose on the grindstone. I

885
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: don't know Baker may feel, but I know this, the

886
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: continuity that Brian Dable has brought and the way he

887
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: has handled Josh Allen has been a huge plus in

888
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: his approvement. I don't think Brian Dable is the thing

889
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 1: that holds him back. I know a lot of people

890
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: think he is. A lot of people just can't stand

891
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: the fact that if he runs the ball on first

892
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: down three times in a row, they lose their mind.

893
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: And I get it. You just think that's so predictable,

894
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: and I get it, but don't just take a deep

895
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: breath and know that they're they're working with Josh and

896
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: giving him what he does best and trying to get

897
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: him to do work the offense and what they know

898
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: that this offense can execute, and that's sometimes it doesn't

899
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: jibe with what we think they should do. They call

900
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,919
Speaker 1: here from Michael and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Hello, Michael, Hello, how's

901
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: it going? Steve and John? Okay, I just want to

902
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: say before I talk about the whole topic, I was

903
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, me and my kids and my girlfriend and

904
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: I stayed for the whole game freeze and I was

905
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: leaving the parking lot. I'd bless you. That was rough that.

906
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: I admire your effort. Michael yep Um, I wanted to

907
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: talk about you guys are talking about the game back

908
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: in the early seventies and eighties and even in the

909
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: nineties when Montana and Kelly were playing. I think there's

910
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 1: shelf life went downhill because so many hits said they took.

911
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: Like now, the younger quarterbacks like are probably gonna have

912
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: a bigger shelf life, even Tom Brady's forty two. You

913
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: know they're not taking as many of them. That's a

914
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: good point, Brady, You're right right, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning

915
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: those sixteen years, Aaron Rodgers, because they don't take the hits,

916
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and now some of it too, is you're

917
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: talking about some pretty sharp guys. I mean, Tom Brady's

918
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: as sharp as they come, and so is Peyton Manning,

919
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: Eli Manning and Philip Rivers. All these guys are really

920
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: sharp football players, and they know they don't have to

921
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: take those hits. You know they're not gonna get benched

922
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: if they throw it away on a third down or whatever.

923
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: They know, and it's longevity is a crucial factor to

924
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: being more and more effective in your offense. And these

925
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: guys are sharp enough to note and they're protected, no question.

926
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: But you know they've learned a lot of lessons from

927
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: those guys in the seventies, eighties and nineties by seeing

928
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: them get their teeth cave, you know, Keith, get their

929
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,959
Speaker 1: teeth knocked loose, you know, so they know it's it's

930
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: it's a losing battle. And the hit you dodge on

931
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: this play will give you a chance to complete the

932
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: long ball on the next. So yeah, yeah, anything else, Michael, Nope,

933
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: that's it, go Bills, Thank you very much. Let's take

934
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: one more call here. Let's go to Sean in Las Vegas.

935
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: A little Sean, you're in the air. What's going on? Fella? Hey?

936
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 1: I tweeted in on Friday the name my son at Ah.

937
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about

938
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: Johns though, and I think people aren't understanding that. You know,

939
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: he came out of college sixty nine pass attempt and

940
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: he got roughly about eight hundred now in the pros,

941
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: and you got guys like Baker Mayfield came out with

942
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and ninety seven pass attempton college. Russell Wilson

943
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: had like fifteen hundred pass attempting college. Out of the

944
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: quarterback drafted last year, he had the least amount of

945
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: reps in college. And I mean, I think he's doing

946
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: an excellent job right now, and he's just going to

947
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: continue to get better with the more live reps and sees.

948
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: In my opinion that would need to ask a little

949
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: bit and let him do his thing. Sean, I think

950
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I didn't. I wasn't aware of that.

951
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: I knew that, you know, I knew he came from

952
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: a smaller college. And there's no question Baker Mayfield coming

953
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma and all these other guys they throw

954
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: it all over the yard all the time. Josh didn't

955
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: do that, although he did have some attempts in his

956
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: senior year. Yeah, I agree with you. Josh deserves a

957
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: lot of credit for how far he's come he started from.

958
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: I think I think most people would agree he started

959
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: from a spot that was further back on the evolution

960
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: arc that these guys are on. I think he started

961
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: with a you know less of a head start than

962
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: guys like Baker Mayfield and some of the other guys

963
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: you mentioned because of the offense he came, where he

964
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: came from, the offense he was in, and how many

965
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: attempts he had, how long he been playing that position.

966
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a good point by you. He's got

967
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: less experience even now as a guy with what almost

968
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: thirty starts in his career than he did back then.

969
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: And I still think his potential is being tapped and

970
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: I think he's on the upward arc. I don't think

971
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: he's reached the top end of his abilities at all,

972
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: not even close. So I would agree with that. Thanks

973
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: for your car, We got a breakcare were coming back

974
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: and still to come on the show. Josh Allim will

975
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: here from him today We got to Jordan Poyer schedule

976
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: to be with us and Kyle Brandt from NFL Network.

977
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: Also coming up, It's One Bill's Life presented by Kalata

978
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is

979
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bills Radio Network Stories update update

980
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bill's practicing as we speak

981
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: inside the ad Pro Sports Training Center getting set for

982
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: their playoff game at Houston on Saturday. The injury front

983
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: defensive end Check Lawson getting a little work in today.

984
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: Cornerback lead by Wallace not practicing today with his ankle,

985
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: Ti and Secki getting limited work in with his ankle

986
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: return specially to soundre Roberts limited in practice with his foot.

987
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: Bills getting off the slow start sound offense this year.

988
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: The last six games fourteen offensive series. In the first quarter,

989
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: they had eleven punts, one field goal, one fumble, one touchdown.

990
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: They finished off the season with five straight games against

991
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: the NFL's top defenses. Each of their last five opponents

992
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: were top ten in defense, the Jets, Patriots, Steelers, Ravens,

993
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: and Cowboys. Houston ranked twenty eighth in defense, allowing twenty

994
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: four points per game. Referee Sunday is going to be

995
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: or Saturday is gonna be Tony Currente. He did the

996
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: Bills game against Washington, called two against the Bills, and

997
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: did the Bills game against the Steelers a couple of

998
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: weeks ago. The broadcast on our flagship station here in Buffalo,

999
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: w GR Sports Radio five fifty kick out four thirty

1000
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: five PM on Saturday. I have to play by play

1001
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: Eric Wood will be in the broadcast booths with me

1002
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: sound Capachu on the sidelines. Cleveland Browns have requested permission

1003
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: to India former Browns and current Bill's deef offensive coordinator

1004
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 1: Brian Dayball for their head coaching vacancy. Day Ball served

1005
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: as the Browns coordinator in O nine, in two and

1006
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: ten under Eric Mangini. He's won a national championship at

1007
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: Alabama under Nick Saban and five Super Bowl rings with

1008
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Bill Belichick. Baylor coach Matt Rule has

1009
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: declined the chance to interview for the Brown's head coaching job.

1010
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: He's expected to be a leading candidate for the Giants

1011
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: and Panthers head coaching vacancies. Dolphins are hiring Chan Gailey,

1012
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,760
Speaker 1: former Bill's head coach, is their offensive coordinator. He'll replace

1013
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: Chad O'Shea, who was let go yesterday. Ron Rivera was

1014
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: named the new head coach of the Washington Redskins, or

1015
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: will be soon anyway. He'll become the latest in charge

1016
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: of the Redskins. Rivera's eight and a half season tenure

1017
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: with Carolina came to an end at the start of

1018
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: the last month of the season, and the Jacksonville Jaguars

1019
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: are keeping general manager Doug Dave Calwell and head coach

1020
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: Doug Marone giving them another chance. Sabers played Tampa Bay

1021
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: tonight seven o'clock face off at the Arena downtown Keybank Center.

1022
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on today coaching moves. Let me

1023
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 1: get through some of these again. We just zipped through them. Yeah.

1024
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: First of all, Brian day Ball. You're looking for advice, Brian,

1025
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: don't do it. Don't seriously. I had the same conversation

1026
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: with Mike Patton a couple of years ago. Don't do it.

1027
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: It's a Cleveland Browns there. They're trouble. There's just trouble

1028
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Brian will do what he wants. You won't

1029
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: listen to me, And I wish the best for him.

1030
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: If he wants to be a head coach, go ahead

1031
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: and be a head coach. I just don't think that's

1032
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: a place that anyone should go. With that cup now,

1033
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: with that ownership, if you want, it's hard to be successful, there,

1034
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 1: no question about it. They've got some talent, no question.

1035
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: They've got some issues with culture and players and unhappiness

1036
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,439
Speaker 1: and dissension, and they've struggled this year and a team

1037
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: where they had high expectations. But man, oh man, you're

1038
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: sitting there looking at most head coaches, Murph, You're looking

1039
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: at a contract. It's like a five year deal, usually

1040
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: for five plus million bucks a year. And there's a

1041
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 1: guy with a you know, you got a wife and family.

1042
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: Look out. That's it. That's a home run, you know,

1043
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: and you know, and and if you want to advance

1044
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: in the coaching industry, now here's the thing too, Brian

1045
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: Dabo could sit here and be the coordinator here and

1046
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: next year in the next cycle, get a better opportunity.

1047
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. There's this isn't gonna be

1048
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: the last chance of the brass ring for him either.

1049
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of with you, and I've talked to

1050
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: you my good friend Frank Reich and other guys around

1051
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 1: back in the day, Jim Haslett, who's a former head coach.

1052
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: The opportunity you pick is really really important. Some guys,

1053
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: you get the idea that they just want a job,

1054
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: they just want to do it once and they think

1055
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: they can do it, and they want to and it's

1056
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: hard to not bite that apple, you know. You know,

1057
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: that's a conversation I had. I know where I was

1058
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: sidelines at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alatabama, in the

1059
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: beautiful sunshine and Mobile talking to Mike pet about it,

1060
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, Mike, think about it.

1061
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: It's the Browns and he goes, Murph, there's only thirty

1062
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: two of these. I said, I know, but don't do it.

1063
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: He did it, and you know, lasted a couple of years,

1064
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: one or two years. Yeah, Matt Rule, Baylor head coach

1065
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 1: high name declined an interview with the Browns. That should

1066
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: tell you something. Expected to be interviewed by the Giants

1067
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: and the Carolina Panthers. He's been to do a Baylor

1068
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,919
Speaker 1: for three years. An appearance in the championship Game. They're

1069
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: set to play Georgia in the All State Sugar Bowl tomorrow. Okay,

1070
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: can you name the last college coach who was a

1071
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: successful head coach in the NFL? I can't. The only

1072
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: one I got won Jimmy Johnson. Okay, that was twenty

1073
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:31,720
Speaker 1: five years ago. Barry Switzer was after him. Um, there's

1074
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: gotta be one. Come on, Jim Harbaugh. He came on

1075
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: and what took the Niners to the Super Bowl, but

1076
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: it was short lived. Where was he before that? Stanford? Okay,

1077
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,479
Speaker 1: you're right, and then oh, this is a good game.

1078
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: I don't think there are many coaches who come to

1079
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: the NFL and Benesina. You can say, Cliff Kingsbury has

1080
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,399
Speaker 1: shown some signs of life in Arizona, but not yet. Right, right,

1081
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: It's tough to find. And I'll tell you this, I

1082
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: say this all the time. It is you say that

1083
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: both head coaches and I get in the same name.

1084
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 1: But it is a completely different job, that is being

1085
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: a head coach in NFL than it is in college.

1086
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: A completely different job, different parameters, different expectations. You can say, well,

1087
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: they're expecting to listen. The way you win in the

1088
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: NFL could not be more different. The whole recruiting element

1089
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: in college makes it a different job. The whole recruiting

1090
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: game in college. Man, you got people fighting to get

1091
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: onto your roster. In the NFL, yeah, you don't have to.

1092
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: You don't have to like sell him on your program, right,

1093
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: you get him. More coaching news. Chan Gailey comes out

1094
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: of retirement. He's the new offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins.

1095
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: The Dolphins fired chet O'Shea let go after one season.

1096
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey, sixty seven years old, comes out of retirement

1097
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: to lead the Dolphins offense. Is not coached since twenty sixteen.

1098
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: He was the Jets offensive coordinator there. Obviously was the

1099
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: Bill's head coach for a while. A two time NFL

1100
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: head coach, he provides a lot of experience with the

1101
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: Dolphins on offense and for Brian Flora's overall. Jan Gaily

1102
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: reunited with Ryan Fitzpatrick, who we had here in Buffalo

1103
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: and he had again with the Jets. You would think

1104
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: this might have something to say about whether Chance stays

1105
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: on or whether fitz stays on with the Miami Dolphins,

1106
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: knowing that he knows the offensive coordinator, he's good buddies

1107
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: with him or not? What Why wouldn't he did he

1108
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: cut him twice? I think he did. Um, I don't know.

1109
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

1110
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: No Chan was not here when No Moron and those guys. Okay,

1111
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: yeah about the Jets, m I'm not sure it was

1112
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: a one and done. That was a one and done

1113
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: with him at the Jets right. Not sure what the

1114
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: timing was there anyway. Yeah, I don't want to take

1115
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: it for granted. We all like Fits and we all

1116
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: like Chan too, but I'm not gonna say that it

1117
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: was all her money. I don't know, but yeah that

1118
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: How can he not How can you think it wasn't

1119
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: wasn't a good marriage between those two days had some success?

1120
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: I got it. This is a new development. Ron Rivera

1121
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: is the new coach of the Watchington Redskins that's expected

1122
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: to be made official later today. He'll be the latest

1123
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: guy in charge of Watchington. Eight and a half years

1124
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: with Carolina came to the end at the start of

1125
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen final month. The Panthers struggled in the

1126
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: last year and a half or so. I don't know

1127
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: that anybody will have success as Washington's head coach with

1128
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: that ownership. I'll be honest with you. I just don't

1129
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: see it. I think it's a tough spot to be in. Yeah,

1130
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: I think they're Certainly every owner has the right to

1131
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: chime in and make decisions on behalf of the team

1132
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: in whatever way, shape or form they see fit. But

1133
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: the good owners don't do anything except hold their coach

1134
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: accountable and a sounding board and just to say yes

1135
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: or no and to be a support staff. Basically, you

1136
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: turn that thing over to the head coach. In the gym,

1137
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: and that's the way it works, much like it is

1138
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo and the and that's the way it

1139
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: is in Pittsburgh. That's the way it is in New England.

1140
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: The ownership supports the guys they hire to get the

1141
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: job done and until they figure it out. And I

1142
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 1: don't know that that's the atmosphere that it persists in Washington.

1143
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 1: I think that is an ownership group that loves to

1144
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: get into just on any given day, to show up

1145
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: and say and put a rubber stamp on something that

1146
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: nobody knew anything about. I bet they're playing him a

1147
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: lot of money, which is probably a big factor in

1148
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: his decision. But yeah, even yeah, no doubt, I don't think.

1149
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they made some assurances too, which we'll

1150
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: all go wayside. If they decide to not going to

1151
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 1: work for him, I don't know, we'll see sooner or later.

1152
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: You've got to think that they're going to decide they

1153
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: want to win and be able to look at themselves.

1154
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,959
Speaker 1: Mister Snyder knows how to win, right, but they gotta

1155
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: look at themselves. They we gotta do something different than

1156
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: we have done to win games, and their willingness to

1157
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: do that and their willingness to stick with that is

1158
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: what's going to be the difference at some point in

1159
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: the future. Theoretically, they're doing the same thing. In Jacksonville.

1160
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: Owner Sean kan is going to give general manager Doug Caldwell,

1161
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,479
Speaker 1: the Western New York native, and head coach Doug Brown

1162
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: another chance this coming year, trying to prove the twenty

1163
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: seventeen season was not a fluke, Shankun announcing he's keeping

1164
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: both Marone and Doug Condwell in their roles for at

1165
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: least the twenty twenty season. Despite a second consecutive losing season.

1166
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: The team went all the way to the AFC title

1167
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: Game in twenty seventeen. Not a fluke, they believe, and

1168
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: Doug Moron comes back along with um Doug Caldwell. Turns

1169
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: out Tom Coughlin was the problem they think. I don't know.

1170
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't understand. Look, Doug Maron was

1171
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: always good to me, and I just don't think he

1172
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 1: has the right temperament to be a head coach in

1173
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: the NFL. But he keeps getting chances and continues to

1174
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: get a chance in Jacksonville. Good for him. It's gonna

1175
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: be interesting to see I mean, yeah, where are they

1176
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: gonna go. They're gonna stick with Nick Foles. I guess

1177
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: at quarterback that the staff has been retained. He just

1178
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: had that heartfelt press conference last week about how sorry

1179
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: he was about how many people he let down, and

1180
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: so now they you know, they're bringing him back for

1181
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: the rip, you know what, two years left on his deal. Sir.

1182
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some changes because Tom Coughlin is no

1183
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: longer there. But I don't know Dave, and Dave called

1184
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: well is a good GM. I like him. He's got

1185
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: he's I think he's got a good head on his shoulders.

1186
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what his role or how it was

1187
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: affected with Tom Coughlin in the building. I assume it

1188
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: was severely curtailed. But that's just an assumption, yep, about

1189
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: the way. I know, Tom Coughlin likes to work. And

1190
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: we're waiting for the shoe to drop in Dallas, right

1191
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: The Cowboys still with Jason Garrett. They're meeting again today

1192
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: as a matter of factor, meeting right now one o'clock

1193
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: this afternoon. According to Adam Schefter, a second meeting with

1194
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: the owner, general manager Jerry Jones and his son Stephen.

1195
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: They met yesterday. By the end of the day, it

1196
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: was said that there would be no news conference regarding

1197
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: the coach's future and the owner's potential plan m So

1198
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: the Cowboys players all left the stadium the complex yesterday

1199
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: with their belonging to pack but Jason Garrett his future

1200
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: remains still hanging in the balance depending on what happens today.

1201
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: This came across We have an occasional guest on our

1202
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: show named Andrew Brand. Not Kyle Brand who's coming on later, Dave,

1203
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: but Andrew Brand, who is also a laws professor at

1204
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: Villanova and sports law professor, and he was a former

1205
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: He ran the Packers for a lot of years. He

1206
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: said this just a moment ago, and I'm reading it.

1207
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: He says, what people may not know, And you see

1208
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: this particularly in this week when teams are making moves

1209
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: of these nature. We're talking about. What people may not

1210
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: know is how much other teams high five each other,

1211
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: hearing about coaching and executive moves or non moves in

1212
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: their division. What do you mean some of these teams

1213
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: are like, listen, I'm pretty they're here in Buffalo. I

1214
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: know fans are high five and over Adam Gates being

1215
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: retained you know what I mean. Yep, that's good. And

1216
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey, I'm pretty sure people in Buffalo are like

1217
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: going they made like Chan. You think they're scared of

1218
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: his offensive prowess. He it's a good offensive coach. He

1219
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: did it here in Buffalo. We'll see get it in

1220
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: the Jets. We'll see Yeah, you know what I mean.

1221
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's got enough talent down there,

1222
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: but he's doing right. But there's stuff like that other

1223
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: teams that are looking around their division going Okay, I'm

1224
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: okay with that Jet. You think the rest of the

1225
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: guys in the AFC South are going, I'm okay with

1226
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: Maroon over there, NFC South. And this kind of gets

1227
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: us back to the Houston Texans. When I was thinking

1228
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: about this, thinking about Moron and the Jaguars, the bar

1229
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: is low in the AFC South. A coach like Moron

1230
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: had good success what two years agoing out twenty seventeen,

1231
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: and it's not that far to think, Okay, maybe he

1232
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: can do it again. Because it's AFC South, Right, the

1233
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: Colts have lost their number one quarterback, right, they go

1234
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: with Jacoby Brissett most of the season. Here are the Texans,

1235
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: who four times in six years they're in the playoffs.

1236
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: I think the bar is very low in some divisions,

1237
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 1: like the AFC South Tennessee Titans are in the playoffs.

1238
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: I don't know that says something about who the Texans

1239
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: are this year. The fact that they're you know, they're

1240
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: ten and five in their division champions. The Bills would

1241
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: have won that division in a walkaway this year. You know,

1242
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: it's interesting too you look at it from the division

1243
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: and that's and I've heard this as well. When when

1244
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: these head coaching candidates and we've gotten I mean, I've

1245
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: got a list of like ten guys here from Robert Sala,

1246
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator the Niners, Marvin Lewis, former head coach,

1247
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, former head coach Ron River who just got hired,

1248
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale, Leslie Fraser, Brian Dables, Kevin Fansky the offensive

1249
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: coordinator in Minnesota, Matt Rule from Baylor, Urban Meyer is

1250
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: out there, and Greg Roman the offensive coordinator from Baltimore.

1251
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: All these names down there, you talk to him and

1252
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: some of the criteria these coaches us to discern what

1253
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: job they would like. One of the criteria is, Okay,

1254
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: what's that division look like, what am I up against?

1255
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: You go down and look and I'll tell you this.

1256
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: It just occurred to me, Murphy. You know why the

1257
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys are sitting on their hands right now with

1258
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett because Washington and the Giants they're changing all

1259
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: their guys. They're looking to see what those teams are

1260
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: gonna do. They may want to stand pat with Jason

1261
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: Garrett thinking they got a better deal, you know what

1262
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,919
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I'm not saying they do or don't,

1263
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: but that's probably part of the equation. Three teams than

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Speaker 1: the NFC East may change head coaches this year, and

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Speaker 1: the only one that didn't is Doug Peterson the philadelph

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Speaker 1: Eagles because they got in Otherwise they might have kicked

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Speaker 1: him to the curb. You know what I mean? That

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Speaker 1: division was horrible this year. So if the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: and listen, how high do we gotta jump to win

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Speaker 1: this thing? You got two teams changing everything and we

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Speaker 1: gotta beat the Eagles, which we should have. They gotta

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Speaker 1: think we're like this close, you know. So that all

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Speaker 1: goes into the equation, particularly on these coaching hires, not

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Speaker 1: only with the teams, but also the candidates themselves are saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, the NFC East, Come on, I could

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Speaker 1: win that. Yeah, you know same, It depends on the

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Speaker 1: team you're taking over. You're taking the Jacksonville over. You're

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Speaker 1: looking at it going, well, they aren't don't have the

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Speaker 1: defense they did three years ago. Right, They're okay, they

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Speaker 1: lost you know, Jalen Ramsey, They're not. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to get one of those guys again. That

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. But that's all that goes into it.

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Speaker 1: I think these candidates, I've heard rumblings around from you know,

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Speaker 1: guys who have gone through the interview process say yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a big part of the jobs they consider is

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Speaker 1: how that divisionally. Could you imagine busting into the NFC

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Speaker 1: West now Seattle, San franc Cisco now Arizona with Tyler

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Speaker 1: Murray and the Rams. The Rams were in the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl last year and they and they're you know, third,

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Speaker 1: So you got that's a tough division to think, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna walt in there and get a division title

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Speaker 1: right away. Yep, it's not gonna happen. Hey, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the Bills, their playoff chances and what's the most

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Speaker 1: important thing Josh Allen needs to do in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: What do you think it is? Let's check our Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: It's been up for more than an hour now. We

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Speaker 1: ask folks, what's the most important thing you're looking for

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Speaker 1: from Josh Allen moving forward into the postseason? And on

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Speaker 1: Twitter right now, we've got sixty eight percent of the

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Speaker 1: respondent saying they're looking for Josh to be consistent and efficient.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five percent say want them to get off to

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Speaker 1: a fast start, seven percent say that we want them

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Speaker 1: to hit on one or two big plays, two percent

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Speaker 1: say we're looking for something else. Give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight O three fifty toll free one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty A call here from David

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Speaker 1: in Wheatfield. Although David, you're on the air, Hi, guys more,

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Speaker 1: I'm about the same age as you, but I have

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Speaker 1: to respectfully disagree with you on a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: Number one, when you and Steve were talking about the

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Speaker 1: game now versus then, the players nowadays are bigger, faster, stronger,

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Speaker 1: more skill. I'd rather watch that than a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Neanderthals bashing each other's brains. In number two, the guy

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Speaker 1: that called in and was criticizing Table. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that I want to replace Brian Dable, but I did

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Speaker 1: look up the stats. The Bills are third in the

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Speaker 1: league in terms of run percentage on first down, meeting

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Speaker 1: only Indie and Baltimore run more on first down than

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Speaker 1: the Bills. And also the last time I checked, I'm

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Speaker 1: in my car, so I can't do a lot of

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Speaker 1: checking to the last time I checked, they were near

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the league and three and out, and

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Speaker 1: also near the bottom of the league in terms of

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Speaker 1: play action passes. So I think Brian Dable is a

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Speaker 1: little conservative in his play calling, and I think they

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Speaker 1: got a little more innovative on first down. I think

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Speaker 1: it would help Josh Allen. Let me just saying, I'm okay,

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Speaker 1: we're the same age. I don't know what that is

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Speaker 1: doing anything, but I disagree with you. I looked it

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Speaker 1: up to the Bills pass on first down fifty four

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Speaker 1: percent of the time. They run at forty six percent

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Speaker 1: of the time, more than half the time on first

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Speaker 1: downs this year they have passed. That is the seventh

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Speaker 1: most run different numbers. I don't know where you got yours.

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Speaker 1: I looked mine up on sharp Football they average six

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Speaker 1: point yards per attempt two on first downs. That's the

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Speaker 1: seventh most running rushing attempts on first down in the league,

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Speaker 1: not third, and the first is Baltimore, who's you know,

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Speaker 1: leading to AFC. They run it more than anybody else

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Speaker 1: on first down. They run at fifty six percent of

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Speaker 1: the time. So a difference in numbers there, I guess, huh, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. Yeah, And you're talking about percentages

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Speaker 1: of percentage points. I mean it's they're fifty six percent

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01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 1: down to fifty. Yeah, you're talking about a two percent

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01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: difference between the number one team and the AFC and

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Speaker 1: the and the Bills, who are whatever number seven in

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01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: the have seen a number of passes and runs. You're

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Speaker 1: talking about a minuscule difference. And I get it, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's not minuscule when you when you take a whole

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Speaker 1: season into account, though, if you're if you're if you're

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Speaker 1: running it, well, let's go passes. If you're throwing at

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Speaker 1: fifty four percent of the time, that's significant over the

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01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: course of right. But I'm saying the people who pass

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Speaker 1: at the most are passing at fifty six percent of

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Speaker 1: the time and thirty two teams are scattered between fifty

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Speaker 1: three and fifty six percent. That's the difference. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm saying there's nobody that's out there

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Speaker 1: running it eighty percent of the time. The earlier colors

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Speaker 1: said the Bills running ninety percent of the first time,

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Speaker 1: which is not true of the time. True, they run

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Speaker 1: at forty six percent, a half of what he thought. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so what happened? People get caught up in it. They

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Speaker 1: guess right a couple of times on the TV broadcast,

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Speaker 1: and then they start to make assumptions about what they

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Speaker 1: think is going on particularly and it's all predicated on

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Speaker 1: how successful the offense is. And David let me say

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Speaker 1: this too. Is is Brian Davell conservative? Yes, he is

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Speaker 1: with this offense. He is with this year he has been.

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Speaker 1: He's less conservative than he was a year ago because

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Speaker 1: he trusts Josh Allen Moore. But I think they will

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Speaker 1: continue to be conservative, continue to want to run the

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Speaker 1: ball because they look at their personnel. Look, we can

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01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,439
Speaker 1: run the ball pretty well with this group, with Devin

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01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: Singletary getting contributions from Frank Gore. Our quarterback can run

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Speaker 1: the ball pretty well too. I think they will continue

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Speaker 1: to run the ball a little bit and they will

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Speaker 1: probably be successful doing that. David, you're still there? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead? Um no, but there, David, we lost you.

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Speaker 1: Oh go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm here. Go ahead. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I hope day Ball evolves along with his quarterback, is

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Speaker 1: all I'm saying that. As far as the h thing.

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Speaker 1: The only reason I brought that up as we're both dinosaurs.

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01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,439
Speaker 1: But for today's game versus the old game. Okay, um, yeah, listen,

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Speaker 1: just you know, here's the thing you gotta remember. Brian

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01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: Dayball is coaching the Bill's offense the way it is

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01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: now right with these guys. Yes, he's not coaching Tom

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01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: Brady like he did in New England back then. He's

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01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: not coaching to a tag of Valoa down in Alabama

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Speaker 1: when they won the National CHI Championship. He's not doing it.

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Speaker 1: That's these guys this year, and they're playing to their strengths.

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01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: People are losing their minds too about this team never

1392
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: runs a screen pass. You think Brian Dabole doesn't know

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Speaker 1: how to draw up a screen pass. There's a reason

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01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 1: they don't run it, and it's not him not wanting

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01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: to run it. There's about a million reasons why they

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Speaker 1: do this and don't do that, and all of it

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01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: gets pushed into that this is a team and the

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Speaker 1: way the NFL is now, you do what you do

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Speaker 1: best and you mess your strengths and against the defense's weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: This is an offense that has faced the top five

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Speaker 1: defenses the National Football League over the last month month

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Speaker 1: and a half. They've struggled, just like everybody other offenses struggle,

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01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: But this is an offense that that's you know, they

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Speaker 1: got a young quarterback that they're trying to navigate through

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01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: this with a top flight defense, and they're trying to

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01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: win games. And yeah, we'd all like to see him

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01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: go all in with Josh and turn him loose and

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01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: do all that, but they're trying to win games at

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01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: the same time, they're incrementally trying to improve Josh. So

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01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: they're gonna give him a little more and a little

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01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: more and a little more to do, and they're not

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Speaker 1: going to move on until he masters what he's got

1413
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: because they're trying to win this game this week and

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: it's been that way for sixteen weeks. So don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna like innovate and go all off the off

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Speaker 1: kilter because this is a young quarterback. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: They're going to keep him in between the lines. And

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Speaker 1: that's a good point. And it's a point really the

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Speaker 1: I think gets lost sometimes when people do analysis of

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Speaker 1: how much people are running or passing, And look if you,

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Speaker 1: if you, if you woke up Brian Davil in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night and said what do you want

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Speaker 1: to do? Run or pass? What percentage? He probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even know how to answer that. I think he approaches

1425
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Speaker 1: it as what do we need to do this week

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Speaker 1: to win? Well, how many times do I need to

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Speaker 1: run it this week to win? That's really all they

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Speaker 1: care about. I don't think he is a formula in mind,

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Speaker 1: like we want to throw at fifty four? What is

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Speaker 1: it fifty four percent of the time on first downs?

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Speaker 1: I doubt that he even has that number in mind.

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01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: It's not even a salient number to him. He's thinking

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Speaker 1: about what do I need to do this week to

1434
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Speaker 1: beat this team? I believe that's and it's and it's

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Speaker 1: not only this team, it's is this a better team

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Speaker 1: in Houston Texans for instance. I'm just hypoth hypothesizing if

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Speaker 1: it's a Houston Texans a better team to run on

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Speaker 1: first down more against? Or are they better to pass

1439
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 1: against more? Are they better to play action against more

1440
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: on first down? Are they susceptible to play action on

1441
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: first down? Are they susceptible to wide runs on first down?

1442
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: Are they susceptible to zone blocking or power pull and

1443
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: block an isotype power run game? What's best against this defense?

1444
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: And what can we execute? What our guys, what can

1445
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,520
Speaker 1: our guys do that they do well that takes advantage

1446
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,640
Speaker 1: of that defense this week? That's how it goes. And

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01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: you formulate a playlist and a script that is specific

1448
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 1: to this week, this game, on this day, given who

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01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 1: they've got playing what they've shown, and then you come

1450
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: off the field and you think they're not doing that.

1451
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,600
Speaker 1: Now they're doing this, so we're gonna do this, and

1452
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: you change your philosophy. That's how this game works. These days.

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01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: They're on the fly adjustments. They'll wait till halftime like

1454
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: high school, get a chalkboard out. They do it right now. Yeah,

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01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: it's all about winning that week, doesn't really there's no

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01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,759
Speaker 1: reason about this next play. It's about the next play.

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: Let's win. Heym Sunday, you're on the field. You did

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01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: the legend of the game. You also presented game balls

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Speaker 1: to the coaches of the year, right, high school coaches. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fun. Good bunch of good bunch of guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let's let you know who the winners that year of

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01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: the coaches of the Year for the Buffalo region. For

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Speaker 1: Section six, Eric Rupp of Lancaster was the ad Pro

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Speaker 1: High School Coach of the Year. He led Lancaster to

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Speaker 1: an eight and three record, the program's fourth consecutive Section

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01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: sixth title. In Section five, it was Bobby Bates McQuaid

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Speaker 1: Jesuit led McQuay to a twelve and one record and

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Speaker 1: the Class Double A league title. The ad pros high

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Speaker 1: School Coaches of the Year Section five and Section six.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to them. Got more to come. Stick around one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Colada Health from the Seneca Studio

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Speaker 1: in Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hey, it's

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Speaker 1: the New York Lottery. Take a break from the expected game.

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Speaker 1: The Bills allowed two hundred and fifty nine points during

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Speaker 1: the regular season, their fewests since nineteen ninety nine, when

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Speaker 1: the team allowed two hundred twenty nine, a club record

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Speaker 1: low for a sixteen game season. So that's pretty good points.

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Speaker 1: The defense has been fantastic, it really has, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's been fun to watch. It's been for fans. He

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Speaker 1: always feels why. I don't know why it is, but

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Speaker 1: you always feel better when you've got an offense that

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Speaker 1: can really score, you know, you always feel more confident

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Speaker 1: going in. I don't know. And coaches are like this,

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Speaker 1: I guess, particularly a guy like McDermott who knows defenses

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Speaker 1: and feels confident. They're just as confident in their defense.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're not were I will kick, we'll put

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Speaker 1: it away, We'll be all right. Bills give up sixteen

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Speaker 1: points a game, you can win a lot of games

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Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, you gotta have some courage to give

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Speaker 1: them the ball and not worry about it, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the world we live in in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Buffalo Bills, right, Yeah, and that's why it's

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Speaker 1: been we're kind of the thrilling, you know, it's like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, hope, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've never had any like games where You're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're good because they only win by one scorer and

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Speaker 1: they usually need every point they can scratch out of

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Speaker 1: every game. You know, when you look at the big picture,

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Speaker 1: I always say this, they're tough to beat. Yeah, but man,

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Speaker 1: it sure doesn't feel like it. Hey, Josh Allen is

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Speaker 1: meeting with the media as we speak right now. Practice

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Speaker 1: has just ended, and Josh Allen, the Bills quarterback, was

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Speaker 1: asked about his preparation for the playoffs and isn't any

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Speaker 1: different than any other week. Here's Josh Allen. Absolutely. Um,

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Speaker 1: obviously we know it's a short week. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody knows what we're playing for. UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: both sides included. It's win our go home. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the playoffs, is what we you know, what

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Speaker 1: we wanted, what we worked for. UM. Now I gotta

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Speaker 1: go out there and play a game on Saturday. So

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Speaker 1: I'm coming in here executing our game plan. UM, trying

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Speaker 1: to practice as hard as we can and make it

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Speaker 1: as game like as possible. UM. You know, our scout

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Speaker 1: teams getting this really good look. So we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to be as prepared as possible for anything. Anything that

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Speaker 1: they can throw at us. Do you draw time when

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Speaker 1: obviously this is a first playof for you, Um, what

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Speaker 1: do you draw time? As far as a way to

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Speaker 1: sort of look at it's close to whatever similar experience

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Speaker 1: bad this year and be Um are you consulting anybody?

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Speaker 1: You know you're able to talk to somebody else who's

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Speaker 1: been this route as your photograph and get some tips there. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, coach Dabele, he's been in the playoffs, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know many of times. So just kind of relying

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Speaker 1: on what what he has to say, trust and what

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Speaker 1: he's telling us. UM, you know, trying trying to be

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Speaker 1: as prepared aspossible. I SA watching as much film as

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Speaker 1: we can, trust in the game plan that coach puts in. Um,

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Speaker 1: having a really good week of practice, and you know,

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Speaker 1: going out Saturday trying to execute our game plan. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's it's really what it comes down to. And UM,

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Speaker 1: you know we're facing a really good team, you know, UM,

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Speaker 1: so we gotta be on. We gotta bring our a game.

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Speaker 1: You know, Like I said, it's it's when I go home.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that, both sides included. So it's

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Speaker 1: it's what we ask for. Thanksgiving games, a Thanksgiving Day game,

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Speaker 1: those moments, atention moments. It's a good can maybe something

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Speaker 1: in this Um, I mean I guess so, just as

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Speaker 1: far as different types of schedules that we've had to

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Speaker 1: gone we had to go through obviously Thanksgiving being Thursday, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Pittsburgh being Sunday night, just trying to you know,

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Speaker 1: get used to switching up the routine like that, and

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Speaker 1: our our team has responded very well. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously you can you can see that and how we

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Speaker 1: played those games. But um, you know, it's a new game.

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Speaker 1: It's a different situation. Um. All the marvels, all the

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Speaker 1: marbles are on the table. Um. So, like I said,

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Speaker 1: we gotta got there trying to win football game on

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Speaker 1: Saturdays on your say, and you said it win or

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Speaker 1: go home. Um, there's a heightened sense of pressure. Um.

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Speaker 1: So this game as opposed to a lot of other

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Speaker 1: some other games that maybe you've played. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: lose one game and let it's not that you're going home.

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Speaker 1: How do you come How do you separate the pressure

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Speaker 1: from annoying what's on the line and trying to play

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Speaker 1: as freely as you can. I mean, it's it's the

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Speaker 1: same game we've been playing since the beginning of the year. Um,

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Speaker 1: still the game of football. The dimensions are the same. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have the same plays that we've had

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Speaker 1: in all year, and we're not trying to do anything different,

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Speaker 1: not trying to switch up practice routines, not trying to

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Speaker 1: be any different. Um. You know, you dance with who

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Speaker 1: brung you. So we got to go out there and

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Speaker 1: execute that. That's what it comes down to. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: so we got to be prepared for this team, the

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Speaker 1: things that they can do on defense. UM. So, like

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Speaker 1: I said, justus the game playing that coach puts in

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Speaker 1: and go there. I would just say this offense is involved.

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Speaker 1: In two years under Brian, I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 1: been pretty awesome. You know, having a guy like coach dable,

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Speaker 1: guy that's extremely open to new ideas, new concepts, trying

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Speaker 1: to uh, you know, utilize all of our our talent

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Speaker 1: on the football field. And um, you know that the

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Speaker 1: rapport that we have and me going and talking to

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Speaker 1: him and me trusting him with you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: my whole heart, and him trusting me when he calls

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Speaker 1: a play. So um, and I think we've really been

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Speaker 1: on the same page this last year, and our relationship

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Speaker 1: continues to grow and it's it's been fun working with him.

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Speaker 1: But he seems to be that there is no identity

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Speaker 1: in a way. Do you agree with that? Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: we're all right. I think our identity is just trying

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Speaker 1: to figure it out, you know, figure out a way

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Speaker 1: to win the game. We've been in some tight ones,

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Speaker 1: um that we've pulled through, and we've been in some

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Speaker 1: titans that we haven't. So Um, Ultimately that comes down

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Speaker 1: on my shoulders and um, you know, we gotta we

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Speaker 1: gotta trust whatever he calls and char our best who

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Speaker 1: got there next the way we can. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: a report yesterday that Cleveland is interested in interviewing him

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Speaker 1: from a height not with your perspective. Obviously the focuses

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Speaker 1: on the task at hand this week. But when you

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Speaker 1: hear something like that, what kind of emotions do you

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Speaker 1: go through? I mean, I didn't even know that, Um,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we're so focused on the Texans right now,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure he would tell you the same thing. Um.

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Speaker 1: What I mean, I'm extremely grateful what he's done for

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Speaker 1: me and how we continue to work together, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if that time comes, that time comes, but for now

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Speaker 1: we're folkus come to Texans. Well I joked about if

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Speaker 1: I wasn't there but the last year, last few years, um,

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Speaker 1: and just you said that you rule from that experienced

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Speaker 1: by game and you felt like you were turning the

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Speaker 1: quarter going to back game and then you ELS's row

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Speaker 1: from that Australians a perspective of of being out, Can

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Speaker 1: you reflect back or do you reflect back on where

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Speaker 1: you were back in mid October last year? UM? I

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Speaker 1: mean obviously going through that game, there's not it's not

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Speaker 1: great memories. Um. You know, nobody likes getting hurt. But

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Speaker 1: you know, having the opportunity to have Derek and Matt

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Speaker 1: come in and learn from those two guys, I always

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Speaker 1: it was a blessing in disguise. Um. But having that

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Speaker 1: experience of playing there, um, you know, seeing familiar stadium. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know it's the crowd's gonna be hyped up a

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Speaker 1: little more being a playoff game, but um, you know

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Speaker 1: kind of having a feel for that that that's some

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Speaker 1: experience that we can take into that game. You know,

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Speaker 1: being atmosphere as the crowd is that really the only

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Speaker 1: stream draw on that from that game because it's such

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Speaker 1: a different team from last year, or there are other

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Speaker 1: things playing wise, and what you saw from them that

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Speaker 1: you yeah, I mean going back and looking at our

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Speaker 1: notes from last year. UM, you know, being in the

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Speaker 1: same system that they've had, just just going back and

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Speaker 1: watching that film, seeing how they may have played me. Um,

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Speaker 1: not saying that they're gonna do that again, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a different player from last year,

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Speaker 1: and UM, it's a different offense. So you know, we

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Speaker 1: got to go out there and you know, control what

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Speaker 1: we can control and do us Waite, would you say, um,

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Speaker 1: just as far as seeing things, seeing defense, UM, trusting

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Speaker 1: the guys around me, not trying to not trying to

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Speaker 1: make the big play all the time. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is a game that we got to be smart.

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Speaker 1: You know, every possession the playoffs is extremely critical, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, and we got to go in understanding that

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Speaker 1: and UM, you know, hopefully we can try to end

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Speaker 1: every drive with a kick, whether it be a pun

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Speaker 1: or a field goal. UM, so that that's the end goal,

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Speaker 1: you know, taking care of the football and and moving

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Speaker 1: the chains and trying to score and we can you know,

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Speaker 1: points are the premium in the playoffs were you were

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Speaker 1: trying to do on that play that you've got just

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Speaker 1: going for the big play. Now, well that's what the now.

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Speaker 1: It was a little close route by Calvin. Um play

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Speaker 1: dictated it. The covers dictated it. Um. You know, he

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Speaker 1: made a good catch and you know, unfortunate to how

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Speaker 1: I got hit after the after the throw. But it's football,

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Speaker 1: and so it is what it is. Other than the

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Speaker 1: fact it's this game Saturday. Your normal thing is, you know,

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Speaker 1: Sunday preparations to do. Um, is there anything else about

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Speaker 1: this week that tells you that's told you that it's different,

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Speaker 1: that it's playoff week, other than questions about it or

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Speaker 1: knowing that it's coming up, any anything. And you use

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Speaker 1: the word routine a lot, yes, coach, how about it?

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Speaker 1: Is there something you know is not really routine? Um?

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Speaker 1: I mean other than you know, we lose, we go home.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you this, we got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys that um play for each other. We want

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Speaker 1: to win. We don't want to go home. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and we got a bunch of guys that are willing

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Speaker 1: to fight and fight for each other. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I love this team. I love the squad. And we're

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Speaker 1: gonna try to do everything in our power to go, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, try to extend our season. Can you feel

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Speaker 1: you've balanced and matured in terms of balancing having a

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Speaker 1: center urgency going into a game but not getting so

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Speaker 1: over hiked that you're throwing rocket balls or things like that.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel you're mature through the course of

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Speaker 1: the center where you're I have that inner com the

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Speaker 1: sense of urgency is again, UM, you know, just trusting

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Speaker 1: the ten guys that are on the field with me.

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Speaker 1: I understand, I don't I don't have to do it

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Speaker 1: by myself. And um, you know, we've been playing pretty

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Speaker 1: good as of late and taking care of the football,

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01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: and obviously there's some things that we need to clean

1679
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:57,800
Speaker 1: up and things that we've seen on film that we

1680
01:21:57,880 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: want to clean up, and um, you know, we're working

1681
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: our off to fix those things. Then you battled that

1682
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: a little bit in New England as recently. How do

1683
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 1: you manage that understanding that it's it's only natural on

1684
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: a heightened stage that you're probably going to feel different

1685
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 1: juices going onto the field this time than Yeah, you

1686
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: just gotta ride it, you know, try to try to

1687
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: control it as much as you can, and you know

1688
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 1: it's okay to be hype at times, and um, you

1689
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: know it means that you care. You know, I care

1690
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 1: a lot about this game and care a lot about

1691
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:27,040
Speaker 1: this team. I want to do everything in my power

1692
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: to help us win a football game. Um, but controlled

1693
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,400
Speaker 1: as much as possible. Trust the guys around you who

1694
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: are touchdown in the first quarter and eight games. Do

1695
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:40,879
Speaker 1: you think you really need to start faster, super fast? Yeah? Um,

1696
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 1: you know there there's a big statistic on the team

1697
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: that scores first. Um, you know, it has a larger

1698
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 1: percent of chance to win the game. You know, we

1699
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: understand that. I think everybody in the league understands that.

1700
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:53,679
Speaker 1: So um, you know, we go out there and try

1701
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: to score in every drive. You know, it's not like

1702
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 1: we're going out there try to find a way to

1703
01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: punt the ball. But um, you know that that's on

1704
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: my shoulders. We got to go and start faster. Um,

1705
01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: trust the game play like I said, and just ride

1706
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: with the tread xcube go ahead. Or do you feel

1707
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: more in a rhythm later in games? Like a lot

1708
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:12,880
Speaker 1: of people, it takes some time to get into rhythm.

1709
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: Do you feel that, Um, I mean maybe sometimes Um,

1710
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: but I know I gotta do better finding completions early

1711
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: and trying to find that rhythm. Um, that's really what

1712
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: it comes down to. Well as a play any playoff

1713
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: point the great you think it might be validating to

1714
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: a certain extent for this team that's that's grown up

1715
01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 1: under Sean, for this group yourself, tremain the youngsters, this

1716
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: entire team just just just to get that one. Yeah,

1717
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: I mean for sure we want to we want to

1718
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,759
Speaker 1: win this game and they want to win this game. Um,

1719
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: but we're we're fighting our working our tails off right

1720
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 1: now and ready for a dog fight. Um On Satura's

1721
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 1: gonna be four quarters. And we got to understand that

1722
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: ride the good and the bad in the game because

1723
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: we will face the adversity at some point. And um,

1724
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,600
Speaker 1: just trust and relying each other. As a quarterback, I

1725
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: know ties into the question about you know, not being

1726
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: overly hyped or whatever, But do you do you feel

1727
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: that singular sense that playoff time has win guys that

1728
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: that your position really have to elevate and history shows

1729
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 1: that they're the ones that are the defining people in

1730
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: these games, even though it's team sport. How do you

1731
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 1: how do you see that for yourself. I mean, I

1732
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 1: don't have to be the best quarterback out there. I

1733
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 1: gotta be the best quarterback for this team and help

1734
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 1: us win a football game, regardless of the circumstances that

1735
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,559
Speaker 1: may go go on during the game. I gotta you

1736
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 1: have to lead this team and try to find a way.

1737
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:38,040
Speaker 1: Any guys you Josh the best ten minutes of Josh

1738
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 1: Allen's news confer today. He's kind of getting like coach

1739
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: McDermott really didn't that much to say, but he said it,

1740
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: and he was like cleadas cliche today. Man that said,

1741
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 1: winder go home. Man, we could push all our chips

1742
01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: to the table. All the marbles are on the table.

1743
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: A couple of things that he did say which I

1744
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 1: thought were intriguing. He talked about he was asked directly,

1745
01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 1: and he talked about getting off to a faster start.

1746
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: He acknowledges they got to do that. They're not trying

1747
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: to go out there and punt on the early possessions,

1748
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: but he acknowledges that that's a that's a big factor

1749
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, getting off to a better start

1750
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:11,880
Speaker 1: and having a chance to win these games, getting off

1751
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: to a quicker start in these games. Yeah, and it

1752
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: helps you so much because it just settles you down

1753
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: and changes your mindset, takes the tension out of your

1754
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: out of your thinking, and you can relax and just

1755
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 1: kind of go out and execute, and you have more

1756
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 1: confidence going forward if you can just have a little

1757
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 1: bit of success, even if you just get like two

1758
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: or three, you know, first downs, put together seven, put

1759
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: together a seven play drive, even if it ends in

1760
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 1: with a punt to a short field, you feel like

1761
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: you had some success and you can look at it

1762
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: and say, hey, they didn't stop us. We stopped us,

1763
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. And the Bills have

1764
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 1: done that a lot this year, have stopped themselves kind

1765
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 1: of where they couldn't convert on the third down we

1766
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 1: sat in the offseason, the three and ounce or a

1767
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 1: crusher last year. They're a little better this year, but

1768
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: they still gotta get better. Ye. But yeah, fast start.

1769
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 1: You know, forget about what it does for the team. Man,

1770
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: it helps us watching at home mom, Right, I mean

1771
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, we're gonna be okay today. Right. It

1772
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: would stress relief, It would help man. Oh man, I'm

1773
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 1: gonna take a break here. We got Jordan Poyer coming

1774
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,679
Speaker 1: by after practice winds up, he's gonna lift some weights

1775
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: and then he'll stop in and do a few minutes

1776
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: with us. And we got Kyle Brandt joining us from

1777
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. That worked as well. So there's a lot

1778
01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 1: more to come, Needless to say, One Bill's Life presented

1779
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: by Kalida Hell from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Bark

1780
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio one five. You're from our

1781
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: one Buffalo studio. Our Twitter poll today, most important thing

1782
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 1: Josh Hallen needs to do in the playoffs for the

1783
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: Bills if they're gonna win a game? What's the most

1784
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: important thing? That the only thing he'll probably need to

1785
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: do more than one thing. But what's the most important

1786
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: thing you can do? On Twitter? Let's see so far,

1787
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,840
Speaker 1: we got sixty three percent of you. Sixty four percent

1788
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,599
Speaker 1: say got to be consistent and efficient. Twenty eight percent

1789
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:58,639
Speaker 1: say he's gotting it off to a fast start. That's

1790
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: where I'm landing. Seven percent say he needs to hit

1791
01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:03,720
Speaker 1: on one or two big plays. Two percent he needs

1792
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 1: something else. Let's go to the tweet sheet. The tweet

1793
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 1: sheet is brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems, the

1794
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 1: official movies of the Buffalo Bills from the Ghosts of

1795
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: Western New York. I think, first and foremost, he needs

1796
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: to be consistent and efficient. This will help the Bills

1797
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start and should minimize the

1798
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: need for big plays when it comes down to it,

1799
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: He says, Josh will be clutch against the Texans defense

1800
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: that is not top tier. That's good, that's an optimistic,

1801
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: good analysis of the situation. I agree with that. Yeah,

1802
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 1: I agree with it. Two. Nick also has one, and

1803
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: all three of these are important, But I think consistency

1804
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: is the biggest one. Big plays help, but the Pats

1805
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 1: games showed that big plays but no consistency can hurt us.

1806
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: We need to avoid three and ounce, so consistency from

1807
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: Josh will be crucial to keeping the offense on the field.

1808
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Well, we all know it's hard

1809
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:50,839
Speaker 1: to beat this team, particularly when our offense has the ball.

1810
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if we can win the time of possession

1811
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: battle and get like a thirty five minute time of

1812
01:27:56,439 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 1: possession when limit their limit their possessions against the defense

1813
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 1: that the Bills field, Yeah, that bad becomes a mountain.

1814
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:06,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the Texans can climb. Daniel tweets this

1815
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,840
Speaker 1: in three touchdowns running and or throwing no more than

1816
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: one turnover, that should move them onto the next round.

1817
01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 1: It's a good point more than one turnover, maybe even

1818
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: one turnover, but more than one would be a problem.

1819
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 1: And you go back to early in the season, the

1820
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:22,880
Speaker 1: Bills had ten turnovers in the first month of the

1821
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: season first four games. They solve that problem, but a

1822
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:27,720
Speaker 1: reversion to where they were in September it would be

1823
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 1: a big problem for the Buffalo off. Yeah, and it

1824
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: can happen because you're playing against teams that are opportunistic

1825
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,479
Speaker 1: and good and they've got their lights on and they're

1826
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:37,479
Speaker 1: antena are up, they're ready for that stuff. These teams

1827
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 1: are good at in these moments. They have been all year.

1828
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:43,400
Speaker 1: That's why both these teams are ten and six headed

1829
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: into this game. You're meeting a really good football team

1830
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: who's going to be alert to the fact that, hey,

1831
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: turnovers are they going to could be the difference in

1832
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 1: this game. I don't care if we turn it over

1833
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: four times, as long as they turn it over six times.

1834
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing your defense has got to

1835
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: cover for you. And they can do that as well

1836
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:03,240
Speaker 1: by you know, getting four turnovers and us not turning

1837
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: it over four times. You do that, you're gonna win.

1838
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:07,679
Speaker 1: All that stuff goes into it. But these are two

1839
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 1: good football teams whose strengths are different. The Texans, I

1840
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: think their strength is the big play and their playmakers offensively,

1841
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: with a quarterback who can really throw it and an

1842
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:20,240
Speaker 1: efficient offense. The Bills it's their defense and there and

1843
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:24,559
Speaker 1: on offense. Offensively, it's their ability, you know, to of

1844
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: their quarterback to make the unexpected play. Certainly, the Bills

1845
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:30,679
Speaker 1: can run it. They run it just a hair better

1846
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 1: than the Houston Texans. But neither one of these teams

1847
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 1: are Baltimore Ravens, right. You know they're gonna have to

1848
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: beat them with The Bills will win it with a

1849
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: defensive effort and an offense that does enough to, you know,

1850
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 1: to give him a chance to hold a lead. And

1851
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 1: that's It's a call from Mark in Jamestown. Hello, Mark, gohead,

1852
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. I'm Mark. Oh, thank

1853
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:53,320
Speaker 1: you very much. I've been waiting to call. I've been

1854
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 1: looking home. I've been watching every day for the full year,

1855
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 1: and I wanted to tell you when the legends there, Murph,

1856
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,440
Speaker 1: you said I was at the Derby when when Secretariat

1857
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:07,719
Speaker 1: won and you said twenty horses too many and that's wrong.

1858
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 1: But as far as John, I can't hear him. Can

1859
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: you hear him? Yeah? Something about yeah? He said you

1860
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 1: said you were there when Secretariat won. He said twenty

1861
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 1: horses were too many. No, I say they aren't, and

1862
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: Murph said they were to everybody, but that's not what

1863
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: I called for. Good. I still can't hear you. What

1864
01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 1: did you call for? Mark? Hear me, go ahead. I'm

1865
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:34,639
Speaker 1: called about Josh Allen and what he needs to do,

1866
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:42,599
Speaker 1: and everybody is different. You heard Chris Brown say Josh

1867
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: is jacked up at least six times today and if

1868
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:49,400
Speaker 1: if he could calm down and relax like Drew Brees

1869
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:57,880
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers and go into the game that way

1870
01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:00,719
Speaker 1: get the scores that you guys want are talking about

1871
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: and want to see. He's young, he loves it there,

1872
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:09,640
Speaker 1: we love him, and he's trying hard. He needs to

1873
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:16,800
Speaker 1: relax and somehow you know that's a big Okay, lost,

1874
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:19,320
Speaker 1: I guess we're done. Okay, Look, I agree with you Mark,

1875
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 1: as far as Josh in fact, when he did his

1876
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 1: news conference today and I'm kind of watching it year

1877
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:26,240
Speaker 1: sitting on the studio. He's in the other room, in

1878
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: the inside of the field house. I heard what he said.

1879
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:30,639
Speaker 1: I'd listened to what he said. I was really looking

1880
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: at his face. I was really looking how calm does

1881
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:35,639
Speaker 1: he seem? How settled does he seem? And I can't

1882
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 1: tell you the answer to that, and not that that

1883
01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:40,680
Speaker 1: matters what I detect on Wednesday or Tuesday before a

1884
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 1: Saturday game. But I do think that's a big key

1885
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:45,719
Speaker 1: to the game. Is he settled in does he feel

1886
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 1: confident and prepared and ready to go. I think that's

1887
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:51,519
Speaker 1: important for this game. I really do. I absolutely help

1888
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be as prepared as he's been for

1889
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: any game this year. He's gonna be ready to go,

1890
01:31:55,320 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 1: and he's gonna see some things he had not had

1891
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,519
Speaker 1: not seen before that as every team will bring some

1892
01:32:01,680 --> 01:32:04,640
Speaker 1: new wrinkles to the table for him to decipher. I

1893
01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:10,799
Speaker 1: think the big thing for him is to just relax,

1894
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, and know that he's not just

1895
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:16,400
Speaker 1: you need to win the win the day, one play

1896
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: at a time, one small victory at a time, not

1897
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 1: with one big home run shot, and just stay on

1898
01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: the field somehow, some way, take an easy completion, hand

1899
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: the football off, make the right reads, get yourself in

1900
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 1: the right protection, and go from there and trust that

1901
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:35,720
Speaker 1: the offensive, the offensive plays that you're calling, and the

1902
01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: defenses that you're looking at and deciphering. You're you're gonna

1903
01:32:38,439 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 1: your preparation is going to carry the day. You can't

1904
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:42,799
Speaker 1: think you're gonna win this game on the first possession.

1905
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,800
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about getting off to a fast start. Okay, great,

1906
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 1: one play, ninety eight yard drive for a touchdown. You

1907
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: know what, you got three four quarters of football left

1908
01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: to play. It's not gonna be enough. You gotta do

1909
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: it for four quarters and you got to be consistent.

1910
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 1: All right, we're breaking. We're coming back for the third

1911
01:32:58,080 --> 01:32:59,600
Speaker 1: and final hour of the show. Come on back with

1912
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Speaker 1: Us one Live presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca

1913
01:33:02,680 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 1: Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills

1914
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 1: Radio Networks Stories. Update comes from one Bill's drive from

1915
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: the ad Pro Sports Training Center, where the Bills have

1916
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:19,560
Speaker 1: wrapped up their Tuesday practice, a day getting set for

1917
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:23,800
Speaker 1: Saturday's playoff game in Houston. Jack Lawson, defensive end, was

1918
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:26,639
Speaker 1: able to get a little work in. He missed less

1919
01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 1: Sunday's game with an injury. Levi Wallace did not practice

1920
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: today with an ankle tie in. Secki Andre Roberts both

1921
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 1: limited with various injuries. The Bills finishing off the season

1922
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:38,799
Speaker 1: the regular season with five straight games against the NFL's

1923
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:41,920
Speaker 1: top ranked defenses. Each of their last five opponents ranked

1924
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,080
Speaker 1: in the top ten in defense. The Jets were seventh,

1925
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:47,760
Speaker 1: Patriots were first, Steelers were fifth, Ravens fourth, Cowboys bit

1926
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:50,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers were fourth, Cowboys fifth. The Bills went two

1927
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: and three against those opponents. Now they get a Houston

1928
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:56,040
Speaker 1: team which is twenty eight ranked in defense and allowing

1929
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,760
Speaker 1: twenty four points per game. Referee Sunday is Tony Corrente.

1930
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 1: Did the Bills game at Washington or against Washington, and

1931
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: did the Bills game at Pittsburgh this year. The broadcast

1932
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: on our flagship station, WGR Sports Radio five fifty kick

1933
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 1: off four thirty five Saturday. I'll be in the play

1934
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 1: by play booth or Eric Wood Salcpacho will be on

1935
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:18,000
Speaker 1: the sidelines. The Browns have requested permission to interview Bills

1936
01:34:18,040 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Brian Dayball or their head coaching vacancy. Day

1937
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 1: Ball served as coordinator of the Browns offense in two

1938
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,879
Speaker 1: thousand and nine and two thousand and ten under Eric Mangini.

1939
01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:31,439
Speaker 1: The Browns talking now about the future of the general

1940
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:34,840
Speaker 1: manager John Dorsey. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, they're

1941
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 1: leaning towards parting ways today. Sources tell ESPN it's a

1942
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 1: fluid and not a final situation. Dorsey meeting today with

1943
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 1: the Browns owner Jimmy Hasslin to finalize deals and signs,

1944
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:48,680
Speaker 1: pointing to an end for Jimmy Dorsey as GM of

1945
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Dolphins are hiring Chan Gaily as a

1946
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. He's sixty seven years old, comes out

1947
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: of retirement to run the Dolphins offense. And the Savers

1948
01:34:57,040 --> 01:34:59,679
Speaker 1: played Tampa Bay tonight a Key Bank Center. Newly signed

1949
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:02,519
Speaker 1: forward Dalton Smith could make his NHL debut. Face off

1950
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 1: scheduled forward seven o'clock Saturday's home game against the Florida

1951
01:35:06,120 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 1: Panthers as a new start time. Faceoff is at one

1952
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:11,640
Speaker 1: o'clock because of the Bill's afternoon playoff game. And there

1953
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 1: you go. That's the update from One Bill's Drive. Hope

1954
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: to have Jordan Poyer in studio with us later on

1955
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: this hour, and of course We're gonna have Kyle Brant

1956
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:21,840
Speaker 1: from NFL Network with us this hour. We talk a

1957
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 1: little bit about the Browns. John Dorsey out well not yet.

1958
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: Signs pointing at the end for John Dorsey either meeting

1959
01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:32,040
Speaker 1: right now, but he could be out. The crux of

1960
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: the crux of that entire situation to me rests on

1961
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:40,920
Speaker 1: who hired Freddy Kitchens, And I thought at the time

1962
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:42,680
Speaker 1: when they did it, I gave a lot of the

1963
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: credit to Jimmy Haslam, the owner of the Browns, as

1964
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,680
Speaker 1: getting in there saying, listen, let's keep a little continuity.

1965
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 1: They had a great second half of the year when

1966
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Kitchens was elevated from the quarterbacks coach to the offensive

1967
01:35:54,600 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 1: coordinator and then to the head coach, I thought, or yeah,

1968
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: and he was. He was went from a quarterbacks coach

1969
01:36:02,439 --> 01:36:04,760
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. Greg Williams finished the year as the

1970
01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 1: interim head coach. Correct, And then they gave Freddy Kitchens

1971
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:09,920
Speaker 1: they head coaching job at the end of the year,

1972
01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: theoretically and from the outside looking in, to give some

1973
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:18,559
Speaker 1: stability to Baker Mayfield. Then John Dorsey goes out and

1974
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:21,839
Speaker 1: gets Odell Beckham Junior. He got Jarvis Landry, he traded.

1975
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:25,759
Speaker 1: He absolutely fleeced the New York Giants in getting Odell

1976
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:32,120
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior put together some some real talent on that roster.

1977
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:37,080
Speaker 1: And if he didn't hire Freddy Kitchens, who, from our

1978
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 1: view from five hundred miles away or two hundred and

1979
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:42,439
Speaker 1: eighty miles away or whatever it is, it seems like

1980
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens was the issue this year. It does? It does?

1981
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:48,600
Speaker 1: And if and if John Dorsey is the isn't the

1982
01:36:48,600 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: guy who really had the final say on that you

1983
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,920
Speaker 1: know thing? Why is he the one? Why is he

1984
01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 1: even on the table? Yeah? Unless he unless he went

1985
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:02,599
Speaker 1: to him and said, listen, this is a crock you

1986
01:37:02,640 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: guys are killing me, and the ownership said, okay, you

1987
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: can go that kind of thing, like if he just

1988
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 1: threw himself on his own sort of others and I

1989
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:12,040
Speaker 1: got all this and you wouldn't you hired this car

1990
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:16,040
Speaker 1: mechanic as a head coach and you're killing me? Right,

1991
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: I can see that. But I don't think that doesn't

1992
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel like that's happening. No, maybe he is

1993
01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:24,120
Speaker 1: the guy who hired Freddy Kitchens. I mean it was

1994
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:27,280
Speaker 1: his call. That's not the five by God. During the offseason,

1995
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 1: I mean neither. I don't exactly know now, and they

1996
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: didn't know a year ago at this time exactly what

1997
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:34,559
Speaker 1: the Browns were doing. To hire Freddie Kitchens, I thought

1998
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 1: was an odd move. Yes, he had some success with

1999
01:37:37,160 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield last year, but I just thought that was

2000
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 1: an odd promotion for a guy who didn't really have

2001
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 1: the background to be a head coach. And it showed

2002
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 1: during the course of the regular season. Right, the Browns

2003
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:47,759
Speaker 1: were kind of a joke most of the regular season.

2004
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:51,880
Speaker 1: They lacked direction, they lacked focus, They lack a cohesion

2005
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 1: that a team should have. There is no team culture

2006
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 1: there in Cleveland. Now, Dorsey went out and I guess

2007
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:01,559
Speaker 1: did his job assembled talent. Here's the thing. Talent showed

2008
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:04,759
Speaker 1: up against Buffalo. Yeah, they've got some talaxy, but they

2009
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:09,400
Speaker 1: lack chemistry, right, I think the black chemistry culture. That's

2010
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 1: part of a GM's job too, to evaluate, Oh, that's

2011
01:38:11,400 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: a talented player, but he does not really fit in

2012
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: with what we're trying to build here. Maybe they don't

2013
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: know what they're trying to build. They're just trying to

2014
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 1: assemble talent. How many times at Brandon Bean said it,

2015
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,720
Speaker 1: We're not just assembling talent here, we're putting together a

2016
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:25,640
Speaker 1: team and they've stayed true to that that philosophy. I

2017
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:27,360
Speaker 1: don't think you could say that about Dorsey and the

2018
01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 1: team he put together in Cleveland. Well, I don't know

2019
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 1: if if Dorsey on a feat, you know, because here's

2020
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:35,799
Speaker 1: the thing it takes. It's not just the GM. Certainly

2021
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 1: the GM has the final say on who the fifty

2022
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 1: three is, but the head coach has got to be

2023
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:41,479
Speaker 1: telling him, and he saying, listen, I want this guy

2024
01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 1: and this guy and that guy, don't want that guy.

2025
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm looking for, Here's what I'm not looking for.

2026
01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:47,160
Speaker 1: And Dorsey goes out and doesn't. Now, if there's a

2027
01:38:47,240 --> 01:38:50,080
Speaker 1: riff between the two of those guys, then okay, I

2028
01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:53,840
Speaker 1: get it. Something's got to give. And we've seen over

2029
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:55,720
Speaker 1: the course of you know, our lifetimes to cover in

2030
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,320
Speaker 1: the NFL, you've seen gms and head coaches get into

2031
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 1: power struggle. You know, Bill O'Brien and Houston is the

2032
01:39:03,439 --> 01:39:06,800
Speaker 1: perfect example. Um, and look at that. You know the

2033
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:09,439
Speaker 1: reunion they're gonna have in this game. So a lot

2034
01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:12,479
Speaker 1: of stuff going on in Cleveland is yet once again,

2035
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, you're scratching your head doesn't make What are

2036
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:17,559
Speaker 1: they doing? Bills getting set for their playoff game? They've

2037
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 1: got the Houston Texans coming up on Saturday after doing

2038
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:23,200
Speaker 1: four thirty kickoff the Bills in the Houston Texans in

2039
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 1: the playoff game and joining us right now in our

2040
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,920
Speaker 1: studio is a guy who play who will play a

2041
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:30,200
Speaker 1: prominent role I would think in that game safety Jordan

2042
01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:31,800
Speaker 1: poy or Jordan. How are you having New Year? I'm

2043
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:33,360
Speaker 1: doing good? John? How are you? Thanks? Having New Year?

2044
01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: Happy New Year? How are you doing? I'm doing excellent.

2045
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:37,679
Speaker 1: I'm doing excellent. The best time of year. Just go good. Everything,

2046
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: everything with good game plan is going smooth. You know,

2047
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 1: just taking the day at a time, tenue to get better.

2048
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:45,840
Speaker 1: Can you feel it? You definitely can't. Uh. You know

2049
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 1: the energy around the around the facility and energy around

2050
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:51,559
Speaker 1: the city. You know it's uh. I said, it's a

2051
01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:53,719
Speaker 1: fun time of year. Um, like, we just want to

2052
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:56,240
Speaker 1: continue to prepare and play best football. And Saturday when

2053
01:39:56,240 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: you walked in and strikes me, we're just talking about

2054
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: your old team, the Cleveland Browns. I know a lot

2055
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 1: has changed since you left there a couple of years ago.

2056
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:05,479
Speaker 1: Can you put any sense as to what's going on

2057
01:40:05,520 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 1: down there. They're talking about moving the general manager now

2058
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:10,599
Speaker 1: as well as they and I don't know. Um, you know,

2059
01:40:10,640 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: it's obviously they got some things that they want to

2060
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 1: figure out. But that's you know, at least of my worries. Now.

2061
01:40:15,520 --> 01:40:17,559
Speaker 1: You know, I'm blessed to be here in Buffalo, So

2062
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: you know, that's time of my life has definitely passed.

2063
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 1: There's only six losses on the building mark and that

2064
01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:24,240
Speaker 1: one bothers me a lot because I think the Bills

2065
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:26,639
Speaker 1: are a better team than Cleveland Browns. I believe so too.

2066
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, you know,

2067
01:40:28,120 --> 01:40:30,320
Speaker 1: we're we're at we're at right now. You know a

2068
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:32,280
Speaker 1: lot of things that we learned from from that football game,

2069
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:33,880
Speaker 1: and so you know, like I said, just continue to

2070
01:40:33,920 --> 01:40:36,040
Speaker 1: get better and uh, you know, be ready for Saturday.

2071
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:38,959
Speaker 1: They made a point this week of changing the signage

2072
01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:41,479
Speaker 1: around the state, even the players area, from playoff caliber

2073
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 1: and now says championship caliber. What do you think the differences?

2074
01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:47,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's just you know, just sense of urgency. Um,

2075
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:49,200
Speaker 1: you know, championship caliber. This is this is the tournament

2076
01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:51,960
Speaker 1: right here, and so uh you know, um, everybody's got

2077
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: a shot. Everybody's owing. Oh right now, you know, and

2078
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:56,559
Speaker 1: so it comes down to, you know, who plays the

2079
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:58,719
Speaker 1: best football on that given day. You know, it doesn't

2080
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:00,559
Speaker 1: matter who who it is, you know, like I said,

2081
01:41:00,560 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: everybody zero zero. So, um, it's a tournament. When you

2082
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:05,040
Speaker 1: come to work in the morning, I remember what it's like.

2083
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,519
Speaker 1: You walk into a playoff atmosphere and you're excited and

2084
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: you can look around and just see the guys you've known,

2085
01:41:09,479 --> 01:41:11,519
Speaker 1: you know, you've been in it with for four months.

2086
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:13,519
Speaker 1: You know, this team that you know, the guys you

2087
01:41:13,560 --> 01:41:15,559
Speaker 1: know and love and respect, and you can see they

2088
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 1: feel it too, and it's so it's the fun. I mean,

2089
01:41:18,240 --> 01:41:19,920
Speaker 1: it makes it all worth it, right, I mean this

2090
01:41:20,200 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 1: week is so fun because of the culmination of all

2091
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 1: the effort and the and the actual guys that you

2092
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,600
Speaker 1: actually get to do it with, right, Yeah. And we

2093
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 1: joke about it all the time, you know, telling each

2094
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: other man, yeah, I've seen your face every day for

2095
01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 1: the last six six months, you know, just joking about it,

2096
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Speaker 1: you know. But this is you know, guys, guys care

2097
01:41:39,200 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: for each other, Guys love each other. That's what makes

2098
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:42,519
Speaker 1: this as exciting is you know, guys want to go

2099
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: out there and play for each other, play for the city,

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01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:46,679
Speaker 1: this organization. And so you got a group of guys

2101
01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: like we have, We've tended to come to work every

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01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 1: single day, getting better every single day, pushing each other

2103
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,360
Speaker 1: every single day. It makes it makes it all worthwhile,

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01:41:52,400 --> 01:41:54,760
Speaker 1: you know, listening to Josh Allen after practice today talk

2105
01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:57,440
Speaker 1: about kind of what you were saying about the familiarity,

2106
01:41:57,520 --> 01:41:59,040
Speaker 1: the fact that it is a routine. You see the

2107
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:01,439
Speaker 1: same guys every day. And yet Josh points out, and

2108
01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:03,519
Speaker 1: it's really true. You know this too. It can end

2109
01:42:03,520 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 1: like that. You can end up this weekend in an instant,

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01:42:05,960 --> 01:42:08,880
Speaker 1: right and ready for that. Um. You know, we don't,

2111
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Speaker 1: We don't want to think of it that way, but

2112
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, they can't instant in an instant,

2113
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:15,000
Speaker 1: So we want to do our best to repair um

2114
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:16,640
Speaker 1: each and every day so that we can continue to

2115
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 1: play and continue to move on. You know. UM, we're

2116
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: not satisfied with where we are yet. It's it's a

2117
01:42:21,240 --> 01:42:23,080
Speaker 1: great feeling being here, but we want more, you know,

2118
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 1: like you said, the championship caliber. Um, we want to

2119
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:27,400
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl and so, um, like I said,

2120
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:29,839
Speaker 1: continue to prepare every day to play our best football

2121
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:32,639
Speaker 1: on on Saturday. You saw DeShawn Watson these Houston Texans

2122
01:42:32,720 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 1: last year, Um, and he was nicked up then he

2123
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 1: had like a busted rib and he was he was

2124
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: you know, wasn't really himself. Although it's a really good game.

2125
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:41,600
Speaker 1: What you know, is there anything I know, you go

2126
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:43,760
Speaker 1: back and look at it. I mean, but they're they've

2127
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 1: probably come as far as you guys have come in

2128
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: twelve months. Yeah, definitely. Obviously you know, a couple different

2129
01:42:47,960 --> 01:42:49,880
Speaker 1: running backs, but you know, the same a little bit

2130
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: of the same personnel. Um. You know, he's got a

2131
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:54,160
Speaker 1: lot of weapons on inside of football, especially if Fuller

2132
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:56,679
Speaker 1: is able to play. Um. You know, Hopkins very strong

2133
01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:58,800
Speaker 1: tot at the catch point. Um, you know he is

2134
01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:02,120
Speaker 1: able to um take the top off and same with Fuller.

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01:43:02,160 --> 01:43:05,000
Speaker 1: And then they got some really strong running backs and hide, um,

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01:43:05,040 --> 01:43:07,559
Speaker 1: who's who's running really hard? Um? And then Duke Johnson

2137
01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 1: is able to get out of the backfield and run

2138
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 1: run with the football in his hand. So um, and

2139
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 1: Watson doesn't get um enough credit for his ability to

2140
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball on the run and

2141
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:19,360
Speaker 1: find guys you know when he's scrambling. So it's gonna

2142
01:43:19,360 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a huge tasks for our defense.

2143
01:43:21,360 --> 01:43:23,519
Speaker 1: But like I said, we're gonna continue prepare and U

2144
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 1: and player to player best football. On Saturday last season,

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01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 1: Week six, I think it was you lost by seven

2146
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 1: points at Houston. You had an interception, five tackles. I

2147
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:33,639
Speaker 1: don't get you probably have looked at some of that video,

2148
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:35,640
Speaker 1: but the teams have changed. That game doesn't mean that

2149
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:38,600
Speaker 1: much this year at this point. I mean, yeah, we

2150
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: all came in and watched it yesterday and obviously, yeah, um,

2151
01:43:41,600 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, our back end came in and watched it

2152
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: together yesterday, just kind of seeing, you know, ways that

2153
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: we're trying to attack us. You know, we're gonna see

2154
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: a lot of similarities and you know, definitely they're gonna

2155
01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 1: come out with some different wrinkles too. Um, it is

2156
01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:52,680
Speaker 1: a playoff game, so we got to be able to

2157
01:43:52,680 --> 01:43:55,040
Speaker 1: expect everything. And that's really what it's about too. It's

2158
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: not so much about X's nose. It's about what they

2159
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:00,799
Speaker 1: were thinking about you. It's like finding out their opinion

2160
01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 1: about it. And it's easier to discern that from live

2161
01:44:04,120 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 1: action and game. You think, Okay, they thought we did

2162
01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:08,320
Speaker 1: this and they thought this about us. And they stayed

2163
01:44:08,360 --> 01:44:10,280
Speaker 1: away from this and they tried to do this that

2164
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: that's kind of telling and really the revealing part of

2165
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Speaker 1: watching this film, right, Yeah, exactly just finding ways, like

2166
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:17,599
Speaker 1: I said, of how they tried to attack you. And

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01:44:17,680 --> 01:44:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, they're going to see some of the players

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Speaker 1: that they were able to hit and probably come back

2169
01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:23,759
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, window dress it a little bit differently,

2170
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:25,560
Speaker 1: but they're definitely gonna see some of the some of

2171
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:27,840
Speaker 1: the players they hit us on last year, um and

2172
01:44:27,880 --> 01:44:29,960
Speaker 1: come back and try to run those plays. So a

2173
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:31,320
Speaker 1: lot of things we got to be ready for and

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Speaker 1: then you know, just us being able to execute with

2175
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,519
Speaker 1: Bill safety Jordan Poyer for a couple more minutes. You

2176
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,160
Speaker 1: mentioned Deshaun Watson, and I know people hold him in

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01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:40,559
Speaker 1: high regard. I do think he's kind of underrated as

2178
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Speaker 1: far as a kind of a point guard type of distributor,

2179
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Speaker 1: and you know, people want to look at him and

2180
01:44:44,840 --> 01:44:46,640
Speaker 1: say he can run with it, but he's not. He

2181
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:48,559
Speaker 1: can run with it, but he's he's a really good

2182
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 1: distributor to the football among the talented casting. Yeah, he

2183
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 1: definitely is, and he's a lot you know, he's he's

2184
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,040
Speaker 1: grown a lot more from this year to last year,

2185
01:44:55,120 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 1: or if I'm sorry, from last year to this year.

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01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 1: You know, just his you know, maturity and his ability

2187
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:01,599
Speaker 1: to come and the offense and um, you know, make

2188
01:45:01,680 --> 01:45:03,760
Speaker 1: checks to the line of scrimmage and so um like

2189
01:45:03,840 --> 01:45:05,880
Speaker 1: you said I and you know I said earlier. You know,

2190
01:45:05,920 --> 01:45:07,759
Speaker 1: he doesn't get a lot of credit for his ability

2191
01:45:07,800 --> 01:45:09,559
Speaker 1: to be able to make plays with his feet on

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01:45:09,560 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 1: the run throwing the football. Um, and so you know,

2193
01:45:12,120 --> 01:45:14,720
Speaker 1: being able to plaster, especially for in his own is

2194
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:16,280
Speaker 1: being able to find a man and plaster when he's

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01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: on the run. And and you know, then it comes

2196
01:45:17,840 --> 01:45:19,439
Speaker 1: down to being able to make players on the football.

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01:45:19,560 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: What do you think if if you saw your defense

2198
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,320
Speaker 1: and your whole team, I guess the defense and offense.

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01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: How different are you this year? And what are the

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01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 1: most glaring differences about the Bills than the team that

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01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: they saw last year? You know, I think I think

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01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: us we're just a more mature, mature team. Um, you know,

2203
01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:39,320
Speaker 1: we understand, you know, execute. Execution is a huge, huge

2204
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:41,000
Speaker 1: part of what we do, especially on the back end,

2205
01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: being able to communicate and execute. And I think we're

2206
01:45:43,400 --> 01:45:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of years away from where we

2207
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 1: were last year and you know, just still being able

2208
01:45:47,160 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 1: to make end game adjustments is a huge thing that

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Speaker 1: we've been able to do all season long, is make

2210
01:45:52,160 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 1: end game adjustments UM and so uh, you know, we

2211
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:57,680
Speaker 1: got It's it's a lot of guys third year in

2212
01:45:57,680 --> 01:45:59,240
Speaker 1: the system, a lot of guys second in the system.

2213
01:45:59,280 --> 01:46:02,160
Speaker 1: But we feel really multiple um of of where we're at,

2214
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 1: we're headed and you know, like I said, just continue

2215
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 1: to get better UM and being able to execute and

2216
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:08,720
Speaker 1: communicate that communication in the in the back in the

2217
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 1: back of the defense was tested Sunday with you guys

2218
01:46:11,439 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: just played a couple of series and the defense was

2219
01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 1: getting you know, missing guys for Davius didn't play UM,

2220
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: but that the backups did. Okay, I'm actually shifting over

2221
01:46:18,560 --> 01:46:21,160
Speaker 1: playing different roles they'd never played. Yeah, it was awesome

2222
01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:23,360
Speaker 1: to see, you know, guys like Jaquan going there and

2223
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:25,720
Speaker 1: play UM. You know, guys like Taran having to be

2224
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, had played nickel all season, had to go

2225
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 1: out there and play play corner. And you know, guys

2226
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 1: Isaiah coming in there and playing corner, which is which

2227
01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 1: is awesome to see. You know, guys are out there

2228
01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:36,360
Speaker 1: competing and that's you know, that's the standard that that

2229
01:46:36,439 --> 01:46:38,840
Speaker 1: seanpa in this group and it doesn't matter. Next man up,

2230
01:46:39,120 --> 01:46:41,639
Speaker 1: go out there and complete compete and uh and and

2231
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: I thought they did a heck of a job. So

2232
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:45,719
Speaker 1: it's two years ago you guys squeak into the playoffs

2233
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:48,439
Speaker 1: and now you're back in a much different feel to

2234
01:46:48,479 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 1: this playoff run. And this has got to be something

2235
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 1: where the bar has been significantly raised for you guys.

2236
01:46:55,120 --> 01:46:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, this is um you expected to be or

2237
01:46:57,840 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 1: you played well enough all year to expect to be here.

2238
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 1: You've been locked into the fifth seed since week three,

2239
01:47:03,240 --> 01:47:08,760
Speaker 1: week four of the season. You haven't moved. How you

2240
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 1: talk about how confident you guys can be headed into

2241
01:47:12,280 --> 01:47:14,479
Speaker 1: this playoff run. You've played a lot of the teams

2242
01:47:14,479 --> 01:47:16,760
Speaker 1: that are in this tournament and you gotta feel really

2243
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 1: good about your getting a second chance at him. Yeah,

2244
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean, and we've we've been in every situation throughout

2245
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:24,960
Speaker 1: the season, so it's really it's no different. I mean,

2246
01:47:25,160 --> 01:47:27,400
Speaker 1: go you start from week one at the Jets, you know,

2247
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,280
Speaker 1: down sixteen is zero, of being able to come back

2248
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: and win seventeen and sixteen on the road, um, and

2249
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:33,880
Speaker 1: then going to you know in in Dallas, you know,

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Speaker 1: on a primetime game on Thanksgiving and being able to

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01:47:36,240 --> 01:47:37,879
Speaker 1: come out with the victory and then going to Pittsburgh,

2252
01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 1: you know, huge primetime games on the road. Um, and

2253
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: so you know this is this is no different. You know,

2254
01:47:42,200 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to prepare like we like we have

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01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:46,920
Speaker 1: been all season and and go out there and play physical,

2256
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:50,360
Speaker 1: fast and execute. UM. On Saturday, you talk about Deshaun Watson,

2257
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:52,559
Speaker 1: how underrated he may be. You know what else saying

2258
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 1: might be underrated is the playing in that dome. It's

2259
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 1: very noisy, using it's it's kind of a distracting place

2260
01:47:57,280 --> 01:47:59,320
Speaker 1: to play. I mean, it definitely is. But at the

2261
01:47:59,320 --> 01:48:01,360
Speaker 1: same time, it's gonna be a heck of an atmosphere.

2262
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:03,599
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we know Billis Mafia is gonna

2263
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:06,360
Speaker 1: show out, um, and so it's gonna be a fun atmosphere.

2264
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,120
Speaker 1: And you know, can't let the crowd affect us. And

2265
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:10,880
Speaker 1: in a sense, we gotta take the crowd out of

2266
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:13,320
Speaker 1: it early, UM and and doing that being able to

2267
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,519
Speaker 1: limit their explosive plays and being able to tackle um.

2268
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's gonna be fun atmosphere. And

2269
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 1: I'm extremely excited for the opportunity to go out there

2270
01:48:21,720 --> 01:48:23,840
Speaker 1: and play. But uh, like I said, just continue to

2271
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 1: prepare each and every day so that we can come

2272
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:27,200
Speaker 1: ready to play on Saturday, saying I think it's gonna

2273
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,639
Speaker 1: be a really fun game. Yeah, they really do. Yeah,

2274
01:48:29,680 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be another you know, it's gonna be a

2275
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 1: typically one score game. Yeah that's how you guys play.

2276
01:48:34,040 --> 01:48:36,920
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Yeah, that's how we like it. Jordan,

2277
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:39,599
Speaker 1: thanks for this. Appreciate appreciate, Thank you so much. Appreciate

2278
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:41,560
Speaker 1: you guys. Jordan Poyer, The Buffalo Bill, Steve and I

2279
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:44,519
Speaker 1: back with more and one Bills live from uh the

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01:48:44,520 --> 01:48:47,360
Speaker 1: Seneca Studio in Orchard Park, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

2281
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:57,640
Speaker 1: What goes by? It's gonna have to do John in

2282
01:48:57,800 --> 01:48:59,920
Speaker 1: our one Buffalo studio. Have you you here? Everybody? We

2283
01:49:00,200 --> 01:49:02,320
Speaker 1: are off tomorrow, no show tomorrow. Will be back on

2284
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:05,479
Speaker 1: Thursday to resume our work, our prep work for the Bills.

2285
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 1: Used to know if Houston Texans game on the Saturday

2286
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:11,320
Speaker 1: afternoon football, it's only a second or third time this

2287
01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:13,040
Speaker 1: week one of us is called the Oilers. Have you

2288
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:14,400
Speaker 1: done it yet? I've done it? Yeah, I don't know

2289
01:49:14,439 --> 01:49:15,720
Speaker 1: if I've done it on this show, but I've done

2290
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 1: a couple of interviews, and I've I've caught myself calling

2291
01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:22,439
Speaker 1: the Houston Yeah, how long have the Texans been around?

2292
01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:24,800
Speaker 1: It's been ten twelve years now, they and they were

2293
01:49:25,040 --> 01:49:27,320
Speaker 1: out of there for ten twelve years, right, I mean, yeah,

2294
01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:29,240
Speaker 1: there was no team there for Tennessee has been gone

2295
01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:35,400
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty whatever else, it's ninety seven, right, Sols.

2296
01:49:36,120 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 1: Twenty three years ago that the Oilers moved. We played member.

2297
01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:43,040
Speaker 1: I played them in Memphis that first year they were

2298
01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:45,720
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Rmber Keeve McNair's first year. That was a

2299
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:48,639
Speaker 1: fun game. Oh you kidding me. I can't believe that

2300
01:49:48,640 --> 01:49:52,599
Speaker 1: that place was what was that the Liberty Liberty Bowl? Yeah,

2301
01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: in Memphis, Tennessee. Yeah, horrible game. Oh yeah, it's a good,

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01:49:56,600 --> 01:49:58,880
Speaker 1: good place to visit. Yeah. I went back. I had

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01:49:58,920 --> 01:50:01,880
Speaker 1: so much fun there and went back the next Senior Bowl. No,

2304
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:04,160
Speaker 1: just went back with my family just to check out

2305
01:50:04,200 --> 01:50:07,200
Speaker 1: Houston on Memphis. May you're a s I thought it

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01:50:07,240 --> 01:50:10,200
Speaker 1: was great. It's a great city, Memphis, Tennessee. Yeah. I

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01:50:10,240 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: have been back to Memphis. It is a nice city.

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01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:14,160
Speaker 1: It's great. In fact, I was there this last offseason. Yeah,

2309
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:17,840
Speaker 1: you're right for what I uh that's a good question. Now.

2310
01:50:17,840 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 1: I can't even remember why that. I think it was

2311
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:23,880
Speaker 1: for a family wedding. I love Memphis. Yeah, Memphis is great. Hey, um,

2312
01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:25,640
Speaker 1: what do you think about Josh Allen? What do the

2313
01:50:25,800 --> 01:50:27,639
Speaker 1: what do the Bills need from Josh Allen in order

2314
01:50:27,680 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: to excel in the playoffs? This Sunday, let us know

2315
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:33,639
Speaker 1: what you think. Eighth three fifty toll free one eight

2316
01:50:33,479 --> 01:50:36,200
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Call here from

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01:50:36,280 --> 01:50:40,439
Speaker 1: Matt in Saratoga Springs. Hello, Matt, go ahead, Hey guys,

2318
01:50:40,479 --> 01:50:44,640
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Okay? Great? Good? Hey Steve, it

2319
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:47,519
Speaker 1: was funny I was watching you guys. Referenced the ninety

2320
01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:51,599
Speaker 1: five Miami Wildcard game. I started my morning off by

2321
01:50:51,640 --> 01:50:55,080
Speaker 1: watching the highlights of that game. Um, watching you do

2322
01:50:55,120 --> 01:50:58,000
Speaker 1: a great job as usual. You're always my favorite Buffalo Bills,

2323
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:01,960
Speaker 1: so it's great to talk to you. He just wanted

2324
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: to wanted to pick your guy's brain. I've always been

2325
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:07,639
Speaker 1: a huge Josh Allen fan. I love that he's got

2326
01:51:07,640 --> 01:51:10,160
Speaker 1: a good head on his shoulders. I know that he's

2327
01:51:10,200 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: not as maybe dynamic as some of the other guys

2328
01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:16,240
Speaker 1: in his class, but I'm a huge fan of his.

2329
01:51:16,360 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him develop, and I'd love to

2330
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: see him possibly end up as a franchise quarterback. I'm

2331
01:51:22,320 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: wondering what you guys feel the importance of this game

2332
01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 1: is for him. Obviously we want to win, Obviously we

2333
01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:32,080
Speaker 1: want to advance the playoffs. But if Josh Allen does

2334
01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:36,240
Speaker 1: just an insanely great job, I mean, do we say,

2335
01:51:36,240 --> 01:51:39,439
Speaker 1: all right, let's franchise this guy on the other flip

2336
01:51:39,479 --> 01:51:42,120
Speaker 1: side if he just totally tanks and throws the ball

2337
01:51:42,160 --> 01:51:45,360
Speaker 1: away and doesn't make any passes as the conversation now,

2338
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:48,719
Speaker 1: as Josh really our guy, I hope it's the former.

2339
01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:50,600
Speaker 1: I hope he does great. I think he will, but

2340
01:51:51,040 --> 01:51:54,280
Speaker 1: just wanted to get your opinion on that. But thanks, guys, Yeah,

2341
01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:57,120
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. That's a good question. Um. I think

2342
01:51:57,120 --> 01:51:59,160
Speaker 1: it's a good question, but I don't know if anything

2343
01:51:59,160 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: will be decided base some one game. Steve, I think

2344
01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:06,599
Speaker 1: it look a dramatic performance either plus or minus Saturday

2345
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:09,160
Speaker 1: Afternoon would mean a lot for Josh's career. But I

2346
01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: do think they're committed to Josh for a while here

2347
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,559
Speaker 1: franchise status, I mean, there's no official designation. I think

2348
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:16,800
Speaker 1: they're committed to him for the near future. Next year

2349
01:52:16,840 --> 01:52:19,679
Speaker 1: at least, and probably longer. But I think they would

2350
01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:22,280
Speaker 1: like to see some improvement in a step forward this week,

2351
01:52:22,600 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 1: this Saturday. I think that's realistic, and I think that

2352
01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:28,280
Speaker 1: we expect that. You can you can anticipate whether it's

2353
01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:30,679
Speaker 1: great or whether it's bad, whether it's great or poor,

2354
01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:34,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be an overreaction reaction to what he does.

2355
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:38,559
Speaker 1: Either he's gonna be have arrived. He's a guy, he's

2356
01:52:38,560 --> 01:52:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna be on everybody's the tip of everybody's tongue for

2357
01:52:41,280 --> 01:52:43,160
Speaker 1: entire week, and particularly if they make a deep run

2358
01:52:43,160 --> 01:52:45,680
Speaker 1: into these playoffs. He's a guy that's going to be,

2359
01:52:46,160 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, a star in the making. And all this

2360
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:50,439
Speaker 1: stuff's gonna happen based on what happens and how this

2361
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 1: season ends for him. If it goes bad, if he

2362
01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 1: if he does have a you know, a ten for

2363
01:52:56,080 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 1: twenty five day for sixty yards and a couple of picks,

2364
01:53:00,040 --> 01:53:03,200
Speaker 1: there will be people who overreact. But let's face it,

2365
01:53:03,240 --> 01:53:06,320
Speaker 1: he's had a really nice season for Buffalo. He's improved

2366
01:53:06,360 --> 01:53:10,479
Speaker 1: in every statistical area. It's not gonna be because of

2367
01:53:10,479 --> 01:53:13,120
Speaker 1: this one game, good or bad, that they yes thumbs

2368
01:53:13,160 --> 01:53:16,559
Speaker 1: up or thumbs down. This is another evaluation process. Certainly,

2369
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,760
Speaker 1: it's a big game. It's a national media market game,

2370
01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 1: I mean, or a national spotlight game. It's an important game,

2371
01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:27,200
Speaker 1: no question, But I don't think you can make sweeping

2372
01:53:27,280 --> 01:53:30,320
Speaker 1: generalizations good or bad based on just the outcome of

2373
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:32,360
Speaker 1: this one game. We've seen too much of him. Yeah,

2374
01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:34,880
Speaker 1: And you know, I think back to I think it

2375
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 1: was seven or eight weeks ago, about mid season, a

2376
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:39,599
Speaker 1: little bit past that, when a Bill's executive who will

2377
01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:41,800
Speaker 1: remain nameless, said to me, Hey, we don't have a

2378
01:53:41,800 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 1: weekly referendum on Josh. We don't make seasons based on

2379
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,840
Speaker 1: how we played this Sunday or next Sunday or two

2380
01:53:46,880 --> 01:53:49,599
Speaker 1: sundays ago. They'll look at the entire body of work.

2381
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: And even though this game is important, that includes this game.

2382
01:53:53,080 --> 01:53:56,280
Speaker 1: It will go into his evaluation obviously, and any you know,

2383
01:53:56,720 --> 01:53:58,920
Speaker 1: the whole team will be evaluated based on this game.

2384
01:53:58,960 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: But they won't make it a yes or no decision

2385
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:03,600
Speaker 1: on Josh Allen based on his performance this week. I

2386
01:54:03,640 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 1: just don't think that's realistic. Right. It's an important game,

2387
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:10,120
Speaker 1: but it's another game, and they you can expect that

2388
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: he will make strides and he will make mistakes. What

2389
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:15,600
Speaker 1: he does with him, how it reacts to him, and

2390
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:17,840
Speaker 1: the good things he does as well as the bad

2391
01:54:17,920 --> 01:54:20,200
Speaker 1: will be evaluated. Is But you can bet, and the

2392
01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:21,920
Speaker 1: caller brings up a great wool, mat brings up a

2393
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,720
Speaker 1: great point. You can bet that if it's one of

2394
01:54:24,760 --> 01:54:28,040
Speaker 1: the extremes, good or bad, that that's gonna be the

2395
01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:32,240
Speaker 1: narrative for the foreseeable future. Sure, it's gonna go either

2396
01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:34,800
Speaker 1: gonna go way south or it's gonna skyrocket, and you're

2397
01:54:34,840 --> 01:54:37,200
Speaker 1: gonna have people standing on tables saying, beating their chest

2398
01:54:37,240 --> 01:54:38,920
Speaker 1: and I told you, I told you, I told you.

2399
01:54:39,120 --> 01:54:41,360
Speaker 1: You know, because he's been such a polarizing young quarterback.

2400
01:54:41,600 --> 01:54:43,280
Speaker 1: You know, when he came out. He can't throw, he

2401
01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:45,320
Speaker 1: can't hit the pass, he can't win, he's you know,

2402
01:54:45,400 --> 01:54:49,280
Speaker 1: wrong type of quarterback, whatever whatever, And he was polarizing.

2403
01:54:49,400 --> 01:54:53,200
Speaker 1: So you can bet that however this game goes, it's

2404
01:54:53,240 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 1: gonna be an overreaction as to his future and what

2405
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,480
Speaker 1: it means and where his career is headed. Yeah, and

2406
01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:01,920
Speaker 1: I do think it's a bit overreact. It will be. Yeah, absolutely,

2407
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:05,880
Speaker 1: let's be ready for it. Taken of the phone call, here,

2408
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,440
Speaker 1: we'll go to Ryan in Buffalo. Hello, Ryan, welcome. You're

2409
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:11,160
Speaker 1: on the air with this, John Steve, thank you for

2410
01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:15,480
Speaker 1: taking my call. Are you guys doing directly than basically

2411
01:55:15,560 --> 01:55:17,040
Speaker 1: is one of the touch based three? You guys In

2412
01:55:17,240 --> 01:55:20,959
Speaker 1: terms of all the negativity that Brian Dable has been receiving,

2413
01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:24,640
Speaker 1: I really don't see how it's warranted. Um. I really

2414
01:55:24,640 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 1: do feel like it's almost like a just barely a

2415
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:32,240
Speaker 1: negative cop out and maybe just to something that really

2416
01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 1: shouldn't be there right now. I mean, the Bills are

2417
01:55:33,960 --> 01:55:37,200
Speaker 1: ten and six, it's our best records in nineteen ninety nine.

2418
01:55:37,280 --> 01:55:39,560
Speaker 1: We've made the playoffs. It's not very often you hear

2419
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:42,960
Speaker 1: about coaches being fired from playoff teams. Usually they're looking

2420
01:55:42,960 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 1: to be hired as assistant or a head coaches somewhere else.

2421
01:55:46,040 --> 01:55:49,080
Speaker 1: And we've already mentioned his name with I believe it

2422
01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:53,800
Speaker 1: was Carolina and Cleveland Cleveland yeah or Cleveland yeah. Um.

2423
01:55:54,200 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 1: I mean, the AFC title was up for grabs in

2424
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. It's not very often that the Bills are

2425
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 1: any have the opportunity to compete for the AFC title.

2426
01:56:03,880 --> 01:56:06,960
Speaker 1: In Week sixteen of the NFL season, with the Patriots

2427
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: in the division and earlier, somebody was talking about how

2428
01:56:11,520 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: they feel like the Bills are running the ball too

2429
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:16,080
Speaker 1: much and Dable's calling too many run plays. And I

2430
01:56:16,080 --> 01:56:18,640
Speaker 1: looked up a stat that I thought was interesting. Of

2431
01:56:18,720 --> 01:56:23,080
Speaker 1: the top ten teams in total rushing attempts this season,

2432
01:56:23,360 --> 01:56:26,000
Speaker 1: eight of those ten teams are in the playoffs. I mean,

2433
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:30,160
Speaker 1: good teams run the football. It's okay. Yeah, I don't know.

2434
01:56:30,520 --> 01:56:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't you make good points, really good points. Ryan.

2435
01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:37,240
Speaker 1: I don't know where the negativity about Brian Dable comes from.

2436
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 1: He's got enough of a good reputation that other teams

2437
01:56:40,120 --> 01:56:43,200
Speaker 1: that are interested in bringing him on as their potential

2438
01:56:43,240 --> 01:56:46,640
Speaker 1: head coach. So I don't know. People get I think

2439
01:56:46,720 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 1: victated on play calling. Oh what about that second now?

2440
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:51,080
Speaker 1: And you called this? You should have called that. Well,

2441
01:56:51,240 --> 01:56:53,880
Speaker 1: you can go through a game sixty five offensive plays.

2442
01:56:53,880 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: There's probably thirty plays like that that didn't work the

2443
01:56:56,080 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: way they should have. And yeah, you would have known

2444
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:00,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna work. It would have called something else.

2445
01:57:00,080 --> 01:57:03,200
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the simplest way of football

2446
01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:05,840
Speaker 1: analysis criticizing play calling. I do. And one of the

2447
01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:08,720
Speaker 1: things we also see is when when there's people are

2448
01:57:08,720 --> 01:57:10,280
Speaker 1: sitting at home, and I've said this earlier, the show

2449
01:57:10,360 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: once people are sitting at home and they think they're

2450
01:57:11,920 --> 01:57:13,560
Speaker 1: they're running it too much. They're gonna run and they

2451
01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: run the ball again. People are at not a predictable

2452
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,160
Speaker 1: and it's just such, it's so easy and when and

2453
01:57:20,280 --> 01:57:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, let's face it, the offense is the one

2454
01:57:21,960 --> 01:57:24,080
Speaker 1: side of the ball where people we have question marks

2455
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:26,560
Speaker 1: about and they got to play better, right, all right?

2456
01:57:26,600 --> 01:57:29,960
Speaker 1: It is Tuesday afternoon and on Tuesday afternoons we spend

2457
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:33,640
Speaker 1: some time with our next Guestie is the NFL Expert

2458
01:57:33,720 --> 01:57:36,440
Speaker 1: on NFL Network and the mornings and Good Morning Football,

2459
01:57:36,680 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt is with us. Kyle, Happy New Year. How

2460
01:57:38,920 --> 01:57:42,120
Speaker 1: are you doing today? Hey? You got your you guys.

2461
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:45,760
Speaker 1: I am ready. I am energetic for these playoffs. I

2462
01:57:45,800 --> 01:57:48,040
Speaker 1: want you to know. I had a party in my

2463
01:57:48,160 --> 01:57:52,000
Speaker 1: home today. We do a Neon Year's Zve party for children.

2464
01:57:52,080 --> 01:57:55,120
Speaker 1: I had nice forty one kids in my house an

2465
01:57:55,200 --> 01:57:58,000
Speaker 1: hour ago. And we'll bring in the new year at noon.

2466
01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:01,360
Speaker 1: So I am totally wired to talk bills playoffs with

2467
01:58:01,400 --> 01:58:04,960
Speaker 1: you guys. That is an absolutely fantastic I'm I'm write

2468
01:58:04,960 --> 01:58:07,000
Speaker 1: that down for me. I'm gonna I'm gonna do that.

2469
01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:16,920
Speaker 1: Noone I got grand that is absolutely spectacularly great idea

2470
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:19,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Thank you, Kyle. Did I hear it was

2471
01:58:20,000 --> 01:58:22,160
Speaker 1: relayed to me that you thought the Bills game against

2472
01:58:22,200 --> 01:58:25,000
Speaker 1: the Jets last Sunday was the best Bills game all year? Really?

2473
01:58:26,240 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 1: Hear me out? All right, No, I'd never go for

2474
01:58:28,720 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 1: the superficial answer. Yes, let me tell you why. You

2475
01:58:31,200 --> 01:58:35,720
Speaker 1: may all that stuff, But isn't it sort of special

2476
01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:39,680
Speaker 1: that there was a game in December where the Bills

2477
01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 1: had to do nothing that I mean, they were in.

2478
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 1: It was set. You didn't need to win, you didn't

2479
01:58:45,960 --> 01:58:49,080
Speaker 1: need Andy Dalton to throw a touchdown for you. It

2480
01:58:49,160 --> 01:58:51,800
Speaker 1: was my favorite in the sense that it meant absolutely nothing,

2481
01:58:51,840 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 1: and it was sort of magical like that. Even this

2482
01:58:54,040 --> 01:58:57,200
Speaker 1: conversation we're happy now is magical. The journey with the

2483
01:58:57,280 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: three of us, who would have thought way back in

2484
01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:05,040
Speaker 1: September Week one, Bill's Jets, the game went terribly, it

2485
01:59:05,120 --> 01:59:07,720
Speaker 1: was really disappointing, and yeah, here we are the Bills

2486
01:59:07,720 --> 01:59:10,080
Speaker 1: don't even need to do anything in Week seventeen, coasting

2487
01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:13,040
Speaker 1: right into the playoffs against a very beautiful Texans team.

2488
01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:15,360
Speaker 1: It's a really special journey. I gotta tell you, you

2489
01:59:15,400 --> 01:59:18,560
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be patient with MURVH. Kyle because he

2490
01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:21,440
Speaker 1: had to sit through that three hour game and broadcast

2491
01:59:21,480 --> 01:59:24,880
Speaker 1: and it was an absolute horror show. I was gonna

2492
01:59:24,880 --> 01:59:26,600
Speaker 1: ask you, did you watch much of that game? I'm

2493
01:59:26,600 --> 01:59:29,760
Speaker 1: guessing it was only done play by play of preseason football.

2494
01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:34,720
Speaker 1: I understand the tedium I have done. Tyler Brave versus

2495
01:59:34,760 --> 01:59:37,839
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. AJ McCarron for three and a half hours

2496
01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:41,000
Speaker 1: on Bears television is tedious. That's why you're the master

2497
01:59:41,120 --> 01:59:43,600
Speaker 1: though through it. Yeah, it was a tough game to

2498
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:47,800
Speaker 1: watch and Steve. We called Steve's performance that day last

2499
01:59:47,800 --> 01:59:50,000
Speaker 1: Sunday the best performance of the game. Did you see

2500
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,480
Speaker 1: Steve before kickoff? Did you see this? Cop? I don't

2501
01:59:52,480 --> 01:59:55,400
Speaker 1: know what did you do, Steve? Would they suit you off? Well? No,

2502
01:59:55,640 --> 01:59:58,120
Speaker 1: not quite. I'm the legend of the game. So I

2503
01:59:58,120 --> 02:00:01,120
Speaker 1: gave a little fifteen second raw speech right before they

2504
02:00:01,200 --> 02:00:03,800
Speaker 1: kicked it off, and it and the and the hype

2505
02:00:03,880 --> 02:00:06,800
Speaker 1: lasted almost thirty seconds, so and then it was all

2506
02:00:06,800 --> 02:00:09,160
Speaker 1: down here. Let show, kay, we got the this is

2507
02:00:09,200 --> 02:00:12,160
Speaker 1: Steve's legend of the game speech just before kickoff. Let's

2508
02:00:12,200 --> 02:00:15,680
Speaker 1: listen this. It was all time great and a twenty

2509
02:00:15,760 --> 02:00:18,680
Speaker 1: twenty semi finalist for a Pro Football Hall of Fame,

2510
02:00:19,120 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tesker, Hey, Bill's fans from the Southern Tater, from

2511
02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:31,280
Speaker 1: the South Town, from Buffalo, from Lockport, from Rochester, from

2512
02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:41,360
Speaker 1: southern Ontario. We're one Buffalo. We're here for our team. Hey, Hey,

2513
02:00:43,680 --> 02:00:52,400
Speaker 1: let's go Buffalo. Let's go Buffalo. Where else would you

2514
02:00:52,520 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 1: rather be then right back in the playoff? Yeah? Yeah,

2515
02:01:00,680 --> 02:01:02,600
Speaker 1: isn't that something? That was the best performance on the

2516
02:01:02,640 --> 02:01:05,920
Speaker 1: field all day? That was amazing. Yeah, shout out to

2517
02:01:06,120 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 1: Lockport and let me just say and let me just

2518
02:01:08,960 --> 02:01:12,320
Speaker 1: say this, Kyle. They came down and lit the guy

2519
02:01:12,440 --> 02:01:14,720
Speaker 1: up on an opening kickoff. It was a great special

2520
02:01:14,760 --> 02:01:19,040
Speaker 1: team's tackle and it ran right downhill from there. But Steve,

2521
02:01:19,400 --> 02:01:22,760
Speaker 1: that was pretty awesome. That reminded me of a remember

2522
02:01:22,800 --> 02:01:26,600
Speaker 1: when Jason Kelsey of the Eagles gave that speed Super

2523
02:01:26,600 --> 02:01:29,920
Speaker 1: Bowl That was you. Let me ask one question, what's

2524
02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:31,840
Speaker 1: the name of the mascot? Can you not give you

2525
02:01:31,880 --> 02:01:35,200
Speaker 1: just a few feet? He's crowding your shot? The mascot

2526
02:01:35,200 --> 02:01:38,040
Speaker 1: wanted in on it. Billy Buffalo. Billy Buffalo does have

2527
02:01:38,080 --> 02:01:40,680
Speaker 1: a personal space issue, Yes he does, Oh my god,

2528
02:01:40,800 --> 02:01:42,960
Speaker 1: yes he does. But it was fun, you know, it

2529
02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:45,120
Speaker 1: was fun. It was a fun day, and you're right,

2530
02:01:45,640 --> 02:01:47,960
Speaker 1: you earned And I'm I'm still lobbying, Murf because I

2531
02:01:48,000 --> 02:01:50,400
Speaker 1: picked the Bills go eleven and five and I'm thinking, hey,

2532
02:01:50,440 --> 02:01:52,640
Speaker 1: a meaningless game? Is it like a win? Right? And

2533
02:01:52,680 --> 02:01:54,600
Speaker 1: he's I'm not getting it. I'm not getting the long,

2534
02:01:54,680 --> 02:01:58,800
Speaker 1: meaningful Murf. How many times have you done a game

2535
02:01:58,840 --> 02:02:02,760
Speaker 1: in December the Bills are four and nine and it's

2536
02:02:02,800 --> 02:02:06,240
Speaker 1: completely meaningless for a different reason? Oh yeah, most years. Yeah,

2537
02:02:06,240 --> 02:02:07,800
Speaker 1: it was good, no question, it was good. It was

2538
02:02:07,840 --> 02:02:09,920
Speaker 1: a good it was a good day until they kicked

2539
02:02:09,920 --> 02:02:12,840
Speaker 1: it off. Yeah, but I'm still not getting to win. Yeah.

2540
02:02:13,280 --> 02:02:15,720
Speaker 1: All right, So let's turn our attention to the playoffs. Kyle,

2541
02:02:15,760 --> 02:02:18,240
Speaker 1: and you've been you've been talking about Josh Allen waiting

2542
02:02:18,240 --> 02:02:20,360
Speaker 1: to see something from Josh Allen all season long. Do

2543
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:22,080
Speaker 1: we begin to see it now that the Bills are

2544
02:02:22,080 --> 02:02:25,280
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? What do you think? I hope? So

2545
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:29,000
Speaker 1: if I just say yes, I'm just agreeing with the

2546
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:32,280
Speaker 1: Bills fans, I don't know. You know. We we asked

2547
02:02:32,280 --> 02:02:34,800
Speaker 1: the question this morning on our show, and it's a

2548
02:02:34,880 --> 02:02:36,680
Speaker 1: question the three of us have talked about all year.

2549
02:02:36,680 --> 02:02:40,160
Speaker 1: It was posed to our table. Even if the Bills

2550
02:02:40,240 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 1: lose this weekend. Is this a successful season for the

2551
02:02:43,760 --> 02:02:46,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills? That was posted to the question, and you know,

2552
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: my colleague Peter Straker kind of said, yes it is.

2553
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:51,840
Speaker 1: And you know, Josh Allen's gotten better, and if you

2554
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:54,440
Speaker 1: lose on the road and the playoffs, there's there's no

2555
02:02:54,520 --> 02:02:57,120
Speaker 1: shame in that. And I almost came across the table

2556
02:02:57,200 --> 02:02:59,560
Speaker 1: at him. I wanted to slap him. I disagreed so much.

2557
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:02,480
Speaker 1: You guys know how I feel about this. A playoff

2558
02:03:02,560 --> 02:03:05,200
Speaker 1: win is what this season needs. Anything short of is

2559
02:03:05,240 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 1: a big disappointment. Two years ago, this son McDermot era

2560
02:03:09,160 --> 02:03:11,360
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs. They were one and done. It's fine,

2561
02:03:11,480 --> 02:03:13,800
Speaker 1: there was no shame in it. A much younger team,

2562
02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:16,800
Speaker 1: a new head coach. You gotta evolve, you gotta win

2563
02:03:16,880 --> 02:03:19,120
Speaker 1: this game this weekend. I mean it, because the fact is,

2564
02:03:19,200 --> 02:03:21,640
Speaker 1: let's be honest. They didn't draw the Ravens. They didn't

2565
02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: even draw the Patriots. This Texans team under Belle O'Brien

2566
02:03:25,600 --> 02:03:27,920
Speaker 1: is known for being pretty good, getting to the playoffs

2567
02:03:27,920 --> 02:03:31,480
Speaker 1: and not performing. It's a really beautiful team. There's almost

2568
02:03:31,520 --> 02:03:33,720
Speaker 1: no home field advantage in Houston. I really think the

2569
02:03:33,760 --> 02:03:35,640
Speaker 1: Bill's got a good draw. I think they should win

2570
02:03:35,680 --> 02:03:37,800
Speaker 1: this game, but I think they will. Yeah, I think.

2571
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:40,640
Speaker 1: The interesting thing, you're right, I agree with you totally.

2572
02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:44,040
Speaker 1: I think as a former player and I you know,

2573
02:03:44,080 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 1: I played in a bunch of playoff games, you gotta

2574
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:48,800
Speaker 1: think you can go every year. If you get in,

2575
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:51,080
Speaker 1: you gotta make it that year and you gotta maximize it.

2576
02:03:51,160 --> 02:03:53,480
Speaker 1: You can't say, well, we're ahead of schedule, you know

2577
02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:56,560
Speaker 1: if we win. No, you gotta go. You gotta do

2578
02:03:56,600 --> 02:03:58,480
Speaker 1: it because you might not get back. Twenty five of

2579
02:03:58,520 --> 02:04:01,800
Speaker 1: these guys aren't gonna be here. Yeah, if they do win,

2580
02:04:01,880 --> 02:04:04,240
Speaker 1: even if they do win the wild card, I'm sitting

2581
02:04:04,280 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 1: here saying this successful season. I guarantee McDermott is going

2582
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,920
Speaker 1: to squash that because if they win the wildcard. Man,

2583
02:04:10,000 --> 02:04:12,680
Speaker 1: now we won a playoff game. Now we're really grown up.

2584
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:14,680
Speaker 1: In front of your eyes, there's a cent, there's a

2585
02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:17,480
Speaker 1: false sense of security. You get about, well, we'll take

2586
02:04:17,480 --> 02:04:19,320
Speaker 1: it one step at a time. We'll win the wild

2587
02:04:19,320 --> 02:04:21,640
Speaker 1: card and then the divisional. No, you could get injured

2588
02:04:21,680 --> 02:04:23,280
Speaker 1: the next year, people could leave. You mean that you

2589
02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:25,240
Speaker 1: can make it back fifteen years later. You don't know.

2590
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:29,080
Speaker 1: Now is big weekend? I agree. I agree completely. What

2591
02:04:29,120 --> 02:04:31,360
Speaker 1: do you think it means that the Patriots are forced

2592
02:04:31,400 --> 02:04:33,200
Speaker 1: to play this wild card weekend? Coyle? What do you

2593
02:04:33,240 --> 02:04:37,480
Speaker 1: make of that? Absolutely surreal? I mean we've watched a

2594
02:04:37,480 --> 02:04:40,000
Speaker 1: lot of Patriots football, all of us. I've never seen

2595
02:04:40,040 --> 02:04:42,480
Speaker 1: a weekend like that. I mean, that was a staggering,

2596
02:04:42,960 --> 02:04:46,960
Speaker 1: staggering loss, not just because you know it's unless they

2597
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:49,040
Speaker 1: lost to the Dolphins and everyone's I'm saying all year

2598
02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:51,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots don't have the horses, and maybe they don't.

2599
02:04:51,880 --> 02:04:54,520
Speaker 1: The horses that they do have were bad. They're They're

2600
02:04:54,560 --> 02:04:56,720
Speaker 1: best player this year is probably has the found Gilmore.

2601
02:04:56,760 --> 02:04:59,320
Speaker 1: He got lit up Tom Brady through a first pick

2602
02:04:59,400 --> 02:05:02,320
Speaker 1: six of his career against the Dolphins and he's played

2603
02:05:02,400 --> 02:05:06,440
Speaker 1: him thirty five times. Edelman was nowhere, Patrick Chung got

2604
02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:08,800
Speaker 1: beat on the game winner. These are the bell cows.

2605
02:05:08,880 --> 02:05:10,440
Speaker 1: These are the guys who were supposed to count on,

2606
02:05:10,880 --> 02:05:12,960
Speaker 1: and they got absolutely beat up in a game they

2607
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:15,640
Speaker 1: had a lot to play for. It was one of

2608
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:18,880
Speaker 1: the most Unpatriots like things that we've seen in this

2609
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 1: twenty year run. To be at home against the Dolphins

2610
02:05:23,160 --> 02:05:25,600
Speaker 1: and to have everything in front of you, with Tom

2611
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:29,440
Speaker 1: Brady maybe not healthy and now they're playing a wildcard

2612
02:05:29,440 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 1: week against a red hot Titans team. I was absolutely shocked, guys,

2613
02:05:34,920 --> 02:05:38,360
Speaker 1: shocked that that went down like that. Peter Spreager called

2614
02:05:38,360 --> 02:05:41,560
Speaker 1: it stupefying. But too bad you didn't take care of business.

2615
02:05:41,560 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: Now everyone's gonna take you out. There's blood on the

2616
02:05:43,360 --> 02:05:47,040
Speaker 1: water big time. And the Titans beat the Patriots thirty

2617
02:05:47,080 --> 02:05:49,640
Speaker 1: four ten a year. And I mean, and this Titans

2618
02:05:49,640 --> 02:05:53,720
Speaker 1: team with Mike Vrabel as their head coach, they're the

2619
02:05:53,760 --> 02:05:56,080
Speaker 1: guys that bust in the saloon with both doors and

2620
02:05:56,080 --> 02:05:58,560
Speaker 1: start punching people. This is a really physical kind of

2621
02:05:58,600 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 1: attitude kind of team that really it's almost as good

2622
02:06:01,720 --> 02:06:05,000
Speaker 1: a matchup for them as the Bills are in Houston. Mean,

2623
02:06:05,040 --> 02:06:08,160
Speaker 1: these are two road teams. They really got to feel like,

2624
02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:12,200
Speaker 1: let's go right, I mean, because they fit perfectly in

2625
02:06:12,240 --> 02:06:15,560
Speaker 1: these matchups. It's a great matchup. And you know, it's

2626
02:06:15,600 --> 02:06:17,600
Speaker 1: funny of that matchup you're talking about from last year

2627
02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 1: when they beat the Patriots really bad. I mean, that

2628
02:06:19,280 --> 02:06:22,640
Speaker 1: was Mariota. That was like the junior Titans. That wasn't

2629
02:06:22,640 --> 02:06:26,160
Speaker 1: even Tannehill. You're just the simple facts. The Tennessee Titans

2630
02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:28,680
Speaker 1: have the league's rushing Champ and Derrick Henry. They have

2631
02:06:28,760 --> 02:06:32,160
Speaker 1: the league's highest rated passer and Ryan Tannehill, and they

2632
02:06:32,280 --> 02:06:36,680
Speaker 1: could not care less about the Patriots mystique. Mike Rabel

2633
02:06:36,920 --> 02:06:39,880
Speaker 1: wrote half the Patriots mystique and he was there catching

2634
02:06:39,920 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the playoffs, being the toughest guy in the team.

2635
02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:45,480
Speaker 1: There's none of that. And if you'd really get into it,

2636
02:06:45,480 --> 02:06:48,440
Speaker 1: it's not just Rabel, it's the history of John Robinson,

2637
02:06:48,480 --> 02:06:51,680
Speaker 1: it's assistance, it's players. They're almost like a New England

2638
02:06:51,760 --> 02:06:54,560
Speaker 1: light when you get to the Malcolm Butler and Ryan

2639
02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:58,640
Speaker 1: Tannehill even before this year, has taken skins on the

2640
02:06:58,680 --> 02:07:00,960
Speaker 1: wall from the Patriots when he was the Dolphins. So

2641
02:07:01,360 --> 02:07:03,600
Speaker 1: it's not only do the Patriots have to play this

2642
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:07,680
Speaker 1: weekend hurt, they have to play an unbelievably physical team

2643
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:11,520
Speaker 1: that is completely fearless. And yet don't you guys sit

2644
02:07:11,560 --> 02:07:14,120
Speaker 1: there with your body of knowledge about the Patriots and

2645
02:07:14,240 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: it's still really hard to pick the Titans, despite the

2646
02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:20,840
Speaker 1: Patriots looking terrible last week, despite the Titans being healthier

2647
02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:23,640
Speaker 1: and more talented. I'm really vexed about who to pick

2648
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:26,480
Speaker 1: in this game because it's still hard to imagine wildcard

2649
02:07:26,520 --> 02:07:29,080
Speaker 1: loss at home to the Titans. It's tough. You're right, hey, Kyle,

2650
02:07:29,160 --> 02:07:30,720
Speaker 1: before we let you go, a couple of minutes left,

2651
02:07:30,760 --> 02:07:32,680
Speaker 1: and you've been with us all along for the Bills

2652
02:07:32,800 --> 02:07:35,320
Speaker 1: regular season, and we're not saying that this season is

2653
02:07:35,360 --> 02:07:37,200
Speaker 1: over at all. But as you look back on the

2654
02:07:37,200 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 1: Bills twenty nineteen regular season, what are the special womans?

2655
02:07:40,440 --> 02:07:42,320
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite play from the twenty nineteen

2656
02:07:42,360 --> 02:07:45,400
Speaker 1: regular season? You can recall? Yeah, I mean I have

2657
02:07:45,440 --> 02:07:47,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of them, I would think, but you know,

2658
02:07:48,560 --> 02:07:50,560
Speaker 1: not trying to be funny with the answer that the

2659
02:07:50,720 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 1: actual real special play was on Thanksgiving Day in Dallas,

2660
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:58,160
Speaker 1: fourth and short. We all remember the play. Josh Allen

2661
02:07:58,720 --> 02:08:01,520
Speaker 1: drops the snap. Oh gosh, we're gonna blow it. We're

2662
02:08:01,520 --> 02:08:05,040
Speaker 1: not gonna get the first down. In his great unbridled

2663
02:08:05,080 --> 02:08:09,680
Speaker 1: young enthusiasm and fearlessness, picks up the ball dives forward.

2664
02:08:09,760 --> 02:08:12,000
Speaker 1: Now this is the same season, guys, when you know,

2665
02:08:12,040 --> 02:08:14,680
Speaker 1: we've seen Patrick Mahomes suffer a serious injury on a

2666
02:08:14,760 --> 02:08:17,200
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak. And it wasn't just that he picked it up.

2667
02:08:17,240 --> 02:08:19,480
Speaker 1: There was a second effort, there was a third effort.

2668
02:08:19,800 --> 02:08:23,120
Speaker 1: He gets points for the first down. He's getting headbuts

2669
02:08:23,160 --> 02:08:25,840
Speaker 1: from his lineman. This is the moment I feel like

2670
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:28,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen kind of became a grown up in this league.

2671
02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:30,640
Speaker 1: It's the moment when I feel like the Bills became

2672
02:08:30,680 --> 02:08:32,800
Speaker 1: a contender in this league. And it was like the

2673
02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 1: highest washed game of the entire year, the biggest play

2674
02:08:36,280 --> 02:08:38,600
Speaker 1: of the biggest game. I'm still getting goose pumps right

2675
02:08:38,640 --> 02:08:40,800
Speaker 1: now thinking about it. It It gets me inspired, like I

2676
02:08:40,880 --> 02:08:42,520
Speaker 1: was out there with him. It was a great moment,

2677
02:08:42,720 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 1: and I think so because I think it's also that

2678
02:08:44,920 --> 02:08:47,200
Speaker 1: moment where the Bills were still that team that you know,

2679
02:08:47,200 --> 02:08:50,000
Speaker 1: I hadn't beaten anybody. They don't get primetime games. They're

2680
02:08:50,040 --> 02:08:52,920
Speaker 1: not good in primetime games. And to have that guy

2681
02:08:53,000 --> 02:08:56,520
Speaker 1: step up in that moment and hit him in the

2682
02:08:56,600 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 1: mouth really was what I agree. I picked at the

2683
02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:02,360
Speaker 1: exact same play from my own play the year and

2684
02:09:02,560 --> 02:09:05,680
Speaker 1: end up. So that was a moment when people outside

2685
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:08,120
Speaker 1: of Buffalo and outside you and me and Murph got

2686
02:09:08,160 --> 02:09:11,440
Speaker 1: a chance to see why we like that guy. I

2687
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:13,360
Speaker 1: know we've spent a two and a half months I think,

2688
02:09:13,440 --> 02:09:15,400
Speaker 1: say I'm telling you this team is good. They haven't

2689
02:09:15,400 --> 02:09:18,000
Speaker 1: played anybody, and I used to say, no one watches

2690
02:09:18,040 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: the Bills. No one outside of Buffalo watches them. They

2691
02:09:21,040 --> 02:09:22,440
Speaker 1: don't have a four o'clock game, they don't have a

2692
02:09:22,520 --> 02:09:24,800
Speaker 1: primetime game. No one has seen this team, and they

2693
02:09:24,840 --> 02:09:27,200
Speaker 1: have a great record. And then everybody's sitting around with

2694
02:09:27,200 --> 02:09:30,120
Speaker 1: their belt undone on Thanksgiving, you know, he's simping coffee

2695
02:09:30,160 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: or brandy or whatever the hell you do it, and

2696
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:34,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen just turns into a maniac. And they'd beat

2697
02:09:34,080 --> 02:09:36,600
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and now we got a playoff game. I love it.

2698
02:09:36,600 --> 02:09:38,400
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great, awesome. Hey, Kyle, we'll talk to

2699
02:09:38,400 --> 02:09:40,360
Speaker 1: you next week, hopefully have more games to talk about.

2700
02:09:40,360 --> 02:09:42,600
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Happy Neon Year, let's do it,

2701
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:45,040
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to do. We will be talking about

2702
02:09:45,040 --> 02:09:47,440
Speaker 1: the Bills coming off a win next week. Love you guys.

2703
02:09:47,520 --> 02:09:50,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt from NFL Network host a Good Morning Football

2704
02:09:50,800 --> 02:09:55,360
Speaker 1: Neon Year party today. Idea. This is a fantastic idea.

2705
02:09:55,400 --> 02:10:00,640
Speaker 1: The older I get, the better it sounds right to man, dude.

2706
02:10:00,640 --> 02:10:02,560
Speaker 1: The countdown right up to twelve noon. We should have

2707
02:10:02,600 --> 02:10:04,480
Speaker 1: done it today, Happy New Year. We could have done

2708
02:10:04,520 --> 02:10:06,200
Speaker 1: it right right at the top of the show. We

2709
02:10:06,240 --> 02:10:08,160
Speaker 1: got a breakcare We're coming back with more one Bill

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02:10:08,240 --> 02:10:10,720
Speaker 1: Slide presented by Kalata Hell from the Seneca Studio in

2711
02:10:10,800 --> 02:10:22,080
Speaker 1: Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio What we learn

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02:10:22,200 --> 02:10:25,360
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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer on the show. Kind of ended with a

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Speaker 1: flurry today, didn't we. Jordan Poyer was on the show

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Speaker 1: a little bit ago and the Bills safety came on

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Speaker 1: and talked to us about getting ready to play this

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Here's Jordan Poyer's what do you have to say?

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Speaker 1: I think us we're just a more mature, mature team,

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Speaker 1: you know, understand, you know, execute. Execution is a huge,

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Speaker 1: huge part of what we do, especially on the back end,

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Speaker 1: being able to communicate and execute. And I think we're

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Speaker 1: you know, a light years away from where we were

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Speaker 1: last yet and you know, just still being able to

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Speaker 1: make in game adjustments is a huge saying that we've

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Speaker 1: been able to do all season long, make end game adjustments.

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Speaker 1: UM and so, uh, you know, we got it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys third year in the system, a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys second in the system, but we feel really comfortable.

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Speaker 1: UM of where we're headed. And you know, like I say,

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Speaker 1: just continue to get better um and being able to

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Speaker 1: execute and communicate Bill Safety Jordan Poyer, you ever think

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Speaker 1: you never think about the Bill safetes. I was going

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Speaker 1: to ask you, but no, you know you think and

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Speaker 1: do take it for granted. They're so steady, they're so good.

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Speaker 1: You never worry about the back end of the Buffalo defense,

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Speaker 1: do you? No, No, he's we were laughing in the

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Speaker 1: break are the control room. Thomas Hollander bless his hearts

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Speaker 1: from Cleveland, and he is beside himself with what's going

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Speaker 1: on in today with the firing of John Dorsey, the

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Speaker 1: guy who brought in all this talent. Turned around, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs turned around, the Packers starting to bring talent into Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: get him some really good players, and he has kicked

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Speaker 1: to the curb. And Dave Gettleman, the guy he fleeced,

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Speaker 1: keeps his job in New York. Wow, what a world, Murph.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling the Browns. Look, they got guys. I feel

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Speaker 1: bad about being so down on the Browns all year,

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Speaker 1: but I got sick of the hype about ten months ago,

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Speaker 1: and it ratchet it up when they made the acquisitions.

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Speaker 1: The free agency. People had them in the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl this year. They didn't even get a

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Speaker 1: whiff of the Super Bowl. How they beat the Bills.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it with Jordan Poyer. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It was a very bad day for Buffalo and a

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Speaker 1: very bad performance by the Bills offense. But the Browns

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Speaker 1: had no business thinking about the super Bowl, let alone

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs. They had talent, but it just wasn't

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Speaker 1: a team. There just was not a team. No, it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And it showed. We've seen it before where teams put

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Speaker 1: together back in the day when Dan Snyder spent all

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Speaker 1: that money trying to bring in Dion and Bruce and

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Speaker 1: all these great players to you know, kind of assemble

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Speaker 1: all these star players and it just doesn't work. You

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Speaker 1: got and this crew here so far, it seems to

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Speaker 1: be doing exactly the opposite. They're gonna assembling a team.

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Speaker 1: No matter how talented you are, if you fit in,

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Speaker 1: you got a role, we can use you and help

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Speaker 1: us win. And that's what they do. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: the Bills sit in the playoffs and the Browns are

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Speaker 1: watching again the practice update from the Bills they worked

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Speaker 1: out earlier today they had Levi Wallace not practicing with

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Speaker 1: his ankle. Tianseki got unlimited work with his ankle. Shack

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Speaker 1: Lawson got a little work in. Andre Roberts got a

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Speaker 1: little work in. He was limited as well. No official

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Speaker 1: injury report yet from the Buffalo Bills. They'll be back

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Speaker 1: at it tomorrow. We are not back at it tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We have tomorrow off for the New Year's holiday. We

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Speaker 1: will be back on Thursday. You're good with that, stee Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll be back Thursday. We'll be back Thursday in a

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Speaker 1: new year. In the meantime, we have a great new year.

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Speaker 1: Be safe, everybody be happy. It's gonna be a great

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty and it starts with the Buffalo Bills in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Our production assistants George Blast, Jeff Colton, Thomas

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Speaker 1: honald Er, Kelly Rude, j J. Curito, Kevin Cartis, James Robot,

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Speaker 1: Our producer Jay Harris. See you Thursday at twelve noon

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Speaker 1: with One Bill's Life, presented by Kalata Health from the

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Speaker 1: Senate a Buffalo studio on Orchard Park. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio.